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My Name is Mahmoud Khalil and I Am A Political Prisoner A letter dictated by Khalil over the phone from ICE detention in Louisiana.

In a letter dictated over the phone from ICE detention in Louisiana, Mahmoud Khalil said that his arrest "was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a free Palestine."

"It is our moral imperative to persist in the struggle for their complete freedom."

SCOOP: Emails Show Mahmoud Khalil Asked Columbia for Protection a Day Before He Was Detained "I haven’t been able to sleep, fearing that ICE or a dangerous individual might come to my home. I urge you to intervene and provide the necessary protections to prevent further harm."

SCOOP—Emails obtained by @zeteo.com show Mahmoud Khalil reached out for help from the Columbia administration *one day before* ICE detained him.

He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving.
He even wrote that he feared ICE "might come to my home."

Dispatch from the USA: We Laughed, We Cried, We Moshed | The Tyee In the belly of red-state America, I was moved by the hope I found.

I wrote about going to America for Slow Impact during “these times,” the power found in our communities, and, of course, Cornish Pasty

Many thanks to @jackie-wong.bsky.social and @thetyee.ca for having me again

thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

more and more these days, I find myself thinking that you can accept the discipline of your political goals or you can accept the discipline of your resentments.

Andor and sewing!! lets sit together at lunch

It’s OK to admit that we’re off the map of our experience. The rules & best practices some of us are accustomed to, in certain situations, may no longer apply. There are some questions I lovingly refuse to answer at this time bc I don’t know. We need more humility. Some of our expertise is outdated.

We Are In An Administrative Coup An administrative coup refers to the illegal overthrow of a government achieved primarily without overt violence, relying instead on claiming powers, intimidation, bullying, extortion, and threats to ...

Through intimidation, liquidation, and the illegal assumption of authority, they are trying to rewrite how the government (and our society) works and assume a centralized position of power. That is a coup. An administrative coup. We need people to start using this language.

“Fascism, it’s always about using nationalism, and the nation, as a bludgeon to generate support for death policies, on behalf of death governments. For violence and repression and exploitation, internationalism is the antidote, always.” —Robin D. G. Kelley

The Case for Letting Malibu Burn - Longreads Many of California's native ecosystems evolved to burn. Modern fire suppression creates fuels that lead to catastrophic fires. So why do people insist on rebuilding in the firebelt?

finally read this

longreads.com/2018/12/04/t...

China unveils the future of high-speed rail with a next-gen prototype The CR450 is expected to become the fastest commercial vehicle of its kind and has been several years in the making.

The new train will connect Beijing and Shanghai in just 3 hours and 20 minutes.

Here are some US city pairs that are a similar distance apart:
- NYC-CHI
- CHI-ATL
- DC-ATL
- ATL-NYC
- ATL-MIA
- CLT-BOS
- ORL-DC

www.scmp.com/news/china/a...

Thai spicy is crazy

off the top of my head Read About It by Midnight Oil, Bullet in the Head by Rage Against the Machine, also

‘One and the Same’: Algerian Freedom Fighter Sees Echoes of the Past in Gaza Zohra Drif, a key figure in toppling French rule over Algeria, draws a parallel with Israel’s assault on Gaza.

Damn the woman who carried out the Milk Bar bombing IRL is still alive and was interviewed about Gaza progressive.org/latest/alger...

school, society could be like this

1978 Yemen, documented by Sudanese filmmaker Suliman Elnour, produced by his film school in Moscow.

www.arsenal-berlin.de/en/berlinale...

Arsenal - Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V. - Wa lakin alardh tadur (It still rotates) Suliman Elnour’s graduation film depicts everyday life at the time in a school in the fifth province in Yemen. There are no formalities, no boundar...

Momtaza Mehri put this on my radar a couple years ago and I finally found the full thing (19min) and got to watch it. So cool seeing kids and teachers and school staff respectfully criticize themselves and each other and behave as equals.

www.arsenal-3-berlin.de/en/movies/wa...

Tribune investigation: Chicago’s sewage district fails to warn gardeners free sludge contains toxic forever chemicals Bags of the earthy muck are labeled organic or natural. Sometimes it is billed as exceptional quality compost. Industry held a nationwide contest years ago and decided to call it biosolids, a euphe…

www.chicagotribune.com/2022/09/11/t...

holy shit so cool!

finally figured out how to turn off 'motion smoothing' or whatever annoying auto settings 'create' frames that don't exist and make your shit look like fake ai soap opera bullshit. so enjoying watching skate videos on my tv now again instead of just my little laptop screen

niels bennet's 'heroes / helden' part and john shanahan's 'double down' part are in the same category in my head. classic warm music supervision, really good skating at night and in colder weather, they look like they're having fun and going hard. good as hell.

the progression of AIDS treatment in my lifetime, from how terrifying it was as a child in the 80s to stories like this 40-odd years later, is genuinely one of the human race’s most awe-inspiring scientific achievements. it was a nonnegotiable death sentence for SO LONG

Cori Bush exit interview:

everything everywhere all at once is actually about experiencing one (1) fly being in my studio apartment

This is the material reality we are up against. Whatever rhetoric they toss around, these are the cold, hard facts—22.76 billion of them.

insane that the psychologist gathering these testimonies and writing this still believes in some version of the very project- zionism- these atrocities are being committed in service of

"Are you even reading anymore? Imagine this paragraph being twenty years long."

Bank-robbin’ in Brooklyn Since the age of 12 I have worked forty-five different jobs. I counted for you. No, I am not 300 years old, Bank-robbin’; I worked most of these two or three at a time, like a real patriot, since none...

"To forget how things should be is to treat the economy as more real than we are."

this but with cookies