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History's what people are trying to hide from you, not what they're trying to show you. You search for it in the same way you sift through a landfill: for evidence of what people want to bury.-Hilary Mantel Husband, Father, Teacher, Vet 🇺🇸 stand with 🇺🇦🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈⚧️❤️
Viktor Orban, openly, takes money from citizens of EU each year by declaring Hungary a welfare state in the union. He then uses that money to elect himself and aid Putin in invading Europe. And he uses the money to buy oil from Russia as they inch towards Europe. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
One of the greatest cinematographers in film history started his professional life as a teenage semipro boxer, & a Chinese American one just a few years after Jack Johnson’s iconic victory. That & more in today’s post in the James Wong Howe series! 🗃️
This was my second visit to the ICE facility in Baltimore. Each time, it made the hair stand up on my arms.
The conditions are inhumane, and the treatment of people is unacceptable.
Instead of lowering gas prices, this Administration chooses to spend its time on this CRUELTY.
It's Abortion Provider Appreciation Day.
Thank you to all of the providers who put their safety and lives on the line to ensure we can get the care we need. You've helped me to build the life and family I have now, and there's no way to articulate the depth of my gratitude.
You can read about my winning lawsuit with @rcfp.org against DC MPD, and the resulting footage from the DOGE raid on USIP here:
Do we know who owned the facility and what it was built for originally?
For more information:
- Project Salt Box: projectsaltbox.substack.com/p/ice-now-ow.... @projectsaltbox.bsky.social
- My substack: austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-wareho...
- The Baltimore Banner @BaltimoreBanner
The ICE warehouse in Western Maryland, up close. It’s hard to explain how enormous this place is until you’re standing right in front of it.
Communities of color and women's voting rights are under attack. The SAVE Act would create new barriers that make it harder for many Americans to vote. I wrote in the Indianapolis Recorder about why we must protect access to the ballot.
The Trump administration heralds the Iran War as a Not-Woke War. Here’s what that means in practice.
Awesome. I look forward to learning.
The more I learned about James Wong Howe, the more I knew his life, work, & legacy were worthy of a weeklong blog series, both on their own terms & for all that they open up in our histories & stories. So this week I'll AmericanStudy a handful of contexts for this legendary film pioneer! 🗃️
Christian Nationalism is NOT Christianity, but it is a national security threat.
📌 The Military Religious Freedom Foundation says it has received over 200 complaints that troops are being told war with Iran is meant to accelerate “Armageddon.”
This wasn't a slip-up. Someone had to find footage from MONTHS ago of Trump without a hat, and then someone had to add graphics to intentionally mislead viewers to think what they were seeing occurred yesterday. Fox is *still* misleading viewers—after paying $787.5 million for misleading viewers.
Not ready to emerge into the “daylight” yet? Check out my super-sized 266th #ScholarSunday thread, chock-full o’ public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ +
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#tdih 1971
A cab driver, day care provider, and two professors broke into FBI office in Media, Penn.
They removed docs that exposed COINTELPRO campaign to disrupt & destroy a wide range of activist groups, especially civil rights orgs.
Read⬇️ 🧵#TeachTruth
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/co...
I believe it’s Spring forward
I hate #daylightsavings How will I make up that hour of sleep?!
#caturday
i come from a military family. my dad retired as a colonel. my nephew’s an army ranger who did 4 tours.
but if i had a kid thinking about joining the service right now? i’d put my body between them and the recruiters. no one should sacrifice their lives in service to donald fucking trump.
Anyway, here is a handy guide to getting started with ALT text. It's an important way we can make people with visual impairments or neurological processing issues feel welcome on bluesky. bsky.app/profile/cats...
Yes, Carla!
So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right
What a strange graphic
That's really nice of you to say; much appreciated! Let me pass it on and in turn thank all the public school educators who happen to be giving their all in really tough teaching situations. They're the heroes for sure!
Remember the scandal of Trump wanting to host the G8 at Doral? He had to actually back down.
Today, he has the ‘Shield of the Americas’ conference at Doral with all the pomp and circumstance, charging the entire 2 day event to you and me while making a profit for himself.
Not a word from Dems.
The convergence of fascist state capture with the creation in AI of an aspirational unwaged labor machine really emphasizes the underlying desire to eliminate the rest of us.
