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Akiva עקיבא

@akivabensarah.bsky.social

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New Yorker, Jew ✡️, Communist ☭, feminist ♀️✊🏻, polyglot, Aspie ♾️, agender 🏳️‍⚧️, asexual 🏳️‍🌈, cat person 😻 Human rights means ALL HUMANS. #ANTIFA 🟥 Humanity First 🇮🇱🇵🇸🕊️☮️ p: they/them/any 🗣️: en, de, es, it, pt, ru, he Be the guillotine you want to see in the world

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Akiva עקיבא @akivabensarah.bsky.social · 6d

I really don't want to hear any more hemming and hawing from anyone about whether we're really in full fascist territory or not. Federal goons beat an opposition candidate for office for simply following their orders at a peaceful protest. We're there. Full stop. Now act like it.

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Talib Kweli @talibkweli.bsky.social · 5h

If more of y'all jumped at the chance to call out racism the way y'all be jumping at the chance to "well actually" and talk down to Black folks, we would have solved racism by now.

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Akiva עקיבא @akivabensarah.bsky.social · 4h

See? Listening to Black people works. More people ought to try it!

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Truthout @truthout.org · 4h

ICE agents in Chicago are adopting family separation methods developed within the U.S. family policing system, reflecting broader state violence tactics linked to government enforcement.

ICE Agents Are Using Family Separation Tactics Central to US State Violence

The US’s family policing system honed many of the tactics now being used by ICE agents in Chicago.

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Akiva עקיבא @akivabensarah.bsky.social · 4h

Honestly, I'd also put forth the Document and Murmur albums. Every track a keeper.

Akiva עקיבא @akivabensarah.bsky.social · 4h

This is like the new version of NIMBY. Tech bros don't want ICE abducting their employees' family members in their own backyard.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 9h

The White House East Wing has been completely demolished. The demolition is basically at the main White House walls.

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Akiva עקיבא @akivabensarah.bsky.social · 7h

Has the president learned the word "groceries" yet?

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 9h

Well I'm sure knocking down the White House to build a golden temple to his own vanity will help restore his economic reputation

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Enten: "Trump is doing absolutely awful in the minds of the American people. We're talking about new lows. CNBC, -13 net approval on the economy. It's -19 among Quinnipiac ... He's not just beating himself with record lows -- this is the lowest for any president ever."

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Akiva עקיבא @akivabensarah.bsky.social · 7h

Come on, Stephen Miller, at least wipe the President's jizz off your face when you say things like that!

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cm 🇨🇦 @cmcalgary.bsky.social · 1d

"cancer patients receiving mRNA COVID vaccines within 100 days of commencing immunotherapy were twice as likely to achieve survival at the three-year mark compared to their unvaccinated counterparts."

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#covid19 #cancer #research

ESMO 2025: mRNA COVID Vaccines Enhance Efficacy of Cancer Immunotherapy

In a landmark discovery that could alter the course of cancer treatment, researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have unveiled compelling evidence that mRNA-based COVID-19

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Akiva עקיבא @akivabensarah.bsky.social · 7h

This is good. I don't think you saw much of this in 1930's Germany. Perhaps we can avoid going all the way down that road this time.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 7h

Footage shows tensions rising outside a Coast Guard base in Alameda, where federal agents are reportedly staging.

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Akiva עקיבא @akivabensarah.bsky.social · 7h

Funny how Hogan's Heroes keeps coming up as a streaming suggestion lately. I think a lot of people must be searching for "world's dumbest Nazis" thinking of the current regime in Washington.

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LESams @lsam22.bsky.social · 1d

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Akiva עקיבא @akivabensarah.bsky.social · 7h

This is political suicide for anyone that doesn't have a weird messianic cult surrounding him.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."

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Akiva עקיבא @akivabensarah.bsky.social · 7h

And yet no one is going to go around saying that Cuomo is siding with al-Qa'ida because of this. Wonder why.

Akiva עקיבא @akivabensarah.bsky.social · 7h

"Wait, aren't you supposed to read me my rights?"

"Read… ???"

Akiva עקיבא @akivabensarah.bsky.social · 7h

If Melania actually utters the words "let them eat cake," then I will know that none of this is real and I'm actually in a deep coma dreaming all of this while the patient in the bed next to mine has been watching dystopian cinema in our hospital room.

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Akiva עקיבא @akivabensarah.bsky.social · 9h

The part of this that likely offends Cuomo is that it supports consent.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 14h

As devastating as Mamdani’s words here are, Cuomo’s reply is so much worse. “If you want to be in government, then you have to be serious and mature.” He’s suggesting that sexual harassment is just part of working in government, and “mature” women can handle it. Disgusting.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

In the audience tonight is Charlotte Bennett, one of the 13 women that Andrew Cuomo is credibly alleged to have sexually harassed while they worked in his government.

She can't speak for herself because Cuomo's lawyers have hounded her.

So I confronted him.

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Akiva עקיבא @akivabensarah.bsky.social · 9h

When people predicted that Trump would destroy the White House, I don't think anyone foresaw that as being literal.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 13h

Holy shit dawg

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

a live look this morning at the demolished East Wing of the White House

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Akiva עקיבא @akivabensarah.bsky.social · 9h

"Sure, it's a haven for Nazis… but it's a lot of fun!"

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

man

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