Usman T. Malik

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’ During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

The frogs have landed in Chicago! (2025)

Frogtifa

1973 Nobel Peace Prize - Wikipedia

Never forget that the Committee gave the Nobel Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger in 1973. Two committee members resigned in protest, and history sees that award choice as one of the Nobel’s greatest failures.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_No...

Absolute Dominion, the new film from Palestinian-American Oscar®-nominated director Lexi Alexander This superb martial arts battle for humanity begins on October 9.

If you live in Ireland or the UK, Absolute Dominion is available today on Google or Apple TV
www.rte.ie/video/id/28161

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Congratulations! 🎉🎈💖

Naoise's brother is asking Irish people to please contact the government #Speirgorm

Denver Celebrates 10,000 E-Bike Rebates Since its inception in April 2022, Denver has distributed over 10,000 electric bikes (e-bikes) to community members through its pioneering e-bike rebate program. As the first U.S. city to implement su...

since denver launched its e-bike rebate program - the have sold 10,000 e-bikes and reduced an estimated 1,000,000 car trips - replacing millions of VMTs and reducing air pollution

there are no climate silver bullets... but damn - e-bikes and e-cargo bikes are close

denvergov.org/Government/A...

These all look amazing. And wonderful reads for children to learn more about Palestine.

Irish novelist Naoise Dolan has been abducted by Israel. Naoise Dolan, one of Ireland’s most acclaimed young novelists, was earlier today abducted and detained by Israeli forces after the aid flotilla on which she was traveling to Gaza was intercep…

Irish novelist Naoise Dolan has been abducted by Israel.
lithub.com/irish-noveli...

This is what they've done.

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest. There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day. What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid. It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Just for some perspective, Israel has dropped about 11 tons of bombs an hour on Palestinians every day on average for 2 years.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

In 1839, during the early days of The Great Game (between England and Tsarist Russia), the British East India Company invaded Afghanistan and deposed the popular leader Dost Muhammad Khan to put the British puppet the exiled king Shah Shuja on the throne.
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Read the history of European colonialism and you understand exactly what's been going on in Palestine especially since October 7

The British justified all this mass destruction and atrocity by calling the acts of the natives savage and barbarous, although they were the invaders and looters and exploiters in both cases.
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One Indian historian estimates that between 1857 and 1870, nearly 10 million Indians were killed in an untold Holocaust.
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The British reacted by killing 140,000 of the 150,00 residents of Delhi, turned the royal princesses into whores, murdered all the sons of the last Mughal King Bahadur Shah Zafar to demolish the dynasty and exiled the 85-year-old king to Burma, where he died in poverty.
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In 1857, when the great Indian Sepoy Rebellion/ Indian War of Independence broke out, Indian sepoys killed their humiliaters and occupiers including British women and women at Kanpur/Cawnpur
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... raped the women, and burnt the largest commercial market in Central Asia to the ground-- the great Char Chatta Bazaar built by the Mughal King Shah Jahan in the 1600s.

Then they retreated from Afghanistan to 'let the Afghans settle their own affairs', as they later said.
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They cut a swath of massacre and destruction through several of the major cities of Afghanistan, cut down trees that were hundreds of years old, pillaged Afghan cities, shot or bayoneted every male above 14....
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In the subsequent Afghan resistance of the occupation, an entire regiment of the British including camp-followers were massacred by the Afghans as they tried to flee Afghanistan back to India.

In reply, the British government sent an Army of Retribution with a scorched earth policy.
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In 1839, during the early days of The Great Game (between England and Tsarist Russia), the British East India Company invaded Afghanistan and deposed the popular leader Dost Muhammad Khan to put the British puppet the exiled king Shah Shuja on the throne.
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"We took the freedom of speech away," says the president

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Thanks Kate! I dont know how y'all have written book after book. Such a backbreaking task we put ourselves through