“‘We’re being detained,’ she told me. ‘Take care of Sofía’” …. She overheard her brother telling the #ICE officers that they had a small child at home and begging them to let his wife go. Then the call dropped.”

https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2025/12/oregon-couple-deported-forced-to-leave-toddler-behind.html

“On one occasion, an Israeli settler began ploughing the land of Khoury's family around Taybeh.

‘We were too scared to approach him because you can get shot — and they walk free,’ she says.

‘After October 7, they don’t care anymore — everything is on camera, documented, and still there’s no accountability.’”
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41761412.html

“A whole range of mechanisms was devised and implemented not only to maintain nearly impregnable patterns of segregation between Arabs and Jews, but also to erect fairly rigid lines of separation between various Jewish ethno-classes. Segregation mechanisms included the demarcation of local government and educational district boundaries, the provision of separate and unequal government services (especially in education and housing), the development of largely separate economies, the organization of different types of localities in different statewide “settlement movements” and the uneven allocation of land on a sectoral basis”
https://www.merip.org/1998/06/democracy-or-ethnocracy/#%5B5%5D

“[The #FBI document] is infused with vague and overbroad language …. It invites #lawenforcement suspicion and investigation based on purely first amendment-protected beliefs and activities …. People who are entirely innocent of any wrongdoing can be subjected to #surveillance or investigation”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/19/fbi-terrorism-investigations-anti-ice-activity

Fascism is an unsustainable institution.

https://www.chron.com/culture/article/university-of-austin-staff-exodus-21248040.php

#Democrats #fascism #history #uspol #politics #uspolitics https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/post/3mabfvd5ll22v

Conjure man been workin’

https://www.fox8live.com/2025/12/17/ice-voodoo-doll-discovered-new-orleans-immigration-crackdown-continues/

“#War cut across all [hope that the working class would take over the machine of production]: under cover of the bunting of Woodrow Wilson’s phrases the monopolies cracked down. American #democracy was crushed.”
— John Dos Passos, The Big Money (1933)
#books #history #fiction

“The difference in the treatment of Ms Rachel and Nas Daily could not be clearer. It may be possible to laugh off the Antisemite of the Year award given by a pro-Israel organisation, but the threats and harassment are another matter.”
https://www.newarab.com/opinion/nas-daily-and-ms-rachel-tale-two-youtubers

“A native of north-central #China, Guan had embarked on a citizen-journalism project in 2020 to check Western media reports that ethnic Uyghurs were being imprisoned in huge numbers at camps around the Xinjiang region.

Guan posted videos that were viewed by many human-rights watchers as confirming earlier reports”

https://www.wsj.com/world/china/ice-holding-chinese-man-who-documented-uyghur-camps-a4702045

“They're going after people with families that are just going to work, trying to get by, trying to support their family, trying to have a better life”

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/unmarked-vehicles-work-van-stops-ice-arrests-in-middle-tennessee#google_vignette

“If the Cohen building is sold, these masterpieces of public art will be in peril. As Timothy Noah has reported, a private developer is unlikely to bear the cost of renovating and maintaining the building, much less the murals. It would be cheaper to tear the whole thing down.”
#art #uspol
https://www.alternet.org/trump-destroying-art/