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Adrienne

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Don’t you see we must either follow one wild possibility or else go home to bed? Also @[email protected] on Mastodon/Fediverse; find me there!

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Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · Jul 26

"…I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."
—Eugene V. Debs

Statement to the Court, Upon Being Convicted of Violating the Sedition Act

Eugene V. Debs Article.

www.marxists.org

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Del the funk @delthefunk66.bsky.social · 7h

Jesus fucking Christ. What a wild time to be living in.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 10h

Jennifer Rubin saying Democrats (and Republicans) can't be unflinchingly pro-Israel anymore

Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 12h

Unconditional support for the Israeli government is counterproductive for both countries. If Trump can get tough, why not Congress and every potus? The Israel right-or-wrong position AIPAC, right-wing Christians, and some US Jews have held is no longer unassailable. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 10h

Two separate internal reports at State and USAID found that Israel violated Section 620i of the Foreign Assistance Act and that at least 800m in military assistance to Israel should have been immediately suspended. That is the law.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 10h

Why does no one read the law

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 10h

Arms Export Act and Foreign Assistance Acts both have provisions which explicitly state that the president has an obligation to suspend military assistance to a country impeding the delivery of humanitarian aid. The way the administration avoided this was by finding that Israel wasn't doing that.

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samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 10h

There has been a genocide, stopped temporarily by regional leaders and especially by Trump, who all know very well that its full-scale continuation was fermenting a worldwide mass mobilisation that put at risk their own rule at home. Lapid referring to protests in ally countries is significant.

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samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 10h

This shameful Israeli propaganda will be repeated ad nauseam.

Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 12h

This is why those banking on the Israeli "opposition" convince very few...

Yair Lapid, head of Israel's opposition:

"Those who demonstrated against Israel in London, Rome, Paris... were deceived by propaganda... The truth is, there was no genocide, no intentional starvation."

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 10h

“We hope and pray to God that this brings actual peace.”

Palestinian families told The Independent that soldiers had raided the homes of relatives on the eve of the prisoners’ release, warning them not to celebrate.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

‘All we see is destruction’: Palestinians fear the fragile ceasefire will not last

As aid trickles in, families reunite and people return to their homes, citizens of Gaza tell The Independent that they are still in danger

www.independent.co.uk

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Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 1d

Empire empiring, always.

But there are no tribes beyond us, nothing indeed but waves and rocks, and the yet more terrible Romans, from whose oppression escape is vainly sought by obedience and submission. Robbers of the world, having by their universal plunder exhausted the land, they rifle the deep. If the enemy be rich, they are rapacious; if he be poor, they lust for dominion; neither the east nor the west has been able to satisfy them. Alone among men they covet with equal eagerness poverty and riches. To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire; they make a solitude and call it peace.

Complete Works of Tacitus. Tacitus. Sara Bryant. edited for Perseus. New York. : Random House, Inc. Random House, Inc.
1876. reprinted 1942.

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Sir Gobbersworth @sirgobbersworth.bsky.social · 9h

Of all the subjects to defend Biden on, his conduct with Israel is the most fucking baffling.

He's either an idiot, evil, or an evil idiot. Sorry dawg, no other choices and most of your "actually he did his best" arguments are secretly arguing for options 1 or 3.

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 9h

Biden dead enders in my replies are now arguing that Biden actually had to lie to protect Israel because if he didn't the supreme court would have pulled foreign policy out of the hands of the executive

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 8h

"The Verge," Patrick's great book on the era of financialization that made this all possible, rules, and in no small part because of how clear he is about the way that everything from purgatory to violence work was not just monetized, but financialized www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/patri...

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 1d

North Americans spent 20 years yelling at each other half-understood soundbites from sociology class but fundamentally that has still failed to stop them from actually understanding what "race isnt real" actually means.

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 1d

playing this game with the Levant's cocktail of diaspora groups is so fucking stupid man. like it's one of the dumbest places in the entire world to play that game.

Johnny STABcato: Television’s Jazz Detective @tunaghost.bsky.social · 1d

why would you ever tell this red-headed white man his roots aren’t from the Middle East

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Anyway all of this is to say this is why I do not say Israel is white supremacism because that is not the basis of the state in any really accurate sense. There are often alliances of ideological convenience between Zionist and white supremacist but Israel is a Jewish supremacist state.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

In fact if apartheid as a term was only applicable in cases like America then the original case in which the term was used would not qualify since the Afrikaner and white racial regime in South Africa attempted to subdivide the underclasses in more than one sense.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

This is also why arguments against the term apartheid's applicability on the basis that Israel's regime of control over Palestinians does not constitute a racial one all fall flat, because race is a construct and there are infinite ways to construct it as a result. The US's way is only one way.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

And in fact all racialized structures are arbitrary, they're just not necessarily on the axis of skin color. In the case of Israel it is on the axis of Jewishness vs non-Jewishness. This is why the Mizrahi, or "Arab Jew" and the Ethiopian or "Black Jew" both are advantaged over all non-Jews.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Indeed. The issue is not "Jews are white and Palestinians are brown" the issue is the state of Israel, defined constitutionally as a Jewish state in its political, legal, and social character is as a result explicitly exclusionary and creates 2nd and 3rd tiers of life. It is racial, just arbitrary.

Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 1d

What it means is quite literally that you can, in fact, find people of physical traits you wouldn't expect in almost every ethnic group in the world. There are Saudis who are natural blondes and Finns whose grandparents were all born there who are remarkably swarthy. It just happens.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2h

Liberal theory of foreign policy in MENA in general it seems. Maybe one day they'll grow up. I genuinely hope so.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 7h

Biden was forced to do that. OK he wasn't forced but he did it because he needed to. OK he didn't need to he did it because he wanted to, but why are you mad about that? You shouldn't talk about this ever again and also you shouldn't work to ensure it doesn't happen with next POTUS. I am smart.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2h

For us Palestinians there has not been a liberalism on offer.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2h

Basically my entire politics. I am interested in your liberalism if it's liberalism that takes liberalism seriously but I can't consider it to be such a thing if there is some racial exemptions made simply for the benefit of your preferred group in MENA. This is what liberalism in the US does.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2h

I do not oppose liberalism as a camp per se I oppose their exceptionalization vis a vis Israel

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 55m

I routinely see people ask "why is Hamas in Doha?" as if the answer isn't easily found upon the most simple Google search: the US asked for Hamas to be in Doha.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 56m

Interesting how many people on here have genuinely baited themselves into thinking of Qatar as a "sponsor of Hamas". I don't really get where this came from and it simply is not true. Do people not get what meditation is?

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 37m

US news outlets refuse to sign new Pentagon rules to report only official information www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US news outlets refuse to sign new Pentagon rules to report only official information

Defense department policy requires outlets to vow not to obtain unauthorized files and restricts access to some areas

www.theguardian.com

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 27m

Israeli MP for Hadash Ofer Cassif: "[Trump] is not the saviour. He is part and parcel, totally complicit in the genocide that Israel carried out for almost 2 years"

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Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 25m

@zarq.bsky.social confirming over here that you're welcome to PM me!

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Brendonowicz (Wears an N95) ☭🩺 #MedicareForAll @brendonowicz.bsky.social · 13h

Hope this helps!

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THE NATIONAL
THE NEWSPAPER THAT SUPPORTS AN INDEPENDENT SCOTLAND

Headline: HOW GENOCIDE HAPPENED
"No Arab will remain in Gaza"
"No-one must inhabit this land if it is not the Jewish people"
"Israel should make Gaza look like Auschwitz museum"
"I am for war crimes, I don't care if l'm criticised"
"Aid trucks continue to enter Gaza... enough!"
"We are too humanitarian. We have to burn Gaza now"
"It's not Hamas that should be eliminated. Raze Gaza"
"Without hunger and thirst among the Gazan population, we will not succeed in recruiting collaborators"
"It is an entire nation out there that is responsible. It's not true, this rhetoric about civilians not being involved"
FOUR-PAGE SPECIAL REPORT
As Israel continues to deny genocide in Gaza after the ceasefire, we publish the damning words - from the country's own prime minister, press and more - that show how atrocity came to pass

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