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music maker // free all political prisoners // fight all supremacies // latest albums: Defiant Life (2025), Thereupon (2025), Compassion (2024), Trouble (2024), Love in Exile (2023) // prof @ h*rv*rd // linktr.ee/vijayiyer

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How a little-known embassy aide hijacked US Israel policy David Milstein, top adviser to Amb. Mike Huckabee, has stoked a culture of fear at the State Department, current and former officials say

linked from LRT

responsiblestatecraft.org/david-milste...

16.10.2025 19:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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From Long Island to the Baltics: Drop Site Investigation Reveals New Details About Canary Mission's Operations Drop Site uncovered new information about individuals, donor networks, and businesses helping Canary Mission, a pro-Israel organization serving the U.S.'s deportation and repression efforts.

NEW: I uncovered new information about individuals, donor networks, and businesses helping Canary Mission, a pro-Israel organization serving the U.S.'s deportation and repression efforts. From a Long Island interior design store to the Baltics /

www.dropsitenews.com/p/canary-mis...

16.10.2025 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 147    πŸ” 80    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 5
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Penn rejects White House proposal for special funding treatment With the decision, Penn becomes the third university to decline the offer.

🚨🚨🚨

And THREE stood up!

Penn has joined MIT & Brown in rejecting Trump’s loyalty oath compact.

When we join together and fight back, WE WIN!

No amount of federal bribery is worth surrendering the freedom to question, explore, and dissent.

LET’S GO!

#DefendHigherEd
@aaup-penn.bsky.social

16.10.2025 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 158    πŸ” 67    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 5

Who will stand up to a superpower that oppresses, harms, and subjugates its own population?

16.10.2025 17:42 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I actually don’t think *anyone* should be held without cause, beaten, dragged, or detained. Citizen or not.

16.10.2025 17:23 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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Greta Thunberg: β€œThey kicked me every time the flag touched my face” – Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

We’ve met with Greta Thunberg and others in the flotilla. They describe hours-long scenes of torture and sexual harassment in Israeli captivity. Experts conclude that they have been subjected to serious crimes – Sweden’s foreign minister believes they have themselves to blame.

tinyurl.se/crR

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Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

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D'Angelo. πŸ’”πŸ’”πŸ’”πŸ’”πŸ’”πŸ’”πŸ’”πŸ’”πŸ’”

14.10.2025 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 96    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Controversial β€˜ICE List’ features photos and names of 100 immigration agents Dominick Skinner is dedicated to tracking the identities of immigration officials. Hundreds of volunteers have participated in his project, and in the last 30 days alone, his website has received near...

β€œI’m from Europe. We know what fascism is.β€œ

english.elpais.com/usa/2025-10-...

14.10.2025 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 50    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

or are people in the NYPD actually members of a master race who are also endangered snowflakes πŸ€”

13.10.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Alas, if only it were possible to find money to hire more cops after these ones supposedly quit their jobs and relinquish their entire six-figure salaries! Unfortunately, there aren’t any unemployed people in NYC to take these jobs 😿

13.10.2025 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives (MMIWR) | NIWRC

Happy Indigenous People Day!

Did you know that Indigenous women go missing and are murdered ten times more than average? They don’t even get a quarter of the attention that a white woman going missing would get. Please keep these women in your mind. Don’t forget them

www.niwrc.org/mmiwr-awaren...

13.10.2025 12:28 β€” πŸ‘ 700    πŸ” 408    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 13

we are officially post-satire

13.10.2025 15:40 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The only funded protest happened on January 6, 2021

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Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for β€˜peddling lies and pushing extremism’

sounds bad

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

13.10.2025 00:21 β€” πŸ‘ 57    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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12.10.2025 23:20 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yesβ€” projects.propublica.org/protest-poli...

12.10.2025 22:45 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Crowd Counting Consortium: An Empirical Overview of Recent Pro-Palestine Protests at U.S. Schools – Ash Center Crowd Counting Consortium data show several thousand days with pro-Palestinian protest activity across more than 500 U.S. schools since October 7, 2023, including encampments at more than 130 of them....

From summer 2024, after the encampments: ”Only a few dozen of these thousands of protest days have seen property damage or injuries to police or counter-protesters. Despite that fact, many public figures continue to describe the protests as violent”

ash.harvard.edu/articles/cro...

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Suffolk prosecutors file felony β€˜promotion of anarchy’ charges against 13 pro-Palestinian protesters - The Boston Globe The new charges are based on a Boston police review of postings on the Instagram account of march organizers that includes the phrase β€œStudents For Justice in Palestine."

this β€œviolence” resulted in a a felony charge for β€œpromoting anarchy,” a college student having bail set at $10,000, and a flood of law-and-order rhetoric from Mass dems. can’t wait for DJT to hear about this www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/09/m...

12.10.2025 22:34 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Following the protest, four officers were taken to the hospital for treatment of injuries. One officer had a broken nose and had his glasses broken, another was treated for pepper spray exposure, one sustained a finger injury while handcuffing and another sustained a lower back injury attempting to make an arrest.

Following the protest, four officers were taken to the hospital for treatment of injuries. One officer had a broken nose and had his glasses broken, another was treated for pepper spray exposure, one sustained a finger injury while handcuffing and another sustained a lower back injury attempting to make an arrest.

In case you’re hearing about the β€œprotest that turned violent” in Boston last week, here’s the β€œviolence” in question, per the police report

12.10.2025 22:25 β€” πŸ‘ 295    πŸ” 108    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 14

it’s as though he fell into a couple of youtube rabbitholes like any basic teenager. that, plus he makes billions off of genoc!dal tech

12.10.2025 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

seriously: is there now a massive contingent of β€œliberals” who viscerally hate anti-genocide protestors, or are they bots?

12.10.2025 14:52 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

"politics the right way," says Ezra Klein

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β€œSuch is the hallmark of a famine. The first to fall victim are generally those who had underlying conditions to begin with”

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Purge, Merge, and Surge Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

New, from me:
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

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In 2 Years of Gaza Genocide, Sunday Shows on NBC, ABC and CNN Have Not Featured a Single Palestinian Guest In a microcosm of the U.S. coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza, since Oct. 7, 2023, influential Sunday news shows have not seen fit to book any Palestinians.

β€œIn 2 Years of #GazaGenocide , Sunday Shows on NBC, ABC and CNN Have Not Featured a Single Palestinian Guest” #MediaBias
inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...

10.10.2025 23:07 β€” πŸ‘ 167    πŸ” 68    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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you guys are mad that someone interrupted a book tour? or is this another level of psyop. I’m missing something

12.10.2025 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

wow, he really wants to k!ll us all

12.10.2025 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

why are prisoners not hostages? why are hostages not prisoners?

12.10.2025 14:04 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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