@lindamannheim
Words in The Nation, Granta, Sight & Sound, and more. PhD Researcher at the University of Westminster. THIS WAY TO DEPARTURES, stories about leaving the place you're from, was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize.
‘All of the infrastructure Marshall and his friends have built exists for the right wing alone.’
This is excellent. James Ball in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social
app.thenewworld.co.uk/story/143582...
kind of amazing that everything trump does can be understood through the lens of narcissism and it's related needs (e.g., self aggrandizement, revenge, domination, grievance validation). i don't think any character has been so one-dimensional, not even wile e coyote or scrooge mcduck
Thank you Virginia Giuffre. Thank you Gisèle Pelicot.
Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop
And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹)
RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless
Roses are redde
Violettes are blue
Sayinge that the adoption of a technologye ys inevitable
Ys a way to trick you
Palantir, a US spy-tech firm, has been given access to millions of NHS patient records.
Its founder has said the NHS should be 'ripped up'.
Join me in calling on the government to end the dangerous Palantir contract.
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
IMPORTANT pls RT
My online novel seed-story.com is loading sporadically/not at all
The servers belonged to Google Creative Labs Sydney (now apparently defunct)
If anyone reading worked there/knows someone who did pls get in touch urgently so this pioneering work of digital literature can be saved
“Most people are still scrolling because there’s nowhere else to go”: An Interview with @badaude.bsky.social — @monalisavitti.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2026/02/10/m...
As longtime observers of struggles to establish peace and justice in the US and around the world, The Nation is honored to nominate the city of Minneapolis and its people for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.
"If we have to hunt you down, the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities. We will find you. We will achieve justice. And we will do so under the Constitution and laws of the United States."
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This Bruce anti-ICE anthem is gonna leave a mark:
Ausführlicher Artikel von @larsvontoerne.bsky.social über „ICE out Comics“ 👇
This day calls on us to do more than reflect; it calls on us to act — to confront antisemitism wherever it exists and to reject all forms of hatred and dehumanization. May the memories of all those lost be a blessing — one that guides us as we build a world where every life is sacred.
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
So keep pushing. Anything short of ICE’s abolition isn’t nearly enough.
And I’d say that even ICE’s abolition should only be the start of ending the violence that came to feel “normal” under Trump.
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
If it is fascism now it was fascism then but if you were wrong no need to pause to make a special effort to admit your error -- we don't have that much time now, please act right away, get organized, and then tell your followers what you are doing to stop fascism and what they too can do.
You have lived long enough to see a French anti-fascist organisation (a traditionally very anti-US milieu) organise a ‘rally in solidarity with the American people’.
DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:
A pitbull with a big head stand in the foreground behind them is three containers of bright, orange, poppies and a container with sunflowers in it. Behind that is a street in crosswalk with cars in it.
A screenshot of an Instagram story that includes a photo of three masked men and green military gear arresting a person who is on the ground. Below that is a photo of a black explorer and it’s license echoparklatu 22m See translation > 9:05am - One person kidnapped from Sunset & Echo Park. STAY SAFE OR COME OUT! 9:05 a. m. - Una persona secuestrada en Sunset y Echo Park Ave. MANTÉNGANSE SEGUROS O SALGAN SI PUEDEN! 306682
ICE took the flower man in Echo Park 40 minutes ago. He’s at this corner every day. I’ve bought flowers from the man and woman here for anniversaries and birthdays. Lemmy loves to smell them whenever we walk by in the mornings. I was just at the street corner 15 minutes before it happened. Fuck.
This isn't a crisis we fact-check our way out of, we need to build something bigger and more radical to resist the tide of authoritarianism engulfing our democracies. We can't wait for institutions to act, it's up to us to organise.
Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
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Footage taken moments before a struggle shows that the man was filming, holding a phone in his right hand, backing up. His left hand is up, visible, palm facing out, as he backs away from the area. An agent uses his right hand, on the torso of the victim, pushing him back, while the man complies.
Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...
Tens of thousands of demonstrators filling the streets with signs and banners
Demonstrators as far as the eye can see. Current status of the march in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota for Ice Out of Minnesota. They are turning onto 3rd Street from 5th Avenue.
A remarkable story of courage, ethics, and solidarity.
'...Each new arrival was given a #Leica camera. The refugees were paid a stipend until they could find work. Out of this migration came designers, repair technicians, salespeople, marketers and writers for the photographic press.'
#Refugees
