Gen X watching one more media-led march toward pointless war in the Middle East to distract from a flailing Republican president.
#USpol
#UsPol
Fascism kills. Last month, a 68 year old grandfather died in I.C.E. custody. Sadly we'll probably soon see more stories like this
https://atlpresscollective.com/2025/06/12/ice-death-in-transport
President Pathogen
bot by @davidaugust
This is for tee hee, not treason: don't send me to a camp, please.
smh.com.au/world/middle-east/t…
==QUOTE==
Although few bother to point it out, Donald Trump has just committed a crime much worse than all the others on his rap sheet.
It is the war crime of aggression – the “supreme” war crime according to the judgment at Nuremberg. It is constituted by using armed force against a fellow United Nations member with such “character, gravity and scale” that it manifestly violates the UN Charter prohibition on one member country attacking another.
A “spectacular military success” the bunker bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities may have been, but it was, as a matter of international law, no different from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attack on Ukraine or the George W. Bush/Tony Blair/John Howard invasion of Iraq. These are all cases of a fundamental breach of the world order agreed after the last war and likely to encourage emulation – next stop, Taiwan.
This is not about saving Iran, or the danger of making Putin look better. If any government in the world deserves to be destroyed, it is the mullahs without mercy in Iran. Many of them were involved in the mass slaughter of political prisoners in 1988 – the worst crime against helpless POWs since the Japanese death marches – and ever since, their record of killing peaceful protesters, women and dissidents, by hanging and shooting, has been disgusting. Iran has bankrolled terrorist organisations and waged propaganda wars against the Big (US) and Little (UK) Satan, but it has not invaded Israel or done anything to America to justify its aggression.
Were some hypothetical war crimes court ever to get its hands on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, it would reduce his sentence by taking Iranian provocation into account – but the man would still be guilty as charged. He could not argue self-defence, which requires the threat defended against to be reasonably proximate. The threat of Iran building and using nukes is much further away than the threat of Israeli submarines, said to be already stationed within range of Tehran, rising to strike.
It is not even clear that Iran is close to building a nuclear weapon – several dozen countries also signatory to the nuclear weapons treaty by which they forswear any such development could build nukes within a few months. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has not blown the whistle in any definitive way, as claimed by the Australian government and nor has the UK or our European allies. And just like Saddam’s mythical “weapons of mass destruction” there is no reason to think Iran has completed a project that was, in fact, first started under the Shah in the 1970s.
Only last week, in the tone of an American gangster, Trump said in effect to the Ayatollah, “we know where you live”, but he promised the cleric he would be safe “for now” and gave him two weeks. He bombed three days later. (And this is a man on whose word Australia has just made a massive down payment for AUKUS!)
The true disaster of Trump’s attack is that it is another nail in the coffin of the rules-based world order that provided some protection for international peace and security since it was put in place in 1945.
For all the great minds who contributed (one of the greatest being that of Dr H. V. Evatt), it is now out of date and unfit for its purpose declared in the UN Charter to stop the slaughter of war. The General Assembly is a mere talking shop whilst all power resides in the permanently-poleaxed Security Council, which cannot function because of the big power veto. Resolutions for peace in Ukraine are vetoed by Russia, for peace in Gaza are vetoed by America on behalf of Israel, and any resolution to condemn the bombing of Iran will, of course, be vetoed by the US, presumably with the support of Australia.
Besides, the problem with Iran goes far beyond its quest for nuclear weapons. It’s a conflict between the rights of its people and the wrongs of its fascist religious dictatorship. That is a conflict that only its people can resolve, however much the West may wish to help.
Donald Trump, that man of many indictments, has already made a mockery of US law, from which his Supreme Court has declared him immune. He will now make a mockery of international law as well.
- Geoffrey Robertson, KC AO, is an expert in international and human rights law. He is the author of Mullahs without Mercy (Biteback 2014) and Crimes Against Humanity (Penguin 2024).
==UNQUOTE==
#TuckFrump #WhyMerkaWhy #USPol #OrangeOaf #FuckRWNJs #fuckALLreligion
ICE concentration camps must go.
They can't even treat people they have kidnapped humanely.
https://apnews.com/article/migrants-child-supervision-texas-e4994b2b6786717ea79a4be230e476bf
It makes sense Oceania bombed Eastasia, because we have always been at war with Eastasia.
#ICE is using no-bid contracts, boosting big firms, to get more detention beds
by HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and JOHN HANNA
June 16, 2025
LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — "#Leavenworth, #Kansas, occupies a mythic space in American crime, its name alone evoking a short hand for serving hard time. The federal penitentiary housed gangsters Al Capone and Machine Gun Kelly — in a building so storied that it inspired the term 'the big house.'
"Now Kansas’ oldest city could soon be detaining far less famous people, #migrants swept up in President Donald #Trump’s promise of #MassDeportations of those living in the U.S. illegally.
"The federal government has signed a deal with the #PrivatePrison firm #CoreCivic Corp. to reopen a 1,033-bed prison in Leavenworth as part of a surge of contracts U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has issued without seeking competitive bids.
"ICE has cited a 'compelling urgency' for thousands more detention beds, and its efforts have sent profit estimates soaring for politically connected private companies, including CoreCivic, based in the Nashville, Tennessee, area and another giant firm, The #GeoGroup Inc., headquartered in southern Florida."
#ResistICE #ResistFascism
#USPol #ACAB #ICERaids #FuckICE #Authoritarianism
#CommunityDefense Groups Take the Last Stand Against #ICE in #LA
Organizers argue that LA’s #sanctuary laws aren’t enough to keep their #immigrant neighbors safe.
By Claudia Villalona, June 21, 2025
"Across #LosAngeles County, ICE’s operations played out differently. When combat-ready federal agents gathered in large numbers at staging areas in Paramount and Compton on June 8, protesters swiftly mobilized collective resistance efforts and emergency patrols. Agents responded to large crowds with #TearGas, #FlashBangs, and so-called 'less-lethal' weapons.
"Organizers maintain that this grassroots mobilization sabotaged enforcement operations, putting agents on the defensive and preventing them from conducting raids for the rest of the day.
"As ICE raids escalated across Los Angeles in early June, sending #protesters into the streets and immigrant communities into hiding, the contrast between how the consequential weekend unfolded in different parts of the city was stark. Divergent outcomes in majority #Latino areas further east with a long history of organizing and those largely disconnected from grassroots support highlighted the crucial role of #CommunityLedDefense in the absence of meaningful government protection.
"Unlike Compton or Paramount, the airport-adjacent Westchester is geographically and socially isolated from more established community organizing networks. And while LA’s sanctuary laws prohibit local #police from working with ICE, organizers argue that the local law enforcement agencies can’t be trusted to keep immigrants safe.
" 'Workers need to know their rights, whether it’s at the workplace or at their home, and they feel empowered to exercise those rights,' said Flor Melendrez, executive director of the labor advocacy group CLEAN #Carwash Worker Center. Car wash workers, street vendors, and day laborers working in high-visibility, outdoor spaces face heightened risk for arrests as 'easy targets' for ICE raids, while often lacking access to critical resources and workplace protections. Organizers said more than 26 car wash workers were arrested across at least six businesses in the set of raids began on June 6."
https://theintercept.com/2025/06/21/los-angeles-ice-raids-immigrants-organizing/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/YpyRV
#ResistICE #ResistFascism #USPol #ACAB #WeProtectOurselves #WeKeepUsSafe #LAResists #SanctuaryCity #ICERaids #FuckICE
Trump Attacks Iran🚧
Which of these do we eliminate as a pressing issue now?
1. Epstein files
2. $1B Beautification Bill
3. ICE concentration camps
4. DOGE data theft
5. A Palantir database on you
6. ICE thugs
7. Tariffs
8. Missing ballots - Rockland
9. Madman Psychopath President
10. A sinking economy and rising prices
11. The wholesale dismantling of the US government
12. An absent representative Congress
#usPOL #Iran
DO NOT remove the respirator before hitting the reply button.
SOURCE: https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/
**I only post the hottest 10 posts in the subreddit.**
Republican Bill Would Legalize DOGE and Let Trump Dismantle Everything
------
r/fednews is the main subreddit for US Federal government workers.
This robot is NOT affiliated with r/fednews. It merely rebroadcasts the top 10 hottest posts. Responses here are only seen in the Fediverse. YOU SHOULD GO TO REDDIT TO PARTICIPATE FULLY!
High volume posting robot - block me if irritating.
-----
#Coup #Activism #Reddit #subreddit #fednews #FederalWorkforce #FederalGovernment #USpol #Trump #Elon #Musk #DOGE
This just-published Wired article, citing experts on the target.
I think the people doing the targeting were close but off. What they struck were mechanical equipment. If you look to the right, you can see the outline of the horizontal shaft, collapsed. Assuming the mechanicals are inline, then at the very far right end of that shaft would be the vertical shaft.
I'm sure there's *internal* damage from the shock wave, but to the structure? Very unlikely.
#Iran #USPol
https://www.wired.com/story/iran-fordow-nuclear-site-satellite-images-damage/
It makes sense Oceania bombed Eastasia, because we have always been at war with Eastasia. #USpol #Orwell1984
Conservatives will be forced to admit that Donald's attack has made Iran's acquisition of nuclear weapons much more likely. It is my sincere hope that these moments of realization are recorded for future compilations.
> ... Trump’s 1.5 percent popular vote victory is one of the smallest... fraction of Lyndon B. Johnson’s 22.6 percent landslide win in 1964. Trump failed to secure a majority of the popular vote, at 49.7 percent, unlike.. Bush in 2004 (50.3 percent)..Obama in 2008 and 2012 (52.9 percent and 51 percent) and.. Biden in 2020 (51.3 percent).. Trump won all seven swing states, his 312 electoral votes were only a handful more than Biden’s 306 in 2020..
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5094602-a-landslide-just-0-15-percent-of-all-voters-determined-trumps-2024-victory/
#uspol
@bsmall2@fedibird.com
Open to Regime Change after all? #USpol www.newsmax.com/politics/ira...
newsmax.com/politics/iran-...
DONAKD is a portmanteau of Donald and Awkward.
DONAKD is a portmanteau of Donald and Awkward. #USpol
Client Info
Server: https://mastodon.social
Version: 2025.04
Repository: https://github.com/cyevgeniy/lmst