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Avery Smith @averysmith.bsky.social · 11h

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Replacement Conspiracy Theory and Aotearoa

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Avery Smith @averysmith.bsky.social · 11h

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Replacement Conspiracy Theory and Aotearoa

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Avery Smith @averysmith.bsky.social · 11h

Welp, since the US has all in on ‘great replacement’ it’s an excellent time to revisit this episode.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 4d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 4d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Avery Smith @averysmith.bsky.social · 9d

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Avery Smith @averysmith.bsky.social · 11d

It’s really quite simple to understand this. It’s harder to follow convoluted logic that wants you to believe otherwise.

Damien Marie AtHope Ⓐ 🚩🏴🌍 @damienmarieathope.bsky.social · 11d

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Avery Smith @averysmith.bsky.social · 11d

It assumes that we are dumb enough to believe that he didn’t know what he was doing. If he knew enough to want to advocate for ‘free speech’ he knew enough to know better. Get outta here with that bs.

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Avery Smith @averysmith.bsky.social · 14d

If the mask fits…

Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 14d

Judge SLAMS the masking of federal agents in ruling finding Trump admin violated pro-Palestine protesters' rights:

"To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan."
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And there’s the issue of masks. ... ICE goes masked for a single reason -- to terrorize Americans into quiescence. Small wonder ICE often seems to need our respected military to guard them as they go about implementing our immigration laws. It should be noted that our troops do not ordinarily wear masks. Can you imagine a masked marine? It is a matter of honor -- and honor still matters. To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police. Carrying on in this fashion, ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it. “We can not escape history,” Lincoln rightly said. “[It] will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.”

Avery Smith @averysmith.bsky.social · 14d

This is the part people don’t get, you don’t get to be racist without it having some very material (and moral and spiritual) costs. Not only do you lose any kind of credibility but also your own humanity.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 14d

RACISM COSTS EVERYONE, SHE SAID

WE ARE AT THE COSTING EVERYONE PART

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/564989...

The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee: 9780525509585 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that...

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 14d

They're using chemical weapons & deploying snipers against citizens.

They're using chemical weapons & deploying snipers against citizens.

They're using chemical weapons & deploying snipers against citizens.

They're using chemical weapons & deploying snipers against citizens.

They're using chemic

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Avery Smith @averysmith.bsky.social · 14d

Fuuuuck!!! This is such a travesty

Avery Smith @averysmith.bsky.social · 21d

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Avery Smith @averysmith.bsky.social · 21d

www.buzzsprout.com/2315985/epis... Spreading Facts with Mona Krewel

Spreading Facts with Mona Krewel - Unsettling Extremism

In this episode, we talk with Dr. Mona Krewel about her research looking into misinformation and disinformation shared by political parties in New Zealand's 2020 and 2023 elections,  the meaning ...

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Avery Smith @averysmith.bsky.social · 21d

There is research that suggest the same thing here. See Mona Krewels work on the last 2 elections in nz. She also talked about this in the podcast episode I did with her.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 27d

•ABC: fires Kimmel for mocking Trump
•CBS: fires Colbert for mocking Trump
•ABC: fires Moran for slamming Stephen Miller
•MSNBC: fires Matt Dowd for saying “hateful thoughts lead to hateful actions”

•FOX: Champions Brian Kilmeade as he calls for Nazi state murder of America’s 600K homeless people

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Avery Smith @averysmith.bsky.social · 28d

All the coolest people are.

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Avery Smith @averysmith.bsky.social · Sep 11

I am really looking forward to this!!!

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Avery Smith @averysmith.bsky.social · Sep 10

Wish I could hear this!

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · Sep 9

"school shooting industry"

NPR @npr.org · Sep 9

The effort to keep schools safe from mass shooters has ballooned into a multibillion dollar industry. Companies are selling school districts assurance with high-tech products.

The school shooting industry is worth billions — and it keeps growing

The effort to keep schools safe from mass shooters has ballooned into a multibillion dollar industry. Companies are selling school districts assurance with high-tech products.

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Avery Smith @averysmith.bsky.social · Sep 9

Nope, absolutely unprofessional and against the standards of teacher conduct.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Sep 8

You cannot genetically encode cultural behavior

The idea that you can is literally racist science from the antebellum era

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Avery Smith @averysmith.bsky.social · Sep 8

Tell me again how the courts will save us?

DHS vows to "FLOOD THE ZONE" after Supreme Court lifts limits on LA ICE stops

LA Mayor Karen Bass said the ruling means "federal agents can racially profile Angelenos with no due process."

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Avery Smith @averysmith.bsky.social · Sep 7

I want to tautoko what Māori have already said about this being an ongoing form of colonial racism. As a scholar of Whiteness, this is an example of the concept of whiteness as property/possession. It shows the power whiteness has to exclude who and what is allowed to be accepted as knowledge.

Literacy experts say no problem with Māori words in book for learner readers

The Education Ministry has said it won't reprint 'At the Marae' for kids because it includes a higher number of Māori words.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Avery Smith @averysmith.bsky.social · Sep 7

Every day adds a new layer to the facist take over of the US.

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