@lexroman.com is right. Independent media is not just the future - itβs now! Take some of your monthly media expenditures & give them to folks giving us the real journalism we want & need.
The Ellisons/Paramount purchase of Warner is one more sign that corporate media is doing dirty.
Itβs a day to blast salsa on the radio! The great Willie ColΓ³n has left us! βHis trombone was the voice of the peopleβ writes his manager
Two children of the Mochida family who, with their parents, are awaiting evacuation bus Centerville, CA, May 8, 1942 photo by Dorothea Lange
5 yo in bunny hat and checked flannel shirt taken by ICE from his school
βThere are no sidelines any more, friends.β - @philtajitsunash.bsky.social
1942. Mochida Family awaiting deportation in Centerville, CA. Photo by Dorothea Lange.
2026. Five year old Liam Ramos taken away by ICE returning home from pre-school, Photo via Columbus Heights Elementary, Minneapolis.
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The narrative of the denialism frame is that those opposing "AI" are afraid, under-informed and/or engaging in wishful thinking. None of that is true: The people who oppose the "AI" project are actively fighting and refusing to accept the premise of tech bros and AI boosters.
Omar Hamad and Ibrahim are gathering donations to create a public library in Gaza after Israelβs genocidal war destroyed nearly all its existing libraries, schools, and universities.
lithub.com/you-can-help...
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17Β’ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
Itβs a day to acknowledge sumud Ψ΅Ω ΩΨ―
π thanks to y'all, too, for your coverage of ICE's data crimes, and appreciate your visit to Los Angeles
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Thank you for a profound & uncompromising conversation!
π· Drop Site News speaks with Professor Rashid Khalidi, leading historian of Palestine and the modern Middle East.
Topics include:
βͺοΈ U.S.-Israeli famine strategy in Gaza
βͺοΈ Global complicity in genocide
βͺοΈ Why he wonβt teach at Columbia this fall
www.dropsitenews.com/live-stream/...
agrowingculture 3 hours ago 2/5 This morning, Israeli forces raided and demolished the Seed Multiplication Unit of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees' (UAWC) national seed bank in Hebron. Using bulldozers and heavy machinery, the Israeli army destroyed the storage warehouses and infrastructure where essential equipment, seed materials, and tools for indigenous seed reproduction were kept. This is not just an attack on a building-its an attack on Palestinian food sovereignty, biodiversity and cultural memory.
Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.
Wanted to believe it βbunny & frog fan
The wording of βtop-downβ ideological bias is apt hereβ¦βtop-downβ bias is put in place to balance βbottom-upβ bias.
E.g., If something coming up from the bottom leans to the left, you lean it to the right at the top to make it straight.
DAILY MEMO: ICE is Getting Busy and Bolder Despite Restraining Orders and More
@eltragon.bsky.social
π₯ βEurope will never punish its favorite child,β Middle East analyst and co-editor of Jadaliyya, Mouin Rabbani, told Drop Siteβs Sharif Abdel Kouddous during this morningβs livestream.
@support.bsky.team what's with the hidden image?
Palestine is always "Explicit or potentially disturbing media"! it is not "Adult Content" nor "Explicit sexual images"
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
π©Έon their hands!
The images of children starved to death in Gaza should be the lead of every news program.
While L.A. activists accuse the home improvement retailer of being complicit in immigration raids at its stores, a nationwide boycott is being called to βstop funding the systems that donβt serve us,β and focus on small independent vendors instead.
lataco.com/home-depot-b...
I spent most of today seeking to meet with one of the many victims of ICE raids currently jailed in Downtown LA.
While @chrclla.bsky.social focuses its efforts on impact litigation, my team boosts efforts on the ground whenever possible.
What I saw speaks to the crisis in LA & beyond.
a still of mahmoud khalil as he exited ice detention. heβs wearing a long sleeve khaki button up and a white and black keffiyeh wrapped around his neck. heβs got a big smile on his face and his fist raise in the air, defiant and proud.
Mahmoud Khalil is free.
Trump's World Cup task force β part of Homeland Security β is also overseeing the Club World Cup tournament at the Rose Bowl starting Sunday fifa.com/en/tournaments/mens/club-world-cup/usa-2025
We need more reporting on what's about to happen in Pasadena. Because here's what's happening in Miami
@lexroman.com
Out & about this morning and it seems important to stand firm on this bottom line: ICE out of LA! No to deportations. No to a land of βWhites Only.β
#StopICE
We, members of the academic and administrative staff in institutions of higher education in Israel, call on you to act immediately to mobilize the full weight of Israeli academia to stop the Israeli war in Gaza. Israeli higher education institutions play a central role in the struggle against the judicial overhaul. It is precisely against this backdrop that their silence in the face of the killing, starvation, and destruction in Gaza, and in the face of the complete elimination of the educational system there, its people, and its structures, is so striking. Since Israel violated the ceasefire on March 18, almost 3,000 people have been killed in Gaza. The vast majority of them were civilians. Since the start of the war, at least 53,000 people have been killed in Gaza, including at least 15,000 children and at least 41 Israeli hostages. At the same time, many international bodies are warning of acute starvation β the result of intentional and openly declared Israeli government policy β as well as of the rendering of Gaza into an area unfit for human habitation. Israel continues to bomb hospitals, schools, and other institutions. Among the warβs declared goals, as defined in the orders for the current military operation βGideonβs Chariots,β is the βconcentration and displacement of the population.β This is a horrifying litany of war crimes and even crimes against humanity, all of our own doing. As academics, we recognize our own role in these crimes. It is human societies, not governments, that commit crimes against humanity. Some do so by means of direct violence. Others do so by sanctioning the crimes and justifying them, before and after the fact, and by keeping quiet and silencing voices in the halls of learning. It is this bond of silence that allows clearly evident crimes to continue unabated without penetrating the barriers of recognition. We cannot claim that we did not know. We have been silent for too long.
The Black Flag Group of some 800 academics in Israel is calling upon the heads of Israeli universities and colleges to mobilize the full weight of Israeli academia to stop the Israeli war in Gaza
