With J6ers getting jobs in the justice department, and presidential memorandum NSPM-7 targeting the “left-wing” and “anti-fascists” as terrorists, it's never been more important to support those tracking the far right.
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Darwin never said the strongest survive. “Survival of the fittest” wasn’t even his phrase — the philosopher Herbert Spencer coined it, & Darwin only borrowed it in a later edition. “Fittest” never meant fiercest, richest, or most dominant. It meant best fit... open.substack.com/pub/shadowso...
Fitness Is Not a Fist: The Misreading at the Root of Our Endless Wars
Shadows of Empire — Welcome to our new series on where late-stage capitalism is taking us and what it’s costing.
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🧵 What is REALLY happening at the Ceuta border in Spain? It is not just a migration crisis—it is a textbook example of hybrid warfare, where human movement is weaponized for geopolitical leverage to destabilise Europe. Here is a breakdown of the players 👇
Why is Ceuta a migration flashpoint and how were so many people able to cross from Morocco?
An estimated 50,000 people attempted the journey to the Spanish territory in chaotic and dangerous scenes that resulted in dozens of deaths
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This is what happens when you have complete regulatory capture of our entire govt by industry. Note: the infrastructure bill was overwhelmingly bipartisan. It took less than a year for the Trump regime to dismantle it and try to eviscerate the clean energy portion when even red states benefitted.
Beverly Loraine Greene helped shape the world, but few people know her name. She became the first Black woman licensed as an architect in the United States and later contributed to the design of UNESCO headquarters in Paris. #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance
PREVIEW: Raw footage Alex Holder shot for "Lindsey's Game", an unreleased documentary that exposes Lindsey Graham, Trump and Netanyahu's shameless warmongering the way the Epstein Files exposes Trump and his cronies' shameless pedophilia.
Lindsey Graham told documentary filmmaker Alex Holder that if the access he gave him, including to Graham's calls with world leaders who did not know they were being recorded, turned out badly, “I’ll just call you a bunch of Communists and raise lots of money”. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Government Says Terabytes of Signal Chats are Central to the Case Against Minnesota 15 unicornriot.ninja/2026/governm...
Government Says Terabytes of Signal Chats are Central to the Case Against Minnesota 15 - UNICORN RIOT
The Minnesota 15 case is about conversations, thousands of pages of it, harvested from encrypted group chats on Signal and loaded into an Everlaw database for prosecutors to build conspiracy charges a...
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Modern medicine has a criminal past — and still no justice for Black and Indigenous bodies. Read "A Systemic Failure" by Neelanjana Rai in The Magazine: crushingcolonialism.org/a-systemic-f... #HealthcareRacism #ReproductiveJustice #CrushingColonialism
Republicans spent years lecturing Democrats about “family values.” This poll says the lecture is over. Moral bankruptcy is not a dealbreaker for most Republican voters. And we can see it in the candidates they nominate and continue to support.
Republicans give Trump another hundred billion for his illegal war against Iran While they take billions away from Medicare-after having cut roughly $500 billion from the program already Trump recently said “I don’t think about American’s financial situations” We know #RepublicansCutHealthcare
Mike Johnson puts House Republicans on record for an extra $100 bn for Trump's Iran War, and Punchbowl News thinks this is a "big win" for him. They're analytically clueless.
🧵Macalester College Buddhist studies professor Erik Davis and Home Health Care nurse Natasha Rakotz have been arrested and charged with domestic terrorism charges for their roles in protests against ICE in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area. The charges are ludicrous.
𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚🚨 Prisciliano Trejo, aged 29 becomes the 50th person to die in #ICE custody. He was denied medical care until it was too late. His family was denied the ability to see him when he was finally sent to the hospital. This thread is one you must spend time on. We cannot ignore the atrocities!
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵Puerto Rico has been a US commonwealth since 1898. I would be remiss not to mention that the island had a history of slavery that lasted longer than slavery in America. Pull up a seat🪑.(cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory www.nypl.org/blog/2023/09...
NEW: How a Palestinian engineer “escaped one war” only to end up in Gaza writing poetry in English
Reporting from Gaza with Palestinian Poet Ahmed Sarsour - UNICORN RIOT
Surviving wars in Sudan and Gaza, Palestinian-Sudanese poet Ahmed Sarsour shares the inspiration behind his poetry.
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Reporting from Gaza with Palestinian Poet Ahmed Sarsour NEW piece by @awkword.bsky.social spotlighting the inspiration behind the poetry of @ahmedhsarsour.bsky.social, who left Sudan as war broke out in 2023 and came back to Gaza before Oct. 7, only to be trapped in a genocide.
Reporting from Gaza with Palestinian Poet Ahmed Sarsour - UNICORN RIOT
Surviving wars in Sudan and Gaza, Palestinian-Sudanese poet Ahmed Sarsour shares the inspiration behind his poetry.
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⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 In what was the last recorded lynching in Maryland, George Armwood was lynched on October 18, 1933 for allegedly attempting to assault and rape a White woman. Pull up a seat.🪑(cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory face2faceafrica.com/article/befo...
Before Emmett Till, 23-year-old George Armwood was dragged from jail, hanged and burnt in 1933 - Face2Face Africa
Before the brutal murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in 1955, the harrowing story of George Armwood in 1933 had sent shivers down the spines of the people of Maryland. Armwood was dragged from a cell, ...
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The Berlin Pride Attack: Grief, Courage, and Community A moment of tragedy that underscores why Pride, and solidarity remain essential. #Blues #WeStandWithBerlin #StrongerTogether theliberalwarriorreport.beehiiv.com/p/the-berlin...
The Berlin Pride Attack: Grief, Courage, and Community
A moment of tragedy that underscores why Pride, and solidarity remain essential.
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It was 1994. She was a pretty 13 year-old girl ; prettier than Ivanka Trump. She was raped in FOUR DIFFERENT OCCASIONS by DONALD TRUMP. After numerous death threats, out of fear, she dropped her lawsuit ; the only officially filed one. Imagine his other victims ... #RememberBeforeYouVote‼️
Sexual violence in Sudan is a weapon. Women of El Fasher were told the world was watching. Women of El Obeid are being told the same thing now. The Next Crime Scene: The Weapon Sudan's War Runs On The 5th installment in our series on Sudan's War & Its Enablers open.substack.com/pub/shadowso...
The Next Crime Scene: The Weapon Sudan's War Runs On
The fifth installment in our series on Sudan's War and Its Enablers — and the first of a strand tracing how modern wars weaponize sexual violence against civilians.
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The Sudan War & Its Enablers is an ongoing investigation into the foreign powers keeping Sudan's war supplied — the Gulf states & outside patrons arming the RSF & the national army alike, & American policy that names the RSF's conduct genocide while ... shadowsofempire.substack.com/p/the-sudan-...
BIRDS OF A FEATHER… Remember when Trump wouldn’t disavow David Duke? Longtime Trump fan, Brian Pannebecker, is also a longtime Duke fan. In 2001, Pannebecker described Duke’s memoir as an “honest, fair, and well-documented book on the important and sensitive issue of race.” 1/2
Post 1 of 3 AI is already in the courtroom. Prosecutors use it. Police use it. The real question is whether the defense keeps pace. Our new white paper makes the case: using AI well is now part of a defender's ethical duty. www.nacdl.org/ParityInPrac...
NACDL - Parity in Practice: The Defender's Duty to Ethically Use AI
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) presents both opportunities and risks for criminal defense lawyers. This white paper provides a framework for ethical and practical AI use across all types of c...
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It is reprehensibly scandalous that the US Senate called a hearing so MAGA could pillory Anthony Fauci with these imbecilic lies instead of addressing the war in Iran; the rising cost of gas, groceries and utilities; the lack of affordable healthcare; or Trump’s widespread corruption 97 days, folks
Ron Johnson claims the the "injection injured" are committing mass suicide
If you’re out protesting ICE, you’re risking arrest — or worse. The best thing you can do is be prepared. speakingoutofplace.com/2026/07/25/c...
I can’t help think of the fact that Katie Porter just went from frontrunner to nonstarter in the CA gov race for exactly this kind of behavior. The double standard for white men in leadership is appalling, and so are his actions. Ken Martin should resign. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/u...
Inside the Phone-Throwing Drama at the Troubled, Broke Democratic Party (Gift Article)
The Democrats should be well positioned to make gains in this year’s midterms. But inside party headquarters, every week brings paranoia, worries about money and, on occasion, emotional eruptions.
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The 250th isn't over yet! Four more chances to challenge 'Merica's myths ✊ LABOR DAY (Sept 7) | INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' DAY (Oct 12) | VETERANS DAY (Nov 11) | THANKSTAKING DAY (Nov 26) Honor the resistance. Support Indigenous creators. 🛍️ Shop: crushingcolonialism.org/shop #America250 #LandBack
NEW: Making music and caring for community has always been a symbiotic relationship for Rafael Gonzales, a.k.a. Tufawon, a Minneapolis-based rapper, singer and producer. He says that he’s had a knack for turning lived experiences into sound, and his latest song, “No One Is Illegal,” is no different.
How many people will die because ICE will make more “mistakes” in places like Springfield as the Trump administration works to purge the country of all Black and Brown immigrants
HOMAN: I wouldn't say that mistakes were made. We'll see. BASH: Well, we've seen with our own eyes that mistakes were made. Deadly mistakes were made. At least 5 of them.
what happened in berlin is horrifying and is a testament to the growing far-right movement, which has a network that spreads international. at the same time, politicians and journalists are, without clear evidence beyond notably unreliable police testimony, blaming the attack on a Muslim guy. (1/4)
Donald Trump’s new executive order, Restoring trust in the Smithsonian Institution, will put disclaimers outside the Museum of American History saying some of the museum's exhibits do not reflect HIS perspective on the nation's past. In other words, he is a racist POS. thehill.com/homenews/adm...
Trump orders disclaimers outside Smithsonian’s Museum of American History
President Trump on Friday issued an executive order directing disclaimers be installed outside the Smithsonian’s Museum of American history to warn passerby that some of the museum’s ex…
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Urgent 🚨 Right now there are thousands & thousands of our friends & neighbors being treated worse than animals by Trump & #ICELawlessness. We could be next,so do something. Speak out, call Congress & volunteer/donate to Democratic candidates because WE MUST rein in this administration's power!🧵