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Michael Truscello🏴

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anarchist, prof. He/him. Work on Treaty 7 territory, Hellberta. www.michaeltruscello.com #horror #anarchism Free PDF of my book, Infrastructural Brutalism: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/4884/Infrastructural-BrutalismArt-and-the-Necropolitics

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Michael Truscello🏴 @mtruscello.bsky.social · Nov 9

Something I wrote for the 50th anniversary of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre last month.
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The Grim Meat-Hook Realities of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre - Post45

"We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that Sixties. Uppers are going out of style. This was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling...

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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 1d

'As a society, we have entered truly dangerous territory when students of higher learning cannot condemn a #genocide without having their names and reputations dragged through the mud.' #TMU
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TMU Law Students Sue University for $10M Over ‘Defamatory’ Antisemitism Accusation

Toronto, ON — A group of current and former students from the Lincoln Alexander School of Law at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) has filed a $10-million

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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 1d

Here's how to add to the pressure for the release of the people from Canada who were part of the latest #flotilla and who have been abducted by #Israel.

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 19h

"The suffering is far beyond what any agreement can fix," writes Sara Awad, who fled Gaza City a month ago. interc.pt/4nL2jpq

A photo of smoke from Israeli airstrikes rising over Gaza City amid ceasefire negotiations on Oct. 6, 2025, overlaid with the headline, "I Have Hope for This Ceasefire, But It Can’t Undo Two Years of Genocide," and the DEK, "U.S. President Donald Trump said the ceasefire deal marked “a wonderful day for everybody.” Why did it take two years to arrive?"

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

This is the episode you have been waiting for.

The End of Sport @endofsportpod.bsky.social · 1d

Ep. 170: The Pseudoscience of Trans Exclusion

In a LONG awaited and vital ep, the whole crew is joined by Sheree Bekker and @annaposbergh.bsky.social to delve into and refute the 'science' deployed to justify the anti-trans movement in sport.

open.spotify.com/episode/0IO2...

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

Imagine thinking that what hypothetically happens after a genocide (we'll see) is that everyone just moves on and acts like it never happened.

So if this Trump peace plan does go ahead and Hamas frees the hostages while Israel ends the bombing, withdraws the IDF to agreed lines and sends in more aid, then the protesters on our streets will be happy, right?

They'll end their marches and protests, right?

They'll be cheering for peace, right?

They'll stop attacking Britain Jews accusing them of responsibility for the "genocide" that isn't happening, right?

Because it's the innocent children in Gaza they care about, right?

Right...?

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity!

RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 1d

This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray came under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our colleagues. Read our full statement here: https://loom.ly/BDXasRY

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

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Michael Truscello🏴 @mtruscello.bsky.social · 1d

"Almost 55,000 children in Gaza are estimated to be acutely malnourished, far more than have so far been identified as victims of the potentially lethal condition, a study published in the Lancet, the respected international medical periodical, has revealed." #FreePalestine #Genocide

Almost 55,000 children in Gaza acutely malnourished, Lancet study estimates

Study shows clear link between Israeli restrictions on aid entering Gaza and levels of malnutrition among children

www.theguardian.com

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

The United States has subsidized aka collaborated with Israel’s genocide in Gaza to the tune of $21.7 Billion of military aid.

responsiblestatecraft.org/us-aid-israe...

$21.7 Billion In US Military Aid Has Fueled Israel's War On Gaza
A new report shows how American support has been essential to what many experts are now calling a genocide
REPORTING | QIOSK
Qiosk Gaza War
WILLIAM HARTUNG

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Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · 1d

My Dad gets like this in the evenings but he doesn’t control nuclear weapon launch codes or a military.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Anas Basil🍉 @helpanas19.bsky.social · 1d

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Our lives are written now not in notebooks but in rubble, in hunger, in exile. We were children who dreamed of professions, of futures. Today we are only survivors of a war that never ends, praying not to be forgotten. please help me save my family from this war 🙏🏻💔

Michael Truscello🏴 @mtruscello.bsky.social · 1d

She may be right about football, but her reasoning for not doing a 15-minute Pepsi commercial in February doesn't add up.

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 3d

I begged @spiegel.de to translate Jörg Schindler's excellent reporting on America's fall into theocracy and they did. As I keep saying, German journalists are doing a better job covering America's fall than American journalists. 1/
www.spiegel.de/internationa...

Trump's Crusaders: Christian Nationalists Are Gaining a Solid Foothold in Washington

U.S. President Donald Trump has opened the doors of power to far-right Christian nationalists. Their goal: an American theocracy. The separation of church and state in America is at risk.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 3d

this is the real legacy of Charlie Kirk

Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social · 3d

A Rutgers professor has been forced to flee the country for his safety, after targeting by a far-right student group that was *checks notes* claiming they felt unsafe.

I'm horrified.
I'm angry.

A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa

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

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 3d

Trump administration continues to send individuals to countries where they have no ties amid mass deportation push.

US sends another ‘third-country’ deportation flight to Eswatini

Trump administration continues to send individuals to countries where they have no ties amid mass deportation push.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 3d

This really makes it sound like a Border Patrol agent tried to kill an anti-ICE activist in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 3d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Michael Truscello🏴 @mtruscello.bsky.social · 4d

ICE sprays chemicals in the face of the lead pastor for First Presbyterian in Chicago. #AbolishICE #EndFascism #antifa

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 4d

Shocked to learn that the world’s preeminent transphobe is also a genocide apologist.

JK Rowling:

"Pro-Palestinian demonstrators couldn’t give it a rest – not even for 24 hours. They were chanting all the old slogans and ducking all the hard questions. ‘Globalise the intifada,’ they cried – does that mean killing Jews in Manchester?" ✍️@NickCohen4

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Spudislander45 🇨🇦❤️🌎💪🫡 @spudislander45.bsky.social · 4d

Solidarity with #Alberta’s #teachers who are now on strike. Yesterday over 20,000 people protested the UPC govt at legislature #abpoli #cdnpoli #WorkersRights

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Alberta teachers are now on strike. Here's what that means for Calgary students, parents, school support staff | CBC News

Alberta teachers officially went on strike Monday, with more than 730,000 students across the province set to be affected. Financial and educational supports are available during the labour dispute, w...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4d

Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people.

But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.

By @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social, w/ @adn.com

Alaska Vowed to Resolve Murders of Indigenous People. Now It Refuses to Provide Their Names.

When the nonprofit Data for Indigenous Justice filed public records requests with the Alaska Department of Public Safety concerning cases it had investigated, the state rejected them.

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Cameron Campbell @camerondotca.bsky.social · 4d

(A reminder: Concordia thelinknewspaper.ca/article/conc... McGill thelinknewspaper.ca/article/mcgi... )

Concordia hires external security firm founded by ex-Israeli soldier | News

Concordia University spent $33,683 on services by an external security firm founded by an ex-Israeli soldier.

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