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karima @eight4878.bsky.social · 10h

Thank you to Black Rose/Rosa Negra and other comrades for arranging this speaking tour! 🎆

Photo by Laura Saunders of two radical activists, JoNina Abron-Ervin and Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin, a smiling, elder Black couple. Get info about hearing them speak: https://www.blackrosefed.org/events-driving-the-movement/.

karima @eight4878.bsky.social · 10h

Once again, Kristi is clueless. Perhaps she should read about anarchy, or have Corey read something instead of a bedtime story to her, like this beginner's guide by Ruth Kinna: tinyurl.com/244e4ttp.

A woman and a man clasp hands in front of a large sheaf of wheat and other plants. Image source: https://tinyurl.com/mux94m97.

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 1d

“There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you.”

--Amiri Baraka (10/7/1934-1/9/2014)

(blurry photo by me)

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John Hamster @homosacermom.bsky.social · 13h

With Mark Bray in the news I'll take the opportunity to plug his book, The Anarchist Inquisition. This is a great history.

Cover of The Anarchist Inquisition: Assassins, Activists, and Martyrs in Spain and France by Mark Bray.

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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 13h

This is very bad.

Qualification: no confirmation yet. But it's been two hours, and there's no followup.

Mark Bray, @mark-bray.bsky.social‬: “Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second. We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’ — October 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM

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Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union @ruaaup-ptl.bsky.social · 18h

This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray came under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our colleagues. Read our full statement here: https://loom.ly/BDXasRY

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Bench Ansfield @benchansfield.bsky.social · 18h

NYC come thru!! I'll be doing two BORN IN FLAMES launch events next week 10/16 and 10/18. Plz spread the word!

(links to follow)

Two posters for the Born in Flames launch.

OCTOBER 16 // 7pm // $7-15
Maysles Documentary Center
Screening of Decade of Fire + Book Panel with organizer and writer Shellyne Rodriguez, director Vivian Vázquez, and Elliot Liu of Take Back the Bronx

OCTOBER 18 // 2:30pm // $15-20
Museum of the City of New York
In Conversation with Ritti Singh (Housing Justice for All and NYS Tenant Bloc) and curator of social activism Sarah Seidman

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

rewirenewsgroup.com

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karima @eight4878.bsky.social · 13h

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 22h

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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karima @eight4878.bsky.social · 17h

On the outside window of an Apple store, there's graffiti lettering says, FUCK APPLE.

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 18h

ICE went after @davidjbier.bsky.social on X, blaming him for assaults on agents.

In a new @msnbc.com column, Bier argues DHS' own reckless policies are to blame.

Opinion | ICE blamed me for assaults on its agents — but its own polices are to blame

Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s targets don’t know why they’re being approached or what their rights are. The result is chaos.

www.msnbc.com

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Eze @ezetheigwe.blacksky.app · 18h

You’re a kind person, because you easily could’ve said something like “it means I’ma fuck your homeboys occasionally” since she wants to ask ridiculous questions

Treywop. 🌬️🪼 @tryvns.writes.fyi · 18h

another reason i quit dating apps: cause what else could it mean. (she in her 40s btw)

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karima @eight4878.bsky.social · 17h

A donkey and an elephant in clothing like people sit next to each other in upholstered chairs. Both hold cigars and mugs of beer, which they clink together as they chat. Their hats lean against each chair. The text above them says, OLIGARCHY POORLY DISGUISED AS A DYSFUNCTIONAL DUOPOLY!

karima @eight4878.bsky.social · 18h

Why don’t you just keep your mouth shut?
— Hakeem Jeffries

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Make Lying Wrong Again @makelyinwrongagain.bsky.social · 19h

Gift article 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | Where Trump Is Vulnerable and How to Act on It

www.nytimes.com

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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 19h

🤣🤣 seems legit!

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 22h

Forgive me for being furious whenever my white colleagues seem to be able to commit all manner of journalistic wrongs and be rewarded with multiple income streams while I am left to wonder how the hell I'm going to pay my already exorbitant ACA premiums as I float my living expenses from my 401K

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karima @eight4878.bsky.social · 18h

Gorillaz - The Manifesto also features the late D12 rapper, Proof (DeShaun Holton).

Proof, with long hair, a white tee-shirt and a tan jacket, throws a "deuces" gesture with his right hand as he stands next to Slim Shady, who's pointing one finger at the camera. There's the side of a building and a gate behind them.

karima @eight4878.bsky.social · 19h

I ask, what will be in that world that comes after the world?

An Argentine rapper named Trueno says, "Pregunto, que habra en ese mundo que viene despues del mundo?" He wears a bucket hat and what might be a sports shirt as dances, gestures with his hands, and raps in front of changing images behind him.

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karima @eight4878.bsky.social · 20h

Cool, but not as incredible as photos like this one from the Baltimore uprising in 2015.

A Black child with arms outstretched faces several cops in riot gear during a protest after Freddie Gray was murdered.

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Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app · 1d

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karima @eight4878.bsky.social · 21h

The letter supporting Ald. Jessie Fuentes about ICE's abusive behavior against her (tinyurl.com/4f9tc4v3) was not signed by Ald. Mitchell, the guy who oversees the ward where the South Shore apartment building was raided. Why not, Greg? tinyurl.com/26p2kvms via @thetriibe.com

Ald. Jessie Fuentes, wearing a dark suit and a button-down shirt, shows support for Mayor Brandon Johnson at a press conference on Oct. 6, 2025, with several folks standing around her. Photo by Ash Lane.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 23h

A tweet from Mayor Brandon Johnson says Trump has tried to unjustly arrest a Black man and he’s not going anywhere. A reply from Donald Trump says the Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect ICE officers.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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