Maryam Ivette Parhizkar

We also invite people to take a look at the website of the Women's Active Museum on War and Peace (WAM) wam-peace.org/en/ and this excerpt of Hong Yunshin's book, "Comfort Stations" As Remembered by Okinawans During World War II apjjf.org/2022/9/tomiy.... These show how the US military's current

Historian Greg Grandin says disappearances, used by right-wing governments in Latin America against political opponents, is now a key part of President Trump's agenda as he sends immigrants to El Salvador. The difference, he notes, is that Trump has dropped the pretense of denying the practice.

I think it’s flying a bit under the radar that the U.S. is currently trying to install a DMZ on the southern border

‼️3 DAYS AGO, SAMEER PROJECT SENT OUT AN SOS, SAYING THEY WILL RUN OUT OF FUNDS IN 3-4 DAYS‼️

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In Mahmoud Khalil's letter from ICE detention in Louisiana, he cites Japanese American incarceration and Mitsuye Endo, who was incarcerated in the Tule Lake concentration camp, and whose case before the Supreme Court led to the closing of the camps.

Read his letter here: t.ly/A04cc

Bare-bones docket for Juan Carlos Lopez Gomez (misspelled in the file as "Jaun")

seems like an opportune moment to tap the sign: a society that has any chance of defending itself has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authority figures

North Carolina Rapper Among 15 Hip-Hop Artists Jailed under State of Exception

Hardly anyone talks about this but U.S. citizens have already been imprisoned under El Salvador's State of Exception. This is an article I translated in 2023. As far as I know, Nelson is still in prison.

John Warner, author, "More Than Words": Techtonic with Mark Hurst Audio & playlist from April 14, 2025

I'm happy to share my interview with John Warner, aka the Biblioracle - @biblioracle.bsky.social - on Techtonic.

In his excellent book "More Than Words," John explains why AI *can't write*, no matter what the tech bros claim.

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Why is the media saying “mistaken deportation?” It’s not an accident.

Everyone knows something is up with gofundme and raising funds for Palestinians

How many students is Columbia University responsible for subjecting to even more state violence due to its surveillance and militarized suppression of the student movement protesting the genocide of Palestinians and the university's complicity in it?

This is horrifying and should, in any reasonable world, lead to immediate impeachment. On a hot mic, before the media arrived, starting around 7:15 on the time index, Trump tells Bukele he is going to start sending "homegrown criminals" to El Salvadoran gulags. This is fascism.

Maria Hinojosa: El Salvador’s “Dictator” Key to Disappearing Migrants Like Kilmar Abrego Garcia Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele is meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, part of a growing alliance between the two right-wing leaders. In recent months, El Salvador has...

Maria Hinojosa: El Salvador's "Dictator" Key to Disappearing Migrants Like Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Wapo headline: how Palestinian first responders ended up in a mass grave

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No human being belongs there, and no one should have been sent there. We need to keep repeating those parts, too.

“My detention at Guantanamo changed me. The isolation, the deprivation… it broke us down.”

A Venezuelan man who entered the US for a CBP One appointment on Jan. 19, 2025—and violated no laws—describes the horrors of Guantanamo detention aka imprisonment.

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Please join us for this reading full of people I admire deeply. More importantly, RSVP as soon as you can so that the Gaza Poets receive support as soon as possible.

Listen - the conditions in El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Centre, where Trump is sending anyone accused of being a gang member right now - are full on human rights abuses. Yes, it's terrible that folks who aren't gang members are sent there. But it's also not okay for ANYONE to be sent there.

Immigration crackdown now hitting green card holders A former Hawaii resident, and longtime green card holder, is among those being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

This is the first case I’ve seen so far of a returning permanent resident detained without any acknowledged rationale (family says she has no prior convictions and that they haven’t been given any information)

In the NYT right now, from a Justice Dept lawyer: “I will tell you right now that Columbia has not in my opinion — and the opinion of the Department of Justice — has not cleaned up their act,” Mr. Terrell said. “They’re not even close, not even close to having those funds unfrozen.”

Israel just committed *the largest child massacre in its history*, according to Haaretz. Two hundred Palestinian children murdered in a single day, with direct support from the US and UK, and zero outrage from Western media. What stage of barbarism is this...

Meet the educational entrepreneurs who want to teach a new generation of Elon Musks The billionaire's admirers and ex-employees have launched online schools and an “unapologetically elitist” AI tutor.

“At the same time that federal support for public education is imperiled, two private online education programs whose seeds were planted with Musk and SpaceX are getting a second wind. Both could see even more growth under the country’s emerging educational environment.”

heartening thread

WHOA. On March 15, a Cornell PhD student with UK and Gambian citizenship, here on a student visa, filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn Trump's EO aimed at foreign students accused of "antisemitism.

Last night, the DOJ emailed asking him to come to ICE to be detained and put into removal proceedings.