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Revolutionary Teamsters: Remembering the 1934 Minneapolis General Strike - Left Voice On January 23, working people in Minnesota will shut it all down to demand ICE out of our communities and justice for Renee Nicole Good. Unions must mobilize, as they did in 1934, to harness the power...

History rhyming: Today's Minneapolis general strike is not a first for Minneapolis, as I'm sure I'm not the first to notice: www.leftvoice.org/revolutionar...

Jews were among Polish officers slaughtered by Stalin at Katyn. His postwar purge of Jews ("doctors plot" etc.) halted by his fortunate death. Then the 1952 Czech anti-Jewish purge and the 1968 Polish anti-"Zionist" campaign...But hey keep the dream alive.

"In one country" as long as you consider Eastern Europe - reaching as far as Germany - to be part of that country. Kremlin's current occupant shares that view.

I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.

“Why did the Ayn Rand–loving heroes of tech become Donald Trump’s bootlickers?”

The answer is right there in your question, my dude

A Small Town Is Fighting a $1.2 Billion AI Datacenter for America's Nuclear Weapon Scientists Ypsilanti, Michigan has officially decided to fight against the construction of a 'high-performance computing facility' that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away.

Things can feel hopeless but this year, people fought back. Here's how the town of Ypsilanti, Michigan is taking on the construction of a 'high-performance computing facility' that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away.
www.404media.co/a-small-town...

Opinion | How Southern Politics Shaped Trumpism

Highly recommended. Forget the 1933 Germany analogies. This is the real deal. How Southern Politics Shaped Trumpism www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/o...

This is also a theme of “Eichmann in Jerusalem” by Hannah Arendt.

“A bunch of guys sitting around eating hummus…” Subtle.

'They chained me to the ground': Detainees at Alligator Alcatraz allege harsh punishment by guards While the new Everglades migrant detention center fends off complaints about its living conditions, some detainees claim guards are also doling out discipline for questioning rules — including standin...

www.wlrn.org/immigration/...

Fiona Hill, Trump’s Ex-Russia Adviser, on Why Great Powers Fall

More Fiona Hill, hitting nail on head: “Trump is deconstructing the United States, just as Yeltsin deconstructed the Soviet Union." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/w...

Fiona Hill: Putin is "pretty confident right now, particularly given the chaos in the United States, and the United States undermining its own security.”https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/world/europe/fiona-hill-trump-russia-uk-defense.html

Absolutely. Glad to see people focusing on American history rather than not-very-useful analogies to 1920s Italy, 1930s Germany. Everything happening now is rooted in the U.S. past.

Can you hit repost? Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat.

My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you share and follow me?

1/ As you may or may not know, I'm suing the Utah Legislature for denying me a press credential because a "blog" or "independent media" are not eligible to be credentialed.

My claim is that the policy was changed specifically to target me.

Let's go through the latest filing from my lawyers.

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Boston-area climate activists report visits from the FBI Local climate activists are on edge after people claiming to be FBI agents visited at least six at their homes on the same day in Greater Boston in March. Weeks later, the motivations behind these vis...

One day in March, people claiming to be FBI agents knocked on the doors of 6 local climate activists. No one knows why they came, or if they were real agents, but many worry it's an intimidation tactic.

Great story from @moranwriter.bsky.social www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...

BREAKING: FEMA’s most senior official Cameron Hamilton has been FIRED and walked out of the building, an agency source confirms.

He testified just yesterday that he didn’t think the agency should be eliminated, per Trump and DHS Sec. Kristi Noem’s wishes. Apparently the wrong answer.

This is absolutely an example of journalists' rights being violated by an institution that has no respect for press freedom or the work that reporters do. cc @pressfreedom.bsky.social @pressfreedomtracker.us

New Mexico's newly militarized border results in jammed courtrooms, legal questions The new Trump administration border control tactic of charging certain offenders with additional “novel” immigration-related crimes slammed federal court dockets in Las Cruces this week, while also sp...

Do people arrested in new militarized border zone know they've crossed into military property? A NM fed magistrate wants to know. www.abqjournal.com/news/article...

Trump's brain is gone It really should be a bigger story.

"Trump has always been an ignoramus who masks his intellectual shortcomings with bombast and declarations of his own brilliance, but his rambling nonsensical responses in these latest interviews should set off alarms." — @playtyperguy.com

A DOGE Recruiter Is Staffing a Project to Deploy AI Agents Across the US Government A startup founder told a Palantir alumni Slack group that AI agents could do the work of tens of thousands of government employees. He was met with emojis of clowns and a man licking a boot.

NEW: A DOGE recruiter told a Palantir alumni Slack group that AI agents could do the work of tens of thousands of government employees.

He was met with 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 and custom emojis of a man licking a boot.

Seasonal COVID shots may no longer be possible under Trump admin FDA was supposed to decide on Novavax vaccine by April 1, but it now wants more data.

We may have no COVID19 vaccines in the USA this fall.

This will only cause harm to the American public. COVID19 vaccines are safe and effective.

This is public health malpractice.

RFK Jr. must be removed from office.

arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

An Employee Surveillance Company Leaked Over 21 Million Screenshots Online The leak highlights how digital workplace surveillance exposes employees to new risks.

“If a worker committed the kind of incompetence that WorkComposer did, this data might be used to fire them,” EFF’s José told @gizmodo.com of a massive bossware data breach. “WorkComposer, too, should be out of a job.”

Decades Later, the Truth Behind a Grisly Mass Murder in El Salvador The 1980 execution of four American churchwomen was one of the most shocking human rights crimes of the twentieth century. No one has ever really gotten to the bottom of it—until now.

U.S. collaboration with the worst of the worst in El Salvador didn't start with Trump and Bukele. Deep reporting here on the U.S. connection to killers of 4 churchwomen in 1980. newrepublic.com/article/1935...

A Venezuelan Is Missing. The U.S. Deported Him. But to Where? (Gift Article) The immigrant does not appear on a list of people sent to a prison in El Salvador, and his family and friends have no idea of his whereabouts. He has essentially disappeared.

“He has simply disappeared,” said a friend.

“I have not heard of a disappearance like this in my 40-plus years of practicing and teaching immigration law.,” said one law prof. “This case represents a black hole where due process no longer exists."

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...

U.S. citizen in Arizona detained by immigration officials for 10 days

A 19-year old U.S. citizen was traveling from Albuquerque to Tucson. He was arrested and detained by ICE for 10 days, before his family showed a judge his identification & he was finally released. news.azpm.org/p/news-artic...

A telling thing happened Friday's hearing in the CFPB case. The lead DOJ atty—who had just joined DOJ earlier this month—introduced the CFPB COO as "Mr. Gomez." Judge Jackson corrected the DOJ atty, explaining to him that his client's name was Adam Martinez.

It’s moments like these when we might consider it relevant that the current FBI director who might be charged with investigating this crime appeared eight times on the podcast of Stew Peters, a Christian Nationalist who recently called for a “final solution” to America’s “Jewish problem.”

"The data analytic tools now being used to scour social media were enhanced during the Biden administration, a former Biden [admin] DHS official said. But to use them to search social media of nonviolent students, the official said, is different from what the previous administration intended."

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Soviet-style erasure.

Opinion | There’s a Name for What Trump Is Doing to Trans People: Denationalizing The message is that we are a threat to the nation. The subtext is that we are not of this nation.

The Hidden Motive Behind Trump’s Attack on Trans People: "The reason you should care about this is not that it could happen to you but that it is already happening to others. It is happening to people who, we claim, have rights just because we are human." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...