Two decades later, Cornel West’s critique of Larry Summers hits differently
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/20/larry-summers-cornel-west-harvard-scandal-00663517?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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“The mainstream media has been strikingly incurious about the nature of Epstein’s geopolitical activity…[it] has in fact long participated in covering up the full scale of the Epstein story. The original cover-up was ignoring his sexual crimes. Those are now better reported. But by ignoring how integrated Epstein was with the American empire, these outlets are conducting another cover-up.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/jeffrey-epstein-israel-foreign-policy-elite/

Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., the civil rights leader and founder of the Chicago-based Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, has been hospitalized. https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/12/rev-jesse-jackson-hospitalized/

With all the excitement about the election I don’t want this story to get lost. This morning 8 car wash workers in Boston were kidnapped by federal agents in the largest workplace raid in the area in recent memory. The details are horrifying. 🧵 www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/04/m...

Immigration agents raid Allsto...

@Nonilex I saw a sign up at my local Home Depot asking for pennies and wondered if it had to do with this. Their pricing is still not rounded, so it must be a real headache!

They have removed anyone who wasn’t fascist enough for the job.

Last weekend, Anna Bower started to receive Signal messages from the U.S. attorney who is leading the prosecution of Letitia James.

Throughout the exchange, Lindsay Halligan complained about Bower’s tweets and reporting on the indictment–but never once asked to be off the record. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna--lindsey-halligan-here

I think we’re going to need to pick up the frequency and magnitude of these protests.

@heidilifeldman
The bases for my protest are rooted in a mix of love, despair, fury, and hope for my country.

It's been angering to be continually mischaracterized by Trumpists and the cowed media as both weak and violent, as both hateful and meek, as humorless easily bullied stiffs.

What struck me about the inflatable frog protests was the realization why that was accidentally so powerful and resonant: We actually are the earnest, good neighbors who tried to live by example and teach our children and each other to welcome and respect our national diversity, to expect equality: our avatars (mocked, despised, and targeted by Trump) included a green banjo playing frog, a plus-sized pig, two suspiously loving best male friends, a grouch in a trash can, a tall gawky bird, Mr Rogers and his neighborhood, the anti-manosphere Barney...and we were stunned when the actually most humanly vulnerable of us were attacked with brutal force by Government armed, powerful, masked, vicious, sneering bullies who insisted we were powerless and they were inevitable.

Tomorrow we shall see. This will be the most critical demonstration of the power of Cooperative Game Theory, if we are massive enough. If, by sheer numbers we prove we are inevitable, and thus influence the sideliners (including media, colleges, military, business), by shoving that Overton window back to square with the force of history. When with the shockingly normal sane decent values of Sesame Street and Mr Rogers we rise together and say "We are inevitable, not you."

However each of us arrives tomorrow, we can change the trajectory of history and speed the coming inevitable decay of Trumpism.

#NoKings

DoD today confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. - Pentagon Press Association

ICE sprays directly in the face the lead pastor for First Presbyterian in Chicago. This photo I believe will go down in history.

#NoKings #Protest #Solidarity #Immigrants #MassDeportation #EndICE #StopICE #Project2025 #Trump #MAGA #ThisIsFascism #ThisIsWhatYouVotedFor #ElectionsHaveConsequences #SaveDemocracy #USConstitution #DueProcess #JustFollowingOrders #NationalGuard #AlligatorAuschwitz #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinClientList #OathToDefendTheConstitution #FreePress #LetsGoTaco

Goering shouted, ‘This [the Reichstag fire] is the beginning of the Communist revolution! We must not wait a minute. We will show no mercy. Every Communist official must be shot, where he is found. Every Communist deputy must this very night be strung up.’”

- Rise & Fall of the Third Reich, p 139

a few weeks ago the #MAGA harpie running the federal civil rights division at #DOJ (Harmeet Dhillon) called out a so-called "liberal judge" Diane Goodstein for ruling against the trump administration, after which that judge received all kinds of threats from MAGA chuds.

#StephenMiller also weighed in on Judge Goodstein's decision in typically calm and restrained fashion, basically calling her a defender of #terrorism.

that judge's house just burned to the ground and her husband is in the hospital.

coincidence?

(oh, and she also happens to be jewish, which isn't super popular with the MAGA chud voting bloc these days since half of them blame israel for the death of charlie kirk (yes really))

#violence #trump #uspol #uspolitics #antisemitism #SouthCarolina #HarmeetDhillon #civilRights #scpol #DianeGoodstein #JudgeGoodstein #goodstein #fascism #fascists #fascist

In a big city you can sometimes find a bodega, a boutique and an apothecary on the same block. But did you know these words are all related?

@timhenke pointed it out:

Bodega is a Spanish loanword from Latin "apotheca" from Greek "ἀποθήκη" (warehouse). The Latin word also gave Occitan "botica" which became French "boutique"!

A U.S. immigration case allowed part of the story. Then jurors explored the shadows of doubt
https://www.syracuse.com/news/2025/10/a-us-immigration-case-allowed-part-of-the-story-the-jurors-explored-the-shadows-of-doubt.html?gift=47689922-5ef8-4387-9fbe-0f50b9a567dd

RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/114845119132934981

Routine PSA: #Mozilla will shut down #Pocket on October 8th and delete all user data. You have a week left to request an export of your archive.

(My first request returned a corrupt file, so I'm going for a second round now. Fingers crossed).

ICE officer seen on video pushing woman to ground has returned to duty
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-officer-pushed-woman-video-returns-to-duty/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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If we’re renaming departments and calling the DOD the “Department of War”, we might as well go ahead and make the DOJ the “Department of Revenge”

@Tengrain wonder what his thinking is these days about whether Puerto Rico is in America

@emptywheel.bsky.social it was a demonstration of power - to define reality for those who will nod along, and “fuck your feelings” for anyone who finds it outrageous. Also one of those things where it’s a joke if you’re smart and think you’re in on it or real if you’re dim enough or racist enough to believe it, so either way it builds loyalty - it’s the vibes - if they’re not really eating the pets they may as well be, so we’re going to stand behind it because you know what we mean…