Michael Rothberg

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liam and his dad are home!

and someone please get rep. castro a coat!

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Must read from Fintan O'Toole in the NY Review of Books:

It was huuuuge!

Massive anti-ICE demonstration at UCLA today. I'd estimate more than 2,000 people--overwhelmingly students of color. It was beautiful!

@canaciksoz.bsky.social

Massive anti-ICE demonstration at UCLA today. I'd estimate more than 2,000 people--overwhelmingly students of color. It was beautiful!

Perennial suffering has as much right to expression as a tortured man has to scream; hence it may have been wrong to say that after Melania you could no longer make documentaries. But it is not wrong to raise the less cultural question whether after Melania you can go on living.

There's a future for us! ;)

"untrained"

When will it be enough for you, @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social ? When will you be moved? You should be standing in the streets of Minneapolis. You should be shouting from the rooftops. What a pathetic pair of cowards.

Yesterday, Minneapolis conducted a general strike against ICE.

Today, ICE responds by murdering someone in cold blood in the street.

Any idea what the time frame is?

Very illuminating discussion!

YouTube video by Heaven 17 - Topic (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang (Remastered 2006)

(We Don't This) Fascist Groove Thang

But basically you’re right

thump

January 19, 2026 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Family Statement Correcting DHS Claims – ChongLy Scott Thao The family of ChongLy Scott Thao categorically disputes the Department of Homeland Security’s public statement regarding the ICE operation conducted on January 18, 2026, in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Mr. Thao is a United States citizen with no criminal record. He does not live with, nor has he ever lived with, the individuals DHS claims were targets of this operation. The only people residing at the home are Mr. Thao, his son, his daughter-in-law, and his young grandson. They do not know the individuals DHS references. ICE agents did not present a warrant, did not ask for identification, and nevertheless forcibly entered the home with weapons drawn. Mr. Thao went willingly with ICE, despite knowing he had done nothing wrong. During the operation, Mr. Thao was removed from his home wearing only underwear in approximately 12-degree weather, in full view of his family and neighbors. He suffers from severe psoriasis, a serious medical condition that is exacerbated by extreme cold and stress. This treatment was unnecessary, degrading, and deeply traumatizing. The family strongly objects to DHS’s attempt to publicly justify this conduct with false and misleading claims. These statements have caused additional harm to a family already struggling to recover from a terrifying and unjustified encounter. The family is actively pursuing legal representation and has filed complaints with the ACLU of Minnesota and the Office of Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. Due to the ongoing legal process, no further comment will be made at this time. We ask the media to report responsibly and refrain from repeating inaccurate statements that place an innocent family at further risk. Louansee Moua Spokesperson ChongLy Scott Thao Family

BREAKING — ChongLy Scott Thao's family has released a statement disputing DHS's outrageous justification for his arrest.

"He does not live with, nor has he ever lived with, the individuals DHS claims were targets of this operation...[the family] does not know the individuals DHS references."

Multidirectional resistance

The Voice of Hind Rajab might fit this...

It's a devastating diagnosis, but also not without hope.

We Refuse to be Silenced: The Palestinian Historians Group Responds to the AHA Council Vetoes We, the Palestinian Historians Group, are outraged by the American Historical Association Council’s decision to veto two resolutions that members passed by 78 and 79 percent at the AHA Annual Business...

We will win because history and the majority of historian are on our side. The Palestinian Historians Group respond to the @historians.org latest veto

www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47115

Homeland Empire • EQUATOR From Venezuela to Minnesota, Trump is trying to create a borderless American power, collapsing the foreign and the domestic into a single domain of impunity

Superb contextualization of all the bad things by Nikhil Singh.

Homeland Empire • EQUATOR From Venezuela to Minnesota, Trump is trying to create a borderless American power, collapsing the foreign and the domestic into a single domain of impunity

Superb contextualization of all the bad things by Nikhil Singh.

Tweet by Deborah Lipstadt on the fire that destroyed an historic synagogue in Jackson, Mississippi before the suspect was identified: “This is a major tragedy. But it’s more than that. It’s an arson attack and another step in the globalization of the intifada.”

Deborah Lipstadt didn’t wait until the suspect in the MS synagogue fire was arrested. She wanted to use the moment to blame protesters against genocide in Gaza. At his court appearance today, the suspect said “Jesus Christ is Lord” when read his rights by judge. Lipstadt is a shameless propagandist.

A boy can dream...

The police in Berlin did this with Gaza memorials...

She also took a seminar on psychoanalysis with a friend of mine here at UCLA last quarter--he said she wrote a great paper!

If you’re in LA or NYC, go see it.

If you’re in LA or NYC, go see it.