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Usman T. Malik
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Author MIDNIGHT DOORWAYS Writer I Runner I Rheumatologist x queries @rhaliterary Insta: usmantanveermalik www.usmanmalik.org FB: usmantanveermalik
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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 7h
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 13h
Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid
Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"
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Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 5h
The frogs have landed in Chicago! (2025)
YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS ABYSSAL DARKNESS. I AM HERE, AND WE SHALL FACE THE CHASM AS BROTHERS. DILF: Damn I Love Frogs Here comes that fellow "My goodness, how do you do?" GET IN THE FUCKING FROG PIT
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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 15h
Frogtifa
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Mx Arjuna @continuation.bsky.social · 20h
Never forget that the Committee gave the Nobel Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger in 1973. Two committee members resigned in protest, and history sees that award choice as one of the Nobel’s greatest failures.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_No...
1973 Nobel Peace Prize - Wikipedia
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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1d
If you live in Ireland or the UK, Absolute Dominion is available today on Google or Apple TV
www.rte.ie/video/id/28161
Absolute Dominion, the new film from Palestinian-American Oscar®-nominated director Lexi Alexander
This superb martial arts battle for humanity begins on October 9.
www.rte.ie
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 23h
there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif
Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes
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Daisy Rockwell @shreedaisy.bsky.social · 18h
Congratulations! 🎉🎈💖
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ottilie mulzet @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social · 19h
It has been such a great honour to be one of Krasznahorkai's interpreters into English (since 2008), along with George Szirtes and John Batki. I also have to mention the visionary New Directions and my beyond stellar editor Declan Spring 🧡

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...
Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 18h
Naoise's brother is asking Irish people to please contact the government #Speirgorm
My sister @NaoiseDolan, alongside other members of the Thousand Madleens flotilla, has been abducted by Israeli forces while on a humanitarian mission to break the illegal siege and deliver aid to Gaza. Please join me in urging the Irish government to demand their safe return.
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 1d
since denver launched its e-bike rebate program - the have sold 10,000 e-bikes and reduced an estimated 1,000,000 car trips - replacing millions of VMTs and reducing air pollution

there are no climate silver bullets... but damn - e-bikes and e-cargo bikes are close

denvergov.org/Government/A...
Denver Celebrates 10,000 E-Bike Rebates
Since its inception in April 2022, Denver has distributed over 10,000 electric bikes (e-bikes) to community members through its pioneering e-bike rebate program. As the first U.S. city to implement su...
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Just a girl and her books @thebookwyrmshoard2.bsky.social · 18h
These all look amazing. And wonderful reads for children to learn more about Palestine.
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Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · 1d
For #BannedBooksWeek
‘They didn’t even read the book’: How children’s authors are being canceled over Palestine
Authors tell of book bans, cancellations and harassment – ‘they’re trying to disconnect us from our stories’
www.theguardian.com
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 1d
Irish novelist Naoise Dolan has been abducted by Israel.
lithub.com/irish-noveli...
Irish novelist Naoise Dolan has been abducted by Israel.
Naoise Dolan, one of Ireland’s most acclaimed young novelists, was earlier today abducted and detained by Israeli forces after the aid flotilla on which she was traveling to Gaza was intercep…
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 2d
This is what they've done.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 3d
Let me be clear: backpay for these workers is required under a federal law I wrote with former Senator Cardin — which Trump signed — during the last Trump shutdown.

This is just more fear mongering from a president who wants a blank check for lawlessness. It won't work.
Federal workers not entitled to back pay after shutdown, budget office claims
Federal workers may not be entitled to back pay after the government shutdown ends, the Trump administration’s budget office wrote in a new draft memo obtained by The Washington Post, ratcheting up te...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d
www.wweek.com/culture/2025...
Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest. There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day. What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid. It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.
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David Lo Pun-ch Nazis @helpmeskeletor.bsky.social · 17h
Just for some perspective, Israel has dropped about 11 tons of bombs an hour on Palestinians every day on average for 2 years.
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 1d
In 1839, during the early days of The Great Game (between England and Tsarist Russia), the British East India Company invaded Afghanistan and deposed the popular leader Dost Muhammad Khan to put the British puppet the exiled king Shah Shuja on the throne.
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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 1d
Read the history of European colonialism and you understand exactly what's been going on in Palestine especially since October 7
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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 1d
The British justified all this mass destruction and atrocity by calling the acts of the natives savage and barbarous, although they were the invaders and looters and exploiters in both cases.
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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 1d
One Indian historian estimates that between 1857 and 1870, nearly 10 million Indians were killed in an untold Holocaust.
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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 1d
The British reacted by killing 140,000 of the 150,00 residents of Delhi, turned the royal princesses into whores, murdered all the sons of the last Mughal King Bahadur Shah Zafar to demolish the dynasty and exiled the 85-year-old king to Burma, where he died in poverty.
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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 1d
In 1857, when the great Indian Sepoy Rebellion/ Indian War of Independence broke out, Indian sepoys killed their humiliaters and occupiers including British women and women at Kanpur/Cawnpur
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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 1d
... raped the women, and burnt the largest commercial market in Central Asia to the ground-- the great Char Chatta Bazaar built by the Mughal King Shah Jahan in the 1600s.

Then they retreated from Afghanistan to 'let the Afghans settle their own affairs', as they later said.
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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 1d
They cut a swath of massacre and destruction through several of the major cities of Afghanistan, cut down trees that were hundreds of years old, pillaged Afghan cities, shot or bayoneted every male above 14....
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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 1d
In the subsequent Afghan resistance of the occupation, an entire regiment of the British including camp-followers were massacred by the Afghans as they tried to flee Afghanistan back to India.

In reply, the British government sent an Army of Retribution with a scorched earth policy.
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