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Berlin immigration office

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from.

We'll let their words speak for themselves.

YouTube video by Matt Elliott - Topic Farewell to All we Know

I remember feeling a kind of apocalyptic eeriness when this song came out, just as COVID was beginning to spread. Been feeling it again lately.

A glorious shipwreck, by Pat The Bunny from the album Probably Nothing, Possibly Everything

"and we don't know when but the days will come again that the courts can't hold us in. We'll stand our ground no matter how many police appear. Captains go down with the ship my friend, and we're all captains here."

YouTube video by DRM News FULL SPEECH: Iran FM Abbas Araqchi Criticizes Israel, Urges Sanctions & Accountability at Doha Forum

"Palestine is not one issue among many. Palestine is the defining question of justice in west asia."

Latest verified death and casualty figures from protests in Iran x.com/SinaToossi/s...

Timeline cleanse. Teenage crush?

youtu.be/83tnWFojtcY?...

There's no way to force attention on this. Maybe it's the biggest thing happening, but it's too boring.

I've been bracing for civil war or a coup. But the real threat is simpler: if the U.S. sleepwalks into a nuclear arms race with Russia and loses, that’s the end of the world we know. Destabilization makes that possible.

I want everyone who has spent years in therapy wondering what is wrong with them, wondering why they had so many bad relationships, why they felt so much dread, to know that it was in part because you were living in a world run by evil, evil people and you could tell that somewhere deep down

no movement at all, or do you think they're still circulating infected blankets?

about a year ago me and a friend snuck in to Saddam Hussein's old palace above Babylon, in Iraq, and there was a lot of graffiti more interesting than this, but in one of the rooms someone wrote 'blue sky' and i thought, hmm, i wonder if they meant that website, so I made an account and here I am.

Across Minneapolis, Gaza, Iran, and Sudan, racial hierarchy shapes visibility; proximity, responsibility, and leverage shape urgency.

Structural violence persists because distance, complexity, and deniability allow powerful institutions to perpetrate harm invisibly and without accountability.

But Western policies still shape the terrain — sanctions, debt regimes, alliances, arms — in ways that intensify collapse and repression.

Distance makes that influence harder to see. It's how responsibility gets laundered — it shapes how solidarity looks and how urgency is felt in the US.

Iran and Sudan show the harder case. In Iran, the state killing thousands of protesters is a mass atrocity. In Sudan, hundreds of thousands have been killed and millions displaced in a war most Americans barely register. The violence is enacted primarily by internal actors, not outsiders.

It’s why Gaza hits differently than Iran or Sudan.

The U.S. funds Israel’s military, supplies weapons, provides diplomatic cover, and blocks accountability. This creates implication for US citizens, not just horror — outrage is immediate once that culpability is clear.

Zooming out, the same pattern shows up internationally.

Americans often react more intensely to white Americans killed by the state than to people killed by American power abroad. That's racial hierarchy — it's racism.

But proximity and responsibility shape urgency too.

In Minneapolis, Alex Pretti and Renée Good were elevated as symbols — mobilizing people fast. But Keith Porter Jr, Silverio Villegas González, Isaias Sanchez Barboza, and people who died in ICE detention haven’t become symbols the same way. That disparity reflects race, citizenship, and “innocence.”

Some deaths become symbols almost immediately. Others barely register.

That’s true in Minneapolis — and it’s true globally, from Gaza to Iran to Sudan.

That disparity isn’t random, and it’s worth naming.

Noticed your account is ~1 day old but very active (200+ replies). Are you automated? butyes: Curtis is diagnosing narrative/propaganda, but that’s why treating Palestine as incidental matters: it reproduces the normalization he’s critiquing. It's not a missing ‘detail’; it changes the causal story.

Organizing Reading List — Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory

An amazing MN Librarian assembled us a reading list to add to the website so people can do more than donate, they can learn to organize in their communities.

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honestly not in a million years would i have called this

At least, that's all you can do until you find out Billy Bragg has a new song out, then you can put THAT on and get the fuck to work.

youtu.be/IKOW2ZikGW8

I was in the West Bank during the Arab Spring, then back in the US for Occupy. It felt like a tsunami moving west: upheaval there, echoes here. Imagining the current flowed the other way is pure Eurocentric fantasy.

He also reverses the Occupy–Arab Spring timeline. Adbusters explicitly framed what they were starting as a “Tahrir moment.” Flipping the sequence isn’t a small error—it recenters the West as the engine of revolt instead of acknowledging where the shock actually began.

Curtis treats Palestine as incidental, framing West Asian conflict as a pathology of leaders (Assad) rather than conditions. He critiques Western demonization of Saddam, then repeats the move with Assad—projecting on his personality rather than recognizing the Nakba as is a cause in itself.

or they would have ignored him like Keith Porter Jr. and Silverio Villegas González

Stop saying ICE killed 2 people. ICE has killed at least 4 by force, 36+ in custody, and deported 600,000+—many asylum seekers sent back to life-threatening conditions. The real death toll is unknown, but it’s far higher than 2.

Speaking of Said’s contrapuntal lens, Andor is fascinating. Why is Disney comfortable bringing viewers so close to interpellation toward armed resistance? What’s missing? Is power now so secure that aestheticizing the activation of resistance is harmless?