Lee Hall 🍉

Producing workers for plantations, Marcus Rediker wrote in The Slave Ship (2007), the ship-factory constructed race. Captains hired motley crews of sailors, who would, on the African coast, become white; they'd apprehend multi-ethnic groups of Africans who'd be described as the black or Negro race.

Cold-weather protocols in Colorado Springs to include free bus rides to shelters, downtown terminal In an effort to do everything Colorado Springs can to help people who are homeless get inside during this winter’s cold snaps, Mountain Metro Transit will provide free city bus rides for people to rea...

“We’ve had drivers say we’ve seen people who need a ride, they don’t have any money and we’re leaving them out in the cold,” said Elaine Sheridan, spokesperson for the city’s public bus system. gazette.com/2025/12/05/c...

I pay $30 a month and they send me a bag of books every month.

This was one of last months.

And honestly, it's probably not a story I would have heard otherwise.

ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.

The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Clipper 2 is a huge deal from a fare equity perspective. Transfer agencies on your ride? You won't pay the base fare twice anymore! That's $100+ back to daily commuters every month.

Santa Claus has been arrested under the Terrorism Act in Norwich after it turns out Santa oppo-ho-ho-ses genocide and supports Palestine Action.

These four officers will be having their names checked twice this year.

Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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And one more other thing I’m seeing now, that Northwestern unsurprisingly didn’t mention in its statement, effectively banning gender affirming care at NU school of medicine

Are academic folks explicitly stating the absence of AI usage in any form in their presentations? I've been planning to initiate it in mine going forward. Will it at all help quell the tide of cruelty awaiting us? All AI incl generative AI, recall, depletes our planetary resources massively.

Stephen Miller’s ancestors were Jewish refugees from the pogroms in czarist Russia. They came to the U.S. in the early twentieth century, even as racists said this same stuff about them.

End temporary protected status for Trump.

There's is no bottom. Remember this when calls for "abolish" are decried.

As a car-free human in suburbia, I'd love better social transit to help me through the winter.

"Listen! Listen to the truth-tellers who renamed Thanksgiving a day of mourning. It started in Connecticut—but not the way we were told at school. In 1637, the English colonizers carried out a pre-dawn raid on a Pequot community. [2/3]

Make Thanksgiving Day History Listen! Listen to the truth-tellers who renamed Thanksgiving a day of mourning. It started in Connecticut—but not the way we were told at school. In 1637,

Abraham Lincoln re-affirmed #Thanksgiving as an official federal holiday in 1863—not even a year after greenlighting the nation’s largest ever mass execution—the hanging of 38 Sioux in December 1862.

Make Thanksgiving Day History - www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/26/m...

Fearless Benjamin: A History Lesson From Grownups of Integrity Ask the children. Chances are, I reckon, they’ll say Washington and Jefferson ought to have known better than to enslave people. And chances are, an adult

Grateful to @leehall.bsky.social for this account of the launch of our children’s book, *Fearless Benjamin* (PM Press), at the Abington Quaker Meeting House Nov. 11. Lee writes with passion, grace, and power, explaining why children need to know Lay's story.

www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/25/f...

Tell Congress: Stop illegal military strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific Since Sept. 2, the U.S. has bombed multiple boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific, killing at least 83 people. The Trump administration claims this is part of a new “armed conflict” with “narco-traff...

This is state-sanctioned murder. And it is illegal.

Tell Congress: Stop U.S. military strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific!

afsc.org/action/tell-...

Beautiful Trouble Creative tools for a more just world.

Starting a thread of ideas to protest this weekend in DC (or anywhere) starting with this
Toolbox from Beautiful Trouble
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Fearless Benjamin: A History Lesson From Grownups of Integrity Ask the children. Chances are, I reckon, they’ll say Washington and Jefferson ought to have known better than to enslave people. And chances are, an adult

At the book launch in Abington, @marcusrediker.bsky.social vowed that Benjamin will never again be relegated to obscurity. Markel, Rediker, and Bachman had come from a future generation to retrieve Lay and tell the story of this hidden Quaker...

www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/25/f...

Roaming Charges: President Bone Spurs Fetes Crown Prince Bone Saws So it's no surprise thatTrump did more than receive MBS with diplomatic niceties. He lavished praise on the smirking Prince with the eagerness if a supplicant, asserted his innocence with the fervency...

`President Bone Spurs on Prince Bone Saws: We have an extremely respected man in the Oval Office today...A very good friend of mine. I’m very proud of the job he’s done. What he’s done is incredible in terms of human rights.`
—Jeffrey St. Clair www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/21/r...

NYTs Calls Trump Strategy in South America "Pragmatic" There is nothing “pragmatic” about engaging in a conflict where only one side, the United States, is armed, and the factual basis for the conflict is created  out of whole cloth.  It wasn’t pragmatic ...

`The current campaign against Venezuela is reminiscent of the phony argument regarding weapons of mass destruction that was used to justify the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Two decades later, U.S. military forces remain in Iraq.' www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/24/n...

General Strike: Statement of Solidarity with the Italian Trade Unions. From US – International Union of Electrical Workers:

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Do words such as solutions or combat reflect understanding? We are so keen on solutions, so keen on combat, so keen on bending reality to our will.

`...AI-driven solutions that align with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and combat climate change...'
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Gaza’s Looming Cancer Epidemic A week after the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023, a large explosion incinerated a parking lot near the busy Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, killing more than 470 people. It was a horrifying,

Cancer deaths from environmental devastation and the decimation of healthcare will likely continue long after bombs are dropped in Gaza, writes Joshua Frank, citing our research. tomdispatch.com/gazas-loomin...

`Every bus rider who gets pushed to fly or drive increases the carbon emissions of their trip by four to five times. We cannot afford to add more cars to our roads or emissions to our air.'

Lifeline for Palestine Join Lifeline for Palestine to end the genocide now. Register for our webinar to learn more and spread awareness. Lifeline for Palestine Uniting For Peace Resolution

Demands to the UN: lifelineforpalestine.com#:~:text=urge...

Every single day ICE agents are threatening people and terrorizing communities.

We’ve seen ICE pepper spray babies, disappear US citizens, slam distraught mothers and fathers to the ground—now they’re terrorizing St. Paul.

ICE is out of control and should be abolished.

Buddhist monks on national peace walk injured in Liberty County crash Police said a truck struck a vehicle that was escorting the group of monks on a peace walk across the country.

Buddhist monks on a peace walk taken to hospital after truck hits the group.
www.kvue.com/article/news...

Truth just put its shoes on.

Another COP already? Surely you’ve all worked this out by now? | First Dog on the Moon Wait … I’m hearing you have worked it out you’re just not doing it

Another COP already? Surely you’ve all worked this out by now?
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