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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 6h

the needs of the anxious comfortable white male doing midcentury working class drag are at the very bottom of my list right now

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J.T. Roane @jtroane.bsky.social · 3h

The problem is, they have been out maneuvered already and think that they can install permanent power without the other conditions that have China hegemonic advantage. Xi might control tightly the power and the party but the state there also virtually eradicated serious poverty.

J.T. Roane @jtroane.bsky.social · 3h

The consolidation of king like power in the US is part reactionary response to internal social justice and large part reactionary response to China as the growing hegemonic alternative. The US right sees installing autocracy as a way to tame internal contradiction and to face Xi.

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 22h

Imagine believing the danger is the border and not the regime.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 1d

Map below, based on data provided by the U.S. Geological Survey, shows known deposits of rare earth elements in Latin America and the Caribbean. |

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J.T. Roane @jtroane.bsky.social · 1d

Contextualizing the expansion of extralegal murders by the US in Latin America is necessary. The geopolitical flexing is tied to heating the warlike competition with China over global hegemony in the projected new economy. The return to craven open imperialism is centrally about minerals.

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J.T. Roane @jtroane.bsky.social · 2d

This building a golden ballroom while people go hungry when snap run out going to bring the us’s everyday contradictions to a symbolic tipping point. These fascists keep it up, they going be at the guillotine.

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J.T. Roane @jtroane.bsky.social · 3d

It’s WILD to see the woman who got my father expelled permanently from school after integration in Virginia when he kicked her in the ass for calling him the n word run for RE-ELECTION to the school board of my community. I’ll let you guess what big orange fool she sounds like.

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J.T. Roane @jtroane.bsky.social · 4d

Kada Scott. May her family find some peace. How awful.

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J.T. Roane @jtroane.bsky.social · 5d

Lord I haven’t seen these intro students since D’Angelo. 😭

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6d

this made me laugh so hard.

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 7d

We hear not

“We told y’all this would happen. ~ Signed BLK PEOPLE

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J.T. Roane @jtroane.bsky.social · 8d

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J.T. Roane @jtroane.bsky.social · 9d

Keep your filthy orange mitts off Venezuela.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 12d

my biggest beef with bluesky is that I get way more updates on what Curtis Yarvin or Peter Thiel than anything on the African continent

Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 12d

What the Twitter takeover did so effectively was fracture the way we get our news. If, for example, I want to get in-depth updates on Sudan I still check in with Twitter as that's where a lot of the biggest accounts are. There's no one-stop shop anymore.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11d

What I learned from Miss Major was persistence and also keeping a sense of humor. I was lucky to see her work in various organizing meetings over the years. She was a model of how to be a good elder. Truly grateful for everything she did to make the world better. Time for the rest of us to continue.

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 13d

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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J.T. Roane @jtroane.bsky.social · 27d

A 3-4 day work week. Guaranteed income for all. Free healthcare. Free school at all levels. And a radical transformation of our relationship to earth ecologies. All what we could do with our collective resources if both parties didn’t use our collective wealth to bomb the world.

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J.T. Roane @jtroane.bsky.social · 15d

Bihhh these septa regional train delays and cancellations are really in the way. I guess this is the future of our hacked away collective under the transition from neoliberalism to neofascism. Everything costs more and more. Nothing works. And when you say it doesn’t work you’re a terrorist.

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J.T. Roane @jtroane.bsky.social · 19d

“What avail the triumphs of art, science, and commerce, if the majority of mankind are ground to powder to make those triumphs possible.”— T. Thomas Fortune, 1884

J.T. Roane @jtroane.bsky.social · 21d

Be clear. We are caught up in a rap beef while ICE raiding our communities.

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J.T. Roane @jtroane.bsky.social · 21d

We must become ungovernable.

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J.T. Roane @jtroane.bsky.social · 27d

Baby if I ever get hold of them big ass ears of N*tanyahu they going have hell peeling my fingers off that bih.

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J.T. Roane @jtroane.bsky.social · 27d

A 3-4 day work week. Guaranteed income for all. Free healthcare. Free school at all levels. And a radical transformation of our relationship to earth ecologies. All what we could do with our collective resources if both parties didn’t use our collective wealth to bomb the world.

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J.T. Roane @jtroane.bsky.social · Sep 21

3-4 day work week. Universal guaranteed income. Rent and mortgage freeze. Free education at all levels. Single payer healthcare… What we could envision if our national budget wasn’t consumed by bombing people around the world and aid to the rich.

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J.T. Roane @jtroane.bsky.social · Sep 21

3-4 day work week. Universal guaranteed income. Rent and mortgage freeze. Free education at all levels. Single payer healthcare… What we could envision if our national budget wasn’t consumed by bombing people around the world and aid to the rich.

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