Margaret Kunstler

Photo: Edmund Pettus Bridge Selma, Alabama. (Not on Facebook.) Lawyer. Anti-Racist. Assange supporter. Studious eclectic.

[Ray McGovern @raymcgovern]

NEARSIGHTED and ARMS FOLDED they waded knee deep in the Deep Muddy – this time Cuba. Before the US gets waist deep, and before “the big fool says to push on”, words of caution from a savvy former intelligence analyst of Latin America and 15 VIPS colleagues https://t.co/xutn3fcv8R

[Margaret Kunstler @granmarga]

Life after deportations. Racist DHS post https://t.co/iOHYLDbD7v

[Margaret Kunstler @granmarga]

Joe Kent Tulsi aide resigns.

[Margaret Kunstler @granmarga]

https://t.co/6zg1jQAJjk

The limits of using artificial intelligence for military purposes are fueling a global debate with real-world consequences.

[Margaret Kunstler @granmarga]

ICE

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

I just exercised my right as a Member of Congress to conduct an unannounced oversight visit of the ICE field facility in Baltimore. The staff I met with respected my right to visit, but what I saw was disgraceful. Kristi Noem has a budget of $75 billion she could use to ensure humane conditions, but we saw 60 men packed into a room shoulder-to-shoulder, 24-hours-a-day, with a single toilet in the room and no shower facilities. They sleep like sardines with aluminum foil blankets. Whether it’s for three days or seven days, nobody would want a member of their family warehoused there. The room set aside for dangerous criminals and violent offenders was empty. We’re demanding immediate answers and action.

[Margaret Kunstler @granmarga]

I must be losing it. I can’t explain why I am so cheered that the Hudson River tunnel project is back on track after that mean vindictive hateful man stopped it to display his spiteful power. https://t.co/AxqZ310SPM

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Empire serves the same people who never show up in the files.

Not the flag.

Not "the people."

Not some abstract "West."

It serves:

The men whose money can cross any border while your body cannot.

The families whose last names survive every government.

The corporations that outlive every president.

The class whose kids do rehab and "gap years" for crimes other people do life for.

That is who empire serves.

You can change parties, change slogans, change presidents, change enemies.

The beneficiaries stay the same:

The banker who profits from sanctions and war.

The CEO who turns bombed countries into "new markets."

The politician who turns your fear into a career.

The media baron who sells you the script.

They are not loyal to America.

They are not loyal to Israel.

They are not loyal to Europe.

They are loyal to:

Return on investment.

Access to power.

Immunity.

Everyone else is costume.

The soldier gets a folded flag.

The voter gets a new speech.

The refugee gets a camp.

The dead get statistics.

You ask who empire serves?

It serves the tiny layer of people for whom:

Sanctions are not empty shelves but "leverage."

Genocide is not a crater but "shaping the battlefield."

A traffic island of minors is not horror but "access."

The rest of us are not citizens in that system.

We are props, consumers, voters, labor, collateral.

That is why they want you obsessed with one island, one list, one man.

Because if you ever answer your own question honestly,

If you ever really see who empire serves,

You stop thinking the problem is a few monsters in a folder and start realizing the entire hierarchy is the crime.

[Margaret Kunstler @granmarga]

Request for emergency relief in action filed by state of Minnesota

This is the third shooting and the second fatal shooting by Defendants’ agents of Minneapolis in less than three weeks. The situation is grave; this most recent fatal shooting and Defendants’ escalating unlawful conduct provide compelling circumstances for Plaintiffs’ request for this Court to treat Plaintiffs’ motion as one for a Temporary Restraining Order as filed. If unchecked, Operation Metro Surge will only continue to
inflict irreparable harms and wreak havoc on Plaintiffs and their residents

[Margaret Kunstler @granmarga]

Republican candidate for Minnesota governor withdraws from race in protest

https://t.co/gI5OfYfDke

[Margaret Kunstler @granmarga]

Pretti and Good

[Margaret Kunstler @granmarga]

“# STAY WOKE”

[Margaret Kunstler @granmarga]

What will we talk about?https://t.co/smwX5y2pc3 via @NYTimes ⁦@AnonScan ⁦@SarahKunstler

[The Legal Aid Society @LegalAidNYC]

We can't go back. ❌

The Alliance to Protect Kalief’s Law is a statewide coalition fighting to protect fair evidence sharing. Gov Hochul's proposal would take us back to an era of wrongful convictions and long-delayed trials.

Take action: https://t.co/MBuq7cOLYv

[Margaret Kunstler @granmarga]

Man sent by mistake to El Salvador prison. US says it it cannot get him back. No return for deportees. https://t.co/eKuYqdJCtP via @NYTimes

[Margaret Kunstler @granmarga]

On his way to Medgar Evers’ house in Jacson. https://t.co/czWACktzrl

[Margaret Kunstler @granmarga]

@DanielLMcAdams @georgegalloway You have to watch this video!