Joel Reinstein 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇻🇪
@joelreinstein.bsky.social
Labor organizer
"Would it not be easier for the government to dissolve the people, and elect another?"
"Would it not be easier for the government to dissolve the people, and elect another?"
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This by @tayari.bsky.social is my favorite essay and it's never far from my heart
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"Hanan Abu Hadaid's family was fast asleep in their tent when the attack began."
"I started calling out to them one by one, screaming, but no one answered."
"[T]argeting of civilians and displaced people continues."
#UK #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #Military #Weapons
"I started calling out to them one by one, screaming, but no one answered."
"[T]argeting of civilians and displaced people continues."
#UK #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #Military #Weapons
'Israel wiped out my family', Survivor warns as UK considers arms sales
'What happened proves that targeting of civilians continues,' says grandmother who survived Gaza tent attack.
www.declassifieduk.org
February 15, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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😭😭😭 a community member just handed this off to a patroller in our neighborhood
February 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
😭😭😭 a community member just handed this off to a patroller in our neighborhood
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JFC, cut that shit in half and you’ve eradicated hunger, provided healthcare for all and made education free for all Americans. What the fuck are we doing?
February 15, 2026 at 12:52 PM
JFC, cut that shit in half and you’ve eradicated hunger, provided healthcare for all and made education free for all Americans. What the fuck are we doing?
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‘China encourages Israeli friends to engage with us in various forms of economic and trade cooperation, and hopes that all sectors will actively safeguard China-Israel relations and play an active role in advancing bilateral friendship and practical cooperation.
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February 15, 2026 at 12:43 PM
‘China encourages Israeli friends to engage with us in various forms of economic and trade cooperation, and hopes that all sectors will actively safeguard China-Israel relations and play an active role in advancing bilateral friendship and practical cooperation.
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Love this guy deciding for me that i've removed myself from my own community.
What a bizarre thing to say.
That's before he even gets on to defending John Mann! 🤣
What a bizarre thing to say.
That's before he even gets on to defending John Mann! 🤣
I suspect that David Hirsh has had enough of Zack Polanski dining out on his Jewish heritage while having largely removed himself from the community. John Mann is perfectly capable of recognising antisemitism, and he is a respected friend of the Jewish community.
@davidhirsh.bsky.social
@davidhirsh.bsky.social
February 15, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Love this guy deciding for me that i've removed myself from my own community.
What a bizarre thing to say.
That's before he even gets on to defending John Mann! 🤣
What a bizarre thing to say.
That's before he even gets on to defending John Mann! 🤣
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#OtD 15 Feb 1851 African-Americans and abolitionists (including Lewis Hayden, pictured) raided a Boston court to rescue imprisoned runaway enslaved person, Frederick Jenkins, and smuggled him to freedom in Canada stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8659...
February 15, 2026 at 2:10 PM
#OtD 15 Feb 1851 African-Americans and abolitionists (including Lewis Hayden, pictured) raided a Boston court to rescue imprisoned runaway enslaved person, Frederick Jenkins, and smuggled him to freedom in Canada stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8659...
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NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
www.thenerve.news
February 15, 2026 at 11:18 AM
NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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This is so deeply fucked. I wish these people would just admit they hate the idea of democracy and get it over with. This kayfabe bullshit is just silly at this point.
North Carolina lawmakers have voted to remove all college campus voting sites. Specifically at the largest HBCU in the US NC A&T. They now have to walk 30 minutes to their nearest polling place. Students are protesting this - pls share and support.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/
Even without an on-campus voting site, NCAT students still marched to the polls. 💙💛 Students at North Carolina A&T showed that barriers won’t stop their voices. When access isn’t easy, they organize. ...
TikTok video by HBCU Student Action Alliance
www.tiktok.com
February 15, 2026 at 3:48 AM
This is so deeply fucked. I wish these people would just admit they hate the idea of democracy and get it over with. This kayfabe bullshit is just silly at this point.
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"Kordia has been held at the Prairieland detention facility in Texas since then, despite a judge twice ruling that she poses no threat and may be released on bond." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Calls mount for release of Palestinian protester held by ICE for nearly a year
Leqaa Kordia was taken into custody last March, nearly a year after being arrested at a protest at Columbia
www.theguardian.com
February 15, 2026 at 5:34 AM
"Kordia has been held at the Prairieland detention facility in Texas since then, despite a judge twice ruling that she poses no threat and may be released on bond." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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ICE point weapon directly at woman peacefully protesting, just inches in front of her face.
Goon is pointing a B&T GL06 grenade launcher and shooting someone at point-blank range with this so-called
"less than lethal" ammo could be fatal.
Goon is pointing a B&T GL06 grenade launcher and shooting someone at point-blank range with this so-called
"less than lethal" ammo could be fatal.
February 15, 2026 at 2:07 AM
ICE point weapon directly at woman peacefully protesting, just inches in front of her face.
Goon is pointing a B&T GL06 grenade launcher and shooting someone at point-blank range with this so-called
"less than lethal" ammo could be fatal.
Goon is pointing a B&T GL06 grenade launcher and shooting someone at point-blank range with this so-called
"less than lethal" ammo could be fatal.
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Great decision in favor of Jinan Chehade, a Muslim Arab attorney who Foley Lardner shamefully and racistly fired the night before she was supposed to start work because she made pro-Palestinian statements after Oct. 7.
law.justia.com/cases/federa...
law.justia.com/cases/federa...
Chehade v. Foley & Lardner, LLP, No. 1:2024cv04414 - Document 83 (N.D. Ill. 2026)
Chehade v. Foley & Lardner, LLP, No. 1:2024cv04414 - Document 83 (N.D. Ill. 2026) case opinion from the Northern District of Illinois U.S. Federal District Court
law.justia.com
February 15, 2026 at 4:51 AM
Great decision in favor of Jinan Chehade, a Muslim Arab attorney who Foley Lardner shamefully and racistly fired the night before she was supposed to start work because she made pro-Palestinian statements after Oct. 7.
law.justia.com/cases/federa...
law.justia.com/cases/federa...
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In a secret deportation arrangement, the Trump administration flew nine people, nearly all of whom had been granted U.S. court protections from being sent back to their home countries, to Cameroon.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...
U.S. Deports Nine Migrants in Secret, Ignoring Legal Protections
www.nytimes.com
February 15, 2026 at 1:23 AM
In a secret deportation arrangement, the Trump administration flew nine people, nearly all of whom had been granted U.S. court protections from being sent back to their home countries, to Cameroon.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...
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“DHS traps people with serial killer methods” arrives in the news one (1) day after “DHS taunts jailed children with Nazi methods,” for those keeping track
ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 4:27 AM
“DHS traps people with serial killer methods” arrives in the news one (1) day after “DHS taunts jailed children with Nazi methods,” for those keeping track
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The Trump administration’s push for mass deportations has resulted in more cases, known as habeas petitions, filed in federal court in the last year than under the last three administrations combined, including Trump’s first term.
➡️ Read more (with @texastribune.org): https://propub.li/4tDklgE
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February 14, 2026 at 10:00 PM
The Trump administration’s push for mass deportations has resulted in more cases, known as habeas petitions, filed in federal court in the last year than under the last three administrations combined, including Trump’s first term.
➡️ Read more (with @texastribune.org): https://propub.li/4tDklgE
➡️ Read more (with @texastribune.org): https://propub.li/4tDklgE
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A former Illinois deputy has been sentenced to 20 years for fatally shooting Sonya Massey, who called 911 for help.
January 29, 2026 at 4:18 PM
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A former Illinois deputy has been sentenced to 20 years for fatally shooting Sonya Massey, who called 911 for help.
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February 15, 2026 at 2:51 AM
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Whenever you read a horrifying list like this about people who are critically ill or died in ICE concentration camps it’s important to remember that these are just the stories that got out because they were lucky enough to have lawyers who could tell their stories.
February 14, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Whenever you read a horrifying list like this about people who are critically ill or died in ICE concentration camps it’s important to remember that these are just the stories that got out because they were lucky enough to have lawyers who could tell their stories.
The only way out of this is, while condemning the international fascism voiced by Rubio, to also be unafraid to condemn hypocrisy the way AOC did. No going backwards, no terrified attempt to retreat to the old order
The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should.
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February 15, 2026 at 2:08 AM
The only way out of this is, while condemning the international fascism voiced by Rubio, to also be unafraid to condemn hypocrisy the way AOC did. No going backwards, no terrified attempt to retreat to the old order
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Ofelia Torres, the teenage Chicago Public Schools student whose fight against cancer while her father was detained by ICE came to represent the federal government's overreach during Operation Midway Blitz, has died. Brave young woman. I will never forget her. RIP.
February 15, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Ofelia Torres, the teenage Chicago Public Schools student whose fight against cancer while her father was detained by ICE came to represent the federal government's overreach during Operation Midway Blitz, has died. Brave young woman. I will never forget her. RIP.
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CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 14, 2026 at 4:25 PM
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
"For some ICE and Border Patrol agents, earning $100,000 without a college degree is reason enough, Vega said. They receive a pension. Have health insurance. Are able to buy a house in a safe subdivision, which looks like paradise compared to the poor neighborhoods they grew up in."
Contributing columnist Ka Vang writes: "Why would people of color and immigrants, particularly so many Latinos, join immigration enforcement? How can they serve an institution that harms people who look like them?"
Vang: Why do so many Latinos join ICE and the Border Patrol?
Contributing columnist Ka Vang writes: "Why would people of color and immigrants, particularly so many Latinos, join immigration enforcement? How can they serve an institution that harms people who look like them?"
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February 14, 2026 at 11:17 PM
"For some ICE and Border Patrol agents, earning $100,000 without a college degree is reason enough, Vega said. They receive a pension. Have health insurance. Are able to buy a house in a safe subdivision, which looks like paradise compared to the poor neighborhoods they grew up in."
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The good news is that the unabashed and naked racism against Mamdani will continue and nobody in leadership will condemn it
Saw this on an Instagram account and what the fuuuuuuuuuu
February 13, 2026 at 8:41 AM
The good news is that the unabashed and naked racism against Mamdani will continue and nobody in leadership will condemn it
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These deportation flights are literal torture. That’s not hyperbole.
My Trump-supporting cousin-in-law just texted my husband to say he encountered this Mother Jones on social media, read it, realized I wrote it, and told him to tell me I’m doing good work and to keep going.
Things are changing, y’all.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Things are changing, y’all.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
ICE deportation flights are getting longer and crueler
A private equity–owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.
www.motherjones.com
February 14, 2026 at 9:47 PM
These deportation flights are literal torture. That’s not hyperbole.
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Good follow up story from NBC 10 last night. They interviewed an undocumented man who says he is the person ICE was pursuing the day when elementary school kids were seen running from ICE. The station interviewed his young son too. @nbcphiladelphia.com
Man says ICE agents were after him when students ran from school bus stop Thursday
A man living in NJ said that he was the one ICE agents were looking for when their operation sent elementary students running from their bus stop.
www.nbcphiladelphia.com
February 14, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Good follow up story from NBC 10 last night. They interviewed an undocumented man who says he is the person ICE was pursuing the day when elementary school kids were seen running from ICE. The station interviewed his young son too. @nbcphiladelphia.com
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Goes without saying but this is a Massive problem, not just in what they’re doing but who they are literally, per our sources, drawing inspiration — about what to do next in the twin cities and elsewhere — from how the U.S. has handled foreign wars including ones we lost
Trump and his people are talking about Minnesota — even during a supposed “drawdown” — both publicly and privately in the language of war and saving face after encountering sustained local resistance that drains resources & bleeds political support
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Trump’s Losing His War in Minnesota. He’s Ready to Declare ‘Mission Accomplished’
Trump may trim back his terror campaign in Minneapolis, because it’s bleeding political support. It’s not over.
zeteo.com
February 14, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Goes without saying but this is a Massive problem, not just in what they’re doing but who they are literally, per our sources, drawing inspiration — about what to do next in the twin cities and elsewhere — from how the U.S. has handled foreign wars including ones we lost