@rafauga.bsky.social
It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.
The Institute for Palestine Studies mourns the passing of its Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees and former Palestinian diplomat, Leila Shahid, who passed away yesterday, leaving behind a remarkable legacy in diplomacy, politics, and culture.
palestine-studies.org/en/node/1658...
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
03.02.2026 16:19 — 👍 43284 🔁 19375 💬 2402 📌 1617I thought for sure this was an old quote. He said this statement this morning.
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My first remarks since being arrested last night.
30.01.2026 23:30 — 👍 25130 🔁 6663 💬 976 📌 283every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
30.01.2026 23:58 — 👍 30084 🔁 6556 💬 388 📌 310The arrests of Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lundy are unacceptable and a clear violation of the Constitution.
This is a dangerous abuse of power that threatens the rights of every single American.
They must be released immediately.
They tried intimidation. Minnesota answered with people.
31.01.2026 01:08 — 👍 28584 🔁 7436 💬 521 📌 320
Epstein asks Barak to say he isn’t Mossad… and adds a smiley emoji
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What the fuck is this headline. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
31.01.2026 04:39 — 👍 576 🔁 134 💬 24 📌 7After my brain surgery in 2014, I spent several days in the ICU unit and as anxious as I was, I had the best nurses looking after me. Nurses are my heroes. Finding out that Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse for me, made it even more horrifying and he took care of our veterans. His murder is so tragic. 😢💔
25.01.2026 20:22 — 👍 233 🔁 61 💬 6 📌 4Please contribute if you're able or share the original if you're not.
Note that the most effective way to get help for people is to directly ask people you know
Why would you support or fund this?
Why?
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
An excellent, devastating critique of a field of policy practice & academic study that became an industry of liberal institutionalism all about procedure rather than substance, by @wlacher.bsky.social & @yguichaoua.bsky.social:
The Demise of Conflict Studies
dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
ken is one of the last true american journalists, who is actually doing what journalists are supposed to do. cancel your NYT/WaPo/Atlantic/<Whatever other blinkered and state-fellating “news” tabloid> subscriptions and give him that money instead
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Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
Excerpt from "The Invaders", Kendzior, Jan 2026. No paywall: https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-invaders
"Being on the 'right side of history' is romanticized. It often means you were wronged and people cared too late."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-invaders
the most important thing in 2028 is electing someone who is a true believer in the project of dismantling right-wing power. if you don't get that, then nothing else will matter very much.
12.01.2026 23:12 — 👍 7037 🔁 1096 💬 127 📌 49One basic pattern here is that DHS officials are engaging in violence simply because they are irritated at citizens protesting them. There is no plausible threat of violence here. He just wants to inflict pain, and believes there will be no penalty for doing so.
12.01.2026 22:09 — 👍 5088 🔁 1762 💬 156 📌 53ICE Trump regime agents kidnapped a 17 year old boy working at Target, the regime thugs beat and tortured him then dropped him off 9 minutes away from his job site when they realized he was a US citizen, he was bloodied and bruised when witnesses helped him.
12.01.2026 22:45 — 👍 2043 🔁 1222 💬 194 📌 163Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity—says he won’t allow independent journalists into Gaza because he cares about journalists too much, and because Israel is still at war with Gaza.
Video: @TheEconomist via X
LET THE MOBILE HOMES IN
11.01.2026 10:19 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Fuck it- the colleague was me. I reported the posts (there we others not just me) and reported the account. For whatever reason @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app seems to have only removed the images and left the account up???
Ready for some answers @jay.bsky.team @safety.bsky.app
A 35 year old letter to the editor, written by a very ballsy 15 year old, about the Rodney King verdict.
Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
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Polly Toynbee column headline: "If Labour oust Starmer without a plan, it will all be for nothing".
The "all" here presumably referring to the relentless and vicious, racist attacks on people seeking asylum, the support for genocide and authoritarianism, the snatching of welfare from people in need, the crackdowns on protest, rolling back of human rights and general hastening of fascism.
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Eleven Palestinian students wounded as Israeli forces storm Birzeit University campus
english.wafa.ps/Pages/Detail...
BREAKING 🇵🇸 Israeli regime forces have stormed Birzeit University campus in the Occupied West Bank, injuring 41 students, including 9 with live bullets.
06.01.2026 12:46 — 👍 122 🔁 116 💬 2 📌 22The FEDS drugged and shot Fred Hampton in bed.
Philly cops blew up a building in the 1980s and most people don't even know the MOVE bombing happened.
I think you're downplaying how normalized US death is.
Blood on pavement at Birzeit University today after it was raided by Israel
This image is from Birzeit University in the West Bank which was raided by Israel today using live ammunition and tear gas.
Over 40 people were injured, mostly students.
More than 8,000 students are trapped inside.
But it’s controversial to talk about scholasticide.
True depravity.
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