“racist conspiracy theories conflating Gaza advocacy with violence inspired by a movement [ISIS] and cause that has zero to do with Palestinians, is permitted without any pushback because these two things, in the Western, orientalist mind, feel vaguely related.”

Coverage of My Book Being Banned Proves the Thesis of the Book

A library in Australia “removed” How to Sell A Genocide from its shelves, and the media’s coverage of it committed at least three of the tropes I document. Let us review them.

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The British Empire was one of the most violent institutions in modern history, built on explicitly racist ideology and guilty of serial crimes against humanity. It is astonishing that OBEs and other honours are given, accepted and celebrated in its name.

NEW: We obtained recordings of 160+ emergency calls made from or about an immigration detention center where three people died within six weeks. “They will not give them medical treatment,” one caller said, seeking help for a detainee with kidney stones.

Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital”

Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by ...

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How many people need to wish you would just die before the universe takes notice?

If I hear one more person proudly shouting that they don't know who Hasan Piker is my head is going to explode

Anyway, I genuinely think that Democrats are trying to purposely throw the Michigan senate race to try to establish a narrative for 2028 that only centrist/corporate Dems are electable. This isn't about Hasan Piker.

DHS repeatedly said that an aggressive Chicago apartment raid was prompted by intel on a Venezuelan gang takeover. Records reveal the real story behind the raid: targeting alleged squatters with the landlord’s blessing. 👂 Listen to the full episode:

The True Story of Why Immigration Agents Raided a Chicago Apartment Building

Podcast Episode · Paper Trail · August 20 · 42m

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The official U.S. Department of Education Twitter account posted, then deleted, a video positively comparing Trump to Hitler. Captioned “No one does it like us” with a tiger emoji, the video opens with a scene from Darkest Hour wherein Winston Churchill refers to Hitler as a tiger.

MS NOW: Troops fighting against Iran and alleged drug smugglers say they're being asked to violate international law. Orgs that help service members leave the military as conscientious objectors are seeing a large increase in concerns over U.S. strikes against alleged drug boats and inside Iran.

Troops fighting against Iran and drug smugglers say they're being asked to violate international law

Organizations that help service members apply to leave the military as conscientious objectors are seeing a large increase in concerns over U.S. military strikes against alleged drug boats and targets...

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This is what a real leader says.

Yes, they are. Reason why....

At this point there is no other interpretation than that Democrats are trying to sink Abdul's candidacy

sUppoRT tHE TrOOPs!!!

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d ago

MS NOW EXCLUSIVE: A sailor who jumped from the USS Abraham Lincoln this month in what his wife describes as a suicide attempt is now facing disciplinary action from the Navy, according to his wife and charging documents reviewed by MS NOW.

We have written a statement in support of Ghent Uni's decision to suspend Nathan Cofnas. We resist attempts to frame this as a punishment for "whistleblowing" or censorship of "controversial research". We invite all academics who share our views to sign our letter. forms.gle/qwN8xzEM5C7Q...

Open letter on the suspension of Nathan Cofnas at Ghent University

We, colleagues of Nathan Cofnas - supported by many colleagues internationally - want to respond to the negative and incorrect framing of Ghent University’s decision to suspend Nathan Cofnas. With th...

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In the 22 days before Professor Jason Arday's death, The Telegraph, The Times, Mail and The Spectator published 146 articles about him. This is not journalism. It's racist clickbait. It's time to defund these outlets https://goodlaw.social/erm6

At a certain point people need to accept that politicians who uncritically support genocide and think voicing valid criticisms of the police was a generational political blunder aren't going to fight fascism

“Women are too dramatic”

After new polling shows Democrats in all six of the first 2028 primary states overwhelmingly in support of sanctioning & cutting weapons to Israel, Hakeem Jeffries elevates one of the most pro-Israel Democrats in Congress to lead the Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee:

Every single politician and personality doing this fake outrage at Hasan has outed themselves as being a puppet of a foreign war criminal government. Every one of them needs to be removed from office.

The American Historical Association hired a lobbying firm to help silence member advocacy on Palestine. In this essay, Adam Rzepka covers @historians.org's relationship w/ Thorn Run Partners, its deep ethical conflicts, & the advocacy crisis AHA has thrust upon us. www.chronicle.com/article/a-sc...

Opinion | A Scholarly Association’s Secret Washington Playbook

Did the American Historical Association ask a corporate lobbying firm for advice on how to silence its members?

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New court filings contain additional details about the Department of Homeland Security's surveillance of anti-ICE groups in Minnesota. The internal DHS documents contain dozens of photos of cars and license plates, and of ordinary moments — like people mourning at the Alex Pretti memorial.

New court filings reveal more details of undercover agents’ surveillance of anti-ICE protesters • Minnesota Reformer

A court filing Tuesday morning in the federal case against 15 anti-ICE protesters contained more than 200 pages of undercover agents’ notes and photos from the Department of Homeland Security’s widesp...

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Hasan Piker is right.

Hasan Piker on the left, Ezra Klein on the right. Anyone operating in good faith would read both as pretty uncontroversial statements about the role Israel’s defenders have played in rising antisemitism. Only one of these is being called an incitement to violence.

There is no such thing as “conservative-based” science. If you’re not doing evidence-based science, you are making up fairy tales.

In a 2023 interview, Trump’s new FDA pick laid out a vision for ‘conservative-based’ science

President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Food and Drug Administration previously called on conservatives to create new academic journals and to fund science that would explicitly back right-wing p...

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WTF are we doing?

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4d ago

A consistent pitch by the makers of ai wearables is that they solve the problem of getting to know your child. www.businessinsider.com/parents-brea...

Capitalism is going to kill us all Pickers warned Driscoll’s about dangerous pesticide levels. Driscoll's tried to hide It.

I Tracked Down the Company Ruining Fruit

YouTube video by More Perfect Union

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NEW: For decades, Idaho laws have allowed parents who belong to the Followers of Christ and other faith-healing sects to pray rather than seek medical treatment as their children die. At least five sets of parents have lost multiple children.

These Children’s Deaths Were Preventable. Their Parents Prayed Instead of Seeking Medical Care.

For decades, Idaho laws have allowed parents who belong to the Followers of Christ and other faith-healing sects to pray rather than seek medical care. Since 2015, at least 15 children have died of tr...

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🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed: