Tom Hall

The Oligarchs Pushing for Conquest in Greenland Trump’s fixation on filching the island territory from Denmark may seem like the demented ravings of a mad king. But to a cohort of plutocrat weirdos, it makes perfect sense.

"Buried within the kind of crony capitalist network that has propelled Trump’s imperialism is something far stranger, and far darker, than simply seizing Greenland’s resources for financial gain."

@cjcmichel.bsky.social on the Network State and Greenland.

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This Week (Jan 11-17) Everything, Everywhere, All At Once

I have dedicated my life to learning about and supporting Palestine for the past two years while still trying to keep up with all the rest of the insanity in the world, especially in the US. New for 2026 is posting a weekly update. Here's #2:

This Week (Jan 11-17) open.substack.com/pub/webzetet...

I am calling for the arrest and prosecution of the ICE agent that shot and killed Renee Good.

I am also calling on Congress to support my bill with @jasmineforus.bsky.social to force ICE agents to wear body cameras, not wear masks, have visible identification & ensure ICE has independent oversight.

The Bridgeport evening farmer., November 22, 1913, “MEASLES MAKE MANY MOTHERS MOURN Over 11,000 Deaths From It in 1900— Disease Should Not Be Fought, As Formerly. Washington, Nov. 22-In the older days nearly every mother thought it her duty to see that her youngsters "caught" the measles and got over it -as a sort of "immunization." Measles infection was often actually sought, so that mothers could know that their children were "getting" it, could take care of the sufferers, and, when the child was cured, the pa-rente could feel that the youngster was immune from further attacks. Modern science has pointed out the grave danger of such a practice. Malignant measles annually takes fearful toll of children's lives, Every precaution should be exercised to prevent Infection. The following article tell-…” https://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/2019/09/science-civics-and-primary-sources-a-measles-debate-one-hundred-years-ago/

🧪A reminder of how measles made headlines over a century ago.

Headline From The Bridgeport Evening Farmer

November 22, 1913

We have forgotten. History rhymes.

#ImpeachRFKJr
#SackTheQuack

Too bad you’re not still in a2, I’d love to get a coffee and pick your brain.

Assuming you engage with electoral politics at all, are you a DSA member? I was for a minute but it just didn’t resonate with me at the time. It remains probably the closest to my orientation though.

@mattpolprof.bsky.social I just finished reading TPTOLS and it was really enlightening. I’m curious to learn more about the overlap between Liberal Socialism and Democratic Socialism, to the extent the Venn diagram isn’t a circle.

I am calling for Wilmer’s immediate release from NWIPC—he has NO criminal convictions, he poses no threat to the community, and he urgently needs appropriate medical care since ICE is denying him the treatment he requires.

I am grateful for Wilmer’s willingness to let me share his story.

That's a good point. It's indicative of the ingrained view of Jews as the only legitimate 'victims'; Palestinian suffering is always brought on themselves.

BREAKING: Former FTC chair Lina Khan to serve as co-chair of Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral transition team.

Zohran Mamdani, and a 100-year-old history of anti-Zionism in New York City In taking a stance against Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its Zionist underpinnings while running for New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani is situating himself within a historical lineage of…

In taking a stance against Israel's genocide in Gaza and its Zionist underpinnings while running for New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani is situating himself within a historical lineage of anti-Zionism in the city that goes back over a century. mondoweiss.net/2025/09/zohr...

Great, another one who saw “The Hunger Games” and thought Coriolanus Snow was the hero.

I like how the author of that article described Boyle’s glaring hypocrisy as having “a life that’s a tangle of contradictions”.

section of text from South Side Weekly's coverage, which says: "The building was purchased by Wisconsin-based investor Trinity Flood in January 2020, according to Cook County records. On October 1, the day after the raid, a judge reviewed an emergency motion from Wells Fargo seeking to appoint Matthew Tarshis of Frontline Real Estate Partners as the property’s receiver. Flood purchased three multifamily properties in South Shore in 2020. The neighborhood, which had the highest number of eviction filings in Chicago from 2015-2019 according to the Law Center for Better Housing, has seen a rise in outside real estate investors since the 2017 announcement of the Obama Presidential Center’s construction in the neighboring Jackson Park. Wells Fargo Bank foreclosed on the building in mid-2024, bringing a $27 million lawsuit against Flood for missed loan payments. In late 2024, the City began closing its largest migrant shelters and, through state funding assistance distributed via Catholic Charities and moving support from New Life Church, relocated many families to buildings such as this one."

We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

This is Adelita Grijalva.

She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

This week, the Global Sumud Flotilla tried to deliver life-saving aid to Gaza.

Instead, 461 people—including New Yorkers—have been detained by the Israeli military.

They must be freed at once. And the deliberate starvation of Palestinians must end now.

Vijay Prashad (@luciddialectics) [The story of my fight with depression] Over a Billion People in the World Suffer from Mental Health Ailments: The Thirty-Ninth Newsletter (2025) - https://thetricontinental.org/newsletterissue/men...

This is so important. and beautifully written.

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It’s official: AIPAC is trying to buy my election to keep me out of Congress.

Apparently, I’m a “dangerous detractor”... by believing Palestinians (like myself and my family) deserve basic human rights.

But we’re not going to let AIPAC win.

Thanks! As an average monolingual American I have nothing but respect. Back to the piece, I don't much like the phrase 'virtue signaling' but it seems like at least a distant cousin of 'wank' if not more closely related. Thoughts on that?

@iris-meredith.bsky.social I found your essay from a repost by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social and it was great, thanks! However I must have read your "working definition" of wank a dozen times and I just can't parse it. Please tell me there's a typo or a missing word so I know I'm not crazy.

Rabbi Elhanan Beck, of Palestinian born, advocates for the return of all occupied lands to Palestinians, the establishment of a FREE PALESTINE, and calls for the elimination of the racist and genocidal Zionist Israeli project!

(Credit: Jewish Voice)

People constantly forget there is an entire population of actual jews who want their home back. Palestine. 🇵🇸 #FreePalestine

Episode 2. of Occupied Tech deep dives into the world of digital rights, surveillance and the escalating cyber warfare against Palestinians. From Israel’s systemic digital apartheid to what experts… Digital Genocide EXPOSED: Big Tech, Surveillance and Automated Killing

New episode of Occupied Tech with guest Eric Sype from @7amleh.bsky.social. We discuss Big Tech complicity, how Meta's censorship works, and the digital siege of Palestine

www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6EF...

An Awkward Confession I really hate to say this, and I wish I didn’t have to, but I’m 56 years old and for the first time in my life I’m extremely uncomfortable around Jewish people, or people who I think might be Jewish.

“I really hate to say this, and I wish I didn’t have to, but I’m 56 years old and for the first time in my life I’m extremely uncomfortable around Jewish people, or people who I think might be Jewish.”

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Good advice, but a tool or service that makes that easier could be a great project. If anyone decides to do it, apply to the T4P incubator (techforpalestine.org/incubator/) and maybe we can help!

It Was Always Genocide The NY Times published a “Guest Essay” today by Omer Bartov called I’m a Genocide Scholar.

I expanded on the thought: open.substack.com/pub/webzetet...

A few thoughts about the coming wave of epiphanies from supporters of Israel, and how they will try to whitewash their prior complicity and refusal to condemn the genocide.

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The author cites the evacuation and destruction of Rafah in May, 2024 as what flipped his opinion, but genocide and holocaust scholar Raz Segal came to that conclusion (written in "A Textbook Case of Genocide") after the evacuation of a million people from North Gaza TO Rafah on October 13, 2023.

UpScrolled is live. The Instagram alternative that’s actually on your side. You can now download UpScrolled. The new place to speak up, share your work, share your life and actually be seen. If you’ve been waiting for a real alternative to Instagram, this is it. Why we neede...

As social media companies continue to censor their users for standing up for Palestinian rights, Palestinian app developers have taken matters into their own hands with a new platform called Upscrolled.

See, this is the problem with woke ideology. If these boys had been able to play with GI Joe when they were kids they wouldn't feel the need to cosplay now.