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Co-founder ArchCity Defenders. Civil rights and criminal defense attorney working with movements to support transformational change. Cat loving abolitionist and national non-profit survivor. (photo by Nathaniel St. Clair)
I really wanted to know more about Renee Good, killed by ICE in January. Fortunately, my editor allowed me to take some time to do a deep dive into who she was before she died. Read and listen to what I found out about her from her Colorado tribe here: www.cpr.org/2026/03/11/r...
Sen Mark Warner stunning words after briefing from Trump regime: "Let's bc clear. There was no imminent threat to the United States by the Iranians. There was a threat to Israel. If we equate a threat to Israel as the equivalent of an imminent threat to the US, then we are in uncharted territory."
And last but not least, the most important history lesson: you should always assume that the current president, no matter who he is, is asking you to pay billions of dollars to murder someone who a previous president either put into office or supported as an ally, no matter how vicious they were.
They just wanted to be asked so they too could say the ordered the murder of more brown people.
Most important of all, the Democrats love this. They want it. They're just as blood thirsty and more cowardly.
"The United States uses the pretense of diplomacy to lull its adversary into a false sense of security while preparing the killing blow. In June 2025, Israel struck while US-Iran talks were scheduled to resume days later. In February 2026, the assault came two days after the Geneva round ended."
"only 21 percent of Americans favored an attack on Iran, while 49 percent were firmly opposed. A poll taken on the day of the strikes found just 34 percent approval—the lowest public backing for a US military campaign in modern history"
It is widely acknowledged that the United States faced no threat from Iran. Trump himself...declared that Iran’s nuclear weapons capacity had been “obliterated.”
"The bombardment of Iran is a crime—against a people and against civilization. When strikes hit cities like Tehran, Qom and Isfahan, the target is not merely “infrastructure” but the accumulated intellectual, cultural and social life of a historic society."
"The assault was launched while US and Iranian negotiators were still engaged in talks mediated by Oman, which had concluded just two days earlier in Geneva. The attack on Iran is precisely what was described at the Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders."
You should read this whole thing but here are a few great excerpts:
"There is not a shred of legal justification for the attack. No authorization has been sought from or granted by the United States Congress, as required by Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
When someone flies a plane into a skyscraper, are we going to pretend like it isn't a completely justifiable reaction to the religious maniacs who openly say we're bombing Iran to to cause Armageddon and bring Jesus back?
In bad times, there are still great things happening.
Read about this remarkable achievement from Blake STrode and Kayla Reed.
31,000 sq feet of power building community space, anchored by the ArchCity and Action, all in North City: the Northside Movement Center.
www.stlpr.org/economy-busi...
I get it. He was really friendly, sounded smart, and said lots of nice words. He didn't engage in mean rhetoric.
Does that matter when he was also drone strike murdering american citizens, deporting hundreds of thousands, endorsing Bush's torture regime, and letting the wealthy rob us?
King's intelligence and moral clarity is unparalleled, especially his attack on military spending in 1967.
Then think about how in 2026 we'll spend $40 billion to turn warehouses into immigrant concentration camps, but won't house people on the streets.
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This is what neoliberal democrats in the tradition of Clinton, Obama, and Biden want: mass deportation, but the "nice" kind.
It's exactly the same thing about the mass suffering caused by human caging: that's fine so long as the cops, guards, and prosecutors use kinder, gentler rhetoric.
A mob of fully grown masked men assaulted college students at UCLA for five hours and there were absolutely no consequences. This country hates young people, and always has
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Conditions in ICE detention facilities are horrific and merit your outrage. This will only get worse as they seek to warehouse more human beings.
But don't forget the everyday horror of America's human caging system.
9 people have already died in LA county jail in the first 43 days of 2026.
I feel like I'm losing my goddamnned mind.
This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine.
Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.
When I worked for Reason magazine during Trump's rise to power in 2016, I was explicitly forbidden by the editor in chief from writing about Trump's racism, or the violence and racism at his rallies.
It was a "sideshow," I was told.
“Lying in feces, throw up, urine… like animals in a cage at the zoo.”
A whistleblower recounts the horrific ICE detention center conditions in Baltimore — a similar story everywhere.
"One of the last things I heard on that cell floor was my cellmate begging for medical care."
Aliya Rahman describes her brutally assault, arrest and detention by ICE agents, who also refused to provide medical care or disability accommodations, in Minneapolis.
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Leqaa Kordia is Palestinian and is the last pro-Palestine student protestor who is still being held in government custody. She has recently suffered a medical emergency while incarcerated. Please fill out this form to send a letter to your congressional reps demanding her release:
This is all useless.
Cops love bodycams.
Renee Good's murderer filmed it.
Steve Bannon says ICE will surround the polling places.
What difference would body cams make while murdering and interfering with elections when the feds promise immunity and those convicted will be pardoned?
"the worst of the worst"
It's unclear which is more embarrassing:
Democrats' list of pathetic, ineffective, borderline useless polite requests to do things ICE is already required to do that they call "demands"
or the fact that Republicans call them "unrealistic," "radical and extreme," or a "far left wish list"
My friend and one of the co-authors of Read This When Things Fall Apart, Stevie Wilson, will be released from prison in less than a week. Stevie has done tremendous work as an incarcerated organizer and has plans to continue doing important work on the outside. Let's help him make a new start.
Anyone who works with left-leaning groups knows that actual radical groups rarely get a penny of funding.
Roughly 6 percent of philanthropic dollars support racial equity work, and only 1 percent supports racial justice work.
The rest is just people caring about each other and fighting fascism.
“Both Google and Meta received a record number of subpoenas in the United States during the first half of 2025 as Trump’s second term began, with Google receiving 28,622, a 15 percent increase over the previous six months.”