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“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.” ― Noam Chomsky
The phrase "in this country" is doing a lot of work here. The groundwork for this was laid by US acceptance of rendition, blacksites, Gitmo, drone killings, deadly sanctions, arming a genocide and more. Naive to think that fascistic foreign policy wouldn't find its way home. Free Rumeysa Ozturk.
27.03.2025 12:42 — 👍 96 🔁 41 💬 2 📌 2So we can’t sue gunmakers for their role in hundreds of gun deaths, but fossil fuel companies can sue environmental organizations?
Conclusion: Corporations have rights but people do not.
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Right on about the architects. Same goes for the corporate news media mouthpieces that pushed this criminal catastrophe.
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I know the restoration of Jackie Robinson's page to the DOD website doesn't sound like much, but it's a reminder that these bullies back off when challenged. They first said celebrating Robinson "cultural marxism". That was weird nonsense and they buckled like a belt
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On the 22nd anniversary of the Iraq War, let's pause to remember everything US corporate media is hoping we'll forget -- beginning with their own active complicity.
@normansolomon.bsky.social @rootsaction.org @ahjohnson.bsky.social @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social @kthalps.bsky.social
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This is why I donate to Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social. If you can’t protest, support the ones who do. The cause for democracy and against genocide, occupation, fascism, and imperialism is the same cause.
13.03.2025 20:39 — 👍 53 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0Where all the self-styled anti-authoritarian Democratic Party leaders on this one?
10.03.2025 21:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"If you know anything about the history of political intimidation and politically repressive fear, you know that the cruelty is not the point. Silence, obedience, and submission—subjugation for political ends—that’s the point." @nplusonemag.com
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#WallaceStevens on strategic ambiguity.
10.03.2025 20:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower
Great Guardian profile on longtime friend and collaborator @jacksonkatz.bsky.social, a true warrior in a world full of fake ones.
If you're an educator interested in using our film "The Bystander Moment" featuring Katz in your classes, go here: bit.ly/4ikvGvz
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The Trump/Musk/Project 2025 corporate rampage is so extreme that David Portnoy now sounds like Chomsky.
28.02.2025 00:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The word "psychopaths" comes to mind.
27.02.2025 21:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"Pretending that militarism is not a boon to authoritarian politics only strengthens it. The time has certainly come to stop pretending."
From @normansolomon.bsky.social at @tomdispatch.bsky.social
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"The struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." -- Milan Kundera
16.02.2025 21:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 01000%. This is why Jewish America's most powerful institutions won't fight for American liberal democracy in its moment of peril. Because that would alienate the American authoritarians they cultivate to sustain support for authoritarianism in Israel-Palestine.
16.02.2025 18:17 — 👍 76 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 2Our film is going to the Oscars. But here in Masafer Yatta, we’re still being erased - https://www.972mag.com/no-other-land-oscars-masafer-yatta-erasure/
10.02.2025 17:08 — 👍 71 🔁 52 💬 0 📌 1Slicker, savvier Dems are hoping a big part of the base will instantly forget the last administration's militant support for genocide and ethnic cleansing, backed by its entire foreign policy team, very much including Samantha Power. But moral rot smells bad. It does not inspire
07.02.2025 22:23 — 👍 106 🔁 28 💬 2 📌 0Failing to defend students protesting against genocide won’t save you, universities and presidents. It’s best to fight back and stand on ALL your principles because Trump and MAGA really hate you and are just using antisemitism as an excuse.
14.02.2025 16:41 — 👍 65 🔁 18 💬 5 📌 0