Link to a review by Jonathan Basile of the book Original Sin: On the Genetics of Vice, the Problem of Blame, and the Future of Forgiveness by Kathryn Paige Harden:
Tag: Civil Rights
Keep Android Open
Link to an article by F-Droid:
Bonus links: “With Developer Verification, Google’s Apple Envy Threatens to Dismantle Android’s Open Legacy” and When Google Met Wikileaks and Surveillance Valley and “Cookies, Identifiers and Other Data that Google Silently Stores on Android Handsets”
Adam Federman – FBI Files Counter Government Argument in Texas “Antifa” Trial
Link to an article by Adam Federman:
“FBI Files Counter Government Argument in Texas ‘Antifa’ Trial”
Bonus links: “All Eyes on Prairieland: Judge Attacks Right to Fair Trial in First ‘Antifa’ Case” and “In Solidarity with the Prairieland Nine” and “Support the Prairieland Defendants” and “450 Years for Prairieland, Texas Defendants as Trump Expands ‘Antifa’ Crackdown” and “US Courts Sentence 15 Prairieland Defendants to 556 Years in Trump’s Fascist Campaign Against Left-wing Opposition” and “Unlike the Defendants, One of the Prairieland Judges is Part of an Organized Cell of Extremists”
David North – Trump, the Epstein Files and the Putrefaction of the American Oligarchy
Link to an excerpt from the book Where is America Going? by David North:
“Trump, the Epstein Files and the Putrefaction of the American Oligarchy”
Bonus links: “The US is Following 20th Century Europe Down the Authoritarian Rabbit Hole” and “The ‘Epstein Class’ Exposed: How the Ruling Class Rules”
Sarah Jilani with Chinedu Chukwudinma – Fanon, Gaza and the Anxieties of Empire
Link to an article by Sarah Jilani with Chinedu Chukwudinma:
Daniel Wroclawski – Do You Need WiFi to Cook a Roast?
Link to an article by Daniel Wroclawski:
“Do You Need WiFi to Cook a Roast?”
Bonus link: “Your Appliances Got Worse On Purpose”
Soldiers Have “Duty To Refuse” Hegseth’s Order To Commit War Crimes
Link to an article by B of Moon of Alabama:
“Soldiers Have ‘Duty To Refuse’ Hegseth’s Order To Commit War Crimes”
Bonus links: “What Do the Democrats Know About Trump’s Plans for Dictatorship and War Crimes?” and “Military Law Task Force and the National Lawyers Guild Condemn US Military Threats to Venezuela and Caribbean Maritime Attacks” and “Shipwrecked or Not, All These Bombings are Murder”
Will Beaman – The Case for Fiscal Insurgency
Link to an article by Will Beaman:
“The Case for Fiscal Insurgency”
Bonus link: “The Utopia of Refusal: David Graeber, Debt & the Left Monetary Imagination”
Jacob Crosse – Trump Administration to Begin Continuous Police-State Surveillance of 55 Million US Visa Holders
Link to an article by Jacob Crosse:
“Trump Administration to Begin Continuous Police-State Surveillance of 55 Million US Visa Holders”
Bonus links: “ICE Risks Overplaying Its Hand. We’ve Seen It Happen Before.” and “ICE Agents, National Guard Could Arrive in Chicago by Weekend” and “Federal Judge Said Trump Can’t Be National Police Chief. Will His Word Be Final?” and “Federal Judge Bars Trump Administration from Sending Any National Guard Troops to Portland” and “Trump Doubles Down on Threats to Arrest Illinois Democrats Pritzker, Johnson During Fascist ‘Antifa’ Roundtable” and “Trump DOJ Expands Political Vendetta with Indictment of New York AG Letitia James” and “Trump Admits: ‘We Took The Freedom Of Speech Away'” and “Immigration Thugs Assault, Kidnap US Citizens in Chicago, Portland” and “Roaming Charges: Aspirations to Omnipotence” and “Feds Used Chemical Agents Dozens of Times in Chicago—Even After Judge Said To Stop” and “Residents Demand Oversight Commission Investigate CPD Cooperation with ICE” and “Federal Agents Arrest Citizen Observer Watching ICE Detain Neighbors on Her North Minneapolis Block” and “Alarming Criminalization of Green Card Holder Based on ‘Antifa Materials'” and “Most Americans Don’t Want Troops Deployed Without an External Threat, Reuters/Ipsos Poll Finds” and “Trump’s Military Occupation of America” and “Pentagon Sets January 1 Deadline to Set up National Guard ‘Riot Control’ Units” and “You’ve Heard About Who ICE is Recruiting. The Truth is Far Worse. I’m the Proof.” and “USA: Torture and Enforced Disappearances in the Sunshine State: Human Rights Violations at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ and Krome in Florida” and “From Racism and Anti-communism to Global Dominance: On the Use of ICE’s Foreign Policy Provision” and “Tracking, Targeting, and Terrorizing: ICE’s Surveillance State” and “Fragmentation, Force, and Fascism: The Architecture of the Repressive National Security State” and “How the Bipartisan ‘War on Terror’ Created ICE” and “ICE Gestapo Murders Woman in Minneapolis, Sparking Mass Outrage” and “Renee Good Shooting: Three Shots, One Timeline: A Preliminary Forensic Video Breakdown” and “New Video Confirms ICE Gestapo Murdered Renee Good in Cold Blood” (and see “US Border Agents Intentionally Stepped in Front of Moving Vehicles to Justify Shooting at Them”) and “ICE: ‘Fucking Bitch'” and “Minnesota Should Charge ICE Agent With Murder” and “Top City Prosecutors Form ‘FAFO’ Coalition to Bring Charges Against Federal Agents” and “ICE Agent Charged in Non-fatal Shooting of Venezuelan Man” and “Colorado Prosecutor Charges Border Officer with Assault” and “Minnesota Authorities Investigate Arrest by ICE of a Hmong American Man as a Possible Kidnapping” and “Hundreds of Minnesota Students March to the Capitol to Protest ICE” and “Hundreds of Roosevelt High Students Walk Out to Protest Immigration Actions” and “ICE Detains Indigenous People in Minneapolis, Tribes Cite Treaty Violations” and “Federal Agents in Minneapolis Tear Gas Family, Sending 2 Children and a Baby to Hospital” and “Kids Are Being Harmed by Tear Gas, Pepper Spray Under Trump. There Could Be Long-Term Consequences.” and “ICE Claim That a Man Shattered His Skull Running Into Wall Triggers Tension at a Minnesota Hospital” and “Trump Threatens to Use the Insurrection Act to End Protests in Minneapolis” and “‘We Know Where You Live.’ Protesters Say ICE Agents Retaliate With Threats, Investigations” and “Turning to Bovino, the Court specifically finds his testimony not credible. Bovino appeared evasive over the three days of his deposition, either providing ‘cute’ responses to Plaintiffs’ counsel’s questions or outright lying” and “Why Treat DHS’s Known Liars as Reliable Sources?” and “Whistleblowers Expose ICE Memo that Disregards the 4th Amendment” and “Give a Little Whistle” and “Former ICE Instructor Testifies That Agents Were Trained to Disregard Constitutional Rights” and “Judge Finds ‘Compelling and Troubling’ Evidence of Racial Profiling by Federal Agents in Minnesota” and “ICE Detains 5-year-old Minnesota Boy; School Leader Says Agents Used Him as ‘Bait'” and “‘I Have Been Here Too Long’: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility” and “More than 70 Minnesota Children Detained in Operation Metro Surge, Data Show” and “Minneapolis Grapples with the Impact of Trump’s Largest Immigration Crackdown Yet” and “ICE Moved Detainees Out of an Overcrowded Mesa Facility Before Congressional Oversight Visit” and “White House Posts Digitally Altered Image of Woman Arrested After ICE Protest” and “ICE kills in Minnesota, Then Moves to Crush Protest” and “The ICE Killing of Alex Pretti, the Second in Minneapolis, Prompts Quick Legal Action” and “Emergency Triad: Another American Has Been Murdered by Our Government” and “Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting” and “FBI Won’t Provide Minnesota Investigators with Evidence in Alex Pretti killing, State Says” and “Identified: the El Paso BORTAC Crew Rampaging Through the Midwest” and “Ecuador Says ICE Agent Tried to Enter Consulate in Minneapolis” and “Journalist Don Lemon, Anti-ICE Protesters Arrested on Orders of Trump Administration” and “Fired ’60 Minutes’ Journalist Reveals Pro-Trump Censorship at CBS News” and “Report: VA Investigated Employees Who Spoke Publicly About Alex Pretti” and “University Police Escort Music Professor Out of Alex Pretti Vigil for Wearing ICE OUT Sign, ‘You Know We Aren’t Taking Sides Here.'” and “Pennsylvania High School Students Violently Attacked by Police During Anti-ICE Walkout” and “Pennsylvania Student Protesters Face Daunting Legal Battle in ‘Quakertown 5’ Case” and “Ice in Kenwood Park” and “How One Minneapolis Man is Helping Neighbors Surveil ICE Back” and “They Don’t Want Their Company’s Surveillance Tool Used by ICE” and “ICE Acknowledges it is Using Powerful Spyware” and “DoJ Cases Against Protesters Keep Collapsing as Officers’ Lies are Exposed in Court” and “After Highly Publicized Arrests, Feds Dismiss a Third of ICE Protester Charges” and “A Protester Threw a Snowball. Federal Agents Responded With Tear Gas and Pepper Balls.” and “Judge Says ICE Violated Court Orders in 74 Cases—See Them All Here” and “The Unfathomable Minnesota Transcript that Must be Read, as it Tells the Reality of America Today” and “Ruling Against the Tide, a North Dakota Judge Denies Emergency Petitions for Minnesota ICE Detainees” and “Tracking Habeas Cases” and “Three Hundred Habeas Cases in Which the Government Has Defied Court Orders” and “Deportation Data Project” and “Over 3,500 People Were Detained During Operation Metro Surge. Here’s Where They Went.” and “ICE Detained Them, and Then They Vanished” and “Legal Aid Issues Statement” and “A Statement from the MSBA, HCBA, and RCBA Presidents” and “ICE Protester Says Her Global Entry Was Revoked After Agent Scanned Her Face” and “ICE Denies Having a Protester Database. But a Letter to Congress Sheds More Light” and “The Legal Fallout in Minnesota Has Only Just Begun” and “The Trauma of ICE Raids is Rippling Through Public Schools Across the US” and “Why is ICE Seizing People’s Phones and Documents?” and “Lawsuit: DHS Blocking Lawyers from Meeting with Detainees” and “Federal Judge Rules Against Feds, Orders Overhaul of Treatment of Detainees at Whipple Building” and “Lawyers Filed Over 1,000 Lawsuits Challenging Immigrant Detentions During Operation Metro Surge” and “The ICE Surge in Minnesota Triggered a Wave of Lawsuits. What Happened to Them?” and “ICE Drawdown? Indications Point to Steady Enforcement Activity Outside the Twin Cities” and “Operation Metro Surge Hasn’t Ended. It’s Expanded to the Suburbs.” and “ICE Thugs Kidnap Over 10,000 Immigrants in 5 Days as White House Orders Worksite Raids” and “Minnesotans Opposed Operation Metro Surge by a Wide Margin, Most Said it Made Communities Less Safe” and “Blind Refugee Found Dead on Street After US Border Patrol Left Him Miles from His Home” and “Haitian Man Dies in US Immigration Custody with Untreated Toothache, Brother Says” and “ICE Killers Walk Free as Feds Charge 15 Minneapolis Anti-ICE Organizers” and “ICE Memo Outlines Massive $38.3 Billion Expansion of Concentration Camp Network” and “We Ran High-level US Civil War Simulations. Minnesota is Exactly How They Start” and “Minnesota Confrontations Mirror Simulation of How Civil War Begins, Law Professor Says” and “Tim Walz Fears a Fort Sumter Moment in Minneapolis” and “Steve Bannon Says ICE Will ‘Surround the Polls’ as Trump Doubles Down on Taking Over Elections” and “Trump is Violating the Long-forgotten Guarantee Clause; Minnesotans Should Invoke It” and “The Nation Nominates Minneapolis for the Nobel Peace Prize” and “What Is Your Emergency?” and “A Manufactured Crisis” and “Report Authors Say Feds Violated Minnesotans’ Human Rights During ICE Surge” and “Under Federal Siege: Minneapolis is Rising!” and “Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong” and “Anti-ICE, Anti-Imperialism. A Primer on the Role of ICE and How to Fight It”
Kim Scipes – Review Essay of Hamilton Nolan’s The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of [US] Labor
Link to Kim Scipes’s review of a Hamilton Nolan book: