Nichole E. Miller

UK, Canada and Australia announce formal recognition of Palestine, with wave of Israel’s allies to follow Partly symbolic move by up to 10 states comes amid fears Israel could respond by annexing parts of West Bank

One more reason to scroll past that other thing in your feed. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Context for time of posting : midvent of Musk/DOGE/bigballz

I.e. a terrorist

Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita, 1942

Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita, 1942

‘This country’s gonna fall on its face. There’s nobody coming to save us’: Boston punks Dropkick Murphys take on Maga Videos of frontman Ken Casey confronting rightwing provocateurs at the band’s gigs have gone viral, attracting new fans and new safety worries. He wants to lower the temperature – and see other bands ...

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Lesson plan link also above

Download while you can.

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This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.

Trump orders homeless people he passed en route to golf course to leave Washington DC President demands unhoused residents leave US capital or face eviction and vowed to use officers to make arrests

Der diktatur and martial law

“We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital” —we’ve seen such “places” before

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‘Horrific’: report reveals abuse of pregnant women and children at US Ice facilities Report from senator Jon Ossoff’s office found 510 credible reports of human rights abuses since Trump’s inauguration

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The national /bon iver, weird goodbyes ….i also feel like Sam beam waxed lyrical about minivans somewhere but no search engine hits so maybe that song remains unwritten as yet

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Never change, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Bravo, Président Macron

I have been Reddit-curious since reading about philosophers studying AITA? ethics but am worried about adding yet another endless scroll/rabbitholes app….if you do, please post field reports!

1) hahahaha 2) eep, poor baby!

Thank you for sharing these.

Oh wait I do know where to begin: “land phobia”?!!!!

I don’t even know where to start re: this nonsense but will when recovered 🤯🤬

^^cf revenge drama from at least Aeschylus on

^^cf. every revenge drama ….except now it’s even weirder bc instead of Athena’s decision./the Eumenides it would all end with choephorae

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Opinion | We Study Fascism, and We’re Leaving the U.S.

I want to but can’t afford it. People’s Remote University, anyone? One more step…. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...

He lived “no justice; no peace.”

Cracking the Magafacists code

LeGuin’s Left hand of darkness

More maybe to come on historical and literary thumbs but meanwhile 1) jdv, heretofore to be known as “the jerk of the thumb” 2) this episode crystallizes, yet again, a scapegoating—specifically, a symbolic lynching 3) SHAME

Another White man jerks his thumb a couple of times to tell them to get on with removing the dissenter.
Context/NB on thumb gestures! 2/

Al Green again stands against tyranny…. so much for free speech.

Remember when mt green and l boebert heckled j Biden throughout the state of the union address? —Way to weaponize White womanhood….now a 77 yo Black man is “escorted” from the Floor by three White men after 1/