Here's another example of a big media outlet really pulling its punches about extreme racists. Yet I feel obligated to share because it's an important story.

In this case, it's about a housing development in Arkansas that is overtly screening applicants to ensure they're white. That's not exactly new in the US, but it's been a while since developers have so explicitly used it as a selling point.

There's no question that this is illegal and has been for almost 60 years. But in 2025, the developers think they can get away with it, and they may well be right. The state attorney general's office is "continuing our review of this matter," and the governor has no comment.

The symbolism of Little Rock as the starting point for the return of legal segregation is really something.

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From the article:

“Return to the Land needs to strike while the iron is hot,” Mr. Orwoll wrote on a fund-raising page for the group, which has raised nearly $90,000.

“They see right now as a very opportune time. They see a friend in the White House at the highest level,” said Peter Simi, a professor of sociology at Chapman University in California who is an expert on extremist violence. “They see themselves quite literally in various positions in the administration, including the Department of Justice and Department of Defense.”

The timing, both Mr. Orwoll and Mr. Csere said, is right. “I would rather the precedent is set and the discussion is had while there’s a relatively favorable cultural and legal climate for it,” said Mr. Orwoll, 35. “So if we’re going to fight this battle — and it’s a battle that’s going to be fought at some point — it better be now.”

https://archive.is/wryiO

#segregation #racism #AntiBlackness #fascism #Arkansas #Ozarks

Somehow I missed this when the story broke a few weeks ago: Atomwaffen Division co-founder Brandon Russell has been given a 20-year prison sentence for plotting to attack the Baltimore power grid with his girlfriend (h/t @MusiqueNow). He had been found guilty back in February, but sentencing was only earlier this month.

They picked Baltimore in part because the girlfriend, Sarah Beth Clendaniel, also a neo-nazi, was from the area, but mostly because it's a city with a large Black population. Clendaniel recently got an 18-year sentence for her part in the plot.

https://apnews.com/article/brandon-russell-maryland-power-grid-attack-plot-neonazi-9e6d8ff8c7695e356f566cce8caa902b

#BrandonRussell #AtomwaffenDivision #FuckThatGuy #Baltimore #NeoNazis #fcknzs #AWD #Terrorgram #accelerationism #racism #AntiBlackness

https://youtube.com/watch?v=BhQjYxBcqxw&feature=shared

#alttext IS THIS THE FUTURE OF BLACK CITIES

The Tornado that could destroy St. Louis’ Black Community

Covers media, crocodile tears, and how the Black community organized to help each other bc the government chose to not be helpful

#stl #antiBlackness

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"Palestinians despise the courts. We hate the sight of a judge, knowing all too well that they are no different from the interrogator. We loathe the law and all it stands for in our context—a tool for oppression cloaked in legality. Even the lawyers, perhaps universally disliked, evoke our mistrust. But for us, the courts represent more than frustration; they are the place where our oppressive conditions are translated into legal language, where the weight of colonial domination is formalized with a veneer of legitimacy."
by Abdaljawad Omar, in “The ICC warrants: Palestinian skepticism and the glimpse of justice,” 2024, https://mondoweiss.net/2024/11/the-icc-warrants-palestinian-skepticism-and-the-glimpse-of-justice/

cited in https://fallingintoincandescence.com/2025/05/18/afropessimism-and-palestinian-liberation-an-essay/

@palestine 🧶

#othering #modernity #whiteness #whiteFragility #whiteSupremacy #quotes #antiBlackness #slavery #BlackMastodon #AfroPessimism #beliefs #institutionsDeceive #justice #judicialBias #legality #legitimacy #IHL #internationalLaw #law #OPT #WestBank #JewishSupremacy #Mondoweiss

"But then I remembered that to a lot of white leftists and especially white liberals, race matters are the equivalent to like a foreign language they've learned just enough about to get by while they're going to go on like an international trip.

"And the vast majority of them haven't even done that. To a lot of white leftists and white liberals, they're not not racist because they understand why racism is a problem.

"They're doing it because they know it might get them in trouble. And that's why we keep on having this problem."

~ #FDSignifier

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=eb-twzyyusk

#antiblackness #progressive #USpol

❝ Ten of the 19 countries under the bans and restrictions are in Africa, nine of those from majority Black African countries. Several of those, including Sierra Leone, Togo, and Equatorial Guinea, are not known for hosting armed groups that pose a major threat to the West.

Trump announces travel bans
https://apnews.com/article/trump-travel-ban-adeaec442cb0f00f4f8a34d208118445

#racism #antiblackness #Africa #LatinAmerica #Asia #travel

Antiblackness is global.

#antiblackness