Ken Daly

Kilmar Abrego is not the only reason Trump likes the president of El Salvador. Bukele won El Salvador’s 2024 election illegally after friendly judges on the Constitutional Court reinterpreted the constitution so he could run again. Foreign Policy magazine.

Is Protest Dead? Why global resistance movements have failed and where they go from here.

"movements can shake things up, but unless they are well-structured and pursue long-term strategies for change, the vacuum they create will be filled by the better organized. The better organized are often simply the better financed—and in most countries, the money remains on the right."

Under the 1994 Budapest Agreement, the United States along with the UK and Russia committed to defend Ukraine in exchange for Ukraine turning over its nuclear weapons to Russia for decommissioning.

He says "It's politics." She says: "To enforce the rules of a police state is politics. Good guys like you cover it up so bad guys are safe."

In the move Hidden Agenda she has a great speech at the end when the cop investigating her boyfriend's murder gets too scared to reveal the truth about a plot to bring Thatcher to power in the UK.

Hidden Agenda is a great movie with a young Frances McDormand.

YouTube video by Chumbawamba - Topic Fade Away

Chumbawamba Fade Away

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YouTube video by Huppelplopp1848 Chumbawamba - The day the nazi died

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What the US can learn from South Koreans who stopped an authoritarian power-grab South Koreans reversed a martial law decree in just 6 hours, showing how ordinary citizens and politicians can take fast action to uphold democracy.

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How to organize under authoritarian creep in a closing civil society With civil society under attack from a dehumanizing far-right government, it bears remembering: In crisis there is also opportunity.

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The damage one needless ICE arrest can do - The Boston Globe Lynn high-schooler Zeneyda Barrera is finally back with her family. Her detention harmed the whole city.

She was arrested and almost deported just because she got into an argument with her brother over a cell phone.

We can help our neighbors.

Navajo Nation leaders raise alarm over reports of Indigenous people being questioned and detained during immigration sweeps | CNN At least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have reported being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned or detained by federal law enforcement and asked to produce proof of citiz...

‘No one is illegal on stolen land’ For Indigenous peoples who inhabited the Americas for thousands of years before the colonization of their lands and the brutal treatment of their people, the recent sweeps have reopened old wounds.

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Providing someone humanitarian assistance without regard to their immigration status is less likely to carry criminal liability. Protesting for immigrant rights is NOT criminalized!

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A new 76ers arena would cost SEPTA millions. City Council may approve it anyway, a key lawmaker said. The likelihood that the arena would add costs to SEPTA undermines the 76ers’ repeated contention that the project will cost local taxpayers nothing.

Shameful

For people in Philadelphia concerned about the proposed arena in center city.

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