Declaring that no quarter will be given unequivocally violates international humanitarian law. Indeed, ordering that no quarter will be given, threatening an adversary therewith or conducting hostilities on this basis is prohibited and constitutes a war crime.
From fringe to power: Chris Mathias and Ken Harbaugh unpack fascism’s rise in America and what expanding detention systems signal for the future.
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Too excited for this to come to Barnes and Noble today. @letsgomathias.bsky.social
INTERVIEW: @zdroberts.bsky.social talked to @letsgomathias.bsky.social about his new book ‘To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right’ | Mathias provides readers with a peak into a world that’s rarely written about. It shows us firsthand the real work of antifascists.
NEW: John Mays, an Alabama criminal defense lawyer, represented Rocky Myers, a Black man charged with murdering a white woman.
Investigators for a legal team seeking to overturn Myers' conviction discovered Mays was actively involved with United Klans of America.
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These orders affect availability in bookstores, printing numbers &more. If accountability for Palestine matters to you, or if my investigative reporting has ever struck a chord, please place an order. To those who made this possible: I can’t thank you enough. Onward to publication day: September 22!
..yet he continued rushing weapons to Israel after Benjamin Netanyahu crossed it. He sent Israel a message of impunity & sent Americans a message of disdain+incompetence, helping Donald Trump win back power.
I’m thrilled to share the book is now available for pre-order: wwnorton.com/books/978132...
CROSSING THE RED LINE, the book I’ve been working on for >2 years, documents the Biden admin's failures in Gaza and beyond.
I conducted >150 interviews to detail why the U.S. enabled unimaginable violence against Palestinians + Lebanese, and ignored off-ramps toward peace. Biden drew a red line...
News from Iran & Lebanon increasingly resembles years of bloodshed in Gaza—civilian areas pummeled, international law ignored & a spiral of war endangering millions. Understanding why means understanding the US-Israel dynamic in one key period: under President Joe Biden, after October 7, 2023
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Had such a great convo with @joesudbay.bsky.social! Tune in!
ANTIFA: Real or Fake
@letsgomathias.bsky.social, author of To Catch a Fascist joined @sjdemas.bsky.social on First Draft to dispel the propaganda put out by the far right.
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will addd @katz.theracket.news' Gangsters of Capitalism to this suggestion!
The mixture of fascism, grift, and incompetence that goes into making SECRET POLICE trucks for your secret police is such a good distillation of this administration
“Why won’t our secret police drive the SECRET POLICE trucks we got them???”
Just out @propublica.org: How did the Pentagon make the horrible mistake that left more than 150 school children dead? Perhaps because it cancelled an effort to limit such harm in favor of Hegseth’s lust for “lethality.”
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
(Nearly lost my mind with Word while writing my book)
NEW: Join "To Catch a Fascist" author @letsgomathias.bsky.social and @sjdemas.bsky.social for an urgent breakdown of the current administration’s playbook.
Watch the full interview on Lincoln Square: www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-truth-...
The screaming subtext here is a call for ethnic cleansing, in a healthy pluralistic government he’d be censured and expelled
Attacks leave dead vs killed
I'd forgotten how hard the preface to DuBois's "Black Reconstruction" (1934) went...and am saddened by how contemporary it still feels.
INBOX: @couriernewsroom.bsky.social is circulating a video of #TX23 Republican nominee Brandon Herrera showing off his "1939 edition" copy of Mein Kampf.
devastating
The audio book finally came up for me on Libby. Love to hear AFA researchers getting their due! @letsgomathias.bsky.social
"She frequently reported on stories critical of ICE for Nashville Noticias, the Spanish-language outlet."
www.tennessean.com/story/news/l...
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
LIVE at 2pm ET— @sjdemas.bsky.social sits down with author and journalist @letsgomathias.bsky.social to discuss his new book, To Catch a Fascist.
so much going on I just remembered our government kidnapped the president of Venezuela and he's just like, sitting in a federal detention center in Brooklyn
“Just another faceless three-digit number of Muslim children extinguished from existence and relegated to A11 in the US and Israel’s seemingly endless Middle East ‘wars.’” Via @ahjohnson.bsky.social www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...
“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...
i have been to the emergency room for a dental abscess. it is a uniquely excruciating kind of pain. this man was tortured to death via medical neglect.