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“But the hushing of the criticism of honest opponents is a dangerous thing.”
— W.E.B. Du Bois
— W.E.B. Du Bois
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in other words, the US plans to treat the Brits and French and Germans and South Koreans more like the way theyve been treating brown, Black and Muslim travelers and tourists forever?
December 10, 2025 at 5:09 AM
in other words, the US plans to treat the Brits and French and Germans and South Koreans more like the way theyve been treating brown, Black and Muslim travelers and tourists forever?
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Checking in on one of those wars Trump has stopped.
‘No space for diplomacy,’ says Thailand after deadly Cambodia clashes
Cambodia says Thailand's military resumed attacks on Tuesday morning in border regions, killing at least two people.
aje.io
December 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Checking in on one of those wars Trump has stopped.
“What began as a U.S. political decision has now translated into sweeping and coordinated digital censorship, threatening decades of human rights documentation that formed the backbone of Palestinian legal submissions to international courts.”
YouTube and big tech censorship threatens global accountability, Palestinian rights groups say
After the U.S. imposed sanctions, YouTube took down over 700 videos from prominent Palestinian human rights groups. Rights advocates say this censorship goes beyond Palestine and affects the future of...
mondoweiss.net
December 10, 2025 at 5:09 AM
“What began as a U.S. political decision has now translated into sweeping and coordinated digital censorship, threatening decades of human rights documentation that formed the backbone of Palestinian legal submissions to international courts.”
“In her ruling Monday, Chief U.S. District Judge Denise J. Casper wrote that Öztürk is likely to succeed on claims that the termination was ‘arbitrary and capricious, contrary to law and in violation of the First Amendment.’”
Turkish student who criticized Israel can resume research at Tufts after visa revoked, judge rules
Doctoral candidate Rümeysa Öztürk was among the first arrested when the Trump administration began targeting foreign-born students involved in pro-Palestinian advocacy.
www.latimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:06 AM
“In her ruling Monday, Chief U.S. District Judge Denise J. Casper wrote that Öztürk is likely to succeed on claims that the termination was ‘arbitrary and capricious, contrary to law and in violation of the First Amendment.’”
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“The government is ‘pouring billions into the armed forces, thereby driving up profits for arms firm Rheinmetall and Co and demanding more and more from young people’.
Instead, ‘Our dilapidated schools should finally be renovated, and climate change should be tackled consistently.’”
Instead, ‘Our dilapidated schools should finally be renovated, and climate change should be tackled consistently.’”
School strikes in Germany fight plans for conscription
As part of ramping militarisation, the German parliament has passed laws to asses 18 year-old males for 'battle readiness'.
socialistworker.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 12:18 PM
“The government is ‘pouring billions into the armed forces, thereby driving up profits for arms firm Rheinmetall and Co and demanding more and more from young people’.
Instead, ‘Our dilapidated schools should finally be renovated, and climate change should be tackled consistently.’”
Instead, ‘Our dilapidated schools should finally be renovated, and climate change should be tackled consistently.’”
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You don’t eliminate American exceptionalism with more American exceptionalism. And liberals need to stop rehabbing Reagan, who made Trump possible.
December 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
You don’t eliminate American exceptionalism with more American exceptionalism. And liberals need to stop rehabbing Reagan, who made Trump possible.
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How to know it is hasbara: It is posted by the New York Post
claim debunked ✅🤭
claim debunked ✅🤭
December 10, 2025 at 4:58 AM
How to know it is hasbara: It is posted by the New York Post
claim debunked ✅🤭
claim debunked ✅🤭
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Say what you will about George W. Bush, but at least he filled out the correct paperwork before embarking on a global campaign of mass murder.
America got “the president is killing terrorists, don’t question it” in the 2000s too. But unlike now:
-The US had been attacked
-Al Qaeda was a terrorist group and planned more attacks
-They were in areas the US military did not freely operate, where arrest was risky
-Congress authorized the action
-The US had been attacked
-Al Qaeda was a terrorist group and planned more attacks
-They were in areas the US military did not freely operate, where arrest was risky
-Congress authorized the action
December 10, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Say what you will about George W. Bush, but at least he filled out the correct paperwork before embarking on a global campaign of mass murder.
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Durung the invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq, US forces committed countless war crimes that the Pentagon covered up and denied. To justify the war on terror in 2025? Geez. What the current administration is doing is *building on* these atrocities.
America got “the president is killing terrorists, don’t question it” in the 2000s too. But unlike now:
-The US had been attacked
-Al Qaeda was a terrorist group and planned more attacks
-They were in areas the US military did not freely operate, where arrest was risky
-Congress authorized the action
-The US had been attacked
-Al Qaeda was a terrorist group and planned more attacks
-They were in areas the US military did not freely operate, where arrest was risky
-Congress authorized the action
December 10, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Durung the invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq, US forces committed countless war crimes that the Pentagon covered up and denied. To justify the war on terror in 2025? Geez. What the current administration is doing is *building on* these atrocities.
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This. This a thousand times. When I pointed out that liberals gleefully aligned with the right on bombing hospitals in Gaza, they threatened to laugh at Palestinians dying if I didn’t give them Harris. They are fucking slime.
There's liberals in the comments below this who are defending not just the highway of death but also the US wars in Iraq, Vietnam, Korea, etc., and yet they still pretend they're the good guys
You barely even have to scratch them anymore
You barely even have to scratch them anymore
Yes you did. You vaporized an entire coumn of retreating troops in the Highway of Death massacre. You brutalized Koreans, Vietnamese, Laosians, Cambodians, Afghans, Libyan, Pakistanis...the list is pretty long. This is nothing new, it's a feature of US foreign policy.
December 10, 2025 at 4:23 AM
This. This a thousand times. When I pointed out that liberals gleefully aligned with the right on bombing hospitals in Gaza, they threatened to laugh at Palestinians dying if I didn’t give them Harris. They are fucking slime.
Why do liberals constantly allege that likely Dem voters who cannot vote for genocide are perfectionists? It’s like accusing 19th century abolitionists of wanting perfection in demanding that candidates commit to end chattel slavery.
The Dems are far from perfect, but the vast majority of them seem to have the best interests of their constituents at heart, and they deserve support in an imperfect system. This cannot be said of the scum in the Rep party.
December 10, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Why do liberals constantly allege that likely Dem voters who cannot vote for genocide are perfectionists? It’s like accusing 19th century abolitionists of wanting perfection in demanding that candidates commit to end chattel slavery.
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"Amid an onslaught of moves to ban the teaching of a full and accurate American history, many educators across the country are refusing to bend. They are bringing this history to students across the country, even in the states with the most restrictive laws." -- @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social ⬇️
“Movements do not result from the first or second outrage but from an accumulation of injustice that brings people to a breaking point.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What we get wrong about the Montgomery bus boycott – and what we can learn from it | Jeanne Theoharis
The movement’s success was never a given. It took much longer and required tremendous sacrifice without certainty it would work
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:25 AM
"Amid an onslaught of moves to ban the teaching of a full and accurate American history, many educators across the country are refusing to bend. They are bringing this history to students across the country, even in the states with the most restrictive laws." -- @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social ⬇️
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“One should never let perfect be the enemy of what stops evil.”
Biden/Harris oversaw a genocide that exterminated 15,000 children.
By their “logic”, Trump was the better choice because he had not been responsible for any genocide at that point.
Biden/Harris oversaw a genocide that exterminated 15,000 children.
By their “logic”, Trump was the better choice because he had not been responsible for any genocide at that point.
December 9, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“One should never let perfect be the enemy of what stops evil.”
Biden/Harris oversaw a genocide that exterminated 15,000 children.
By their “logic”, Trump was the better choice because he had not been responsible for any genocide at that point.
Biden/Harris oversaw a genocide that exterminated 15,000 children.
By their “logic”, Trump was the better choice because he had not been responsible for any genocide at that point.
The youngest daughter is back home from Vermont for a few months after finishing all her course work. Guess I’m no longer a UVM dad. 🥺
December 9, 2025 at 10:09 PM
The youngest daughter is back home from Vermont for a few months after finishing all her course work. Guess I’m no longer a UVM dad. 🥺
We’re not just talking about free-floating, ahistorical cruelty, but the historical emergence of fascism, which can be traced back to what historian Gerald Horne called “proto-fascism” in 19th century white supremacist policies in the United States. And I’m clear on my definition of fascism.
December 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
We’re not just talking about free-floating, ahistorical cruelty, but the historical emergence of fascism, which can be traced back to what historian Gerald Horne called “proto-fascism” in 19th century white supremacist policies in the United States. And I’m clear on my definition of fascism.
If the 3,000 year timeline of The Levant were laid out as a 12 hour clock face would the existence of the Western colonialist project called “Israel” even count as a full second? More like a tenth of a second?
December 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
If the 3,000 year timeline of The Levant were laid out as a 12 hour clock face would the existence of the Western colonialist project called “Israel” even count as a full second? More like a tenth of a second?
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Israel hunted a 70 year old lady down with a gun drone and then hoovered above to make sure she bled out next to her dying son. They both join almost 1,000 Palestinians Israel has massacred or maimed in its genocide during the "ceasefire".
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
Israeli drone chases and kills elderly woman in Gaza as attacks continue
At least seven Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks as military pushes deeper beyond truce demarcation line.
www.aljazeera.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Israel hunted a 70 year old lady down with a gun drone and then hoovered above to make sure she bled out next to her dying son. They both join almost 1,000 Palestinians Israel has massacred or maimed in its genocide during the "ceasefire".
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
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Nazis took a lot of lessons from Americans on how to treat their prisoners. They studied slavery to come up with torture techniques. Read Caste by Isabel Wilkerson.
December 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Nazis took a lot of lessons from Americans on how to treat their prisoners. They studied slavery to come up with torture techniques. Read Caste by Isabel Wilkerson.
“The US government traumatized IBM so badly that they turned over their crown jewels to these two prep-school kids, who scammed a pal out of his operating system for $50k and made billions from it. Despite owing his business to IBM … Gates routinely mocked IBM as a lumbering dinosaur”
Pluralistic: Big Tech joins the race to build the world’s heaviest airplane (09 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
December 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
“The US government traumatized IBM so badly that they turned over their crown jewels to these two prep-school kids, who scammed a pal out of his operating system for $50k and made billions from it. Despite owing his business to IBM … Gates routinely mocked IBM as a lumbering dinosaur”
Checking in on one of those wars Trump has stopped.
‘No space for diplomacy,’ says Thailand after deadly Cambodia clashes
Cambodia says Thailand's military resumed attacks on Tuesday morning in border regions, killing at least two people.
aje.io
December 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Checking in on one of those wars Trump has stopped.
“The Central Ohio region is sinking due to groundwater subsidence, a problem that will become much more serious in the next decade if demands [of data centers] continue unchecked”
Concerning report finds Central Ohio water demand is skyrocketing due to rise of data centers
Millions—yes, millions—of gallons of water a day are used to cool the equipment of the 100+ data centers here in Central Ohio. And while data center business is booming, the demand for water is too…
614now.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
“The Central Ohio region is sinking due to groundwater subsidence, a problem that will become much more serious in the next decade if demands [of data centers] continue unchecked”
“On December 9, 2014, the U.S. Senate … released a report revealing the CIA’s use of torture against Muslim detainees during the ‘War on Terror.’ The report detailed … horrific accounts of Muslim people being dehumanized to such an extent that they were likened to ‘dogs who had been kenneled.’”
#otd
#otd
Dec. 9, 2014 | Senate Releases Report Detailing CIA Torture of Muslim Detainees
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
calendar.eji.org
December 9, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“On December 9, 2014, the U.S. Senate … released a report revealing the CIA’s use of torture against Muslim detainees during the ‘War on Terror.’ The report detailed … horrific accounts of Muslim people being dehumanized to such an extent that they were likened to ‘dogs who had been kenneled.’”
#otd
#otd
One should never assume that other voters expect perfection when they don’t claim to.
For some a vote is a marriage proposal for others it's a closing time hookup... The latter brought us Trump. One should never let perfect be the enemy of what stops evil.
December 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
One should never assume that other voters expect perfection when they don’t claim to.
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Did Biden stop evil? Did he stop Trump from running again? Did he shut down ICE? Did he close Guantanamo Bay? Did he expand the Supreme Court? Did he replace the USPS board of governors to fire Dejoy? Did he stop Israel from committing genocide with US support?
December 9, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Did Biden stop evil? Did he stop Trump from running again? Did he shut down ICE? Did he close Guantanamo Bay? Did he expand the Supreme Court? Did he replace the USPS board of governors to fire Dejoy? Did he stop Israel from committing genocide with US support?
Gee. Who could have predicted this? 🙃
High schools bullying is up, attendance down as ICE raids sow 'climate of distress,' study says
High schools bullying is up, attendance down as ICE raids sow ‘climate of distress,' study says
A new survey of public high school principals across the U.S. found widespread, heightened distress among students from immigrant families amid ICE raids.
www.latimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Gee. Who could have predicted this? 🙃