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Do we know who owned the facility and what it was built for originally?

ICE Now Owns a Hagerstown Warehouse. A Plan to Design It Is in Shambles. The first confirmed site in a proposed immigration detention network has been purchased near Hagerstown, even as the Native American nation tied to its design work says it has exited the contract

For more information:
- Project Salt Box: projectsaltbox.substack.com/p/ice-now-ow.... @projectsaltbox.bsky.social
- My substack: austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-wareho...
- The Baltimore Banner @BaltimoreBanner

The ICE warehouse in Western Maryland, up close. It’s hard to explain how enormous this place is until you’re standing right in front of it.

Communities of color and women's voting rights are under attack. The SAVE Act would create new barriers that make it harder for many Americans to vote. I wrote in the Indianapolis Recorder about why we must protect access to the ballot.

The Water Wars Are Here, And They're Not Woke The Iran War's latest horrifying component involves attacks on desalination facilities. A "not politically correct" conflict could render much of the region uninhabitable

The Trump administration heralds the Iran War as a Not-Woke War. Here’s what that means in practice.

Awesome. I look forward to learning.

The more I learned about James Wong Howe, the more I knew his life, work, & legacy were worthy of a weeklong blog series, both on their own terms & for all that they open up in our histories & stories. So this week I'll AmericanStudy a handful of contexts for this legendary film pioneer! 🗃️

Christian Nationalism is NOT Christianity, but it is a national security threat.

📌 The Military Religious Freedom Foundation says it has received over 200 complaints that troops are being told war with Iran is meant to accelerate “Armageddon.”

Sen. Whitehouse to uncover connections between Trump, Russia, and Epstein. YouTube video by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

Russian

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This wasn't a slip-up. Someone had to find footage from MONTHS ago of Trump without a hat, and then someone had to add graphics to intentionally mislead viewers to think what they were seeing occurred yesterday. Fox is *still* misleading viewers—after paying $787.5 million for misleading viewers.

#ScholarSunday Thread 266 (3/8/26) – Black and White and Read All Over Not ready to emerge into the "daylight" yet? Check out my super-sized 266th #ScholarSunday thread, chock-full o’ public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add mor...

Not ready to emerge into the “daylight” yet? Check out my super-sized 266th #ScholarSunday thread, chock-full o’ public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ +

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March 8, 1971: FBI's COINTELPRO Exposed A cab driver, a day care provider, and two professors broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, and stole more than 1,000 classified documents.

#tdih 1971

A cab driver, day care provider, and two professors broke into FBI office in Media, Penn.

They removed docs that exposed COINTELPRO campaign to disrupt & destroy a wide range of activist groups, especially civil rights orgs.

Read⬇️ 🧵#TeachTruth
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I believe it’s Spring forward

I hate #daylightsavings How will I make up that hour of sleep?!
#caturday

i come from a military family. my dad retired as a colonel. my nephew’s an army ranger who did 4 tours.

but if i had a kid thinking about joining the service right now? i’d put my body between them and the recruiters. no one should sacrifice their lives in service to donald fucking trump.

Anyway, here is a handy guide to getting started with ALT text. It's an important way we can make people with visual impairments or neurological processing issues feel welcome on bluesky. bsky.app/profile/cats...

Yes, Carla!

So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

What a strange graphic

That's really nice of you to say; much appreciated! Let me pass it on and in turn thank all the public school educators who happen to be giving their all in really tough teaching situations. They're the heroes for sure!

Remember the scandal of Trump wanting to host the G8 at Doral? He had to actually back down.

Today, he has the ‘Shield of the Americas’ conference at Doral with all the pomp and circumstance, charging the entire 2 day event to you and me while making a profit for himself.

Not a word from Dems.

The convergence of fascist state capture with the creation in AI of an aspirational unwaged labor machine really emphasizes the underlying desire to eliminate the rest of us.

Um, Fort Campbell middle school would like a word. We have many schools on bases, and Bolton knows it. More ghoulish nonsense from war Hawks to justify the murder of little girls.

Thank you for your service

March 7, 1965: Bloody Sunday To protest the police murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson and for voting rights, more than 600 people began a peaceful march from Selma to Montgomery.

#KeepItWoke
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Kolchack - The Night Stalker - YouTube

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Such a great album

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As Russia provides intelligence to Iran to use against our military, the Republican Political Party removes sanctions against Russia. This is why I point out that Republican politicians are Kremlinites.