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John Sanbonmatsu

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Writer, critical theorist, and professor of philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts. Author of "The Postmodern Prince" and of "The Omnivore's Deception: What We Get Wrong About Meat, Animals, and Ourselves." www.JohnSanbonmatsu.com

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Alexander Brothers Found Guilty on All Counts in Sex-Trafficking Trial

Thank God. But will Trump pardon them? I would not be surprised in the least.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...

10.03.2026 00:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How ICE Plans to Put 8,500 Immigrants in This Georgia Warehouse Experts say the initial designs raise health, safety and security concerns.

The correct word is Stammlager or "Stalag."

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

09.03.2026 22:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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To my Palestinian sister in ICE detention โ€“ I will carry you until you are free | Mahmoud Khalil One year ago, ICE arrested me for protesting for Palestine. Leqaa Kordia is still caged โ€“ also for daring to speak the truth

"To my Palestinian sister in ICE detention โ€“ I will carry you until you are free" -- Mahmoud Khalil

"One year ago, ICE arrested me for protesting for Palestine. Leqaa Kordia is still caged โ€“ also for daring to speak the truth"

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

09.03.2026 18:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Rosanna Arquette says Quentin Tarantinoโ€™s use of N-word in Pulp Fiction is โ€˜racist and creepyโ€™ Arquette says 1994 film is โ€˜great on may levelsโ€™ but she โ€˜cannot stand that [the director] has been given a hall passโ€™

Pleased to see Patricia Arquette calling out the racism of Tarentino's work. Her and Uma Thurman's interventions may finally tarnish Tarentino's undeserved reputation as a master. Tarentino's films are entertaining, reactionary, and intellectually vacuous.

www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

09.03.2026 15:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

MAGA supporters love that Trump left his hat on. Because they love him precisely for his irreverence and vulgarity, his contempt for conventional norms and decorum. Even if God were suddenly to appear on earth, Trump would keep his hat on.

09.03.2026 14:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Hegseth's generation grew up playing first person shooter video games--which is maybe why he thinks and talks like a platoon leader in Call of Duty.

09.03.2026 14:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes.

09.03.2026 13:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€˜The cover-up is brazenโ€™: one journalistโ€™s tenacious, traumatic fight to expose Ghislaine Maxwell Lucia Osborne-Crowley has endured threats and sexual harassment to report on Jeffrey Epsteinโ€™s chief enabler. Maxwellโ€™s conviction was only the start of the quest for justice, she says

The wealth and power of Epstein's circle of abusers:

โ€œThe weekend I was in Miami, there was a person following me, a person following a survivor in South Africa who was in my book, and a person following a survivor in the UK. Just so that we all were aware.โ€

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

09.03.2026 13:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Bugs were supposed to be the future of food. Now, the insect farming industry is collapsing. How the frenzy over farming insects for food went bust.

Gift link to new story: www.vox.com/future-perfe...

09.03.2026 13:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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Billionaires Are Swaying Elections in All Corners of America

Even before Trump, we lived in a simulacral democracy owned and run by the billionaire class.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

09.03.2026 12:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Somali Americans hounded by ICE and rightwing โ€˜influencersโ€™ on edge in Ohio: โ€˜Iโ€™m scared to go outsideโ€™ ICE launched โ€˜Operation Buckeyeโ€™ and โ€˜influencersโ€™ claimed Somalis are running fraudulent businesses after Trump repeatedly used racist language against group in December

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

09.03.2026 12:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Fear and Hope for Iranians Trapped Between Bombs and Defiant Rulers

"'War opens neither a door to reform nor a horizon of liberation.' Apocalyptic scenes of bombardment...mothers huddling with children in shaking bathrooms and a school obliterated...are the most terrifying episodes in a string of devastations."

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/w...

09.03.2026 12:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A Trump Order Protected a Weedkiller. And Also a Weapon of War.

"A Trump Order Protected a Weedkiller. Citing national security, an unusual executive order gave protection to the herbicide Roundup."

Yes, the same herbicide that causes leukemia and has led to the deaths of billions of bees from Bee Colony Collapse syndrome.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/c...

09.03.2026 04:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€˜Dark, like our futureโ€™: Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehranโ€™s oil depots bombed Residents report terror of smoke-filled city, from potentially toxic rain, air and water to food scarcity and difficulty of escape

The US and Israel are inflicting terror on a city of 9 million people.

"Thick black smoke...rising in the sky, soot covered the streets and cars, balconies filled with black gunk, and the toxic air had filled the lungs as Tehran woke up."

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

09.03.2026 03:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€˜A very dangerous personโ€™: alarm as Pete Hegseth revels in carnage of Iran war Critics say brash, bombastic Fox News host out of his depth to guide US military through murky new Middle East conflict

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

08.03.2026 13:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I guess you mean MAGA.

07.03.2026 20:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The @washingtonpost.com at this hour: secret US intelligence report concludes that US war on Iran won't lead to overthrow of the regime. All this violence, mayhem, and international chaos is meant to serve only three narrow interests: (1) Israel, (2) Trump's masculine ego, and (3) the arms industry.

07.03.2026 20:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Humane Hoax Online Conference โ€” The Humane Hoax Project

Highly recommended!

"Humane Hoax Online Conference 2026"
Tuesday, March 17
10:00 โ€“ 12:00 pm PT
via Zoom

www.humanehoax.org/the-humane-h...

07.03.2026 16:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A Sex Scandal and โ€˜Mein Kampfโ€™ Give Democrats Hope in West Texas Race

Increasingly common misogynist trope of the far right--mocking opponents for "clutching their pearls" (i.e., as upper class/elitist, timorous, effeminate fops). The malignant MAGA base loves this sort of thing.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/u...

07.03.2026 16:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€˜Operation Epstein Distractionโ€™: Trumpโ€™s bloody Iran โ€˜hype videosโ€™ seem to target niche audience White House wages online propaganda campaign with aggressive and tasteless videos seemingly designed for young rightwing American men

Trump admin war propaganda to reach young Gen Z men: "a series of hype videos that aggressively, and tastelessly, show off deadly combat footage from the strikes on Iran, sometimes in combination with footage from fictional movies and video games."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

07.03.2026 12:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€˜If they donโ€™t stop, Tehran will turn into Gazaโ€™: Iranians describe night of terror People tell of scenes of panic during airstrikes on Iranโ€™s capital, with several saying they feared they would die

Gaza is now the Israeli and American model of neocolonial expansion and control: Terror through advanced missile technology replaces rule through soft power and consent.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

06.03.2026 19:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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ICE arrested an Oregon shop owner who had her green card in her pocket: โ€˜They didnโ€™t careโ€™ Juanita Avila later helped expose ICEโ€™s โ€˜arrest first, justify laterโ€™ tactics in a lawsuit that won a major victory for immigrantsโ€™ rights

"Juanita, a 47-year-old legal permanent resident, had her green card in her pocket, but officers handcuffed and detained her."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

06.03.2026 12:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Florida college Republicans group chat reveals racist texts: โ€˜Avoid the coloreds like the plagueโ€™ In leaked chats, students at Florida International University referenced Nazis and made antisemitic and racist remarks

"William Bejerano, who once tried to start an anti-abortion group at Miami Dade College, was the most prolific user of the N-word. Bejerano called for dozens of acts of extreme violence against Black people, including crucifying, beheading and dissecting."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

06.03.2026 01:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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ICE detainee in Arizona dies after not receiving โ€˜timely medical attentionโ€™ Emmanuel Damas, a Haitian asylum seeker, was being held at the Florence correctional center before he died

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

05.03.2026 22:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Analysis Suggests School Was Hit Amid U.S. Strikes on Iranian Naval Base

Nearly 200 girls were murdered in the opening salvos of an illegal war of aggression. If there were any justice, Trump and Netanyahu would be tried for war crimes.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...

05.03.2026 22:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trump Administration Live Updates: President Ousts Noem as Homeland Security Secretary

"Under Noemโ€™s tenure, deaths in immigration detention doubled in 2025. Thirty-two people died in ICE custody last year, and another eight deaths had been recorded since January."

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

05.03.2026 22:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Senators demand investigation after ninth American killed by Israeli settlers or soldiers in West Bank Lawmakers cite โ€˜consistent patternโ€™ in which Americans are being killed โ€˜without justice or accountabilityโ€™

Imagine that the French, Germans, or British were murdering American citizens abroad. The US would not tolerate it. But Palestinian-Americans are not seen or treated as US citizens--or even as fully human.

05.03.2026 20:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands Global survey shows young men and boys hold more traditional views about gender roles than older generations

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

05.03.2026 14:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Sam Altman admits OpenAI canโ€™t control Pentagonโ€™s use of AI CEOโ€™s claims come amid increased scrutiny of US militaryโ€™s use of the technology and ethics concerns from AI workers

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

05.03.2026 12:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Rhode Island Priests Abused Hundreds of Children Over Decades, Report Finds

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/u...

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