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Magna Tolvan
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The “official” Bluesky account of Magna Tolvan from the Doctor Aphra comics 🦾

She/Her Cis • Anti-capitalist Anti-imperial • ACAB • FREE PALESTINE🔻• Abolish ICE • No gen AI • Communist ☭
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MFW I #MagnaTolvan get a HoloCall from #DoctorAphra and I *think* it’s going to be about meeting up today, the 10th anniversary of Chelli’s 1st appearance!

But then it turns out to be #Aphra asking me to rescue her — AGAIN. Sloppy!

Happy birthday, Doctor Aphra! 🎂
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Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
December 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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How 200 New Yorkers Foiled an ICE Raid Before It Even Began

time.com/7337578/ice-...
How 200 New Yorkers Foiled an ICE Raid Before It Even Began
New Yorkers thwarted an ICE raid before it could begin. The incident highlights the challenges ICE will face in the city
time.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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UN report accuses Israel of 'de facto' state policy of torture
<article data-history-node-id="432110" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/un-report-accuses-israel-de-facto-state-policy-torture" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/un-report-accuses-israel-de-facto-state-policy-torture" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">UN report accuses Israel of 'de facto' state policy of torture</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>A UN report has accused&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israel&nbsp;</a>of having a "de facto" state policy of torture for&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinian&nbsp;</a>prisoners.</p> <p>The UN Committee Against Torture said on Friday that use of torture by the Israeli state was "organised and widespread" and had greatly increased since the beginning of the war on Gaza on 7 October 2023.</p> <p>The report noted that Israel had no legislation&nbsp;criminalising torture, and said its legislation allowed public officials to be exempted from criminal culpability under the principle of "necessity".</p> <p>"The committee was deeply concerned about reports indicating a de facto state policy of organised and widespread torture and ill-treatment during the reporting period, which had gravely intensified since 7 October 2023," the report said.</p> <p>"It also expressed its concern that a range of policies adopted by Israel in the course of its continued unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, if implemented in the manner alleged, would amount to cruel, inhuman or degrading living conditions for the Palestinian population."</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/un-report-accuses-israel-de-facto-state-policy-torture">UN report accuses Israel of 'de facto' state policy of torture</a></h3> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="Israeli forces stand guard at the Ofer military prison located between Ramallah and Beitunia in the occupied West Bank on 13 October 2025 (AFP)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="0b22b3cf-0fea-42ea-9e28-faad49195011" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/ISRAEL_PRISON_WESTBANK_AFP.jpeg" width="1400" height="788" alt="Israeli forces stand guard at the Ofer military prison located between Ramallah and Beitunia in the occupied West Bank on 13 October 2025 (AFP)" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>Israeli forces stand guard at the Ofer military prison located between Ramallah and Beitunia in the occupied West Bank on 13 October 2025 (AFP)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> <section>&nbsp;</section> </div> </div> </article>
www.middleeasteye.net
November 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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What if we razed every Data Center to the ground and salted the earth where they stood
December 1, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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The first strike was also murder. You can’t just up and kill civilians on the high seas and then claim you were at war with them.
Reporter: If there were a second strike that killed wounded people, would that be legal?

Trump: I don’t know that happened and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about. I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.
November 30, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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‘Genocide continues in Gaza’, Belfast Palestine solidarity rally told

The citizens of Belfast came out in their thousands on Saturday to stand in solidarity with a people facing an ongoing genocide.
#EndGenocide #EndIsraeliApartheid
December 1, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
It's dangerous to go alone... take this
November 30, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I don't know if I'd call it charming but: I relearned how to drive, and made a point of regularly leaving the city to go on long walks and hikes in nature

TLDR, I touched grass
What's a charming memory you have from the worst period of the pandemic?
November 30, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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The boys, Fadi Abu Assi, 11, and Goma Abu Assi, 8, were gathering firewood for their wheelchair-bound father.

"Israeli" occupation forces used a drone to murder them from the sky.
November 30, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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So grateful to everyone in NYC who mobilized to stop the ICE raid of Canal St. The violence being committed against immigrants is heart-wrenching, but the shows of solidarity we have seen around the country give me so much hope.
November 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Average folks kettled ICE
ICE still FROZEN at Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan right now as calls continue circulating for people to join.

NYPD arriving with barricades.
November 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Israel is using existing ceasefire agreements to establish new realities on the ground, projecting itself as the regional hegemon by launching attacks on Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and the West Bank.

mondoweiss.net/2025/11/isra...

#Palestine #Israel
Israel is violating all its ceasefire agreements and escalating on all fronts
Israel is using existing ceasefire agreements to establish new realities on the ground, projecting itself as the regional hegemon by launching attacks on Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and the West Bank.
mondoweiss.net
November 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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ICE still FROZEN at Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan right now as calls continue circulating for people to join.

NYPD arriving with barricades.
November 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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But OK irl?

- Many a stray cat
- Eastern Cottontail rabbit
- Snake
- Caterpillar (for the 1st time just the other week)
- A downed bird of brey — Hawk? Falcon? Eagle? — standing with its wings spread on a sidewalk back in Boston, as pedestrians gawked. Damn bird was bigger than a child. Looked HUGE
November 29, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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There is a direct correlation between how fake your job is and how much value you see in AI
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.

I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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No matter what field they are in, the only job responsibilities of every AI believer is just sending emails to other people who actually work telling them what to do
November 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Introduce yourself w 5 animals you've seen in the wild

- Chthonic Worm God
- Explosive Tooka
- Tauntaun
- Qaberworm
- Chelli Aphra's unbridled avarice & selfishness
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:

- Dog
- Cat
- Someone else’s cat
- A bird
- Devil’s Coach Horse
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:

- Elephant
- Moose
- Alligator
- Brown Bear
- Mountain Goat

Listed in decreasing order of proximity. The elephant was a quarter mile away. Moose, about the same. Alligator? 15 feet. Bear? 10 feet (through a window). Goat? TOO DAMN CLOSE.
November 29, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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We've seen time and time again we can't change capital from the inside
November 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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The other problem of course being the lack of a material analysis of what the Democrats are, what they are institutionally bound to and what their ideological commitments are
November 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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the biggest problem with this take is the label “doomer;” I’m actually incredibly optimistic about the chances of making a better world, I just understand what will and won’t be part of that change
I find the 'the Democrats won't do anything' doomer line annoying, because the Democrats will be who you make them - look how much the GOP changed over the past decade!

Right now the party feels immovable but the moment it has a presidential nominee, it will be whatever that person is.
November 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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The law is not now, nor has it ever been, a moral instrument.
November 29, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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The problem with fetishizing the rule of law is that people have to break the law to resist fascism, state violence, and oppression. This has always been true, and is very much the case RIGHT NOW.
November 29, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing

"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."

Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM