Trump and his sycophants, Lauren Boebert, border czar, Tom Homan, and Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem perpetuate the myth that ICE is targeting drug traffickers and other criminals. But…
"Less than two days after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jonathan Ross fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis during a controversial enforcement operation, the Department of Homeland Security’s official Instagram account made a recruitment post proclaiming “We’ll Have Our Home Again,” attaching a song of the same name by Pine Tree Riots. Popularized in neo-Nazi spaces, the track features lines about reclaiming “our home” by “blood or sweat,” language often used in white nationalist calls for race war...Lyrics from “We’ll Have Our Home Again” opened the manifesto of Ryan Christopher Palmeter, a 21-year-old white supremacist who entered a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, in 2023, and killed three Black people...
In July 2025, the agency shared an image titled “A Heritage to be proud of, a Homeland worth Defending” alongside the 19th-century painting American Progress, a work frequently cited in white nationalist and “great replacement theory” circles for its depiction of westward expansion and Indigenous displacement. DHS isn't the only department in the Trump administration to openly embrace white nationalist rhetoric. Earlier this week, the Department of Labor drew flak for a post that mirrored a Nazi slogan."
https://theintercept.com/2026/01/14/ice-minneapolis-protests-renee-good/
Shocking report of the killing of thousands of people in the streets of Iran Tuesday, 23 Dey 1404 / 13 January 2026 Today is the seventeenth day of the revolutionary protests by the people in Iran and the sixth day of a total nationwide internet blackout. According to an unimaginable report on the number of people killed in the war of the Islamic regime, fully armed, against unarmed citizens, we received the following message. Due to the internet shutdown, this news cannot be independently verified from multiple sources. Message 1: * Tehran has at least 5,000 people killed. Just among my colleagues, 5 have died, and among the rest of my colleagues’ friends and families, at least one person has been killed. * Sarcheshmeh neighborhood had 200 killed on Thursday night. * Saadat Abad: around 150 killed. * Our own neighborhood: 10 killed on Thursday night, 50 on Friday night. * Falah neighborhood: more than 100 killed last night. One close relative of a colleague works in the body reception section of Behesht Zahra Cemetery. In front of me, he said that they have been bringing bodies in refrigerated trucks since Thursday. So many trucks have arrived that they stopped receiving bodies yesterday. Almost all were shot from the chest up, most of them young, unfortunately. One colleague said that one of his relatives, who happened to own a shop in our neighborhood, was closing his store at 7 p.m. on Thursday when he was shot from behind and killed. His family checked the store’s surveillance footage and saw a black Hilux, shot from inside the cabin, speeding away. Another colleague who was killed: their family went to the hospital to collect the body, but they were told because he had been shot, the body could not be released. A nurse told the family that on the first night, more than 300 people were brought to their hospital, but some plainclothes agents locked the operating room, saying no one had the right to treat or assist the injured. They piled all the wounded in one room, mixing the living and the dead, saying, “Whoever dies, dies; whoever survives, survive.” The nurse had retired last month. The regime even charges money to release the bodies of those killed in the protests. Friend, the situation here is worse than you can imagine. https://t.me/AnarchistFront_English
"Progressives including Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., wrote social media posts to say that there is “no place” for political violence in this country.
Political violence has always been at home in a nation built on Indigenous slaughter, slavery, dispossession, and exploitation, to say nothing of rates of incarceration and shootings seen nowhere else on the planet. The progressives’ statements are all the more misplaced at this time of authoritarian escalation at home and U.S.-backed genocide abroad.
It is precisely because of the central place of political violence in this country that this moment feels both predictably and uniquely dangerous. On Wednesday night, Trump called it a “dark moment for America” — but for all the wrong reasons.
This is no time for whitewashing the memory of a man who did more than perhaps anyone in his generation to recruit young people into the inherently violent cause of white nationalism. The urgent work at hand is to take care of each other, and to protect the most vulnerable among us, from a world that would be built in Charlie Kirk’s name."
https://theintercept.com/2025/09/11/charlie-kirk-killing-trump-left-political-violence/
"Despite Justice Department figures showing that violent crime in the D.C. was already at a 30-year low, Trump declared a crime emergency in Washington on August 11. “Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals,” Trump said at a White House news conference that day, painting the city as a hellscape filled with “drugged out maniacs” and “caravans of mass youth” who “rampage through city streets” day and night...
The National Guard deployment is one facet of Trump’s efforts to put the District of Columbia under federal authority. He also declared that he is temporarily taking control of the city’s police department. Hundreds of officers and agents from more than a dozen federal agencies — including the FBI; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; Drug Enforcement Administration; Immigration and Customs Enforcement; and the U.S. Marshals Service — have also fanned out across Washington. Masked federal agents have made arrests in neighborhoods across the city, set up traffic checkpoints to enforce laws against seatbelt violations or broken taillights, and torn down a protest banner, among other efforts.
Homestead noted that since Trump began his federal power grab, more than 450 people have been arrested.
“Describing the National Guard deployment as a glorified gardening mission is an attempt to whitewash the danger of the expanding police state,” she told The Intercept. “It directly contradicts reports of what is actually happening on the ground: Troops aren’t picking up trash or planting flowers, they are operating checkpoints and helping make hundreds of arrests of mostly Black and brown residents.
In his first seven months in office, Trump has commanded the military to increasingly insert itself into civil and law enforcement functions within the United States. He has deployed around 20,000 federal troops on American soil, including personnel from the National Guard, the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, and the Marines, according to the Pentagon. But the true number of personnel deployed may be markedly higher. U.S. Northern Command has no running tally of how many troops have been deployed around the country.
Late last month, the Trump administration authorized the deployment of National Guard troops to immigration facilities in 20 states. The National Guard will be deployed in Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Nebraska, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, and Virginia, among other states."
https://theintercept.com/2025/08/20/trump-federalize-washington-dc-military-troops-cost/
As Israel faces increased domestic and international pressure, ceasefire negotiations are centering around famine. The Israeli army is now urging the Israeli government to “decide” between occupying Gaza and reaching a ceasefire.
"The war has erased the details of social life and left nothing but destruction, and a harrowing daily journey in the attempt to survive. This has been the reality for the thousands of Palestinians making the harrowing trip each day to the aid distribution centers run by the Israeli-backed and U.S.-run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, and every time Israeli forces open fire on the crowds and commit another aid massacre.
“This war has turned us into monsters,” Ahmad says. “This was never our life. This was never our nature. This was not what we woke up to do every day.”
Ahmad talks about how life was different, how homes were full of food, and the land was always cultivated. “Now our land is planted with tanks, missiles, and the blood of the fallen,” he says.
He no longer has the luxury of thinking about the future. When asked about it, he defines “the future” as the next day. “If I survive today, I may talk about tomorrow, but there’s no guarantee I’ll live to see it.”
Dozens of people now spend their days walking the streets, not because they have nothing to do, but because they have nowhere else to go. Many stay with relatives temporarily in overcrowded homes or live in tents unfit for daytime shelter in the extreme heat. They end up on the streets and in public spaces, passing the time away outside walls that are not theirs.
But the new social structure emerges most starkly in the tents. Encampments for the displaced hold no privacy. Thin pieces of fabric separate one family from another, and bathing and using the restroom require long waits. Children are born into hunger and raised in a nothingness characterized by want.
In the coastal Mawasi area of Khan Younis, Amina al-Sayyed, 52, sits in her tents and describes the societal changes she has observed. “Killing is now routine,” she says. “Not an hour passes without hearing that someone was martyred or a whole family has been wiped out. It shapes our children’s consciousness. It’s all they talk about.”
“Not long ago, my five-year-old son witnessed a massacre in Mawasi Khan Younis,” she continues. “He came to me and said, ‘I saw a salad of people.’ That expression crushed me, the way he described it. That’s how he processed the scattered and torn bodies.”
Amina says her children go to sleep every night afraid, and not a day has passed when she has seen them sleep peacefully. But the most devastating thing, she says, is to continue living knowing you are being actively exterminated, and being unable to stop it.
“We are being exterminated… and we know we are being exterminated,” Amina says. “The world knows it, it sees it. But it continues.”
Ahmad, a 16-year-old boy in Gaza, leaves his home at 3 a.m., armed with an iron hammer and a utility knife. But Ahmad is not a soldier, nor a fighter. He seeks only one thing: to obtain a sack of flour. And to do so, he must be prepared to die.
