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Mira (SPOOKYNOUNS IN BIO)

@thefreeradical.org

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HERE ARE MY SPOOKY PRONOUNS - she/her professionally, she/it if ur trans ΘΔ transfem journalist and tired anarchist go read blessed is the flame my website has my clips: miralazine.com [email protected] <- for comments, inquiries, and death threats

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Mira (SPOOKYNOUNS IN BIO) @thefreeradical.org · 8d

getting a decent chunk of new followers so time for another introduction thread -

hi! im mira lazine, im a transfem anarchist journalist who primarily writes for the trans worker-owned news outlet i helped found, @transnews.network, and my own newsletter, The Free Radical!🧵

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

Aftonbladet's report is harrowing and should make anyone who doubted it feel ashamed.

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 1d

Sahar hasn't received support in days, and to make matters worse, bluesky has gotten even MORE aggressive with deleting Palestinain accounts. I always have to double share the link because the quoted post below will be gone within hours usually tinyurl.com/HelpSaharsFa...

helpsa7araj.bsky.social @helpsa7araj.bsky.social · 1d

My son Odai who injured from Quadcopter hasn’t received any support for his treatments or painkillers for two days now. His pain is growing, and I feel helpless watching him suffer. Please, don’t forget him — every small donation means relief, means hope. 💔🙏

tinyurl.com/HelpSaharsFa...

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Mira (SPOOKYNOUNS IN BIO) @thefreeradical.org · 1d

but its a rly pretty set and i had a lot of fun building it, a ton of cool unique techniques and i really like the unique approach to using frogs as cherry blossom leaves

saving the green pieces for a moc i have in mind with a few of the cheaper flower sets. my small bits of extra cash go to lego 💀

Mira (SPOOKYNOUNS IN BIO) @thefreeradical.org · 1d

love the bonsai tree set, was very fun to make, but a couple gripes:

-the instructions were really hard to see without a flashlight, and even then that didnt work well. the colours were just too similar. and im wearing my glasses!

-theres a ton of loose pieces, which while cool, make messes likely

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Mira (SPOOKYNOUNS IN BIO) @thefreeradical.org · 1d

anyway im still on break the rest of the week, just wanted to engage in The Discourse a bit because ill gladly dunk on traitorqueers any day of the week

after a barrage of medical stuff the past weekend, i had some time to work on a lego set i had sitting around for ages :3

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Turns out most people don't really like being invaded

lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 2d

soooo my Chicagoans, has anyone else's neighborhood facebook group gone from desperately apolitical (regarding federal politics) to at least 40% about ICE/DHS activity and organizing against it? like it's hard to overstate this shift

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

Where was this last year when everyone hailed a ceasefire in Lebanon which similarly made the Arabs cease and allowed the Israelis to fire

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

The many media outlets, politicians, and commentators who rushed to declare “a great peace, glory to the king!” should ask themselves why they did that, and figure out how to not make the same mistake again.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

(ABC) - The Israel Defense Forces said its troops opened fire on Palestinians, killing five, after they allegedly violated the terms of the ceasefire agreement.

abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

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Mira (SPOOKYNOUNS IN BIO) @thefreeradical.org · 1d

tapping the sign once again

Mira (SPOOKYNOUNS IN BIO) @thefreeradical.org · Aug 19

anyway in case im banned again -

dont rely on idols, dont rely on Big Figures to save you. that wont happen. you have to save yourself. yes you, the reader. you have to work with your community. go organize, go work with your community, make connections, do mutual aid.

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Mira (SPOOKYNOUNS IN BIO) @thefreeradical.org · 1d

its funny too cause i once believed her and that group to be my friends. wild how times change when the material circumstances force the gentry to show their true colors and squash any sense of radicalism, because they all benefit too much from capitalism to see it fall

Mira (SPOOKYNOUNS IN BIO) @thefreeradical.org · 1d

10000% im one of the people she has in mind lmao, her and her whole clique of gentry trans ppl truly hated whenever i would criticize them and not be Eternally Grateful For Pulling the Lowly Broke Tranny Out Of Poverty Into Slightly Less Poverty. the amount of arguments over electoralism...

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 1d

fwiw the problem with Ari is that she wants to get her designer medical care and let all the poor trans people under her suffer, and I think that makes her a monster

Valerie @vibingvalerie.bsky.social · 1d

The context on which this was said does not make it better unfortunately

Ari Drennen @AriDrennen
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I believe that the far left is preying on the desperation of trans people in the search of cannon fodder for their revolutionary fantasies and it is hurting people. We cannot afford to eschew electoralism, nor can we take peace for granted.
Small Deborah @seldomseenstan • 7h
What is with your constant punching left recently? "The left" and especially trans leftists have literally zero power. Do you not think that this energy is best used elsewhere?
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Transsexualism as we conceive of it in America is bourgeois, the product of a society that venerates the freedom of an individual to choose. There is no designer vagina under communism, I'm sorry.
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Mira (SPOOKYNOUNS IN BIO) @thefreeradical.org · 1d

ari's really doing well on her blaire white arc, i see

genuinely transphobic as fuck and also objectively wrong. ari's a capitalist shill from an upper middle class background and it really shows

gentry trans people will always put their class interests first

Valerie @vibingvalerie.bsky.social · 1d

Are women bourgeois?

Ari: WELL I AM

Ari Drennen @AriDrennen
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Transsexualism as we conceive of it in America is bourgeois, the product of a society that venerates the freedom of an individual to choose. There is no designer vagina under communism, I'm sorry.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 1d

Trans people, especially trans women, are an overwhelmingly working class demographic what the hell is this gentry nonsense.

Valerie @vibingvalerie.bsky.social · 1d

Are women bourgeois?

Ari: WELL I AM

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TEN DEMANDS (The Abolitionists) @tendemands.bsky.social · 4d

Anarchism and chaos aren’t the same.

Anarchism and abolition go hand in hand.

Both with a focus on building a more humanistic society through interconnecting self-sustaining communities.

Something we need now more than ever.

Here, anarchist Eric King and abolitionist @awkword.bsky.social discuss

The Pun Show: I am not a terrorist!

YouTube video by Machine Pun Kelly

www.youtube.com

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 4d

Reading this and sobbing at the thought of that terrified 7 year old begging for a place to hide so she isn't taken away by the Ghestappo

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 5d

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...

chicago.suntimes.com

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 5d

this isn't any less racist btw

We need to spread this news FAR AND WIDE! We want *EVERY* MAGAt & Aryan KKKrusader in Idaho that Tchump is bringing MOSQUES & SHARIA LAW to their Christian Lands!

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 5d

Laura Loomer is having a very normal reaction to this

Will the next 9/11 be done with F-15s?

I guess we are going to find out.

I just know I’m not voting in 2026.

We live in a Muslim country now

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Mira (SPOOKYNOUNS IN BIO) @thefreeradical.org · 5d

this goes for every industry, btw. if youre wondering whether to unionize, the answer is ALWAYS yes

Draculanna 🧛🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 5d

The best time to unionize was ten years ago. The second best time is right now.

Old DeuTaranomy 🧶⚒️ @kindofstrange.com · 7d

Those of you who have been in gamedev for 5yrs+

What do you wish you knew before you joined the industry? What life lesson would you pass down to someone just joining today?

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Mira (SPOOKYNOUNS IN BIO) @thefreeradical.org · 5d

in addition have some shorter and easier stuff - including with free radical! - that im chipping away at. a couple pieces i want to get out before the end of the month, we shall see!

Mira (SPOOKYNOUNS IN BIO) @thefreeradical.org · 5d

while i may be taking next week off, ive still been working plenty this week. i won't reveal too much, but i have a *very* lengthy article im working on that may prove to be the longest ive ever written, and the most in-depth research ive ever done. at 5k words so far, and am not close to finishing

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

There has been a lot of ICE activity in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago today. There has also been a lot of ICE watch and rapid response activity. We love our community, and we are showing up for each other.

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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 6d

Trans News Network is... in the news:

Multiple news outlets have cited our in-depth piece on CA trans rights bills by @madycast.com this week.

If you appreciate our impact, send us a donation at this link:

transnewsnetwork.networkforgood.com

also cited by: PinkNews, LGBTQ Nation

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs and vetoes LGBTQ+ legislation

Here's everything you need to know about the bills, their authors, and Newsom's actions in recent weeks.

www.advocate.com

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 6d

A map of Gaza shows how Israeli forces will withdraw under the first phase of the ceasefire plan while remaining in control of nearly 60% of the besieged Strip aje.io/kekalb

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 6d

we recently approved a generous paid time off policy for all @transnews.network journalists!

if you want to pay trans journalists not to work and take breaks and recover so they can come back even more productive, send a couple bucks to our fundraiser! :)

transnewsnetwork.networkforgood.com

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Mira (SPOOKYNOUNS IN BIO) @thefreeradical.org · 6d

i realized i linked maia twice here and that wasnt intended but its also kinda funny

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