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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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If you magically believed that the release of the Epstein Files would spell the end of US fascism, then maybe you should become more radicalized.
The Epstein scandal is taking down Europe’s political class. In the US, they’re getting a pass.
As Europe moves to address its shame, it’s highlighting the comparative lack of accountability in the U.S.
www.politico.com
February 8, 2026 at 3:58 PM
If you magically believed that the release of the Epstein Files would spell the end of US fascism, then maybe you should become more radicalized.
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The Israeli Olympics team sports images of the Star of David on their uniforms. That’s literally King David. How’s that not political?
The International Olympic Committee ruled that an image of Toussaint Louverture, born into slavery and and leader of the Haitian Revolution, on Haiti’s uniforms violated Olympic rules barring political symbolism
Haiti's Winter Olympics team shines a positive light even as IOC removes patriot from uniforms
Haiti is making a statement at the Milan Cortina Winter Games with two athletes proudly representing the nation.
apnews.com
February 8, 2026 at 5:41 PM
The Israeli Olympics team sports images of the Star of David on their uniforms. That’s literally King David. How’s that not political?
Next time a US evangelical whines about their government persecuting them for their faith, demand they show these kinds of receipts:
February 9, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Next time a US evangelical whines about their government persecuting them for their faith, demand they show these kinds of receipts:
US nurse who spent 3 weeks treating Gazan genocide victims of US/IDF bombs:
“my heart is in Gaza, it will stay in Gaza the Palestinian people I worked with … were some of the most incredible people I've ever met ... if I could ever have an ounce of the heart [they] have I will … die a happy person”
“my heart is in Gaza, it will stay in Gaza the Palestinian people I worked with … were some of the most incredible people I've ever met ... if I could ever have an ounce of the heart [they] have I will … die a happy person”
February 9, 2026 at 2:44 PM
US nurse who spent 3 weeks treating Gazan genocide victims of US/IDF bombs:
“my heart is in Gaza, it will stay in Gaza the Palestinian people I worked with … were some of the most incredible people I've ever met ... if I could ever have an ounce of the heart [they] have I will … die a happy person”
“my heart is in Gaza, it will stay in Gaza the Palestinian people I worked with … were some of the most incredible people I've ever met ... if I could ever have an ounce of the heart [they] have I will … die a happy person”
We just passed the 3rd anniversary of the East Palestine (OH) train destruction.
February 9, 2026 at 5:25 AM
We just passed the 3rd anniversary of the East Palestine (OH) train destruction.
“Del Villard’s intellectual journey began in Santurce and took her to Fisk University in Tennessee, where she pursued sociology and anthropology on a scholarship. Yet, the racial discrimination she encountered there compelled her to return home, where she completed her studies”
#BlackHistoryMonth
#BlackHistoryMonth
Sylvia Del Villard-Moreno: Actress, Dancer, Choreographer and Afro-Puerto Rican Activist - JazzDeLaPena
Sylvia Del Villard-Moreno (February 28, 1928 – February 28, 1990) was a multifaceted artist, activist, and cultural pioneer whose life embodied the struggle for recognition of Afro-Puerto Rican identi...
jazzdelapena.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:12 AM
“Del Villard’s intellectual journey began in Santurce and took her to Fisk University in Tennessee, where she pursued sociology and anthropology on a scholarship. Yet, the racial discrimination she encountered there compelled her to return home, where she completed her studies”
#BlackHistoryMonth
#BlackHistoryMonth
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Puerto Rico hasn't had reliable power in a decade.
The grid sends occasional surges through the wires that fry appliances.
Electricity rates are among the highest in the entire U.S.
Heat waves are getting intense in the summer, and outages mean A/C is no guarantee for an aging population.
The grid sends occasional surges through the wires that fry appliances.
Electricity rates are among the highest in the entire U.S.
Heat waves are getting intense in the summer, and outages mean A/C is no guarantee for an aging population.
February 9, 2026 at 1:49 AM
Puerto Rico hasn't had reliable power in a decade.
The grid sends occasional surges through the wires that fry appliances.
Electricity rates are among the highest in the entire U.S.
Heat waves are getting intense in the summer, and outages mean A/C is no guarantee for an aging population.
The grid sends occasional surges through the wires that fry appliances.
Electricity rates are among the highest in the entire U.S.
Heat waves are getting intense in the summer, and outages mean A/C is no guarantee for an aging population.
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Scenes from an anti-fascist protest against the Winter Olympics in Milan.
February 8, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Scenes from an anti-fascist protest against the Winter Olympics in Milan.
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Brought to you by Levi’s.
February 9, 2026 at 3:05 AM
Brought to you by Levi’s.
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Laughing at the people who seem to think that the halftime show that took place in the sugarcane fields wasn’t political
February 9, 2026 at 2:22 AM
Laughing at the people who seem to think that the halftime show that took place in the sugarcane fields wasn’t political
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“We are faced with a very serious and profound crisis with no easy exit in sight …. You don’t have to dig that deeply … to understand that this bludgeoning of nondocumented workers is an attack on the entire US working class …. It is a precursor of a … full-throated fascism”
— Professor Gerald Horne
— Professor Gerald Horne
Gerald Horne - ICE Murders of Renée Good & Alex Pretti: US on Fascist Path or Is Trump Losing Power?
YouTube video by Activist News Network
youtu.be
February 6, 2026 at 4:51 PM
“We are faced with a very serious and profound crisis with no easy exit in sight …. You don’t have to dig that deeply … to understand that this bludgeoning of nondocumented workers is an attack on the entire US working class …. It is a precursor of a … full-throated fascism”
— Professor Gerald Horne
— Professor Gerald Horne
The incremental Nashville Plan:
“To further soften the impact of these gradual changes, a liberal transfer policy would be introduced, allowing students whose race was in the minority in their newly assigned schools to opt for a majority-status alternative—that is, choose to remain in segregation.”
“To further soften the impact of these gradual changes, a liberal transfer policy would be introduced, allowing students whose race was in the minority in their newly assigned schools to opt for a majority-status alternative—that is, choose to remain in segregation.”
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
Grace McKinley takes Rita Buchanan and Linda McKinley to school among protesters, Nashville, TN, September 1957. © Nashville Public Library.
In September 1957, three years after the US Supreme Court d...
southernspaces.org
February 8, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show will be interpreted by Celimar Rivera Cosme into Puerto Rican Sign Language, a unique dialect used on the island that academic researchers and other experts consider endangered.
Bad Bunny’s Sign Language Interpreter Will Make Super Bowl History, Too
Puerto Rican Sign Language is not the same as American Sign Language. Celimar Rivera Cosme will uniquely capture the rapper’s slang for the game’s deaf viewers.
trib.al
February 8, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show will be interpreted by Celimar Rivera Cosme into Puerto Rican Sign Language, a unique dialect used on the island that academic researchers and other experts consider endangered.
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ICE is afraid of L.A. ✊🏽
February 8, 2026 at 9:00 PM
ICE is afraid of L.A. ✊🏽
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Rebecca Hall is her name.
February 8, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Rebecca Hall is her name.
“If they [Democrats] will continue to proscribe us, if they will continue to cultivate prejudice against us; if they will continue to decry the Negro and crush him under foot, then you cannot expect the Negro to rise while the Democrats are trampling upon him and his rights”
— Joseph H. Rainey
— Joseph H. Rainey
Dec. 12, 1870: Joseph H. Rainey First African American in U.S. House of Reps
Joseph H. Rainey, from South Carolina, was the first African American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.
www.zinnedproject.org
February 8, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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“The senator added the deportees were reportedly flown across the world in shackles and left in an active conflict zone, arguing that this raised serious human rights and international law questions for the State.”
www.thejournal.ie/shannon-airp...
www.thejournal.ie/shannon-airp...
Shannon Airport used for refuelling by US deportation flights carrying Palestinians to Israel
Two ICE-chartered flights carrying shackled deportees stopped in Co Clare en route from the US to Israel, The Guardian has reported.
www.thejournal.ie
February 7, 2026 at 4:21 PM
“The senator added the deportees were reportedly flown across the world in shackles and left in an active conflict zone, arguing that this raised serious human rights and international law questions for the State.”
www.thejournal.ie/shannon-airp...
www.thejournal.ie/shannon-airp...
“[Black Reconstruction] did not simply fail, white conservatives overthrew it.”
— Kidada E. Williams, I Saw Death Coming (2023)
— Kidada E. Williams, I Saw Death Coming (2023)
February 8, 2026 at 6:49 PM
“[Black Reconstruction] did not simply fail, white conservatives overthrew it.”
— Kidada E. Williams, I Saw Death Coming (2023)
— Kidada E. Williams, I Saw Death Coming (2023)
The Israeli Olympics team sports images of the Star of David on their uniforms. That’s literally King David. How’s that not political?
The International Olympic Committee ruled that an image of Toussaint Louverture, born into slavery and and leader of the Haitian Revolution, on Haiti’s uniforms violated Olympic rules barring political symbolism
Haiti's Winter Olympics team shines a positive light even as IOC removes patriot from uniforms
Haiti is making a statement at the Milan Cortina Winter Games with two athletes proudly representing the nation.
apnews.com
February 8, 2026 at 5:41 PM
The Israeli Olympics team sports images of the Star of David on their uniforms. That’s literally King David. How’s that not political?
The fort built by previously enslaved people in Nashville as it originally appeared.
#BlackHistoryMonth
#BlackHistoryMonth
February 8, 2026 at 5:31 PM
The fort built by previously enslaved people in Nashville as it originally appeared.
#BlackHistoryMonth
#BlackHistoryMonth
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Why is a contributing editor to Harper's and a lecturer at Columbia Law cribbing independent journalist Marisa Kabas's posts word for word without attribution
February 8, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Why is a contributing editor to Harper's and a lecturer at Columbia Law cribbing independent journalist Marisa Kabas's posts word for word without attribution
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Here we have the Democratic Party of Pennsylvania endorsing a candidate before primaries are held. 🙄
Governor Shapiro and Lt. Governor Davis officially endorsed for re-election by PA Dems.
February 8, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Here we have the Democratic Party of Pennsylvania endorsing a candidate before primaries are held. 🙄
Correction to my error on Frank Robinson’s first management gig.
permit me to correct this Frank R became (player-) manager of Cleveland @csschmitt.bsky.social @drjessecromwell.bsky.social
February 8, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Correction to my error on Frank Robinson’s first management gig.