Matthew Shirts

Agree. Agree. Agree.

The Israelization of the United States of America

Birds of a feather, do fascism together. American cities are getting a taste of what Palestinians endure under brutal Israeli occupation as the Trump Administration arms for martial law.

thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-israel...

Paraguai terá montadora de ônibus elétricos na região de fronteira - H2FOZ Empresa de Taiwan confirmou que pretende instalar uma linha de montagem em Minga Guazú, a 24 quilômetros da Ponte da Amizade.

Interessante. Boa pauta www.h2foz.com.br/paraguai/mon...

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of

Private companies incentivised to put asylum seekers in hotels rather than bedsits as they could earn EIGHT TIMES as much profit, says @paulkohlersw19.bsky.social

Hotel owners and private companies benefiting despite allegations of terrible conditions

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This strikes me as pretty bad

Everything they are doing & saying right now is very obviously meant to clear the way for mass repressive violence.

Fact checking is not going to do shit.

Talking about kitchen table issues is not going to do shit.

We need open, unapologetic defiance & conflict.

Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97

I grew up going to Zabar's. So many of my childhood memories center around the best lox in NYC (which is saying something). With Saul Zabar's passing today, the Upper West Side has lost a legend who turned his parent's humble store into a culinary institution.

Soybean Farmer: So now I've got a tariff war that's killing my market. I don't have any money from grain we're sending to other countries for USAID. I mean, I've got a compound problem. I don't know how you plan for next year because we don't know where we're at.

Early voting is underway for Prop 50 in California.

I urge anyone in the state to vote yes.

This isn’t a race to the bottom. It’s a means of avoiding the bottom. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-blue-states-should-do-when-red

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b----' before shooting Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorn...

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b----' before shooting chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

Broadview police are investigating.

Just some light reading for today... www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...

@citizensforethics.org

Durbin on Epstein Files: Who gave the orders to flag records related to president trump? To flag any records which included his name? 

Bondi: I'm not going to discuss anything about that with you

The rest of America is finally witnessing how this country had treated Black and Brown people.

Resources for immigrants and families

Witness an ICE raid, call a local Rapid Response Team! These community networks verify raids, support families & connect people with legal help. Know your rights.

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims agent said, 'Do something b----' before shooting Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney alleged...

Woman shot by ICE has been released from custody, body cam footage revealed an agent saying
"do something bitch" while holding his rifle at her

Portland threatens to evict Ice from Oregon facility over permit violations Records obtained by Street Roots and the Guardian back claim from Oregon city’s mayor that Ice violated a land-use permit to detain people overnight

If I'm understanding the timeline correctly: the city sent the zoning notice, DHS chose to view it as a "sanctuary politician attempting to prevent the brave men and women of Ice from" blah blah, and then protests and overreaction by cops escalated from there.

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

On brand

This is great. The absurdity of this moment captured. Make it go viral.

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ and systemic problems, study says

- Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

WATCH: “58% oppose um using the National Guard in our American cities”

Jessica Tarlov says Trump is trying to normalize military occupation in U.S. cities, but judges of all stripes as well as a majority of Americans are pushing back. cc Gov. Bill Lee

Chump's Regime Has Waged War
On Half Of The People In
America.......

One iPhone led police to gang who sent 40,000 snatched phones to China BBC News is given access to what the Met Police says is the UK's largest operation against mobile phone thefts.

#BBCNews - One iPhone led police to gang who sent 40,000 snatched phones to China
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I’m starting to think there are Republicans in the Epstein files

I cannot believe what we are subjected to, day after day.

The image is an X post by David French (@DavidAFre ) from 1 day ago, stating: "Does a Fox correspondent not know that we can stop boats at sea, search them, seize any drugs we find, arrest the crew, try them, and imprison them – while also questioning them to help investigate the cartels? The choices aren't between execution and permission." It includes a reply by Charles Gasparino (@CGA ) from 1 day ago, asking: "Why would anyone be against using US forces to stop drugs from coming into this country? Because international stipulates that we need to poison our kids? x.com/DavidAFre..."

Acting as judge, jury, and executioner against civilian vessels would lead to war crimes charges with nearly any other country’s leader.