seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte

On the patently unlawful boat strikes It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes. WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals: 1) CIA General Counsel 2) NSC Legal Adviser 3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer 🧵

If you haven't turned on the "Capitalism" season of @sceneonradio.bsky.social co-hosted by the awesome Ellen McGirt, well. Episodes 2-6 cue you up for the face punching of episodes 7-12, and shine a light on alternatives to whatever this is **waves hands around ** sceneonradio.org/capitalism/

One of the ways I started shifting my thinking on the revolution came from @sceneonradio.bsky.social's season 4: The Land That Never Has Been Yet. @chenjerai.bsky.social doesn't miss. Worth the listen, and captures the essence quoted here. sceneonradio.org/the-land-tha...

According to new Reuters poll, only 29% of Americans support using the U.S. military to kill suspected drug traffickers without a judge or court being involved. 51% oppose. www.reuters.com/world/us/jus...

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

Watch to the end

We have lessons at the ZEP site on the topic that you could link to, including "The Thingamabob Game: A Simulation on Capitalism vs. the Climate" www.zinnedproject.org/materials/th...

Thanks for the response, re-upping one more time: Dear educators! We’re creating a curriculum for Scene on Radio Season 7: CAPITALISM. If you've used any part of the series in your teaching, we'd love to hear from you. Please fill out our short survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Thank you!

guy just loves peace, what can you say

All of this cruelty is being done in our name.

Excellent essay on renunciation (and shame) as it relates to the past and our moment in this country (and world - Gaza and on and on) … he points to repair as the next step

Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.

#NoKings Durham NC

#NoKings, Durham NC

New Keeping ScOR newsletter -- me (John Biewen) on historical forgetting and acknowledgment in my hometown, Mankato, MN. buttondown.com/KeepingScOR/...

Republican Mike Johnson is metaphorically standing in the doorway of the House of Representatives, blocking a duly-elected Latina from entering the House as a representative & denying representation to her nearly 800,000 constituents in Arizona, nearly 60% of whom are Hispanic.

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act. I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

The third-country removal tracker has been updated to add three Honduran nationals removed to Guatemala yesterday. hardghistory.ghost.io/tracking-all...

Horrific. A 50-year old black man had a stroke & was confused from it. Cops didn’t want to “waste time” doing a thorough evaluation for a medical emergency, assumed it was drugs, & simply threw him in jail. He died A tragic example of the cruelty of structural racism www.kare11.com/article/news...

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

It's happening right in front of you. Trump and the GOP are creating their own manufactured crises, lighting the Reichstag fires, blaming "them" for the violence (their critics), citing "left-wing" terrorism, all as a setup for martial law and the Insurrection Act. It's happening in plain sight.

Great to hear. While working on it, we recommend checking out "Economics for Emancipation: A Course on Capitalism, Solidarity and How We Get Free" from the Center for Popular Economics ⬇️and the (out of print) high school guide "Teaching Economics As If People Mattered" economics4emancipation.net

Calling all educators! We’re creating a high school curriculum for Scene on Radio Season 7: CAPITALISM. If you've used any part of the series in your teaching, we'd love to hear from you. Please fill out our short survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Thank you! cc: @zinnedproject.bsky.social

I know we're desensitized, but it's important to note, again, that today's events would have led to the immediate impeachment & removal of any president from at least Truman to at least Obama. We're hundreds of miles on the interstate past Richard Nixon's high school prank-level crimes compared to 👇

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

Is it cool that I think you shouldn’t be murdered by the state even if you’re a drug dealer???

"thoughtful feedback" ftw

Me: forever mad about the FBI’s surveillance, propaganda, violent work to destroy everyone from Du Bois to BLM Also me: people need to understand what is happening to Comey is bad, big bad. It’s the both/and. Sometimes I think the hardest work for educators and media is to explain nuance/context

I just wrote 'The Blue Scare: Keeping ScOR #14'. buttondown.com/KeepingScOR/...

Nothing is inevitable. In either direction. Hope and work.

Michael Eisner, who served as CEO of Disney for 21 years and acquired ABC while he was in charge, slams his successor Bob Iger for bending the knee.

When a media outlet settles a lawsuit with Trump, he doesn't go away. Instead, he sees it as a sign of weakness and keeps tormenting the outlet's journalists.

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law. May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.

“It’s difficult to imagine how any lawyers inside the Pentagon could have arrived at a conclusion that this was legal rather than the very definition of murder under international law rules that the Defense Department has long accepted." - @justsecurity.org co-editor @rgoodlaw.bsky.social

Don't feel like doing a repost that puts the murder video on the timeline yet again but do feel like repeating the point that the president just straight-up assassinated 11 people for supposedly doing something that wouldn't be a death-penalty crime if they were caught and convicted

The thing that depresses me about Trumpism is that 2009-15, however imperfect, felt like positive incremental change. Reading this, all I can think about is how Steve King felt real repercussions for his racism in 2020. Schmitt won’t get stripped of committees for this. Because it’s mainstream now.

Mamdani is a citizen just like Vance. He no more owes "gratitude" to the US than does anyone else. The suggestion is that he is some kind of second-class citizen who owes deference to the country and those born here - exactly the kind of blood-and-soil nationalism that Vance so often promotes.

Just making sure I understand. Israel bombed a hospital in Khan Younis twice, killing at least 20 people including hospital staff, rescue workers, journalists, etc. And this was NOT an atrocity, the govt assures us, because the IDF was taking out ... a CAMERA. Got it.

The messaging from this administration has the same vibe as a cross set ablaze in someone’s front yard. It’s about communicating menace and instilling terror, the opposite of what the government of a free and democratic society should be doing.

Oh look, it's the thing every fascist government says about the opposition party before they dissolve them and turn the country into a one party state.

For folks not in DC: - There are full-on police checkpoints most nights - Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC - National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter - Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl - Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE

The historical truth exists. Try as you might to erase it, it’s still there. And when truth is known, your goals will be exposed. You’ll be seen for who you are.