Rahim Kurwa

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Rep. Rashida Tlaib: “There is so much anti-Palestinian racism in this chamber that my colleagues don’t even want to acknowledge that Palestinians exist at all—not when they’re alive, and now, not even when they’re dead.”

In the US, counting the dead in Gaza has become a gruesome political gamewww.motherjones.com The House passed a ban on citing the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty counts, saying the numbers are pro-Hamas “propaganda.” But researchers say the Ministry is not even counting all deaths.

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Columbia law professor Katherine Franke is at risk of being fired for speaking out in defense of Palestinian students who were attacked with skunk spray at a campus protest in January. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Columbia’s president denounced her in Congress. Firing next?www.insidehighered.com Law professor Katherine Franke has long been outspoken in her support of Palestinians. Now, after House Republicans and her university president called her out in an antisemitism hearing, she faces po...

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I have re-read chapter 14 of project 2025 for work and i'm genuinely going to go take a benzo now "Add targeted time limits [on Medicaid] or lifetime caps on [Medicaid] benefits to disincentivize permanent dependence"

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Full quote from ex-ICE director Tom Homan: "Trump comes back in January... I will run the biggest deportation force this country has ever seen. They ain’t seen shit yet. Wait until 2025.” Tonight in Florida Trump pledged to bring Homan back. Homan, BTW, is a listed Project 2025 contributor.

"Wait until 2025. They ain't seen shit yet." www.semafor.com/article/07/0...

Trump’s ‘national conservative’ allies plot a revenge administrationwww.semafor.com As President Biden’s position weakens, Trump world is enthusiastically planning a MAGA White House.

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Milwaukee police are looking into the death of a Black man in an incident drawing comparisons to the killing of George Floyd, after footage emerged that appears to show hotel guards pinning the man to the ground as he called for help.

Black man dies, crying for help, after hotel guards pin him down, video showswapo.st The videos of the incident drew comparisons to George Floyd. Dvontaye Mitchell’s mother said she believed her son was suffering from poor mental health.

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Joe Biden is going to walk us into a Republican trifecta.

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I feel like too many people on here are not facing the facts about the extremely desperate and dismal electoral situation Biden is in. If you just take the states where Trump is up MORE THAN THREE POINTS in the polling average (a massive lead), he's already got the Electoral College locked.

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What an incredible life. “The Panthers’ defense was run by the New York Law Commune, a radical legal office of which Mr. Stolar was a member…Mr. Stolar helped defend the Camden 28, a group of mostly Roman Catholic war resisters who in 1971 broke into a draft-board office to destroy records.”

Martin Stolar, Lawyer Who Fought for Social Justice, Dies at 81www.nytimes.com His clients included antiwar protesters and terror suspects. His practice “not only defended needy people, it propelled social movements,” a colleague said.

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Jessica Pishko

They will also end consent decrees (natch). Plus it will make the BJS "focus on producing the statistics of greatest interest to everyday Americans, and hence of policymakers, rather than those of particular interest to criminal-justice academics." The [email protected] provision

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If you care about criminal system reform, Project 2025 would allow the DOJ to prosecute reform-minded district attorneys.

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Rest in power. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/07/b...

Jane F. McAlevey, Who Empowered Workers Across the Globe, Dies at 59www.nytimes.com An organizer and author, she believed that a union was only as strong as its members and trained thousands “to take over their unions and change them.”

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We're very saddened to hear about the passing of Jane McAlevey, a true legend in labor organizing. May her memory be a blessing. Her lessons certainly are.

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University presidencies and governing boards increasingly select for all the worst possible qualities. Good at quashing dissent, securing defense funding, upping sports rankings, enhancing exclusivity, attracting strings-attached dirty-money-laundering donations from alums? You're in!

"In her 4 yrs @ StonyBrook, McInnis’s admin repudiated a professor who had criticized the local police. And she created an expanded safety dept" — an office of "enterprise risk management" — "complete with intelligence capabilities," "sweeping authority" + a Sliwa/Giuliani-backed former-NYPD leader

Yale’s New President Pushed Policing as Head of Stony Brook Universitywww.nytimes.com In her four years at the state university, Maurie McInnis drew criticism from faculty members who said some of her decisions violated academic freedom.

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“Separate Israeli airstrikes killed at least six people Friday in central Gaza, including two children at a home and at least one United Nations worker…”

Israeli strikes kill 6 in Gaza, including kids and UN worker, as truce talks show signs of progressapnews.com Separate Israeli airstrikes have killed at least six people in central Gaza, including two children at a home and at least one person wearing a United Nations uniform.

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Labour loses three seats to pro-Palestinian candidates

Labour loses three seats to pro-Palestinian candidateswww.theguardian.com Shadow Cabinet Office minister Jonathan Ashworth among those losing out as party suffers in urban areas with high Muslim populations

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Still one of my faves :) “Dismissed from his tchg post [in] 1968, [Fredy] Perlman (of the Red & Black Gang + Detroit Printing Co-Op) announced his separation from the academy in a scorching pamphlet, I Accuse This Liberal University of Terror + Violence..." peoplesgdarchive.org/item/2246/i-...

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Mississippi is the poorest state in the US. Even though the state gets federal welfare funds, it is difficult to get welfare. The money was all getting stolen, and they got away with it. Now the journalists who exposed the story are facing a lawsuit and jail. www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...

She exposed how the nation's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail.www.nbcnews.com "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

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"The Administration’s policy in Gaza is a failure and a threat to U.S. national security...[&] has ensured our undeniable complicity in the killings and forced starvation of a besieged Palestinian population in Gaza," write 12 officials who resigned from the Army, State Dept., USAID, etc, over Gaza.

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Biden’s policy on Gaza is “a failure and a threat to U.S. national security” that “dehumanizes both Palestinians and Jews” and should be immediately overhauled, 12 former government officials who quit their posts over Biden’s controversial approach argued in their first joint public statement.

Exclusive: 12 Biden Administration Resignees Blast 'Intransigent' Gaza Policywww.huffpost.com Joe Biden "has prioritized politics over just and fair policymaking" on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, former government officials argued in their first joint statement since quitting.

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Reactionaries long claimed employers hired POC out fear of a civil rights lawsuit, thus discriminating against whites. That claim was never true. But the inverse may be forthcoming - only hiring whites to stave off potential lawsuits from racist litigants. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Lawsuit: Northwestern’s law school is biased against White men in hiringwww.washingtonpost.com The lawsuit, filed by a prominent attorney, alleges the university’s law school gives hiring preference to women and people of color.

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It's not just the Supreme Court that's corrupt. Today, in Louisiana, another radical Trump appointed judge decided that dirty LNG projects should go forward, even if they poison Americans. A corrupt legal system benefits fossil fuel corporations. www.nytimes.com/2024...

Judge Orders Biden Administration to Resume Permits for Gas Exportswww.nytimes.com President Biden had paused new natural gas export terminals to assess their effects on the climate, economy and national security. A federal judge disagreed.

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In a lot of ways the entire Republican establishment since the 70s has been dedicated to making sure that what happened to Nixon would never be allowed to happen to one of theirs again

the Supreme Court, not content to immunize only Donald Trump from prosecution, retroactively exonerates Richard Nixon for Watergate

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Forcing John Roberts into a recursive contradiction that tears reality apart by asking him if a Jan. 6 participant could sleep outside the Capitol the night before

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SCOTUS majority governing philosophy: the administrative state is only constitutional when it is harassing vulnerable people.

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on the very day the Supreme Court's conservatives said 'we know best' and put themselves in charge of complicated agency decisions one of the geniuses confused nitrous oxide and nitrogen oxide. So they had to have a do over. Not exactly an auspicious start. www.forbes.com/sites/alison...

Supreme Court Corrects EPA Opinion After Gorsuch Confuses Laughing Gas With Air Pollutantwww.forbes.com The error came in an opinion blocking an EPA policy meant to improve air pollution.

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Sotomayor writes the dissent. "I remain hopeful that someday in the near future, this Court will play its role in safeguarding constitutional liberties for the most vulnerable among us. Because the Court today abdicates that role, I respectfully dissent.

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First decision is Grants Pass. Gorsuch has the 6-3 opinion finding that the Eighth Amendment does not bar "generally applicable" laws banning public camping. Sotomayor writes the dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

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An apt visual metaphor as CUNY Ph.D. student Jawanza Williams is wrestled over the threshold of City Hall and tossed out by a police officer. The photo highlights who gets govt resources and who suffers in unnecessary austerity. Williams & Peoples Plan NYC want to stop the boondoggle. #StopCopCity

Last week Jawanza James Williams and comrades from @PeoplesPlanNYC visited City Hall to spread the word about NYC's version of #CopCity. They demanded a people's budget for social services, CUNY, and public libraries. They were all thrown out. link: x.com/Jawanza/stat...