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Long Lead @longlead.com · 21h

As Japanese American incarceration camps closed after World War II, families were faced with brutal realities, sometimes learning that the people whom they trusted to keep their land or businesses safe selfishly profited themselves.
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Japanese American Families Faced Different Circumstances Following World War II Incarceration

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John Patrick Pullen @jppullen.com · 23h

I saw this yesterday, which I thought was, well, interesting:

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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John Patrick Pullen @jppullen.com · 1d

You're not crying, I'm crying.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 1d

I now cry every time I watch this or hear it.

Also, remember, this is now under the Tom Holland rule and must be reposted every time you see it.

Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 1d

Remember this: Try.

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Long Lead @longlead.com · 1d

The Xochimilco floating gardens in Mexico City were created over 2,000 years ago by Indigenous peoples of the Mexico City basin. The agricultural islands, known as chinampas, still produce food, however only 20% of them are being actively cultivated.

Farmers work in their chinampa in Xochimilco, May 25, 2019.

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Long Lead @longlead.com · 1d

Read THE PEOPLE VS. RUBBER BULLETS — Long Lead's Webby-award-winning feature — to learn more.
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A Decade After a Bean-Bag Round Crushed His Skull, This Vet's Life Is Still Shattered

Occupy Oakland's Scott Olsen sued after police shot him in the head. A decade later, nothing changed, and watching the BLM protests felt like a PTSD flashback.

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Long Lead @longlead.com · 1d

Law enforcement calls "rubber bullets" life-saving alternatives to deadly force. But the munitions also carry a legacy of traumatic brain injuries, blindings, PTSD, and even deaths, as Linda Rodriguez McRobbie reports in THE PEOPLE VS. RUBBER BULLETS.

📷: Glen Stubbe / Star Tribune / Getty

Photo of Soren Stevenson with rubber bullet injury.

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Long Lead @longlead.com · 1d

On Thursday, a Chicago judge temporarily blocked federal agents from firing rubber bullets and other nonlethal munitions at protesters outside of an ICE processing facility. The move comes after federal agents “indiscriminately” fired on protesters.

📷: Raphael Gaillarde / Gamma-Rapho / Getty

An officer handles bean-bag rounds at the Port of Oakland protest on April 7, 2003, in Oakland, Calif. Fifty-eight people were injured when police used less-lethal munitions including wooden dowels, pellets, and tear gas canisters at the anti–Iraq War protest.

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John Patrick Pullen @jppullen.com · 2d

This is absolutely outrageous.

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

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John Patrick Pullen @jppullen.com · 4d

There are already lots of golden arches in DC. I don't see why this is necessary. The ones that exist even give you hamburders.

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John Patrick Pullen @jppullen.com · 4d

This link outlines all the recent 911 calls in Portland. I can't find one fire at the moment: pdx911.wtf

John Patrick Pullen @jppullen.com · 4d

Here's a live map of 911 calls in Portland. Note: As of this writing, none of them are for fires (that I can see).

pdx911.wtf

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John Patrick Pullen @jppullen.com · 4d

The local news is now doing this on YouTube:

www.youtube.com/@KATUNews/st...

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John Patrick Pullen @jppullen.com · 4d

This is wildly inaccurate. We don't even have wood anymore. We're just running open-air drug markets at this point. Look! (courtesy of www.reddit.com/r/Portland/)

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John Patrick Pullen @jppullen.com · 4d

I mean, just check out this open-air drug market (courtesy of www.reddit.com/r/Portland/)

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John Patrick Pullen @jppullen.com · 4d

Yeah, that's pretty much what we're doing. It's been a hell of a marketing campaign.

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Emily Baker-White @ebakerwhite.bsky.social · 4d

I’m betting this is just an enforcement error.

But also: TikTok is only online today because Trump has ordered his DOJ to not enforce the law banning it, so the company certainly has an incentive not to cross him.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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John Patrick Pullen @jppullen.com · 4d

It's World Mental Health Day... really. Need a break from (waves hands) all this?

Read this exquisite @longlead.com feature on world champion free diver Alena Artnik, and how defying death has helped her escape depression and grief.

I mean, it beats (waves hands) all this.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 4d

A restraining order was issued YESTERDAY by a federal judge barring detention of journalists in this district unless they refuse to reposition themselves and are given adequate time to do so, or there’s probable cause they’ve committed a crime.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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John Patrick Pullen @jppullen.com · 5d

Just a reminder about why the US stopped activating the National Guard to police protests:

Long Lead @longlead.com · May 3

54 years ago tomorrow, four Kent State students were shot and killed by National Guardsmen during antiwar protests.

The next day papers from the La Crosse Tribune (shown) to the NYTimes, ran a photo taken by photojournalism student John Filo, of Mary Ann Vecchio by the body of Jeffrey Miller. (1/4)