Jaakko Kangasharju

On this day in 1923, the U.S. Supreme Court *unanimously* decided that people of South Asian descent could not be American citizens, and retroactively stripped citizenship from many who had already been naturalized. Years of organized persecution followed. www.saada.org/explore/publ...

A recreation of a basketball hoop at Manzanar, with the Sierra Nevada mountains in the background

A park ranger holding up a photo of gardens at Manzanar during WWII, up against where the gardens would have been

A view from camp, with huge, snowy mountains overlooking Manzanar

The Manzanar monument to those that died at camp, just beyond the camp grounds. Barbed wire is in the foreground of the photo.

In 2019 I had the incredible opportunity to visit Manzanar concentration camp with other young Japanese Americans. Feb 19th marks the day FDR issued orders removing and imprisoning 120,000 Japanese Americans, and my trip is especially top of mind today. I took these photos—more details in alt text.

we weren’t negative enough and now no-one gets to have ram or hard drives

EU ‘caving into the floodgates of anti-migrant rhetoric’ warns Human Rights Watch The EU's obsession with migration has radically shaped its foreign policy — while at home its laws are eroding away asylum, warns Human Rights Watch.

EU ‘caving into the floodgates of anti-migrant rhetoric’ warns Human Rights Watch – The EU’s obsession with migration has radically shaped its foreign policy, while at home its laws are eroding away the concept of asylum, says Human Rights Watch.

4 frame comic. A woman with a long purple scarf is waiting for the subway. a street journalist approaches her and asks : miss! do you think we're approaching a moment when the public will recognize that allowing children to be transed was a terrible idea? She replies : considering that with each passing day, the public sees how much of the anti-trans movement was engineered by the wealthy to fuel culture war hate on the back of a vulnerable community, I'd say we owe massive apologies to trans people. just this week, we learned that a decade ago, epstein suggested using trans rights as a wedge issue, and that jk rowling's team was courting him. we also learned that what we were told about the closure of the tavi- stock clinic, the only youth clinic in the u.k. for gender-affirmative care, was nothing but lies. rowling's pal hilary cass forced the clinic to close after reports of 1000 complaints from families. we learned this week that it only received eight over 10 years, mostly about delays. in the meantime, the health dep't has been concealing trans children suicide numbers, which we now know rose dramatically following the closure. The terrible idea was always to scapegoat trans kids.

We owe it to these kids to keep fighting for truth to prevail.

A world map that features the times Relooted is launched in different African countries. Only Africa is highlighted.

WORLDWIDE release times for Relooted’s launch tomorrow!

You should feed both wolves

All but the most radical leftist Western positions on Israel remain "an apartheid state committing genocide, extermination camps, infanticide, genocide, group rape, war crimes, having illegal nukes, terrorism, extrajudicial assassination and kidnapping are tolerable as long as Israel does it".

Whole lot of you following Neil Gaiman, and I assume it's because you forgot you did so and he stopped posting when it was revealed he is a rapist.

Since he's trying to make a return, do yourself a favour and check if you're following @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com and if so unfollow and block.

Shadowban check. Like if you see this. Share if you agree.

Human rights defenders estimate that 30,000 people may have been killed in Iran these last two weeks. A the RSF continues to massacre civilians in Sudan and the Israeli army is bombing tents in Gaza and annexing the West Bank. Ukraine is still under fire and Europeans are trying to appease a madman.

well, it's partly because many people have worldviews deeply shaped by US government propaganda and find it easier to compare the actions of ICE to authoritarian forces in other countries than to connect them to our own history of slave catchers, racist policing, vigilante mobs, etc etc etc

Damn, who could have guessed a bunch of Democrats teaming up with a fascist political party to censor the violence in Gaza by forcing a popular social media platform to sell to a coalition of fascist billionaires would also end up also censoring fascist violence here. Do you think anyone told them?

So anyway, Andrew Wakefield should be in prison for the rest of his life.

What this says is that Alex Pretti and Renee Good were not the first people to be killed by ICE since Trump took office. Not even close. What this says is that they lied and smeared those people too. They told you those people deserved it and you didn't ask questions.

Text messages and a moved SUV: How the government’s case against a Chicago woman shot by a Border Patrol agent fell apart | CNN A wide grin was plastered on Marimar Martinez’s face Thursday as she thanked her attorneys outside an Illinois courtroom and told reporters, “I’m just blessed. I’m happy.”

Marimar Martinez was the first US citizen shot by ICE.

They claimed she was a terrorist. Said she was brandishing a weapon.

They lied. Video footage exonerated her and showed the ICE agent shot her five times.

He bragged to other agents “five shots, 7 holes”.

A 🧵 of ICE abuse

They watched Israel do this with every Palestinian they killed for two years and so they never imagined it wouldn't work

Donald Trump's "Board of Peace" is the result of the world bowing before the global rampage of the US-Israel Axis. Once again, the Palestinian people are being offered as sacrifices, and along with them, the entire global system of international law.

I fear my tipping point into madness is "Thus is un-American" posts in response to ICE terrorizing immigrants. I beg you to open Wikipedia (I would say a book but let's start small) and read up on The Trail of Tears, Fugitive Slave Catchers, Japanese internment, Indian Boarding schools & Jim Crow

it's only fascism once it happens to white people until then it's a topic of debate requiring mature compromise and sober acknowledgement of political realities

Israel bulldozes Unrwa headquarters in East Jerusalem Palestinian refugee agency compound is demolished, while teargas is fired at UN vocational school in West Bank

#Israel continues to eliminate any possibility of a Palestinian state or even basic assistance to #Palestinians, whether it is in Gaza, the West Bank or elsewhere. Today they demolished the #UNRWA headquarters in #EastJerusalem.

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27 lines down from "all men are created equal" Natives are called "merciless Indian savages" in the declaration of independence.

The so called united states showed everyone exactly what it was before it even became a nation.

If you're surprised by what is going on now you haven't been listening.

Two white friends tail me home if it's outside the hours when people are out and about. I'm damn near third generation Minnesotan. It's not just "you're a citizen you'll be fine." I'm a black woman alone. Who knows what they will do.

And that's exactly what they are saying.

Just like whiteness didn't wake the fuck up until Nicole Good.

It's a systemic, an atmospheric, a paradigmatic problem.

The U.S. whiteness problem.

The blue maga genocidal democrats and liberals also can't stop blaming people of colour for trump's win. It's never the fault of blue maga. Always blame nonwhite voters. Notice how their ONLY solution is that people lie down and take it, while counting the days until the next election. It's wild!!

It's a macro example of what's going on inside the country. The US finally expanded from terrorizing Black and brown people in the Global South to terrorizing their white neighbors. Only one of these things is a problem for the broader population.

This week will mark 100 days since the "ceasefire" began.

But for Palestinians in Gaza, has Israel's firing actually ceased?

The evidence shows Israel has continued indiscriminately killing, injuring and displacing Palestinians -- including more than 100 children.

Here's what's been happening:

i feel like this is less baffling when you realize some nerdy men have hated women and women of color in games since like forever. Everyone I know here has a story of a man being weird at best and actively hostile because you happen to be a girl into games. I was on 2009 xbox live!!!!

ok hmong people in st. paul deserve to be protected from being kidnapped regardless of whether they or their grandpa fought for the US in vietnam and regardless of whether they are “good” and “upright” citizens it’s kidnapping it’s wrong. i get why people are bringing this up but.

Barely anyone is going to see this, but if you’ve ever asked why X isn’t banned in the UK yet despite creating CSAM, it’s because the US government has enforced a worldwide policy of blackmail protecting the American tech oligarchy. It’s why TikTok can be banned but X cannot.