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Eli Meyerhoff
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building new worlds in the shell of the old / trusting kids / abolition / decolonization / Free Palestine! / anti-Zionist, diasporist Jewishness / https://abolition.university / Beyond Education: Radical studying for another world / http://elimeyerhoff.com
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I’ve had to spend my entire adult life dealing with people shitting on both critical/cultural theory and radical left politics as being “out of touch” or “unrealistic.” Meanwhile, our society is run by fantasy-based grifter technofascists and purely vibes-based economists. Incredible stuff.
Hassett: "The basic theory of President Trump's tariffs is sure, we're importing stuff from China, but we've got producers in US who make stuff, maybe at alightly higher place. If we bring stuff home, create demand, then that will hurt China & drive up wages & American consumers will be better off."
February 18, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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This was how the Jim Crow South functioned in larger American society.

Southern leaders helped the FBI target and destroy the Klan, and the national conversation on racism revolved around "inbred rednecks" and not the governors and lawyers in suits who mainted segregation.
it is obviously true that there's bigotry of various kinds among the unwashed masses but, despite what the decorum demands of class apparently have some of y'all believing, this is very obviously a feature that the rulers and the ruled have in common
February 18, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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MAJOR: Twin Cities Tenants joins five labor unions, together repping 25,900 members, to launch a rent strike drive, vowing to withhold rent March 1 if @governorwalz.mn.gov fails to deliver an eviction moratorium and rent relief. If launched, this would be the largest US rent strike in 100+ years.
February 17, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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Public libraries are actually existing examples of the world we want. We should not have to fight for them under a democratic socialist mayor.

@nycplan.org is organizing a response. Tell Mamdani to make good on his commitment to baseline funding for libraries!

nycplan.org
NYC Public Library Action Network
Read our response in our latest newsletter Mar 21 at Make the Road New York (in Queens). Learn how you can advocate for increased public library funding, hear more about the services that libraries…
nycplan.org
February 18, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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Extremely angry that this nyt piece is good
Wonderfully written NY Times piece by a local dad involved in the resistance, really echoes with a lot of what we’re feeling: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o... (gift link)
Opinion | In the Resistance, We Drive Minivans
www.nytimes.com
February 18, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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If "AI" was being built, used, and planned for in responsible ways--the way a civilization designed to enhance human thriving would do--then a lot more people would be enthusiastic about its potential. But the people in charge of defining what AI will be are the fucking worst short-term scumbags.
February 18, 2026 at 12:37 PM
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ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings.

www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
February 18, 2026 at 1:14 PM
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one reset I'd personally appreciate: behind the insistence that we must offer the electorate a little bigotry is the idea that commoners are more bigoted than the richer and more educated, who can be appealed to with high minded policy. but then you Ctrl+F "phrenology" in the Epstein files
What strikes me is that 'the volk' have incredibly incoherent and everywhere ideas, but the people who claim to speak for them in the press are like clerics who think there are two poles for all politics and everything must fit between them. These poles are like, eight inches apart
February 18, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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Sometimes you repost because the horror is so intolerably painful and it is so hard to know what to do and it feels so powerless and reposting feels like nothing that has to be at least the barest trace of something
At the same Texas concentration camp:

“There were children in Dilley who were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, several mothers told me. Recently, two cases of measles were discovered in the center.“

Extreme child abuse as state policy.

www.propublica.org/article/life...
February 18, 2026 at 1:51 AM
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I have this campaign poster from Jackson’s 1984 campaign in my office. RIP to a real one.
February 17, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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"[B]arrier will sever the Jordan Valley from the rest of the West Bank."

"[P]revent around 900 residents [..] from [..] health clinics, schools, and employment opportunities; and force several communities to leave."
#WestBank #Palestine #Israel #Healthcare #Education #Military #EthnicCleansing
Israel’s new separation wall will sever Jordan Valley from rest of West Bank
The army is issuing evacuation orders and seizing land to prepare a massive barrier — part of a wider project to annex the Palestinian 'breadbasket.'
www.972mag.com
February 17, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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the president wont see your cheap dunks against jeffery epstein . But your friends who have ties to state sponsored pedophilia will
June 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin resigned today, leaving a legacy of consistent lying, where she characterized victims of ICE abuses as aggressors. This pattern was there even before Minneapolis. substack.com/@donmoynihan...
Don Moynihan (@donmoynihan)
DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin resigned today, leaving a legacy of consistent lying, where she characterized victims of ICE abuses as aggressors. This pattern was there even before Minneapolis.
substack.com
February 18, 2026 at 2:01 AM
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DHS is holding a 2-month-old BABY at a detention facility in Texas.

Last night, Juan Nicolás was rushed to the hospital after choking on his own vomit & being unable to breathe.

This demands accountability — not a blank check for more cruelty.
I have an update on Juan Nicolás, the 2-month-old baby detained at Dilley, and his mother.
February 18, 2026 at 12:18 AM
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Mr. Sim lived in the US for 43 years. He was ordered deported 20 years ago after a larceny conviction. Because Cambodia wasn’t accepting deportations, he was allowed to stay on an order of supervision.

After 20 years, he was suddenly arrested at an ICE check-in and sent to detention, where he died.
February 18, 2026 at 1:47 AM
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There is no statute of limitations on deportations. There are people ordered deported 20, 30, even 40 years ago, who’ve been living here on forbearance ever since; people checking in with ICE since before it existed.

The Trump admin is now rounding up and detaining many of them.
February 18, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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The concentration camps will not only be for immigrants, documented or otherwise. They already aren't.

They won't only be for brown and Black people.

The targets will keep expanding. It will not end.

The only way it will is if we stop it. Both in and out of the system. There is no other way.
February 17, 2026 at 10:49 PM
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An ethics waiver is for when you waive ethics
The current person in charge of ICE's procurement for detention is a GEO Group executive who ran the company's immigration detention portfolio. He was granted an "ethics waiver" from DHS allowing him to hand out contracts to GEO in his new role.
February 18, 2026 at 2:04 AM
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Read this sentence slowly:

“Gov. Gavin Newsom, crypto executives and business leaders are ramping up efforts this week to stop the proposed wealth tax...”

gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...
As Bernie Sanders Comes to California, Wealth Tax Opponents Intensify Efforts
www.nytimes.com
February 17, 2026 at 10:56 PM
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love to see it
BREAKING: An immigration judge has *terminated* the Trump-Vance administration's efforts to deport Columbia pro-Palestine student protestor Mohsen Mahdawi.

Mohsen was first detained 10 months ago, when agents ambushed him at a citizenship interview.
February 17, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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Organizing against borders can seem utopic, but there are many concrete fights:

1 Mutual aid networks
2 Rapid Response actions
3 Stopping PIC construction & budget fights
4 Ending agreements w/ local enforcement
5 Non cooperation of public institutions (hospitals etc) w/ immigration
6 Status 4 All
February 17, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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“They’re trapped in this little confinement cell, a dark cell with no sunlight, with multiple people,” said Shaan Chatterjee, an attorney at New England Immigration Law. “They’re basically torturing people into signing off on their own deportation.”

(Free article) www.sunjournal.com/2026/02/07/i...
ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.
www.sunjournal.com
February 17, 2026 at 2:40 PM