Laura Mullen
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Author of 9 books, translator of 2.
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A little John Baldessari as a reminder that we need ALL of the names and faces of the predators in the
#EpsteinFiles
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The Iran War Is Unfathomably Depraved
Our mediaâs sanitized coverage obscures the human toll. Are we able to confront the full sickening evil of what the U.S. is doing?
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-iran-war-is-unfathomably-depraved
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There are two political parties in this country and neither one can say âItâs not okay to kill childrenâŠâ
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âThe Donald Trump of ancient Egyptâ: Ramses IIâs ego is on full display in new exhibition
An exhibition of 3,000-year-old artefacts at Battersea power station gives Egyptâs most ambitious, self-aggrandising pharaoh a chance to emerge from Tutankhamunâs shadow
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/mar/02/ancient-egypt-ramses-and-the-pharaohs-gold-exhibition-battersea-power-station?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Senator Patty Murray
5 days ago
Congress must return immediately and vote to put an end to this war. Every Senator should be on the recordâthe American people deserve to know which of their leaders supports another potentially bloody and costly war in the Middle East. No war with Iran.
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An American Reckoning | Ben Rhodes
Robert McNamaraâs failure to reckon with the exceptionalism that led the United States into the Vietnam War contributed to fifty years of foreign policy failures. It can help us understand the crisis ...
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/02/26/an-american-reckoning-mcnamara-at-war-taubman/
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The âleader of the free worldâ will orphan maim and kill children everywhere so you will forget he raped them at home
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Andrew Lawrence
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things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy
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A world on edge as Trump bombs Iran and triggers war in the Middle East. There was no need for this | Simon Tisdall
We cannot know where this foolish, reckless attack will end â but new hatreds will be seeded, terrorist vendettas sown and, ultimately, little will be achieved, says Guardian foreign affairs commentat...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/28/donald-trump-bombs-iran-war-middle-east?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Phil Lewis
6 days ago
Investigative Post obtained this video of Border Patrol abandoning Nurul Shah Alam, the nearly blind Burmese refugee who was found dead
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âOur own people hate usâ: reality check for Labour as 13,000 majority vanishes
Party billed it as a two-horse race with Reform but Greensâ Hannah Spencer connected with voters in a way it could not
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/27/greens-gorton-denton-win-wake-up-call-labour-needed-to-hear?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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All the Empty Rooms | A Documentary Film
All the Empty Rooms documentary features the bedrooms of children lost to school shootings, revealing the realities of families living with grief and loss.
https://www.alltheemptyrooms.com/
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âThe river wonâ: how campaigners in Brazilian Amazon stopped privatisation of waterway
Local river defenders force U-turn by occupying grain terminal operated by one of US powerhouses of world trade
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/27/the-river-won-how-campaigners-in-brazilian-amazon-stopped-privatisation-of-waterway?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Adam Serwer
7 days ago
After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account
Our national project of elite impunity
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/elite-accountability-powerful-impunity/686134/?gift=Je3D9AQS-C17lUTOnl2W8ImCAJzfV2R8UlH_eHGQVjM&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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United Farm Workers
7 days ago
We've got to stop Trump's farm worker wage cuts. Their H-2A rule change drastically cuts wages for H-2A farm workers and local workers alike. We filed suit in federal court to block it, but lawsuits take a long time and are very expensive. Please help.
act.seiu.org/a/trumpswage...
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agitprop + absurdity
7 days ago
The West Bank this morning saw a widespread wave of military raids and arrests across several governorates: In
#Nablus,
settlers bulldozed land in Qusra and invaded a home in Turmus Ayya. 1/6
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Prem Thakker ă
7 days ago
Wow. Ellie Aghayeva â the Columbia student detained by ICE this morning â has been released and posted this on her Instagram. Comes after NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani expressed his concern on the arrest to Trump in a meeting just earlier.
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Israel responsible for two-thirds of record 129 press killings in 2025, says CPJ
Committee to Protect Journalists report says Israel also to blame for 81% of âintentionally targetedâ journalist killings
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/25/record-number-journalists-killed-2025-israel-gaza-war?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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9 days ago
#BREAKING
| The Israeli army has SEALED OFF Bethlehem in the West Bank, closing all entrances and exits to the city. This has a name, It's called an illegal siege. Imagine YOU had to live like this.
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Fight the power â in your pyjamas: the film about the day Glasgow kicked out immigration enforcers
A neighbour in nightwear, a local imam, a schoolkid, the activist known as Van Man â they and many more stood firm. The director of a prize-winning film about the battle of Kenmure Street reveals how ...
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/feb/24/power-pyjamas-everybody-to-kenmure-street-glasgow-immigration?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Nick Benson
10 days ago
Itâs looking like we may go two days in a row without an ICE Air flight out of MSP; meanwhile, in New Hampshire:
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The Great Olympic lie: untold story of Winter Gamesâ huge environmental impact
Rivers drained dry to create artificial snow, a forest cut down for the bobsleigh track â IOCâs claims to prioritise sustainability at Milano Cortina exposed
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/22/the-great-olympic-lie-untold-story-of-winter-games-huge-environmental-impact?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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GisĂšle Pelicot on rape, courage and her ex-husband: âHe was loved by everyone. Thatâs what is so terrifyingâ
The case against her former husband shocked the world, while her response inspired awe. As she publishes a memoir, she discusses chemical submission, the abuse hidden within her apparently perfect mar...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/21/gisele-pelicot-interview-memoir-husband-chemical-submission-rape-abuse-marriage?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Hildur KnĂștsdĂłttir
15 days ago
I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
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Lupita Nihongo
15 days ago
This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Tillâs memorial for decades. Itâs wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.
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Credit cards cancelled, Google accounts closed: ICC judges on life under Trump sanctions
Kimberly Prost and Luz del Carmen Ibåñez Carranza vow US reprisals will not affect work of international criminal court
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/feb/18/international-criminal-court-icc-judges-trump-sanctions?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Ordinary Notes
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After my ICE arrest, I learned one crucial way to respond to trauma. We can all take part | RĂŒmeysa ĂztĂŒrk
I was detained for co-writing a op-ed about Gaza as a student at Tufts. My experience has only made me feel more connected to others facing oppression
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/feb/18/rumeysa-ozturk-trauma-children-ice-gaza
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âBest form of technology should be justice.â Tomas Saraceno
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Student debt is a generational injustice. Why are we squeezing graduates harder than the super-rich? | Gaby Hinsliff
Reform of this stealth tax is long overdue â and with it, a shake-up of the whole university system, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/16/student-debt-generational-injustice-graduates-stealth-tax-university?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Jay Dyer The World's On Fire đ„ âžïž
19 days ago
Google also removed Upscrolled from its app store at the same time it deleted Guy's account. Google is a violent criminal organization.
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Sherrilyn Ifill
19 days ago
Yes itâs Valentineâs Day. But itâs also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.
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The Guardian view on Israel and the West Bank: the other relentless assault upon Palestinians | Editorial
Editorial: A campaign of ethnic cleansing and âtectonicâ new legal measures are killing the two-state solution to which other governments pay lip service
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/12/the-guardian-view-on-israel-and-the-west-bank-the-other-relentless-assault-upon-palestinians?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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A little John Baldessari as a reminder that we need ALL of the names and faces of the predators in the
#EpsteinFiles
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Gillian Brockell
20 days ago
The Third-Country Removal Tracker has been updated with new info on payments to "host" countries from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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Tracking All of Trumpâs Third-Country Removals (That We Know Of)
Bookmark this post, it will be updated.
https://gillianbrockell.ghost.io/tracking-all-of-trumps-third-country-removals-that-we-know-of/
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I just wrote a
@theactionnetwork.bsky.social
letter: Turn Up the Heat: Melt The Companies That Profit From ICE and DHS. Write one here:
actionnetwork.org/letters/turn...
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Turn Up the Heat: Melt The Companies That Profit From ICE and DHS
As older Americans, we hold enormous economic power. Weâve spent decades building savings, choosing where to bank, where to invest, and where to shopâcompanies count on our loyalty. This Valentineâs D...
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/turn-up-the-heat-melt-the-companies-that-profit-from-ice-and-dhs?source=bluesky&
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Elon Musk posted about race almost every day in January
Many social media posts by Tesla CEO on his platform are indiscernible from those of white supremacists, say experts
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/12/elon-musk-posts-january-white-supremacists?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Angus Johnston
22 days ago
One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.
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Ian Johnson đ
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ICE ListâDutch site verified using publicly available data much of which comes from agents themselves
wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents
âOver 90% of people we've identified through information they themselves have made publicâŠAll we do is amplify already publicly available information.â
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The Intercept
24 days ago
In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested â as Trumpâs Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to âend the resistance.â
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âUptick In Abductionsâ: ICE Ramps Up Targeting of Minneapolis Legal Observers
In one 30-minute stretch, three Minneapolis legal observers were arrested as ICE ramped up its targeting of community volunteers.
https://interc.pt/4cjv5dN
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The Tennessee Holler
24 days ago
WATCH -
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: âThe đșđž government is engaged in an active cover-up of the largest sex trafficking and influence-peddling scandal in history, and Trump is right at the center of itâ and the person who knows whatâs going on is trying to invoke the 5th to buy her clemency.â
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Gillian Brockell
24 days ago
And if you're like, "What?! I didn't hear about this!" That is because you aren't subscribing to my ICE flight newsletter.
gillianbrockell.ghost.io/what-is-ice-...
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What is ICE Air?
Learn more about ICEâs massive, secretive and cruel air operation, which companies are profiting off of it, and what you can do to stop it.
https://gillianbrockell.ghost.io/what-is-ice-air/
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Kat Tenbarge
about 1 month ago
The project to distance Epsteinâs associates and collaborators from his abuse, a project which has been taken on by the likes of Ezra Klein and people at the elite institutions that enabled Epstein, is a project to prevent fully understanding why abusers get away with it and how they can be stopped
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The New Republic
26 days ago
Under Donald Trumpâs administration, the National Institutes of Health have slashed more than half a billion dollars in medical research on some of the leading causes of death in America.
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Drop Site
about 1 month ago
Palestinian analyst Muhammad Shehada explains the restrictions that Israel has imposed at Rafah Crossing are so harsh that it would take approximately 10 years for all 150,000 Palestinians in Egypt to return to Gaza, & similarly long for the tens of thousands of patients & others in Gaza to leave...
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WomenRiseUp2026
about 1 month ago
#Epstein
#EpsteinFiles
#PedophileProtector
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Gillian Brockell
about 1 month ago
NEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights. After a five-month investigation, my story for
@motherjones.com
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www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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ICE Deportation Flights Are Getting Longer and Crueler
A private equity-owned airline profits off Trumpâs migrant crackdown.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/omni-ice-deportations-charter-flight-stonepeak-private-equity/
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United Farm Workers
about 1 month ago
The things we are seeing daily feel like a horror movie, but this is not fiction. Itâs a new terrifying reality. Trumpâs DHS mob are killing US citizens, taking kids from their schools & terrorizing hard working immigrants. We need you to call your Senators NOW!
act.seiu.org/a/do_not-fun...
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Theresa Cha
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