Jeremy Earp
@jgearp.bsky.social
“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
― Noam Chomsky
― Noam Chomsky
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The phrase "in this country" is doing a lot of work here. The groundwork for this was laid by US acceptance of rendition, blacksites, Gitmo, drone killings, deadly sanctions, arming a genocide and more. Naive to think that fascistic foreign policy wouldn't find its way home. Free Rumeysa Ozturk.
"A terrified young student, snatched off the street by a masked police force taken thousands of miles across the country without anyone knowing. It is as flatly authoritarian as anything we have ever seen in this country," says Chris Hayes on Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk's detention.
‘Flatly authoritarian’: New video shows masked agents arresting Tufts student
YouTube video by MSNBC
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March 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
The phrase "in this country" is doing a lot of work here. The groundwork for this was laid by US acceptance of rendition, blacksites, Gitmo, drone killings, deadly sanctions, arming a genocide and more. Naive to think that fascistic foreign policy wouldn't find its way home. Free Rumeysa Ozturk.
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So we can’t sue gunmakers for their role in hundreds of gun deaths, but fossil fuel companies can sue environmental organizations?
Conclusion: Corporations have rights but people do not.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
Conclusion: Corporations have rights but people do not.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
Greenpeace to appeal verdict ordering them to pay at least $660m to energy firm for pipeline protests – live
Organisation condemns verdict that could bankrupt its US operation and risks ‘destroying right to peaceful protest’
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 10:07 PM
So we can’t sue gunmakers for their role in hundreds of gun deaths, but fossil fuel companies can sue environmental organizations?
Conclusion: Corporations have rights but people do not.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
Conclusion: Corporations have rights but people do not.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
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I know the restoration of Jackie Robinson's page to the DOD website doesn't sound like much, but it's a reminder that these bullies back off when challenged. They first said celebrating Robinson "cultural marxism". That was weird nonsense and they buckled like a belt
www.huffpost.com/entry/jackie...
www.huffpost.com/entry/jackie...
Defense Department Removes And Swiftly Restores Web Page About Jackie Robinson
Robinson’s page was published in February 2021 as part of a series on the website titled “Sports Heroes Who Served.”
www.huffpost.com
March 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I know the restoration of Jackie Robinson's page to the DOD website doesn't sound like much, but it's a reminder that these bullies back off when challenged. They first said celebrating Robinson "cultural marxism". That was weird nonsense and they buckled like a belt
www.huffpost.com/entry/jackie...
www.huffpost.com/entry/jackie...
On the 22nd anniversary of the Iraq War, let's pause to remember everything US corporate media is hoping we'll forget -- beginning with their own active complicity.
@normansolomon.bsky.social @rootsaction.org @ahjohnson.bsky.social @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social @kthalps.bsky.social
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@normansolomon.bsky.social @rootsaction.org @ahjohnson.bsky.social @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social @kthalps.bsky.social
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After 22 Years, Will US News Media Finally Admit its Craven Complicity in Iraq War? | WAR MADE EASY
YouTube video by Media Education Foundation
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March 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
On the 22nd anniversary of the Iraq War, let's pause to remember everything US corporate media is hoping we'll forget -- beginning with their own active complicity.
@normansolomon.bsky.social @rootsaction.org @ahjohnson.bsky.social @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social @kthalps.bsky.social
bit.ly/41GHkKH
@normansolomon.bsky.social @rootsaction.org @ahjohnson.bsky.social @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social @kthalps.bsky.social
bit.ly/41GHkKH
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This is why I donate to Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social. If you can’t protest, support the ones who do. The cause for democracy and against genocide, occupation, fascism, and imperialism is the same cause.
BREAKING: Hundreds of Jews and allies have taken over Trump Tower chanting “We want justice, you say how. Bring Mahmoud home now!” and “Fight Nazis, not students.”
The civil disobedience is spawned by the ICE arrest of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil.
The civil disobedience is spawned by the ICE arrest of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil.
March 13, 2025 at 8:39 PM
This is why I donate to Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social. If you can’t protest, support the ones who do. The cause for democracy and against genocide, occupation, fascism, and imperialism is the same cause.
Where all the self-styled anti-authoritarian Democratic Party leaders on this one?
March 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Where all the self-styled anti-authoritarian Democratic Party leaders on this one?
"If you know anything about the history of political intimidation and politically repressive fear, you know that the cruelty is not the point. Silence, obedience, and submission—subjugation for political ends—that’s the point." @nplusonemag.com
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www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Muskism and McCarthyism | Corey Robin, Charles Petersen, and Alan Dean
The left understands the idea of collective provision. We understand the idea of solidarity. You don’t just go out on strike. You have a strike fund; you have alternative means of provision. But I don...
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March 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
"If you know anything about the history of political intimidation and politically repressive fear, you know that the cruelty is not the point. Silence, obedience, and submission—subjugation for political ends—that’s the point." @nplusonemag.com
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
#WallaceStevens on strategic ambiguity.
March 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
#WallaceStevens on strategic ambiguity.
“The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower
― Dwight D. Eisenhower
First it was anti-genocide protestors being arrested, punished, expelled. Then it was undocumented migrants and asylum seekers being sent to detention camps. Now it’s transgender people.
The authoritarians are coming after everyone except the wealthy and their lackeys.
The authoritarians are coming after everyone except the wealthy and their lackeys.
February 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
“The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower
― Dwight D. Eisenhower
Great Guardian profile on longtime friend and collaborator @jacksonkatz.bsky.social, a true warrior in a world full of fake ones.
If you're an educator interested in using our film "The Bystander Moment" featuring Katz in your classes, go here: bit.ly/4ikvGvz
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If you're an educator interested in using our film "The Bystander Moment" featuring Katz in your classes, go here: bit.ly/4ikvGvz
bit.ly/4hYcTXc
‘This moment is medieval’: Jackson Katz on misogyny, the manosphere – and why men must oppose Trumpism
The result of the US election unleashed a ferocious feminist backlash, he says, and makes his 40-year struggle to end violence against women more urgent than ever
www.theguardian.com
February 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Great Guardian profile on longtime friend and collaborator @jacksonkatz.bsky.social, a true warrior in a world full of fake ones.
If you're an educator interested in using our film "The Bystander Moment" featuring Katz in your classes, go here: bit.ly/4ikvGvz
bit.ly/4hYcTXc
If you're an educator interested in using our film "The Bystander Moment" featuring Katz in your classes, go here: bit.ly/4ikvGvz
bit.ly/4hYcTXc
The Trump/Musk/Project 2025 corporate rampage is so extreme that David Portnoy now sounds like Chomsky.
February 28, 2025 at 12:03 AM
The Trump/Musk/Project 2025 corporate rampage is so extreme that David Portnoy now sounds like Chomsky.
The word "psychopaths" comes to mind.
February 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The word "psychopaths" comes to mind.
"Pretending that militarism is not a boon to authoritarian politics only strengthens it. The time has certainly come to stop pretending."
From @normansolomon.bsky.social at @tomdispatch.bsky.social
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From @normansolomon.bsky.social at @tomdispatch.bsky.social
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How the Warfare State Paved the Way for a Trumpist Autocracy
Donald Trump’s power has thrived on the economics, politics, and culture of war. The runaway militarism of the last quarter-century was a crucial factor in making President Trump possible, even if it ...
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February 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
"Pretending that militarism is not a boon to authoritarian politics only strengthens it. The time has certainly come to stop pretending."
From @normansolomon.bsky.social at @tomdispatch.bsky.social
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From @normansolomon.bsky.social at @tomdispatch.bsky.social
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"The struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." -- Milan Kundera
This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
clarksvillenow.com
February 16, 2025 at 9:56 PM
"The struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." -- Milan Kundera
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1000%. This is why Jewish America's most powerful institutions won't fight for American liberal democracy in its moment of peril. Because that would alienate the American authoritarians they cultivate to sustain support for authoritarianism in Israel-Palestine.
It's high time people understood that their political values can't be applied selectively. They either apply both here and abroad, or they're meaningless. You're either for democracy and equality everywhere, or you're not.
The price of inconsistency is what we're seeing all around us today.
The price of inconsistency is what we're seeing all around us today.
February 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
1000%. This is why Jewish America's most powerful institutions won't fight for American liberal democracy in its moment of peril. Because that would alienate the American authoritarians they cultivate to sustain support for authoritarianism in Israel-Palestine.
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Our film is going to the Oscars. But here in Masafer Yatta, we’re still being erased - https://www.972mag.com/no-other-land-oscars-masafer-yatta-erasure/
Our film is going to the Oscars. But in Masafer Yatta, we’re still being erased
As the world watches ‘No Other Land,’ Israeli settlers are raiding our villages while soldiers arrest us, abuse us, and demolish our homes.
www.972mag.com
February 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Our film is going to the Oscars. But here in Masafer Yatta, we’re still being erased - https://www.972mag.com/no-other-land-oscars-masafer-yatta-erasure/
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Slicker, savvier Dems are hoping a big part of the base will instantly forget the last administration's militant support for genocide and ethnic cleansing, backed by its entire foreign policy team, very much including Samantha Power. But moral rot smells bad. It does not inspire
“Killing USAID Is a Win for Autocrats Everywhere”
Samantha Power, who served as USAID Administrator for all four years under President Biden, writes about the danger of losing USAID.
Samantha Power, who served as USAID Administrator for all four years under President Biden, writes about the danger of losing USAID.
Opinion | Samantha Power: Killing U.S.A.I.D. Is a Win for Autocrats Everywhere (Gift Article)
The attacks on the agency are cruel and counterproductive.
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February 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Slicker, savvier Dems are hoping a big part of the base will instantly forget the last administration's militant support for genocide and ethnic cleansing, backed by its entire foreign policy team, very much including Samantha Power. But moral rot smells bad. It does not inspire
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Failing to defend students protesting against genocide won’t save you, universities and presidents. It’s best to fight back and stand on ALL your principles because Trump and MAGA really hate you and are just using antisemitism as an excuse.
February 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Failing to defend students protesting against genocide won’t save you, universities and presidents. It’s best to fight back and stand on ALL your principles because Trump and MAGA really hate you and are just using antisemitism as an excuse.