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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 17m

every one of these people is delegitimizing the regime's claims and tying up regime resources and you're whining on twitter and comparing them to Nova festival goers bsky.app/profile/notu...

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 10h

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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Many such cases

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 21m

these aren't radicals or communists they are red-painted Calvinists looking to the Revolution as the End of Days

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Ephraim Stone @testonewrites.bsky.social · 2h

Ahed Tamimi is Palestinian, Indigenous to Palestine, and a white blue-eyed blonde. People from across the Levant, Jewish and non-Jewish alike, have begged people to stop the eugenic memes when it comes to who’s truly “Middle-Eastern” because they’re so immensely harmful.

Won’t stop Johnny though.

Johnny Staccato: Television’s Jazz Detective @tunaghost.bsky.social · 6h

why would you ever tell this red-headed white man his roots aren’t from the Middle East

Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 6h

This joke is funny because it's saying Israelis are fake, rootless people who steal all their culture, see? Not a real ethnicity whose material culture is rooted in their blood and soil. No, some kind of sub-people.

This meme was heavily pushed by an influencer who claims Israel killed Charlie Kirk

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 2h

Nasser could embrace black Egyptians as brothers, drop mustard gas on Yemani royalist civilians and expel his country's Jews all in the same day.

Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 2h

americans just cannot comprehend how “racially” diverse mena countries are and how irelevant that is to the broader ethnic political make up

Johnny Staccato: Television’s Jazz Detective @tunaghost.bsky.social · 6h

why would you ever tell this red-headed white man his roots aren’t from the Middle East

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Mark Anderson @emer.net · 26m

My great grandfather, a Syrian Christian, was a pretty ordinary looking white dude. You’d think he was maybe Italian or something from pictures. I could tell you more if I had ANY idea how he came up with his last name or if you know, Syrian records were in better shape.

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 2h

like in general skin complexion is not the defining characteristic of the religious and political divisions in the middle east but there are absolutely people who would code as white to americans there. though, american racial concepts are not mutually intelligible bc they are not real

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 2h

americans just cannot comprehend how “racially” diverse mena countries are and how irelevant that is to the broader ethnic political make up

Johnny Staccato: Television’s Jazz Detective @tunaghost.bsky.social · 6h

why would you ever tell this red-headed white man his roots aren’t from the Middle East

Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 6h

This joke is funny because it's saying Israelis are fake, rootless people who steal all their culture, see? Not a real ethnicity whose material culture is rooted in their blood and soil. No, some kind of sub-people.

This meme was heavily pushed by an influencer who claims Israel killed Charlie Kirk

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Stephen L. Young @slyprofessor.bsky.social · 9m

Since Trump is concerned about getting to heaven, maybe he could do what Jesus told a rich dude who had similar concerns, "Sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me" (Mark 10:21).

You'd think Trump's evangelical advisors could tell him?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 2h

One of my least favourite things is when some Anglobrained people will sort of internalise these concepts, but only halfway, so they end up saying things like ACTUALLY FOR INSTANCE IN THE UK THEY DONT EVEN REGARD POLES AS WHITE. THEY SUBJECT THEM TO RACISM THERE.

Those are two different sentences.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2h

Anyway all of this is to say this is why I do not say Israel is white supremacism because that is not the basis of the state in any really accurate sense. There are often alliances of ideological convenience between Zionist and white supremacist but Israel is a Jewish supremacist state.

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mskathleenquinn.bsky.social @mskathleenquinn.bsky.social · 35m

"Ta-Nehisi Coates, in Palestine, May 2023, observes black Israeli soldiers "lording their power over Palestinians, many of whom would, in America, have been seen as 'white'. This reminds him "of something [he has] long known: that race is a species of power and nothing else."

(h/t Jeremy Bushnell)

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 1h

The costumed dancing at protests seems flawlessly calibrated to prove Andy *go is a ridiculous liar. They’re killing his whole con.

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Nature Art by Gibson @azgibsonz.bsky.social · 45m

“There's a bluebird in my heart
that wants to get out..."
~Charles Bukowski 🪶

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📸 Sialia mexicana, the Western Blueborb of Happiness 🐦

#MondayVibes
#BlueSkyMonday
#Bluebirds
#BirdLovers
#Photography
#EastCoastKin

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 41m

I think it's too early to say for sure, but Leo's selection as Pope raises my odds of formal schism in the US within the next decade or two *considerably*

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 39m

Mr. President, I hear heaven only has a few open spots left.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 5h

you go, portland

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 5h

my father (a retired white engineer who has been in oklahoma for 40 years) is my weathervane for what normal people who just watch the news periodically think, and he was like “so, they want to call the guard out on a bunch of kids wearing frog suits? is that true?”, the admin is losing the PR war

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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Guha Krishnamurthi @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social · 5h

My dad, an immigrant who has been in OK for 40 years and generally believes in American institutions (and does not read what I write):

Why do we even have a Supreme Court? All they do is approve everything Trump does?

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 5h

my father (a retired white engineer who has been in oklahoma for 40 years) is my weathervane for what normal people who just watch the news periodically think, and he was like “so, they want to call the guard out on a bunch of kids wearing frog suits? is that true?”, the admin is losing the PR war

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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Jeffrey Sens @jeffreysens.bsky.social · 4h

Oooooh I hope this is what normies are thinking

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 5h

my father (a retired white engineer who has been in oklahoma for 40 years) is my weathervane for what normal people who just watch the news periodically think, and he was like “so, they want to call the guard out on a bunch of kids wearing frog suits? is that true?”, the admin is losing the PR war

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 5h

though my father has an innate hatred of the national guard from being on the green at kent state when they opened fire

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 5h

my father (a retired white engineer who has been in oklahoma for 40 years) is my weathervane for what normal people who just watch the news periodically think, and he was like “so, they want to call the guard out on a bunch of kids wearing frog suits? is that true?”, the admin is losing the PR war

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 5h

the inflatable costume thing is an extremely smart tactic

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 5h

my father (a retired white engineer who has been in oklahoma for 40 years) is my weathervane for what normal people who just watch the news periodically think, and he was like “so, they want to call the guard out on a bunch of kids wearing frog suits? is that true?”, the admin is losing the PR war

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly