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Hip Hop Artist | Sociologist | Organizer | Activist | Strategist | Journalist | Founder, @tendemands.bsky.social • Work: NWU, Unicorn Riot, Counterpunch, Mass Appeal, Melina Abdullah, Noelle Cook, etc. • aka @philmandelbaum.bsky.social • thisisawkword.com

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · Jan 27

If you *actually* want to get to know me and my story, listen to this conversation with @grza.bsky.social.

The rest is just hearsay.

www.didnothingwrongpod.com/p/episode-16...

Episode 167 - This is Awkword

I sit down with the MC, journalist, and political activist know as Awkword. We talk about the intersection of politics and hip-hop, the impact of Charlottesville, and how redemption can work.

www.didnothingwrongpod.com

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 17h

Organizing works. Online and off.

Thanks to @hopenothate.org.uk and 34,000 friends, the Neo-Nazi music festival ‘Resurrection 4’ was canceled in September.

It would’ve been “the biggest white power gig in Britain in 10 years”…

And this is why we host the ‘Ant!fa Panels’ — to provide *solutions*

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Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social · 14h

Cops used 83,000 cameras to track a single abortion patient — on her abuser’s tip.

This is fascism. At your door. At every door.

jessica.substack.com/p/texas-abor...

@jessicavalenti.bsky.social @kylietcheung.bsky.social

awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 17h

“They’ll try again and when they do, we’ll be ready” - nicklowles.bsky.social, @hopenothate.org.uk

Neo-Nazi Music Festival Cancelled After Opposition From Anti-Fascists

The “biggest white power gig in Britain in 10 years” was called off following opposition from local residents and anti-fascist campaigners

bylinetimes.com

awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 17h

Organizing works. Online and off.

Thanks to @hopenothate.org.uk and 34,000 friends, the Neo-Nazi music festival ‘Resurrection 4’ was canceled in September.

It would’ve been “the biggest white power gig in Britain in 10 years”…

And this is why we host the ‘Ant!fa Panels’ — to provide *solutions*

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 The Ant!fa Panels are BACK 🏴

Episode 2 featuring:

@nkalamb.bsky.social
@allyfromnola.bsky.social
@cdelawalla.bsky.social
@laurajedeed.bsky.social
@kateross.bsky.social

Co-hosted by @kellyscaletta.bsky.social and yours truly

awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 1d

Kate Ross — @kateross.bsky.social — is an acclaimed security expert and OSINT researcher focused on how far-right extremist groups use disinformation to target vulnerable communities

awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 1d

Laura Jedeed — @laurajedeed.bsky.social — is creator and publisher of Banned In Your State and a freelance journalist focused on US conservative and far-right movements, with words in Politico, The Nation, The New Republic and Rolling Stone

awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 1d

Colette Delawalla — @cdelawalla.bsky.social — is founder and executive director of Stand Up for Science and a clinical psychology PhD candidate at Emory University, in the Behavior Genetics of Addiction Laboratory

awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 1d

Allison Wiltz — @allyfromnola.bsky.social — is founder of Writers and Editors of Color (WEOC) m, editor in chief of Cultured Magazine, editor for Momentum and freelance journalist with words in Oprah Daily, ZORA and LEVE

awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 1d

Nathan Kalman-Lamb — @nkalamb.bsky.social — is associate professor of sociology at University of New Brunswick, co-host of The End of Sport podcast and journalist, with words in The Guardian, Al Jazeera and LA Times

awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 The Ant!fa Panels are BACK 🏴

Episode 2 featuring:

@nkalamb.bsky.social
@allyfromnola.bsky.social
@cdelawalla.bsky.social
@laurajedeed.bsky.social
@kateross.bsky.social

Co-hosted by @kellyscaletta.bsky.social and yours truly

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 6d

If you’re at all interested in defending democracy or defeating Trump, this is a literal MUST WATCH

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 5d

They labeled us criminals…

And things haven’t been this bad since Jim Crow.

🧵

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TEN DEMANDS (The Abolitionists) @tendemands.bsky.social · 1d

“We show up at protests and just let ourselves get beat up for the optics, as opposed to actually doing tactics that might help us stop these machines” - Eric King

If you’re attending the No Kings, 50501, or anti-“ICE Protests”? Be prepared.

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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 6d

We have to act while there is still time. We don't want to get to the end of the "And there was no one left to stand for me" part of the poem.

youtube.com/shorts/4Denz...

The Urgency of Direct Action in Our Communities

YouTube video by Machine Pun Kelly

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TEN DEMANDS (The Abolitionists) @tendemands.bsky.social · 2d

“If the purpose of the anti-ICE apps is to track and alert neighbors about ICE: in self-sustaining communities, there’s no point.”

Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social · 2d

For anyone subscribed to Counterpunch, the “ICEBlock story” is out

Paywall removed soon

ICEBlock Can’t Block ICE. No App Can.

“Despite the app’s goal of protecting people from ICE, its viral success, and the state repression against it, ICEBlock has serious issues: Most

www.counterpunch.org

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Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social · 2d

For anyone subscribed to Counterpunch, the “ICEBlock story” is out

Paywall removed soon

ICEBlock Can’t Block ICE. No App Can.

“Despite the app’s goal of protecting people from ICE, its viral success, and the state repression against it, ICEBlock has serious issues: Most

www.counterpunch.org

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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 1d

I do not have great video editing skills, but I stretched them for this. The Dangers of Cognitive Dissonance in MAGAs. youtube.com/shorts/Sgd3u...

The Many MAGA Dangers of Cognitive Dissonance

YouTube video by Machine Pun Kelly

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST

Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time.

Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense.
🧵

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 1d

Last year they claimed “illegals” were voting, without any evidence.

They used fear mongering to push for voter suppression laws.

Now they claim “illegals” are getting free healthcare, again without any evidence.

So they can make healthcare unaffordable for millions of Americans.

Enough.

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hopeful66 @hopeful66.bsky.social · 1d

go.bsky.app/FFrQUqc

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Brian Manning📎 @boxdonkey17.bsky.social · 2d

In one of the first tests of freedom of speech, the House passed the Sedition Act in 1798, permitting the deportation, fine, or imprisonment of anyone deemed a threat or publishing “false, scandalous, or malicious writing” against the government of the United States. Sound familiar????

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Kodiak149 @kodiak149.bsky.social · 2d

Really
Why isn’t he being called out on the lies. What happened to real journalists

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Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 2d

Speaking Spanish isn’t “un-American.”

It’s as American as the Super Bowl itself.

If you’re mad about hearing it, maybe ask yourself why.

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 4d

Tonight’s #FridayLimericks look at the anatomy of the latest Trump shutdown.

The repubs have a shutdown once more,
Like with Trump they had three times before.
But what’s different in kind
Is they don’t seem to mind
There are suffering people galore.

TRUMP HAS REPEATEDLY SAID THE PRESIDENT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWNS
"[When they talk about the government shutdown, they're going to be talking about the president of the United States, who the
things in Washington. So I really think the pressure is on the president."
- September 20K3, Fox & Filench intendew
"If you say who gets fired, it always has to be the top. Problems start from the top, and they have to get solved from the top, and the president's the leader, and he's got to get everybody in a room, and he's got to lead.
And he doesn't do that, he doesn't like doing that, that's not his strength.'
• September 2012, For & Filende intervien
"You have to get everybody in a room. You have to be a leader. The president has to lead.
He has to get [the Speaker of the House] and everybody else in a room, and they have to make a deal. You have to be nice and be angry and be wild and cajole and do all sorts of things, but you have to get a deal."
- October 2013, Arterview with then. Fox News host Geete Ven Sosteren

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