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• Post #4363270

  That time in 1775 when white American revolutionaries expressed their preferential option for enslaving people over their assumed right to a well-armed militia (which served them in case of expected revolts by enslaved people). Woody Holton writing in “Liberty is Sweet” (2021):

• Post #4280556

  “18-month-old Zaid Nofal was killed before dawn in an Israeli airstrike in the Bureij refugee camp. Zaid was his mother’s only child and was born after Israeli attacks killed her three sons Amin, Hamza, and Ahmad earlier in the #genocide. Today, she lost them all.”

• Post #4248130

  Here in #Nashville, #ICE kidnapped a mother of a 10-MONTH-old and a 2yo with Down syndrome, thus violating its own policy against disappearing nursing moms. #children #police #immigration #tennessee https://www.wsmv.com/2026/07/30/nursing-mother-2-including-one-with-down-syndrome-arrested-by-ice-nashville-she-seeks-asylum-domestic-violence/

• Post #4241925

  “Nixon Giovanni Pérez Paz and Glendy Marisol González de la Cruz were killed weeks after González de la Cruz self-deported to be with her husband …. Their 14-month-old daughter, Giovanni, was found crying beside her mother’s body in southern Guatemala. The child showed signs of dehydration” #ice #immigration #police #Trump #news https://www.stlpr.org/law-order/2026-07-27/overland-missouri-couple-killed-guatemala-deportations

• Post #4241924

  The thin blue line protecting us from someone else’s laundry. #police #buffalo #ny

• Post #4241923

  Destroying a culture’s centers of #learning and curated #knowledge is a badge of #genocide. #israel #palestine #warcrimes #gaza #library #education

• Post #4167884

  Things you don't learn about #Nashville in the 21st century without looking back at turn of the 20th century #history: between Fisk faculty and Vanderbilt students and settlement houses it was a focal point of the “Social Gospel” and racial reform. And the debates between W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington were a catalyst for these Nashville movements. Nashville's Bethlehem House, a downtown settlement house, was established under the leadership of Fisk alum Sallie Hill Sawyer, an...

• Post #3935273

  #otd 1919 — “white servicemen launched four days of random beatings. Black citizens, including many WWI veterans, formed defensive perimeters and fought back. It is one of the few times white fatalities (10) outnumbered Black fatalities (5). President Wilson eventually deployed the National Guard” #history https://www.indytheindianaconstitution.com/the-archives/the-red-summer-riots

• Post #3907703

  “Hanging And Burning A Negro In Clarkson Street," from Harper's Weekly’s coverage of the #NYC draft riots beginning this day in 1863. #otd #history #racism

• Post #3907702

  “President Claudia Sheinbaum announced that the requests were being formally lodged with #US prosecutors, days after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( #ICE ) agent shot and killed Mexican citizen Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a raid in #Houston on July 7.” #Mexico #police #immigration https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/14/mexicos-sheinbaum-announces-criminal-charges-request-in-us-over-ice-deaths

• Post #3907701

  #otd 1919 — “A mob consisting of hundreds of white teenagers and young men, mostly between the ages of 16 and 19, converged on Garfield Park with a singular, coordinated objective: to violently purge the park of any Black residents.” #history #indiana #redsummer #racism https://www.indytheindianaconstitution.com/the-archives/the-red-summer-riots

• Post #3907700

  #ICE continues to kidnap people in Middle #Tennessee. “This morning, a man was violently detained at the BP gas station in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, just one day after the new guidance regarding street stops.” #police #immigration

• Post #3890619

  #otd 2014 — “Eric Garner, an unarmed Black man, was murdered by white NYPD officers whilst arresting him after they suspected him of illegally selling cigarettes. He was choked to death using a banned chokehold manoeuvre while he pleaded with officers, telling them 11 times ‘I can't breathe’” #history https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8896/eric-garner-murdered-by-nypd

• Post #3794716

  #ICE shot Joan Sebastian Guerrero in the head and left his body on the street for 5 hours. Witnesses say that as he was pulled out of his car he told ICE goons, “I tried to stop.” His wife and daughter were present at the time of his murder. His name wasn’t even on the warrant in ICE’s possession. #police #immigration

• Post #3793697

  #ICE cuffing a dying man they just shot in the head in #Maine this morning. #police #immigration

• Post #3753956

  #Trump’s whole schtick about the #USA becoming the preeminent power in the western hemisphere is part of his long con. The reality is a hegemony shared globally between militarized #fascists. #israel #venezuela

• Post #3753955

  #Trump designated Iranian fishing boats as #military targets. #Iran

• Post #3753954

  “IShowSpeed's livestream at the #WorldCup match between #Argentina and Cape Verde caught [an] Argentina fan hurling racist slurs at the American streamer …. the alleged abuse, which included ‘[N-word], go home!’ and ‘Go cry at the zoo’, came about because he was wearing a Cape Verde jersey.”

• Post #3753953

  Anyone but Argentina. ⚽️

• Post #3753952

  Liberals like to find that niche where they can keep triangulating toward #Zionism, but pose gravely critical too. As if suddenly we all supposed to take their slow roll seriously. #uspol #uspolitics #israel

• Post #3753951

  #otd 1919 after a Black teacher exposed a local lynching — “a crowd of almost 1,000 whites began to gather back in town with some breaking into Welch’s Hardware Store to take #guns and ammunition. The crowd burned down Jones’s home, Dr. Davis’s home and office, and a black dance hall” #history https://blackpast.org/african-american-history/longview-race-riot-1919/

• Post #3753950

  “‘We found out that George Washington enslaved Black men, women and children there …. I went to arguably the best school in the country, Masterman, and never heard about it. I went to America's first HBCU Cheyney University, never heard about it ... born and raised in Philadelphia, never heard about it’” #history #usa https://abcnews.com/US/groundbreaking-discovery-search-lost-ancestry-story-philadelphias-contested/story?id=134419280

• Post #3753949

  “among the leading slaveholders — and rebels — were Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and James Otis. New England had been the epicenter of the slave trade for decades and it was the region’s leading personality — John Adams — who … ‘resorted to racism in opposing the “Stamp Act of 1765”’” — Gerald Horne, The Counter-Revolution of 1776 (2014), p. 201 #books #history #usa #politics

• Post #3603379

  #otd 1917 — “From July 2 through July 5, 1917, at least 39—and by some estimate as many as 200—African Americans were shot, hanged, beaten to death, or burned alive after being driven into burning buildings. The riots caused more than $400,000 in property damage and prompted 6,000 African Americans—more than half of East St. Louis’s African American population—to flee the city.” #history https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/jul/3

• Post #3603378

  #Israel has murdered an infant a day for the last 1,000 days. #warcrimes #genocide #children #gaza #palestine

• Post #3579263

  Israel uprooting and stealing 2,000yo trees in Lebanon.

• Post #3557133

  Harris has been holding “lengthy, closed-door meetings” with pro-Palestinian activists. Which is what she was asked to do over and over again in 2024. She snooze. She lose. #uspol #uspolitics https://www.axios.com/2026/07/01/harris-mamdani-progressives-2028

• Post #3557132

  “The Israeli ambassador protested the publication of this clip on #socialmedia platforms and asked some companies to delete it entirely. Let's make it go viral around the world (Recorded by B’Tselem, OpsHQs)” #Israel #warcrimes #genocide #children #palestine #gaza #WestBank #news #media #press

• Post #3557131

  “This is the part they don’t show you Let the World know An openly anti-Zionist Jewish community A mass protest against the forced conscription of ultra-Orthodox Jews into the Israeli IDF army Many around the world never saw these scenes”

• Post #3549316

  “The environmental consequences could be downright apocalyptic. Davies calculated it would spike local temperatures by five degrees Fahrenheit during the day, and 28 degrees at night. ‘That’s the difference between Utah’s semi-arid climate and the Sahara Desert’” https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/data-center-atom-bombs