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mondoweiss.net
Mahmoud Khalil and his legal team vowed to fight Trump administration plans to deport the Palestinian activist to Algeria, calling the move "extreme punishment" for his pro-Palestinian speech.

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Mahmoud Khalil vows to oppose Trump efforts to deport him to Algeria over pro-Palestine speech
Mahmoud Khalil and his legal team vowed to fight Trump administration plans to deport the Palestinian activist to Algeria, calling the move “extreme punishment” for his pro-Palestinian speech.
mondoweiss.net
January 26, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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margaret.bsky.social
I wrote about my time in Minneapolis last week, about what is involved in creating bottom-up, decentralized networks of care.

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January 26, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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crimethinc.com
The Onion remains the only credible corporate news source in the United States.

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WASHINGTON—Urging locals to “fully cooperate” with federal agents, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called on Minneapolis residents Monday to stop obstructing murders. “The brave men and women of ICE and the U.S. Border Patrol are doing their best to carry out these executions in a safe and professional manner,” said Noem, who emphasized that public safety depended on the ability of federal immigration officers to kill unimpeded. “These are official, state-sanctioned murders, and it’s not your place to interfere. Our agents need to be able to do the job they were hired to do. And if you do choose to resist being murdered, well, you shouldn’t be surprised by what comes to you.” The DHS secretary went on to condemn the media for “depicting these murderers as Nazis.”
January 26, 2026 at 10:41 PM
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margaret.bsky.social
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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ceej.online
I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally
January 22, 2026 at 3:31 AM
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propublica.org
We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose.

“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote.

(Published Dec. 2024)
“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps
Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so th...
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October 25, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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mondoweiss.net
AIPAC:

American
Influence
Purchased
And
Controlled
October 17, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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phillewis.bsky.social
“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said
Oct. 15, 2025 PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION STATEMENT Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution. The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all. PPA
October 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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nbedera.bsky.social
One of the things that brings me the greatest despair in authoritarianism is watching people react to state violence the way they react to domestic violence.

By justifying anything and everything the perpetrators does through blaming a victim for failing to be submissive enough.
October 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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davidforbes.bsky.social
Asheville Blade (@avlblade.bsky.social): patreon.com/AvlBlade

And Trans News Network (@transnews.network): transnews.network

Are run by working class trans folks and could use the support.
October 4, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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mondoweiss.net
READ: The devastation in Gaza is not just genocide but also ecocide - the intentional destruction of the ecology. Israel’s assault shows how settler-colonial violence is tied to environmental harm, and why climate justice depends on Palestinian liberation.
Ecocide, Imperialism and Palestine Liberation
The devastation in Gaza is not just genocide but also ecocide - the intentional destruction of the ecology. Israel’s assault shows how settler-colonial violence is tied to environmental harm, and why…
mondoweiss.net
September 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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jjindc.bsky.social
🧊😲✈️ CHILD IN CHAINS‼️

👉 Thursday August 21, 2025 at Boeing Field in Seattle, we spotted this apparent girl in chains being directed up the steps of an Avelo Airlines 737 (tail: N805VL) on the live web cam feed from the airport 👀

(clip courtesy lalabote.bsky.social)
August 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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unraveledpress.com
NEW: In what appears to be one of the largest expansions of surveillance in IL history, we found hundreds of new Flock license plate readers—all paid for by AG Kwame Raoul's office in the last 3 years.

Issues with Flock Safety's data sharing practices are mounting. Will our sanctuary status hold?
Eyes on the heartland
A vast network of new license plate cameras has exploded across Illinois in recent years—paid for by state grants to fight retail crime. With the federal government clamoring for more information on p...
unraveledpress.com
August 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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propublica.org ProPublica @propublica.org · Aug 20
Researchers found that moisture lost to evaporation and drought, plus runoff from pumped groundwater, now outpaces the melting of glaciers and the ice sheets of either Antarctica or Greenland as the largest contributor of water to the oceans.

By @abrahm.bsky.social
“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat
A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.
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August 20, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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theintercept.com
As if a medical diagnosis could somehow cancel out the consequences of hunger.
Hunger in Gaza Can’t Be Explained Away by Preexisting Conditions
Outlets like the New York Times have downplayed the famine by pointing to underlying medical conditions. But these ailments only make the suffering worse.
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August 18, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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katz.theracket.news
A viral story claimed that a UN-backed agency "quietly changed" its famine-reporting metrics for Gaza last month in a politicized effort make Israel look bad.

That story was a lie.

New Racket.

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No, the 'UN' didn't lower its standards for declaring a famine in Gaza
A viral story claimed that the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) 'quietly changed' its metrics to harm Israel. The story was false.
theracket.news
August 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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tangledwilderness.bsky.social
It's somehow comforting to know that the combination of horrifying violence and annoying affectations by our oppressors isn't new.
verityholloway.bsky.social Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · Aug 15
Imagine it's 1850 and you've just been flattened by an elite cavalry officer who just yells "SOWWY" as he thunders away.
Screenshot of a tweet: British cavalry in the 1850s consisted entirely of twinks who used UwU-speak... [Photo of a book page] "The dash of British cavalry officers was never greater than at the opening of the Crimean campaign in the spring of 1854. These aristocratic horsemen were, in the idiom of the day, "plungers," "tremendous swells." They affected elegant boredom, yawned a great deal, spoke a jargon of their own, pronouncing "r" as "w," saying "vewwy," "howwid," and "sowwy," and interlarded sentences with loud and meaningless exclamations of "Haw, haw." Their sweeping whiskers, languid voices, tiny waists, laced in by corsets, and their large cigars were irresistible, frantically admired, and as frantically envied. Magnificently mounted, horses were their passion; they rode like the devil himself, and their confidence in their ability to defeat any enemy single-handed was com-plete. Cavalry officers were saying in London drawing-rooms that to take infantry on the campaign was superfluous; the infantry would merely be a drag on them, and had better be left at home."
August 16, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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propublica.org
What exactly is gerrymandering, anyway? Here's the explainer you didn't know you needed about the escalating feud between Democrats and Republicans in Texas and California.

This is "The Redistricting Song," pulled deep from the ProPublica archive.
How Secret Money and Powerful Interests Are Drawing You Out of a Vote | “The Redistricting Song”
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August 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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mondoweiss.net
Since the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, US imperialism has driven nuclear proliferation worldwide. Current nuclear flashpoints, such as Iran, show how the US continues to use nuclear blackmail to reinforce its dominance. mondoweiss.net/2025/08/how-...
How U.S. imperialism blackmails the world with nuclear weapons, from Hiroshima to today
Since the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, US imperialism has driven nuclear proliferation worldwide. Current nuclear flashpoints, such as Iran, show how the US continues to…
mondoweiss.net
August 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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shanthropology.bsky.social
If y’all could stop planning your rallies in unhoused spaces while we’re under military occupation that would be super fucking cool
August 14, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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tangledwilderness.bsky.social
The entire fascist project is built around a core of intense, pathetic, dangerous fear.
August 14, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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mondoweiss.net
READ: The Western media is complicit in Israel’s murder of Al-Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif—silenced by a targeted strike.
mondoweiss.net/2025/08/the-western-media-is-complicit-in-israels-murder-of-palestinian-journalist-anas-al-sharif/
The Western media is complicit in Israel’s murder of Palestinian journalist Anas al-Sharif
Israel murdered Anas al-Sharif and his colleagues because genocide can only proceed without witnesses. Western media outlets have failed to condemn the systematic murder of Palestinian journalists,…
mondoweiss.net
August 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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jamesstout.bsky.social
Revolutionaries in Myanmar have directly and unequivocally expressed their solidarity with Palestine. All this poster represents is an attempt to tokenize their struggle and use it to justify the same thing they’re fighting against.

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jamesstout.bsky.social James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · May 22
“May your children live to see a day when they no longer need to be brave.”

A really beautiful video and message from the liberated Karenni mountains of Myanmar to the people of Palestine.
August 10, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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jamesstout.bsky.social
Quick little fact check here: Israel has armed the Burmese military for decades, including during the Rohingya Genocide. Protesting Israel’s genocidal regime directly and materially benefits the people of Myanmar.
August 10, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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seabookfair.bsky.social
The CIA wants you to put milk in your eyes! Resist! Read anarchist books without cheese eye!!!
August 8, 2025 at 5:44 AM