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Organizer, writer, campaign manager. Queer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, brown ✊🏽, & disabled ♿️. Work with immigrants & youth. Lg: 🇬🇧🇪🇸🇫🇷🇸🇳 All work: bit.ly/m/link2Anoosh Political t-shirts: bonfire.com/store/downtown-angry-brown/ Parent. Armenian 🇦🇲 Filipinx 🇵🇭 American. ❤️🐕

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Anoosh @anoosh100.bsky.social · Nov 27

Hello! Here’s an updated profile post/thread 🧵 about who I am and the work I do.

I’m honestly overwhelmed by the volume of follows. If you know me IRL or we’re mutuals elsewhere, please say hi!

My work is rooted in Black feminism, post-colonialism, the glocal, and the universal in the particular.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15h

Free speech is when Republicans can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/noup...

Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 15h

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?

Is it...requesting content moderation?

Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target @ICEgov agents in Chicago.
The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 11h

If you’re a man in the room and a public official says this about your female colleague, you don’t continue as if nothing happened.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 10h

Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day

A four-panel image of Anita Bryant being pied in her sanctimonious face by gay rights activist Thom Higgins, 1977.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 9h

To everyone who says, "But this won't matter": *MAKE IT MATTER.*

You have that power! This is not inside baseball and your friends and neighbors will likely be appalled. And if they're *not* appalled, don't be cynical yourself. Take the lead, give the cue.

Politico @politico.com · 13h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Anoosh @anoosh100.bsky.social · 9h

CANADIANS

ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 11h

A pilot out in Nova Scotia seems to have had some fun yesterday.

www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

C-GZPT Flight Tracking and History - FlightAware

Flight status, tracking, and historical data for C-GZPT including scheduled, estimated, and actual departure and arrival times.

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Anoosh @anoosh100.bsky.social · 9h

This may be the strongest example of joking/not joking for the day, if not the month.

Davor M @dmondom.bsky.social · 12h

Like paint and gas, “the protein powders are full of lead” might go a long way to explaining our current situation

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 12h

1. Last night, John Oliver destroyed Bari Weiss and specifically called out her inaccurate and targeted coverage of transgender people.

It's the latest of several shows Oliver has done in defense of trans people.

Weiss at CBS is a disaster for trans people.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

John Oliver Destroys Bari Weiss In Defense Of Transgender People

The right-wing commentator is now the head of CBS.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 12h

People think I'm being hyperbolic when I say "Yeah the GOP is just pro-slavery at this point."

If their actual farm labor policy wasn't enough, there's always this.

Screenshot from the Politico article on a leaked Young Republicans group chat.

"They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery."

Screenshot. "In another conversation in February, Giunta talks approvingly about the Orange County Teenager Republican organization in New York- which appears to be part of the network of national Teen Age Republicans- and how he was pleased with its young members' ideological bent.

"They support slavery and all that shit. Mega based."

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Anoosh @anoosh100.bsky.social · 9h

I thought very seriously about being a tax resistor, but for me, other methods of resistance have a better pay-off.

Anoosh @anoosh100.bsky.social · 9h

Can someone, anyone, put a camera on a Democrat and ask “WHY?”

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 11h

I did not know this previously, but apparently a U.S. President can unilaterally dismantle a law passed by congress and freeze already awarded funding for essential services and face absolutely no repercussions for it whatsoever

hell, the press will barely even remember he did it 6 months later

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Anoosh @anoosh100.bsky.social · 9h

This is what white supremacy gets you:

The worst slime oozes out of the woodwork because a system where white, cis/straight, US-born white men compete only with each other is the only one where these shit-asses can succeed.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 11h

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

Anoosh @anoosh100.bsky.social · 9h

GFM can’t get you a living wage.

It’s not a “land of opportunity” if you work you ass off and still can’t support yourself.

It’s a shithole country.

Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10h

More and more Americans are literally being forced to use GoFundMe to survive.

So what are Donald Trump and the Republicans doing to help?

Ripping away families' health care and jacking up insurance premiums to pay for giant tax handouts for their billionaire buddies.

Anoosh @anoosh100.bsky.social · 9h

I thank my uterus that my kids are too old for this trend. Minecraft talk wasn’t this bad.

Anoosh @anoosh100.bsky.social · 9h

Fascists lie. Fascists believe the ends justify the means and lying is a major tool in their toolbox.

This means:

Politicians (duh)
Sheriffs
Police
White supremacists

And absolutely, positively, 100% ICE

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10h

Trump claims ICE’s reign of terror in Chicago is targeting the “worst of the worst.”

But out of the 1,000 undocumented immigrants that have swept up, the agency has only cited 10 men with a criminal background.

Don’t believe his lies for a second.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Trump says migrants drive violent crime in Illinois. But ICE can’t find many violent criminals.

Masked ICE agents and other federal forces showed up in Chicago to go after gangsters. Instead, they keep catching people who are just living their lives.

www.msnbc.com

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Rumpole of the Bayou @rumpolebayou.bsky.social · 12h

Neither Trump nor FIFA can just move World Cup locations. Cities signed enforceable Host City Agreements with FIFA. The cities could bring arbitration against FIFA if it tries that.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump on moving World Cup games from Boston: "We could take them away. Your mayor is not good."

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Anoosh @anoosh100.bsky.social · 9h

They’ve been running the “reverse discrimination” play since at least 1971.

Why are people still falling for this?

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10h

This op-ed page from the Winston salem journal in, I believe, 1971 is what I really focused on. This is a roundup.

1. A proud self-identified racist public figure decrying reverse dissemination

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Anoosh @anoosh100.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day!

TODAY ONLY I have a discount on these designs:

- America: Taking in Immigrants since 1492
- Decolonize Education
- Decolonize Gender
- Freedom for Palestine
- No One Is Illegal/Nadie Es Ilegal

Get 10% off with the code IPD2025. Shop: www.bonfire.com/store/downto...

A brown person with shoulder-length dark hair wearing a light blue shirt with an illustration from 1493 of Columbus setting sail from Europe. Text reads: America - Taking in Immigrants since 1492.

A brown person with dark hair standing at the entrance to the royal palace in Hawai’i wearing a red shirt that reads Decolonize Education in the style of Drink Coca-Cola.

A navy t-shirt with an illustration of a Palestinian Sunbird. Text in red, white, and green reads Freedom for Palestine.

A close-up of a gray shirt with a historic map of North and Central America with Native nations labeled on it. A caravel, a mythic sea monster, and a portrait of a Native man are around it in a blue circle. Text around the edge of the circle reads Nadie Es Ilegal en Tierras Robadas / No One Is Illegal on Stolen Lands.

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Anoosh @anoosh100.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, I just assume anyone who ISN’T worried about this is either very naïve or deeply in denial.

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Anoosh @anoosh100.bsky.social · 2d

I mean, I just assume anyone who ISN’T worried about this is either very naïve or deeply in denial.

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 2d

in which a sitting justice on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court seems to imply he’s worried about whether there’ll be a presidential race in 2028 boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...

Speculating on Republican motivations, Dougherty said at his Chestnut Hill event that he expects the court to continue playing a major role in election law: “The theory is that we have to deal with a congressional election in 2026, and there’s preparation regarding gerrymandering for the next presidential election—should there be one.”

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Anoosh @anoosh100.bsky.social · 2d

There is definitely a problem where damaged, narcissistic mothers over-identify with their daughters/AFAB kids, and they justify the most bizarre, extreme, harmful measures as being “mama bears” for their children.

Anoosh @anoosh100.bsky.social · 2d

As I deal with a Mom for Liberty who has been harassing our school board, elected officials, LGBTQ+ families, and kids outside their schools with her transphobic nonsense, this makes complete sense to me.

She was radicalized when her AFAB child came out as trans.

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Anoosh @anoosh100.bsky.social · 2d

I haven’t seen any organization/group take this on, but here’s some examples of individual efforts.

A Latino artist leaning on his painting showing a Latino ICE agent zip-typing an indigenous Central American woman on the ground, flowers strewn around her.

An anti-ICE paste-up poster seen in Los Angeles. Among other things, it reads, “Are you a person of color in ICE? U are your ancestors’ worst nightmare.”

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone know who is working on countering ICE recruitment of people of color? I'm wondering if there's a current issue campaign focused on this that has also enlisted artists and cultural workers.

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Anoosh @anoosh100.bsky.social · 2d

1) Fire them
2) Prosecute them
3) Abolish ICE

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