@lexroman.com is right. Independent media is not just the future - it’s now! Take some of your monthly media expenditures & give them to folks giving us the real journalism we want & need. The Ellisons/Paramount purchase of Warner is one more sign that corporate media is doing dirty.

It’s a day to blast salsa on the radio! The great Willie Colón has left us! “His trombone was the voice of the people” writes his manager

“There are no sidelines any more, friends.” - @philtajitsunash.bsky.social 1942. Mochida Family awaiting deportation in Centerville, CA. Photo by Dorothea Lange. 2026. Five year old Liam Ramos taken away by ICE returning home from pre-school, Photo via Columbus Heights Elementary, Minneapolis.

MAIHT3k newsletter: The narrative of the denialism frame is that those opposing "AI" are afraid, under-informed and/or engaging in wishful thinking. None of that is true: The people who oppose the "AI" project are actively fighting and refusing to accept the premise of tech bros and AI boosters.

Omar Hamad and Ibrahim are gathering donations to create a public library in Gaza after Israel’s genocidal war destroyed nearly all its existing libraries, schools, and universities. lithub.com/you-can-help...

In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

It’s a day to acknowledge sumud صمود

Not great

📷 Drop Site News speaks with Professor Rashid Khalidi, leading historian of Palestine and the modern Middle East. Topics include: ▪️ U.S.-Israeli famine strategy in Gaza ▪️ Global complicity in genocide ▪️ Why he won’t teach at Columbia this fall www.dropsitenews.com/live-stream/...

Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.

The wording of “top-down” ideological bias is apt here…”top-down” bias is put in place to balance “bottom-up” bias. E.g., If something coming up from the bottom leans to the left, you lean it to the right at the top to make it straight.

DAILY MEMO: ICE is Getting Busy and Bolder Despite Restraining Orders and More @eltragon.bsky.social

🎥 “Europe will never punish its favorite child,” Middle East analyst and co-editor of Jadaliyya, Mouin Rabbani, told Drop Site’s Sharif Abdel Kouddous during this morning’s livestream.

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

🩸on their hands!

The images of children starved to death in Gaza should be the lead of every news program.

While L.A. activists accuse the home improvement retailer of being complicit in immigration raids at its stores, a nationwide boycott is being called to “stop funding the systems that don’t serve us,” and focus on small independent vendors instead. lataco.com/home-depot-b...

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I spent most of today seeking to meet with one of the many victims of ICE raids currently jailed in Downtown LA. While @chrclla.bsky.social focuses its efforts on impact litigation, my team boosts efforts on the ground whenever possible. What I saw speaks to the crisis in LA & beyond.

Mahmoud Khalil is free.

Trump's World Cup task force — part of Homeland Security — is also overseeing the Club World Cup tournament at the Rose Bowl starting Sunday fifa.com/en/tournaments/mens/club-world-cup/usa-2025 We need more reporting on what's about to happen in Pasadena. Because here's what's happening in Miami

Out & about this morning and it seems important to stand firm on this bottom line: ICE out of LA! No to deportations. No to a land of “Whites Only.” #StopICE

The Black Flag Group of some 800 academics in Israel is calling upon the heads of Israeli universities and colleges to mobilize the full weight of Israeli academia to stop the Israeli war in Gaza

Georgetown scholar Badar Khan Suri was detained by masked ICE agents a month ago for committing no crime. Writing exclusively for The New Arab, his Palestinian wife, Mapheze Ahmad Yousef, calls for his release 🔗 www.newarab.com/opinion/im-b...

Israel has killed at least 62 Palestinians today alone in Gaza. 37 of them were killed in Gaza City, according to medical sources speaking to Al Jazeera Arabic. The death toll continues to rise.

As someone from a lower caste, why India is out of the question for us if we have to leave the U.S. 🫠

A farmworker organizer was detained by ICE this morning. The ICE agents broke is car window when he tried to exercise his rights. Find out what you can do to help here: www.instagram.com/p/DHospEeo8e... All workers deserve dignity.

Mahmoud Khalil finally gets the chance to speak for himself: “My arrest was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a free Palestine and an end to the genocide in Gaza, which resumed in full force Monday night.”

A genuine LA welcome for Basel Adra after his Oscar win for No Other Land! I was humbled to attend tonight’s celebration with these beautiful folks (and that’s Adra with the flag). #freePalestine #oscars

What Trump has been signaling loudly and clearly is that he gladly accepts and even encourages the acquisition of territory by force

fuck you, substack. so glad i stopped my newsletter rather than carry on there. please get off of that site. there are options. do not support fascist cowards like this read.substack.com/p/the-fight-...

Here is the official flyer. #LeonardPeltier is coming home! ❤️🖤💛🤍 🪶🦬 Wednesday, Feb 19 See details of the live-streamed event:

Yesterday, our lawyer visited Dr. Abu Safiya in Ofer Prison. He detailed the torture and severe abuses he has endured since his unlawful arrest and arbitrary detention by Israeli forces and authorities. We demand his immediate and unconditional release. #FreeDrAbuSafiya mezan.org/en/post/46651/

Zül-Qarnain Nantambu, a brave and honorable man

Watch: “International Fugitive Benjamin Netanyahu Goes to Washington.” Mouin Rabbani, Annelle Sheline and I discuss what we know about Trump’s and Netanyahu’s positions, the “ceasefire”, potential WB annexation & possible deal with Saudi Arabia. 📺🎧🔽 www.dropsitenews.com/p/netanyahu-...

Palestinians have a right to their land, a right to return, a right to self-determination, and a right to liberation.

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

A physician member of the AMA—who requested anonymity for fear of retaliation—is sounding the alarm. “The current admin prohibited all communications of the CDC and other agencies with the public. Now, the public and physicians are left with no info on food recalls or disease outbreaks.“

Just saying

"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters." –Antonio Gramsci

Is there a link between #ClimateChange & increasing risk/severity of #wildfire in California--including the still-unfolding disaster? Yes. Is climate change the only factor at play? No, of course not. So what's really going on? [Thread] #CAfire #CAwx #LAfires iopscience.iop.org/a...

Susan Abulhawa has given one of the most blistering condemnations of the Zionist regime – and also one of the most strategically optimistic visions of the Palestinian struggle for self-determination! @ Oxford Union ❤️💚🤍🖤 #FreePalestine m.youtube.com/watch?v=nW5U...

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 128: Hamas says an Israeli attack on Rafah would end any exchange talks for captives. The siege of the Al-Amal and Nasser hospitals in Khan Younis enters its third week, three Al-Amal patients die due to Israel blocking oxygen tanks from entering.

🇵🇸 Welcome to all the newbies who support a #freepalestine. It was too quiet here for a long time.

🇵🇸 If you raise a toast to the New Year at midnight, may it be for Gaza. #ceasefire #ceasefirenow #freepalestine #gaza #happynewyear #happynewyear2023

Bluesky butterfly? Why not a cat?

📣 Big news!!! 📣 Please share! Registration is now open for @latech4good.bsky.social 's January Data Equity workshop series! Learn how to use data responsibly, counteract harmful data bias, and contribute to social change. Thursdays January 11, 18 & 25, 2024 www.latech4good.org/dataworkshop...