Great piece overall— would add as an addendum that it's very informative who the US does *not^ encourage to rebel against oppression— the Palestinians, Lebanese, Egyptians, etc.

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So please. Quietly use removepaywall.com or archive.org if you're not in a position to pay. Don't get mad in the comments because we're trying to make a living Life's tough all over

the horror of this is compounded by the fact that the whipple building sits on the same military fort where 1600+ Dakota, mostly women and children were held in a concentration camp in 1863, where over 300 died

After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.

There are lots of reasons to compare what is happening now to Nazi Germany and there are also lots of reasons to compare what is happening now to the post-1850 Fugitive Slave Act U.S. and it's *weird* how people respond with interest to the former but total confusion to the latter

Like they did in Chicago, feds are abducting unhoused people in Minneapolis: in this instance, four members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. Also as in Chicago, “homeless people… told the Minnesota Star Tribune that ICE apparently detained the four men without looking for credentials.”

The success of ICE watch interfering with ICE’s mission is almost certainly why DHS keeps sending more agents to Minneapolis. They used to execute their raids with just a few agents. Now they need 6-12 to even begin to disrupt the social pressure to be nonviolent.

TW/CW: child death The genocide on Gaza is not over. Keep speaking up.

DHS hired exactly who they wanted to hire and trained them to do exactly what they wanted them to do. Which is what you see.

Democrats are simultaneously beginning to refer to ICE and CBP agents as "poorly trained." This message comes from leadership. They're trying to use it as a substitute for dismantling ICE and CBP and imprisoning their current employees. Don't fall for it; don't take any Dem seriously who uses it.

More training isn't going to fix the ethnic cleansing squad! The problem is that we employ an ethnic cleansing squad that attracts the type of people who would want to be part of an ethnic cleansing squad!

interesting! here's a video i took yesterday of federal agents ramming community members with their car

wow delighted to see the byline on this! 🤗

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Renee Good, who was murdered in cold blood today by ICE, was a queer woman. June "T-Rex" Knightly, who was murdered in Portland, was a queer woman. The ICE detainees who were sexually assaulted in Louisiana are queer women and trans men.

also i think the idea that consent is required to meet the definition of "pornography" is probably well-intentioned but feels like the kind of idiosyncratic definition that is defined by the world as we wish it was rather than how it is

just a thought but i don't think the left needs to reclaim the word un-american

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Congress should still pass a resolution, which they might have the votes to do with a handful of Republican defectors. But the War Powers Resolution as a mechanism is broken and toothless, effectively nullified by the Supreme Court. It needs a complete overhaul b/c now it's basically a dead letter.

The War Powers Resolution as Congress designed it requires withdrawal if both houses pass a concurrent resolution. SCOTUS gutted that with Chadha, so now it's subject to an inevitable veto. Instead of affirmative approval, presidents in effect only need at least one third in at least one house.

This could be us but you playin

What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things

right after schumer's own response is "we're very troubled" im gonna lose it

are you fucking kidding me

there is no constituency that needs you to fall all over yourself to call Maduro illegitimate before you dare criticize Trump. Voters have been down this road before. No one thought Saddam Hussein was a nice guy. Criticism of Maduro at this stage correctly reads as a defense of Trump to most people.

i really made a mistake saving my readings for the first week of the new quarter for this weekend lol.......... there is no way im getting these done now

people said to do this for the primary not the general

Please support @truthout.org, fam. The Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism is helping to foster and sustain an ecosystem of indy journalism, beyond the bounds of one publication. We need to think in those terms.

Reminder: The US has refused to join the International Criminal Court because it argues extraterritorial justice is incompatible with national sovereignty and citizen's rights.

And tell ICE to take their masks off.

Republicans: Overthrow the government, take the oil, and destroy the country Democrats: Come to Congress for approval to overthrow the government, take the oil, and destroy the country

too many dems and resist libs seem to be primarily complaining that this wasn't ~done properly through official channels

Once again, decades of ludicrous ‘Drug War’ and ‘War on Terror’ rhetoric and policy laid the groundwork for this. These are the sorts of things that must be uprooted.

It’s not doing false equivalency to point out how US empire works- it’s incredibly important to not fight against this kind of stuff by opposing just one part of it- that’s becoming the controlled opposition.

Entering our Too Lazy to Manufacture Consent era

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

wow obsessed what an icon

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Perhaps now people will stop wishcasting about the US military refusing illegal orders. That's not a thing that happens. The 100% compliance rate with using civilian boats for target practice was a bit of a tell.

read a lot of books in 2025 😌

All day every single day. Often within minutes, and even before a first post. I've been in chat on Telegram w/someone telling me their account, and before I can follow, the account is taken down. There's a petition about it that links to an open letter about it. c.org/LCKM55jdng

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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

sorry not really the point here but how did i completely miss that jamie reed had a trans husband who detransitioned after she leaked children's health info....... thats. a lot.

First political hunger strikes in American history occurred on the Middle Passage ships carrying kidnapped Africans to be sold. Read about the term "speculum oris", a Medieval torture device used to force-feed enslaved Africans.