More principled than Fetterman
06.03.2026 04:12
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More principled than Fetterman
Once again reminding everyone that the majority of people stranded in the UAE are not influencers or expats or tourists, but South Asian (and SE Asian and African) workers whose passports are often controlled by their employers and whose govts have made no attempts to repatriate.
Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.
I truly do think all of the "Noem out, Mullin in" posts and stories are failing American democracy right now!
Trump is announcing his nominee.
That's it.
If the Senate majority wants to confirm him, they're a part of this—even after knowing what they know now.
And that matters come November.
A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000
miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
Not ICE. Not Border Patrol. Just the same rotten local cops we've always had
A cartoon from "Vorwärts": "The SA Man Ruled the Street" showing a single SA man walking down the street while two rows of police are lined up on either side of him with their backs turned.
"The SA Man ruled the street" -- cartoon from Vorwärts, January 24, 1933
The Department of Education has hung a massive banner honoring a racist college dropout who built a lucrative career out of targeting professors for harassment
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light
"[W]e’re seeing yet more cancerous growth of the post-September 11 national security bureaucracy, but with a more intensified inward focus."
It's not worth overthinking this speech which basically reads like an essay Stephen Miller submitted to the local American Legion Chapter when he was 11 for their July 4 contest for which the top prize was a $50 savings bond. But it's still a massive, reactionary, fascistic erasure of US History.
sometimes the founder of a company says something that simply stops you in your tracks and haunts you. There's one those in here from the creator of Einstein, an edtech AI that will go to school for you
Thanks to @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social for highlighting this ridiculous under-the-radar SCOTUS decision from yesterday.
Link's out for the Villanova LePage Center Panel I was in on
Media, Pop Culture & History
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0AS...
Indian-Irish writer, Cauvery Madhavan, tonight at Villanova. If you're in the area, come on out. It's free and open to the public.
There‘s also something about that hockey laughter — when Trump referred to his “grab them by the pussy“ comment as locker room talk to try to minimize and justify it, well, there you go, that’s what he meant
Really appreciate this data reporting from the @startribune.com, which comes with the appropriate cautions about the crowd-sourced data. Looks like the ICE/DHS surge in MN is down significantly, but (a) was HUGE compared to other cities, (b) impacted the suburbs A LOT, and (c) is still happening.
No, the AfD is not "flirting with Nazi history" (www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...) - it is following the same playbook. I have never seen this author address the racist violence against non-white German citizens: it is an omission so consistent that it is by design. Pure intellectual dishonesty.
The ICC filing vs. the FIFA and UEFA Presidents is an opportunity to prove that international law still exists—and that collaborators in Israel’s grievous crimes will actually be held to account.
This complaint must just be the beginning.
We explain for @aljazeera.com.
One day in the future, this is going to hang on the wall of a museum exhibit people visit in silence.
Yesterday, about 65 folks from the #TeslaTakedown group here in Philadelphia's western suburbs shifted gears and protested the new ICE offices that are coming to a high-end office park in Berwyn
The Philly suburbs want ICE out!
Maybe it’s worth highlighting that this is/has been project of ending legal immigration because legal immigration since 1965 has been less white. It’s never been about “enforcement of laws” although restrictionists found that focus on undocu ppl helped legitimize their ethnic cleansing project.
Fascist #slopaganda isn't about seducing anyone. They're aware that their nostalgic images are ugly & fake, and that their promise to return to an imaginary past is a fraud. They're proud of the shallowness of their nostalgia, because their real promise is to legitimize cruelty against others
Holy shit this piece is incredible, like the kind of thing that makes me jealous I didn’t write it and feel lucky that I get to read it defector.com/the-sufferin...
NEW: Jeffrey Epstein cultivated relationships with CBP officers at the airports he frequented.
Epstein emailed and texted with six CBP officers, invited them to his island, visited with them at the airport, and frequently sought to determine who was going to be on duty when he was traveling
“Hanging that banner should put to rest any doubt that Donald Trump has hijacked the independence of the Justice Department. He — not the American people — is the only client DOJ’s current leadership serves." www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
The beauty is real. But so is the ugliness.
Pulling no punches: "Just an inch or so beneath its veneer of beauty, soccer is an odious sport." Looking at soccer (or any sport) provides a means to look critically at the world of which it is part.
