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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 2h
From standing-room-only city council meetings debating the supposed “Islamization of Texas” to campaign ads warning of “Muslim mass immigration,” Islamophobia has become a fixture in Texas politics.
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Ahead of Midterms, Texas Republicans Put Muslims in Line of Fire
As the United States gears up for midterms, Texas Republicans are ratcheting up Islamophobia and putting Muslims in the line of fire.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 2h
"Prosecutors put forth evidence that alleged to show that Beam had once published a guide for a point system based on killing government officials, Black people, and Jews. But the judge blocked key evidence, and prosecutors relied on witnesses who provided shaky testimony."
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The Seditionist: The Rise and Fall of an American White Nationalist
Louis Beam spent decades elevating violence to new heights in the white nationalist movement, then disappeared from public life.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 2h
"Meanwhile, Trump has continued to preach the jingoistic gospel of stopping the arrival of new refugees and migrants, while blasting European governments over migration — even as he launches military campaigns that will undoubtedly result in further mass displacements."
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When the Border is Both the Crime and the Crime Scene
In a world divided by borders, the US has a long tradition of blaming people fleeing the wars and violence it played a large part in fueling.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 2h
“There is no more Tibet in the official documents of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.”
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What’s in a Name? Tibet, Xizang, and the Politics of Erasure
Museums are guardians of historical narratives and play inherently political roles in shaping perceptions across time and space.
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Taylor Barnes @tkbarnes.bsky.social · 23h
A needy school in Ohio quietly greenlit decades of tax breaks to an autonomous weapons company – all while hitting up local taxpayers for more! Our @inkstickmedia.com exposé dives into the role of Anduril's lobbyist + backlash against a related data center deal inkstickmedia.com/an-ohio-scho...
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An Ohio School Needs Funds. It Voted to Cut Anduril’s Tax Bill, Anyway
In smalltown Ohio, the defense manufacturer Anduril is receiving tax breaks even as locals are left to foot the school bill.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 8h
"Anduril says the Ohio mega-plant will be the epicenter for its manufacturing operations, though, for now, most of its planned campus consists of corn and soybeans fields, and its early hires report to a warehouse that the company painted black and put a corporate logo on."
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An Ohio School Needs Funds. It Voted to Cut Anduril’s Tax Bill, Anyway
In smalltown Ohio, the defense manufacturer Anduril is receiving tax breaks even as locals are left to foot the school bill.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 8h
Plus, several recommendations for reading more about the American far right and the influential ideologue Louis Beam.
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The Man Who ‘Redefined Violence in the White Supremacist Movement’
Plus, several recommendations for reading more about the American far right and the influential ideologue Louis Beam.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 8h
"The Texas Klan leader had already built an alarming resume in violence. Across the state, Beam had established a network of far-right paramilitary camps where he and his fellow travelers trained seasoned Klansmen and children alike in the guerilla warfare tactics."
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The Seditionist: The Rise and Fall of an American White Nationalist
Louis Beam spent decades elevating violence to new heights in the white nationalist movement, then disappeared from public life.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 8h
"Khalil’s memoir is vital reading in the swelling corpus of books detailing the new normal of ICE detention, and the Trump administration’s relentless assault on immigrants across the nation." By: @moiralavelle.bsky.social
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In New Memoir, Mahmoud Khalil Takes on Immigrant Detention
In his new memoir, Palestinian refugee and activist Mahmoud Khalil writes of his time locked away in immigrant detention.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 30/09/2026
To learn more, check out this list of recommended reads and additional resources at Inkstick's newsletter: inkstick.substack.com/p/the-man-wh...
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The Man Who ‘Redefined Violence in the White Supremacist Movement’
Plus, several recommendations for reading more about the American far right and the influential ideologue Louis Beam.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 30/09/2026
To learn more, check out this list of recommended reads and additional resources at Inkstick's newsletter: inkstick.substack.com/p/the-man-wh...
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The Man Who ‘Redefined Violence in the White Supremacist Movement’
Plus, several recommendations for reading more about the American far right and the influential ideologue Louis Beam.
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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Insanely good writing by @patrickobrienstrickland.com that I’m proud to have helped contribute to.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 30/09/2026
How a factory for AI-powered weapons, a data center, and a needy public school collided in rural Ohio. By: @tkbarnes.bsky.social inkstickmedia.com/an-ohio-scho...
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An Ohio School Needs Funds. It Voted to Cut Anduril’s Tax Bill, Anyway
In smalltown Ohio, the defense manufacturer Anduril is receiving tax breaks even as locals are left to foot the school bill.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 30/09/2026
"CBO warns that rebuilding those stocks will likely take at least five years, a shortfall the agency says 'would become especially problematic' in any future confrontation."
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Deep Dive: How Much Has the Iran War Cost Americans, Really?
The Congressional Budget Office has released a report tallying its own estimates of how much the Iran war has cost American taxpayers.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 29/09/2026
"When Palestinians write, they write about their past through their present, knowingly, or unknowingly.”
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Palestinian Horror Fiction Is Having a Moment
Amid Israel's ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian horror fiction is teaching readers about the country's troubled history.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 29/09/2026
"Like the other eight nuclear armed nations, China is modernizing its arsenal. What’s different is that China is also significantly increasing its number of warheads."
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China is Rapidly Expanding its Nuclear Arsenal. How Should the US React?
When Xi Jinping visits the White House on Sept. 24, it’s uncertain whether he and Trump will discuss nuclear weapons — but they should.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 29/09/2026
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 29/09/2026
"The more stunts Beam pulled, the more alarmingly broad the Klan’s reach became. Toward the end of the decade, Beam and Duke hatched another plan: They would recruit active US military members into the Knights of the KKK." By: @patrickobrienstrickland.com
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The Seditionist: The Rise and Fall of an American White Nationalist
Louis Beam spent decades elevating violence to new heights in the white nationalist movement, then disappeared from public life.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 29/09/2026
"Designed to serve soldiers of every faith, the US military chaplaincy is being reshaped around a narrower religious vision — one with implications far beyond the barracks."
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From Pulpit to Pipeline: How Religious Nationalism Captures a Military
Designed to serve soldiers of every faith, the US military chaplaincy is being reshaped around religious nationalism—with implications far beyond the barracks.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 29/09/2026
“He redefined violence in the white supremacist movement. He predicted and created the future we’re living in. He’s a big deal for this heinous movement’s trajectory, and he looms large over everything that is happening to us today.” inkstickmedia.com/the-sedition...
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The Seditionist: The Rise and Fall of an American White Nationalist
Louis Beam spent decades elevating violence to new heights in the white nationalist movement, then disappeared from public life.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 28/09/2026
"Samar Yazbek’s 'Your Presence is A Danger to Your Life: Voices from Gaza' is riveting in some of the most tragic senses imaginable." By: @akalfopoulou.bsky.social
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From Gaza, Testimonies of Unthinkable Violence
In a new book, Samar Yazbek documents the ‘algorithms of murder’ through testimonies from Palestinians enduring Israel’s war on Gaza.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 28/09/2026
"In Hajjah governorate, three direct strikes on April 1, 2025, destroyed the only health center serving the village of Abu Haqqa, where residents already lacked electricity and running water and women carried water from the valley on their heads."
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Deep Dive: US Airstrikes Killed and Injured Hundreds in Yemen
During the Biden era and the second Trump administration, Washington's attacks on Yemen have killed at least 213 civilians.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 28/09/2026
"Presidents have long sought to shape their own public image. This is not simply a narrative in which journalists create the 'real' presidency, while the White House creates a false one. Administrations have long created their own visual archives, and these archives are extremely valuable."
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What Happens to Presidential Power When the Cameras Disappear?
The White House’s fight with the press over camera access raises a question that extends beyond today’s headlines: Who gets to shape the visual record of the presidency?
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Adrianne Kalfopoulou @akalfopoulou.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
thank you @inkstickmedia.com for giving this review a home.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 28/09/2026
In a new book, Samar Yazbek documents the ‘algorithms of murder’ through testimonies from Palestinians enduring Israel’s war on Gaza. inkstickmedia.com/from-gaza-te...
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From Gaza, Testimonies of Unthinkable Violence
In a new book, Samar Yazbek documents the ‘algorithms of murder’ through testimonies from Palestinians enduring Israel’s war on Gaza.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 25/09/2026
"The Jewish Underground carried out a series of car bombings targeting Palestinian mayors across the West Bank. Ramallah Mayor Karim Khalaf lost his left foot, while Nablus Mayor Bassam Shakaa lost both legs."
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The West Bank's Long, Deadly History of Israeli Settler Violence
Since the 1980s, hardline Israeli settlers have carried out wanton violence, attacking Palestinians and their communities without pause.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 25/09/2026
"The heart of the novel’s story, a young woman named Marina, is the Chicago-raised granddaughter of a Nakba survivor who decides to visit Palestine and reconnect with her ancestry for the first time in the early 2000s."
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Palestinian Horror Fiction Is Having a Moment
Amid Israel's ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian horror fiction is teaching readers about the country's troubled history.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 25/09/2026
"From December 2023 to May 2025, US airstrikes on Yemen killed at least 213 civilians and injured 363 more, according to a new report that documents 46 separate incidents including strikes on homes, hospitals, water infrastructure, a steel factory, an oil port, and a migrant detention center."
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Deep Dive: US Airstrikes Killed and Injured Hundreds in Yemen
During the Biden era and the second Trump administration, Washington's attacks on Yemen have killed at least 213 civilians.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 24/09/2026
"In Trump’s first term, the US conducted 219 airstrikes in Somalia — quadruple that of the two previous administrations combined. This military escalation, of course, did not translate into lasting security."
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Why Is Trump Still Fanning the Flames of War in Somalia?
As the Trump administration goes to war elsewhere, it has also once again drastically escalated attacks in Somalia.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 24/09/2026
The White House’s fight with the press over camera access raises a question that extends beyond today’s headlines: Who gets to shape the visual record of the presidency? inkstickmedia.com/what-happens...
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What Happens to Presidential Power When the Cameras Disappear?
The White House’s fight with the press over camera access raises a question that extends beyond today’s headlines: Who gets to shape the visual record of the presidency?
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 23/09/2026
"The United States cannot, in good faith, claim to care about religious freedom while it privileges and promotes a certain theology from the Pentagon podium."
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From Pulpit to Pipeline: How Religious Nationalism Captures a Military
Designed to serve soldiers of every faith, the US military chaplaincy is being reshaped around religious nationalism—with implications far beyond the barracks.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 23/09/2026
"Last year ... the US government put 76 children from Guatemala on a deportation plane over Labor Day weekend. The children were woken up in the middle of the night; one had a panic attack, another vomited from their nerves."
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The Quiet, Alarming Escalation of Trump's Immigration Crackdown
With Kristi Noem out at the Department of Homeland Security, Trump's immigration crackdown is going through a quiet, alarming escalation.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 23/09/2026
"The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the war with Iran has cost the Pentagon roughly $38 billion as of Aug. 1, a nonpartisan accounting that comes in below the administration’s own public figures and has only deepened the confusion over how much the six-month conflict has actually cost."
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Deep Dive: How Much Has the Iran War Cost Americans, Really?
The Congressional Budget Office has released a report tallying its own estimates of how much the Iran war has cost American taxpayers.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 23/09/2026
Designed to serve soldiers of every faith, the US military chaplaincy is being reshaped around a narrower religious vision—one with implications far beyond the barracks. inkstickmedia.com/military-cha...
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From Pulpit to Pipeline: How Religious Nationalism Captures a Military
Designed to serve soldiers of every faith, the US military chaplaincy is being reshaped around religious nationalism—with implications far beyond the barracks.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 22/09/2026
“The genocide in Gaza had really escalated, and it was a way of taking in the horrors in these sort of meted out little pieces, rather than what reality was feeling like. I’ve learned that in dark times people are drawn to horror, and I understand why, because you can control it.”
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Palestinian Horror Fiction Is Having a Moment
Amid Israel's ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian horror fiction is teaching readers about the country's troubled history.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 22/09/2026
"I remember the night of June 2, 2019. We were at the barricade in Kolombia, behind the railway tracks, sleeping on the ground with 50 boys. Rapid Support Forces (RSF) trucks sat in the dark. Each time we tried to sleep, they hit the headlights."
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Tea Without Sugar: A Eulogy from Sudan
A harrowing personal account from inside Sudan’s war.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 22/09/2026
"Earlier this year, US State Department officials made very specific accusations that China had conducted low-yield explosive nuclear tests in 2020 — which China firmly denied. Such tests, if they happened, would violate the intent of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty."
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China is Rapidly Expanding its Nuclear Arsenal. How Should the US React?
When Xi Jinping visits the White House on Sept. 24, it’s uncertain whether he and Trump will discuss nuclear weapons — but they should.
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Comma Press @commapress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
'The two years of genocide we’ve all just witnessed constitute yet another dreamlike trauma that Palestinians will always be running from... a living nightmare.' Basma interviewed as part of a new article on Palestinian horror fiction for @inkstickmedia.com ✍ 🔗 inkstickmedia.com/palestinian-...
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 22/09/2026
Deena Helm's 'Our Cut of Salt' is the latest in a slate of distinctly Palestinian horror fiction releases that examine the legacy of displacement and ethnic cleansing. inkstickmedia.com/palestinian-...
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Palestinian Horror Fiction Is Having a Moment
Amid Israel's ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian horror fiction is teaching readers about the country's troubled history.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 21/09/2026
"Like the other eight nuclear armed nations, China is modernizing its arsenal. What’s different is that China is also significantly increasing its number of warheads." inkstickmedia.com/china-nuclear/
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China is Rapidly Expanding its Nuclear Arsenal. How Should the US React?
When Xi Jinping visits the White House on Sept. 24, it’s uncertain whether he and Trump will discuss nuclear weapons — but they should.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 21/09/2026
A new report takes a hard look at the hardships more than 750 million women around the world face living near conflict zones.
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Deep Dive: 750 Million Women Live Near a Deadly Conflict
A new report from the Peace Research Institute Oslo finds that more than 750 million women live within 31 miles of a deadly conflict.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 21/09/2026
When Xi Jinping visits the White House on Sept. 24, it’s uncertain whether he and Trump will discuss nuclear weapons — but they should. inkstickmedia.com/china-nuclear/
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China is Rapidly Expanding its Nuclear Arsenal. How Should the US React?
When Xi Jinping visits the White House on Sept. 24, it’s uncertain whether he and Trump will discuss nuclear weapons — but they should.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 20/09/2026
"Facing an unprecedented decline in revenue and confidence, Germany’s flailing automotive industry is betting on weapons manufacturing to help recoup its losses."
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As Germany Rearms, Carmakers Turn to Defense Contracts
From Volkswagen to Mercedes, the country's struggling auto industry is embracing defense production—even as workers question what they're being asked to build.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 20/09/2026
"Casting protestors as terrorists has become a routine move by JD Vance and Stephen Miller, widely considered the architect of Trump’s immigration agenda. Noem echoed those same claims while at DHS, though recently, Markwayne Mullin has focused on using the 'terrorist' label to describe immigrants."
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The Quiet, Alarming Escalation of Trump's Immigration Crackdown
With Kristi Noem out at the Department of Homeland Security, Trump's immigration crackdown is going through a quiet, alarming escalation.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 19/09/2026
"With wars from Ukraine to the Middle East to Africa still raging and putting ever more fossil fuels into the atmosphere, it remains an open question whether humanity can stop itself from essentially making full-scale war on planet Earth and so, in a deeply unnerving fashion, on ourselves."
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How Trump Is Giving American Imperial Decline a New Meaning
Under the rule of President Donald Trump, American imperial decline has intensified at such a rate that it has taken on a new meaning.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 19/09/2026
"The invasion theme saturated much of the country’s anti-immigrant sentiment throughout the remainder of the 19th century. In the 1870s, for instance, California newspapers made a habit of running panicked headlines about a so-called 'Chinese invasion.'"
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The Long, Lethal History of Trump's 'Invasion' Rhetoric
In 2018, Trump began to routinely describe immigration as an ‘invasion.’ That rhetoric has fueled deadly violence for nearly two centuries.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 19/09/2026
Yemen's Houthis recently escalated a long-simmering conflict with Saudi Arabia. inkstickmedia.com/how-will-the...
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How Will the Houthis Impact the Trajectory of the Iran War?
With the recent Houthi escalation against Saudi Arabia, could the Yemen-based militant group change the trajectory of the Iran war?
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 19/09/2026
"The Pentagon initially told committee staff it had spent $25 billion on expended munitions, then revised the number upward to $27.7 billion two weeks later."
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Deep Dive: How Much Has the Iran War Cost Americans, Really?
The Congressional Budget Office has released a report tallying its own estimates of how much the Iran war has cost American taxpayers.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 19/09/2026
“They openly declared that it was their intention to drive all Arabs out of the West Bank.”
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The West Bank's Long, Deadly History of Israeli Settler Violence
Since the 1980s, hardline Israeli settlers have carried out wanton violence, attacking Palestinians and their communities without pause.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 19/09/2026
"The Trump administration, after the failure of other options, appears to be hoping that the Iranian regime either will be toppled by an economically strained Iranian public or will somehow give up and make concessions." inkstickmedia.com/how-will-the...
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How Will the Houthis Impact the Trajectory of the Iran War?
With the recent Houthi escalation against Saudi Arabia, could the Yemen-based militant group change the trajectory of the Iran war?
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