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Evan Romero @pilgerschloss.bsky.social · 2h

Wer ist gemeint? antifa e.V., Antifa GmbH. oder die anderen gewerblich eingetragenen Organisationen?

Matthias Monroy @matthimon.bsky.social · 2h

Die Bundesregierung äußert sich auf AfD-Anfrage zu einem möglichen #Verbot der #Antifa. Der Staatssekretär findet einige Gründe, die dagegen sprechen. Und will sich aber über eine endgültige Entscheidung nicht in die Karten schauen lassen:
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Evan Romero @pilgerschloss.bsky.social · 2h

aber natürlich 🤷🏾‍♂️

Evan Romero @pilgerschloss.bsky.social · 2h

Kate Bush is harnessing the power of her hit Running Up That Hill in collaboration with 52 British visual artists to raise money for children caught up in global conflicts. The singer-songwriter invited to respond to her lyric “If I only could, I’d make a deal with God” from her 1985 anthem.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2h

Kate Bush and artists harness power of Running Up That Hill for War Child appeal

Musician invites 52 UK visual artists to create works based on song lyric to raise money for children affected by war Kate Bush is harnessing the power of her global hit Running Up That Hill in collaboration with leading names in British art to raise money for children caught up in global conflicts. The singer-songwriter invited 52 visual artists to respond to her lyric “If I only could, I’d make a deal with God” from her 1985 anthem. One of her best-loved songs and hailed as “one of the greatest songs of all time” by Rolling Stone, it became a hit all over again in 2022 when it featured in the fourth season of the US TV series Stranger Things. Continue reading...

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 12h

"This kind of historical amnesia .. about Columbus's role in the slave trade and the way that conquest invented Blackness as a form of abjection..

Even leftist critiques .. are focused on Columbus the murderer, not Columbus the enslaver."
- Tiffany L. King

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Oct 14

I encourage everyone with interest in the intersection of Black and Native struggles, similarities, conflicts, and contradictions to read Tiffany Lethabo King's "The Black Shoals" &

"Otherwise Worlds" ed. by Tiffany Lethabo King, Jenelle Navarro, Andrea Smith

Both from @dukepress.bsky.social

Cover image for "The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies" by Tiffany Lethabo King

Cover image for "Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness" by Tiffany Lethabo King, Jenelle Navarro, Andrea Smith

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Evan Romero @pilgerschloss.bsky.social · 2h

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Für sachliche Politik @sachlichepolitik.bsky.social · 3h

Und deutsche Journalisten rüffeln in Interviews (looking at you, Paul Middelhoff) ihre Gesprächspartner trotz deren Erfahrungen first hand, wenn sie bei ICE von "Gestapo-like" sprechen....

Waldläuferin 🌻 @waldlaeuferin.bsky.social · 16h

#Resist

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Joerg Lau @joerglau.bsky.social · 16h

Antifa

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 3h

There's still a tendency in academia (and I am no exception to this) to talk about authoritarianism and fascistization as if these are just things we could observe out there, somehow unrelated to and not directly affeciting us, and not forces already at work both within and against our institutions

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 3h

Since 1967, Israel has never allowed international armed peace-keeping troops into the West Bank and Gaza.
If it does now, under US pressure, it would be major rewriting of Israeli red lines.
I'm still very sceptical, but if the US wants it it would happen.

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 4h

If you've never been to Gaza, you won't appreciate what the yellow line means. Basically Israel now holds most of Gaza's small but important agricultural land. Continued Israeli occupation, which I judge the likely outcome, makes Gaza even more unliveable and more dependent on outside goods.

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 4h

Gaza Strip: Israeli army has withdrawn to the 'yellow line'

AFP Infographic with map of the Gaza Strip showing the 'yellow line' where the Israeli army has withdrawn its forces as of October 10, according to US envoy Steve Witkoff

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Simon Sahner @simonsahner.bsky.social · 16h

Die Abschaffung des Bürgergeldes soll vor allem Angst machen, Angst, die einen dazu treiben soll, bloß einfach eine Arbeit anzunehmen. Irgendeine. Völlig egal welche. Es ist die Perversion der Idee, dass wir alle etwas dafür tun müssen, dass wir gut leben können.

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Evan Romero @pilgerschloss.bsky.social · 3h

Trumpian dissolution / Never mind Dave Chappelle, Bill Burr or any of their fellow jesters, Western cultural institutions that once shunned Saudi Arabia over human rights abuses are making juicy deals with the Gulf kingdom “to tap its petrodollars”. “Who’s Khashoggi?” / Source: Ahmed Al Omran for FT

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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · 19h

Last week I spoke about Germany with Ted Knudsen in his lively podcast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 23h

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 11h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Valentina Di Liscia @valentinadl.bsky.social · 4d

Love to see @theguardian.com calling it like it is. No bells and whistles.

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Bari Weiss is a weird and worrisome choice as top editor for CBS News | Margaret Sullivan

When Weiss was named editor-in-chief, it was the latest turn in the network’s confounding departure from its roots

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 11h

A cartoon by Emily Bernstein. #NewYorkerCartoons

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 11h

BREAKING: Israeli forces have shot and killed a Palestinian in the Maen area of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, according to the Wafa news agency

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/n5k3lj

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Former Brundlefly @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 13h

One thing I want you to take from videos like this is the absolute cacophony of whistles and screams of "GET THE FUCK OUT OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD" from people in the streets and in buildings. And more and more people are at that point every day.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 14h

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 10h

More Americans are biting their tongues, not because they don’t care, but because they’re afraid to speak.

From DEI to the war in Gaza, people are more afraid to speak their minds now than during the Red Scare, according to a political scientist who has been conducting surveys.

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Self-censorship and the ‘spiral of silence’: Why Americans are less likely to publicly voice their opinions on political issues

Nearly half of Americans say they feel less free to speak their minds.

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 10h

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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Buddy Spell @buddyspell.bsky.social · 1d

Fort Worth, Texas.

#WeAreEverywhere

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 15h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 9h

How six survivors experienced the atomic bomb and its aftermath. #NewYorkerArchive https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima

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Alexander Bosch @boschpolforsch.bsky.social · 9h

In your Face #SPD! In der OB-Stichwahl in #Potsdam gingen alle Wahlbezirke an die parteilose Aubel!

OB-Stichwahl in Potsdam: Parteilose Noosha Aubel mit großem Vorsprung zur neuen Oberbürgermeisterin gewählt

Noosha Aubel hat sich bei der Stichwahl in Potsdam gegen SPD-Kandidat Severin Fischer durchgesetzt. Die 49-Jährige wird damit die zweite Frau an der Spitze der Stadt.

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