Today in 2008, President George W. Bush vetoed a bill that would have banned the CIA from using simulated drowning and other coercive interrogation methods to gain information from suspected terrorists.

#Torture
#DyingEmpire
#AmericanViolence

The Evil They Imagined for Gonâve Island When I read the story about the two white men from Texas plotting to travel to Gonâve Island in Haiti, my whole body went cold.

What kind of evil makes white men believe they can descend on a Haitian island and do whatever they want?
Some things you can’t read and stay silent about.
Read my full piece here:
unchainedblackpoet.substack.com/p/the-evil-t...

#Haiti #GonaveIsland #RaceAndPower #AmericanViolence

Trees with orange and red leaves

"When you grow up surrounded
By willful ignorance,
You have to believe that
Mercy has its own country,
And that it's round and borderless."

--Ani DiFranco

#AniDiFranco #Americanfascism #fascism #empathy #MakeEmpathyGreatAgain #Americanviolence #AbolishICE

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"There's a brutal imperial power
That my passport says I represent.
It will never represent where my heart lies,
Only vaguely where it went."

--Ani DiFranco

#Americanfascism #fascism #AniDiFranco #Americanviolence #Empathy #MakeEmpathyGreatAgain

AMERICAN VIOLENCE -- a poem and song by Bill Kochman

#America #AmericanViolence #GunViolence #Poetry #Poem

To see other poems related to this one, and to listen to the actual song, go to:

www.billkochman.com/Poetry/index.html

Article: "Owning Guns: What Saith the Scriptures

I didn’t watch the Charlie Kirk assassination video and I won’t. This country has a trauma porn problem. We don’t need to see graphic violence to understand violence is bad. I think this constant level of exposure is harming our souls #Americanpolitics #Americanculture #AmericanViolence

#AmericanViolence

Corey Lewis Teague (@vegangoon41) on Threads Delta State University is located in Cleveland, Mississippi. That's where they discovered the body of Demartravion Reed, a 21-year-old Black man, hanging from a tree. This happened today, September 15...

Delta State University is located in Cleveland, Mississippi. That's where they discovered the body of Demartravion Reed, a 21-year-old Black man, hanging from a tree. This happened today, September 15, 2025—not 1925.
#americanviolence #republikkkans #maga
www.threads.com/@vegangoon41...

The Current US Government is not a Role Model for Nonviolence The Trump regime is yelling and screaming about the assassination of Charlie Kirk and violent leftists. What do these people expect when they murder 11 innocent people on a small boat in Venezuela,…

#VenezuelaNoEsUnaAmenaza #Venezuelaboatattack #CharlieKirkAssassination #AmericanViolence
lauriesblog7.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/t...

The Twisted Math of American Violence Every shooting in America spawns scapegoats—mental health, culture, politics—but the problem is always guns. Charlie Kirk’s own rhetoric sanctified gun deaths as a “prudent deal,” and when that...

Because nothing says freedom like needing a calculator to count mass shootings. 🇺🇸 #AmericanViolence #GunControlNow

Violent Meaning, and/or, Meaning Violence The death of Charlie Kirk in the American spectacle.

Because there was no way I was going to be able to get on with things unless I wrote about it. Because it’s likely they’ll use Kirk’s death to declare a war on anything faintly ringing of a life lived with dignity.

#writing #AmericanViolence

Student suspect dies after high school shooting At least four people were transported to the hospital after a shooting unfolded at a high school in Colorado, officials said.

Did you hear about yesterday’s shooting? Public acts of violence are tragic and the Governor gives condolences, but this White-on-White crime is inevitable…
In American High Schools, unless we do something about GUNS and America’s gun culture.
#gunviolencesucks
#americanviolence

#auspol #AmericanViolence #foreverwars

#AmericanViolence #BombingIran

50+ year old argument w/ acerbic epigrammatic wit between #authors Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal on The Dick Cavett talk show. Juicy about 13 minutes but gets tasty at 20 when Gore Vidal just lays out Norman Mailer to dry. #70sTV #misogyny #AmericanViolence #WomansLib

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb1w...

American Violence (2017): Anti Death Penalty (Review) The 2017 drama American Violence can be seen as a cautionary tale and an anti death penalty message, all rolled into one. Written by Al Lamanda, directed by Timothy Woodward Jr. The film definitely ha...

American Violence (2017): Anti Death Penalty (Review) mikesfilmtalk.com/2017/01/28/a... #AlLamanda, #AmericanViolence, #BruceDern, #DeniseRichards, #EmmaRigby, #JohnnyMessner, #KaiwiLymanMersereau, #RichardKilpatrick, #TimothyWoodwardJr

How Student Phones and Social Media Are Fueling Fights in Schools Cafeteria melees. Students kicked in the head. Injured educators. Technology is stoking cycles of violence in schools across the United States.

"An Epidemic of Vicious School Brawls, Fueled by Student Cellphones" (NYT)
#AmericanViolence

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