If you read only one book in these perilous times, let it be "How to Stand Up to a Dictator" by journalist 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮. My review of her book for 𝘒𝘺𝘰𝘵𝘰 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 magazine in Japan....

A powerful speech at the United Nations by journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮. May the countries of the UN be wise and bold enough to follow her powerful pleas.

“Charlie Kirk in His Own Words” 17 quotes you should read from the right-wing activist and Trump ally who was tragically shot and killed on Wednesday in Utah.

Kirk’s advocacy of vigorous debate ought not be separated from what he said while jousting in the public square.

The late Charlie Kirk in 2023, just two years ago: 
"You have a government that hates you, you have a traitor as the president. Buy weapons, I keep on saying that. Buy weapons. Buy ammo. if you go into a public place, bring a gun with you.... Thank goodness in Arizona we can carry, and we carry."

In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, it was taboo to point out that his politics, and those of the MAGA movement he embraced, contributed to a culture of hatred and demonization. fair.org/home/kirk-co...

“I’m basically going to cancel with extreme prejudice these evil, sick animals who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s assassination.” The full weight of the federal government is being used to memorialize Charlie Kirk.

The massive display of resistance took place as the president threatened to expand his crackdown to Chicago.

Here legally, engaged in a sanctioned process to determine their eligibility for asylum, they have committed no crime. They are arrested anyway, and the lives they’ve risked to come to the US are thrown into chaos. Inside a photographer's view of ICE's relentless courthouse arrests.

The utter failure of law enforcement at every level in the United States — not to mention branches of the U.S. government itself — has lead us all to this sordid place in the saga of the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein was alleged to have bragged that he "owned" the cops. Read, and understand...

Global condemnation of Israel's recent targeted killing of 𝗔𝗹 𝗝𝗮𝘇𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗮 news reporters in Gaza is well deserved. But Israel is not the only guilty state party here: The United States has long waged its own "war" on 𝗔𝗹 𝗝𝗮𝘇𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗮 and other Arab news media, including in Iraq and Afghanistan 20+ years ago.

𝗧𝗩 𝗛𝗶𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗺𝗮 has now officially released the English-language version of this moving video documentary about Hiroshima survivor Koko Kondo.
 The opening and closing scenes were filmed during Kondo's speech to my class at Doshisha University in Kyoto in 2024. An unforgettable day for us all.

The Republican-appointed justices have decided it is time to fully destroy the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

The deployment of ICE, National Guard and Marines in LA—along with the prosecution of protesters—was never about public safety. It was manufactured propaganda, and now ICE is being exposed for it. Records show they lied in their testimonies and prosecutors are now facing “embarrassing” dismissals.

People in ICE concentration camps are forced to kneel to eat food off plates “like dogs”, held on unsanitary buses in parking lots for more than 24 hours, crammed for weeks in freezing intake rooms where they sleep on the floor, and denied adequate medical care. This is a human rights crisis.

Trump remains a clear and present danger to democracy, and seizing control of the election process remains the most direct path to authoritarianism. https://trib.al/FII6Wvb

Why not change the teams' names entirely to the "Washington Whities" or the "Cleveland Caucasians"?

Close the 𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗠𝗣® 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗖𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗖𝗔𝗠𝗣....

What did Donald Trump ever need Jeffrey Epstein for, anyway? Trump was doing "fine" on this own, as this new report from @meidastouch.com shows us....

Well, there it is: All the reason you need for Paramount to cancel Stephen Colbert's show. These giant American media corporations are the greediest, most cowardly business entities on the planet, bar none.

"The word “genocide” was coined in 1941 by Raphael Lemkin, a Jewish lawyer from a Polish family, who combined the Greek word for a people (genos) and the Latin translation for killing (cide). At its most basic, genocide meant systematically destroying another group."

Close the 𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗠𝗣® 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗖𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗖𝗔𝗠𝗣...

Yep, it's Epstein forever and ever — no matter how much Trump brushes aside his longtime associations with his old, deceased pal.

A must-read investigation by @propublica.org about the IRS and ICE joining forces.

Former New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan shreds what little credibility her former employer still has when it comes to the New York mayoral race. Delicious beyond words...

Today, the UK government intends to ban the non-violent protesters Palestine Action as a "terrorist" group, exposing anyone supporting them to terrorism charges. In 2 days, 380,000 people have watched this video on YT alone. You're going to need a bigger prison. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECkV...

In 2021, ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing.

Excellent by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social on the moral vacuum at the heart of Western governments. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Both countries [USA and Iran] signed a nuclear agreement for the civilian use of nuclear power [in 1957] as part of then-US President Dwight D Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace programme. A decade later, the US provided Iran with a nuclear reactor and uranium to fuel it..."

Spread the word....

NEW: Since Trump took office, immigration officials have more than quadrupled the number of 287(g) agreements with law enforcement agencies across 40 states, giving local officers authority to function as deportation agents in jails and the streets. With @azluminaria.org‬

Here's how it all started....

Dissident author @ecetemelkuran.bsky.social talks about the protests rocking Turkey and the state of autocracy around the world. www.truthdig.com/articles/the...