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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 13h

man, that dude...

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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 13h

U.S. pay someone to do your killing imperialism
meets rabid U.S. racism

www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Qatar Facility at U.S. Air Force Base in Idaho Sparks Controversy

MAGA influencers criticized a training agreement announced by Defense Secretary Hegseth.

www.wsj.com

Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 14h

www.justiceformigrantfamilies.org

Justice for Migrant Families

www.justiceformigrantfamilies.org

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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 14h

ICE has banned all books in Western New York concentration camp. I've met a chronically ill novelist locked up there. Can't imagine how devastating this is. If yr in Buffalo, see below for migrant support groups. nysfocus.com/2025/10/08/b...

New York’s Biggest ICE Detention Center Bans Book Deliveries

Rejected books include a Spanish-English dictionary, a Spanish translation of a George R.R. Martin novel, and "The Seven Principles for Making Marriage…

nysfocus.com

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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 14h

The ceasefire is not a ceasefire. Not in Lebanon, not in West Bank, not in Gaza. Mere 'ceasefire' in Gaza sees Israeli ongoing settler colonialism & genocide. Israel bombs Lebanon almost daily, killing people, destroying 300 pieces of heavy machinery necessary to rebuild. podur.org/2025/10/12/a...

AER 152: The Third Ceasefire Begins...

Jon Elmer joins. We discuss the beginning of the third Ceasefire in Israel's genocidal war on Gaza.

podur.org

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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 1d

"The initial troop withdrawal line is well within Gaza, with the Israeli military still controlling 56% of the enclave....While a deal was reached on “phase one” of a ceasefire, details of how the plan will advance beyond that remain murky."
www.dropsitenews.com/p/displaced-...

Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 4d

also, just an fyi that ice globs saying they are staking out a child predator seems like one of their go to lies in buffalo . chase em off!

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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 4d

just watched mist burn off the empty-lot facing fence--vapor curling up--for five minutes instead of having a stroke

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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 4d

Amy De'ath & Fred Wah' Toward. Some. Air. patched some major gapers in my brain. feels lik major post-conceptualist resource for writers not interested in po-establishment award-ready verse (infrastructure of which is collapsing anyway). Sean Bonney, Dionne brand, Amy D talking w/ Spahr, Moten

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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 4d

yup. & shifting more of the economy toward war.

Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 4d

Turns out having a welfare state and a hoarding capitalist class isn’t actually sustainable

unusual whales @unusual_whales
X.com
Germany has proposed raising the retirement age to 73 to prevent the collapse of the pension system, per Reuters

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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 5d

you knew it was a lie & now you know it's a lie

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 6d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 6d

hang in there!

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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 6d

capital (& its fan-jawns) sure is doubling down on protecting property over actual real ass humans.

💀 🎃 ThemBOO! 🎃 💀 @thembo.bsky.social · 6d

@ai-rights.bsky.social has added you to the "ai racists" moderation list

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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 6d

In Milton's heaven, all the angels face God as mirrors for his glory. In our current hell, every mirror pointed at the sovereign must be smashed. Both are kinda totalitarian. That said, I think Milton wasn't that interested in heaven.

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 6d

Republican policy is increasingly framed around the idea that accurately describing what they are doing is worse than doing it.

They just got a Supreme Court ruling co-signing racial profiling as "common sense." So I guess the court smeared them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

DHS's Tricia McLaughlin: "It is a disgusting smear to say there is racial profiling going on."

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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 6d

And called for more flotillas. As in, this isn't the end. It's the beginning.

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 6d

Greta Thunberg: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story. What happened here was Israel… continuing to worsen and escalate their genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an...

Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 6d

Irish reporters have dug up the source of tons of bullets destined for Israel & genocide--a plant in Buffalo off Military Road, owned by a company whose former CEO was a friggin Nazi brown shirt.

They maintain an office at
70 Sayre St, Buffalo, NY 14207

www.ontheditch.com/nazi-linked-...

Tonnes of ammunition en route to Israel

A Nazi regime-linked company is among the suppliers of 563 tonnes of bomb shells and ammunition headed to Israel on a ship moored at a US port.

www.ontheditch.com

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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 6d

are they getting ready to scuba dive? got halloween store antifa vibes

Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 7d

Just fixed a door that wouldn't catch by putting a nickel under the latch plate and thought of the time my friend Tom & I got drunk, built a shoe rack, then wrote & recorded a song about building a shoe rack & this is what William Morris was talking about & what everyone deserves everyday right?

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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 7d

hog willing

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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 7d

glad you're here! was also sorry to miss you IRL in Buffalo. had to work. but heard the reading was great.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 7d

Italian journalist Lorenzo D’Agostino describes Greta Thunberg wrapped in an Israeli flag “like a war trophy,” mocked, beaten & humiliated. Ben Gvir oversaw detainees treated “as terrorists.” Read his account of what happened after activists were illegally detained on the Global Sumud Flotilla ⬇️

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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 7d

The entity is torturing Greta Thunberg.
That's how far gone they are.

Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 7d

i deleted my twitter account. some of my network there is here but most isn't, neither are a lot of people who I learned a lot from intellectually, politically, and artistically. that said, there are far worse problems to have.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7d

I have a full day today, but I woke up early to put this edition of my newsletter together because I need you all to have this rundown of what we've been up against this week in Chicago as the federal assault on our city continues. To ignore these developments would be a damning mistake for us all.

Must-Reads and the War on Chicago

"Chicagoans will not be a conquered people."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 7d

coming around to the fact that Bluesky is exile. not a bad thing. just having to relearn a lot of stuff. planted front bed w/c yesterday. garden w/m today. rally on fri. keeping sense of despair at bay.

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