no thrones on arakko

Pete Hegseth's Defense Department Blew $22M On Steak and Lobster in a Single Month

But I swear to your gods if you ask me about some damn free healthcare again, I will scream to the bloody heavens because we simply can't afford that!

Facebook post by Nekima Levy Armstrong: "Friends, A Breaking News headline just appeared in the Star Tribune, claiming that the national Target boycott ended today. This is false. The writer of the story, Carson Hartzog, is fully aware that the Target boycott was launched in Minneapolis on February 1, 2025. I have spoken to her several times since then, yet she failed to reach out to me, Jaylani Hussein, or Monique Cullars Doty, the three founders of the national Target boycott for the story. Carson even used the photo from our press conference that includes my daughter, Assata Joy and Ms. Rosemary Nevils, an elder in our community, to try to add legitimacy to a bogus story. I am once again disgusted by the Star Tribune and their attempts to minimize and erase the voices of our community. The nationwide Target Boycott is not over, unless and until Target reverses its decision to rollback Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, as we said from the beginning. “Pastor” Jamal Bryant does not speak for us or our community and has zero authority to end the nationwide boycott of Target, a company that is headquartered in Minneapolis. Please don’t believe the hype and these attempts to rescue Target from the effects of capitulating to the Trump Administration. Target rolled back DEI because of Donald Trump. They donated $1 million to the Trump/Vance inauguration committee. Target also allowed ICE to stage in its parking lots during Operation Metro Surge. The nationwide boycott of Target is successful and it will continue. Please continue to shop elsewhere."

Nekima on the Target boycott.

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"We have too often a deliberate attempt so to change the facts of history that the story will make pleasant reading for Americans." WEB DuBois (1934)
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It would be only fair to the reader to say frankly in advance that the attitude of any person toward this story will be distinctly influenced by his theories of the Negro race. If he believes that the Negro in America and in general is an average and ordinary human being, who under given environment develops like other human beings, then he will read this story and judge it by the facts adduced. If, however, he regards the Negro as a distinctly inferior creation, who can never successfully take part in modern civilization and whose emancipation and enfranchisement were gestures against nature, then he will need something more than the sort of facts that I have set down. But this latter person, I am not trying to convince. I am simply pointing out these two points of view, so obvious to Americans, and then without further ado, I am assuming the truth of the first. In fine, I am going to tell this story as though Negroes were ordinary human beings, realizing that this attitude will from the first seriously curtail my audience. W. E. BURGHARDT DU BOIS Atlanta, December, 1934

I'd forgotten how hard the preface to DuBois's "Black Reconstruction" (1934) went...and am saddened by how contemporary it still feels.

They have turned this beautiful city into a wasteland. Those who do don’t die from bombs will succumb to unspeakable illness. Most of my close family is in Tehran

This movie = iconic.

Yes, I suppose it is very very funny to think about Trump's ignorance as long as you don't think about the slaughter of little girls at school at the invisible end of this sentence.

Might not be as funny if it were my kid, though.

We are so desensitized to mass murder. We're just like, "1,000 people have been killed by U.S. and Israeli bombs in less than one week" *scroll scroll scroll*

We want free healthcare, safe bridges, public libraries, and long-lasting social security. But the conservatives cry "who's gonna pay for it" while they ignore their own fraud, waste, and abuse.

$143M in our tax dollars to a company that didn't exist until 8 days before it went under contract to receive that money.

Spanish PM Sánchez on Trump's threat to end trade:

"We are not going to be accomplices to something that is bad for the world and contrary to our values and interests simply because of fear of reprisals... We have absolute confidence in the economic, institutional & moral strength of our country."

Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump:

"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

The Massachusetts Department of Correction has been fighting me for months, trying to withhold data about its collaboration with ICE.

Yesterday, I won that fight, and obtained records showing that the state has transferred more than 2,000 people into ICE custody since 2009.

A quick thread:

John Hagee has been preaching that apocalypse is imminent for decades, but that hasn't stopped him from storing up wealth and assets in a world he thinks is going to the tomorrow. These dispensationalists are a danger to us all ans they poison their flocks/parishioners.

And I'm NOT rooting for everybody black. Best of luck to Nida Allam to unseat this Zionist.

See, when you serve a god that does mass murder, mass murder can always be reframed as righteous.

During a sermon yesterday, megachurch pastor Jack Hibbs said, "Let me tell you something right now, you want to have Democrats removed from the face of the earth, bring over some Iranians right now and they would take care of the Democrats."

Airstrikes damaged a Tehran hospital and nearby homes, shattering windows and sending debris into apartments.

3 dead, 14 injured in downtown Austin mass shooting Three people have died, and 14 were injured in a shooting on West Sixth Street overnight Saturday into Sunday, according to Austin-Travis County EMS.

3 killed, 14 injured in Sixth Street mass shooting, FBI says there are ‘indicators’ of ̷t̷e̷r̷r̷o̷r̷i̷s̷m̷ retaliation for the senseless murder of Iranian schoolchildren by the United States and Israel www.kxan.com/news/crime/p...

Pete Hegseth, this is what "no rules of engagement" looks like.

“Most lethal and precise air power campaign... all on our terms with maximum authorities. No stupid rules of engagement, no nation building quagmire, no democracy building exercise, no politically correct wars. We fight to win, and we don’t waste time or lives."

Need more Scandal season 2 episode 7.

Israel is doing something very American: a mass school shooting.

Remember when Israel remotely detonated a bunch of cell phones? That wasn't a war crime because Israel did it.

Once upon a time, a really ugly man took the Oval Office and wanted people to forget all the evidence pointing to him as a pedophile, adulteress, and assailant in multiple sexual assaults, so he bombed Iran.

Because it's week 7.

Watching Pleasantville (1998) for the first time (thank you public library for free streaming of movies through Kanopy--get you public library card!). And it's a great metaphor for MAGA. The colored balcony at the courthouse sent me.

Supreme Court fails to deliver for Texas woman who claims Postal Service withheld mail because she is Black | CNN Politics The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled against a Texas woman who is attempting to sue the Postal Service, claiming it withheld her mail because she is Black.

Supreme Court fails to deliver for Texas woman who claims Postal Service withheld mail because she is Black share.google/PDOcZWZGHb2u...

Once again, the Court affirms that racism is so pervasive in the United States that to grant relief to one person would open a can of worms they'd rather ignore.

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