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“You don't get freedom peacefully. Freedom is never safeguarded peacefully. Anyone who is depriving you of freedom isn't deserving of a peaceful approach by the ones who are being deprived of their freedom.”
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One city where it’s widely known that Black children are disappeared by cops is Chicago, whose community named this practice “The Black Box.”
It’s devastating but definitely not surprising that other cities & states have their own version of this as well 💔
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states, and at one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. npr.org/2026/10/07/nx-s1-598…
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On this day in 1821, William Still was born in Massachusetts. He would become one of the most important figures of the Underground Railroad, helping freedom seekers escape slavery while recording their names, journeys, and stories. His records later became one of the most important firsthand accounts of the Underground Railroad.
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Uber Hikari retweeted
This is another example of semantic creep or concept creep, where the definitions of words are slowly expanded to cover more and more things.
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It appears that aside from being taught really bizarre things about intoxication and consent, young people have also been taught really bizarre things about the meaning of coercion. They seem to think if a guy tries to persuade a woman after getting "no", that's coercion. Uh, no.
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Uber Hikari retweeted
All this confusion about the Bab al Mandeb could have been cleared up on Monday if the ISW, Al Jazeera, BBC and Reuters had just checked my posts 😇
Yemen Update 🧵(1/3): ISW-CTP is adjusting its previous assessment that Houthi forces on the coastal plain are collapsing in light of evidence in the last 24 hours indicating that the Houthis have stopped Yemeni government-aligned advances. ⬇️
A temporary pause in the Yemeni government ground advance provides both the Houthis and the Yemeni government with time to consolidate their combat forces and positions. The Houthis may use the current pause in government advances on the coastal plain to deploy more reinforcements to the operational area and strengthen defensive positions north of the front line. The Red Sea coastal plain’s wide, flat terrain is largely disadvantageous to defending forces except for some small, elevated areas, and the Houthis could try to develop stronger defenses than earthen berms that airstrikes can destroy relatively easily.
Yemeni government-aligned forces may also use the current pause in attempted advances to reorganize forces in the wake of Houthi missile attacks and develop plans to overcome Houthi defenses. Yemeni government-aligned forces may also request additional Saudi close air support (CAS) to damage Houthi forces and defensive positions on the coastal plain before attempting further advances north.
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Uber Hikari retweeted
In one night in 1919, a mob rounded up almost the entire Black population of a Kentucky town, about two hundred people — marched them to the railway station at gunpoint, and put them on a train out.
The town stayed almost entirely white for the next seventy years. Corbin, Kentucky.
The trigger was a rumour about an assault on a white railway worker. There had been no investigation.
Several hundred men went house to house through the night. People were pulled out of bed. They were given minutes. Possessions, homes, businesses, tools — all left where they stood.
They were held at the depot and loaded onto a train in the morning.
Historians call them expulsions, or racial cleansings. It is one of the main ways sundown towns were created — not by signs, but by a single night.
They were given minutes to leave the only homes they had ever known. Corbin is the kind of history our book was created to uncover—when an entire Black community was driven out, and the world moved on as if nothing happened savvypurchase.samcart.com/pr…
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Virtually no one posted Hamas’s statement after the Oct 7 attacks. I did so, but it was still widely ignored.
This seems remarkable.
According to this search, no one has yet posted the Hamas statement --
"Hamas chief: ‘Operation Aqsa Flood is a strategic track to respond to continued Israeli crimes’"
hamas.ps/en/post/4969/Hamas-…
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I had an intense discussion with a friend whose opinion is that October 7 was a strategic failure on Hamas’s part because it triggered a genocide. I disagree. Genocide is not a reaction to a provocation. The genocide expresses the nature of Israel, not the meaning of October 7
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Uber Hikari retweeted
Gaza will haunt this century the way Vietnam haunted the last.
Not because it was unseen.
Because it was seen and allowed.
Because the victims spoke and were ignored.
Because the world had every chance to say no.
And chose comfort.
Chose caution.
Chose career safety.
Chose the scroll.
That is the true scandal of Gaza.
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New Haven, CT: Wrongful imprisonment will cost taxpayers far more than $30.5 million. Alders authorized borrowing $27 million toward the $30.5 million settlement for Vernon Horn and Marquis Jackson, who spent nearly two decades imprisoned before their 2018 exonerations. Because insurance covers only $5 million plus legal expenses, financing is expected to push the city’s ultimate cost to about $40.5 million by 2047.
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Easily one of the biggest political betrayals of all time
Zohran Mamdani is more evidence that the Democratic Party is where movements go to die
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"Moral theories have long been resorted to by us, as a means of effecting the redemption of our brethren in bonds, and the elevation of the free colored people in this country.
Experience has taught us, that speculations are not enough; that the practical application of principles adduced, the thing carried out, is the only true and proper course to pursue.
We have speculated and moralized much about equality - claiming to be as good as our neighbors, and everybody else - all of which, may do very well in ethics - but not in politics."
Martin Delany, "The Condition, Elevation, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States
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Beulah Mae Donald is the black woman who bankrupted the Ku Klux Klan by winning a $7 million civil judgment for the 1981 lynching of her son, Michael Donald. This landmark case was the first time the KKK was held financially accountable for its actions.
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There are early reports that Ansarallah has reached the summit of Jabal Habashi. If true, this would be the last major obstacle to Taiz City.
The approximate situation in the Jabal Habashi district. Following a large counteroffensive from PLC forces, Ansarallah continues taking more villages and areas around the mountain. This is a key district to watch, I predicted last week that if Ansarallah took command of these peaks, the Taiz front could unravel.
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“Chrisanna Elser was accused of stealing a $25 package after a Columbine Valley police sergeant cited Flock surveillance of her car as proof. She now alleges the warrantless tracking violated her constitutional rights.”
coloradosun.com/2026/10/06/f…
BREAKING: Colorado woman accused of stealing packages from porches last year has filed a federal class-action lawsuit against Flock and the Columbine Valley Police.
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Uber Hikari retweeted
Yes.
Elections are useful if you have an independent working class political party that is:
1. Running to attain power for workers
2. Bringing more people into that party
DSA does nothing except filter discontented Americans right back into the hands of the Democrats.
What they dress up as pragmatism, is actually just opportunism, and it’s ultimately counter productive.
The “Overton window” has already shifted. Most Americans hate the regime. The primary goal now is to build institutions that can challenge it.
The Democrats, and the Republicans for that matter, ARE the regime.
Feels like there is a severe lack of political education around electoralism right now.
If electoralism is your strategy, and I understand the argument for using elections tactically , shouldn’t the point be to bring people into a larger movement? To expose and heighten contradictions, organize people, and move them toward a broader anti-imperialist politics?
Instead, it feels like the opposite is happening. People with revolutionary anti-imperialist politics are being told to temper those politics in order to defend politicians.
Even if your entire strategy is electoral, why wouldn’t you want a strong left flank pushing your politicians and their constituents further left? Why wouldn’t you want people outside electoral politics taking the uncompromising position, especially on Palestine, so that there is constant pressure on the people operating within those institutions?
The movement shouldn’t be adjusting its politics to whatever its most progressive elected officials are willing to say or do. They should be getting pushed toward us. Not the other way around. This doesn’t happen in private meetings, this happens publicly.
Electoralism can be a tactic within a larger movement. But once the movement starts disciplining its own left flank to protect an electoral project, who is actually absorbing who?
Maybe this site is just giving me a distorted picture but it feels like some very basic anti-imperialist positions are treated as unreasonable because they create problems for politicians people are invested in. If this is reflective of a broader shift in the movement, then I think we desperately need political education around electoralism.
Electoral politics should be one terrain on which a movement struggles. It should not become the ceiling of the movement’s politics.
The direction should be electoral politics moves people towards movement politics, not movement politics requiring electoral loyalty.
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Uber Hikari retweeted
Six days after 7 October 2023, I warned in Byline Times that Israel was beginning to commit genocide. Three years later, denial continues—but it is mutating.
In the face of a strong consensus about Israel’s genocide, Zionists are doubling down on a dishonest, repressive denial, supposedly of definitional technicalities but actually of the whole reality of Israel’s crimes.
Meanwhile, centrists are bringing forced to recognise its atrocities, but in a different kind of denial continue to resist their full implication—the need for a total break with Israel. My new piece for Byline.
🔴 NEW
Gaza Three Years On: The Changing Politics of Genocide Denial
Martin Shaw, who argued that Israel was beginning to commit genocide in October 2023, examines the tensions between recognition and denial as the Burnham Government tries to reset its Palestine policy.
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bylinetimes.com/2026/10/05/g…
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