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ر ت ت ت @raniawrites.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, billionaires should not exist, even if it's Taylor Swift. Ya'll are "girl bossing" us to death & extinction.

ر ت ت ت @raniawrites.bsky.social · 1d

Someone recently asked me if I feel "vindicated" as someone who was fired early on for speaking out against the seige of Gaza - now that the tide is turning.

Vindicated is a small & selfish feeling. I feel sick, hollow, angry - the last two years of genocide could vindicate only the devil.

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ر ت ت ت @raniawrites.bsky.social · 1d

Showing "conservatives" that their ideology is doing them a disservice & not producing the outcomes it claims to value - spending less money, focusing on "our own," helping "families," etc. - is a failing strategy.

It's doing exactly what it's supposed to do, destabilizing & flooding the zone.

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ر ت ت ت @raniawrites.bsky.social · 1d

You can't make a billion dollars, but you can take a billion dollars.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 6d

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

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ر ت ت ت @raniawrites.bsky.social · 6d

The girly pop billionaires are gonna girl power is to death.

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ر ت ت ت @raniawrites.bsky.social · 9d

White supremacist rhetoric & anti-Indigenous disinformation & propaganda in "Canada" is overwhelming. Genocide denial, eugenics, and direct interpersonal violence towards Indigenous People are increasingly the norm. People are not even coating in the violent Canadian politeness anymore.

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ر ت ت ت @raniawrites.bsky.social · 10d

The postal service & public transit are public social services & community infrastructure. I hate to break it to you, but they're not meant to make money

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ر ت ت ت @raniawrites.bsky.social · 10d

Every time my knee hurts, I resent any undeserving man I gave a bubble & whine to when my knees were still fresh out the box.

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Read More bell hooks @walaal.blacksky.app · 14d

may Assata Shakur rest in forever peace, love & power

very grateful 4 all she did that will live on forever & that she lived as a free woman all these yrs

“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”

two pictures of Assata Shakur.

the one on the left is a black and white picture of her smiling and looking down, with long black braids and wearing black.

the one on the right is of her wearing a colourful dress and the skyline of a city that i don't recognize and a body of water in the background.

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ر ت ت ت @raniawrites.bsky.social · 22d

Listen, I'm going to need us to stop saying that humans are horrible and that all the injustice in the world right now is our collective doing.

It's the doing of a handful of people, and we know their names.

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ر ت ت ت @raniawrites.bsky.social · 24d

It's not about principled non-violence. It's about monopolizing violence by people who have power.

As in, they will kill you & demand your silence, politeness, and to be remembered as heroes while they suffocate you.

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ر ت ت ت @raniawrites.bsky.social · 24d

"We've lost Beyoncé". We never had her, beloved.

Billionaires' class solidarity with one another will always trump any affinity we think we have with them.

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