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HAVE I GOT EXACTLY THE ARTICLE YOU NEVER ASKED FOR, on CAMP Anthropology. 🐦🐦
For every photo and video you see of the Minneapolis general strike, there are organizers behind it. Some from labor, some from the faith community, some from their street who just wanted to help.
The working class has power.
Alt text: Screenshot of a Bluesky post thread in dark mode. At the top, a post by Jamie Leventhal (@jamie-leventhal.bsky.social) reads: “Hi – I’m a video journalist with @nytimes.com. We’d like to get permission to use this video, would you be able to tell us who the original source is? Thanks!” Below it is a reply by Daniel Suitor (@danielsuitor.com) that says: “no, absolutely not, you all should’ve been nicer to my trans homies.” Engagement icons and counts appear beneath the posts, along with a timestamp reading “1:15 PM · Jan 7, 2026.”
This is how you can be an ally. They need to feel the cost of what they've done.
I didn't even know who she was at all. Looked up her wiki and read the politics sections and was like yikes. Most people didn't know either.
Doesn’t surprise me none given enough time and lack of discourse around it people tend to forget kinda like how Coco Chanel the founder of the fashion empire Chanel was a Nazi Spy who tried to get Churchill to sign a peace deal with Hitler
The thing about censorship — I say this as someone with experience living under authoritarianism — is that it’s rarely overt. The state cracks down when people flirt with the line & then folks maintain it. This 60 minutes cancellation of the episode on CECOT sent chills down my spine.
Bari Weiss doing what she was put there to do, ensure that CBS News is a friendly outlet to the regime and the oligarchs.
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
Side-by-side black and white headshot photographs of two men, likely from the mid-20th century. One is Stephen Miller. The Other is Goebbels
The Vanity Fair photographer knew what he was doing. (I doubt I’m the first to notice this but it hasn’t graced my TL)
it's small business saturday.
i am a small business.
think about supporting the work if you have the means, 2026 is going to get real.
www.patreon.com/MichaelBurns...
Teen Vogue eliminated all their Black and trans staff today.
It's resegregation in real time.
Our next episode with @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social this Friday!
Zohran Mamdani, Democrat for New York City Mayor
Israel’s final solution in Gaza is being carried out with the full support and active participation of the West.
Reading this news while en route to the PornHub awards tonight in LA. Will be interesting to chat with people there about this development
kinda funny that while everyone seems to be mashing up "woke marxist pope" with "pink pony club", I'm here all by my lonesome inexplicably singing: "His name is Leo and he dances on the sand..." 🎶
Oh hell no. Seems like Harvard is putting a trial balloon out there of cutting a deal.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...
So basically there's a cabal of billionaire broligarchs, far right propagandists, and reactionary centrist journalists all on group chats radicalizing together and exerting coordinated narratives and influence on media and politics
www.semafor.com/article/04/2...
From The Onion: Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society
theonion.com/historians-q...
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND KILMAR ARMANDO ABREGO GARCIA, et al., Plaintiffs, v. KRISTI NOEM, Secretary, United States Department of Homeland Security, et al., Defendants. * * * * * * Civil Action No. 8:25-cv-00951-PX * *** ORDER The Supreme Court's April 10, 2025 decision in Noem v. Abrego Garcia, 604 U.S.-No. 24A949, affirmed this Court's Order at ECF No. 21 (the "Order"), and directed that on remand, this Court clarify its use of the term "effectuate," according proper deference to the Executive Branch in its conduct of foreign affairs. See Slip Op. at 2. To this end, the Court hereby amends the Order to DIRECT that Defendants take all available steps to facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia to the United States as soon as possible.
BREAKING: Judge Paula Xinis issues an order following tonight's Supreme Court ruling, ordering the government to "take all available steps to facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia to the United States as soon as possible." [1/2]
Background at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-s...
Willie Johnson is inside SF County jail without bail and District Attorney Brooke Jenkins can’t wait to put him away and throw away the key to serve our lord the Walgreens Corporation. #sfnews #prisonindustrialcomplex
BREAKING — The family abducted by ICE is returning home, per email from Sackets Harbor Superintendent:
"No person shall be... deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." 5th amendment to the constitution.
It can happen here
ICE has already moved Rumeysa Ozturk to Louisiana in violation of a court order signed last night ordering her not to be removed from Massachusetts.
This is rendition to avoid legal process and to torture detainees in Louisiana.
apnews.com/article/tuft...
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
