In the meantime, you need to come over and play Commands & Colors Ancients and Medieval …
Perhaps if the Herzog protesters had turned up dressed as Nazis the cops would have left them alone
out with Verso in 11 months
Because billionaires have feelings too.
Join the March for Billionaires in San Francisco on Feb 7, 2026 marchforbillionaires.org
!["On December 2, 1783, then-Commander-in-Chief George Washington penned: “America is open to receive not only the Opulent & respected Stranger, but the oppressed & persecuted of all Nations & Religions.”1
More than two centuries later, Congress reaffirmed President Washington’s vision by establishing the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program. See 8 U.S.C. § 1254a (TPS statute). It provides humanitarian relief to foreign nationals in the United States who come from disaster-stricken countries. It also brings in substantial revenue, with TPS holders generating $5.2 billion in taxes annually. See Part VI.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem has a different take. [screenshot of tweet].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nwnlnixtjh3qhkwpz2uy5uwv/bafkreicrroq5taft777rmau2ffjlsphbcatlxnwwigf2yekoke533yycim)
![has terminated every TPS country designation to have reached her desk—twelve countries up,
twelve countries down. See Section IV.A.2. Her conclusion that Haiti (a majority nonwhite
country) faces merely “concerning” conditions cannot be squared with the “perfect storm of
suffering” and “staggering” “humanitarian toll” described in page-after-page of the Certified
Administrative Record (CAR). See Section IV.A.3.a. She ignored Congress’s requirement that
she “review the conditions” in Haiti only “after” consulting “with appropriate agencies.” 8
U.S.C. § 1254a(b)(3)(A); see Section IV.A.1. Indeed, she did not consult other agencies at all.
See id. Her “national interest” analysis focuses on Haitians outside the United States or here
illegally, ignoring that Haitian TPS holders already live here, and legally so. See Section
IV.A.3.b. And though she states that the analysis must include “economic considerations,” she
ignores altogether the billions Haitian TPS holders contribute to the economy. See id.
The Government’s primary response is that the TPS statute gives the Secretary
unbounded discretion to make whatever determination she wants, any way she wants. And, yes,
the statute does grant her some discretion. But not unbounded discretion. To the contrary,
Congress passed the TPS statute to standardize the then ad hoc temporary protection system—to
replace executive whim with statutory predictability. See Section I.A.
As to irreparable harm, the Government contends that, at most, the harms to Haitian TPS
holders are speculative. But the Department of State (State) warns [screenshot]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nwnlnixtjh3qhkwpz2uy5uwv/bafkreid3cmawech25ummuj2tjvgxsrvufma2kmrijlfpglalwddd3qkikq)
Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction.
It's a tour de force:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Judge Reyes starts with a comparison: George Washington versus Kristi Noem.
11/ It's a pity that nobody reads my blog, but it's actually the most comprehensive acct of the recent history of the AUS far-right that I know of online.
slackbastard.anarchobase.com?p=52995
#OtD 31 Jan 1971 anti-fascists attacked the National Socialist Party HQ in Melbourne, Australia. The Nazis, dressed like storm troopers, were told by police to lock themselves inside, but over 500 people forced their way through and wrecked the offices stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1114...
I think even john farnham told the reclaim australia cunts to get stuffed and stop playing the voice at their rallies about ten years ago
In the first draft I had Homan speaking these words, but at the moment Bovino was the more visible face of the occupation so I swapped him out
I'm starting to think the Trumpist mastery of propaganda is failing them. The DHS agents posing this way makes it look like they're ashamed of themselves.
“We want nothing to do with you. In fact, we wouldn’t p*ss on you if you were on fire.”
Hoodoo Gurus on Pauline Hanson using their music at the March for White Australia on Invasion Day.
🤘
www.news.com.au/entertainmen...
In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies.
I have translated some of the highlights
Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong has said Israeli President Herzog’s visit to Australia is "a good thing", in case you were wondering.
NEW EPISODE
Where we read through @htwvmag.bsky.social's Tariff Dossier and talk about the economic policy of the Trump admin and how the international order is changing in its wake.
Sher Singh (1951-2025) was editor of Faridabad Majdoor Samachar (Faridabad Workers News) and member of several other communist groups based in northern India, including Kamunist Kranti and Collectivities.
thinking of you both
a statement from infoaut.org on events in Iran, to which we’ve added some useful readings - clearinghouse.noblogs.org/post/2026/01...
a recent discussion with Raf Sciortino clearinghouse.noblogs.org/post/2025/10...
thanks, hadn’t seen that
#OtD 4 Dec 1956 30,000 women demonstrated in Budapest as part of the wider working-class uprising for a socialist society with genuine workers' control. It commemorated those killed one month prior during a second attack on the city by the Red Army stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1041...
(NEW!) The Long Sixties: Conversations with a Lifelong Revolutionary
A wide-ranging dialogue tracing the journey of militant & Marxist Loren Goldner, from Berkeley 1968 through decades of critique & action
leftwingbooks.net/products/the-long-sixties-conversations-with-a-lifelong-revolutionary
Real men have shoulder kittens. Photo from my collection, ca. 1950s.
now translated into Italian by Infoaut - www.infoaut.org/approfondime...
Remember Rev. David Black, the Chicago pastor who was shot in the head with pepper balls? If you haven't heard him speak yet, listen to this.
To ICE: "You can repent"
#OtD 7 Nov 1912 the @iww union's paper published the first Mr Block comic strip. The character is a man "devoid of class-consciousness" who blindly follows his bosses and believes that America is the land of opportunity. Learn more in this great book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/mr-...
A conversation with Raffaele Sciortino: “In short, the focus of my argument is that the internal and external weakening of the US pivot is a necessary, though not sufficient, condition for a future revolutionary class revival.”
clearinghouse.noblogs.org/post/2025/10...
