Free Mahmoud Free Them All
Members of the Jewish community have taken over Trump Tower in solidarity with Mahmoud Khalil, chanting, “We want justice! You say how? Bring Mahmoud home now!” They are also drawing parallels between Trump’s ICE and Hitler’s Gestapo, condemning the intimidation tactics used against people.
How did an enslaved man become both a #war hero and Congressman? 
In 1862, Robert Smalls sailed a Confederate ship to #freedom, later returning to establish #SouthCarolina's first public school system while serving in #Congress.
Learn more: https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/robert-smalls-escape-bbc-video
Leaving for #Ukraine Today!
This morning, a delivery of a few CAT 7 tourniquets
arrived, which I’m taking with me for the heroes on the frontline. It’s not much, but every donation, big or small, adds up. This is my fifth trip, and I believe in the power of collective effort.
My goal continues to be to raise public awareness about the ongoing devastation in Ukraine and the crucial work of humanitarian organizations.
Together, we can make a difference.
Bars will break your heart
if you think of freedom while
your cage is still locked
These years Americans are free to choose from benign incompetence, malevolent incompetence, or feckless incompetence. That's how the votes fall. Amusingly enough, the #YOB (Yuge Orange Buffoon) checks all three boxes, though mostly the malign box.
'None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.'
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quoted in The Brutalist (2024)
"This is nothing new. Operating on Tor for over 12 years, we knew going in that we would have infrastructure in xx-eyes countries and be subject to potential sniffing.
I'll let you in on a little secret. The time people spend obsessing about hiding from the government puts you in a de facto state of servitude to them. They do not require any form of operation psychological or physical space. Most people have created their own psyop.
If all of this bothers you, cut your fibre line and live in a cave."
—Some Redditor who is almost certainly unknown to me, who has either chosen or been chosen to delete their account since; posted on September 11th the same year Biden was elected, at just after 1 AM UTC, of all the days and of all the times it could've been…
I needed to read that, especially now and especially in light of recent events, and I cannot possibly be alone in that regard.
On February 10th, the Educational Bookshop in Occupied East Jerusalem was raided by Israeli police - books were confiscated and the owners Mahmoud and Ahmad Muna were arrested.
(https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/10/israeli-police-raid-jerusalem-bookshops-and-arrest-palestinian-owners)
Today, around 11:30am local time, police raided the Educational Bookshop again, confiscating more books and arresting Ahmad's father (aged 61) who was tending to the shop at the time.
Here is a local story on the second raid:
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-03-11/ty-article/.premium/israel-police-raid-east-jerusalem-bookshop-for-second-time-in-a-month-arrest-owner/00000195-8515-d544-aff5-879d87e80000
What the story does not contain is a list of the confiscated books (later returned). I was at the store when the books were returned and was able to get pictures, which I attach here.
Note: Among the books they confiscated were a book on rock climbing in the West Bank (???), books by Banksy, Joe Sacco (Safe Area Gorazde - a book on BOSNIA, not Israel), Noam Chomsky, and Ilan Pappe.
I'm sorry, I don't have time to #alttext these photos. Please do so if you can and I'll happily add it to the post!
I'd also like to make these into a list with links to descriptions of them at their publisher.
As an educator, this should cross a red line for all educators. It is nothing compared to the scholasticide and genocide in Gaza, but the lack of pretext for raids like this on a bookshop peacefully operating for 40 years should get everyone's attention.
Here is a link to the Educational Bookshop website if you'd like to learn more about them: https://educationalbookshop.com/
#activism #israel #palestine #freespeech #books #freedom #freedomofspeech
#alttextplease
and has started by engaging in a tariff war to weaken Canada economically. There are never any winners in war just losers even in this tariff war.
@ClearCrow Old Retired guy Born into abject poverty to alcoholic, evangelical, narcissists. Homeless at times. Focused my hate of my family and environment to educate myself out of squalor; dripped morphine under the tongue of my beautiful wife of 18 years and helped her die of mesothelioma; Outlived my little brother and most of my family who were Trump loving Jesus freaks; Celebrated my 15th married to my beautiful bear husband; Support #HumanRights #Freedom #Science #Math #AI #Atheism #BDSM
US added to international watch list for rapid decline in civic freedoms
Unfreedom at the Washington Post. How an editorial line fosters authoritarianism, by Timothy Snyder.
"Jeff Bezos: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets." The use of these terms in this way demeans the concept of freedom and pushes the country in the direction of tyranny."
https://snyder.substack.com/p/unfreedom-at-the-washington-post
#timothysnyder #washingtonpost #freedom #unfreedom #democracy #politics #tyranny
@EUCommission To achieve this. Begin by blocking X.com and all medias of the far left and far right. As they are dangerous for democracy.
The US "decline into #fascism was enabled, supported, nurtured, and encouraged by tech #billionaires and CEOs who are so far removed from humanity and human flourishing that they imagine themselves better stewards of our existence than we are.
The fight for #democracy mandates an active response, a refusal to cede power to those who believe their wealth entitles them to rule. The decision is clear: mobilize against this rising technocratic authoritarianism or accept a world where #freedom is just another asset for the tech-enabled extractors to buy and sell."
https://www.theindex.media/the-fascist-tech-bro-takeover-is-here-2/
"in the last few days... all the crazy decisions taken during the past month have finally made the #Americans react.
Polls are falling. #Republican lawmakers are being greeted by hostile crowds...
in #American #history, the defenders of #freedom have always prevailed. They are beginning to raise their heads...
Our parents defeated #fascism & #communism at great cost.
The task of our generation is to defeat the totalitarianisms of the 21st century"
https://thebulletin.org/2025/03/for-this-french-senator-trump-is-a-traitor-and-europe-is-now-alone/amp/
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