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Mathew Foresta @mathewforesta.bsky.social · 4h

We don't talk enough about how sports, like all workplaces/capitalist institutions, is a dictatorship. It is not the will of the average fan or player worldwide that this genocide happen, yet FIFA refuses to take any action to oppose it.

Jules Boykoff @julesboykoff.bsky.social · 4h

As seen stenciled on the concrete outside Helsinki Olympic Stadium ahead of the Finland-Lithuania FIFA World Cup qualifier

photograph of a stencil on the cement outside of Helsinki Olympics Stadium that reads on red text "Show Israel the red card". beneath the text is a rectangular red card

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Mathew Foresta @mathewforesta.bsky.social · 1d

Hey everyone, my latest. Pete Hegseth is allowing war criminals to keep the Medal of Honor. He's spitting in the face of real heroes and perpetuating settler colonialism as he does it.

bettergracesandliberations.substack.com/p/the-coloni...

The Colonizer and His False Medals

Pete Hegseth defends atrocity, distorts history, furthers settler colonial nationalism, and spits in the face of real heroes.

bettergracesandliberations.substack.com

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Mathew Foresta @mathewforesta.bsky.social · 13h

The Mariners are staying in this through the sheer, collective anxious energy of their city.

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Mathew Foresta @mathewforesta.bsky.social · 14h

Mia is finding Zen through it.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 5d

curtis yarvin seems somewhat unhappy

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 16h

People paid $200 a ticket to listen to Peter Thiel do bog issue antisemitism for four lectures about his belief in the antichrist.

Lots of fools wishing to be relieved of their money, I guess.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Screenshot text from The Guardian:
He believes the Armageddon will be ushered in by an antichrist-type figure who cultivates a fear of existential threats such as climate change, AI and nuclear war to amass inordinate power. The idea is this figure will convince people to do everything they can to avoid something like a third world war, including accepting a one-world order charged with protecting everyone from the apocalypse that implements a complete restriction of technological progress. In his mind, this is already happening. Thiel said that international financial bodies, which make it more difficult for people to shelter their wealth in tax havens, are one sign the antichrist may be amassing power and hastening Armageddon, saying: “It’s become quite difficult to hide one’s money.”

It’s because the antichrist talks about Armageddon nonstop. We’re all scared to death that we’re sleepwalking into Armageddon. And then because we know world war three will be an unjust war, that pushes us. We’re going hard towards peace at any price.

What I worry about in that sort of situation is you don’t think too hard about the details of the peace and it becomes much more likely that you get an unjust peace. This is, by the way, the slogan of the antichrist: 1 Thessalonians 5:3. It’s peace and safety, sort of the unjust peace.

Let me conclude on this choice of antichrist or Armageddon. And again, in some ways the stagnation and the existential risks are complementary, not contradictory. The existential risk pushes us towards stagnation and distracts us from it.

How does Thiel think Armageddon will happen?
Thiel rarely gives a definitive answer about who exactly the antichrist might be or how Armageddon might come about – a central point across his lectures is that nothing is written in stone or inevitable – but he does give the contours of what a global conflict that could lead to Armageddon might look like.

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Mathew Foresta @mathewforesta.bsky.social · 17h

Trump called veterans "losers and suckers." They have never liked or respected veterans.

Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 22h

Consequence of the shutdown, many civil servants and military members are lining up at food banks because they have not been payed yet.

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Mathew Foresta @mathewforesta.bsky.social · 17h

Signed

Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 18h

A ceasefire will not last if Palestinians don’t have a State.

Join me and sign this global petition to demand the United States recognize Palestinian Statehood and vote to make it so. Wherever you are in the world, sign & boost!

Can we get 1M signatures?

SIGN HERE: bit.ly/4nEUKjT

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Mathew Foresta @mathewforesta.bsky.social · 20h

It very much seems like a remake of By Dawns Early Light and other 80s-90s nuke movies. Frankly, we kind of need it. We need to discuss nuclear disarmament. Threads and The Day After rightfully scared the shit out of the world. I'm interested to see it.

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 20h

ok but this is also a really boring and cliched premise that has been done like 400 times as subplots in other movies so the real question is do I want to spend 90+ minutes of my life on the Hollywood version of turning a Bollywood song title into a spinoff movie

NPR @npr.org · 1d

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch. n.pr/48przga

Mathew Foresta @mathewforesta.bsky.social · 1d

Mussolini explicitly abandoned Socialism. His first victims were leftists.

Mathew Foresta @mathewforesta.bsky.social · 1d

Even making the comparison in the way he did plays on foolish right-wing tropes.

Mathew Foresta @mathewforesta.bsky.social · 1d

No they don't. Hitler was elected, Franco used a coup, Pinochet was installed by a foreign engineered coup, Stalin took power in internal party struggles.

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Mathew Foresta @mathewforesta.bsky.social · 1d

I'm reminding everyone that the U.S. only allowed white, property owning men to vote at the outset, and George Washington ordered his army to re-enslave freed people right after The Battle of Yorktown.

Mathew Foresta @mathewforesta.bsky.social · 1d

Stalin was on the Authoritarian Left. His was an offshoot of Marxist-Leninism.

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Mathew Foresta @mathewforesta.bsky.social · 1d

LMFAO Atlantic, you punks literally ran a piece saying settler colonialism isn't real and cheer it on when Israel does it. If you really want to say something, be real, the settler state is illegitimate, and land must be returned.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 1d

The Declaration of Independence is revered for its universalist language of freedom. But it also contains a derogatory indictment of Native Americans. On its 250th anniversary, the U.S. should reckon with this complex legacy, Ned Blackhaw argues:

How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution

The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy.

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Mathew Foresta @mathewforesta.bsky.social · 1d

LMFAO Atlantic, you punks literally ran a piece saying settler colonialism isn't real and cheer it on when Israel does it. If you really want to say something, be real, the settler state is illegitimate, and land must be returned.

bsky.app/profile/thea...

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 1d

The Declaration of Independence is revered for its universalist language of freedom. But it also contains a derogatory indictment of Native Americans. On its 250th anniversary, the U.S. should reckon with this complex legacy, Ned Blackhaw argues:

How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution

The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy.

bit.ly

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Mathew Foresta @mathewforesta.bsky.social · 1d

That's kind of always been America, especially for Black, Brown, and Indigenous people.

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Mathew Foresta @mathewforesta.bsky.social · 1d

Liberals not painting fascists as left-wing challenge level impossible!

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

"Stalinism and Stephen Miller: Cause for concern"
(video)
snyder.substack.com/p/stalinism-...

Stalinism and Stephen Miller (video)

Cause for concern

snyder.substack.com

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Mathew Foresta @mathewforesta.bsky.social · 1d

Stalinism? Stephen Miller is a fascist. Why is it that liberals always feel the need to try and paint the far-right as somehow left? I think it's a relic of McCarthyism. And no, I'm more on the Anarchist side of the spectrum, I'm not a Stalin lover, but this is high liberal bullshit.

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Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 1d

Israel highlighting how many 100s of aid trucks they will now allow into Gaza is a tacit admission that they were using aid as a weapon of war, by the way. seems weird not to talk about this

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Mathew Foresta @mathewforesta.bsky.social · 1d

The Nobel Prize committee did what Democrats refuse to do and stood up to Trump.

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats to the Nobel Committee for being more resistant to Trump attacks than most institutions

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Mathew Foresta @mathewforesta.bsky.social · 1d

Wapo is only good for cleaning up cat piss.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Just saying it out loud right now.

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Mathew Foresta @mathewforesta.bsky.social · 1d

Hey everyone, my latest. Pete Hegseth is allowing war criminals to keep the Medal of Honor. He's spitting in the face of real heroes and perpetuating settler colonialism as he does it.

bettergracesandliberations.substack.com/p/the-coloni...

The Colonizer and His False Medals

Pete Hegseth defends atrocity, distorts history, furthers settler colonial nationalism, and spits in the face of real heroes.

bettergracesandliberations.substack.com

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, happy 88th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians – and someone concussed him with a brick

A man in a suit stands at a microphone which has been mounted on the roof of a van. There are loudspeakers at his feet, and a building behind him. He has an arm raised, and is flinching as projectiles are hurled at him, because he's a fucking Nazi

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