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ticonderoga2.bsky.social
Ticonderoga № 2
@ticonderoga2.bsky.social
Global student, vagabond, multilateralist, hedonist and bibliophile 📚. Pro-human rights, anti-racist, anti-religious intolerance 🕍⛪️🕌 and anti-genocide 🍉 Trying to understand and do better for my fellow humans, as well as the planet 🌍 🌲🌊 and all animals🦤
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We just received more Epstein files. More proof the corruption runs deep.

No matter your title, wealth, or political party, if you're complicit in abusing or silencing women and girls, we will hold you to account.

We're going to keep fighting for justice and transparency. ⬇️
September 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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The rules have changed. Mike Johnson wants to wait until the official results come in October 14th to swear in Grijalva.
Grijalva: I was looking at the example of now-Representative Walkinshaw from Virginia, who was elected two weeks ago Tuesday. The following Wednesday—less than 24 hours later—he was sworn in, with unofficial results.

So for me, apparently the rules have now changed in just two weeks.
September 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them. -
Assata Shakur

Pic of the day

#photography
September 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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September 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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The University of California’s turning over of dossiers on 160 people under investigation for antisemitism, including Judith Butler, to the Trump administration has strong echoes of McCarthyism.
All of This Because of Political Speech
The University of California’s turning over of dossiers on 160 people under investigation for antisemitism, including Judith Butler, to the Trump administration has strong echoes of McCarthyism.
jacobin.com
September 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Both sides are NOT the same.
September 14, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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NEWS: Gov. Kathy Hochul has endorsed Zohran Mamdani for NYC mayor

"We’ve had our disagreements. But in our conversations, I heard a leader who shares my commitment to a New York where children can grow up safe in their neighborhoods and where opportunity is within reach for every family."
September 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Firing a Black woman for quoting Kirk’s horrific statements about Black women is insane. It seems the Washington Post would rather perform politeness (and demand that the people Kirk harmed do it too) that tell the truth: karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...
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.
karenattiah.substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.
September 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Right now there's a clear and obvious relationship between social media and anti-social behavior, and we cannot go on like this.
September 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Stay focused.
September 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?
September 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Some personal news:

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

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...
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.
substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Washington Post fires their last remaining Black opinion writer @karenattiah.bsky.social over the most benign comments in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's murder...

Meanwhile Fox still has Brian Kilmeade who casually said all homeless people should be killed.

Its all unfair & unbalanced. Wake up.
September 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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All you need to know about That Town is everyone (not karen) pretended to care about Khashoggi until it was no longer convenient given the various personal and financial entanglements people had, so they stopped
I hired Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2017, and worked with him closely until he was murdered by the Saudi regime in Istanbul -- simply for expressing himself.

I put my safety on the line for years to push publicly for justice and accountability in his murder.

www.npr.org/2018/10/18/6...
'Washington Post' Publishes Jamal Khashoggi's Last Column
Noel King talks to Karen Attiah, of The Washington Post, about the column which was filed before Khashoggi disappeared. He wrote passionately about the need for a free press in the Arab world.
www.npr.org
September 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
RIP those kiddos ⚽️🪽and all the other ones killed senselessly in this everlasting genocide.
September 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Happy Day-After-Labor-Day to all who celebrate.
September 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."

It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Revoking an entire nationality’s visas is collective punishment and never acceptable — especially in this moment when millions of Palestinians lack equal rights, basic healthcare, and so much more at home, forcing them out of the US is unfathomably cruel.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
U.S. Suspends Visas for Palestinian Passport Holders, Officials Say
The move will stop, at least temporarily, travel for medical treatment, attending university, visiting relatives or conducting business.
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean
September 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Video credit: itsjuliencohen

Description: "11 and 8-year-old prodigy sisters played Vivaldi Winter with me"

This is serious musical talent 🎻🎻🎹🎶🎵

#VivaldiWinter #Song #music #Piano #Violin #Instruments #Instrumental
September 2, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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‘If [news media] can’t draw the line at genocide, they can’t draw the line at democracy' to paraphrase Ta-Nehisi Coates
August 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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I am not surprised that this president would insinuate that slavery was not that bad. After all, this is the same president who ordered federal agents to kidnap residents and force them into prisons. . .
August 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM