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Rita, antifascist🏴

@oldsquida.bsky.social

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elder immigrant from soviet bloc. our world requires a radical response, at every level. who we are is less important than what we want and we want everything, for everyone. @[email protected]

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 7d

we’re pleased to have added @krisgoldsmith85.bsky.social to the afa research starter pack

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 1h

Leftists rehashing debates from the 1800s over authority and authoritarianism as terms in the midst of fascism is such an indictment of what leftism means in this era. To say people are stuck is an understatement.

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Murph @murphtracks.bsky.social · 1h

Faraday bags are cool.

Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 1h

Great article with some onsite analysis of cellular signals indicating the use of cell-site simulators at ICE protests in Portland, Oregon

Exclusive: Fake cellphone tower may have surveilled protesters at Portland ICE facility

Law enforcement officials may have deployed a secretive cellphone surveillance technology last weekend at Portland’s ICE facility.

san.com

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PopMob PDX @popmobpdx.bsky.social · 1h

Oregon knows how to show up rain or shine! With treats!

Kaia Sand @mkaiasand.bsky.social · 3h

Really sweet resistance scene outside ICE in Portland of coffee, donuts and morning.

Person in bunny costume carries donuts outside ICE in Portland

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 1h

People do such a great job demobilizing themselves and sabotaging their potential with this goofy rhetoric based dogmatic iteration of social media leftism we have in this era. It’s actually worth wondering if a lot of this is intentional because it looks like a real trap.

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Tristan Lee @tristanl.ee · 44m

Some police brutality in Austin, Texas on 6th street this weekend: APD officer Garcia (looks like badge number 10338 or similar) appears to sucker punch a man.

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Ricardo Parreira @ricardoparreira.com · 14m

Aux États-Unis, ici, partout, la police est raciste, la police est violente.

Et cette institution est payée par nous.

De plus, deux personnes qui ont porté assistance à Erika McGriff lorsqu’elle se faisait tabasser ont été interpellées pour avoir enfreint la loi Halo.

Le fascisme quoi.

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 11m

“Houbi’s PhD research will explore how media and education can combat violence against women and promote peace. She said she hopes to return to Gaza after completing her PhD to teach, empower women and develop programmes that drive awareness and transformation.”

Gaza PhD student ‘heartbroken’ as family blocked from entering the UK

Manar al-Houbi’s husband and children refused entry despite her winning a scholarship to cover tuition fees, living costs and housing for them all

www.theguardian.com

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 18m

“Connecting Humanity provide eSIMs to journalists, medical professionals, aid workers, families, people documenting the genocide and children and students who are all using eSIMs to stay connected with the world and each other."

Help provide internet access for people living in Gaza

connecting-humanity.org

Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 29m

Deeyah Khan's documentary about white supremacy

My documentary about White Supremacy. White Right: Meeting the Enemy.

YouTube video by Deeyah Khan

youtu.be

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 35m

In this struggle against death, we come together across different races, colors, beliefs, geographies, ways of life, and calendars.”

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 35m

and has discovered the imposition of pain on those searching for their missing loved ones.

It seems like there are few things that unite and identify us, but they can be summed up in the struggle for life…

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 35m

which exploits human beings, feeds on the blood, destruction, and death of entire peoples, violates women, persecutes differences, represses the search for justice, dispossesses territories,…

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 35m

from Zapatista Army of National Liberation October 12, 2025

“Although geographically distant, we are close in our commitment to resistance and rebellion against the monster, the Capitalist Hydra,…

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Saludo a Casa Samir Flores Soberanes

EJÉRCITO ZAPATISTA DE LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL COMISIÓN SEXTA ZAPATISTA. México. 12 de octubre del 2025. A: La Casa de los Pueblos y Comunidades Indígenas “Samir Flores Soberanes”; La Comunidad Indígena…

enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx

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Seditionist Distribution @seditionist.bsky.social · 6d

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PopMob PDX @popmobpdx.bsky.social · 2d

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Seditionist Distribution @seditionist.bsky.social · 2h

[Antananarivo, Madagascar]

Scenes yesterday as the week long revolutionary movement against Rajoelina's government continues.

A large armoured police vehicle is smashed up and on fire, protestors are turning it onto it's side.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1h

Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today

www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-a...

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 1h

Great article with some onsite analysis of cellular signals indicating the use of cell-site simulators at ICE protests in Portland, Oregon

Exclusive: Fake cellphone tower may have surveilled protesters at Portland ICE facility

Law enforcement officials may have deployed a secretive cellphone surveillance technology last weekend at Portland’s ICE facility.

san.com

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 1h

This is why the work of community watch groups is so important. It's not just capturing the faces of ICE agents, but also their vehicles. In Massachusetts we are already seeing them adapt and change their tactics in response to the work of community groups.

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 2h

One of the things that I think the internal politics of ICE/CBP is probably grappling with and didn't quite get when all this kicked off is that the fact that the surveillance state could be turned back on the secret police in a way that makes it very hard for anything they do to be ignored.

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Dutch Pendergrass @dutchpendergrass.bsky.social · 3h

Antifa 18:20

For where two or three are gathered in my name, there I am among them

Three people in an inflatable green, frog costume, and one person and a black and white skeleton, frog inflatable costume protest outside of the Portland ice building

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Antifa Hoagie Assassin @ionotter.bsky.social · 3h

The whistle was a great idea!

People have been conditioned from school and childhood sports or events to know that a blowing whistle means you immediately STOP whatever you're doing and turn towards the sound.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 4h

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 3h

Meanwhile, antisemitic chant at a far-right anti-immigration protest today in Amsterdam: “Hey Franz Timmermans, you dirty filthy cancer Jew, just go and die”

(not getting into semantics of translating kkr, which I’m tempted to more loosely translate as “f*cking” in this context but that’s just me)

Maarten Hopman @maartenhopman.bsky.social · 7h

Het is dat ze geen watermeloen-button droegen, anders werd dit misschien wel antisemitisch genoemd.

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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 17h

The biggest #strike of the year starts on Tuesday, featuring 45k #healthcareworkers. This means tens of thousands across Oregon, California, Washington and Hawaii, in particular. Picket lines at 6 KP locations in Portland area, and will lead the labor march on Oct 18th.
truthout.org/articles/23-...

23 Unions Plan to Strike Together If Kaiser Fails to Address Workplace Crises

Overworked and understaffed, over 45,000 health care workers at Kaiser Permanente are poised to strike.

truthout.org

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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · 9h

Thai army allowing Ultra-nationalists to harass Cambodian's in disputed border region in potential violation of International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

Army confirmed they had done it & said they would ignore any complaints from Cambodian side.

#NoWarThailandCambodia

www.thaienquirer.com

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Southern Poverty Law Center @splcenter.org · 9h

#OTD in 1998, Matthew Shepard died six days after a brutal anti-gay attack. His story helped inspire the Matthew Shepard & James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. We remember — and continue the fight against hate. 🕯️

#HateCrimesAwarenessMonth

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