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I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this
mpaarlberg.bsky.social Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · Sep 29
I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were
September 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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“Racial justice is not an empty catchphrase. It’s about people flourishing, and it’s about people living lives that are filled with opportunity and promise versus peril and threat.”

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Inside the Black Freedom Fund’s Journey to Independence and Permanence
Launched in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder, the pooled fund is now a legally independent organization. It's facing stiff headwinds this year, but it's in it for the long haul.
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August 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
"Our support and solidarity with people who are struggling for human dignity and justice should not depend on their knowing anything about us! Solidarity is not a market exchange. It’s not, you need to give us your love and we’ll give you ours!"

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“Solidarity Is Not a Market Exchange”: An Interview with Robin D. G. Kelley
Rethinking Marxism: It is our great honor to be talking with Robin D. G. Kelley, Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U. S. History at UCLA. Robin, let’s begin with your biogra…
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June 12, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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I talked with my friends @prisonculture.bsky.social, @deanspade.bsky.social, @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social, and @shaneburley.bsky.social about activism and organizing in 2025 and how we should move into the next phase of struggle.
Wading Into 2025: How to Begin
“We live in chaotic, disastrous times, but amid that madness, we can still find each other and fight for each other.”
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December 31, 2024 at 3:52 PM
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victorerikray.bsky.social
Dr. King’s observation that we can achieve diversity that futhers state violence but not basic justice still stands.

From his classic speech “Beyond Vietnam”
Perhaps a more tragic recognition of reality took place when it became clear to me that the war was doing far more than devastating the hopes of the poor at home. It was sending their sons and their brothers and their husbands to fight and to die in extraordinarily high proportions relative to the rest of the population. We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem. And so we have been repeatedly faced with the cruel irony of watching Negro and white boys on TV screens as they kill and die together for a nation that has been unable to seat them together in the same schools. And so we watch them in brutal solidarity burning the huts of a poor village, but we realize that they would hardly live on the same block in Chicago. I could not be silent in the face of such cruel manipulation of the poor.
December 6, 2024 at 6:02 PM
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Amazon employees around the world are demonstrating between Black Friday and Cyber Monday to call for improved wages and working conditions, including unionization rights.

Workers are striking in 20 countries including the US, UK, France, Germany, Japan, Brazil, and India.
November 29, 2024 at 3:24 PM