Samantha Culp

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people local newspaper reporters are rarified elites instead of ink-stained wretches driving their Honda Civic to a crime scene so you know don’t have to rely on Nextdoor and the police press release.

wild choice of example

“Great Man” theories of history may have been wrong but “That F*ing Guy” theory looks increasingly plausible.

In This House We ♥️ Francesco Cascadia [Ian Holm]

Quakertown parents, groups demand release of students in police clash Civil rights groups and parents gathered in front of the Quakertown Police Department Saturday demanding answers for the violent confrontation Friday.

INBOX: the police chief of Quakertown, Pa., led a group of plainclothes officers to disrupt a peaceful high school student sidewalk protest yesterday.

They threw an underage girl to the ground, choked her, and disconnected all calls to the detention center where she and others are currently held.

still think a season of Alan Partridge trying to get some kind of documentary made about Prince Andrew would be incredible

Does anyone know a very affordable graphic designer who could help me with some merch related designs (key words very affordable! this is a pretty simple project).

We talk about this a lot on DP and in our book but “waste fraud and abuse” as a rhetorical formulation really has done untold damage both in politics at large and to people’s actual lives/material conditions. The only way forward is to excise this thinking from our politics

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Japanese American Incarceration Survivors Remember What the US Forgot During WWII, President Roosevelt invoked the Alien Enemies Act and incarcerated 125,000 Japanese Americans. Eighty years later, some of the camps’ last survivors reflect on lives scarred by injustice.

The Trump administration has tried to erase this chapter of American history, but @longlead.com preserved these survivors' testimonies to ensure the world never forgets the injustice they endured.

Read THE AGE OF INCARCERATION today, for free, at age-of-incarceration.longlead.com.

Animal studies scholar here. Any time a technology is advertised as only being used on animals, it will soon be used on humans. Thank you for your time.

The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires

Honestly, journalism funders should have just handed them 10x this amount, but maybe it’s better to come from the community.

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

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Two-month-old baby 'choking on his own vomit' while detained in Dilley 'His life is in danger,' U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said about newborn Juan Nicolás. The child fell ill after spending almost a month — or half his life — in a San Antonio-area family detention facility...

Dilley must be shut down and everyone inside must be freed and provided immediate medical care. www.sacurrent.com/news/two-mon...

here is how you get into Wiseman

One of my favourite memories living in NYC was seeing Frederick Wiseman's "In Jackson Heights" at the Film Forum. It taught me so much about the city I was living in, and that little intermission!

Might have to watch Ex Libris tonight in remembrance.

Melrose was supposed to undergo a complete streets makeover from Highland to Fairfax that would have installed stormwater gardens to mitigate flooding, among other critical safety improvements. The previous councilmember killed the project

Robert Duvall in THX 1138 in his safety white and headset

A man crests the horizon into one wide open space against the sun

RIP to one of the all-timers. I hope Robert Duvall finally reached the surface.

🚨BREAKING NEWS!

Medics that broke windows at JP Morgan HQ to expose fossil fuel financing links to climate devastation found NOT GUILTY today by jurors.

The climate crisis is a health crisis and health professionals have a duty to act when lives are at risk.

Read more here:
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Filipino American Health Care Workers Are Taking Their Legacy of Fighting for Freedom to Trump Caregivers are applying lessons from resisting authoritarianism under Philippine dictator Marcos Sr. to the modern-day fight against Trump.

"The lesson is that dictators fall."

"Political activist Myrla Baldonado became one of the 'forced disappearances' under Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr."

"She sees echoes of what she experienced in the" U.S.
#California #Philippines #USA #Healthcare #Labour #Torture #Incarceration

Zipties cut into wrists. When a 15yo said they were too tight, an agent allegedly tightened them further. Adults were searched & items from their pockets were put in plastic bags strung around their necks. ...
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In the end, Hannibal walked out of his city saying the Romans wanted only him. Why should his soldiers make love to their swords? He walked out alone, a small figure in the great field, his elephants dead at the bottom of the Alps’ crevasses. So might we go to our Roman death in triumph. Our love is of marble and large tawny roses, in the endless harvests of our defeat. We have slept with death all our lives. It will grind out its graceless victory, but we can limp in triumph over the cold intervening sand.

Hannibal's elephants were in the NYT today, as good an occasion as any to reread this favorite Jack Gilbert poem. This one is always close at hand.

Sometimes the examples are so literal re “When people say these struggles are interconnected, it’s because they are interconnected”

Activists celebrate as immigration agents depart Terminal Island. 'The people kicked them out' Federal immigration agents departed from the Coast Guard site at Terminal Island in San Pedro, which they had used as a base for months while the Trump administration conducted immigration raids acros...

ICE has pulled out of Terminal Island, its base for the last eight months for escalated immigration raids across Los Angeles and Southern California.

“ICE didn’t leave," Ron Gochez, a member of Unión del Barrio, told the L.A. Times. "The people kicked them out.”

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In regards to what’s going on at the Berlinale film festival, here is footage of Godard & Truffaut shutting down the 1968 Cannes Film Festival in solidarity with students workers & protestors getting brutalized by police in the streets, & probably Godard’s best line about film criticism ever

Literal atrocities being carried out in our names every single day

Abolish DHS, raze it from top to bottom, blacklist its architects and leaders, embrace the broadest reparative vision possible

One year on from dismantling of USAID, study projects that global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030 | CNN It’s been one year since the Trump administration dismantled the US Agency for International Development (USAID), with aid cuts leading to the closure of HIV clinics in South Africa, the termination o...

As a direct result of the obscene actions of Russell Vought and Elon Musk in destroying USAID, we can expect “at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues.

About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”

Grimes is the Forrest Gump of Nazi Cringe.

Meta’s internal memo said the political tumult in the United States was good timing for the feature’s release. “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” according to the document from Meta’s Reality Labs, which works on hardware including smart glasses.

this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where — at a bare minimum — they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper.

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Per @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, I don’t regret to inform you that we are going to win.