Thomas Hardling @HardlingThomas

White Nationalist Jack Lang Kicked Out Of Minneapolis While Trying To Start Anti-Muslim March & Quran Burning Ceremony The Minneapolis community came together to push Lang and his crew out which ended up breaking into a brawl. His grift is to go around the country and incite hatred. Despite Mayor Jacob Frye stating that Lang & his mob were not welcome, the Minneapolis Police Department still protected them.

Against the False Symmetry of the Scissors: An Open Letter While Iran Resists An Illegal War of Aggression. My response to the letter in the Guardian, published at the International Peoples Assembly (@peoplesassembl_) website, ipa-aip.org/2026/08/22/aga…

I'm struggling with this open letter, signed by people I admire deeply—individuals who've dedicated their lives to Black liberation and anti-colonial struggles. But I just can't reconcile my instinctive reaction to the letter with the respect I hold for the signatories. Prominent intellectuals in the imperial core are using their voice at this hour primarily to criticize a government under active bombardment. While I believe that no government is beyond reproach or criticism, I have a lot of questions and cautions about this open letter. The overall framing of is of two equally opposing sides—two blades of the same scissors. This is a wholly unfair representation of what is in reality a profound asymmetry of power. On one hand, a country that has been subjected to crippling, decades-long economic sanctions, now fighting kinetically an existential anti-imperial struggle; on the other hand is nuclear, AI-powered empire, with its inexhaustible money, munitions, supply lines, coalitions, surveillance, and near total grip on international political, legal, information, and economic infrastructure. The severity of the imperial onslaught seems to be minimized in the letter. This is perhaps for the sake of brevity, but it should not stand without critique. What the letter describes as "current, indiscriminate waves of US-Israeli military assaults" undersells what's actually happening in the "six months into a war". Unprovoked Tomahawk missiles and B-2 bombers that targeting a an elementary school that killed 180 children and teachers, the country's spiritual leader and his family, more than a third of the country's political, military, and scientific leadership, civilian infrastructure, including water, farmlands, electric grids and power plants, an unarmed navy ship at sea full of young cadets returning from a peacetime maritime exercise in international waters. This after decades of attacks that went unanswered by Iran, including Israel's repeated assassinations of Iranian scientists, assassination of Qasem Soleimani, strikes on Iranians generals in Syria, strike on Iranian consulate in Damascus, assassination of Ismail Haniyeh on Iranian soil; the US shot down civilian aircraft of Iran Air flight 655, killing 290 passengers and crew, including 66 children. There were endless cyber attacks, covert and overt naval sabotage and so much more—all of it without response from Tehran. The letter does not identify who the prisoners are or why they were arrested. In neglecting to do so, there is no engagement with the very real security threats, proven foreign interference, terrorism, and espionage, which Iranian authorities cite as reasons for some arrests and prosecutions. I have no doubt there are some who've been wrongly imprisoned, but we also know that many of those who were rounded up confessed to working with the Mossad, and recently a group who gruesomely disembowled a young reciter of the Quran are among those who are imprisoned. There are currently 2 million incarcerated people in the United States, the largest prison population anywhere on earth. It is estimated that 4-6% of them are innocent—that's 80,000-120,000, about two NFL stadiums full of innocent lives behind bars. Setting that percentage against Iran's estimated 15,000 political prisoners, that's roughly 600-900 individuals. They deserve fairness, but to center them in what is perhaps the most existential anti-colonial struggle of our lives feels misguided. I would also argue that comparing Iran's prisons with Israel's decades-long, systematic, colonial detention of indigenous Palestinians is another form of false equivalence. So is the comparison with America's ICE detentions, separation of families and loss of children in the process (who are most likely trafficked). It is not remotely fair to put a revolutionary government, barely a few decades out from under colonial boots and still under sanctions, in the same "carceral" category as two settler colonial states. One cannot ignore the enormous disparity of political, military, and historical circumstances. The people held in Iranian jails are overwhelmingly Iranian citizens, prosecuted under the state's own criminal and national security laws, regardless of whether one thinks the laws are unfair. Palestinians held in Israeli administrative detention are non-citizen subjects of a military occupation, detained and re-detained indefinitely under military decrees without charge or trial. People in US detentions are another category—non citizens held under civil immigration laws pending removal proceedings with access to immigration courts, however corrupt they may be. These are three distinct legal relationships—1) a state and it's own citizens; 2) a state and migrants crossing its borders, and; 3) an occupying power and a stateless occupied indigenous population. The letter collapses them all into a single architecture of "carceral states everywhere," creating an analysis that is not supported by the underlying facts. It creates rhetorical equivalence that treats "administrative detention," "political imprisonment," and "immigration detention" as though the political stakes of each were the same, when the questions of sovereignty, citizenship, and self-determination underneath them are not. The phrase that knocked me off balance was this: "...we reject the false binary of imperialism and hollow anti-imperialism." I note that @agent_of_change addressed this in a recent post, which he identified as the "load-bearing phrase" of the letter. Indeed, it does so much heavy lifting and I'm at a loss why the word "hollow" would have been inserted. It's so clearly deliberate, but why? How can Iran's insistence on sovereignty and dignity be called "hollow," despite the grave and terrible cost to themselves? They could have taken the easy path a long time ago and bowed to empire, like some of their Arab neighbors have done. They've chosen self-possession and loyalty to their ancestors and children instead. That can be called many things, but hollow is not it. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Angela Davis, Judith Butler, Jairus Banaji, Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Rashid Khalidi are not complete idiots. They know that the CIA and Mossad, per mainstream reporting, are actively organizing mass terrorist sabotage operations inside Iran, including being behind the January terrorist operation. This is not some arcane hidden "tankie" conspiracy theory, it was literally reported in the New York times and elsewhere. They openly boast about it, and they say that they are still doing it. So why come out with an article that casts the Iranian state as inherently evil and fascist and authoritarian and in need of destruction, particularly when it is being waged war on by Israel and their own US regime? Ok, let's say Iran follows your prescriptions, and dismantles its entire coercive state apparatus. It abolishes the IRGC, the prisons, the police forces, all of it is abolished. What do you think happens after that, you utter fucking depraved pseudo-radical frauds? What happens after is Syria and Libya on steroids. Unless you are a liar, you know that too. And of course Iran, like any other state least of all your own with its global genocidal Zionist empire, will never do that because it is not suicidal, and its first and foremost task is to protect the sovereignty of the nation and its people. There is nothing "purported" or "ostensible" or "pretend" about this, as you say in your vile letter: Iran is among the only active anti-imperialist forces in the world today. That's an objective fact, and your pseudo-radical word plays in The Guardian cannot obscure it. We can all see it with our own eyes. But the sole purpose of your letter, its sole function, isn't to affect any geopolitical realities, it's much more modest and personal than that: it is to act as a certificate to launder yourselves in the Western pundit academic class as the Good Pseudo-Radicals, so you can keep getting lucrative invites to talk at Princeton and Harvard and Yale and sell your pseudo-radical status for cash, which Davis and others have been doing for decades now as they demand you vote for genocidal Zionist Democrats every election cycle. This same crowd always puts out those hectoring letters ahead of an election for this purpose; suddenly "lesser evilism" becomes a moral necessity over immediate abolition when it comes to maintaining their genocidal Zionist empire and its coercive institutions, because they greatly personally benefit from it.

A thought: @democracynow

marincountyconfidential @marindatanow

22 hours ago

don't worry, it's completely normal for a bullying "reporter" to pivot to politics and spend 10 years advising pro-genocide politicians, then sneak back into "journalism" and publish a book criticizing the very same tech he helped promote as Chief of Comms for Brown, DiFi, Harris

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Them: "Why are you paying $200/month for health insurance if you still have a $6,000 deductible?" Me: "So the hospital doesn't bill me $80,000 for a 20-minute ER visit." Them: "So insurance pays for your care?" Me: "No. I pay 100% of the bill until I hit the $6,000." Them: "Then what are you paying $200 a month for?" Me: "I'm paying $2,400 a year just to access the insurance company’s negotiated discount rate so the hospital doesn't charge me fake, marked-up sticker prices." Them: ... Me: You aren't paying for healthcare coverage. You're paying protection money to a middleman just so the system doesn't bankrupt you for a basic blood test.

every year the US ruling class kills 100,000 Americans and levies a $1 trillion tithe because the healthscam system they've imposed on us works for them. It's like a civil war, but only one side, the rich, are doing the killing

In April 2024, Princeton University professor Ruha Benjamin warned that “Black faces in high places are not going to save us.” Now, as Rep. Jared Moskowitz scolds Americans who considered going against him over his support for Israel and backing pro-Palestine challenger Oliver Larkin, he reminds CNN viewers that his vote will be key in making sure Hakeem Jeffries becomes the “first Black Speaker in American history.” Jeffries himself is heavily bankrolled by the pro-Israel lobby. In her Spelman College speech, Benjamin argued that simply having Black people or women attain immense professional, political, or economic power is meaningless if they use that power to uphold and protect systems of oppression. Her speech is below.

Acyn @Acyn

3 days ago

Moskowitz: I prosecuted the case against Kristi Noem for her to be removed. I prosecuted the case against Pam Bondi to be removed. My district will be one of those districts that decide whether Jeffries gets to be speaker. But because of Israel, they're willing to give up winning

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After the US insurance giant AIG helped tank the American economy in 2008 with its reckless gambling and accounting frauds, the chairman of AIG, Maurice Greenberg, filed a $55 billion lawsuit against the federal government for not giving him a big enough bailout -- and won.

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Sam Husseini @samhusseini

7 days ago

🧵 To my knowledge, no major media outlet has yet reported my being BANNED from the National Press Club, where I was a member for over 20 years, for vigorously questioning Schumer….

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@Public_Citizen You must publicly support @samhusseini for his bravery in confronting Schumer over his clear advancement of Israeli apartheid and genocide. You must publicly call for the @PressClubAust to retract their expulsion. Public Citizen must support press freedom.

🧵 It’s even possible that Blinken was Biden’s handler in the most insidious sense of the term….

Rabble @BTudbubble

6 days ago

@samhusseini I think that Biden was a figurehead who went along with anything. With respect to Ukraine and Palestine, obviously they're all evil in DC, but I think that Blinken might have been a really core driver and that he had Biden's ear.

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Is anyone being taken in by these obvious con artists?

Hakeem Jeffries @RepJeffries

6 days ago

The ongoing siege of Palestinian homes in the West Bank by violent, lawbreaking settlers is unacceptable. Enough. The Trump administration must compel the Israeli government to protect the lives, property and livelihood of innocent Palestinian civilians.

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my Oct 2025 protest sign when Steven Pinker was the featured speaker at the @JCCSF last October. Many attendees had no idea that @sapinker was linked to Jeffrey Epstein. So I very politely informed them with flyers as they entered and held a sign as they left.

Lowkey @Lowkey0nline

7 days ago

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📰 @NHPR: "AIPAC is a touchy subject for @ChrisPappasNH these days." “Do not allow anyone to justify why they take that money, because they are taking that money because they are going to answer to their donors,” @Karishma4Senate told supporters who gathered on the State House lawn last week. “If anyone takes even a dollar from a foreign lobby, should that be considered treason?”

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China is already hitting Israel hard. Purity tests are just noise. Exactly this. People still screaming “biz as usual” either don’t read the news or refuse to see reality. China ordered the closure of Israel’s Chengdu consulate. Imports from Israel down 40% since 2023. State-owned shipping companies abandoned Eilat — driving the port into bankruptcy and closure. Dozens of sharp UN speeches condemning Israel in language no Western diplomat would dare use. Special envoy sent to push negotiations while the West keeps arming the slaughter. This is not Western-style purity tests, BDS theater, or sanctions cosplay. This is quiet, concrete pressure without China turning into another empire that bombs and lectures the world about “values.” The real Western outrage isn’t about Palestine. It’s about China refusing to take the bait, refusing to become the next global policeman, and instead steadily building the multipolar order that actually weakens the system sustaining the horror. China does strategy. Not emotional blackmail dressed up as moral clarity.

Laurent Michelon Officiel @LAURENTMICHEL0N

6 days ago

@AlbamonteF72218 "Biz as usual"? Are you even reading the news ? China has ordered the closure of Israel's Chengdu consulate on July 1st. Imports from Israel have plummeted by 40% since 2023. Starting january 2024, state-owned shipping companies have stopped using the port of Eilat, causing

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NEW: Three days after Yale found Medicare for All could prevent 114,000 deaths and cut health care costs by $1 trillion a year, Hakeem Jeffries said he won’t support it. Meanwhile, health care PACs have poured $391,000 into his campaign — and a would-be primary challenge was smothered before voters could hold him accountable.

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Assal Rad @AssalRad

7 days ago

Every major international institution and human rights group has concluded Israel is committing genocide. Genocide denial is not journalism, it’s propaganda.

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Honored to be endorsed by @DarializaforNY and @claireforny. From NYC to Florida, the democratic socialist movement is showing the country that Trump's America is not the only option. Together we'll abolish ICE, pass Medicare for All, and end US support for genocide.

I got blocked on facebook by @sarahschulman3 for asking some valid and reasonable questions about why @jvplive is sitting on approximately $9 million as Gaza starves. JVP took in over $22M in the first 2 years post-Oct 7, and has refused to take on the @SFJCRC candidates.

sarah schulman @sarahschulman3

a week ago

1. As faculty advisor to Jewish Voice for Peace student group at Northwestern, twice in the past ten days, I sat in on two hearings where our students faced charges by Hillel (the international Zionist student organization.)

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