David Jekel

Trump administration seeks $1 billion settlement from UCLA, a White House official says A White House official says the Trump administration is seeking a $1 billion settlement from the University of California, Los Angeles.

If UCLA pays Trump $1 billion then they can have their $584 million of grants restored? What is the complete total that Trump is illegally withholding from UCLA now, besides this? Is it even more than $1 billion?

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So you arrived in Copenhagen after 10pm and want food? The choices are pizza and shawarma

Well, Palestinian friends, bear with us, because we know our struggles don't compare to yours, but sometimes they do still impede our ability to help quickly, but thank you for your patience.

All the trains were close to on time. and all the connections were reached, but there is no food on the train

Good evening, I’m out here in Los Angeles near MacArthur Park, where protestors have taken to the streets to protest the recent raids across the city, despite a TRO prohibiting them

"Everyone is worth saving. In the face of darkness, you drag everyone into the light. That is the point."

Rep. Delia Ramirez [D-IL] Rep. Jonathan L. Jackson [D-IL] Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez [D-NY] Rep. Rashida Tlaib [D-MI] Rep. Danny K. Davis [D-IL] Rep. Sara Jacobs [D-CA] Rep. Hank Johnson [D-GA] Rep. Ilhan Omar [D-MN] Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez [D-NY] Rep. Donald S. Beyer [D-VA] Rep. Pramila Jayapal [D-WA] Rep. Summer L. Lee [D-PA] Rep. Ayanna Pressley [D-MA] Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman [D-NJ] Rep. Al Green [D-TX] Rep. Mark Pocan [D-WI] Rep. Jesús G. “Chuy” García [D-IL] Rep. Janice D. Schakowsky [D-IL] Rep. James P. McGovern [D-MA] Rep. Ro Khanna [D-CA] Rep. Becca Balint [D-VT] Rep. Maxwell Frost [D-FL] Rep. Lateefah Simon [D-CA] Rep. Chellie Pingree [D-ME] Rep. Judy Chu [D-CA] Rep. André Carson [D-IN] Rep. Greg Casar [D-TX] Rep. Lloyd Doggett [D-TX] Rep. Veronica Escobar [D-TX] Rep. Valerie Foushee [D-NC]

NEW — With Khanna, Chu, and Foushee joining this week, 30 members of Congress are now signed onto Delia Ramirez's Block the Bombs Act to block offensive weapon sales to Israel.

AIPAC poured over $2 million into Foushee's 2022 campaign. This week, she said she won't accept AIPAC money.

‘They slaughtered us like animals’: the inside story of how one of the biggest atrocities of the Sudan war unfolded in Zamzam As the UK prepared to host a global summit on bringing peace to Sudan, the RSF paramilitary began a ‘genocidal’ massacre in Zamzam refugee camp. But when reports emerged of the killings, London held i...

Today's quick update [Aug 7]:

- A Guardian investigation reveals over 1,500 ppl were killed in RSF onslaught on Zamzam IDP Camp in April.

- 2 days ago, Elfashir Resistance Committee confirmed RSF turned Zamzam into a military base.

Read here: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

#KeepEyesOnSudan

KEY EXCERPT: Trump admin says "common sense" gives any immigration officer reasonable suspicion to stop and question any Latino speaking Spanish anywhere in the Central District of California (covering 7 counties; LA, San Bernadino, Riverside, Ventura, Orange, San Luis Obispo, and Santa Barbara).

The wildest thing about this era is watching so many institutions say out loud yeah, we’re done committing ourselves to excellence, we’re going to specialize in the coddling of mediocre white men

In Mandalay, #Myanmar junta patrols are now stopping people on the streets to search phones for VPNs, social media apps and photos under their draconian Cybersecurity Law ramping up its digital dictatorship.

Governments like #India #China must stop helping the junta’s rights abuses.
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Angola is notorious.. infamous for its horrific abuses both past and present.

Louisiana State Penitentiary is nicknamed after the former plantation site that it sits on.

Those incarcerated at the prison say the practice of slavery is still alive and well.

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hey bluesky, I think the disconnect between companies trying to make money directly from AI being like 'this device replaces skill!' and institutions trying to make money indirectly from AI being like 'using this device is a skill we will equip you with!' is weirdly not commented on enough.

My mother was Buddhist at the time, not evangelical, but she was a big fan of this.

The "black stick" was decorated with stickers of my accomplishments to remind her to be gentle.

It was only about 11.5 inches. It used to be 18; it broke on my sister before I was born.

these horrible little ceremonies where you explain the child's sin to them calmly, hurt them, and then have a tender little forgiveness moment -- it's fucked. maybe even more fucked than honest anger?

what's so chilling, to me, in all the evangelical parenting manuals i read and the testimony i received from survivors, is the idea in evangelical circles that striking your child in a cool and ritualistic manner is somehow better than doing so in anger. it isn't. it really isn't

Article On the Stability of Racial Capitalism Abstract What is the connection between capitalism and racial hierarchy? In line with the tradition known as ‘the theory of racial capitalism’ we show that the latter can functionally support the former. As a social construction, race has just those features which allow it to facilitate the sort of stable, inequitable distributions of resources that tend to emerge in capitalist systems. We support this claim using techniques from evolutionary game theory and cultural evolutionary theory, and end by discussing the normative political consequences of this relationship. How to Cite: Kofi Bright, L., Gabriel, N., O'Connor, C. & Táíwò, O. O., (2025) “On the Stability of Racial Capitalism”, Ergo an Open Access Journal of Philosophy 12: 42. doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/ergo.7965

Hey look its now properly out and available

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Keep Rebeka alive?

They need $1530 to lock in the set of radiation therapy treatments. Their life & their well-being is worth so much more than that.

Can 76 people give $20 like right now?

Remember they are essentially behind (in terms of treatment) and their cancer has already progressed.

La Resistencia had a video call with a detained migrant inside NWDC. The family member reached out to us a few days ago about their situation.

Last week, Friday July 1st around 9:00pm the detained migrant was attacked in their unit with a pen.

Closeup of a black and yellow garden spider hanging upside down in its web.

First time seeing a black and yellow garden spider in the yard.

Every single issue we see with ICE (lack of accountability, ability to grab whoever they want off the street etc) was all made possible by the precedent set by policies around policing in the US.

There is a root to all authoritarianism. And if it isn't stopped, it gets worse. Simple.

Hey, y'all! The Pathfinder Center helps survivors heal. One mom staying there is making a quilt out of her baby's clothes. She needs forty dollars for materials. Please share and support!

We have concentration camps in America and it still has not truly hit public consciousness or the level of discussion we see around other subjects.

This is how these things become normalized. We simply cannot let ourselves become desensitized, we *have* to keep pushing the discussion.

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tomorrow is my birthday and if you want to help a trans woman (me) pay for my visa to stay in this country (Australia) and out of the US (transgender hell) I need about 1k more my PayPal is oborghi@student.unimelb.edu.au

Researchers Are Resurrecting Billion-Dollar Disaster Tool Trump Killed Nonprofit Climate Central has hired the scientist behind a key database of costly weather disasters to rebuild it.

Scoop: The U.S. billion-dollar disaster database is set to return this fall over at @climatecentral.org. They've hired the former NOAA scientist who ran the project for 10+ years www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Remember when I posted about a "Starlight Tour" that happened this year and someone was saying "This is Trump's America"

Starlight Tours are Canadian. This happened in Canada. They've been taking Indigenous people to the middle of nowhere in the freezing cold and leaving them to die for decades.

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