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@ccbaxter1968

He/Him, Middle East/modern Egyptian History, political economy, monetary history, PhD Student at UCSB, podcasts about film at http://politicsofcinema.libsyn.com

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a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

03.03.2026 03:32 πŸ‘ 5897 πŸ” 1474 πŸ’¬ 57 πŸ“Œ 38
Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew

Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew

Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew https://theonion.com/aide-wearily-begins-5th-explanation-of-why-trump-cant-pardon-prince-andrew/

20.02.2026 20:00 πŸ‘ 6676 πŸ” 1426 πŸ’¬ 83 πŸ“Œ 49

Jeffrey Bezos is destroying the Washington Post for the same reason Musk destroyed Twitter and Ellison is destroying CBSβ€”oligarchs oppose the free press when if it threatens their wealth and power.

They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.

04.02.2026 14:47 πŸ‘ 14120 πŸ” 4482 πŸ’¬ 407 πŸ“Œ 203

This movie is so cool. Endlessly clever and beautiful, one of Martin Scorsese's all time favorites.

05.01.2026 09:35 πŸ‘ 113 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0
No Blood For Oil vs. Exactly How Much Oil Are We Talking About?

No Blood For Oil vs. Exactly How Much Oil Are We Talking About?

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

03.01.2026 17:40 πŸ‘ 16359 πŸ” 4173 πŸ’¬ 74 πŸ“Œ 55

there is really no difference between the current administration and having the country run by david duke

17.12.2025 03:17 πŸ‘ 11444 πŸ” 2268 πŸ’¬ 145 πŸ“Œ 64

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

10.12.2025 22:32 πŸ‘ 33890 πŸ” 10745 πŸ’¬ 528 πŸ“Œ 322

the defensiveness and incredulity of a good chunk of the commentary class toward arguments about trump’s racism is, imho, downstream of the same impulse behind the endless trump voter safaris and self-flagellation about being out of touch with the heartland

10.12.2025 16:06 πŸ‘ 3937 πŸ” 651 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 17
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Man detained by ICE found dead, hanging with hands and feet tiedβ€”attorney The Chinese national died in Pennsylvania in August, but his family's requests for answers from DHS have gone unmet.

"A Chinese immigrant was found dead in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, with his hands and feet tied behind him, an attorney has alleged."

www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...

20.11.2025 02:15 πŸ‘ 2738 πŸ” 1558 πŸ’¬ 89 πŸ“Œ 154

Women are dying because of the way anti-abortion laws were written. These deaths were predictable, predicted, and above and beyond any intrinsic trade off of preventing the termination of viable pregnancies in healthy women.

20.11.2025 12:29 πŸ‘ 1037 πŸ” 232 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 5

Killed by Police: Jamar Clark’s Family Unveils New Bench on 10 Year Anniversary

More: unicornriot.ninja/2025/jamar-c...

21.11.2025 23:50 πŸ‘ 98 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

you know what? good advice.

21.11.2025 21:21 πŸ‘ 6789 πŸ” 812 πŸ’¬ 77 πŸ“Œ 15
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Israeli soldiers shoot and kill two Palestinian boys in Jerusalem Israeli soldiers shoot and kill two Palestinian boys in Jerusalem Israeli forces killed two Palestinian boys on the outskirts of Jerusalem, the Palestinian Authority (PA) said onΒ  Friday. "The young man Amr Khaled Ahmed Al-Marbou, 18, and the boy Sami Ibrahim Sami Mashayekh, 16, were martyred by occupation forces gunfire in the town of Kufr Aqab," the Palestinian health ministry said in a statement. The Palestinian Red Crescent said it transported two people from Kufr Aqab to a hospital during the night, both with gunshot wounds. Several hundred people took part in the funeral processions for Marbou and Mashayekh on Friday. Oday al-Shurfa, a friend of Marbou, told AFP he witnessed the incident. "He was just standing there, not holding or throwing stones," he said. Shurfa said Marbou was hit "in the chest, in the heart. He collapsed and was martyred on the spot," he said. A relative of Marbou, who declined to give her name, told AFP, "He was with fourΒ others; one of them was also killed, another is in critical condition," and another suffered a serious hand injury. "What kind of brutality is this?" she said.

Israeli soldiers shoot and kill two Palestinian boys in Jerusalem

21.11.2025 23:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This murder is why we still have to say BLACK LIVES MATTER

Kingsley Bimpong should be alive.

11.10.2025 17:21 πŸ‘ 982 πŸ” 359 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 3

a russ vought special

11.10.2025 16:57 πŸ‘ 6457 πŸ” 1982 πŸ’¬ 216 πŸ“Œ 66

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

06.10.2025 13:35 πŸ‘ 9472 πŸ” 2151 πŸ’¬ 177 πŸ“Œ 87
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
trib.al/9Sxu9IN

06.10.2025 21:58 πŸ‘ 16070 πŸ” 7543 πŸ’¬ 816 πŸ“Œ 1078

the entire administration has Hitler strategic goals but youth pastor tactics and charisma

30.09.2025 20:56 πŸ‘ 1016 πŸ” 172 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 6

Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record.

I just don't know what to say anymore.

27.09.2025 21:54 πŸ‘ 16628 πŸ” 5150 πŸ’¬ 122 πŸ“Œ 45

i think that if the FCC threatened to revoke ABC’s license unless it replaced Jimmy Kimmel with Kevin Hart to diversify the network, Ilya Shapiro would be able to identify the issue here

18.09.2025 12:45 πŸ‘ 11000 πŸ” 1625 πŸ’¬ 110 πŸ“Œ 27

noting grimly that with the boating drone strikes we have definitively arrived at "how bad is extrajudicial killing, really?" but I continue to find it really strange that they did "children having cancer and communicable diseases is fine actually" first

18.09.2025 03:45 πŸ‘ 813 πŸ” 148 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 5
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Joshua Clover's recent passing is a tremendous loss for the communist cause. Not only was he a close friend and mentor to many in our collective, but he was also exemplary in his clarity, breadth, and dedication. We aspire to be like Joshua as we navigate this world on fire.

15.09.2025 15:57 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the β€œcivility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

13.09.2025 16:54 πŸ‘ 21253 πŸ” 4857 πŸ’¬ 548 πŸ“Œ 266

I recently spent a month in China and it's incredible how quiet and calm their cities feel -- even their largest. I realised it's because of the widespread adoption of EVs massively reducing air and noise pollution.

13.09.2025 03:45 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It is amazing how much the fash drive derrails US capitalism

10.09.2025 16:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And Paul Weiss, and Columbia, and Brown, and CBS/Paramount ...

15.08.2025 04:21 πŸ‘ 169 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

I landed in La and turned on my tv to see this insane split screen

15.08.2025 02:56 πŸ‘ 1881 πŸ” 355 πŸ’¬ 94 πŸ“Œ 11

Seizure medication, wheelchairs, Social Security cards, dentures, urns of ashes, work uniforms β€” just some of what's been thrown away during cruel, degrading, utterly counterproductive homeless sweeps.

A good time to revisit this gutting @propublica.org story:

15.08.2025 02:52 πŸ‘ 1326 πŸ” 776 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 23

Occurs to me that Trump's entire regime consolidation strategy is to persuade everyone through displays of force that the regime is already consolidated and there's no point in resisting. Which I don't think will work, but also shows how important public acts of noncompliance are.

14.08.2025 23:57 πŸ‘ 6083 πŸ” 1705 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 103