“But the hushing of the criticism of honest opponents is a dangerous thing.” — W.E.B. Du Boishttps://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mreiufw5a22rTrump red baits and the Never Trumpers blink first. [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Jul 2026 04:21 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mreiufw5a22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mrcumndq2s2i“Chantal Alejandra Morales Rojas, who is from Ecuador, was [abducted] on the jetway by plaincloths ICE officers and led out [into an unmarked van on] the tarmac …. a Southwest Airlines employee later warns [another woman filming ICE] that she won’t be able to board the flight” https://www.thetravel.com/ill-never-book-another-flight-with-southwest-passenger-abducted-by-ice-at-denver-international-airport/23 Jul 2026 12:46 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrcumndq2s2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mrcvisuyt22i“protests began after reports of health concerns inside the Aurora Processing Center …. health officials … confirmed one case of active tuberculosis at the … detention center, but health officials said the company that runs the facility had failed to provide the legally-required access” https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/in-your-community/aurora-arapahoe-county/multiple-ice-protesters-detained-after-tensions-flare-with-law-enforcement-at-centennial-ice-field-office23 Jul 2026 13:02 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrcvisuyt22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mrde3gzjjc2i“The children were killed in a US strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school … one of the deadliest attacks of the US-Israeli war on Iran. The strike on 28 February killed over 165 children. Debris recovered from the scene was also identified as belonging to a US-made Tomahawk cruise missile”23 Jul 2026 17:23 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrde3gzjjc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mrdehfkdl22i“Long before the Trump administration implemented its ‘zero tolerance’ immigration enforcement policy in 2018, it was already separating children from their parents as part of a ‘pilot program’ conducted in the El Paso, Texas, area and … other parts of the border” https://www.splcenter.org/resources/stories/family-separation-timeline/23 Jul 2026 17:29 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrdehfkdl22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mreafvkvpk2r“Painting by Doha Elhalawany depicting heartbreaking scenes of loss that I'm sure you'll all remember from the genocide that's still playing out in Gaza.”24 Jul 2026 01:50 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mreafvkvpk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mre7rwd4qs2r“Over a decade ago, Taylor Farms and big agricultural industry groups successfully lobbied to defund a significant foodborne illness testing program that was responsible for some 80% of U.S. public produce pathogen testing.” https://zeteo.com/p/taylor-farms-trump-donations-explosive-diarrhea24 Jul 2026 01:38 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mre7rwd4qs2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mre66y3pdc2r#tbt — Eclipse 201724 Jul 2026 01:10 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mre66y3pdc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mre5hx5y3s2p“It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction.” — E. L. Doctorow, Ragtime (1975)24 Jul 2026 00:57 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mre5hx5y3s2phttps://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mre4aq3xjk2p#tbt — Summer 2010, my first visit to Larry McMurtry’s huge used bookstore in Archer City, Texas.24 Jul 2026 00:35 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mre4aq3xjk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mre3fixzas2pGood question.24 Jul 2026 00:20 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mre3fixzas2phttps://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mrdwg4tt3227Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. “On Andy Burnham's second day as UK prime minister, he helped the US bomb Iran via RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire.”23 Jul 2026 22:51 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrdwg4tt3227https://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mrdhymduos27“I honestly think this is why they were so targeted by law enforcement. Because they realized the potential for doing broad revolutionary organizing among young people.” — Donna Murch, Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California https://www.npr.org/2023/01/31/1152784993/the-real-black-panthers-202123 Jul 2026 18:33 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrdhymduos27https://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mrdh5wf6lk23“Ever since Wall Street’s crimes were revealed in the wake of the financial meltdown of 2008, it’s been … harder to portray capitalists as the good guys, the job creators, the heroes …. Instead, they are perceived as thieves, plutocrats, climate change deniers, and enemies of public education” https://dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/wal-mart-fast-food-movement-neoliberal-consensus-is-over/23 Jul 2026 18:18 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrdh5wf6lk23https://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mrdehfkdl22i“Long before the Trump administration implemented its ‘zero tolerance’ immigration enforcement policy in 2018, it was already separating children from their parents as part of a ‘pilot program’ conducted in the El Paso, Texas, area and … other parts of the border” https://www.splcenter.org/resources/stories/family-separation-timeline/23 Jul 2026 17:29 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrdehfkdl22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mrde3gzjjc2i“The children were killed in a US strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school … one of the deadliest attacks of the US-Israeli war on Iran. The strike on 28 February killed over 165 children. Debris recovered from the scene was also identified as belonging to a US-made Tomahawk cruise missile”23 Jul 2026 17:23 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrde3gzjjc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mrcwqlhzk22i“Footage from a Denver DMV shows masked ICE agents pushing into a private space to detain an individual with a pending asylum case and a legal work permit. How did they track a routine civic visit? Federal agents are exploiting a shared law enforcement dragnet known as Nlets.” https://www.reddit.com/r/EyesOnIce/comments/1v3ubvg/footage_from_a_denver_dmv_shows_masked_ice_agents/23 Jul 2026 13:24 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrcwqlhzk22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mrcvz6prys2i“The U.S. Park Police (USPP) said it started when officers were conducting commercial vehicle enforcement’ on the Clara Barton Parkway alongside federal agents.” https://wjla.com/news/local/ice-agents-on-scene-of-federal-operation-near-potomac-river-in-montgomery-county-immigration-enforcement-suspects-custody23 Jul 2026 13:11 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrcvz6prys2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mrcvu27psk2iICE was using driver’s license data to kidnap the people who were supposed to benefit from the new state laws protecting them back in 2021. When Biden was in charge. The “lesser evil.” https://publicintegrity.org/inequality-poverty-opportunity/immigration/undocumented-immigrants-licenses-ice-data/23 Jul 2026 13:08 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrcvu27psk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mrcvisuyt22i“protests began after reports of health concerns inside the Aurora Processing Center …. health officials … confirmed one case of active tuberculosis at the … detention center, but health officials said the company that runs the facility had failed to provide the legally-required access” https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/in-your-community/aurora-arapahoe-county/multiple-ice-protesters-detained-after-tensions-flare-with-law-enforcement-at-centennial-ice-field-office23 Jul 2026 13:02 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrcvisuyt22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mrcv4qfst22iDemocrats ignore the ICC. Republicans seek to dismantle it. https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/lawsuit-challenges-trump-threat-imprison-americans-gaza-advocacy23 Jul 2026 12:55 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrcv4qfst22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mrcumndq2s2i“Chantal Alejandra Morales Rojas, who is from Ecuador, was [abducted] on the jetway by plaincloths ICE officers and led out [into an unmarked van on] the tarmac …. a Southwest Airlines employee later warns [another woman filming ICE] that she won’t be able to board the flight” https://www.thetravel.com/ill-never-book-another-flight-with-southwest-passenger-abducted-by-ice-at-denver-international-airport/23 Jul 2026 12:46 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrcumndq2s2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mraeywlnjs2n#otd 1877 — “A jittery company Policeman fired several wild shots with no effect. The train moved no farther …. a crowd of several hundred set out for the Lebanon Valley Railroad Bridge, armed with a can of coal oil and a bundle of cotton waste” https://berkshistory.org/article/the-railroad-strike-of-1877-in-reading/22 Jul 2026 13:01 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mraeywlnjs2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mrbqgudz322eTotal recall. [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Jul 2026 01:59 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrbqgudz322e