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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 18h

Everything police do and say is a political statement.

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 22h

Also, just for the record, police ALWAYS threaten to quit when someone they don’t like (ie, someone who threatens anything but the most superficial of change), and they never do.

But it always gets taken at face value, not as the genuinely *political* statement it is.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d

CBS News would never put a thinly sourced 'story' by a rookie blogger like this on it's air. Until now. The Free Press isn't a journalism outlet, it's bloggers aren't reporters. This piece is more NYPost than Tiffany Network but I guess that's the goal.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 50m

Universities considered “the best” (and many others) have transformed themselves into great factories of unlearning, cathedrals to ignorance. This was already the case, to be sure, but Palestine forced the hands of the trustees & donors who don’t want their money undermining their social position.

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 3h

Most people are rightly horrified when they learn the real situation in Palestine and are forced to see the human toll of Zionism. They see the Jim Crow South and apartheid South Africa in the daily insults & abuses of occupation, the Third Reich in the obsessive race laws and genocidal bombings.

A Pew Research Center survey last week reported that nearly six out of 10 Americans, 59%, now hold a negative view of Israel, while
39% believe it is "going too far" in its war in Gaza - compared with 31% who held the same view a year ago, and 27% who thought this just two months after the war started. A poll from the same organization in 2022 showed 42% with negative views.
The anti-Israel swing is confirmed by other polls. A recent New York Times/Siena poll showed pro-Palestinians sympathies outscoring support for Israel - albeit narrowly, by 35% to 34%.
An Economist/You Gov poll in August found that 45% of the public believe Israel is committing genocide - a charge Israel vociferously denies - compared with only 31% who disagreed. About four in 10 American Jews believe the same, according to a new Washington Post poll. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/08/us-israel-relationship

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 9h

Imagine if Palestinians handed over the hostages freshly beat up

Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 10h

Samer Abu Diak, released to occupied West Bank, who was beaten by Israeli occupation troops before his release.

He was held as captive for two decades and his brother Sami, imprisoned since he was a teenager, died in Israeli occupation captivity after 17 years imprisonment in 2019.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 10h

I can't stand people who continue to pretend it's not one party. Nobody can be that stupid. They understand it, but they benefit from it so they join the con

Axios @axios.com · 12h

Former Presidents Biden and Clinton praised President Trump today for the Gaza peace deal.

Biden, Clinton praise Trump for Gaza peace deal

Biden said he commends Trump and his team, and Clinton said they "deserve great credit."

www.axios.com

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Ravin BOO!dram 👻 🎃 - FREE ŁINK @rvbdrm.com · 23h

RIP Saleh al-Jafarawi

Man on the left whose name is Saleh al-Jafarawi places his hand on a baby laying on a rocket with a big smile on their face.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 12h

Elite solidarity is so funny

Axios @axios.com · 12h

Former Presidents Biden and Clinton praised President Trump today for the Gaza peace deal.

Biden, Clinton praise Trump for Gaza peace deal

Biden said he commends Trump and his team, and Clinton said they "deserve great credit."

www.axios.com

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 23h

Columbus's own journals show that upon arriving at Hispaniola and BEING RESCUED by indigenous Americans, his first thought was "these people would make great servants."
This isn't a guy to celebrate.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 5h

Help if you can ❤️

Manarabofarw🫂😭🍉 @manarabufarwa.bsky.social · 2d

We, the civilians of Gaza, survived the war in a deplorable state. We are homeless, unemployed, and hungry. We depend entirely on your donations. So that I can survive and rebuild my home, please help me.My campaign is verified by @mommunism.bsky.social lunched it to🫂😭🍉 gofund.me/1c3f175a

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 5h

Too bad Biden didn't have any leverage at all and just had to take "no" for an answer

Israel's dependence on the United States was stated bluntly by retired IDF Maj.
General Yitzhak Brick in an interview earlier this week.
"All of our missiles, the ammunition, the precision-guided bombs, all the airplanes and bombs, it's all from the U.S. The minute they turn off the tap, you can't keep fighting. You have no capability.... Everyone understands that we can't fight this war without the United States. Period."

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Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 18h

Resisting arrest has long been used as a “cover charge” by police (in Chicago and elsewhere) after they use force against someone, as I reported back in 2018: www.chicagoreporter.com/chicago-poli...

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 20h

@prisonculture.bsky.social Think you'll like Ursula K. Le Guin saying bring back I statements, lol.

“There was quite a long time when poets used ‘you’ when they meant ‘I,’ but didn’t want to say so. ‘You walk down the street and you feel…’ No, I don’t! Talk about yourself! Don’t dump it onto me.”

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 3h

If you’re looking to help rebuild Gaza a farmer and a civil engineer seems like a good person to help ❤️

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 5h

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Mohammed. Mohammed was finishing his studies to be a civil engineer in Rafah. His home and the small farm that him and his family had were destroyed. He’s now trying to survive with his large family, including many small children, in tents.

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Steph @rantsbydesign.bsky.social · 3h

A drunk woman, who is usually kind to me and my dog, stomped on Lucy's paw last night. Lucy is okay, but the entire incident shook me to my core.

Protect your vulnerable loved ones. In a society where people are rewarded for being cruel, cruelty becomes the norm.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 14h

Reading Miss Majors Speaks was an incredibly moving experience last year. I can't recommend this book enough for those unfamiliar with her work.

Rest in peace 🖤

Miss Major Speaks Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary by Toshio Meronek and Miss Major

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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 3h

ICE exists to serve the prison industrial complex. They needed to create a fake crisis to justify even more mass incarceration. The US is a prison state.

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 2h

Palestinian journalist Shadi Abu Seed was one of those released yesterday. He recounted his mistreatment in prison, where he was told that his family had been killed, which he only yesterday discovered was another lie. There are thousands of others with stories like his.

Shadi Abu Seed, one of the Palestinians released from prison, on Al Jazeera

Shadi Abu Seed, one of the Palestinians released from prison, on Al Jazeera looking with disbelief as he holds his child again

“I went hungry for the past two years. I swear to God, they didn’t feed us. They kept us naked. They beat us while we were naked. Day and night we were tortured. Till our last day in Israeli prison, they cut us and hit us and abused us. We ensured every kind of torture—emotional, and physical. We couldn’t even sleep. They threatened us with our children. They told me they killed my children. They told us that Gaza was destroyed. I arrived here and found that everything was gone. It looked like the end of the world. Everything is different.”

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Jonah @anotherjonah.bsky.social · 1d

This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 19h

loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

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TransLash Media @translash.org · 14h

We honor the legacy of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a fierce protector of our collective freedom. Our hearts are with her loved ones and all who carry her vision forward.

"We will honor Miss Major forever." - @imarajones.bsky.social

An illustration of Miss Major surrounded by candles with blue background and a famous quote of hers written in gold. The quote reads“I don’t need their permission to exist; I exist in spite of them. I want you to train and teach and love on and create families within my community and gender non-conforming people, so that we can understand that we have a culture, we have a history, we have a reason to be here. We have a purpose. We’re entitled to be loved, and seek happiness, and share that with the people that we care about.” -Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

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Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 6h

Palestinian detainee Mohammad Hashem Nuwara was released yesterday as part of the prisoner exchange deal after spending nearly 25 years in Israeli prisons.

A thin man with short dark hair and a trimmed beard stands indoors, appearing frail and weary. He is wearing a light blue Nike jacket over a black shirt and black pants. His expression is subdued and distant, and his posture slightly slouched. Another person, partly visible on the left, extends an arm toward him as if to greet or support him. The background shows a brown sofa and a wooden panel with a leaf pattern. The overall mood of the image suggests exhaustion or recovery after hardship.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 17h

Another good time to remind people that “tear gas” is a term of copaganda that police, the military, and its manufacturers use to obscure that it is a dangerous chemical weapon internationally banned for use even in warfare.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 14h

⚡️New video report from Drop Site News: Hundreds of Palestinian Captives Released in Khan Younis From Israeli Detention

By Abdel Qader Sabbah and Sharif Kouddous, with contributions from Jawa Ahmad

www.dropsitenews.com/p/palestinia...

VIDEO: Hundreds of Palestinian Captives Released in Khan Younis From Israeli Detention

“My message to the people of Gaza: Do not lose hope, do not despair,” a freed Palestinian prisoner said.

www.dropsitenews.com

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 16h

I talked with @reallandsend.bsky.social on @deathpanel.bsky.social about Read This When Things Fall Apart and helping each other stay in the struggle. ❤️

When Things Fall Apart w/ Kelly Hayes (10/13/25) | The Death Panel

www.patreon.com

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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 14h

getting banned for my political beliefs (nazis have voluntarily abdicated their humanity and are therefore from a moral standpoint outside the protection of any social contract or ethical norms including any laws, written or otherwise)

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