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🧵 To survive TikTok censoring: "Rape was changed to grape. Killed became unalived. Hitler was mustache man. Don’t get me started on the variations for abortion.

But it then became apparent that TikTok was censoring anything that was against the Trump administration."
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Historians Against Israel’s Genocide Every single university in Gaza has been destroyed. A historian writes about the recent efforts among the American Historical Association to condemn Israel’s scholasticide and genocide.

Karen Miller on the fight among historians over Gaza, with the establishment taking a very bad position.

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Your just asking for Missouri

ICE GOONS raided at least two locations of a Kansas City-area Mexican restaurant chain late Wednesday morning, according to video footage obtained by The Star.

This is my friend.

His name is Christian Smalls.

He founded the Amazon Labor union

Not as a professional activist, but as a worker who decided he’d had enough.

Recently, he was beaten and detained by the IDF

And no one in the MSM is talking about it.

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Leonora Carrington’s The Stone Door is out today from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social!

Read Joy Williams on Leonora Carrington from our archive here →
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God is all about some metal

A man coughing up blood. Men zip-tied face down on a wet floor. CCTV turned off. Men forced to eat off of a chair like animals while handcuffed. Solitary confinement if you complain. This is just three paragraphs from a new report.

Trump’s first six months: A threat to our planet and its peoples The election of Trump represents the coming to power of a neofascist leadership in the main imperialist country of the world, who is actively fueling the genocide of the Palestinian people. This re…

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It's all just a game.

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I don't think it has been 'Nicene Christianity' for a long time. Most of them wouldn't know the creed if it hit them in the head. Who would have thought that barely disguised mammon worship would lead to being an antichrist's fascist footsoldiers?

It really throws an unanticipated curve ball into the old system of checks and balances when the head of one branch believes the head of another branch to be God's annointed.

Zohran Mamdani sticks to socialist guns, ‘tax the rich’ plan during highly anticipated sitdown with NYC big business leaders Mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani stuck to his socialist guns during a highly anticipated powwow with Big Apple business leaders Tuesday — doubling down on his plan to raise their taxes.

“It was very frustrating. He speaks well.”

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I'm trying to think about how I would have reacted if shown this headline five years ago

Always hits me in NMH's Aeroplane when it gets to that line -

Know all your enemies
We know who our enemies are

Homeland Security DHS account on X: Remember your Homeland's Heritage. New Life in a New Land - Morgan Weistling

The official DHS account is now tweeting about “your homeland’s heritage”

these people just really want a part of the security state that will shoot kids and old people. they won’t rest until they find it. if it does not exist, they intend to make it.

The right is in the side of the baddies of all speculative fiction from this and the last century, including, it seems, Terminator and the Matrix.

At the DeSantis Everglades detention camp, people with green cards are being held in terrible conditions, with maggots in the food, the lights kept on 24 hours a day, and delayed access to medicine.

One guy had his Bible taken and was told "here there is no right to religion."

US Marine. This is what the Marines do to American citizens.

Let them go down to the devil, it is where they want to go.

Oregon vineyard owner arrested by ICE agents outside his church ‘I was crying, I was a mess,’ Moises Sotelo-Casas’s daughter says. ‘He was in chains at his feet’

Moises Sotelo-Casas attends St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in Newberg, Oregon, and the deacon at that church said, “Normally we would have 40 to 50 people in church on a Sunday for our Spanish service, and today we had 12, and no children, just adult children was all that came. . . .

JOSH HAWLEY MISSOURI United States Senate WASHINGTON, DC 20510-2509 COMMITTEES JUDICIARY HOMELAND SECURITY AND GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS HEALTH, EDUCATION, LABOR AND PENSIONS SMALL BUSINESS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP June 11, 2025 Party for Socialism and Liberation San Francisco, CA To whom it may concern: I write in my capacity as Chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism regarding your organization's alleged role in financing and materially supporting the coordinated protests and riots that have engulfed Los Angeles in recent weeks. While peaceful protest is a cornerstone of American democracy, these demonstrations have escalated into lawless mob actions. They have obstructed federal law enforcement, endangered public safety, and disrupted the rule of law. This lawlessness is unacceptable. It must end. Credible reporting now suggests that your organization has provided logistical support and financial resources to individuals engaged in these disruptive actions. Let me be clear: bankrolling civil unrest is not protected speech. It is aiding and abetting criminal conduct. Accordingly, you must immediately cease and desist any further involvement in the organization, funding, or promotion of these unlawful activities. Furthermore, please preserve the following records from November 5, 2024 to present: 1. All internal communications, including emails, text messages, chat logs, and messaging applications, relating to protest planning, coordination, or funding. 2. All financial documents related to protests, demonstrations, or mobilization efforts in Los Angeles or elsewhere relating to immigration enforcement. 3. All third-party contracts or vendor agreements, including any arrangements with event organizers, transportation providers, security personnel, or communications consultants relating to immigration enforcement or the Los Angeles protests, or similar protests elsewhere.

Red scare.

Sen. Padilla pushed to ground, handcuffed for demanding DHS not lie Forcibly removing a sitting US senator, as they opposed the president's immigration policy, is a part of a broader slide.

A DHS spokesperson defended the detainment, accusing Sen. Padilla of failing to properly identify himself during Sec. Kristi Noem's press conference.

But multiple videos show Padilla clearly identifying himself as a senator.

We feed you.
They hunt us.

About 3 dozen LAPD officers in full riot gear, standing around looking confused, bored, aimless. A waste of taxpayer money, a threatening show of force without morality or purpose. Behind them, the north wall of the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, covered with Barbara Kruger's "Untitled (Questions)" mural: against a field of stark red, white letters that read, in part, WHO IS BEYOND THE LAW? WHO IS BOUGHT AND SOLD? WHO DOES THE TIME? WHO SALUTES LONGEST? WHO DIES FIRST? WHO LAUGHS LAST

Pulitzer prize for this Jay L. Clenendin image of LAPD stormtroopers in front of Barbara Kruger's "Untitled (Questions)"

ICE out of Los Angeles! Withdraw the National Guard! Stop the terror campaign against immigrant communities! Statement by the Solidarity National Committee Images: SEIU 721, Los Angeles For several days now protests have erupted against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in working-class immi…

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you'd better not yell at the very special birthday boy 😤 www.axios.com/2025/06/10/t...