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Midwest. Rustbelt. Appalachia
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I'll continue lurking here, but I've also downloaded my data and am slowly migrating:
@siteations on instagram for visuals,
@[email protected] on mastodon for more thready stuff (and keeping up w/ chi transit communities),
other tbd?
ugh.
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To bomb Iran the US deployed 7 B2 bombers—each cost $2.1B to build. They used 14 huge “bunker busters,” a model that cost $500 million to develop.
The US invested ~ $15 billion in this attack—almost 50% more than it invested in affordable housing construction this year.
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Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Auschwitz — a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps — was not located in Nazi Germany either.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
"Auschwitz or Oświęcim, was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (IN A PORTION ANNEXED INTO GERMANY IN 1939)."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz…
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If a legal permanent resident can be deported without breaking any laws, because the government doesn’t like his policy opinion, it’s not a free country. It’s that simple.
BREAKING: An immigration judge rules that Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported. His lawyers are expected to appeal. apnews.com/article/mahmoud-k…
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Mahmoud Khalil’s words after today’s hearing.
ALT At the end of the hearing, Mahmoud Khalil asked to address the court, saying: "I would like to quote what you said last time that there's nothing that's more important to this court than due process rights and fundamental fairness. Clearly what we witnessed today, neither of these principles were present today or in this whole process. This is exactly why the Trump administration has sent me to this court, 1,000 miles away from my family. I just hope that the urgency that you deemed fit for me are afforded to the hundreds of others who have been here without hearing for months.
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That's a trillion dollars for death and destruction, while Americans sleep on the streets, die from a lack of health care coverage, and ration their insulin.
Lovely moment to be reading 'Sinews of War and Trade' (Arab peninsula logistics/history) and 'Smoke and Ashes' (Tea/Opium + uk/nl imperial trade policies)... everything Trump implements is pulled from the most inept and genocidal Victorian playbook. (He's not aware, but wtf!)
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Deporting Americans without due process then saying they no longer get due process because they aren't in America means no one has rights, FYI. Nightmare scenario
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Once again, a U.S. president is bombing Yemen, the poorest country in the world. This cruelty must stop. The president cannot circumvent Congress and the Constitution for more endless war. Too many Yemeni lives are lost when we keep choosing bombs and destruction.
U.S. Bombs Yemen, Killing Dozens of Civilians democracynow.org/2025/3/17/h…
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Netanyahu has shattered the ceasefire agreement, indiscriminately killing hundreds of people in Gaza and putting the lives of the remaining hostages at risk. This is after not allowing any food, water, aid, or fuel into Gaza in two weeks.
Arms embargo NOW.
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Today is day 12 of a total blockade on Gaza. No electricity, no food, no medicine, no water. This is US-backed mass slaughter.
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A President who detains a protestor and revokes their legal status can only be called one thing:
A dictator.
Silencing dissent is unlawful, unjust, and authoritarian through and through.
teapawt.net/prem_thakker/status/18…
NEWS: Last night, DHS detained a Palestinian who helped lead Columbia encampment.
Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too.
His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.zeteo.com/p/breaking-dhs-det…
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The super wealthy want you to be mad about foreign aid because they don't want anyone to focus on the HUGE amount of money we spend on THEM.
Trump's 2017 law spends more on tax breaks for just 4 companies (AT&T, Facebook, Verizon and Walmart) than the entire USAid budget.
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Yes, this is happening.
An unelected billionaire is seizing control of $6T in Social Security checks, Medicare, & tax refunds that our families depend on. We must push back immediately against this dangerous giveaway of our gov’t by the Trump Admin to the richest man on Earth.
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Because Trump used his emergency economic powers to impose tariffs, any member of Congress can force a vote to terminate them. This is because the National Emergencies Act makes such resolutions "privileged" - if introduced, they must be quicly taken up.
Dems should do this!
