An Immigration and Customs Enforcement charter flight landed in Liberia today, likely carrying immigrants with no ties to the country, marking Liberia’s entrance into the Trump administration’s network of countries taking so-called third-country nationals. buff.ly/43SshI5
Liberia Joins Trump’s ‘Third-Country Deportation’ Network - The American Prospect
The African republic says it will take up to 1,200 noncitizen deportees beginning with the flight on Thursday.
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For Issue No. 11, Roshan Abraham wrote an essay about seeking out “Okay Now” in Jordan’s archives. He considers the poet's work in urban planning and how that expertise, coupled with a visit to Fannie Lou Hamer’s Freedom Farm Cooperative, inspired a radical vision. hammerandhope.org/article/june...
What Happened to June Jordan’s Land Reform Novel?
For decades, the acclaimed poet worked on a manuscript that she believed could be a guide for a radical future of Black land stewardship. But it was never published.
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friend showed me this: The Sun's racist attack against Benjamin Zephaniah in 1987 when he went to.... Cambridge 39 years before Jason Arday
Read this painful piece about an artist who couldn’t afford to keep his storage unit in NYC, so it was auctioned. Someone bought it and sold his art off as incomplete parts. An additional trauma for artists beyond what’s normally lost via economic suffering. hyperallergic.com/when-artists...
The rich-people matchmaking article was annoyingly well done 😂
Un jour, une ZUP, une carte postale : la Grande Motte
"Out of 152 cases of identified immigration officials or contractors accused or convicted of criminal behavior, 131 of them, or 86.2 percent, were charged with sex offenses. Seventy-eight of them—51 percent of the entire cohort—'committed sex offenses against children …,' the report states."
Spencer Ackerman@attackerman.bsky.social · 2d agoICE and CBP are full of rapists and child predators. A new report details it in horrific detail.
Went through one of Berlin‘s main squares today and the majority of campaign posters belonged to the far-right AfD. That would have been unthinkable a few years ago. Times are changing, at light speed.
Conservative Afrikaner lobby group AfriForum said they met with anti-immigrant campaigners March & March and have set up a "collaborative working group for the benefit of communities". If you know anything about South Africa, you'll know how deeply cynical this is on the part of both groups
The focus in the public discourse on the president's rectal functions, inter alia, returns us, more than ever, to Mbembe, Provisional Notes on the Postcolony (1992; pdf here), and beyond, Bakhtin and Rabelais www.engagingvulnerability.se/wp-content/u...
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“A system that covers everyone, costs $1 trillion less, and averts more than 100,000 deaths annually requires no new discovery to implement, only enactment,” they wrote.
Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social · 3d ago“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
The focus in the public discourse on the president's rectal functions, inter alia, returns us, more than ever, to Mbembe, Provisional Notes on the Postcolony (1992; pdf here), and beyond, Bakhtin and Rabelais www.engagingvulnerability.se/wp-content/u...
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Some professional news: I’m starting at The American @prospect.org on Monday, where I’ll continue my reporting on ICE flights and third-country removals.
Exceptionally strong reporting on the networks of states, private companies, and individuals sustaining and intensifying the Sudan civil war. Everyone is implicated. www.ft.com/content/3259...
The mercenaries fighting in Africa’s forgotten war
Hundreds of Colombian fighters were brought to Sudan by a shadow network. At the end of the journey lay a city of corpses
ft.com
The Economist continues the age-old tradition of mostly non-Jews deciding who is Jewish and who isn’t
The Economist@economist.com · 4d agoThese days many British Jews see Zack Polanski as a traitor to his origins, not a disciple of Jewish ideas. Our profile explores how he has embraced the anti-Israel fervour that has swept the new left
Part 1 of a 6-part report on women in Afghanistan five years after the Taliban return to power, conducted, at considerable risk, by Annick Cojean www.lemonde.fr/series-d-ete...
« Notre voisine hurlait : “Les talibans reviennent !”, nous étions pétrifiées » : cinq ans après le 15 août 2021, des Afghanes racontent leur enfer
« Paroles d’Afghanes » (1/6). Cinq ans après le retour des talibans au pouvoir avec leur charia archaïque, notre envoyée spéciale à Kaboul a fait témoigner ces femmes presque invisibles sur la peur au...
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"hmm maybe this whole Arday affair shows that we need to have a Serious Conversation about whether Woke 1.0 overreached in manner X, Y, of Z" motherfucker you are generally in Fascism 487.0, as is this particular affair you're talking about. worry about *that*. /Final
I don’t think people appreciate how impressive it is that he’s hitting the phonemes he is, much less the tones. Even if he’s reading off a pinyin script with tons of cuts, this is not something you pick up in an afternoon. Or even several afternoons!
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 5d ago演出现场见! on.nyc.gov/broadway
Ruth Wilson Gilmore defines racism as ‘the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.’
There’s something I noticed which is that I was getting invited to comment on race by white people who already understood the issues very well. It felt like being used as a shield so that they wouldn’t have to do the work - so that I could just be a talking-point for clicks. So I started to opt out.
Musa Okwonga@okwonga.bsky.social · 5d agoI wonder if fewer people I know are writing thinkpieces because the race discourse is now just so unhinged that there’s no point engaging with some people.
