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‘Help me, please!’

Plainclothes “ICE” agents snatch a man outside Los Angeles’ largest courthouse on Wednesday. A tactic that has been repeatedly condemned by the legal community.

Painful to watch. Even more painful knowing there are people who not only accept this, are happy about it.

13.08.2025 22:58 — 👍 5391    🔁 3091    💬 1087    📌 484

It is appropriate to treat the mercenaries who put their capacity to inflict violence at the disposal of an aspiring dictator with the scorn they deserve.

But it's more sustainable to do so in a group wearing indistinguishable clothing and with a prepared exit strategy.

crimethinc.com/fashiontips

14.08.2025 02:27 — 👍 135    🔁 29    💬 1    📌 0
Vijay Prashad on Palestine, Russia, BRICS & the Fight for Socialism
YouTube video by India & Global Left Vijay Prashad on Palestine, Russia, BRICS & the Fight for Socialism

@vijayprashad.bsky.social on India and Global Left podcast

youtu.be/kIBLE7TBoQM

12.08.2025 22:54 — 👍 5    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

In authoritarian China and Cuba you can get an abortion.

11.08.2025 02:53 — 👍 2029    🔁 274    💬 47    📌 9

Yes. More arms to the Gazans. Now.

10.08.2025 04:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Why do Gazans need guns to fight Hamas? Is Hamas starving and bombing them?

Also, if you believe Israel is on a "quest to destroy Hamas," you really have been scammed, but not by Palestinians.

09.08.2025 23:49 — 👍 103    🔁 9    💬 7    📌 0
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Palestine Action protesters arrested by police at London demo The Metropolitan Police said the number of arrests was the largest made by the force on a single day in the last decade.

Britain is a banana republic led by an authoritarian despot.

But at least it’s not being led by a man who rides a communist bicycle and wants to save your allotment. Right?

10.08.2025 02:29 — 👍 43    🔁 19    💬 3    📌 1
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Break Free of Tech’s Walled Gardens Take back digital privacy and free speech. Join EFF or renew this week and get a DEF CON 33 puzzle t-shirt.

🔐 Do you use EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense Guides to protect you and your friends from online spying? ssd.eff.org

💵 Don't forget that EFF is a member-supported non-profit, and we couldn't do that work without your help.
eff.org/donate

09.08.2025 03:02 — 👍 83    🔁 27    💬 0    📌 0
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10 Years of Telling Your Stories. 10 Years of Unicorn Riot. - UNICORN RIOT For over a decade, Unicorn Riot has been on the frontlines of social and environmental movements covering stories that are often ignored in mainstream discourse, including alternatives to conventional...

Help us continue to publish research-intensive, contextual pieces in writing & video. Consider donating & becoming a monthly micro-donor: unicornriot.ninja/10years/

For over a decade, UR's been on the frontlines of social & eco movements covering stories often ignored in mainstream discourse.

08.08.2025 01:22 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

If you're still a Dem and surrender your vote to them every election after they've proven that they will throw everyone under the bus and support genocide, don't pretend to be surprised when they start yelling at you to support Newsom or Buttigieg. You're enabling this. You have a choice.

08.08.2025 02:31 — 👍 104    🔁 27    💬 6    📌 4

If you have any tips or info about Israel’s invasion and occupation plans, US policy, or anything related to the genocide in Gaza, please reach out

Signal: premthakker.35
prem@zeteonews.com

You can remain anonymous

If you got nothing, you can still help by reposting and helping others see this

08.08.2025 02:45 — 👍 116    🔁 74    💬 0    📌 2
Trump shredding the constitution in the middle of fifth avenue, MAGA silently watches on the sidelines.

Trump shredding the constitution in the middle of fifth avenue, MAGA silently watches on the sidelines.

The Library of Congress got caught quietly altering its online display of the Constitution, removing Sections 9 and 10 of Article I. Trump's least favorite sections which guarantees the right to challenge unlawful detention and requires the government to justify confinement.

06.08.2025 22:18 — 👍 2529    🔁 1179    💬 77    📌 63
Serve your country! Defend your culture!

Serve your country! Defend your culture!

Just in case it’s not already clear that ICE is a white supremacist thug army, Homeland Security is recruiting with a “defend your culture” slogan.

06.08.2025 20:07 — 👍 7740    🔁 3174    💬 473    📌 472
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Germany’s Crackdown on Palestinian Solidarity - UNICORN RIOT Palestinians and their supporters in Germany are facing severe repression as they speak out against Israel's genocidal actions in Gaza.

Germany’s Crackdown on Palestinian Solidarity ** A new deep dive attempting to contextualize some of the situation from the enabling of the repression to highlighting the spectrum and severeness of voices for Palestine being silenced in Germany. [Videos]

unicornriot.ninja/2025/germany...

07.08.2025 01:26 — 👍 31    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 1

Those who are still making excuses for the Israeli government today know as well as everyone does that it is intentionally carrying out a genocide.

What do you wish people had done to stop the slaughter of Indigenous peoples, the Armenian genocide, the Shoah? It's time now.

crimethinc.com/Gaza2024

04.08.2025 01:57 — 👍 164    🔁 54    💬 3    📌 1

Families are being blocked from escaping death because someone wrote a post. This is not policy it’s a crime wrapped in bureaucracy.
I am from Gaza, living genocide, and I don’t need a permit to understand that our lives have become conditional on the approval of systems that see us only

03.08.2025 00:51 — 👍 102    🔁 44    💬 3    📌 1
Screenshot of CBS News tweet: "BREAKING: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds NPR and PBS, says it will close down after federal cuts."

Screenshot of CBS News tweet: "BREAKING: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds NPR and PBS, says it will close down after federal cuts."

This is a fucking travesty, & the goal/end result will be a more ignorant public w/ even less of a shared grip on reality, & more Fox style propaganda lying to people & pitting us against each other. Support the journalists & outlets you depend on now, or they may not be around tomorrow...

01.08.2025 21:24 — 👍 85    🔁 27    💬 3    📌 1
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Over 150 Jews and people of conscience are staging a sit-in at the offices of Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand in New York City to demand that the U.S. stop starving Gaza immediately.

01.08.2025 20:31 — 👍 629    🔁 186    💬 11    📌 18

Mass shootings continue around the United States—and neither Republican calls for more policing nor Democrat demands for more gun control will stop them.

The problem is neither the absence of state control nor the presence of guns per se.

It's about power imbalances.

crimethinc.com/TheirGuns

30.07.2025 01:45 — 👍 169    🔁 63    💬 2    📌 5
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Activist Who Helped Film “No Other Land” Shot and Killed by Israeli Settler Israeli violence in Masafer Yatta has intensified since the film won an Oscar.

"An Israeli settler just shot [Awdah Hathaleen] in the lungs, a remarkable activist who helped us film No Other Land in Masafer Yatta."

"This is how Israel erases us — one life at a time."

"May he rest in peace."
#WestBank #Palestine #Israel #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

28.07.2025 22:35 — 👍 42    🔁 27    💬 2    📌 1
What They Mean when They Say Peace / CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective

We're not proposing pie in the sky. We are urging people to take a side in social struggles that are already playing out in the real lives of human beings—right now—with high stakes.

To get a sense of what we are proposing, you could start with this text from 2014:

crimethinc.com/2014/08/18/f...

28.07.2025 23:59 — 👍 34    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 1

A Democrat is cosponsoring a bill that would work to eliminate all information about an ongoing genocide.

Where’s the “stop saying the parties are the same” guy?

27.07.2025 23:41 — 👍 209    🔁 86    💬 2    📌 5

Israeli television is now airing propaganda against France and claiming that France is in league with Hamas.

You cannot deal with this. You cannot negotiate with this. You certainly can’t live with or alongside this.

26.07.2025 18:23 — 👍 91    🔁 32    💬 4    📌 2

U.S. Homeland Security posted the “Manifest Destiny” image very much so purposefully bcuz Noem is RABIDLY anti-Indigenous. She got banned from EVERY Rez in SoDak during her stint as Governor. Forgot to mention that.

Sadly for her, there’s no injection/cosmetic procedure for an ugly, vapid soul.

26.07.2025 20:36 — 👍 398    🔁 112    💬 10    📌 2
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SOS! The crew on 'Handala' have been kidnapped by Israeli Occupation Forces.
#AllEyesOnHandala
#FreeHandala
#FreePalestine

26.07.2025 22:46 — 👍 23    🔁 18    💬 2    📌 0
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Pots and Pans Clang Against Sen. Padilla’s Enabling of Genocide Yet another in ongoing actions to stop the Palestine genocide

Pots and Pans Clang Against Sen. Padilla’s Enabling of Genocide

27.07.2025 02:15 — 👍 24    🔁 13    💬 3    📌 1
@DHSgov on X: Remember your Homeland’s Heritage.

New Life in a New Land - Morgan Weistling

[Painting of a family]

@DHSgov on X: Remember your Homeland’s Heritage. New Life in a New Land - Morgan Weistling [Painting of a family]

Nazi propaganda: "The Nazi Party secures the national community"

[Painting of a German family]

Nazi propaganda: "The Nazi Party secures the national community" [Painting of a German family]

On the left is a post today from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. On the right is literal Nazi propaganda from the 1930s.

15.07.2025 00:23 — 👍 5044    🔁 2315    💬 165    📌 184

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