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“For both speakers, the dead children are secondary to Israel's image; they are only casually referenced as a cause of unreasonable and uncalled-for hatred for Israel.” https://substack.com/@alonmizrahi/note/c-181218264?r=3fzhfc

The only African-American Cultural Arts Center in Bedford County, Tennessee “was hatefully vandalized, causing thousands of dollars in damage” two weeks ago. One artifact is still missing. They are asking for donations to make repairs:

Just signed up for #Upscroll. It’s Palestinian-owned so I won’t be banned for supporting #palestine like I was here on #mastodon a year ago. #socialmedia #warcrimes #genocide https://share.upscrolled.com/en/user/c4abf67b-93e4-430d-90c6-46d1a6a152f9/

#otd #history #books #fiction https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/post/3m6z3oesfyc2d

December 2, 1859, the eve of the Civil War: “John Brown rode out into the morning. ‘This is a beautiful land,’ he said. It was beautiful …. the Shenandoah went rolling northward, and still afar rose the mighty masses of the Blue Ridge, where Nat Turner had fought and died, where Gabriel had […]

David S. Reynolds on John Brown as a labor reformer who created the warehousing of wool to protect farmers’ interests against exploitation: “Never a capitalist himself, he now launched his own war against those who he believed were taking advantage of farmers.”

“one cannot read Kansas history without feeling that ... the man who most clearly saw the real crux of the conflict ... was the man whose leadership lay ... in the white flame of his utter devotion to an ideal" — W.E.B. Du Bois

This terrorism timeline is the real deal.

Israel will never stop. Israel will have to be stopped. “The genocide in Gaza is far from over” because it has become a model of permanent settler colonial elimination in a world shaped by the brutality of force. From “never again” to “again and again.” […]

Africans inhabited North America before the English Pilgrims arrived (David S. Reynolds writing):

there was an existing black radical tradition of mountain-based resistance to slavery in South America and the West Indies stretching back 2 centuries before Captain Brown’s 1859 raid on Harper’s Ferry (where the Shenandoah flows into the Potomac); Cedric J. Robinson writing:

“the war is not over. It is a treacherous lull before the storm. We are on the eve of one of the greatest wars in history .... I drew my sword in Kansas when they attacked us, and I will never sheath it until the war is over” — John Brown

“Each of the family members began using #chatgpt for general help with schoolwork, research or spiritual guidance. The conversations evolved with the chatbot mimicking a confidant and giving emotional support” […]

“ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.”

“For both speakers, the dead children are secondary to Israel's image; they are only casually referenced as a cause of unreasonable and uncalled-for hatred for Israel.” https://substack.com/@alonmizrahi/note/c-181218264?r=3fzhfc

RIP, Jimmy Cliff.

Police violence is political violence.

“[Teddy Roosevelt] engineered the Panama revolution under the shadow of which took place the famous hocuspocus of juggling the old and new canal companies by which forty million dollars vanished into the pockets of the international bankers, but Old Glory floated over the Canal Zone” — John Dos […]

“‘What’s the use of a league of nations if it’s to be dominated by Great Britain and her colonies?’ …. ‘But don’t you think any kind of league is better than nothing?’ …. ‘It’s not the name you give things, it’s who’s getting theirs underneath that counts.’ …. ‘That’s a very cynical remark.’ […]

Where you at #mastodon? #socialmedia #bluesky #twitter #reddit #threads https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/11/20/americans-social-media-use-2025/

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“One of the men, he said, is an employee for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who could face federal charges. Hodges said the ICE employee works as an auditor. ‘When he was arrested, he said, *I'm ICE, boys,*’Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. ‘Well, unfortunately for him, we […]

“Commemoration is an apology, Green said. The acknowledgment of wrongdoing is a critical step toward building a better present and future. ‘If we don’t have honest conversations about the entire experience for everyone here, including this history of African American workers,’ she said, ‘we […]

“Bovino left town with many of his agents after having brutalized and abducted so many of our neighbors and community members — violating their rights in the process …. Even with him gone, ICE continues to have a major presence in Illinois” […]

“Grants like that provide access for kids to have things they wouldn’t normally have. With that grant, we were also able to provide fresh ground beef. … We’re still doing it, but not to the extent with the grant. It was such a blessing I didn’t want to stop” […]

“Emanuel, known for his connections with Chicago’s upper brass such as billionaire Michael Sacks, is back in the national spotlight again as he toys with a 2028 run for president. Had he kept the corporate head tax, Cobb said, Chicago would not be struggling with a billion-dollar budget hole … […]

“On November 11, 2007, Carlos Javier Palomino, a 16-year-old student, was killed by a pro-fascist Spanish soldier named Josué Estébanez de la Hija in Madrid. The murderer, who was going to a demonstration of a far-right party … stabbed young Carlos on a train” #otd #history

All you fascists bound to lose. All you #democrats bound to surrender to fascists.

"Progressive" means shit. Have the guts to say you're anticapitalist or accept you're nothing but a lukewarm lib.

Please help my friend pay for her vet bills. With the SNAP/food stamp freeze she's in an extra tight spot!

Hasbara humanitarianism

#morena authorities just kettled an anti-Zionist demonstration in Mexico City, that was protesting a concert with Zionist Noga Erez. One person is injured. Morena is a "left wing" party, but in its role as city government, they can't, and won't, break with the Zionist entity, so instead they […]

“Over the years, Slow Factory has worked to address the intersecting crisis of climate justice and social inequity through open education, narrative change, and regenerative designs …. ‘Arabic words often inspire fear in America — but these were the words of the right to freedom of speech and […]

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Please forgive me if I don’t celebrate the win of a former CIA agent.

Another often overlooked but important election. Loudoun County Public Schools has been ground zero for targeting by the Trump administration over trans students, and chose to protect their students. Pro-trans candidates Chandler and Svenson are winning, and anti-trans Munoz-Melendez is losing.

“NEW: Israeli Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir appeared in a video showing Palestinian detainees bound in handcuffs and lying on the floor and said: ‘This is how we treat them, and all that remains is to execute them.’”

#nashville #uspol #uspolitics #travel https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/post/3m4lc7lr2g224

*tHeM PoOrS dOn’T DesERvE eVeN ThEm ChEaPaSs cOoKiEs* 🙃

“If you honestly believe that every billionaire is a policy failure, then why would you sit down at a table with a billionaire?” — Briahna Joy Gray

Israel expects us to believe that the same humanitarian relief organization that refused to provide aid in New York where Occupy Wall Street was active after Hurricane Sandy is now a collaborator with armed Palestinian groups. Is there any charity more normie than the Red Cross?

“Regardless of the motives, however, #trump proved once again that when an American president makes a firm demand of #israel, he cannot be ignored. #biden knew that, too. It just didn’t matter to him because he didn’t want Israel to stop.” #uspol #uspolitics #politics #gaza #palestine […]

“[In October 1945] Robinson did not break the color line because color barriers remained while he played (The Tigers, Phillies and Red Sox hadn't integrated until after he retired …) …. It was Robinson's response to those barriers that still stood … that gives him resonance today” #otd #history

Interview of Joan Tarika Lewis, young Black Panthers member, from 1968.

“The Sudanese Red Crescent published a statement saying that the RSF militia killed 5 of their volunteers. At least a thousand local Sudanese humanitarian workers have now been killed by this genocidal UAE sponsored militia.”

NEW: ACLU of Louisiana asks a federal judge to order the govt to immediately return Chanthila (Shawn) Souvannarath from Laos, to which it deported him over the weekend in violation of the judge's injunction. @acluoflouisiana.bsky.social www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Everyone should read Manufacturing Consent, by Herman and Chomsky. Not only it's a canonical book on media studies, you can't pretend you have media literacy unless you're acquainted with the key concepts the authors present about how the public's construction of reality is skewed and (quite […]

“whatever else I may forget, I shall never forget the difference between those who fought for liberty and those who fought for slavery; between those who fought to save the republic and those who fought to destroy it.” — Frederick Douglass

Canyonlands NP, southern Utah, about 4 weeks ago #photo #nature #outdoors #nps