Images verified by Human Rights Watch show Israel fired white phosphorus in populated areas of southern Lebanon.
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Images verified by Human Rights Watch show Israel fired white phosphorus in populated areas of southern Lebanon.
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The richest man owns X.
The second and third richest men control Google.
The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.
And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.
See the problem here?
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Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF
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The first set of postdocs for our ERC project on popular government have just been advertised. These 3 postdocs will be based at UC Louvain with my co-PI Pierre-Etienne Vandamme and focus on contemporary democratic theory. Apply! jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...
25.02.2026 17:27 — 👍 38 🔁 39 💬 1 📌 2Probably fine
25.02.2026 13:24 — 👍 1066 🔁 236 💬 115 📌 29The floor plan for the planned ICE concentration camp in Social Circle, Georgia:
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Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.
Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:
Congratulations Niklas! This is wonderful news.
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Our Deliberative State Governance (DSG) initiative’s inaugural workshop is right around the corner! Take a peak at the incredible leaders speaking next week on citizens’ assemblies and building partnerships between policy makers and the people. And stay tuned for more announcements very soon... 👀
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We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege
10.02.2026 18:46 — 👍 5494 🔁 2924 💬 101 📌 291Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh
09.02.2026 02:09 — 👍 7144 🔁 1623 💬 188 📌 233“When we have great facilitation and education, when we have time to talk to each other - and not at each other - good things can happen.” Agreed! Check out this week's episode of Dayton City Radio's podcast, “Birthplace of Next,” to learn about our latest Citizens’ Assembly.
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Israel bombed tents in Gaza today, killed at least 30 people including children, and the death toll is likely to rise
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
De Amerikaanse democratie glijdt in een hoger tempo af naar een autocratie dan Putins Rusland,
Orbans Hongarije, Erdogans Turkije en Venezuela onder Chavez, aldus de Financial Times gisteren.
Harvard professor Steven Levitsky, who studies democracy backsliding, on Don Lemon's arrest:
“This is a new dimension. In democracies, journalists don't get arrested. In authoritarian regimes, journalists get arrested."
More in @status.news: www.status.news/p/don-lemon-...
Het aantal nieuwe hypotheken van meer dan 1 miljoen euro is in vijf jaar tijd verdubbeld. Door de hypotheekrente betaalt iedere Nederlander daaraan mee, en als het aan het kabinet ligt blijft dat zo. Maar wie profiteert hier eigenlijk van? Vooral de rijkste 20 procent. www.ftm.nl/artikelen/st...
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Leading American companies — including Palantir, Deloitte, and private prison giant GEO Group — raked in over $22B from ICE and CBP contracts last year.
Do not forget who is profiting from cruelty and human suffering.
“Independent” is doing too much work in this first wave. They are arresting journalists and just like everything else they’ve done, they’re testing the limits of our resistance by starting wt vulnerable margins.
30.01.2026 15:45 — 👍 3258 🔁 859 💬 6 📌 18Just to be clear: We’ve reached the arresting journalists stage of constitutional crisis.
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Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza.
This is textbook censorship of the highest degree
ICE deported a 5-year-old US citizen to Honduras, where she had never been, after holding her & her mother in a hotel room 80 miles from home for several days and not allowing them access to a lawyer www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
28.01.2026 01:42 — 👍 4069 🔁 2297 💬 77 📌 152Certain forms of mainstream news are sedative. Here's one. Yesterday in Minneapolis was a big day for this country's history and the current crisis and a heroic demonstration of will, solidarity, and bravery. NYT leads with shopping.
24.01.2026 16:55 — 👍 374 🔁 109 💬 5 📌 4There is evil and then there is this
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ICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...
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Breaking NYT:
The FBI agent who sought to investigate the federal immigration officer who fatally shot Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter, after leadership pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the officer.
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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