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DISPATCHES FROM THE CULTURE WARS – MARCH 11, 2025
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March 11, 2025
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‘Helping people before, during, and after (this democratic)
disaster,’ says the #AltGov Fema account on Bluesky. Composite,
Guardian Design/Bluesky
* #AltGov!
* Mahmoud Khalil Case: State Terror
* Standing Fast
* Fight for Trans Rights
* Migrants and Citizens Defy ICE
* Idaho: Sieg Heiling CEO Gets Heave-ho
* Confronting Counterrevolution
* Identity Politics Left and Right
* Pipeline Company Sues Greenpeace
* Curriculum for Reading Dangerously
#ALTGOV!
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By Timothy Pratt
_The Guardian_
After seeing Elon Musk’s X post about an email that would soon
land in the inboxes of 2.3 million federal employees asking them to
list five things they did the week before, a clandestine network of
employees and contractors at dozens of federal agencies began talking
on an encrypted app about how to respond. Within hours, the network
had agreed on a recommended response.
MAHMOUD KHALIL CASE: STATE TERROR
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By Ben Burg-is
MSNBC
Trump’s open and unabashed declaration that he won’t
“tolerate” protests he dislikes and that he’ll use arrests and
deportations to intimidate protesters into silence crosses a new
frontier in authoritarianism. But we didn’t go from 0 to 60 when he
was elected.
STANDING FAST
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By Liam Archacki
_The Daily Beast_
The tiny government agency that blocked a group of DOGE staffers from
entering its offices on Wednesday isn’t giving up the fight, even
as Elon Musk’s foot soldiers race to access their systems.The
young, backpack-wearing men were turned away empty-handed on Wednesday
after staff at the U.S. African Development Foundation refused to let
them into the office following a tense standoff.
FIGHT FOR TRANS RIGHTS
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By Sara Youngblood Gregory
_Yes!_
Grassroots organizers are steeling themselves to protect their
communities from anti-trans policies and rhetoric. Local
groups—specifically those led by and with trans people—are
uniquely poised to help trans people weather the storm and challenge
the policies and attitudes that harm them in the first place.
MIGRANTS AND CITIZENS DEFY ICE
• WE NEED SOLIDARITY, NOT PANIC
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By Lewis Raven Wallace, _Truthout_
• LA
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Lopez and Alejandra Molina, _LAist_
• WHAT CHURCHES NEED TO KNOW
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By Heather Kimmel, United Church of Christ
• SAFEGUARDING MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS
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By Tamar Sarai, _Prism_
• MIGRANTS’ NARRATIVES
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By Sonali Kolhatkar and Manuel Vicente, _Yes!_
IDAHO: SIEG HEILING CEO GETS HEAVE-HO
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KTVB
Tom Hill, the chief executive of Idaho-based Engineered Stuctures,
Inc., stepped down from the construction company after a video of him
giving two straight-arm salutes and thumping his chest while on stage
during an annual company event went viral last week.
CONFRONTING COUNTERREVOLUTION
MAGA AND BEYOND
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By Jérôme Gygax, _CounterPunch_
DEMS IN DENIAL
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By Erica Etelson, _Jacobin_
IDENTITY POLITICS LEFT AND RIGHT
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By Ash Sarkar
_The Guardian_
The right is mobilising a kind of identity politics of their own: in
talking about the white working class, anger about economic
inequalities is redirected into racial grievance. It’s not wealth
taxes, investment in education, or strengthening collective bargaining
that will help the white working class: it’s getting minorities to
shut up about injustice.
PIPELINE COMPANY SUES GREENPEACE
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By Cody Bloomfield
_Truthout_
Energy Transfer Partners is seeking the last word — and $300 million
in damages — on points of political contention between the pipeline
company and the Standing Rock Lakota/Dakota people.
CURRICULUM FOR READING DANGEROUSLY
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New York Public Library
How has censorship affected U.S. society over the course of the 20th
century? Drawing from The New York Public Library's collections, this
curriculum guide is intended to be paired with _Banned: Censorship
and the Freedom to Read, _an online exhibition exploring the history
and broad impact of censorship.
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* Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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* Idaho
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