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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 2h

A reminder that US sanctions against Venezuela resulted in 40,000 deaths from 2017 to 2018 alone (@jasonhickel). That’s what Maria Corina Machado supports and that’s why she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 2h

If you support US sanctions against Venezuela, you also support sanctioned death.

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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 3h

Actually, she’s a supporter of sanctioned death and a staunch supporter of Israel.

NPR @npr.org · 3h

Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.

Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado wins 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.

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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 3h

A supporter of genocide and genocidal ethnonationalist state won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Image of Maria Corina Machado:
"for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy"
THE NORWEGIAN NOBEL COMMITTEE

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 21h

Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.

It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.

Thank you for your consideration.

"Help us leave safely" on FreeFunder

Click here to support "Help us leave safely" by Dara on FreeFunder!

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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 1d

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

Zohran Mamdani has the Palestinian protest movement to thank for his win | Heba Gowayed

The Democratic socialist’s victory in the New York City primary elections shows support for Palestine is not a liability

www.theguardian.com

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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 1d

To write with urgency, to write poetically, to write with affect that moves the reader to action requires giving up the careerist and opportunist game academia loves to play as the world burns around its ivory towers.
www.insurgentthoughts.com/p/a-counteri...

A (Counter)Insurgent Craft

In his article, Notes on Craft: Writing in the Hour of Genocide, Fargo Tbahki asks in his “What does Palestine require of us, as writers writing in English from within the imperial core, in this momen...

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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 2d

The fact of the matter is that Zohran Mamdani gained momentum from the movement he is distancing himself from and thus alienating, particularly at a moment when it has become relatively easy to win the mayoral election.

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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 2d

Never forget that mainstream media, the Democratic Party, and academia all repeated the false claims about the 40 beheaded babies.

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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 2d

I’ll never condemn a people who resist an occupying power.

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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 2d

Colonial powers have always portrayed anti-colonial resistance as savagery, barbarism, and terrorism.

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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 3d

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection…

—Mao Tse-tung

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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 3d

Operation Al-Aqsa Flood resulted in a paradigmatic shift. It resurrected the Manichean world in the minds of people who naively thought it had ceased to exist. It brought raw conceptual clarity in a world full of liberal deceptions, illusions, and distortions.

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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 4d

Never forget about October 6 and the decades of occupation.

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The Sex Work Historian ☂️ @sexworkhistorian.bsky.social · 6d

The deadline has been extended!!!

#decolonialconference

Decolonial Conference @decolonialconf.bsky.social · 6d

Deadline extended!!!

The Program Committee has decided to extend the deadline to October 12, 2025. Proposals can be 400-600 words. If you are submitting a symposium or workshop proposal, word limits are more flexible.

Please do not hesitate to reach out with any questions!

#decolonialconference

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Diego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social · 6d

✊ The word expands.
📚 So does the deadline.
🗓️Now until Oct 12, 2025.
📝 400–600 words. Flexible for workshops/symposia.
If you have questions, ask. If you have a proposal, share it.
Because thinking is also resistance.

#decolonialconference

Decolonial Conference @decolonialconf.bsky.social · 6d

Deadline extended!!!

The Program Committee has decided to extend the deadline to October 12, 2025. Proposals can be 400-600 words. If you are submitting a symposium or workshop proposal, word limits are more flexible.

Please do not hesitate to reach out with any questions!

#decolonialconference

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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 4d

It breaks my heart and fills me with rage when I watch so many videos of undocumented immigrants being arrested as they plead for help (“ayúdenme por favor”). Don’t be a bystander as this is happening in front of you.

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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 5d

SHE SENT MONEY TO FAMILY IN GAZA. ICE CLAIMED IT’S EVIDENCE SHE SUPPORTS HAMAS.

She’s been in custody for over 6 months now.
theintercept.com/2025/10/02/g...

She Sent Money to Family in Gaza. ICE Claimed It’s Evidence She Supports Hamas.

To keep her in ICE detention in Texas, the Trump administration pointed to Leqaa Kordia’s remittances to family in Palestine.

theintercept.com

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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 6d

Israel has already shown the world that its a genocidal ethnostate but Hamas’ brief statement didn’t only dismantle the rhetoric used to portray it as an irrational organization but it turned this rhetoric around against Israel since we know how it will respond to this agreement.

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Decolonial Conference @decolonialconf.bsky.social · 6d

Deadline extended!!!

The Program Committee has decided to extend the deadline to October 12, 2025. Proposals can be 400-600 words. If you are submitting a symposium or workshop proposal, word limits are more flexible.

Please do not hesitate to reach out with any questions!

#decolonialconference

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South/South Movement 🍉 @southsouthmvmt.bsky.social · 7d

LIBERATION AND (COUNTER)INSURGENCY: ENTANGLED HISTORIES OF GENOCIDE, SCHOLASTICIDE, AND FASCISM

Submissions close tomorrow.

Please submit your proposals to *the* Decolonial Conference next year.

For folks who cannot travel to LA, there will be a dedicated online edition on 8 April!

Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 14d

If you are politically committed to anticolonial, decolonial, antifascist, and antizionist work, consider submitting a proposal (400-600 words). The deadline is October 3.
www.decolonialconference.org/call-for-pro...

Conference Theme & Call for Proposals | Submit Your Proposals Now — Decolonial Conference

Explore the Decolonial Conference theme and submission guidelines. Engage in discussions on liberation amid global challenges.

www.decolonialconference.org

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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 7d

Trump's 20-point Gaza “peace” plan is nothing more than an imperial power portraying anti-colonial resistance as savagery, barbarism, and terrorism, but the global majority already knows that these terms more accurately reflect the West’s actions for over five centuries.

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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 8d

Znsts: Go to Gaza to see what Hamas will do to you.

Sumud Flotilla: We’re heading there.

Znsts: The flotilla is Hamas and Israel should respond accordingly.

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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 8d

The ones we should most demand to stop the war are not the guerrilla organizations but the oligarchies that…impose their policies and defend their economic interests disguised as democracies, in whose name a people is invaded, murdered and annihilated.
www.insurgentthoughts.com/p/solidarity...

Solidarity with Palestine: Camilo Torres Restrepo Political Prisoners Movement (Part II)

Translation

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thisisponytoast @thisisphilgood.bsky.social · 8d

"peace" is not liberation. "peace" is quieting Palestinian voices, cementing their literal end.

if you wish to "release the israeli hostages" w/o calling for the release of OVER 10,000 wrongfully imprisoned Palestinians (of whom many would call "hostages", also), then this plan for "peace" is BS.

Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 8d

Fuck the Pope!
www.newsweek.com/pope-leo-don...

Pope Leo VIX says Donald Trump's Gaza peace plan is "realistic"

Pope Leo XIV also continued his call for the release of hostages taken by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023.

www.newsweek.com

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