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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 29m

Following the NSPM-7 directive for feds to focus on anti-ICE terrorism, the FBI and Homeland produced an intel bulletin linking anti-ICE protests to terrorism.

Bulletin here: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-feds-...

Leak: Feds Think Protests Hide Terrorism

“No Kings” protest eyed amid NSPM-7 domestic terror panic

www.kenklippenstein.com

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 16h

What Pan-Africanism Can Teach Us Now

A biography of Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah casts the post-WWII era as a Black liberation epic rather than a psychodrama between Moscow and Washington.
newrepublic.com/article/1997...

What Pan-Africanism Can Teach Us Now

A biography of Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah casts the post-WWII era as a Black liberation epic rather than a psychodrama between Moscow and Washington.

newrepublic.com

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Nora Mabie @noramabie.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: After years of legislative debate, today marks the first time the state of Montana - home to 12 tribes and 7 reservations - has officially observed Indigenous Peoples' Day as a legal holiday.

For the first time, Montana officially celebrates Indigenous Peoples’ Day

After years of legislative debate, Oct. 13 marks the first time the state has officially observed the day as a legal holiday.

montanafreepress.org

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 2h

Universities considered “the best” (and many others) have transformed themselves into great factories of unlearning, cathedrals to ignorance. This was already the case, to be sure, but Palestine forced the hands of the trustees & donors who don’t want their money undermining their social position.

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 2h

Hostages, captives, prisoners: Western media still privileges Israeli over Palestinian lives - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hostages-captives-prisoners-western-media-still-privileges-israeli-over

Hostages, captives, prisoners: Western media still privileges Israeli over Palestinian lives

www.middleeasteye.net

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 3h

This is not the problem of American political life

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Politicians Aren’t Cool Enough to Curse This Much

Political leaders once watched their language. Now they delight in using obscenity.

www.theatlantic.com

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Tsi'ya•Ꮵꮿ @ironriverotter.bsky.social · 18h

Cormac McCarthy is vastly overrated and his book The Stonemason is a weird self insert where homeboy is imagining what'd be like to be a Black man, when he could just not have.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Tsi'ya•Ꮵꮿ @ironriverotter.bsky.social · 16h

agreed.
using other people as pavement on your life journey is actually not cool.
life is not a sandbox full of NPCs.

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 16h

Believing other people are your “practice/ learning experiences” is the essence of abuse .

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3h

“Patrek Chase, kidney transplant program director at Parkland Health in Dallas, claimed that patients at his hospital – which generally serves a poorer population – were passed over for a healthy organ in favor of patients at UT Southwestern Medical Center, which generally helps the affluent.”

Whistleblower claims Dallas hospitals kept kidneys from poorer patients

Kidneys that were deemed unsuitable for patients at Parkland hospital were allegedly given to others at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

www.texasstandard.org

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 5h

“Sydette are you saying that everytime a white person tries to speak on this they should be including someone directly affected”

YES .

Now more than ever. Especially when discussing Chicago. And immigrants EVERY SINGLE DAMN TIME

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h

(ABC) - The Israel Defense Forces said its troops opened fire on Palestinians, killing five, after they allegedly violated the terms of the ceasefire agreement.

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Israel-Gaza live updates: 5 Palestinians killed in Gaza City for alleged ceasefire violation, IDF says

Israel on Tuesday identified two of the people whose remains were returned.

abcnews.go.com

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Lady Lupae @ulfra.bsky.social · 8h

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 9h

Stop the hate. You’ve seen the reports, the evidence, the photos all of it.
Stop denying our pain after you’ve already taken everything from us. 😅

Justin/עזרא 🏳️‍🌈✡️🎗️ @ezra75.bsky.social · 1d

The latest news is that they have three more months of food than they need. They’ve never been starving.

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Frances Danger *Deadly SoverAuntie* @francesdanger.bsky.social · 4h

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Mvskoke/Semvnole woman needs ongoing help ($100) for hotel/food by 11 AM CST please. 4 allies sending $25 meets this need. Mvto!

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Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 14h

This version is confirmed, by Hoffman Estates police, puncturing the official DHS statement.

At this point, there is a statement from DHS re 🧊 activities in the Chicago area that’s refuted in similar fashion on nearly a daily basis at a minimum over the past week

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 16h

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 3h

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16h

Looks like the news is out. May her memory be a blessing. Miss Major, Presente!

Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 17h

Rest in power, Miss Major.

www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died

The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

www.advocate.com

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Ravin BOO!dram 👻 🎃 - FREE ŁINK @rvbdrm.com · 1d

RIP Saleh al-Jafarawi

Man on the left whose name is Saleh al-Jafarawi places his hand on a baby laying on a rocket with a big smile on their face.

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 15h

The thing about the debate of whether the Bible does or doesn’t condone slavery is that it kinda doesn’t matter.

Ultimately, if you need an invisible deity to tell you that the buying, selling, or ownership of other humans is wrong, you have much bigger fish to fry than the errancy of the Bible.

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 4h

Palestinian journalist Shadi Abu Seed was one of those released yesterday. He recounted his mistreatment in prison, where he was told that his family had been killed, which he only yesterday discovered was another lie. There are thousands of others with stories like his.

Shadi Abu Seed, one of the Palestinians released from prison, on Al Jazeera

Shadi Abu Seed, one of the Palestinians released from prison, on Al Jazeera looking with disbelief as he holds his child again

“I went hungry for the past two years. I swear to God, they didn’t feed us. They kept us naked. They beat us while we were naked. Day and night we were tortured. Till our last day in Israeli prison, they cut us and hit us and abused us. We ensured every kind of torture—emotional, and physical. We couldn’t even sleep. They threatened us with our children. They told me they killed my children. They told us that Gaza was destroyed. I arrived here and found that everything was gone. It looked like the end of the world. Everything is different.”

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 15h

Our fight is to make Indigenous People’s Day every single day.
For this to happen, we must end settler colonialism entirely.

This means toppling Empire, LandBack, and also, defeating the internal colonizer in our minds.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 8h

Y’all do know the correct response to a Black person pointing out the racism of white people is not NO WE’RE NOT, it’s keeping your lips zipped & moving on, right?

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 7h

You should really check yourself if you think Black people owe a collective you’re part of something. Black people didn’t get saved by any outside heroes. And they also don’t work for you.

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RL Stine Action @anothersmd.bsky.social · 4h

I've just discovered the term "K-shaped economy", which basically means they'll do anything to avoid describing wage theft and wealth disparity.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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