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Kandist @kandistmallett.bsky.social · Jun 10

I saw multiple people bloodied by police munitions, heard a police helicopter antagonizing people after dispersal orders, and saw a level of engagement from protesters that reminded me of George Floyd & Hong Kong.

Here’s my latest about yesterday’s LA protests: kandist.substack.com/p/smoke-and-...

Smoke and Teargas Choke LA's Streets as Anti-ICE Protests Erupt

Mass protests continue in response to ICE raids and deployment of National Guard.

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Kandist @kandistmallett.bsky.social · 12h

Funny story about globalization. I was thrifting in Paris trying to find a cool shirt in French but everything was in English and from America 🫠

Kandist @kandistmallett.bsky.social · 1d

I need Instagram to have a “do not suggest me” option.

Kandist @kandistmallett.bsky.social · 1d

My baby is going to be a force.

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 1d

The death followed months in immigration detention — and human rights groups’ condemnation of Belgium’s crackdown on protests.

Prominent Palestinian Protester in Brussels Dies in Custody

Mahmoud Farajalah took his life after months in immigration detention, as human rights groups’ condemned the crackdown on Brussels protests.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 5d

ICE officers stopped a family at gunpoint and smashed the car window on top of the newborn baby. “I was screaming that there was a baby,” cried the mother. “But they didn’t care,” and covered the baby with their bodies, fearing that the glass would hurt him.

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History is What's Happening @historyiswhat.bsky.social · 5d

Many blockades in Italy as part of the general strike in solidarity with Palestine. Reportedly more than 2 million people in the streets across the country.

Sciopero oggi per Flotilla e Gaza, diretta dei 100 cortei in Italia: già più di un milione in piazza

Si fermano i trasporti, la scuola e la sanità. Salvini avverte: “Se prevarrà il buon senso, ci comporteremo in una certa maniera. Se prevarrà la violenza sapre…

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Aarón Cantú @aaroncantu.bsky.social · 6d

NEW INVESTIGATION

California predicts data centers will consume as much power as adding another LA to grid by 2030

A utility anticipates additional emissions equal to 21 gas plants

Some environmentalists see reducing gas power as “a lot less likely” due to AI capitalandmain.com/the-insatiab...

The Insatiable Energy Demands of Data Centers Could Increase Fossil Fuel Emissions in California

By 2030, the centers could consume the equivalent of adding another city the size of L.A. to the state’s power grid.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 7d

🚨 BREAKING: The Sirius-Haifa (carrying Drop Site editor Alex Colston) has been boarded by Israeli military...Contact with Colston has been lost; as part of security protocols, he and other...

🎥 “The Ship Sirius: A day in the life,” a video report from Alex Colston (@recolston.bsky.social)...

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Kandist @kandistmallett.bsky.social · 8d

What I think when I see someone has saved my skeet:

a man in a suit and tie is holding a bag with evidence on it

Alt: a man in a suit and tie is holding a bag with evidence on it. This is from xfiles.

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Kandist @kandistmallett.bsky.social · 8d

Anyone trying to primary the Dems. Here’s your ad:

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 8d

Trump comments on the opposition: "I thought [I] would be met with fury on the left, but they're sort of giving up."

"I really thought that we were gonna have to sort of fight it through. There's been no fight."

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Kandist @kandistmallett.bsky.social · 8d

I think this can happen parallel to each other. Local assemblies and international spoke councils. Coordinated labor, debt, student strikes. Recruiting and building up collectives in existing media, tech, and the unions. There’s a lot that could be done and mirrored domestically and internationally

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Kandist @kandistmallett.bsky.social · 8d

We need an organized anti-authoritarian left that collaborates horizontally with the intention of stopping the global spread of autocracy.

Kandist @kandistmallett.bsky.social · 8d

There is organizing happening already of course but this is in silos. The 2010s during the springs and occupy was the closest thing to that (for my lifetime.) We were speaking with occupations around the world and being inspired by each other. What we need now is more than just solidarity signs.

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Kandist @kandistmallett.bsky.social · 8d

Meant to include that I was in Paris.

Kandist @kandistmallett.bsky.social · 8d

We can not riot our way out of this. Nor can we simply wait for the midterms and vote for the same people. We need a bit of everything but most importantly we need a strategy, dare I say unity, and it will need to be international.

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Kandist @kandistmallett.bsky.social · 8d

The truth which they know is that there is no organized left. The left is not a threat and the politicians that they are saying are the left are just as corrupt and greedy as them. That doesn’t matter bc the media has mostly been destroyed and there’s not really a counter to their misinformation.

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Kandist @kandistmallett.bsky.social · 8d

For the last decade the right has been organizing globally, buying up media companies, and getting their people into more legacy organizations. They have been preparing for this day, this moment and have a united blueprint which they are following.

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Kandist @kandistmallett.bsky.social · 8d

I was karaoking at a bar and this young French guy asked me where I was from and I said LA. He said he was sad about Charlie Kirk. The interaction felt weird until I watched the French news the next morning.

Every time I turned on the news they had something about Charlie Kirk.

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Kandist @kandistmallett.bsky.social · 9d

They are both the scorpion.

Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 9d

Frog with a scorpion on his back says, "I have decided to enter into good faith negotiations with the scorpion".

Kandist @kandistmallett.bsky.social · 11d

Hearing other Americans while traveling abroad:

Scene from the movie Civil War in which Jesse Plemons asks “what kind of Americans”

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Kandist @kandistmallett.bsky.social · 23d

brb

Kandist @kandistmallett.bsky.social · 23d

I need people to stop saying we’re headed into authoritarianism. This is authoritarianism. We are here.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 23d

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

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Kandist @kandistmallett.bsky.social · 23d

The right is going to make 2020 look like child’s play. Get ready for the Orange Guard.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 26d

Y'know that Guardian article which cited an anonymous friend of Tyler Robinson claiming he was the only "leftist" in his family?

It just got updated after the "verified source" decided he couldn't remember his "relationship" with the accused shooter well enough to be quoted

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