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“Now we can get official footage of every murder and kidnapping” - @chanda.blacksky.app

YouTube video by AWKWORD AWKWORD INTERVIEWS: Alec Karakatsanis, Civil Rights Corps Founder and Executive Director

A conversation with abolitionist attorney Alec Karakatsanis

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How body cameras played right into police hands — and assist ICE in tracking and kidnapping US residents

@equalityalec.bsky.social

Baltimore Banner: Frds purchase warehouse in Hagerstown, MD, fueling talk of detention center.

Call it what it is: a concentration camp.

An Open Letter to Journalists and Citizens The arrests of Don Lemon, a Democratic political candidate, and activists demand an immediate national response.

The arrests of Don Lemon, a Democratic political candidate, and activists demand an immediate national response. Read my letter here... and let's take action!
www.blueamp.co/p/an-open-le...

Why Houston Oil Majors Are Hesitant to Go All In on Venezuela Though petro-giants have long sought lost assets in the South American country, they have reasons, for now at least, not to leap at Trump’s invitation to join his war on the climate and the internatio...

New: I spoke to Rice University Latin American Studies Professor Luis Duno-Gottberg and @sdonziger.bsky.social about the history of U.S. oil adventurism in Venezuela and the role Chevron is set to play in Trump's blood-for-oil imperial venture. www.texasobserver.org/houston-oil-...

This Is America, Just Not the America You Knew Two white people were killed by ICE in Minneapolis and suddenly White America is outraged.

America is outraged after ICE killed two white people in Minneapolis.

I understand why folks are feeling afraid and angry right now. But I need you to understand something just as clearly: this is what Black America has been living with for generations.
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Resistance to Trump 2.0 is getting more confrontational | Dana R Fisher In Trump’s first term, activists focused on lobbying and voting. Now tactics are shifting to nonviolent civil disobedience

My new piece about Resistance 2.0 is up at @theguardian.com! Give it a read to understand why we should expect much more confrontation and disruption this time around. Thanks for the suggestions @victorerikray.bsky.social @sociologistray.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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🧵 Let us begin #BlackHistoryMonth by acknowledging a medical milestone. What happened when Black physicians and nurses were excluded from all-White hospitals?

They built their own.

Pull up a 🪑.(cont)
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it's official: Billy Porter is Special Permanent Undersecretary for Telling MAGA Terrorists to F Off 🔥🔥🔥 #NickiMinaj

@awkword.bsky.social fyi re: upscrolled. they decided they will only ban nazis if they explicitly threaten violence.

Please Never Assume I Can Access Care Like Skinny White Straight Abled Canadian Women This newsletter post delves into how oppressive forces like white supremacy, settler-colonialism, ableism, etc., never bode well for universal healthcare, even in Canada, based on the author's circuit...

When I launched my newsletter in 2024, this was intended to be my 2nd post, but I could not find the words, then summer work beckoned, then I discovered the betrayal, etc., but nearly 2 years later, I can finally share this writing that literally took years, so if it resonates, please share widely!🥹

The Mayor of Portland, OR after ICE shot tear gas into a crowd

“To those who..work for ICE: Resign..Through your use of violence and..trampling of the Constitution, you have lost all legitimacy and replaced it with shame. [G]o home, look in a mirror, and ask yourselves why you have gassed children”

Powerful Men Who Turn Up in the New Batch of Epstein Files

Not a single Latino immigrant of 𝗔𝗡𝗬 status appears in the Epstein files.

Every name belongs to someone powerful.

Sit with that.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...

Supreme Court clerks hit with nondisclosure contracts amid panic over leaks: report The Supreme Court has come under fire after insiders revealed staffers are being told to sign formal contracts opening them to legal action if they reveal secrets.Representatives could previously rely...

The Supreme Court now understands the need for an enforcement mechanism for ethical obligations. Not for the President or for their own code of ethics, of course; this is more of a “snitches get stitches” enforcement for staff members.

www.rawstory.com/supreme-cour...

My City Is Under Occupation: A Trans Reporter’s Dispatch From Minneapolis TNN reporter Mira Lazine found a community in Minneapolis. Now, that community is under attack — and fighting back. Here’s her look of the realities on the ground.

TNN reporter Mira Lazine (@thefreeradical.org) found a community in Minneapolis. Now, that community is under attack by a fascist regime — and fighting back.

Here’s her look of the realities on the ground, where exhaustion and terror exist alongside defiance and hope:

A man speaking into a microphone with his hand raised. Text reads, "Jack Dorsey has built a new app designed for protesters." A small inset photo shows a person speaking at an event. The background is black, and the text is in bold green.

Um, no

Sure, but it's probably roughly the same when accounting for population growth. See? Things aren't so bad!

ICYMI: The US is currently holding three times as many people in immigrant detention as were detained in the Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939 — six years into the Third Reich, and just before the start of World War II.

“These algorithms create this contagion”

5 years ago, Brooke Binkowski warned of “really noxious ideas getting lots of exposure… ripping apart society at the atomic level” — all paid for by Big Tech

youtu.be/l_YVCrtpJjk

@brooklynmarie.bsky.social

“We cannot descend into cynicism… It’s our role at this point in history. We are the ancestors to people to come.”

- @sdonziger.bsky.social

youtu.be/8Rc4SXXVK9U

“We cannot descend into cynicism… It’s our role at this point in history. We are the ancestors to people to come.”

- @sdonziger.bsky.social

youtu.be/8Rc4SXXVK9U

Make No Mistake About Trump's Minnesota 'De-Escalation' Reading the corporate media over the past few days, you might come away with the impression that national (and international) outrage over state-sanctioned terror and killings of civilians in the stre...

I wrote about the media largely buying the administration’s PR spin: “The claim that someone like Homan would represent a pivot or a more conciliatory approach is only reasonable if you’ve neglected to do even a cursory google search. There’s little meaningful daylight between him and Bovino”

From: Matthew Hiltzik < To: J <jeevacation@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Thoughts from Chomsky Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2019 23:34:06 +0000 I think that is wise Sent from my iPhone On Feb 23, 2019, at 4:19 PM, J < jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: Ive watched the horrible way you are being treated in the press and public. It's painful to say, but I think the best way to proceed is to ignore it. I've had plenty of experience, though of course not on this scale. A google search will bring up tons of hysterical accusations of all sorts, even groups devoted to vilifying me. I pay no attention, unless I'm approached for a comment on a specific matter. It's a nuisance, but it's the best way. The same conclusions from experiences of others, in some cases close friends. What the vultures dearly want is a public response, which then provides a public opening for an onslaught of venomous attacks, many from just publicity seekers or cranks of all sorts -- which are impossible to answer (how do you prove that you are not a neo-Nazi who wants to kill the Jews, or a rapist, or whatever charge comes along?). That's particularly true now with the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women, which has reached the point that even questioning a charge is a crime worse than murder. For virtually everyone who sees any of this, the reaction will be "where there's smoke there's fire, maybe raging fire" (whatever the facts, which few will even think of investigating). In general, it's best I think not to react unless directly questioned, particularly in the current mood -- which, I presume, will fade away, even if not in time to prevent much torture and distress.

Cool thoughts from Noam Chomsky

How Minneapolis Looks From the Police Chief’s Squad Car

Platonic ideal of an Atlantic article in 2026
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

The oligarchs funding the police state invested early—over $4 MILLION to elect Trump and GOP allies.

Now they’re cashing in: $170 BILLION approved for DHS & ICE.

For GEO Group, CoreCivic & CSI Aviation, deportation is big business.

#DefundOligarchy

Why Is the Trump Administration Demanding Minnesota’s Voter Rolls?

Why is the US Attorney General demanding access to Minnesota's voter rolls in exchange for getting ICE out of the state?🤔

Gifted article.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...

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🧵 This book is one of the most profound pieces of literature I've ever read. I held off on posting a thread about it due to the title—but as they say, never judge a book by its cover.

Pull up a seat, my friends🪑.(cont)
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truthout.org Trump DOJ Sues to Force States to Share Confidential Voter Data

Trump DOJ Sues to Force States to Share Confidential Voter Data