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Keyah (banned era) @sapphic-film-nerd.bsky.social · 6d

Interesting how the Indigenous woman kidnapped from the Conscious flotilla isn't getting a fraction of the attention as white participants. Even articles aren't naming her! Her name is Mskwaasin Agnew.

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 8d

Phew, don't I fuckin know it. Every time I bring up pre-colonial lifeways someone accuses me of doing Retvrn shit. But just because the fash has attempted to co-opt reuniting with nature doesn't mean it's not still essential. They did it with socialism too. It just means we need to be louder

root rot @rootrot1519.bsky.social · 8d

gonna be real hard to make this case - even lefty people reject this b/c they see it as a call to return to subsistence farming or whatever, rather than a call to interact with nature in a way that could sustain us all

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · Sep 14

Etc etc. Actively reconnecting with our place in and dependence on nature and each other as one of many urgent decolonial practices is a very important topic that I care a lot about. It's not my idea, it's what I've learned from my Indigenous colleagues and comrades, and I will keep talking about it

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · Sep 14

Much like how people are also naturally drawn towards spirituality and end up in Christian cults because of it, we can observe the appeal that these things have and their core benefits, and try to offer our own options that aren't founded on hierarchy, control, and patriarchal/racial dominance

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · Sep 14

The fact that influential right-wing grifters weaponize people's natural instincts towards wanting to be in the forest and desire to "go back" to what they see as a simpler, less shitty version of society than the one we live in is a problem, but it's one that reveals opportunities for the left

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Bodhisattva Comrade Spacemonkey @bodhisp4cem0nkey.bsky.social · Sep 14

...the experience of a culture of relatedness between the Land and the People and are only looking at it on a conceptual level is hard. Settler colonialism literally has tried to destroy Indigenous Peoples' Ways and connection to the Land. That's not some made up 'replacement theory'. 2/2

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Bodhisattva Comrade Spacemonkey @bodhisp4cem0nkey.bsky.social · Sep 14

Settler colonialism and the European ties between 'Volkishness' and ethnonationalism/ecofascism make this subject super tricky. A colonized people trying to retain their connection to the Land and their Ways is not the same as 'Blood and Soil'. But making the distinction to people who don't have 1/2

Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · Sep 14

The fact that influential right-wing grifters weaponize people's natural instincts towards wanting to be in the forest and desire to "go back" to what they see as a simpler, less shitty version of society than the one we live in is a problem, but it's one that reveals opportunities for the left

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Anna Luisa @anlumaves.bsky.social · 8d

AND as this time saviours of Jewish victims in the very act of exterminating their so-presented modern-day enemies.

Ralf Michaels @ralfmichaels.bsky.social · 8d

"In the context of Germany, the problem of appropriation becomes ethically fraught as non-Jewish Germans — the beneficiaries of Nazism and the Holocaust — can, through experiencing the exhibition, in fact imagine themselves as a Jewish victim."

BR (Benjamin Ratskoff): When Jews in the United States appropriate the exhibition’s experience of victimization for themselves, there’s a problem of collapsing the real distance between their own lives and the conditions that they live in with those who were victimized on October 7. In the context of Germany, the problem of appropriation becomes ethically fraught as non-Jewish Germans — the beneficiaries of Nazism and the Holocaust — can, through experiencing the exhibition, in fact imagine themselves as a Jewish victim. In this way, they can shed the burden of post-perpetrator responsibility and claim the moral privileges of victimhood — without actually having to experience violence or suffering, of course. And by occupying the position of Jewish victims, by “communing with Jewish suffering” (a term I borrow from Adam Sutcliffe), they can make accusations of antisemitism against others.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10d

Trey Reed, a student at Delta State University in Mississippi, was found hanging from a noose. Mississippi police ruled the death a suicide. Now an autopsy reportedly concludes that he suffered extensive blunt force trauma across his body before he died, meaning he was beaten before he was lynched.

Kaepernick-Funded Autopsy Reportedly Finds Trey Reed Didn’t Die by Suicide — Family Attorney Ben Crump Hasn’t Confirmed

According to a source who isn't authorized to comment publicly, the autopsy of Trey Reed reveals that his death was not caused by a suicide.

www.blackenterprise.com

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 11d

It'll never be lost on me that a particular subset of the liberal commentariat in both North America and Western Europe were deeply infatuated with this woman up until the very moment she decided to talk about that one issue you're still basically not allowed to talk about lol.

Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 11d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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Anna Luisa @anlumaves.bsky.social · 11d

"Despite Netanyahu's insistence on likening Palestinians to Nazis and portraying Gaza as post-war Germany, the reality remains that Israel, as a settler-colonial project, treats Palestinians as natives who must be eliminated, either through genocide or subjugation, to make space for the new state."

The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 11d

Modelled on Allied policy in post-war Germany, the plan falsely conflates colonial resistance with Nazism, demanding nothing less than the Palestinians' unconditional surrender

Netanyahu-Trump plan: A blueprint to dismantle Palestinian identity

Modelled on Allied policy in post-war Germany, the plan falsely conflates colonial resistance with Nazism, demanding nothing less than the Palestinians' unconditional surrender

www.middleeasteye.net

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