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Please read. Thoughts:
(1) some of this precedes Trump and is bigger than Trump.A story about how we allowed our rights to be eroded post 9/11
(2)Trump takes that pre-existing condition and pours gasoline on it
(3) a gov’t that treats its own citizens as the enemy is not fit to govern in a democracy

Deep in lupine season
#maine

New euphemism for authoritarian lawlessness just dropped

#Sailing off #Monhegan
#Maine #island #coast

#OtD 20 May 1936 the first issue of Mujeres Libres (Free Women) was published, a Spanish anarchist feminist magazine aimed at ending the "triple enslavement of women to ignorance, to capital and to men" shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

Of all the awful stuff in this reprehensible bill, the fact that your children stop being considered dependents at SEVEN may be the most horrifying detail.

#OtD 26 Apr 1937 the ancient Basque city of Guernica was bombed and largely obliterated by the German and Italian air forces at the behest of the Spanish nationalists during the civil war. The event was famously depicted by Picasso. More in this podcast: workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e...

Tiniest daffodils

Mahmoud Khalil’s Son Arrives After ICE Refuses to Let Him Attend Birth (Gift Article) Mr. Khalil, a permanent resident detained in Louisiana, had requested a monitored furlough for the birth. His request was denied in less than an hour.

NEW: Mahmoud Khalil's wife gave birth to their child without him after ICE denied their request to let him be present.

“This was a purposeful decision by ICE to make me, Mahmoud, and our son suffer,” Dr. Abdalla said. “My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud."

“We never talked about men or clothes. It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution — real girls’ talk.”

Nina Simone died on this day in 2003.

A celebrated musician, prominent civil rights activist, and radical, Simone brought revolutionary praxis to her music.

This feels like bounty hunting.

#OtD 20 Apr 1914 US troops opened fire with machine guns and set fire to tents in a camp of striking miners and their families in Ludlow, Colorado. They burned two women, 11 children and shot 13 others. None were prosecuted stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9243...

More World, Less Bank On April 16, 2000, tens of thousands of people gathered in Washington, DC to mobilize against the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. This was one of a series o...

25 years ago today, on April 16, 2000, tens of thousands of people gathered in Washington, DC to oppose the meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank.

This marked a high point in the worldwide fight against neoliberal capitalism that remains instructive to this day.

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A tweet by Max Burns (@themaxburns ) reads: "From the U.S. Holocaust Museum: 'What distinguishes a concentration camp from a prison (in the modern sense) is that it functions outside of a judicial system. The prisoners are not indicted or convicted of any crime by judicial process.' Welp."

Never forget.

A man in tactical gear and a baseball hat is taking an axe to a car window. He looks like he’s smiling.

This picture may haunt me to the end of my days.

It is an ICE agent taking an axe to the car window of an immigrant in New Bedford, MA. Not far from where I sit now. An immigrant with no criminal record was abducted by this smiling man.

An axe taken to a car window and to our democracy. 1/
#MomSky

Headline: ICE came for their neighbor so these Tennesseans formed a human chain to protect him

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, author of The Gulag Archipelago, has something to say to us today:

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: what would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive..."

Palantir Is Helping DOGE With a Massive IRS Data Project For the past three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir representatives, along with dozens of career IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a “mega API,” WIRED has learned.

NEW: For the past three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir reps, along with dozens of IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a “mega API” that would potentially allow intentionally siloed IRS data to be viewed in one place.

@makenakelly.bsky.social

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This is important. Just about everyone has committed crimes. The difference between a felony record and no record is almost always luck, money, family connections, race, and/or a whole lot of other things not within anyone's control.

Kidnapping.

Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.

Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.

A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.

You can tell who the Good Guys are because they're the ones smashing a car window to drag a mother away from her child while wearing ski masks.

This was my first spin around the block with the #CatDistributionSystem and couldn’t possibly have encountered a gentler animal. My aunt lost her elderly cat several weeks ago and is delighted to give this sweet boy a home now that he’s cleared to adopt. Huzzah! 2/2

Found this absolute darling of a young cat scrounging for food at a remote location in a sleet storm about a week ago. It took us a while to gain his confidence and scoop him up, and then a spin through our local Humane Society for neutering, shots, and to check for a microchip or an owner. 1/

Opinion | Trump’s Lust for Power Cannot Be Satiated (Gift Article) The tariff saga is just the latest example of the president’s urge to dominate.

the jamelle bouie secret to presciently anticipating the behavior of the president is to just ask myself what a dumbass bully would do

Maine gonna Maine, I s’pose. Even at the grocery store…

As a former child junior olympic-level runner, I have a few thoughts on the attacks on trans girls in sports. I ran for one of the most competitive teams in Southern California, and people who ran for my have gone on to become professional athletes. And these bans: they're fucking NONSENSE. 🧵

Cascades of winter-tended nasturtiums- Signs of warmer seasons to balance the gloom in the zeitgeist.
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How not to see The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, magnificently.
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