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micchiato 🍉 @micchiato.bsky.social · 2h

“Griffin-Gracy’s work as an activist ranged from her work on behalf of people suffering with HIV and AIDS in the early 1980s, to launching San Francisco’s first mobile needle exchange, to her championing of the abolitionist movement, often prioritizing trans women”

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Stonewall Veteran and Legendary Trans Activist, Has Died at 78

Miss Major continued fighting for trans rights even after two strokes and other health concerns.

www.them.us

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micchiato 🍉 @micchiato.bsky.social · 2h

“While the Biden administration notified Congress in August 2024 of potential sales of up to 50 new F-15IA aircraft and upgrades worth up to $18.8 billion, Israel and Boeing later signed a contract for 25 jets valued at $5.2 billion, with deliveries beginning in 2031”

Boeing’s Arms Sales Thrive on Gaza Genocide

With $26.7 billion in approved Israel arms sales since October 7, 2023, Boeing stands out as a top beneficiary of the Gaza war.

readsludge.com

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micchiato 🍉 @micchiato.bsky.social · 2h

“An Israeli soldier: proud to be a Baby killer

We’re looking for babies, but there are no babies left. I killed a girl, she was 12—but I’m looking for a baby.’

IDF Baby killers”

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Toxidrone @toxidrone.bsky.social · 2h

Imagine writing an article like this and then just not mentioning the televised rape in the sde teiman torture camp, nor the amputations due to torture

CNN @cnn.com · 3h

Israel freed almost 2,000 Palestinians from its jails as part of a Gaza ceasefire deal, prompting emotional scenes of families reunited with loved ones, some of whom had spent decades behind bars.

Tears and cheers in West Bank and Gaza as nearly 2,000 Palestinians are released from Israeli prisons | CNN

Israel freed almost 2,000 Palestinians from its jails on Monday as part of a Gaza ceasefire deal, prompting emotional scenes of families reunited with loved ones, some of whom had spent decades behind...

www.cnn.com

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Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 8h

All the prisoners come out in a psychological state as if they were driven mad inside captivity. They were haunted, starved, and subjected to heinous acts, and the hidden details are even harsher.

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micchiato 🍉 @micchiato.bsky.social · 18h

Like ICE, the Israeli Gestapo shrouds their faces.

B.M.
@ireallyhateyou • 19h
Yesterday: Channel 13's sadistic propagandist Yossi Eli, the unofficial mouthpiece of the Israel Concentration Camp Service, reports from Ganot Prison about the transfer of Palestinian hostages to
"sorting" in Ketziot Prison, before their release in the upcoming deal.

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 1d

If you don’t see the link between ICE and the IDF, you haven’t been paying attention. We are being asked to accept a world where whole communities are made disposable and marked for disappearance. If we accept that for anyone, no one is safe anywhere.

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micchiato 🍉 @micchiato.bsky.social · 2h

“[Organic intellectuals] expose the gap between the surface harmonies that seem to unite society and …antagonisms that divide it”
— George Lipsitz

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micchiato 🍉 @micchiato.bsky.social · 6h

TIL that in 1915 women who wanted to be school nurses in Chicago had to submit medical exams proving their chastity to the civil service commission

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 7h

Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.

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micchiato 🍉 @micchiato.bsky.social · 16h

White people: please stop using the word “woke” as a pejorative. It has both a specific cultural and historical context predating the 21st century.

@LeslieStreeter
"Woke" was a term developed within the African-American community as a reminder to be aware and prepared. It was stolen to be directed at White people suspected of "virtue signaling" as a way to disarm its power and pervert it. Using it as a pejorative tells on yourself.
3:07 PM • 9/13/21 • Twitter for iPhone
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micchiato 🍉 @micchiato.bsky.social · 7h

“They kicked me out of the Knesset just for raising the simplest demand, one that the whole international community agrees on:

Recognize the State of Palestine!

Recognize the simple truth:

There are two peoples here, and no one is going anywhere.”

— Ayman Odeh

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micchiato 🍉 @micchiato.bsky.social · 18h

I just watched this live on Al Jazeera. Come to find out that Israeli communist deputies Ayman Odeh and Ofer Cassif interrupted Trump's Knesset speech by holding up protest signs reading, “Genocide.” The disruption came from others in the audience who couldn’t tolerate their silent protest.

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micchiato 🍉 @micchiato.bsky.social · 7h

Weber died the same year that Hitler joined the Nazi Party. We really don’t know how he would have changed his theologically-influenced idea of charisma had he observed Hitler. Weber also didn’t account for how organizational rationalization provided the bureaucratic structure of racism and genocide

micchiato 🍉 @micchiato.bsky.social · 14h

“no one need to be discouraged because these waves of human forces to the radical movement come and go. They all leave their imprint … and the next great movement like this one that comes simply steps into the footsteps of those who have gone”
— Lucy Parsons (1930)

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micchiato 🍉 @micchiato.bsky.social · 16h

“Wide Awakes” was a Radical Republican abolitionist group, made up in large part of immigrants, who mobilized and protested against slavery in 1860. Also, not in the 21st century.

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micchiato 🍉 @micchiato.bsky.social · 16h

1938 was not in the 21st century.

Mark Wyner Won't Comply @markwyner@mas.to
In honor of Black History Month...
"Woke" is an appropriated term that has become a colloquialism loosely meaning
"having a moral compass" in the face of systemic oppression. Its original usage was
"stay woke," unintentionally coined by blues musician Lead Belly.
In a 1938 he was recording his song
"Scottsboro Boys," ending it with spoken word about the song's meaning.

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micchiato 🍉 @micchiato.bsky.social · 16h

White people: please stop using the word “woke” as a pejorative. It has both a specific cultural and historical context predating the 21st century.

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grosmorne29.bsky.social @grosmorne29.bsky.social · 1d

I would use “racist” instead of “reckless” here

micchiato 🍉 @micchiato.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is building on the police state for which Biden played his own key role.

"Signing a measure that usurps power from a majority-Black council in a city where roughly half the population is Black is a reminder of Biden’s reckless history on crime."

Biden quietly signs one of his term's most harmful and oppressive measures yet

The president's support for overturning criminal justice reforms in Washington, D.C., spoke volumes, even as he and the White House remained quiet.

www.msnbc.com

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Meidas Paul Wigton 🫘 🇺🇳🇺🇦 @rvroomie.bsky.social · 1d

#DEFUNDISRAEL

micchiato 🍉 @micchiato.bsky.social · 1d

This happened 6 months before the October 7 Hamas attack.

“With children sleeping inside, lsraeli colonial settlers torch a Palestinian-owned house in Sinjil village, north of Ramallah.”

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Antifahahaha @lunaticleft.bsky.social · 19h

Fact: Genocide Joe Biden arrogantly chose to back the sadistic extermination of the Palestinian people over defeating Trump.

micchiato 🍉 @micchiato.bsky.social · 19h

Biden didn’t want it to end due to his “stubborn malice and cruelty”:

“Those driven to scan Joe Biden's face for some sign of mercy, some sign of an end to bloodletting, find an eerily smooth hardness, broken only by a nervous little smirk when he blurts out Israeli lies about beheaded babies”

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micchiato 🍉 @micchiato.bsky.social · 17h

Fuck this shit. Bring more Palestinian flags, and wave those flags harder. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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micchiato 🍉 @micchiato.bsky.social · 17h

When Biden was POTUS the trolls scolded that pro-Palestine protests aided Trump. With Trump as POTUS the trolls scold that pro-Palestine protests aid Trump.

The scolding trolls aid Trump by incessantly centering him over the protests.

Karolina Muchova Fan Club @irvineghost20.bsky.social · 18h

Um Trump is currently taking credit for a peace deal. Every pro-Pali protest from this point on will be portrayed by him as a thank you to him

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micchiato 🍉 @micchiato.bsky.social · 17h

Deranged fascists are nothing without the rational bureaucracy that maximizes the fascism.

Whatever the ultimate outcome of the debate, however, there is hardly any doubt that the space extending between the idea and its execution was filled wall-to-wall with bureaucratic action. Neither is there any doubt that however vivid was Hitler's imagination, it would have accomplished little if it had not been taken over, and translated into routine process of problem-solving, by a huge and rational bureaucratic apparatus. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the bureaucratic mode of action left its indelible impression of the Holocaust process. Its fingerprints are all over the Holocaust history, for everyone to see. True, bureaucracy did not hatch the fear of racial contamination and the obsession with racial hygiene. For that it needed visionaries, as bureaucracy picks up where visionaries stop. But bureaucracy made the Holocaust. And it made it in its own image.
— Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust

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micchiato 🍉 @micchiato.bsky.social · 17h

“look again, with eyes sharpened by our new knowledge, at the allegedly fully understood, normal patterns of modern rational action. It is in these patterns that we can hope to uncover the possibility so dramatically revealed in the times of the Holocaust”
— Zygmunt Bauman

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