NEW: A voting tech company accused Trump’s DOJ of launching a politically motivated prosecution to promote his 2020 election lies — and help his election-denying allies facing defamation lawsuits.
NEW: An Arizona lawmaker said the FBI is looking into past elections in the state’s largest county, which Trump has falsely asserted he lost in 2020 due to rampant voter fraud.
The probe marks the administration's latest effort to relitigate past votes and potentially undermine future ones.
NYT article “How ICE Plans to Put 8,500 Immigrants in This Warehouse,” with the comment “Experts say the initial designs raise health, safety and security concerns.” The image is a vertical floorplan with pods tightly packed that resembles diagrams of slave ships in abolitionist literature from the 18th century
The person who made this image is well versed in the iconography of the transatlantic slave trade.
Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit?
They look so cool!
beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
oh look now he's actively choosing to veto bills, not just passively signing what the legislature sends him but actively CHOOSING to OPPOSE otherwise-passed trans friendly legislation
nobody better ever tell me again newsom has anything but disdain for trans people
hugely scary possibility of nazis commandeering union representation
www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/u...
Highly readable review of what promises to be one of the most "urgent" books of the year.
Wounded Knee. Tulsa. My Lai. Abu Ghraib
And now, Minab
We need to talk about the horror when 180 little schoolgirls, boys and teachers were obliterated by U.S. Tomahawk missiles last week. And tell Congress: Not one more dime for these war crimes
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...
That sounds incredible. Maybe I’ll make one.
So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right
A kakistocratic kleptocracy.
And lying to everyone just like he lied then to Forbes to get on the Fortune 500 list.
The freedom of religion people are claiming it’s totally fine to murder kids if you disagree with (and completely misunderstand) their religion.
This is AI in a nutshell: Somebody gets rich while the masses are rendered stupid
📽️NEW: The 2026 midterms are the greatest threat to Trump's power.
Marc Elias exposes Trump's plot to protect his majority: false claims of foreign election interference, a DOJ voter data push and an executive order that would let Trump dictate voting rules to every state👇
https://bit.ly/4sgtXwm
It’s a bit tiresome, but I think a good general practice when you feel your own institutional/professional life eroding under the forces of late capital is to focus on mentally connecting that feeling of struggle to the many others experiencing versions of the same.
sixteeenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. Part three will cover slave narratives, part four Barbary captivity narratives, and part five a few miscellaneous sub genres like pirate and war captivity. Here’s a link to the library’s Instagram post about the series: www.instagram.com/p/DVbtwMhFBc...
I have been working on a five-part series of blog posts for the Lilly Library at Indiana University Bloomington on their holdings related to captivity narratives. This first part, just published on their blog, is the first of two on Indian captivity narratives—published or in manuscript—from the
Three books stacked on top of one another with a sepia toned image of a man giving a shot to a young child sitting on his mother’s lap with a family standing around the mother and child
Book post is the best kind of post.
Just as chlorine gas was made a war crime after WWI, so too should autonomous bombing.
Hegseth can't appear before a Nuremberg trial fast enough.
bsky.app/profile/hars...
The Department of Education has hung a massive banner honoring a racist college dropout who built a lucrative career out of targeting professors for harassment
Murdering civilians overseas is not a distraction, it's not about money or airtime or domestic policy or the crimes of individuals. It's war crimes. It matters enough of its own to say stop without refocusing on anything else.
MORE OF THIS, LESS OF ANYTHING LESS THAN THIS
IF ALL YOU WANT IS A DIRECTION FOR WHERE THE BOMBING OF IRAN IS GOING TO GO, THAT'S SUPPORT, AND IF YOU'RE SUPPORTING TRUMP'S PSEUDO WARS, FUCK OFF INTO THE VOID FOREVER.
“war of choice” is a too kind way, in this case, of saying “war of aggression” — and aggression is itself a war crime that generally results in many others.
We have a word for this in media history. It's called propaganda.
Someone was abducted in St Anthony this morning at 6 AM near 29th Ave & Silver Lake Road. And then at 8 AM we saw at least 5 agents out of their vehicles at 26th & Jackson near Walgreens before they dispersed into the neighborhood.
This isn’t over. We still need people keeping watch & staying safe.
