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“The shift from forced labor… laid the groundwork for the contemporary reliance on incarcerated people to fill labor shortages, not just in prisons but in industries like agriculture” 7 in 10 US farmworkers are foreign born; 40+% are undocumented The Trump deportations will be BIG for prison labor

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"There remain about 1.3 billion tobacco users globally, prompted by a multibillion-dollar industry that peddles addictive and deadly products and profits from the suffering of those who use them." — write Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Adriana Blanco Marquizo for #AJOpinion ⤵️

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New York state says one can't even say the words "settler colonialism, genocide, human rights, apartheid" in regards to Israel, or else that is antisemitism. I'm sure all the advocates for free speech will agree with New York state, from Trump to Musk to Bezos and even quite a few liberals.

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Statement from the Lausanne Universities Collective for Academic Freedom, Solidarity and Democracy (CLADS) on the danger facing US research and researchers. What Trump is doing looks like a coup d'état and endangers democracy. clads.ch/en/us-resear...

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📚 Out Now! 📚 Our latest Verfassungsbook, "The 2024 ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Occupied Palestinian Territory", edited by KAI AMBOS is now available. As always, Open Access! 🔓📖 You can find the edited volume here: 👉 verfassungsblog.de/books/

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Breaking news: A US resolution that calls for a 'swift end' to the war between Russia and Ukraine but does not fault Moscow for the conflict has been passed by the UN Security Council. www.ft.com/content/d0f3...

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Happening now: Israeli tanks have entered the northern West Bank after 40,000 Palestinians were expelled from three refugee camps in the Jenin & Tulkarm areas. There's a real and present danger that these camps will be erased. This genocide must be stopped. By us all. Now!

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“A carefully researched work of history that chronicles centuries of injustice while calling for an end to inequality. A historical examination of the origins of the ever-deepening divide between Black and white intergenerational wealth”-Kirkus; in print &audiobook yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

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Due to EU-backed border policies, a record 10,457 people died or disappeared trying to reach Spain by sea in 2024. Available in EN, ES, PT-BR, AR, IT and DE.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

verfassungsblog.de/where-is-our...

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Who will protect German democracy from the Brandmauer? diem25.org/police-press... @adamtooze.bsky.social @quinnslobodian.com @diem25.bsky.social @franceskalbs.bsky.social @tadziomueller.bsky.social @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social @aljazeera.com @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social @versobooks.bsky.social

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Innenminister bestätigt Pressebericht: Sachsens Polizei sucht 1,8 Tonnen verschwundene Munition www.l-iz.de/politik/sach...

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Folks are shocked that their institutions, after professing commitments to climate justice and DEI, are now caving to Trump and scrubbing all references. It's brutal. And it's the smallest taste of what our students felt when their universities called in the cops b/c they protested a genocide.

submitted 21 days ago • 26 comments

„Sozialdemokratische“ Wissenschaftssenatorin Czyborra, Kai Wegner und die Bild setzen momentan die @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social unter Druck – mit dem Ziel, ihr Verhältnis zur UN zu sabotieren. Unheimliche Parallelen zu autoritären Regimen.

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Tritte in den Bauch, Schläge ins Gesicht, Hitlergrüße. Rechtsextreme fühlen sich von den Debatten der letzten Tage ermutigt, es kommt zu brutalen Angriffen. Neonazi-Gewalt im Herzen der Hauptstadt wird wieder zur traurigen Realität. In den 90ern brachte der „Asylkompromiss“ die Baseballschlägerjahre

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Mich wundert eigentlich nicht sonderlich, dass Ulf P. in kolonialen Kategorien und Sprachbildern argumentiert. 54books.de/__trashed/

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The death toll from Israel’s war on Gaza has been revised to more than 61,700 people according to government officials, after reclassifying thousands of people who had been missing in the rubble.

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Israel’s far-right minister Bezalel Smotrich has praised President Trump’s proposal to clear Gaza's Palestinians out and move them to Jordan and Egypt and is working to turn it into an “operational plan”, reports The Times of Israel. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/njc5ar

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This goes hard

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Almost 3 thousand vital words published on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in a British newspaper, yet not a single reference to the liberators. What a shameful erasure. @theguardian.com @owenjones.bsky.social @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social #Auschwitz

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An important investigation @972mag.bsky.social reveals the extent to which the Israeli military relied on AI services from Microsoft and OpenAI, particularly GPT-4, which quietly removed its clauses restricting military partnerships during its onslaught on Gaza. www.972mag.com/microsoft-az...

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Musk today at an AfD rally: “The German people are really an ancient nation which goes back thousand of years… It's good to be proud of German culture, German values, and not to lose that in some sort of multiculturalism that dilutes everything” www.reuters.com/world/europe...

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The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has called on the international community to take effective measures to ensure “accountability and justice for the crime of genocide in the Gaza Strip”. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/iwoo24

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Hothouse Holocaust: Awaiting The Glory of Resistance "On our present path, civilisation as we know it will disappear. Only if we meet current commitments — net zero by 2050 — perhaps some form of humanity will survive ... " Sir David King https://rogerhallam.com/hothouse-holocaust/

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Interessant wie jetzt alle einen Deal loben, der auf Verhandlungen mit Hamas basiert. War nicht die vermeintliche Unverhandelbarkeit mit Hamas 15 Monate lang zentraler Rechtfertigungsgrund für das wahllose und gezielte Töten von Zehntausenden – mit freundlicher Unterstützung aus Deutschland?

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Ceasefire in Gaza: A fragile calm amid unending struggle — #AJOpinion by Afaf Al-Najjar ⤵️ 🔗: aje.io/8o29vy

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It takes mind-numbing depravity to try to kill as many civilians of your enemy before the ceasefire begins which you have agreed to. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

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🚨 California's insurance crisis is about to get much worse. The state's last-resort insurer, FAIR, is teetering on insolvency. L.A.’s fires, estimated to cost $250B in economic damage, may bring CA to a breaking point — with consequences for all of us👇 www.levernews.com/we-will-all-...

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Governments globally are struggling to contain a demographic crisis amid rising costs for housing and childcare, as well as social factors such as fewer young people being in relationships www.ft.com/content/19ce...

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Das ist keine "umstrittene Wahlkampfaktion", das ist Einschüchterung und Terror. Mag sich jemand in der Redaktion beim SWR mal vorstellen, was das mit den Menschen macht, die Ziel dieses völkischen Furors sind? Und was muss noch passieren, ehe man diese Rassisten stoppt?

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Goethe University Frankfurt blocks conference on "Talking about (the Silencing of) Palestine." This censorship undermines democracy & intellectual integrity. In our letter, @christinebinzel.bsky.social, @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social & I demand an end to silencing critical discourse on Palestine.

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“And if others perceive the character and reality of history as something beyond ideology and soothing illusions, I shall be totally satisfied.” Gabriel Kolko @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social

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#OtD 8 Jan 1811 maybe biggest uprising of enslaved people in US history took place on Louisiana coast. 100s of enslaved people attacked their masters and marched towards New Orleans burning plantations & fighting local militia until more troops arrived shop.workingclasshistory.com/...

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The Senegalese Prime Minister refuting Macron's critique of the 'ingratitude' of African states for France's military interventions 'without which none of them would be sovereign countries' by evoking the (often forced) service of Africans to defend French sovereignty in the World Wars.

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"Dead Calm": BBC Film on Greek Coast Guard Abandoning Asylum Seekers at Sea Amid European Crackdown

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Israel bombed Al-Wafa Hospital yesterday, killing 8 people and injuring medical students during an internal medicine exam. The hospital, set to reopen in days, specializes in disability rehabilitation and serves as a teaching site after Israel destroyed Gaza’s main medical campuses.

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At least 5 newborns have frozen to death in Gaza in the past week alone. 30 day old Juma al-Batran died in his father’s arms due to lack of heating and his twin is in medical care. These babies have never known any other existence. Their moms spent their entire pregnancies surviving a genocide.

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What a crazy year! So many good stories in here 👇 ProPublica’s Most-Read Stories of 2024 www.propublica.org/article/prop...

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#JimmyCarter #Democracy

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The last photo of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, detained after refusing to abandon his colleagues and patients. In just one image, we see both the power of Palestinian humanity and the moral weakness of all those complicit in genocide. End all arms sales to Israel, now.

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Determined to commit war crimes daily, Israel kills another 36 in Gaza, burns down Kamal Adwan Hospital, including patients and staff, while 'disappearing' the hospital's director. And the West, naturally, continues to send arms and support www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

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#OtD 28 Dec 1943 after the arrest of two partisans, Mario Fiorentini threw two kilos of TNT at SS guards outside a prison in Rome, killing eight. The Nazis opened fire but were unable to hit him as he quickly cycled away to safety. More in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podca...

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Thank you, Motty Perry and @arielrubinstein.bsky.social, for this piece. As German economists, as German social scientists, we have been too silent, despite the role of our government in this. A long 🧵 1/n arielrubinstein.org/articles/Per...

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