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@murph612.bsky.social

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Socialist, NGO cancer fundraiser, 🎼 and 🏀 junkie. Proud parent of trans & NB badass. Mezzo Italiano. Happily married. Views are solely mine, not my employer. Free 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 Pronouns: Don’t fuck with my trans homies. Maxed out on donations, 😞

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MRF @murph612.bsky.social · 1h

The cognitive dissonance required to both understand and meet the danger of this moment, while honoring and revering the good things in life that so many people fought and died for, is really fucking jarring.

MRF @murph612.bsky.social · 3h

Exactly - these guys who bulldoze over the dead.

A picture of an Israeli bulldozer covering up the bodies of dozens of Palestinians

MRF @murph612.bsky.social · 3h

As always, Chris Hedges is spot on - don’t hold your breath.

“The only peace Israel offers Palestinians is the peace of the grave”.

GLEN JACKSON @glenjackson.bsky.social · 1d

There is no shortage of failed peace plans in occupied Palestine, all of them incorporating detailed phases and timelines, going back to the presidency of Jimmy Carter.

#GenocideDON #TrumpCrimeFamily #GazaRiviera #POTUS #AIPAC #Project2025 #Murder #Genocide #GOP #SCOTUS #Defense #Fascist #Dictator

Trump’s Sham Peace Plan

There will be no peace in Gaza. Only the temporary absence of war.

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MRF @murph612.bsky.social · 12h

malcolm-x.org/docs/gen_zio...

60+ years ago Malcolm X wrote a scathing Op-Ed piece in the Egyptian Gazette on Zionism and boy, is it a doozy.

malcolm x - documents > zionist logic -- malcolm x on zionism

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MRF @murph612.bsky.social · 12h

Pretty rich for Fatboy Dim to call anyone a “slob”.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h

ICYMI — Trump lied that Chicago had “4000” murders, when it’s projected to have 380 this year (way down from last year)

If it’s so bad there why does he have to keep lying about it?

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Kenn Pike @thutigger.bsky.social · 14h

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MRF @murph612.bsky.social · 13h

Just when you think they can’t get crueler ..

MRF @murph612.bsky.social · 20h

Who - what malevolent prick - kidnaps a 15-year-old boy with autism and puts him in ice detention WITHOUT NOTIFYING THE PARENTS?

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 22h

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

MRF @murph612.bsky.social · 1d

Love this man!!

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

MRF @murph612.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sure the New York Times will run an editorial talking about why this is bad for Biden‘s legacy.

MRF @murph612.bsky.social · 1d

Unreal. I’m glad she got saved !!

MRF @murph612.bsky.social · 1d

+ Epstein Files expose the pedo in the Oval Office.

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MRF @murph612.bsky.social · 1d

This is well worth reading.

Gershon Baskin גרשון בסקין غرشون بسكين @gershonbaskin.bsky.social · 1d

Today is the beginning of the day after
open.substack.com/pub/gershonb...

Today is the beginning of the day after

October 11, 2025

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MRF @murph612.bsky.social · 1d

Neither did I - but it’s beautiful.

MRF @murph612.bsky.social · 1d

Fuxk ALL these tech bros.

MRF @murph612.bsky.social · 1d

Shit

Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 1d

La Niña is back. It could mean another dangerously dry winter for Southern California

La Niña has reemerged in the eastern Pacific, a climate pattern that typically drives dry winters across the U.S. Southwest. Last winter's weak La Niña helped push Southern California into drought, and experts say it could be even more dramatic this year.

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MRF @murph612.bsky.social · 1d

I got more bad news for ya.

www.cair.com/press_releas...

BREAKING: CAIR Calls on Nobel Peace Prize Winner Maria Machado to Renounce Her Support for European Fascism, Likud Party and Anti-Muslim Bigotry

www.cair.com

MRF @murph612.bsky.social · 1d

I ❤️ This

A picture of a man holding a boy rollerblading with the Palestinian flag and the Italian flag waving - with the rubble of Gaza in the background celebrating the alleged Ceasefire.

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msoarescorreia @m-s-correia2025.bsky.social · 1d

This @BarackObama tweet will be taught in genocide studies courses as a case study of what dehumanization looks like.

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MRF @murph612.bsky.social · 1d

And don’t forget the Bush administration role in plotting a coup, backing Fatah against Hamas, which backfired catastrophically.

Source: Vanity Fair share.google/seRrzhgLgDEP...

The Gaza Bombshell

After failing to anticipate Hamas’s victory over Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian election, the White House cooked up yet another scandalously covert and self-defeating Middle East debacle: part Iran-con...

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MRF @murph612.bsky.social · 1d

Cue the lawsuit in 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1…

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, so embarrassing.

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Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 2d

Massive destruction left behind by the Israeli army after their withdrawal this morning from the Abdel-Al junction in Gaza City.

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Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 2d

Watch | Al Jazeera documents Israeli naval boats opening fire directly towards Palestinians in Al-Rashid coastal road, preventing them from returning to Gaza City and the northern areas of the Strip.

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MRF @murph612.bsky.social · 1d

The cruelty is astonishing.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine returning home to this after everything they have already been through.

Imagine doing this to other human beings essentially for sport.

Overnight, Israeli troops carried out a large-scale campaign of setting fire to huge amount of civilian homes and infrastructure before families returned to it in northern Gaza.

It appears to have been the most extensive mass arson operation since the genocide began

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