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DISPATCHES FROM THE CULTURE WARS – AUGUST 26, 2025  
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August 26, 2025
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_ A busy summer _

Artist Viril the Mouse’s mural depicting Superman punching an ICE
agent first appeared on a Pilsen viaduct in June. In July, vandals
painted over Superman. In the latest update, Krypto the Superdog takes
Superman’s place. Credit, Chicago Sun-Times

 

* Free DC
* Beating ICE in LA
* Street Socialism in NYC
* Fighting the Fugitive Slave Act One City at a Time
* Abortion Access in Missouri
* Miccosukee Tribe Closes Alligator Alcatraz
* Roberts Overrules Law
* The Movement Behind Mamdani
* Tide Turns for Israel and the US Right
* How South Asians Fought Fascism

FREE DC
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By Abby Vesoulis
Mother Jones

The DC locals who are wrestling with the increased presence of law
enforcement say megaphones and mass demonstrations are unlikely to
mollify the hazards of a heightened police state—and may bring
bigger dispatches of law enforcement, which could target more
immigrants and other vulnerable populations.

BEATING ICE IN LA

 • SURVIVAL IS A STRATEGY AND FREEDOM IS A COIN TOSS
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Galindo, L.A. Taco

 • ANGELENOS GET PREPARED
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  By Sonali Kolhatkar, Truthout
 

STREET SOCIALISM IN NYC
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By Nicholas Powers
The Indypendent

What could New York be? More importantly, _who_ could we be? Every
day is like a drum beat, the Republicans attack: they do ICE raids,
they rob the poor to give to the rich, they arrest protesters. New
Yorkers are forced to choose. Either turn on each other like snitches,
or unite and fight.

FIGHTING THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT ONE CITY AT A TIME
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By Waleed Shahid
Waleed’s Substack

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, a cornerstone of the Compromise of
1850, required Northern states to assist in capturing escaped enslaved
people and returning them to bondage. The act’s enforcement became a
running series of confrontations between federal marshals and
abolitionist civil society.

ABORTION ACCESS IN MISSOURI
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By Robin Fries
Abortion, Every Day

In November of 2024, Missourians voted to overturn the total abortion
ban in our state, making abortion legal for some. This was a hard
fought win for abortion advocates, who believed Amendment 3 would
return abortion access to the state. Missouri politicians didn’t
waste a minute before working to undo the will of the voters. 

MICCOSUKEE TRIBE
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ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ
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By Amy Green
Inside Climate News

A federal judge has ordered a winding down of operations at
Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz, the hastily assembled Everglades
detention site for incarcerating thousands of supposed migrants before
deporting them. Environmental groups and the Miccosukee Tribe
successfully sued to stop the facility.

ROBERTS OVERRULES LAW
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By Ed Pilkington
The Guardian

The chief justice of the US has emboldened Trump’s drive toward
authoritarianism. Roberts is anything but the modest judge he claims
to be. Rather, he has used his power as chief justice to promote a
rightwing agenda from the moment George W Bush placed him in the
court’s central seat in 2005.

THE MOVEMENT BEHIND MAMDANI
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By Charlie Heller, Brandon Tizol, Lawrence Wang and Olúfẹ́mi O.
Táíwò
Hammer and Hope

Scrappy leftist organizers are learning their political campaigns
“can succeed by being creative and speaking the truth in interesting
ways.”

TIDE TURNS FOR ISRAEL AND THE US RIGHT
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By Ben Lorber
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Support for the seemingly ironclad relationship between the U.S. and
Israeli right has steadily eroded among the MAGA base and vanguard.
And since the Israel-Iran war in June, the cracks on the surface have
widened into a chasm — pointing to a seismic shift that stands to
remake the American right.

HOW SOUTH ASIANS FOUGHT FASCISM
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By Maya Bhardwaj
The Forge

South Asians in both the subcontinent and the diaspora share lessons
for fighting fascism on two fronts. South Asian resistance movements
offer vital strategies for combating rising fascism globally through
transnational solidarity, grassroots organizing, and cultural
defiance.

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* Los Angeles
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* Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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* New York City
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* Fugitive Slave Law
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* abolitionism
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* abortion rights
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* Missouri
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* Florida
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* Alligator Alcatraz
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* Miccosukee tribe
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* Supreme Court
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* Chief Justice John Roberts
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* Zohran Mamdani
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* Israel
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* THE RIGHT
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* South Asians
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* Fascism
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