When I first found the image above, I didn’t notice the Y in “Your” was burned out. But that little detail makes the image, and the message, much more meaningful. We fight, because while individually that might be worse in the short term, it’s better for everyone in the long term. So we each do what we can, given our means. That’s the real difference. Conservatives act based on what will benefit them directly. Everyone else acts based on what is best for everyone. Our not your. This is yet another reason we will win.

The last two pieces included here demonstrate a reason why we must fight. Everyone who has pushed back on the Trump Administration’s demands has won. States, universities, law firms, individuals fighting illegal deportation, it doesn’t matter. When we fight, we win. The only way you can lose is if you fold, no matter the cards you’re dealt.

Everyone can’t show up the same way, some might organize, some might protest, some might donate (time is just as important as money). Some have special skills, like being able to cook and feed people, or lawyers who can represent people or file motions. But we can all do something, even if it’s just helping a neighbor, or sharing information online.

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DNC “Autopsy” Finds Kamala Harris’s Silence on Gaza Genocide Cost Her Votes by Chris Walker

This piece is a few weeks old, but apparently a lot of folks are still in denial about this. People seem to think Harris wouldn’t have bombed Iran, but her official on the record response while checks notes RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT was that she wouldn’t change any thing from Biden. And at the convention where she had total control of the event as the nominee, she … did nothing to establish that she wouldn’t keep killing brown people in the Middle East with our “most lethal fighting force.”

Sure, maybe Harris wouldn’t have directly dropped bombs from US planes flown by US pilots in Iran. But it’s unimaginable from even the most favorable read of her record and statements, that she wouldn’t have used US forces to protect Israel from the blowback of their attack on Iran. US built planes, dropping US built weapons, purchased with US supplied dollars. A war crimes and crimes against humanity spigot that could be turned off just by following existing US laws on the books.

As has been established, over and over again:

… the distinction between “defensive” and “offensive” assistance lacks meaning. Even U.S. assistance that is nominally defensive enables offensive actions by Israel. This is perhaps clearest in the Israeli strikes on Iran in June 2025, where Israel could strike offensively against Iran in part because it relied on the U.S. provision of missile interceptors to defend against Iranian retaliation. But the sheer scale of U.S. military assistance to Israel means that such assistance frees Israeli resources for offensive actions.

Harris gave absolutely no indication she would end the genocide, force aid into Gaza, or prosecute Israeli and US officials for crimes against humanity. If she had, we wouldn’t have a President Trump, but Iran would still be being attacked, unprovoked, with US weapons, backed up by US support.

However, during her own campaign — which she had complete control and management of, without administration interference — Harris also refused to express those disagreements out loud, stating in one interview there was “not a thing that comes to mind” over what she would have done differently than him while serving as vice president.

During the Democratic National Convention in 2024, which was co-managed by the DNC and the Harris campaign, delegates who expressed opposition to the Biden administration’s actions (and inaction) relating to the ongoing genocide in Gaza were often ignored. During the count of delegates to determine the party’s presidential nominee, Kentucky delegates who were “uncommitted” were not acknowledged at all in the roll call vote.

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The DNC also refused to allow pro-Palestinian speakers to take part in the convention, even though their speeches weren’t set to be critical of the Biden administration. Georgia House of Representatives member and Palestinian American Ruwa Romman, for example, had submitted a draft speech to the DNC that aimed to emphasize Trump’s racist comments toward Palestinians and omitted any judgment against either Biden or Harris. Party leaders refused requests by uncommitted delegates to have Romman speak.

The party also chose to ignore, rather than acknowledge, large pro-Palestinian demonstrations happening throughout Chicago during the week of the convention. Around 30,000 demonstrators took part in those protests, with some stating that Harris’s refusal to oppose genocide would lead them to not vote for her.

“Our votes are no longer free or a given just for the sake that we are Democrats,” a demonstrator named Inan said. “[Harris] has to earn our votes by ending genocide today, tonight.”

A World of Alienation: Mourning the Children of Empire by César Omar Sánchez

Over 175 girls perished under the bombardment carried out by the United States and Israel in Iran. Their lives were extinguished in an instant. They will never grow, never dream, never see a future. Gone forever.

They will never become teachers, athletes, or scientists. Never mothers, never partners, never the women they might have been. Their laughter silenced. Their potential erased from this world, forever. 

A World of Alienation: Mourning the Children of Empire

From the bombed skies over Iran and Palestine to the quiet despair within our own borders, a reflection on war, systemic repression, and the...

The girls had been very alive—in every special and unique way that made them daughters, sisters, classmates, and friends. In the middle of a laugh, a squeezing of a hand, or a smile, their worlds ended, and the world around them forever changed.

Does anyone win when children are bombed? by me - 03/28/2025

<Headline redacted because it’s such bullshit> by Hugo Bachega

The article and the headline are quite discordant, so quoting the actual reporting, not the stupid headline some BBC editor gave it. Hezbollah violated the ceasefire with Israel, reportedly for the first time, in response to Israel’s unprovoked attack of Iran, killing hundreds. During that ceasefire, Israel has struck Lebanon nearly daily, with over 1,300 strikes by Israel while the “ceasefire” was in place.

This new cycle of violence was all too predictable. For months, Israeli officials had signaled an escalation of their campaign against Hezbollah. Despite a ceasefire that ended a devastating 13-month war in 2024, Israel had continued with its bombing of Lebanon almost every day, saying the group was trying to rebuild its capabilities. Hezbollah, however, had remained quiet, aware that any move would inevitably be met with a powerful retaliation.

Battered and isolated, Hezbollah drags Lebanon into another war

Its attack on Israel in support of Iran has led to fresh mass displacements and Israeli bombing, to the fury of many Lebanese.

ICE arrested Nashville journalist without warrant, attorneys say by Evan Mealins, Angele Latham

Immigrations and Custom Enforcement arrested a journalist working for local news outlet Nashville Noticias without an arrest warrant during a March 4 traffic stop in South Nashville, according to an emergency petition filed by her attorneys in federal court.

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Rodriguez entered the country legally in March 2021 under a tourist visa. She has a valid work permit, is married to a U.S. citizen, and has green card and asylum applications pending, according to the petition filed in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. She "has followed ICE’s express directions at all times," the petition states.

Reporter for Spanish language news outlet arrested by ICE: Attorneys

The journalist, Estefany Rodriguez, was taken to a detention center and remains there as of 3 p.m. March 5.

Five steps to take in response to Operation Metro Surge by Ilhan Omar

Love of country is not blind allegiance to power. It is fidelity to the Constitution and to one another. If federal authority can be deployed to terrorize one community today, it can be deployed against another tomorrow. Accountability is not revenge. It is a crucial step to safeguarding democracy.

Our community is grieving. Minnesotans are outraged. But we are also resolute. We will not move on. We will move forward with justice.

https://www.startribune.com/federal-immigration-enforcement-investigation-mn/601591433

Greg Bovino, other federal agents investigated for Operation Metro Surge actions by Jeff Day

The use of a chemical irritant by U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Greg Bovino is among 17 instances of “potential unlawful behavior” by federal agents during Operation Metro Surge currently being investigated for criminal charges, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said Monday.

At a news conference on March 2, Moriarty announced the creation of the Transparency and Accountability Project [TAP], which will give citizens the ability to submit to the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office any evidence of behavior by federal agents that might have been unlawful.

The project will be staffed by county prosecutors and a civilian investigator and is already investigating 17 incidents by federal agents.

https://www.startribune.com/greg-bovino-other-federal-agents-investigated-for-actions-during-operation-metro-surge/601591378 (free account required)

Forgotten fascism by Josephine Riesman

But Dr. Young’s position vis-à-vis fascism was not popular in academia as of 2003-04. The study of fascism had fallen out of favor in the universities. Perhaps that was part of a conspiracy to make people forget what should not be forgotten; a look at all the Trumpniks and Harvard professors in the Epstein Files certainly raises some questions there. Perhaps it just seemed like fascism was a dead letter to most—a closed chapter of history, relevant only for action flicks and late-night cable documentaries. Or maybe folks just stopped listening to Marxists.

Forgotten fascism

Josephine Riesman on authoritarianism’s early warning system

The Black Box Myth: What the Industry Pretends Not to Know About AI by Eryk Salvaggio

Faith in AI pairs with a business incentive. Without inspiring awe, a lack of control over a technology makes it a shoddy system. That creates an uneasy distance between industry players and the products they sell. Absence of control reveals the limits of any company meaningfully distinguishing its products from competitors. Better, more focused training data makes for better, more focused uses. But they want general use technologies, whether as a spiritual quest or a quest for business monopoly.

The Black Box Myth: What the Industry Pretends Not to Know About AI | TechPolicy.Press

Tech Policy Press fellow Eryk Salvaggio says it's a problem is that those of us outside of the AI industry don’t know what rules they are following.

Judge rejects Trump bid to end congestion pricing by Nikita Biryukov

The federal government had argued its decision to order an end to congestion pricing could not be challenged because that decision was not final, but Liman found that version of events was a “revisionist history unsupported by the record.”

“No less an authority than the President of the United States announced on February 19 that ‘CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD,’” the judge wrote, quoting from a social media post Trump made.

Letters from federal officials to those overseeing congestion tolling also purported to end the program, the judge found. Even letters that provided New York officials with two 30-day extensions to wind down congestion pricing were unambiguous about their intent to kill the program, he said.

The Trump administration’s attempt to permanently bar congestion tolling and its threat to withhold federal funding for other transportation projects in Manhattan gave New York and its transportation agencies the ability to sue, Tuesday’s ruling says.

Trump Administration, in Reversal, Tries to Continue Fight Against Law Firms by Michael S. Schmidt, Jonah E. Bromwich, and Devlin Barrett

But on Tuesday morning, the Justice Department abruptly changed its position. In an email to the four firms contesting the executive orders, a department official apologized for the short notice and said it would file a motion to withdraw its voluntary dismissal.

The email was sent to the firms shortly after 10 a.m. The Justice Department asked the firms to indicate whether they planned to oppose its attempt to reverse course by 10:30 a.m.

Nearly two hours later, the Justice Department formally filed a motion to withdraw the motion from the previous day. The firms opposed the motion, according to the filing, calling it an “unexplained request to withdraw yesterday’s voluntary dismissal, to which all parties had agreed.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/us/politics/trump-law-firm-orders-reversal.html