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Scholar of race, class, politics, & culture. Black queer man w/ intersectional lefty socialist analyses. Beyond politics, love paleontology, the middle ages, art history, horror films, the 80s music, old tech, sex positivity, & kink FF👊↕️🐷💦😈🦶.

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Nat Turntup✊🏿⚒️🍉🌈 @theblacksavant.bsky.social · Jul 30

There is a DEEP CONNECTION between ANTI-BLACK RACISM and ZIONISM.

They're literally running with the DEREK CHAUVIN DEFENSE.

STARVING a child of nutrition or KNEELING on someone's windpipe is fucking life-threatening irrespective of pre-existing conditions.

[George Floyd mural in Palestine.]

People walk past a mural showing the face of Floyd painted on a section of Israel's controversial separation barrier in Bethlehem on March 31, 2021.Emmanuel Dunand—AFP/Getty Images

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 1d

“In Gaza, wars do not end. Wars are the only guarantee.”

Palestinian author and journalist Plestia Alaqad reads her poem ‘How Do We Know When Wars End?’

She joined @mehdirhasan.bsky.social to discuss her new book ‘The Eyes of Gaza’

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 22h

🚨Israeli forces carried out fresh strikes in Gaza on Thursday, killing at least 29 Palestinians, according to Wafa. Gaza City’s municipality said “the reality on the ground has not changed,” hours before the ceasefire is set to take effect.

➥ A massacre was reported in the Sabra neighborhood...

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 22h

Some 70 people are reported killed, injured, or missing beneath the rubble after Israeli airstrikes struck Gaza’s Al Sabra neighborhood. Families that had gathered in celebration were bombed, leading to casualties among many women and children.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 19h

"I have trouble with the term 'liberal Zionism'"

Anti-Zionist Jewish Hollywood star Hannah Einbinder on the "settler colonialist ideology" and "apartheid" of Zionism, in the new Zeteo podcast 'Beyond Israelism with Simone Zimmerman'.

Full show: zeteo.com/p/beyond-isr...

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Nat Turntup✊🏿⚒️🍉🌈 @theblacksavant.bsky.social · 1d

This is what Swifties thought they were getting 😭😂🤣:
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Christina Aguilera - Ain't No Other Man (Official Video)

YouTube video by CAguileraVEVO

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Demifiend @the-demifiend.bsky.social · 2d

There have been a lot of very funny manufactured non-dramas over the years, but "ten thousand (physical or mental) 13 year olds watch time lapse clips of a dog sleeping and pretend to believe its the most heartbreaking animal abuse they've ever seen" is up there

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Nat Turntup✊🏿⚒️🍉🌈 @theblacksavant.bsky.social · 1d

a woman wearing a headband with the words all of this written on it

ALT: a woman wearing a headband with the words all of this written on it

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James @jmiaminow.bsky.social · 1d

If I could instill wisdom to anyone who reads my posts

Is that our government stopped working for us LONG AGO

It took both parties to bring us to this moment in history. Actions and inactions by both parties brought us here

Don’t debate the lesser of two evils when they were both responsible this

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

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Metaphor Man @metaphorman.bsky.social · 2d

Who the hell would trust this man with digital IDs?

substack.com/@councilesta...

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

Greetings from U.S. District Court Judge April Perry’s courtroom in the Dirksen Federal Courthouse. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is present, waiting for the high stakes hearing to begin. @wttw.bsky.social

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

FULL STORY: As lawyers for the Trump administration defended the president’s unprecedented decision to send National Guard troops to Chicago despite the objections of Gov. Pritzker and Mayor Johnson, officials acknowledged that California troops had also been sent to Illinois. @wttw.bsky.social

Judge to Decide Whether to Block National Guard Deployment as Trump Sends California Troops to Illinois

Lawyers for the Department of Justice told U.S. District Court Judge April Perry the president deployed the National Guard because “levels of violence against federal law enforcement executing their l...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

MAJOR new restrictions on federal government use of riot control weapons -- and even requiring them to display identification in many circumstances. I expect a very rapid appeal and request for a stay from the 7th Circuit.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

NEW: A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order barring Chicago-area fed agents from several violent actions they’ve taken against journalists, activists and “religious practitioners” protesting ICE — including Rev. Black, a plaintiff in the case. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71559...

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Nat Turntup✊🏿⚒️🍉🌈 @theblacksavant.bsky.social · 1d

Can you imagine trying to explain this headline to someone in the 1940s--that an ANTIFASCIST was escaping to SPAIN of all places!?!?!

Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 1d

Doing politics the right way is when the far-right regime in power memorializes a fallen influencer by terrorizing an academic that the influencer's McCarthyist organization once baselessly singled out for abuse.

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 1d

The report quotes Bray admitting that there may be an innocuous explanation for all this and expresses a desire not to come across as conspiratorial, but I think he is perfectly within his rights to see it all as quite fishy. Trump has pledged an all-out assault on "Antifa."

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

“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.’

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 1d

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Nat Turntup✊🏿⚒️🍉🌈 @theblacksavant.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for keeping us informed in these times Cody showdy!

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 2d

"For some, the Trump administration's Chicago assault was a shock."

"But for Black Americans, none of it felt extraordinary. It felt remembered."

"We know 'them' becomes 'you' sooner than you think."
#Illinois #USA #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Black People Knew This Would Happen

Generational experience has taught us what happens when the state builds a weapon for someone else: Sooner or later, it finds a way back to us.

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Nat Turntup✊🏿⚒️🍉🌈 @theblacksavant.bsky.social · 1d

a man is sitting at a table with his arms crossed and looking at the camera .

ALT: a man is sitting at a table with his arms crossed and looking at the camera .

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

Of course Adams supporters give most of their support to Cuomo. Complete pathetic people.

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 1d

NEW mayoral poll from Quinnipiac, conducted Oct. 3–7 with a 3.9% margin of error: poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

Zohran Mamdani - 46%

Andrew Cuomo - 33%

Curtis Sliwa - 15%

NYC Mayor's Race: Adams Exits, Cuomo Gains, Mamdani Up By Double Digits, Quinnipiac University New York City Poll Finds; Who Would Best Represent NYC's Interests Under Trump? Mamdani & Cuomo Ess...

"The numbers changed but the contours of the race haven't. Andrew Cuomo picked up the bulk of Adams' supporters cutting into Zohran Mamdani's lead, but Mamdani's frontrunner status by double digits st...

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Recession Indicator @gatherer.bsky.social · 1d

I think Hasan needs to sue these people saying he tortures his dog for defamation.

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Nat Turntup✊🏿⚒️🍉🌈 @theblacksavant.bsky.social · 1d

It reminds me of the AOC clip where she said growing up, based on movies, you'd fascist villains would be at least smart and savvy but instead they're quite stupid and cringe.

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IHIP News: AOC DESTROYS Stephen Miller on FOX in HILARIOUS TAKEDOWN!!

YouTube video by I've Had It

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Nat Turntup✊🏿⚒️🍉🌈 @theblacksavant.bsky.social · 1d

Y'all google "WEIMAR REPUBLIC and FASCISM," then tell me what side ANTIFA(scists) were on?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Night Of The Living Jam @monkyjamm.bsky.social · 1d

The fucking Nazis are trying to say antifa were Nazis. Jfc

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

@jeremyscahill.com will be live on The Electronic Intifada's stream (x.com/intifada/sta...) with @aliabunimah.bsky.social and the team to discuss the Gaza ceasefire deal in a few minutes. Watch 👇🏼

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

Israeli tanks fired directly at civilians on Al-Rashid Street on Thursday as they were trying to return to northern Gaza.

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