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ر ت ت ت @raniawrites.bsky.social · 9h

Anyone wanting to show solidarity to Sudan should challenge the "no one cares about Sudan/no one is helping" narrative. WE care. Sudanese people at home & in the diaspora & our comrades have worked relentlessly to support people & dream of justice & freedom for all of us.

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ر ت ت ت @raniawrites.bsky.social · 10h

Often, when Black people are targeted with antiblackness & racial violence in movement spaces, we're told to wait for the "right time" to bring it up unless we want to be "divisive." The implication here is that there is a hierarchy for liberation within which Black people come last.

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ر ت ت ت @raniawrites.bsky.social · 10h

It's not "purity politics" to say that we don't want to coexist or collaborate with literal nazis. Any "big tent" that harbors white supremacists & fascists is a tent worth burning down.

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ر ت ت ت @raniawrites.bsky.social · 1d

Toronto is loud tonight 🐦🐦

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ر ت ت ت @raniawrites.bsky.social · 2d

Everytime you want to use AI to make some ridiculous image or video, ask yourself - is this worth the lives of Congolese people? droughts in low income US cities? exploitation of artists & cultural producers? extinction?

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe"

Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 5d

This is so terrible.

The Combahee River Collective was founded in Boston in part because Beverly Smith, Barbara Smith and others saw how police weren't investigating and press was ignoring epidemic of murders of women in Roxbury and similar neighborhoods.

This is a similar lack of regard, sadly.

New England serial killer fears stoked by 13th body found in small town

The body of Adriana Suazo, 21, was found by a passerby on June 13 in the woods of Milton, a Massachusetts suburb about eight miles south of Boston, according to the Norfolk District Attorney’s Offi…

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 6d

NEW: I uncovered new information about individuals, donor networks, and businesses helping Canary Mission, a pro-Israel organization serving the U.S.'s deportation and repression efforts. From a Long Island interior design store to the Baltics /

www.dropsitenews.com/p/canary-mis...

From Long Island to the Baltics: Drop Site Investigation Reveals New Details About Canary Mission's Operations

Drop Site uncovered new information about individuals, donor networks, and businesses helping Canary Mission, a pro-Israel organization serving the U.S.'s deportation and repression efforts.

www.dropsitenews.com

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ر ت ت ت @raniawrites.bsky.social · 5d

It shouldn't surprise us that Chicago is fighting as hard as they are. It shouldn't shock us that "even the gangs are fighting ice". Street dudes are also your community. They're your family, neighbors, lovers, friends & sometimes comrades.

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@but-im-kim-tran @but-im-kim-tran.bsky.social · 7d

I have learned so many important lessons from being in Chicago about preparedness and how broad our coalition will be. Am eternally grateful to this city (with a special shoutout to Rogers Park) for showing us how to fight what is here and what is coming

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 7d

“What we’re seeing today in the U.S. is increasingly fascist. MAGA, I believe — and I study fascism, I don’t say this lightly — is a fascist movement.”

Anti-Fascism Scholar Flees U.S. Fearing for His Family’s Safety Amid Trump’s “Antifa” Fearmongering

We speak with Rutgers University professor Mark Bray, who fled from the U.S. to Spain with his family after receiving death threats over his scholarship. He is the author of the 2017 book Antifa: The ...

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ر ت ت ت @raniawrites.bsky.social · 7d

A strip search is sexual assault

Truthout @truthout.org · 7d

“No woman is going to think that the law itself is what is going to violate you, but that’s happened to me here and back there [in Venezuela], and it’s horrible,” one woman who was strip searched after friends visited her at an ICE facility said.

After Visits With Loved Ones, Some in ICE Custody Face Invasive Strip Searches

“It’s one of the most humiliating things one can go through,” said one woman jailed at Otay Mesa Detention Center.

truthout.org

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ر ت ت ت @raniawrites.bsky.social · 8d

Miss Major, now amongst the ancestors. Journey well, beloved, thanks for the real talk, riots and rocks hurled at fascists. We stand on your shoulders.

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ر ت ت ت @raniawrites.bsky.social · 9d

Loneliness, disconnect & lack of community are radicalizing people into everything from conspiracy theories to cults to fascism. Care is the antidote.

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ر ت ت ت @raniawrites.bsky.social · 13d

Yes, billionaires should not exist, even if it's Taylor Swift. Ya'll are "girl bossing" us to death & extinction.

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ر ت ت ت @raniawrites.bsky.social · 13d

Someone recently asked me if I feel "vindicated" as someone who was fired early on for speaking out against the seige of Gaza - now that the tide is turning.

Vindicated is a small & selfish feeling. I feel sick, hollow, angry - the last two years of genocide could vindicate only the devil.

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ر ت ت ت @raniawrites.bsky.social · 13d

Showing "conservatives" that their ideology is doing them a disservice & not producing the outcomes it claims to value - spending less money, focusing on "our own," helping "families," etc. - is a failing strategy.

It's doing exactly what it's supposed to do, destabilizing & flooding the zone.

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ر ت ت ت @raniawrites.bsky.social · 13d

You can't make a billion dollars, but you can take a billion dollars.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 18d

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

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ر ت ت ت @raniawrites.bsky.social · 18d

The girly pop billionaires are gonna girl power is to death.

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ر ت ت ت @raniawrites.bsky.social · 22d

White supremacist rhetoric & anti-Indigenous disinformation & propaganda in "Canada" is overwhelming. Genocide denial, eugenics, and direct interpersonal violence towards Indigenous People are increasingly the norm. People are not even coating in the violent Canadian politeness anymore.

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ر ت ت ت @raniawrites.bsky.social · 23d

The postal service & public transit are public social services & community infrastructure. I hate to break it to you, but they're not meant to make money

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ر ت ت ت @raniawrites.bsky.social · 23d

Every time my knee hurts, I resent any undeserving man I gave a bubble & whine to when my knees were still fresh out the box.

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Read More bell hooks @walaal.blacksky.app · 26d

may Assata Shakur rest in forever peace, love & power

very grateful 4 all she did that will live on forever & that she lived as a free woman all these yrs

“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.”

two pictures of Assata Shakur.

the one on the left is a black and white picture of her smiling and looking down, with long black braids and wearing black.

the one on the right is of her wearing a colourful dress and the skyline of a city that i don't recognize and a body of water in the background.

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ر ت ت ت @raniawrites.bsky.social · Sep 18

Listen, I'm going to need us to stop saying that humans are horrible and that all the injustice in the world right now is our collective doing.

It's the doing of a handful of people, and we know their names.

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