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habeen wanaagsan / boa noite / night

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November 18, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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argues: If the only options are… to side with a futurist, settler, and imperial ‘us’ (whether as avowed advocates of empire or its collaborationist liberal compromisers) or with a queered, ‘s*v*ge,’ and ‘te*ro*ist’ other, the choice, I think, is clear: we must choose to stand with the ‘te*ro*ists.’
queered, ‘s*v*ge,’ and ‘te*ro*ist’ other, the choice, I think, is clear: we must choose to stand with the ‘te*ro*ists.’” This choice must shape our writing. No more conversation between the sword and the neck. No more attempting to prove that the oppressed are the neck and not the sword, to point the sword in a direction that will satisfy its blade. It doesn’t matter. This applies to a multitude of other words whose meanings are situated outside of our control. The language is poisoned already. There is no cure.
November 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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the state. [..] In trying to prove that we are not te*ro*ists, or prove that someone else is a te*ro*ist, we reify that the weapon of t*r*or*sm ought to exist at all, and that the problem is simply giving it the right target. We reload the weapon ourselves when we do this. Instead, as Schotten
one-sided weapon and its bullets belong to the state. The state cannot appear in the scope. In trying to prove that we are not te*ro*ists, or prove that someone else is a te*ro*ist, we reify that the weapon of t*r*or*sm ought to exist at all, and that the problem is simply giving it the right target. We reload the weapon ourselves when we do this. Instead, as Schotten argues: “If the only options are… to side with a futurist, settler, and imperial ‘us’ (whether as avowed advocates of empire or its collaborationist liberal compromisers) or with a
November 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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against those who can fit inside its scope, and that is not everyone. [..] t*r*or*sm cannot be recuperated. We cannot use or weaponize it for our own purposes. It means nothing to call Israeli or American violence te*ro*ist violence, because t*r*or*sm is a one-sided weapon and its bullets belong to
t*r*or*sm is the great weapon of the West. It is used only against those who can fit inside its scope, and that is not everyone. It is the indigenous remainder, and those in solidarity with them, in the scope; no one else appears. Land defenders blocking Cop City appear in the scope, protestors fighting police brutality appear in the scope. t*r*or*sm does only what it was designed to do only to those it was designed to target. t*r*or*sm cannot be recuperated. We cannot use or weaponize it for our own purposes. It means nothing to call Israeli or American violence te*ro*ist violence, because t*r*or*sm is a one-sided weapon and its bullets belong to the state.
November 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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I've been banging on & on about Fargo Tbakhi's essay in @proteanmag.com ever since it came out almost 2 yrs ago

this part spoke to me the most, cuz i've been pleading with ppl to stop using this word, so i am sharing it again with y'all.

"t*r*or*sm is the great weapon of the West. It is used only
We must remember that t*r*or*sm does not describe an objective reality; it is, like other pieces of language weaponized to murder, an ideological word used by ideological powers, with specific legislative and carceral bodies attached to its use. C. Heike Schotten, in Queer Terror: Life, Death, and Desire in the Settler-Colony, offers us the only definition of terrorism that matters. She writes that the figure of the te*ro*ist: “…can be understood as the contemporary settler state’s moralized imperial name for the unthinkable indigenous remainder that, in the insistence on remaining, challenges the settler state’s claim to sovereignty, security, and civilizational value. Indeed, indigenous peoples’ continued existence not only challenges settler sovereignty’s claim to legitimacy and ‘first’-ness, but is the harbinger of that sovereignty’s death insofar as they become legible to it as existing.”
November 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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“[T]o be looped in a GIF, to be put on display as ‘animated’ at the behest of audiences,” as Monica Torres describes for Real Life, is an act with racial history and meaning. These GIFs often enact fantasies of black women as “sassy” and extravagant, allowing nonblack users to harness and inhabit
“[T]o be looped in a GIF, to be put on display as ‘animated’ at the behest of audiences,” as Monica Torres describes for Real Life, is an act with racial history and meaning. These GIFs often enact fantasies of black women as “sassy” and extravagant, allowing nonblack users to harness and inhabit these images as an extension of themselves.
November 12, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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El-Kurd

"When we're talking about the New York Times, we're talking about an organization that is deeply complicit, that has so much blood on its hands. [..] I don't think anybody should be working at the NYT, or writing for the NYT or writing op-eds in the NYT."

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Mohammed El-Kurd on The New York Times "When we're talking about the New York Times, we're talking about an organization that is deeply complicit, that has so much blood on its hands. [..] I don't think anybody should be working at the NYT, or writing for the NYT or writing op-eds in the NYT." BOYCOTT. DIVEST. UNSUBSCRIBE.
November 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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"Folks can attend whatever parties they like, pay their rose-colored membership dues, choose their strategies & priorities...

But don't lie to yourselves & Palestinians about mayors in this genocidal colony. Look at his statement from 10.7.25 and the settler memorial he attended."

rasha abdulhadi
two tweets from rasha abdulhadi: Folks can attend whatever parties they like, pay their rose-colored membership dues, choose their strategies & priorities... But don't lie to yourselves & Palestinians about mayors in this genocidal colony. Look at his statement from 10.7.25 and the settler memorial he attended. Please don't try to finesse the repetition of atrocity propaganda that gives cover to still-ongoing genocide.
November 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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#Blacksky techno crew: who here remembers when nina kraviz shared pictures of her appropriating Black hair, badly, as always is the case

us Black folks from the underground dance music had a time on twitter!!...nina even called some of us 'the real racists' at some point 😭

i was deleting old files
@ninakraviz replying to a Black woman, who's name i've hidden: so you are an actual racist. this is the end for me. thanks for letting and other "white" people know how you see us. i am coming from a remote asian city and all my life had very little to do with you are talking about. you have no right to speak to me this way.
November 5, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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a few ppl from outside of brasil asked me about books to read after the most recent m*ssa*re in Rio de Janeiro

i always recommend this book by Black brasileiro writer Jaime Alves.

pls order 'The Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil' through ur local bookshop or library

💙📚
the front cover of the book 'The Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil' by Jaime Amparo Alves. the cover is a hand holding the brazilian flag with bullet holes in the flag and on the far left at the top the face of a Black person is visible. a passage from the book: This book differs from mainstream literature on violence in Brazil by exploring the troubling relationship between blackness and criminality within the current context of security strategies aiming to “pacify” urban geographies. In doing so, it aims to reposition the debate about black urban life beyond the redemptive narratives of black progress and the denial of racism. While the former is the main focus of the book, I respond to the denial of racism in a somewhat different way. Rather than engaging with white academia’s terms of the debate, in which it establishes the political terrain from which racial meanings are given and erased, black activists have urged scholars to take race seriously by stating explicitly: “If you want to know who is black or white in Brazil, just ask the police.” To them, it is fruitless to discuss whether race matters because the statistics on black premature death, the recur- ring racial lynchings and disappearances, and the astonishing level of mass incarceration, to name just a few, demystify color-blind narratives of violence.
November 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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REJECT THIS LIE!! Lula's party is also complicit!!!
[ID: a screenshot of instagram comment and a reply to the comment. the first commenters handle and avi is hidden for privacy of the poster, as this post is not about that person. above the comments the following is written: "REJECT this lie whenever u see it!!! Lula's party is also complicit!!!" first comment: "@ajplus should clarify that rio de janeiro is ruled by a far right governor. this is the handiwork of fascists, not brazil’s federal government or @lulaoficial" reply: it at best dishonest or worst a flat out lie to put this on 'right wing governor' and excuse Lula. 3 years in a row most police killing in Brasil took place in the state of Bahia, in fact more ppl were killed in the state of Bahia (pop. 14.8 million) than the entire 'USA' (pop. 340.1 million). and Bahia is run by a governor from Lula's party PT. both the right and the left in Brasil agree on the continuation of Black genocide. ]
October 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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"You don’t need to live in the favelas of Alemão and Penha to understand that there’s nothing normal about this. You don’t need to live in Rio or Brasil to have the slightest empathy for everything that is happening here. Carrying bodies that aren’t even identified isn’t normal. [..] These images
October 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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The Ministry of Health in Gaza is being offered 10s of millions $ by Western humanitarian organizations to buy the remaining hospitals in Gaza including Shifa and the European hospital. These include known names like IMC and others.
They have always been weapon of imperialism.

Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta
The Ministry of Health in Gaza is being offered 10s of millions $ by Western humanitarian organizations to buy the remaining hospitals in Gaza including Shifa and the European hospital. These include known names like International Medical Coprs, and others. They have always been weapon of imperialism.
October 25, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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the caucacity of the yts who run Club Raum and Spielraum in Amsterdam, to quote martyr Ghassan Kanafani (assassinated by Mossad) in their statement last year and then a year later give a big platform to Roi Perez who served the IOF for 7 fucking years.

qashin!

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an instagram post which reads: Roi Perez, who served 7 years in the IOF, is closing Club Raum tomorrow. ADE Spielraum 24-27/10/25 Friday 23:00 FAUSTIN 02:00 DOPPELGANG 05:00 ROI PEREZ In a statement in April last year, Club Raum said: "We reject zionism... and consider pinkwashing hostile and dangerous to our interconnected struggles." Yet tomorrow they will platform Perez, a DJ who: manned the IOF's genocidal Navy for seven years. held pinkwashing parties in 'Tel Aviv' during the genocide. invited international DJs to break the cultural boycott Club Raum: if you truly support Palestinian liberation, listen to your community and withdraw this harmful booking. Club Raum's 2024 statement includes a quote from Palestinian intellectual Ghassan Kanafini, who was murdered by Mossad in 1972. He was clear and steadfast on the dangers of normalizing zionists-in cultural settings, as Raum is doing: - "Sitting with the enemy - even in a TV studio - is a major mistake in the battle, and we should not consider it a minor issue." "Our boycott of Israel is not based on an emotional position, but rather, it comes from the nature of our confrontation against this enemy. Boycott is in itself a statement". source: Electronic Intifada
October 23, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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then he goes into some examples of their complicity and how they are in cahoots with the 'Israeli' government, using reporting from WAWOG's The New York War Crimes dossier.

newyorkwarcrimes.com/dossier

pls BOYCOTT, DIVEST & UNSUBSCRIBE from that rag!

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BOYCOTT. DIVEST. UNSUBSCRIBE. The New York War Crimes The Paper of Zionist Record The New York Times is an accomplice to the genocide in Gaza, serving as a mouthpiece for American imperialism and shaping elite consensus around foreign policy. Times editors have told reporters to avoid “inflammatory terms” like “genocide,” “ethnic cleansing,” and “occupied territory” — and even to avoid saying “Palestine.” Headline writers have manipulated the English language and deployed tricks of syntax to obscure the U.S. and Israel’s perpetration of atrocities and blame Palestinians for their own oppression. Reporters have printed the Israeli military’s lies.
October 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Mohammed El-Kurd on The New York Times

"When we're talking about the New York Times, we're talking about an organization that is deeply complicit, that has so much blood on its hands. [..] I don't think anybody should be working at the NYT, or writing for the NYT or writing op-eds in the NYT."
October 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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There is now compelling medical evidence that Covid-19 infections can reactivate dormant cancer cells, and trigger the growth of secondary cancers. In studies, cancer survivors who contracted Covid had a statistically significant higher risk of cancer-related deaths

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Covid & Cancer September 26, 2025 Ben Clark Cancer, Covid-19, News There is now compelling medical evidence that Covid-19 infections can reactivate dormant cancer cells, and trigger the growth of secondary cancers (metastatic progression). In studies, cancer survivors who contracted Covid had a statistically significant higher risk of cancer-related deaths compared to uninfected cancer survivors. This is such an important issue that BuDS has decided to run an awareness campaign over the autumn and winter. The aim of the campaign will be to warn cancer survivors of the very real additional danger that Covid poses to them.
October 21, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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i don't think he has done any of that....same with his fellow palmiteiros from OF Frank and Steve.

Zion did a good analyses of it a few days ago using that video where Tyler is asked if he is "into Black dudes only" & replies: "I'm don't even like Black dudes at all, i'm into yt guys"
Black bisexual men like Tyler have to contradict themselves by mocking whites as “sun Dodgers” —while also eating sun dodger ass—-because they’re constantly running from blackqueerness. Because being a black phaggot is outside “the culture’s” permission structure, bi niggas like Tyler (or Frank or Steve) manage their anxiety around this by mentally segregating their “straightness” from their “gayness” —-& by avoiding the blackness of a black partner within sexual non-normativity (“gay” contexts). Hence him being a pro-white-boy. It’s identity-maintenance based on the abjection of being a blackqueer. Too much SAMENESS is terrifying. So they seek Difference. But the difference they seek—racial whiteness—- also has to be ridiculed and deflated as impotent, square, racist, inauthentic. But that will always mean contradiction——and insincerity. Tyler can’t actually degrade sun dodgers because he has no bisexuality without them. Or he’s left with confronting the black queerness he runs from.
October 20, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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keeping receipts matters

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October 20, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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i was turned off then and never checked him out again really...saw some things here and there that i liked.

i just saw someone bring up this tweet which is about the the ferguson uprisings after Mike Brown was killed. and Black ppl were on his ass in the comments back then as well.
@tylerthecreator AND BLACK PEOPLE ARE CURRENTLY MAD RIGHT NOW BUT IN 2 WEEKS WILL BE OVER IT CAUSE THEY REALLY DONT CARE, COOL HASHTAG THO RIGHT? 1:29 AM · Aug 19, 2014 replies to a tweet from @fucktyler, but all the handles and pictures of those replying have been made anonymous. here are the replies: @fucktyler you black. you young. you male. you should be the fuck mad too. @fucktyler take a note from earl and try not shitting on people who 1) support you b) cant affort to live in some hollywood dreamland wrong. @fucktyler replies to a tweet from @fucktyler, but all the handles and pictures of those replying have been made anonymous. here are the replies: so Black people are over Trayvon Martin being killed too @fucktyler ?? We forgot all about it rght? Lame. @fucktyler we not like yu #WeCare #Ferguson #LostAFan @fucktyler if you're talking about ferguson you're wrong replies to a tweet from @fucktyler, but all the handles and pictures of those replying have been made anonymous. here are the replies: @fucktyler that you don't know how to engage with the "black community", how about you just shut up, pick up a book, have a conversation @fucktyler Black people don't care? Your uncomfortable with tragedies that happen within your culture. Instead of avoiding the fact @fucktyler and spit some real stuff or shut up. This really isn't the time for you to say anything. You don't know what ypur talking about.
October 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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A'ja Wilson did NOT want to let go of that pink tambourine!!! 😭

s/o out to the Black folks saying:

'Go ahead wit yo bad self' and 'I know dats right!'
October 11, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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lászló krasznahorkai described in details, UNPROVOKED i might add, how he'd be 'tortured & killed by Arabs' while discussing his Jewish heritage. he went out of his way to share his vile anti-muslim & anti-arab racism, knowing the impact this would have.

🖕🏿 him & as always 🖕🏿the nobel prize
age description László Krasznahorkai: „The Arabs would certainly accept to torture and shoot them dead” By: Saturday - 2023-12-16 Column: Culture-Arts In an interview on the Friderikusz Podcast, Kossuth Prize-winning writer László Krasznahorkai also talked about the Jewish origin of his paternal family and hinted that although this would not be religiously sufficient for Judaism, it would be sufficient for the Arabs to torture and kill him.
October 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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"What the occupation failed to achieve through genocide and starvation over two full years, it could not attain through negotiation."
@QudsNen Breaking | Hamas official Izzat al-Rishq: ⭕️The ceasefire is the result of the immense sacrifices, steadfastness, and legendary patience of our people, and the strength and resilience of the resistance. ⭕️This agreement stems from our historic responsibility toward our great people, our commitment to their legitimate rights, and crowns the achievements of our resistance since October 7. ⭕️The ceasefire agreement is a purely national achievement that embodies our people’s unity and their unwavering alignment with the path of resistance as the means to confront the Zionist occupation. ⭕️Throughout the negotiations, our eyes and hearts remained with our people in Gaza, their pure blood and great sacrifices are a sacred pledge of loyalty and devotion. ⭕️What the occupation failed to achieve through genocide and starvation over two full years, it could not attain through negotiation.
October 9, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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if u are against armed resistance to this, u want genocide to continue!

"Read this 2,700 times

In the last 24 months, Israel’s unrelenting attack on Gaza has resulted in the erasure of 2,700 families from the entire registry.

two thousand and seven hundred families obliterated."

Mariam Barghouti
@MariamBarghouti Read this 2,700 times. In the last 24 months, Israel’s unrelenting attack on Gaza has resulted in the erasure of 2,700 families from the entire registry. two thousand and seven hundred families obliterated.
October 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM