Mincho Jacob

even the denial of genocide is from the same playbook - to this day we have to fight for the recognition that genocide happened to multiple peoples in Guatemala. Solidarity forever with Palestinians!

He’s gotten away with so much, he doesn’t even know what hubris is anymore!

Blood Quantum by Jeff Barnaby was great!

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

ICE trying to get inside your home.

Police officers are killing more Americans than then they did five years ago when they killed George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. Too many people have been deluded into believing the problem is the problem solvers, the perpetrators are the victims, and the treatment is the disease.

chiquita, formerly united fruit, is the company responsible for overthrowing jacobo arbenz and causing the chaos of the guatemalan civil war, ultimately creating the monster known as Rios Montt who genocided hundreds of thousands of indigenous Maya peoples

Maybe don't just credulously reprint government press releases without asking a single critical question?

Important reporting that is must read. Congratulations to the team.

Opinion | The World Is Finally Seeing How Dangerous President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador Really Is Even if El Salvador’s president has ironically called himself the “coolest dictator in the world,” he’s a dictator nonetheless.

“Many are now realizing what some of us have warned people about for years,” writes the journalist Nelson Rauda Zablah, from El Salvador: That even if Nayib Bukele, the nation’s president, “has ironically called himself the ‘coolest dictator in the world,’ he’s a dictator nonetheless.”

How much money did the GEO group make off of Ange Blaise?

VIDEO of the immigrants at the Texas detention center reaching toward one another to spell out SOS with their bodies

Source:
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjBPbLNU/

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores. An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

PLEASE don’t buy into Amazon’s booksale this week.

They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions.

Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.

If you’re able and willing, they deserved better.

@rebeccanagle.bsky.social made a great statement about Gaza and withdrew consideration. We need more in solidarity in all of our struggles - more than ever!

I’m seeing a lot of posts about how certain immigrants sent to El Salvador are not actually criminals and this is true but I would also like to remind you that people with criminal records shouldn’t be subjected to this, either.

Instead of 401ks, how about just universal retirement? Or better yet, universal basic income? Why are we pretending like there’s scarcity in this country or this world — when there isn’t!?

If it’s about to all fall apart, then let’s remake it in OUR image. NOT theirs.

Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the Americ… For more than thirty years, Kevin Phillips' insight int…

You should read Wealth and Democracy by Kevin Phillips - really breaks down this idea. www.goodreads.com/book/show/11...

The idea of not having access to a private toilet when you have your period is a literal, actual nightmare.

One of the disturbing reactions to the Mahmoud Khalil arrest is people making things up that he did to justify it that even the Trump admin doesn't claim he did. People just see him as the *type* of person who did the things they're mad about, so punishing him for it is acceptable. Lynching logic.

No matter your background and irrespective of whether you agree with his political beliefs or not, if you're not terrified that a US permanent resident could be subject to deportation and greencard revocation without due process, then you are in deep need of a history lesson.

Seconding!

#legend

This is exactly what's missing from the discourse - especially when so many act like it's all a joke. It's no joke for colonized peoples. #indigenoussovereignty

How to Keep Tabs on ICE Agents Who May Be Surveilling Your Neighborhood Here’s a step-by-step guide.

This is a great piece.

"As deportations ramp up again, we have a choice: We can watch as our neighbors disappear or we can build on these proven strategies to protect the diverse communities we've built together."

Seeing video’s of families & elders who lost their homes in historic Altadena is heartbreaking. Here is a compiled list of gofundme’s for the displaced Black families of Altadena.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

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Texas Supreme Court sides with Austin, Houston officers sued over police chase crashes | Houston Public Media The state's high court ruled the cities of Austin and Houston are protected by governmental immunity after their officers were sued over two separate police chase crashes.

further evidence that the police do not protect and serve the majority of the people. www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/new...

There has been a dramatic increase in both maternal and infant mortality in Texas - and most of these deaths are entirely preventable. The reality is that we have leaders who simply don't care as long as they can get more power while hypocritically claiming to care about life.

Former coffee plant to process hemp in Houston's East End The company opening shop in the old Maxwell House Coffee plant on the East End could bring 4,000 new jobs to Houston.

a hemp company was supposed to take it over, but they went out of business I think because of pandemic. Was controversial in the neighborhood...most folks nearby are nostalgic of the coffee smell...hemp smell might have resonated with some 😆 abc13.com/thc-hemp-pla...