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Kernighan says FREE LINK @kernighan.bsky.social · Jul 3

2024 election results mega thread for reference. It will be updated as more studies of the 2024 election become available. Includes some comparisons to the 2020 election as well to help illustrate some points about the real world impacts of the electoral college and how Harris did vs Biden.

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Foucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 51m

I would say if anything has hurt coalitions, it's the endless amount of rope extended to young racist shitheads, a thing that is a distinct impediment to building effective coalitions with the targets of their clearly hateful bigoted behavior, not pointing out someone's aggrieved sanctimony online

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 51m

A Brief History of Let’s Bring Back The Good Old Days

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 34m

They told my generation of Black girls to stop having babies in our teens. They eliminated older forms of welfare. They decimated our communities by creating the PIC. It ruined neighborhoods & families.

Constant propaganda turned us into worker drones. Now they're mad that Black women... work?

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Kernighan says FREE LINK @kernighan.bsky.social · 35m

And this time, no making compromises to end Reconstruction early.

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 39m

All our lives, we've been told that we're responsible for every murder, every theft, every shenanigan that anyone with even a passing association to us allegedly committed.

This thread asks white allies to convince those you love & in your sphere to turn away from fascism that will destroy us all.

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 43m

Yes! And if you object to this sermon of a thread:

30-40 years ago, the entire nation was on Black communities' necks about "crime rates" and "teen motherhood." Yesterday's "welfare queen" is today's "DEI hire."

Having zero sense of collective responsibility is a luxury in these United States.

Lauren-Ashley Arts @laurenashley087.bsky.social · 1h

White people need to talk to other white people. It is entirely up to the whites to move the needle on their end.

Let me be clear: racism and antisemitism are rampant on *both* sides of the aisle.

Your twentysomething niece has fallen for the okie doke just as easily as your Boomer uncle.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 2h

This whole interview with @lindseyboylan.bsky.social is amazing, but we need to shout this from the rooftops.

There's this message that abusive men like to send that's something like "yeah, I'm an abuser, but I'm a strong man who can get things done."

And no, he isn't.

LINDSEY BOYLAN: People who abuse women abuse every kind of power they have.

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Remember Gaza @remembergaza.bsky.social · 45m

In memory of:

Mahmoud Kamal Ibrahim Al-Bardeini / محمود كمال ابراهيم البرديني
Age: 26

We will not forget you.

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 47m

(And as usual, Israel is just doing what the US does. Remember all the "we have to figure out what the hell is going on in the Muslim world" bullshit? What's going on is decades of relentless bombing, starvation sanctions, and government overthrows BY YOU there I did it I solved the mystery.)

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 53m

But there's been such a total dissolution of cause and effect in the Zionist imagination that it seems like people really cannot wrap their mind around things like "if you murder, imprison, displace, and relentlessly mistreat your neighbors then it's very normal for them to be upset about it."

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Miriam @miriam.blacksky.app · 58m

YAY I'M ON BLACKSKY! Thanks so much @sharpiepls.com for your patience. If you're looking to support a safer, more inclusive space on the internet, consider contributing to Blacksky

opencollective.com/blacksky

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Kernighan says FREE LINK @kernighan.bsky.social · 50m

Also, you may believe (as I did) that just because your ancestors were from the "north" (mine, NY & NJ), they did not enslave people. I was horrified to find out that this was not the case while researching my roots.
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 58m

Your ancestors may have never owned anyone, but we've all been in direct labor competition for a few centuries now. Your ancestors came into a nation with an established racial hierarchy. Let's be honest about that.

It's why I have questions about Marxism in general (Black Marxism is different).

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Kernighan says FREE LINK @kernighan.bsky.social · 1h

Macron brought this on himself by cutting the left out after it saved France from La Pen in the last election. Self inflicted wound.

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 1h

✡️Ⓐ Yiddish-Anarchist song "In ale gasn/Hey, hey, daloy politsey!" ("Down with the Police")

(Subtitles: FISHBI4)

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

love to be told that i’m “obsessed with race” and “hysterical about racism” when i calmly say that these people are segregationists.

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 1h

I've said it before and I'll say it again: there's a reason Israeli leaders including Netanyahu openly funneled money to Hamas while simultaneously jailing and torturing the guy who has worked relentlessly for an actual honest-to-god two-state solution. A really, really clear reason.

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 1h

Even in Israel, nearly half the population believes Barghouti should be freed. Many of the officers who ARRESTED HIM IN THE FIRST PLACE believe he should be freed. As recently as 2007, Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres campaigned with the promise of freeing Barghouti (a promise he of course broke.)

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 1h

So naturally Israel tried to assassinate him, and eventually they arrested him, tortured him, denied him access to his lawyer, and sentenced him to multiple lifetimes of imprisonment in a trial that multiple international bodies have decreed completely bogus.

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 1h

And even when every single attempt at peace and negotiation was met with increased occupation and violence, even as Israel murdered hundreds of Palestinian protestors, Barghouti exhorted Palestinians not to attack civilians within Israel, who he continued to refer to as "our future neighbor."

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 1h

He built relationships with Israeli politicians and peace activists, he even stayed by Meir Shitreet's bedside when he was sick. Israeli officials have spoken again about how open-hearted he is, how interested in listening, how devoted to peace.

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 1h

Israel arrested and tortured this man for the first time at age 15, the second time at age 18, the second time at age 25. He missed the birth of his first son while. They expelled him from his own country while he was still in college. And AFTER ALL THAT, he worked so so hard to build bridges.

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 1h

In a TRULY just world he might have chosen some other career entirely, since his political engagement began because Israel occupied his village, beat his neighbors, and shot his dog when he was seven.

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 1h

Anyone who still believes Israel has ever operated in anything resembling good faith would be thoroughly cured of that delusion if they read about Marwan Barghouti. In a world with any justice, he would be president of Palestine.

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

Palestine’s most popular leader, Marwan Barghouti, was beaten unconscious and has his ribs broken by Israeli prison guards and his family fears for his life, his son has said, citing evidence given by former Palestinian detainees released this week as part of the ceasefire deal.

Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti assaulted by Israeli prison guards, son says

Family fears for 66-year-old’s life after assault while he was being transferred between prisons

www.theguardian.com

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IDF Hannibal Brigade @hannibalbrigade.biz · 1h

Today while refusing his body, the entity did acknowledge his role as an IOF mercenary for the first time

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IDF Hannibal Brigade @hannibalbrigade.biz · 1h

A case study in how Zionists treat their collaborators:
- Khalil Dawas was recruited from Jericho
- He fought with the IOF as a mercenary
- He was killed while entering a tunnel
- The IOF refused to acknowledge his existence then
- They’re now refusing his body because he’s “not Israeli”

Israeli Telegram @israeligram.observer · 5h

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Telegram post from Israel news on Telegram, translated from Hebrew:

The fourth body returned last night is of a Palestinian who worked for Israel in Hamas tunnel searches in Gaza, and he was killed by Hamas militants a year and a half ago.

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