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Fari Bradley
@faribrad.bsky.social
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Multi-media artist working with sound, sculpture, performance & broadcast.

PhD final yr doctoral studies researcher: Smart Cities & #SoundArt
@unioftheartslondon.bsky.social

Radiophonics & speech radio. Music & sound art
Writing published @OxfordUniPress
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Fari Bradley @faribrad.bsky.social · Sep 23
OK here's the podcast that went out from Bethlehem today at midday

#podcast
#radio #listen #newmusic #politicalmusic #politicopostpunk #resistancemusic #jam #mix #djmix #femaledjs #palestine #nowplaying #musictoworkto
#radioalhara
www.mixcloud.com/Arts_Music_R...
But Everything's Getting Fking Harder - Radio Alhara
Listen to But Everything's Getting Fking Harder - Radio Alhara by ArtsMusicRadio_FariB
www.mixcloud.com
faribrad.bsky.social
“People opened their doors so protesters could take refuge & plainclothes agents identified their houses. I saw officers carry pistols & G3 rifles violently storm homes. They beat protesters with batons, pulled their clothes over their heads and took them away.”

#iran
www.iranhr.net/en/articles/...
Witness Account of Bloody Crackdown of Mashhad Protests
An eyewitness who participated in the nationwide protests in Mashhad, and who has since left Iran, gave their account of the bloody crackdowns in the city.
www.iranhr.net
January 21, 2026 at 3:03 PM
faribrad.bsky.social
A look at some history #trump #maga #epstein #epsteinfiles #donaldtrump
January 21, 2026 at 1:23 PM
faribrad.bsky.social
@l-aurian.bsky.social hope youre ok xxx Just remember the right get together and plan to win they put their diffrences aside and they take over, the left have to learn to get along , our fractures and worrying make us so weak, just focus on winning together for human rights, for the environment!
January 21, 2026 at 12:49 PM
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joelhs.bsky.social
“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
From Senator Chris McDaniel: “Lately, some folks have taken to calling ICE “the Gestapo.” It sounds fierce. It feels righteous. But it isn’t true, and it isn’t harmless. The Gestapo was a secret police force. No warrants. No courts. No lawyers. And no appeals. People vanished in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer meant anything. The knock on the door was the sentence. ICE isn’t that. Not even close. ICE is a public agency enforcing laws passed by elected officials. Its agents file reports. They seek warrants. They lose cases. Judges stop them. Lawyers challenge them. Some detainees go home. That’s not tyranny. That’s bureaucracy, for better and worse. You can hate immigration policy. You can argue enforcement is too harsh, too sloppy, or too broad. You can work to have the law changed if you wish. That’s a republic doing what it’s supposed to do. But when you call ordinary law enforcement “the Gestapo,” you cheapen real evil. You turn history into a slogan and suffering into a metaphor. And once every badge is tyranny, no tyranny is left to recognize. In Mississippi, I was raised to believe words should earn their weight. This one hasn't yet. It throws around the language of dictatorship while living under a system where courts still rule, lawyers still argue, and the government still loses. That difference matters. Because the day enforcement becomes secret, unchecked, and answerable to no one, we won’t need to borrow names from history. We’ll know exactly what we’re dealing with. And we’ll wish we’d kept our words honest.”
January 20, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
January 20, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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chadbourn.bsky.social
Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said the Arctic island’s population and its authorities need to start preparing for a possible military invasion, Bloomberg reports.
January 20, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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easternbluebirds.bsky.social
Fair. True. Wise.

And I still can't believe it's real...🤷‍♀️
January 20, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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unsubsam.bsky.social
I am very much in favor of planting stuff. thank you for your support.
January 20, 2026 at 3:05 PM
faribrad.bsky.social
USA!

Please enjoy some true #British sarcasm from @channel4tv.bsky.social

#HandsOff #NoKings #fightoligarchy #teslatakedown #musk #trump #doge #resistance #republicans #usa #fiftyfiftyone #e3 #gop #starlinktakedown #50501movement #USProtests #Resist #Handsoffprotest #MAGA
January 20, 2026 at 3:10 PM
faribrad.bsky.social
Prisoners, not detainees.

#ice #icegestapo #fightoligarchy #handsoff #teslatakedown #nokings #musk #trump #doge #resistance #republicans #usa #fiftyfiftyone #e3 #gop #usprotests #handsoffprotests #endoligarchy #maga #america #Resist #donaldtrump #EndImpunity #epstein #djt
juddlegum.bsky.social Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 1d
1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees

ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals

Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care

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ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment
ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months
popular.info
January 20, 2026 at 2:44 PM
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wtafc.bsky.social
January 20, 2026 at 2:39 PM
faribrad.bsky.social
Vlad the impaler to join #Pedonald on the Gaza “Board of Peace.”

Which he touted on his personal platform Truth Social, as:

“the Greatest and Most Prestigious Board ever assembled at any time, any place."

#palestine
#gaza #donaldtrump
truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
January 20, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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presseschauer.bsky.social
Auch wenn die Sache ernst ist, wünsche ich allen viel Spaß und Erfolg mit #nokings und #operationinflation

youtube.com/shorts/5wpFO...
Secret Roller Disco holds dance party outside ICE building in South Portland
YouTube video by The Oregonian
youtube.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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atigersighs.bsky.social
...and don't forget to wear your best inflatable...
#operationinflation
#portlandfrogarmyantifascistreserves
🐸🐔🐥🦈🦕🐢🦎🦞🦀🐙
joncooper-us.bsky.social Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Oct 16
Top 10 Rally Reminders for #NoKingsDayOct18th
October 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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operationinflation.com
#portland #FrogsTogetherStrong #OperationInflation come join the revolution dancing it's way into the hearts of America. Some are frogs, peacocks, pandas, unicorns, elephants and giraffes, but we are all Americans. ☮️🐸 SMASH that link for the revolution! operationinflation.com
October 13, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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adamjschwarz.bsky.social
Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask:

"If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"
January 19, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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unsubsam.bsky.social
I get it , but that's missing the point. The point being that the most heavily armed citizenry in the world is watching extrajudicial paramilitary thugs beat , shoot, murder and disappear its citizens and immigrants who have due process rights. In a just society, those agents get scraped up .
January 20, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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faribrad.bsky.social
Everyone, stop expecting him to act normally, you will have a LOT more energy when you accept he's going to burn this planet to the ground & fly off with Musk if he lives that long.

Instead you set about turning his evangelical funding base against him & his administration. #evangelicalsforTrump
January 20, 2026 at 1:28 PM
faribrad.bsky.social
#trump #greenland #maga #republicans #denmark #europe
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
Greenland minister tearful as she describes ‘intense pressure’ amid Trump’s threats
Vivian Motzfeldt was one of the foreign ministers who met with US vice-president JD Vance at the White House to discuss the future of the Danish territory
www.independent.co.uk
January 20, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
NYT documents how Trump made at least $1.4 billion off the presidency during his first year in office, although that is not the full amount since many of his other deals are hidden from the public. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
January 20, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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apexadjacent.com
A thing I've been thinking about a lot is how one of the answers to the "what would you do in the face of fascism" thought experiment is "get the kids to school, figure out what's for dinner, etc." I was less prepared for that, tbh.
January 20, 2026 at 12:07 PM
faribrad.bsky.social
#Iran's diaspora are hurting:

"4 people from my neighbourhood were killed in #Mashhad, a close relative severely wounded."

Plus misinformation on the left about the MEK cult, the killers being CIA (!!), on the right about #Trump & Netanyahu being good guys.

It's too much.

#digitalblackoutiran
January 20, 2026 at 1:16 PM
faribrad.bsky.social
updates on #Iran here
www.instagram.com/zanukcollect...
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January 19, 2026 at 11:54 PM
faribrad.bsky.social
Thank goodness

"Although he was invited last fall, the tragic loss of lives of civilians in #Iran over the past few weeks means that it is not right for the Iranian government to be represented at #Davos this year," the summit organisers added."

#iranrevolution
www.euronews.com/2026/01/19/i...
Iranian foreign minister will not attend Davos, WEF confirms
Iran's foreign minister will not be attending the Davos summit in Switzerland this week, the World Economic Forum said on Monday. Araghchi was supposed to appear on Davos stage on Tuesday.
www.euronews.com
January 19, 2026 at 11:03 PM
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soran.bsky.social
During the Jan 2026 protests in Majidieh district,Tehran, #AmiraliZarei was killed. He was 35 years old & born in 1990. Amirali was a student at the Art University of Tehran & worked as a life-coach and healing instructor.
No further information is available.
#DigitalBlackoutIran
January 19, 2026 at 10:01 PM