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A S @leftlackpatience.bsky.social · 3h

Show up at your local Love America rallies. The rallies to Free America from Despots.

Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 4h

The last time we organized NoKings protests in June, we turned out over 5 million people in over 2100 locations across the country!

This time, we have OVER 2500 locations and are expecting EVEN BIGGER crowds!

Make a plan to JOIN US this Saturday, October 18th!
NoKingsOct18

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 11d

Damn... This was really brave and perfectly executed. The way you guys planted multiple people all around the room and spoke up one at a time overwhelmed their security. This was brilliant. I respect it.💙👏😎

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mskathleenquinn.bsky.social @mskathleenquinn.bsky.social · 4h

Italy defeated Israel in the World Cup qualifer while several thousand Italians protested outside the stadium against the continued occupation of Palestine and Israel's genocide.

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A S @leftlackpatience.bsky.social · 3h

Well said. The universal human rights era is what I want to live in: care about Black Americans, workers, immigrants, and the oppressed everywhere.

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mskathleenquinn.bsky.social @mskathleenquinn.bsky.social · 3h

Booker betrays MLK Jr and Malcom X by deriding people taking risks to fight for universal human rights and to finally end a racist US foreign policy that for decades has slaughtered and displaced millions of brown and Muslim people -- implying that's an elite concern black Americans ignore.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h

"Look, I'm one of a handful of people that don't take corporate PAC money."

"What about AIPAC money? You take AIPAC money, don't you?"

"A minuscule percentage of my resources come from..."

"I read it's like $800,000...."

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

"I think the Democratic base feels like there is a disconnect. We hear you, when you did your 25-hour speech, I was like go Cory, I love this, that is amazing.

And then there's a photo shoot with you with Benjamin Netanyahu, and I was just like, what in the actual fuck? It was heartbreaking."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h

Senator @corybooker.com declines to call Netanyahu a “war criminal”

(And @mizzwelch.bsky.social @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social @pumpspumpspumps.bsky.social call him out for it)

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Old Guy @chloeisacat.bsky.social · 15h

Graham Platner is the candidate I am continuing to support.

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 15h

Chuck Schumer should be focused on fighting Donald Trump and protecting healthcare for millions of Americans, not meddling in a Maine primary.

DC's choice has lost to Susan Collins five times in a row. We can't afford a sixth.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 19h

Amen to this entire thread

Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 22h

Lot of people treated a genocide of a people, sponsored by their own country, as an annoying pet issue that needed to be shelved after the killing as complete or pushed aside for other political problems. And pretended that it was just too complicated to engage with.

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 22h

Congrats to all the people who have postured as intelligent and morally righteous for years but decided that they couldn’t take a stand against genocide or decided to justify and cheer on the massacre of a people for whatever reason. Now they can go back to playing the intellectual in peace.

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 21h

Now that the American media can go back to never covering the constant killing of Palestinians and Israel’s expansionist project, these people can go back to writing their screeds about imagining a better world and accepting the lesser evil, and all the other fucking nonsense they love opining about

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 1d

i cannot get over how quickly this is happening. the decline of the other two branches/ascent of the lawless executive is outpacing actual democratic decline, which is usually what precipitates executive consolidation. but in our case, the other two branches are collaborators

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 1d

We are living through the most consequential shift in the constitutional government of the United States in over a hundred and fifty years and nobody seems to have even noticed yet.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

With Bari Weiss at the helm, CBS News instantly adopts the Likud Party style guide. Now Syrian territory that was invaded and occupied by Netanyahu after Assad fell has suddenly become a "shared border" rather than Syrian territory.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 1d

'I know it's immoral': Child workers still common in Pakistan.

One in four households in Pakistan, a country of 255 million people, employs a child as a domestic worker, mostly girls aged 10 to 14, according to a 2022 report by the International Labor Organization
u.afp.com/SmjQ

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1d

If everybody who went to a pro Palestine protest sticks to this we could actually free Palestine

brettspets.bsky.social @brettspets.bsky.social · 1d

I will not vote for any candidate who is pro Israel period.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

The Earth has reached its first climate tipping point, signalling a bleak new reality for the planet that scientists had once believed was still far away. In a damning new report released on Monday, 160 international researchers warned that a point of no return has nee passed.

The world has reached its first climate tipping point

Milestone signals stark new reality for the planet – and raises the alarm about impending catastrophes

www.independent.co.uk

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder that this ceasefire and hostage exchange offer was on the table from the very beginning, so what excuse could possibly be given for the two years of horrors before it was accepted?

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 1d

Please don’t look away from this man’s suffering.

Please keep fighting for our Palestinian friends as the powers that be lie to us all about this “peace deal”.

And please please please don’t give up <3

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 1d

Notice the difference?

Also Israel has killed dozens of Palestinians since this “ceasefire” began. Including a beloved journalist named Saleh Aljafarawi who was only 28 years old.

He spent this genocide chronicling life in Gaza. And they murdered him while claiming peace.

B B C NEWS
Palestinians celebrate return of detainees freed by Israel
Today's Podcast
News Today
All 20 living hostages in Gaza freed by Hamas as peace plan holds

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Goff @themightygoff.bsky.social · 2d

If any Irish who see this can sign this petition to stop the bomb-signing genocide supporting scumbag from playing Dublin with his shit metal band, it'd be appreciated.
Sure, fuck it. Everyone sign it. It doesn't ask for your address.

#bds

c.org/g8TVFj6cXR

Sign the Petition

Stop Zionist David Draiman playing Dublin’s 3arena

c.org

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A S @leftlackpatience.bsky.social · 1d

Well that hasn’t worked in the past. Short memory Americans will again reflexively support Israel with time, the propaganda is so strong.

A S @leftlackpatience.bsky.social · 1d

About Israel and the dems who think there should be even more support. Emissary makes sense.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Seems to me like 1) some of these people are hiding their underlying preferences behind a series of shallow arguments about blackmail, and 2) some of these people genuinely think Israel is as popular as ever among the Democratic base despite all evidence to the contrary.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t understand why we need a “Columbus Day” when this country celebrates incompetent white men failing up and taking what isn’t theirs all year round.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 1d

Today’s “One First” looks at how #SCOTUS and its defenders have responded to criticisms of the Court’s behavior in Trump cases either by knocking down straw men or by attacking the critics—without meaningfully defending what the Court is actually *doing*:

www.stevevladeck.com/p/183-the-mi...

After all, maybe one can defend the Court granting emergency relief more often than ever before and in cases with far greater real-world (and structural) impacts. And maybe one can defend the Court altering (if not completely scrapping) the traditional balance of the equities in these cases. But does that defense extend to the Court doing so especially in cases in which President Trump is a party—and no others? And does it extend to the Court doing all of this without usually providing written explanations of what it is doing—or why? And even if the answer is somehow “yes,” does it also extend to the Court doing all of this, not usually explaining what it’s doing or why, and nevertheless accusing lower courts who fail to read the justices’ minds of “defying” the Court?

I have a very hard time believing that anyone can genuinely make it through even three of those sentences with a coherent defense of what the Supreme Court has done over the past seven months—let alone all five of them. I’d love to see such an argument, if it exists, but I haven’t been—and won’t be—holding my breath.

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