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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 3d

The work is just beginning.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 4d

"It feels as if everything has vanished. Not only the tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza erased without graves, without records, as if they had never existed – so many other things have been hollowed out: basic conceptions of morality, decency, compassion, humanity, hope, future."

Disappearing people, disappearing morals – how two years has changed Gaza and Israel | Orly Noy

There can be no healing until the world stares into and acknowledges the void torn open by this conflict, says Israeli journalist Orly Noy

www.theguardian.com

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 5d

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

a guy in a frog costume standing facing a line of police and ICE agents in Portland

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5d

suspending Jews for criticizing some of the most virulent anti-semites on the planet is ANTI-SEMITIC @support.bsky.team

Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 5d

The all-knowing bsky mods gave Erin Biba a 24 hour suspension for a months-old skeet about Christian Zionism, and I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that this happened when she’s been vocally criticizing Jay

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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 6d

If the immigration enforcement apparatus of the US were its own national military, it would be the 13th most heavily funded in the world. This puts it higher than the national militaries of Poland, Italy, Australia, Turkey, Canada, and Spain — and just below Israel.

The 13th Largest Army in World Is Unleashing Violence in Chicago

As federal agents kill and use extreme force in Chicago, their budget surges.

inthesetimes.com

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Hausu M.D. 🎥👺📼🍉🖤 @suspiraserhead.bsky.social · 6d

The funniest thing about this is how legit terrified ICE looks.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 7d

wizard frog is insane

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Pinko @pinkoscare.bsky.social · 8d

I live on the west side and I am very shook up right now. There's been a helicopter hovering all day. ICE throwing tear gas at a busy intersection with a grocery store! and a SCHOOL!!! People kidnapped from the Home Depot. It's like the stuff you read in history books, right there on your block.

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Vincent Wong @vwlegal.bsky.social · 8d

Give a man a fish and you'll feed him for a day.

Break his illegal sea blockade and?

Valise @valise25.bsky.social · 9d

AMAZING NEWS

Global Sumud Flotilla
👍Mission accomplished👍

The ISR Navi was so distracted that PALis in Gaza were able to fish in the waters of Gaza for the first time since in god knows how long. The PALis in the strip were able to eat.

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Vincent Wong @vwlegal.bsky.social · 9d

People are more afraid of calling someone a Nazi than of actual Nazism, what a world

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 9d

Complaining about cancel culture in Riyadh is one of the best examples I've seen of how "free speech culture" rots the brain.

The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 9d

Dave Chappelle criticized the status of free speech in the United States while on stage at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

Dave Chappelle Criticizes Free Speech in America at Saudi Arabia Comedy Festival

Dave Chappelle criticized the status of free speech in the United States while on stage at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

bit.ly

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 9d

Here’s a comprehensive list of appropriate responses upon hearing that a man murdered worshippers at a synagogue:

1- this is fucked up, fuck that guy, fuck antisemitism, solidarity with the victims

2- see above

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 10d

STILL
مازلنا
SAILING!
30 ships on their
بجرا
way to Gaza 46 nm to Gaza
13 boats intercepted
٣٠+ سفينة في طريقها إلى غزة
46 ميلًا بحريًا إلى غزة
تم اعتراض 13 قوارب
The illegal israeli interceptions won't deter us.
We continue our mission to break the siege and open a humanitarian corridor.
الاعتراضات الإسرائيلية غير القانونية لن تُثنينا.
نستمر في مهمتنا لكسر الحصار وفتح ممرّ إنساني.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 11d

um actually sweetie it is extremely problematic to say that South Africa is an "apartheid state"— using an Afrikaans word derogatorily like that is very racially coded and also Hendrik Verwoerd was neurodivergent and the international community was really abusive towards him

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Eel-AIEEEE @elindur.at.app.wafrn.net · 11d

This is why you shouldn't shut up about racism in other marginalized communities. Because it is all tied together. You can't dismantle ableism and be racist, they're part of the same system. Same with racist people in the LGBTQ+ community. Your marginalization does NOT absolve you of racism.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11d

The thing I think about is how agile the Christofascist coalition has been

Building first on hatred for Black people, then expanding by making abortion a thing people cared deeply about (completely synthetic political development), then expanding by making hatred of LGBTQ esp trans people the issue

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11d

Judge Young: "This case ... squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally 'yes, they do.' 'No law' means 'no law.'"

This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall within the jurisdiction of this district court –- squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.” “No law” means “no law.” The First Amendment does not draw President Trump’s invidious distinction and it is not to be found in our history or jurisprudence. See Section III.A infra. No one’s freedom of speech is unlimited, of course, but these limits are the same for both citizens and non-citizens alike.

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 12d

September 30 is Orange Shirt Day, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada. A day to honor the children taken to residential schools, to remember survivors, and to confront the harm done. But an Orange shirt is not enough, orange donuts just crass.

A comic showing a table with a sign that reads 'Performative Reconciliation' (Orange Shirts & Selfies) with a white man in a suit and a long line of people while there is no one in line for the table with a Native man and a sign reading 'Land Back, Justice, Real Change'

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 12d

"Moreover... the University administration’s actions have placed my long-term safety at risk by sending the message that harassment and bullying are effective means of having a professor put on leave."

Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 12d

"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."

What Happened to the University’s Commitment to Free Expression? Charley Kirk, uAlberta, and Me | Centre for Free Expression

I was shocked when the University of Alberta administration informed me, one of its law professors, that I was being placed on non-disciplinary leave for my social media comments in the wake of Charli...

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Brishti Basu @brishti.bsky.social · 12d

We'll be going live on our Instagram in a couple of minutes.

You can tune in here: www.instagram.com/cjjpmedia/

Canadian Journalists for Justice in Palestine @cjjpmedia.bsky.social · 13d

🚨 CJJP GOES TO OTTAWA 🚨

We're sending a contingent to Ottawa to tell PM @mark-carney.bsky.social and @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social how Canada is enabling the deadliest assault on free press in recent history.

We have some ideas on how Canada can stop being complicit in Israel's massacre.

Poster with the title "CJJP: Canadian Journalists for Justice in Palestine" and details about press conference: Monday, September 29, 11am EST, Press Gallery B

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Vincent Wong @vwlegal.bsky.social · 12d

"By placing me on leave, the University implicitly condoned and supported the targeted harassment of progressive academics across the United States and Canada for expressing a wide range of views critical of Charlie Kirk as part of a large-scale effort to have them terminated."

Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 12d

"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."

What Happened to the University’s Commitment to Free Expression? Charley Kirk, uAlberta, and Me | Centre for Free Expression

I was shocked when the University of Alberta administration informed me, one of its law professors, that I was being placed on non-disciplinary leave for my social media comments in the wake of Charli...

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 13d

Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 13d

Cornell's president, who has precisely zero scholarly expertise in the area, has previously remarked that the course takes "a radical, factually inaccurate, and biased view of the formation of the state of Israel and the ongoing conflict."

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

“I personally find the course description to represent a radical, factually inaccurate, and biased view of the formation of the state of Israel and the ongoing conflict,” Kotlikoff, the former provost, had written to Rosensaft. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency published the contents Nov. 11.

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 12d

“Having litigated for much of my career against executive overreach, I strongly suspect some lawyer in the Justice Department drafted a memo that purports not only to justify this killing but to establish its lawfulness.”

Lawyer Joseph Margulies on “the moral stupefaction of the American public”:

The Moral Stupefaction of the American Public - Boston Review

Trump’s actions are illegal, yes. Worse than that, they are wrong—precisely what the legality debate is meant to obscure.

www.bostonreview.net

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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 13d

90% is abt the US, the rest is Europe. There's little voices from the global south. The significance of X/Twitter in the history of the internet is it was once a platform for activists from the global south to get global attention for their movements/revolutions. BlueSky will never be that, but X

Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 @kerim.one · 17d

It really needs to be more international. 90% of what I see here is US politics, even though I follow a ton of people who know and care about other parts of the world.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 17d

If you could change one thing about Bluesky, what would it be?

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Vincent Wong @vwlegal.bsky.social · 13d

Exactly right. It wasn't just invasion, brutality, subjugation, and theft, it was a way to feel good about atrocity and cast those who resisted it as irrational, hateful monsters.

Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 17d

Colonialism was not just theft. It was the invention of a moral language to make theft look like salvation.

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