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Straw Raccoon

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Used to be on the other site. Still stuck in Texas. Communist. MA in History. Antizionist Jew. Former journalist. Current type 1 diabetic.

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Straw Raccoon @strawraccoons.bsky.social · 28d

I wish we had more politicians willing to go all-out for the working class and poor like @heidireichinnek.dielinkebt.de in America. This speech is fucking awesome: youtu.be/J1Cw5hrnoUA

Heidi Reichinnek ENTLARVT Die HEUCHELEI! Merz & Co. SPRACHLOS!

YouTube video by Die Linke im Bundestag

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 10h

Seeing Ms. Rachel say exactly what needs to be said to Obama is so damn refreshing

Dear President Obama,
I saw in your statement you said "Israeli families" & "the people of Gaza."
Palestinians have families, too.
This kind of language contributes to dehumanization. Dehumanization is part of what caused so many to stay silent as 20,000 children were killed in this genocide.
I've sat with wonderful Palestinian families from Gaza. They look at their children just like we look at ours - with all the love & hope in the world.
Love,
Ms Rachel

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💢Marx was right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 5h

Tapping that sign again.

When MTG “out lefts” AOC and the entire Demicrstic Party on certain issues you got a real fkn issue there.

Where the libs at? Why aren’t they AT THEIR LEADERS?! Protest THEM to actually run an opposition.

www.instagram.com/reel/DPo9vmw...

@iamblakeley.bsky.social

Drop Site
@DropSiteNews
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"They're not Hamas. They're literally women and children. And you can't unsee the amount of pictures and videos of children that have been blown to pieces and are they're finding them dead in the rubble. That isn't—those aren't actors, that isn't fak
opagar da. It's very real."
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BREAKING NEWS
NOW: ISRAELI SECURITY CABINET MEETING ON GAZA CEASEFIRE PLAN
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Micah @rincewind.run · 15h

I feel terrible for everyone whose career is being destroyed but she is going to set speed records for running CBS into the ground, Ellison is no Murdoch

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 15h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Tifa☭🔻𓁢𓂀𓆚 @hellhoundtifa.bsky.social · 16h

Reminder that this lady asked Israel to invade her own country and approved of the U.S. strikes on innocent Venezuelan fishermen.

Reuters @reuters.com · 20h

BREAKING: Venezuela's Maria Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 reut.rs/42uh3Aw

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Straw Raccoon @strawraccoons.bsky.social · 16h

It's making me insane that people are falling for this shit

Straw Raccoon @strawraccoons.bsky.social · 16h

Liberals are the most gullible people on earth, I swear...

Straw Raccoon @strawraccoons.bsky.social · 18h

“In 2018, Machado asked Netanyahu to intercede with the UN Security Council to bring about intervention in Venezuela. Machado has insistently stated that if she gains power she will restore diplomatic relations with Israel.”

venezuelanvoices.org/2025/04/02/w...

What does María Corina Machado’s alliance with the European and Israeli ultra-right imply for the Venezuelan people?

Simón Rodríguez AI generated image Convening under the banner of “Patriots for Europe”, two months ago the European extreme right met in Madrid, bringing political leaders of the Trumpi…

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Straw Raccoon @strawraccoons.bsky.social · 18h

"Milei and Machado are part of a Latin American far right that is subordinate to the US, sympathetic to Trump and a fervent supporter of the Zionist apartheid regime."

What does María Corina Machado’s alliance with the European and Israeli ultra-right imply for the Venezuelan people?

Simón Rodríguez AI generated image Convening under the banner of “Patriots for Europe”, two months ago the European extreme right met in Madrid, bringing political leaders of the Trumpi…

venezuelanvoices.org

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Straw Raccoon @strawraccoons.bsky.social · 18h

Obviously no fan of Maduro, but with the recent leaks about Trump planning to invade Venezuela, this seems like a convenient way to subtly shift public opinion towards regime change.

Straw Raccoon @strawraccoons.bsky.social · 18h

This feels like manufacturing consent.

Reuters @reuters.com · 20h

BREAKING: Venezuela's Maria Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 reut.rs/42uh3Aw

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

(posts a chart showing prices on groceries are at the highest point in history) you fool. You rube! How dare you say grocery prices are high! You can clearly see the second derivative... bsky.app/profile/kevi...

kevinwglass.bsky.social @kevinwglass.bsky.social · 1d

Inflation for food was legitimately much worse between January 2021 and January 2024 than it has been for the last six months, that's why

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 1d

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

it's almost as if the extraction class has hijacked the press to help them use race and gender as wedge issues to distract the plebs from the fact they're destroying consumer protection, corporate oversight, democracy, and labor rights while selling the country for scrap off the back loading dock

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Straw Raccoon @strawraccoons.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking a lot about the failures of leaderless and decentralized movements lately. Maybe I'll write something on it.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

Weird how the US is such a free country that we only have 4% of the world's population and yet we need three of the ten highest funded militaries on the planet.

(Yes, US municipal police and ICE both have budgets that rank in the top ten of the world's militaries.)

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Straw Raccoon @strawraccoons.bsky.social · 1d

One of my conservative coworkers is complaining that an MRI for a hernia is gonna cost $400 and I'm just thinking, well yeah dude duh

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

Credit where credit is due. The Democrats' message that the GOP shut down the government because they want to throw millions of people off healthcare has broken through. Two of my cousins who are NOT AT ALL tuned into national politics told me that this is why the government is shut down.

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Straw Raccoon @strawraccoons.bsky.social · 1d

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 Horrifying. Does misinformation do real harm? Yep.

Who believes FALSE claim Tylenol causes (true / probably true) autism?

- 41% of parents
- 57% of Republicans

Thx MAHA / MAGA. Dark Age 2.0

www.kff.org/public-opini... via @kff.org

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 2d

It is remarkable that of all the celebrities from the '80s who've gone full fash Axl Rose of all people zoomed in the other direction.

Meia tigela @brunodoamaral.bsky.social · 2d

No show do Guns N' Roses de ontem em Bogotá, o Axl recebeu essa bandeira da plateia durante a música Civil War.

Cantor Axl Rose, homem branco de meia idade com cabelo louro, segura uma bandeira da palestina com o logotipo do Guns N' Roses e escrito "I don't need your civil war".

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

it should be a tell about what's happening in the media now that most mainstream commentators seem openly frustrated that polling does not blame democrats for the shutdown

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Straw Raccoon @strawraccoons.bsky.social · 2d

"Horizontalism is not the solution to our problems. Horizontalism is a trap."

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · Sep 3

this is the right-wing mirror to the left's problem with horizontalism--the problem of the social media age--the inability to do politics via the old mechanisms of party and bureaucracy--the recourse to larp recreations of structures that no longer function.

www.liberalcurrents.com/why-movement...

Why Movements Fail

Horizontalism and its discontents

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Read the book Starting Somewhere @jphillll.bsky.social · 5d

Look around and you’ll see people rising up everywhere.

Link: www.jphilll.com/p/resistance...

It doesn’t feel like it, but we’re in an era of uprising and resistance. The horrors and bad news can be overwhelming, but born out of necessity, born out of horror at genocide and disgust with fascism and being fed up with poverty and oppression, people are rising up around the world. In Greece a general strike this week against a 13-hour workday proposal brought the country to a halt. In Nepal a Gen-Z led uprising recently overthrew the government. An August wave of mass protest in Indonesia against corrupt elites shook the system to its core. In Madagascar protests against the government’s inability to provide basic services like water and electricity currently have the President on the verge of stepping down. France is, once again, wracked by huge nationwide protests against austerity.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 2d

sooner or later we are going to have to get to grips with cognitive decline, and start taking seriously the idea that lots of old people need as much or more protection young people, in both cases whether they want it or not.

Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like if you had to ban social media for any group of people for their own protection, you should probably start with people over 60.

Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 2d

🚨🚨 #Denmark aims to ban #socialmedia for children under 15. PM Mette Frederiksen says "We have unleashed a monster" to Danish lawmakers. 🧵https://www.politico.eu/article/denmark-mette-frederiksen-partially-ban-social-media-children-under-15/

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