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"In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, the United States entered a watershed moment in migration policy. But the impulse to police immigration through a lens of enforcement and criminality long predated 9/11." inkstickmedia.com/how-us-wars-...
How US Wars Abroad Lay the Path for Militarizing Immigration
From Iraq and Afghanistan to Iran, when the US wages wars abroad, it is also laying the path for militarizing immigration enforcement at home.
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“Home is never the same when a friend is killed. All we are left with are memories of that person. But when we return to our land, we can’t make new memories with the ones that passed.” inkstickmedia.com/fear-loss-an...
Fear, Loss, and Hope Amid Israel's War on South Lebanon
Despite the fear of a sustained occupation, residents of southern Lebanon remain steadfast in their hope for an end to the onslaught.
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@augustacaesar.bsky.social's 'Saving Apartheid,' a timely new history, meticulously reconstructs the far-right network of support for the South African regime in the late 20th century. Review by @joey-stabile.bsky.social
What's Really Behind the Far Right's Obsession with South Africa?
Trump's obsession with attacking South Africa stems from long-held far-right conspiracy theories about the country.
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Militarized immigration enforcement is just one way American wars find their way back home. inkstickmedia.com/how-us-wars-...
How US Wars Abroad Lay the Path for Militarizing Immigration
From Iraq and Afghanistan to Iran, when the US wages wars abroad, it is also laying the path for militarizing immigration enforcement at home.
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Really enjoyed the opportunity to review @augustacaesar.bsky.social's great new book 'Saving Apartheid: White Internationalism at the End of the Cold War' Many thanks to @patrickobrienstrickland.com + @inkstickmedia.com for the opportunity to write about it!
Inkstick Media@inkstickmedia.com · yesterdayConsidering the US far right's obsession with South Africa, we might see today’s policies as the revival of a decades-old effort by activists, lawmakers, and ordinary Americans to advance a vision of transatlantic white supremacy.
"Nadia Arnaout and her sister, Marvet, woke up to the sound of frantic banging on the door. Their neighbors were yelling for everyone in the building to get outside within 10 minutes. Israel, they said, had sent them a text message warning that it was going to bomb the building behind theirs."
Fear, Loss, and Hope Amid Israel's War on South Lebanon
Despite the fear of a sustained occupation, residents of southern Lebanon remain steadfast in their hope for an end to the onslaught.
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Considering the US far right's obsession with South Africa, we might see today’s policies as the revival of a decades-old effort by activists, lawmakers, and ordinary Americans to advance a vision of transatlantic white supremacy.
What's Really Behind the Far Right's Obsession with South Africa?
Trump's obsession with attacking South Africa stems from long-held far-right conspiracy theories about the country.
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"During ICE's 'roving patrols,' agents swept through neighborhoods hunting for 'possibles' based on appearance alone, with no claimed enforcement target at all."
Deep Dive: ICE Accused of Broad Racial Profiling in California
In a lawsuit in Southern California, ICE stands accused of broad racial profiling as part of its immigration enforcement crackdown.
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"In south Lebanon, the notion of home is inseparable from the land and the communities it sustains. Years of Israeli aggression have forged a collective resolve among residents to remain rooted there." inkstickmedia.com/fear-loss-an...
Fear, Loss, and Hope Amid Israel's War on South Lebanon
Despite the fear of a sustained occupation, residents of southern Lebanon remain steadfast in their hope for an end to the onslaught.
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"And in operations where defendants were simply labeled 'targeted,' officers used a supposed target as pretext to question and detain other Latino bystanders nearby, including at a Pasadena bus stop where agents ambushed named plaintiffs who had no connection to any investigation."
Deep Dive: ICE Accused of Broad Racial Profiling in California
In a lawsuit in Southern California, ICE stands accused of broad racial profiling as part of its immigration enforcement crackdown.
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"Angry hecklers lined the streets and taunted the [Klansmen]. Some held anti-Klan signs, while others walked along the procession and shouted at the Klansmen. Tensions spiked, and fearing violence, the police forced the Klansmen to hide in a nearby basement until the crowds cleared out."
Burying the Klan: A Texas White Supremacist's Last Stand
Dallas Klan leader Addie Barlow Frazier had a reputation for stirring up controversy — a knack she briefly carried over into the afterlife.
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"Five decades later, he would acknowledge that the Sunrise Colony had shown him that 'no other human organization on earth … respects the rights of an individual more than an anarchist commune.'"
The ‘American Orwell’ Who Fought in the Spanish Civil War
After turning to fiction later in his life, William Herrick's chronicles of leftist betrayal earned him the nickname the 'American Orwell.'
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"Hernández’s return, both astonishing and chilling, underscores Trump’s ability to use his pardon power to undermine the rule of law both at home and abroad — intervening in a sovereign nation to push it further to the right."
Trump's Pardon Power Undermines the Law at Home and Abroad
US President Donald Trump's pardon power is being used to undermine the rule of law at home in the United States and abroad.
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“We had a lot of hope that the justice system will be just, because there’s honestly nothing illegal going on here. And our hearts and our hopes were shattered in the courthouse.”
A Prairieland Defendant's Sister Speaks Out After 'Antifa Trial'
The sister of a Prairieland Antifa trial defendant speakers out against the Trump administration's crackdown on left-wing activism.
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"The passage of the so-called 'Big Beautiful Bill' locked in $45 billion more for immigration detention — the largest single appropriation for ICE in history."
Are Your Investments Fueling For-Profit Immigrant Detention?
Activists around the US are turning toward divestment as ICE increasingly relies on for-profit companies to handle immigrant detention.
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Trump's pardoning of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández is another blow in the long arc of destructive US intervention in the country. inkstickmedia.com/trumps-pardo...
Trump's Pardon Power Undermines the Law at Home and Abroad
US President Donald Trump's pardon power is being used to undermine the rule of law at home in the United States and abroad.
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As genocide and displacement devastate Sudan, Trump-era immigration restrictions are reshaping the lives of Sudanese refugees already in the United States — and blocking others from finding safety.
For Sudanese Fleeing War, America Is No Longer a Refuge
As genocide and displacement devastate Sudan, Trump-era immigration restrictions are reshaping the lives of Sudanese refugees already in the United States — and blocking others from finding safety.
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Does the Security Assistance the US Provides Really Work? Via @inkstickmedia.com by Renanah Joyce, Elias Yousif, Scoville Fellow '97 Rachel Stohl, Gil Barndollar, and Ransom Miller. inkstickmedia.com/does-the-sec...
Does the Security Assistance the US Provides Really Work?
The US has long relied on security assistance to influence both foreign and domestic policies of allies. Does it really pay off?
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Newly released emails show the strength of Anduril’s legislative influence in Ohio. inkstickmedia.com/in-ohio-who-...
In Ohio, Who Really Gets a Say in Anduril Weapons Factories?
Residents of a small township in Ohio wanted a vote on a new Anduril weapons factory. Then the state changed the rules.
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"Under so-called 'targeted area' operations, ICE teams scouted locations like Home Depots and car washes, ran identity checks until they found [some] possibly undocumented people, then raided the location on a chosen day regardless of whether the people they had identified were even present."
Deep Dive: ICE Accused of Broad Racial Profiling in California
In a lawsuit in Southern California, ICE stands accused of broad racial profiling as part of its immigration enforcement crackdown.
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“A lot of that has been made of the design propaganda, the homemade propaganda, some of it like old school pamphlets. The government made the case that it’s Antifa material. So [Estrada] gets 30 years for having printed material." By: @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social
A Prairieland Defendant's Sister Speaks Out After 'Antifa Trial'
The sister of a Prairieland Antifa trial defendant speakers out against the Trump administration's crackdown on left-wing activism.
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The ACLU has sounded the alarm on ICE's "sustained campaign of stops built not on individualized suspicion but on a demographic profile: people who appeared Latino and low income or working class." inkstickmedia.com/deep-dive-ic...
Deep Dive: ICE Accused of Broad Racial Profiling in California
In a lawsuit in Southern California, ICE stands accused of broad racial profiling as part of its immigration enforcement crackdown.
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"Earlier this year, for example, Avelo Airlines announced it would cancel an estimated $150 million contract to operate deportation flights for DHS after a grassroots campaign mounted a boycott and mobilized other forms of political pressure against the company."
Are Your Investments Fueling For-Profit Immigrant Detention?
Activists around the US are turning toward divestment as ICE increasingly relies on for-profit companies to handle immigrant detention.
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"The government claimed the arrestees and some of their friends and loved ones were part of an 'Antifa cell' that planned to wreak havoc at the facility — despite the fact that no official 'Antifa' organization exists, and many of the people there that night did not know each other."
A Prairieland Defendant's Sister Speaks Out After 'Antifa Trial'
The sister of a Prairieland Antifa trial defendant speakers out against the Trump administration's crackdown on left-wing activism.
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more great work by @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social
Inkstick Media@inkstickmedia.com · 6d ago"At the end of the controversial 'Antifa trial,' Daniel Sanchez Estrada was sentenced to three decades in prison for moving a box of zines and antifascist literature. His sister wants people to know the real Daniel." By: @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social inkstickmedia.com/a-prairielan...
For this new @inkstickmedia.com story about the Prairieland case, I tried to capture even just a small part of the incarceration experience for the defendants.
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Independent journalism is a public good. The Inkstick Commons is our way of keeping it that way.
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"Rodriguez’s approval rating fell to 25% a month later — lower than even that of Maduro’s during the last year of his rule. The meaningful difference between Maduro and Rodriguez is not corruption or competence — it is the willingness to do Trump’s economic bidding."
The US Claims It's Helping Venezuela While Thwarting Democracy
US President Donald Trump's administration says it's helping Venezuela after deadly earthquakes, but it's also undermining democracy.
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"The families she follows suffer no illusions about their persecution but resist the logic of it again and again, and it is the careful consideration of their stories that makes the book a damning expose of a country gone wild with delusion." inkstickmedia.com/in-the-unite...
In the United States, Islamophobia Has an Alarmingly Long History
In the new book 'Seasons of Fury,' journalist Rozina Ali traces the long, expansive history of Islamophobia in the United States.
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"At the end of the controversial 'Antifa trial,' Daniel Sanchez Estrada was sentenced to three decades in prison for moving a box of zines and antifascist literature. His sister wants people to know the real Daniel." By: @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social inkstickmedia.com/a-prairielan...
A Prairieland Defendant's Sister Speaks Out After 'Antifa Trial'
The sister of a Prairieland Antifa trial defendant speakers out against the Trump administration's crackdown on left-wing activism.
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