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Josiah Kidwell
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Josiah Kidwell @josiahkidwell.bsky.social · 5d
Same trick, 130 years later by Trump administration.

“This cartoon makes an ironic commentary on the children of immigrants rejecting the arrival of new immigrants.” Year: 1893
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Josiah Kidwell @josiahkidwell.bsky.social · 7d
Greta Thunberg says she is being detained by Israel in cell infested with bedbugs.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Greta Thunberg says she is being detained by Israel in cell infested with bedbugs
Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water
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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 9d
More general strikes for Gaza in Italy! We need a general strike in the USA!
#FreePalestine
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iclcit.org @iclcit.org · 9d
- [ITALIA] USI in solidarity with the Gaza flotilla: general strike in Italy! ✊🔥
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- [ITALIA] USI en solidaridad con la flotilla de Gaza: ¡huelga general en Italia! ✊🔥
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USI in solidarity with the Gaza flotilla: general strike in Italy!
Our comrades in Italy, USI, recently joined calls for a massive late-September general strike in the country in solidarity with
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 16d
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
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Micah @rincewind.run · 17d
everyone else in the admin over the last couple days: what are you talking about, there was no attempted government censorship, stop fearmongering

trump: I’m gonna sue them for putting kimmel back on the air
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17d
“I can't believe ABC Fake News gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back. The White House was told by ABC that his Show was cancelled!”
Trump: I can't believe ABC Fake News gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back. The White House was told by ABC that his Show was cancelled! Something happened between then and now because his audience is GONE, and his "talent" was never there. Why would they want someone back who does so poorly, who's not funny, and who puts the Network in jeopardy by playing 99% positive Democrat GARBAGE. He is yet another arm of the DNC and, to the best of my knowledge, that would be a major Illegal Campaign Contribution. I think we're going to test ABC out on this. Let's see how we do. Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative. A true bunch of losers! Let Jimmy Kimmel rot in his bad Ratings. 5 ReTruths 18 Likes 9/23/25, 7:35 PM
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Berrak @berrak.bsky.social · 19d
brilliant news from Italy
🚨BREAKING 🇮🇹| In Italy, the general strike has shut down train lines, ports, highways, schools & shops. With a genocide ongoing, there can be NO business as usual. 🙏 Stay peaceful, everyone. Do not react to any provocation. Freedom for all allows no mistakes
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · Sep 10
Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence.

Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.

Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.

It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.
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Josiah Kidwell @josiahkidwell.bsky.social · Sep 10
In any kind of moral universe, these unarmed humanitarian aid boats would, at minimum, be escorted safely to Gaza by military ships.
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · Sep 9
via Global Sumud Flotilla

'Footage from another boat of our Flotilla shows the exact moment the Family Boat was struck from above.'
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Sep 8
Justice Sotomayor is crystal clear in dissent as to what's happening: "We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."
NOEM v. VASQUEZ PERDOMO SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting this Court decides to take the once-extraordinary step of staying the District Court’s order. That decision is yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket. We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.
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Josiah Kidwell @josiahkidwell.bsky.social · Sep 2
“Israel has killed more journalists “than the U.S. Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War (including the conflicts in Cambodia and Laos), the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s and 2000s, and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan, combined.”
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Chris Egginton @gorhetti.bsky.social · Aug 31
.."there is one indisputable fact, Israel lies like it breaths"...Chris Hedges on his 7 years as correspondent in Gaza.
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Chris Egginton @gorhetti.bsky.social · Aug 31
The Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists
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Ben Fulford @benmfulford.bsky.social · Aug 25
‘The faith presence at the rally testified to a growing religious pushback to Trump’s immigration policies.’ Finding these acts of protest and witness - and the integrity they enact - so powerful. Another side to Xy in the US we’d do well to keep attending to.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · Aug 25
Kilmar “addressed a crowd gathered at ICE’s Baltimore field office in Spanish, telling other immigrants, ‘God is with us, and God will never leave us,’” @jackjenkins.me reports. “God will bring justice to all of the injustice that we are suffering.” religionnews.com/2025/08/25/o... #FreeKilmar
Clergy rally to defend Kilmar Abrego García as he is detained by ICE
BALTIMORE (RNS) — 'God is with us, and God will never leave us,' Abrego told the crowd. 'God will bring justice to all of the injustice that we are suffering.'
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Josiah Kidwell @josiahkidwell.bsky.social · Aug 25
Donate here to the Flotilla headed to Gaza. Global Sumud Flotilla - Global chuffed.org/project/1388...
Global Sumud Flotilla - Global
As the genocide in Gaza gets worse by the day and the governments and institutions fail the Palestinian people, the free people of the world are trying their best to maintain solidarity and to create ...
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Josiah Kidwell @josiahkidwell.bsky.social · Aug 25
“Officials at the hospital and witnesses said Israel then struck the [hospital] a second time, killing other journalists as well as rescue workers and medics who had rushed to the scene to help.”

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Israel hits Gaza hospital, killing at least 20 people, including five journalists
Israel struck Nasser hospital in the south of the Gaza Strip on Monday, killing at least 20 people, including five journalists who worked for Reuters, the Associated Press, Al Jazeera and others.
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Josiah Kidwell @josiahkidwell.bsky.social · Jul 27
No Meals, Fainting Nurses, Dwindling Baby Formula: Starvation Haunts Gaza Hospitals www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/w...
No Meals, Fainting Nurses, Dwindling Baby Formula: Starvation Haunts Gaza Hospitals
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Josiah Kidwell @josiahkidwell.bsky.social · Jul 24
France Will Recognize Palestinian Statehood, Macron Says www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...
France Will Recognize Palestinian Statehood, Macron Says
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Josiah Kidwell @josiahkidwell.bsky.social · Jul 15
“People might be surprised to hear about Jews attacking Christians, but settler attacks happen [not because of religion] but because we are Palestinians.”

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After settlers attacked our church, Palestinian Christians like me are living in fear
Last week, Jewish settlers set fire to an ancient church in Taybeh, the last remaining Christian-majority town in the West Bank. Father Bashar Fawadleh explains what it is like to live under the shado...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Jul 11
"Evacuating the entire population? Call it ethnic cleansing, call it transfer, call it deportation, it’s a war crime.”

Originally published in @haaretzcom.bsky.social

www.justsecurity.org/116459/israe...
Moving the Population in Gaza is a Manifest War Crime
We wrote this essay to fulfill our human, conscientious, and civic duty, as Israelis – and as Zionists – who have expertise in areas related to the IDF’s order.
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Pam 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @a-le-map.bsky.social · Jul 10
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Stand with Francesca Albanese
Never normalize genocide
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · Jul 10
Francesca Albanese is a truth teller. She has spoken out against the genocide of Palestinian civilians as UN representative. Trump is targeting her. Canada is totally silent.
Mark Carney must be clear: either we support international law or we support gangster regimes.
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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · Jul 9
For years, conservatives have warned that if you vote for the most boring Democrat you've ever heard of you'll be prevented from practicing Christianity in public. Under Trump, Catholics are being given permission to skip Mass, where you eat Christ, due to fear of being kidnapped by the government.
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · Jul 9
NEW: Bishop Rojas of San Bernardino has dispensed his Diocese from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass due to ongoing ICE raids.
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Kansas Reflector @kansasreflector.com · Jul 7
Abrego Garcia was beaten and tortured in Salvadoran prison, new court filings reveal | via @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social #ksleg
Abrego Garcia was beaten and tortured in Salvadoran prison, new court filings reveal • Kansas Reflector
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported in March to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador, endured “severe beatings, severe sleep deprivation, inadequate nutrition, and psychological torture” ...
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · Jun 22
The United States should not wage war against Iran.

Donald Trump’s bombing of Iran is unconstitutional. Only Congress can declare war — and the Senate must vote immediately to prevent an another endless war.

This is a horrific war of choice.
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Josiah Kidwell @josiahkidwell.bsky.social · Jun 15
No Kings Protest, Las Vegas, NV
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Josiah Kidwell @josiahkidwell.bsky.social · Jun 13
This is tomorrow/Saturday! Click here to find a No Kings (against Trump) protest near you.

www.nokings.org
No Kings
On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Jun 12
A US Senator.

Donald Trump’s America.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · Jun 12
It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.
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