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@alessandrocamon.bsky.social
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Academy Award nominated writer. Failed professional footballer.

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alessandrocamon.bsky.social @alessandrocamon.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
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Free Work Isn’t Free | Los Angeles Review of Books
On the true cost of unpaid creativity in the age of IP and AI.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
One unleashes the *hounds* of Hell, not the gates of Hell, you illiterate moron.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Those who believe absurdities commit atrocities. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Pete Hegseth’s holy war: the militant Christian theology animating the US attack on Iran
The Bible-thumping US defense secretary is overseeing another strategic disaster in the Middle East. Is this a war or a crusade?
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alessandrocamon.bsky.social @alessandrocamon.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
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Christmas is not a Western story – it is a Palestinian one
Christmas is a story of empire, injustice and the vulnerability of ordinary people caught in its path.
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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
so the two notable programming moves bari weiss has made at CBS are... airing an interview nobody watched and not airing a 60 Minutes segment that everybody watched. it's like she's satirizing herself
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David Noll @david.noll.org · 23/12/2025
It's actually worse. The Supreme Court has held 9-0 -- Clarence Thomas and other executive power fanatics included -- that detainees rendered to another country via the Alien Enemies Act are entitled to a pre-deportation hearing. There is no legal debate whatsoever.
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 23/12/2025
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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NYC’s Lander Recommends Dropping $42 Billion BlackRock Mandate
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing...
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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 26/11/2025
In the battle of public opinion, Hegseth is the clear loser. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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Hegseth is losing his despicable crusade against military hero
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ramped up his tirade against Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly on Tuesday, disparaging Kelly's military title and said the Democrat’s video urging troops not to follow illegal…
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Miami DSA @miamidsa.org · 26/11/2025
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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alessandrocamon.bsky.social @alessandrocamon.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
As usual, the catholic church adopts a “Just Say No” position that stands no chance in the real world. The answer to the problem here is not prohibition but regulation and education. AI is NOT neutral, but also not unconditionally bad.
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 13/09/2025
"Healthy debate" = when I criticize you "Cancel culture" = when you criticize me
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alessandrocamon.bsky.social @alessandrocamon.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
A thousand words.
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alessandrocamon.bsky.social @alessandrocamon.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
The Trump strategy, in fact, will be to label unwanted info and narratives as “woke AI”, censor them as much as possible, and promote the kind of “both sides” framework that makes things like climate change seem debatable.
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alessandrocamon.bsky.social @alessandrocamon.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Totally normal for Blair and Kushner, who hold no government position whatsoever, to be discussing with Trump plans for a commercial hub and vacation resort to be built on the bones on dead children, while the children continue to be bombed and starved. www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/m...
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Why was Tony Blair at the White Huse for Trump’s Gaza meeting? | CNN
A former British PM with a mixed record on the Middle East took part in a White House meeting on Gaza.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 23/08/2025
The case itself reads like a Gilded Age parable. trib.al/gIgsrbQ Foreign–born billionaire, the world’s wealthiest man, asks the court to block enforcement against alleged anti-union activities at one of his companies. GOP-appointed judges in Texas (2 appointed by President Trump) agreed.
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Elon Musk Just Won His War on Labor Unions
The Fifth Circuit has done the mogul’s bidding and neutered the National Labor Relations Board, in a move that will likely substantially damage workers’ rights.
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alessandrocamon.bsky.social @alessandrocamon.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Open, shameless, unmitigated racist hate. Anti-american, anti-christian, anti-human. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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US state department stops issuing visas for Gaza’s children to get medical care after far-right campaign
Program providing key aid halted after complaints from Laura Loomer, the far-right influencer close to Trump
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alessandrocamon.bsky.social @alessandrocamon.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
What do we call the violent obliteration of childhood itself? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/w...
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The Trauma of Childhood in Gaza
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
#ReleaseTheCuomoList
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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Anas al-Sharif and his fallen colleagues are heroes. Israel clearly and deliberately kills journalists—over two hundred in less than two years, more than died in WWII and the wars in Viet Nam, Iraq, and Afghanistan combined.
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Global outrage mounts as funeral held for five journalists killed by Israel
Last post from Anas al-Sharif, whom Al Jazeera calls one of Gaza’s bravest journalists, decries failure to stop ‘massacre’
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alessandrocamon.bsky.social @alessandrocamon.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
As the government approves further expansion of the occupation, the Sea of Galilee takes note.
As the government approves further bloodshed, the Sea of Galilee has mysteriously turned red.
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Read this thread about our @propublica.org reporting on how immigration officers are increasingly smashing car windows to arrest immigrants (just a warning, many of the videos in this thread contain footage/audio of violent arrests and screaming children) ⬇️ projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...
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“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”
We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 08/08/2025
Trump has declared war on free minds and free education in order to erase more than a half-century of scholarship and replace it with official triumphal narratives rooted in a brand of pickled patriotism designed to force the past to serve the present. trib.al/OsKGbr7
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What if History Died by Sanctioned Ignorance?
We must mobilize now to defend our profession, not only with research and teaching but in the realm of politics and public persuasion.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/08/2025
📽️ WATCH: “The U.S. sent us to El Salvador so that El Salvador could do the dirty work that the U.S. couldn’t.” Hear from Juan José Ramos Ramos, Andry Omar Blanco Bonilla and Wilmer José Vega Sandia — three of 230+ Venezuelan men the Trump administration sent to CECOT — in their own words:
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alessandrocamon.bsky.social @alessandrocamon.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Extraordinary interview. There is no spinning this.
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alessandrocamon.bsky.social @alessandrocamon.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
‪The psychopathology of a man capable of forming this answer deserves to be studied, and named after him. It’s beyond narcissism, compulsive lying, and lack of empathy. It’s a moral vacuum so profound and destructive it unmakes all reasoning, and the very possibility of honest communication‬.
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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
“He’s not involved in the global child trafficking ring. The lady in charge of the global child trafficking ring said so, and why would she lie about the guy who pardoned her for her role in the global child trafficking ring?”
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alessandrocamon.bsky.social @alessandrocamon.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
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Israel’s food points are not just death traps – they’re an alibi for the starvation of Gaza | Alex de Waal
We saw famine in Biafra and Ethiopia. In the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s ‘aid distribution system’ we see an attempt to destroy a whole society, says academic and writer Alex de Waal
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 17/07/2025
The repeated targeting of California workers is ​a deliberate spectacle, meant to show the rest of​ the country what to expect if we don’t fall in line. All told, the arrests a week ago may add up to the largest single roundup yet by this administration. trib.al/4fvkgRO
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Vanity Fair @vanityfair.com · 17/07/2025
On a Tuesday in March, Rümeysa Öztürk writes, “I was thrust into a nightmare.” For VF, the Fulbright scholar details what she witnessed in the six and a half weeks she spent inside a South Louisiana ICE detention center.
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“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison
Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.
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Erin Overbey @erinoverbey.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
‘do the pilots who bomb children have children?’ —collected questions from Gaza’s children💔
Questions from Gaza’s Children as compiled by staff from the Palestine Trauma Centre in Gaza
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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 14/07/2025
This is a very troubling claim: someone who the Lemkin Institute - genocide experts - clearly believes is an expert in photo interpretation says there is evidence of an expanding mass grave near the CECOT prison in El Salvador… where the Trump regime sends detainees.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
BREAKING: Judge rules that during its large-scale enforcement operation in LA, DHS/ICE has been arresting people without probable cause -- based on factors like accent and line of work. She orders the agencies to stop. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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alessandrocamon.bsky.social @alessandrocamon.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
MAGA 2: Death Squads.
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The Marshall Project @themarshallproject.org · 11/07/2025
The Trump administration is fueling immigration arrests, deportations and detention with the aid of state and local law enforcement. Our new limited-run newsletter Immigration Nation untangles the intersection of these powerful systems — and their impact on communities. Sign up today ⬇️
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Sign up for Immigration Nation
Unpacking the fallout of Trump’s mass deportation efforts.
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Michaela Neville @micnev.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
“The file appears to have been assembled from at least two source clips, saved multiple times, exported, and then uploaded to the DOJ’s website, where it was presented as ‘raw’ footage.”
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Metadata Shows the FBI’s ‘Raw’ Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Was Likely Modified
There is no evidence the footage was deceptively manipulated, but ambiguities around how the video was processed may further fuel conspiracy theories about Epstein's death.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Why call a concentration camp a "concentration camp"
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Republicans just took away your healthcare so they can fund their secret police: newrepublic.com/post/197612/...
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Congress Gives ICE More Money Than It Could Have Ever Imagined
It’s impossible to overstate how much power ICE just got from Trump’s budget.
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
After Bass spoke with what I assume is a DHS rep, they packed shit up and headed out. The whole neighborhood turned out to chase them out of the park. Some fruit was thrown, alot of yelling
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/07/2025
After the first Trump administration, ex-DHS official Ken Cuccinelli and Project 2025 architect Russell Vought built a consensus among state GOP officials that immigration legally constitutes an invasion — and helped persuade Texas to try the theory in court. By @mtredden.bsky.social
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The “Invasion” Invention: The Far Right’s Long Legal Battle to Make Immigrants the Enemy
The Trump administration is using the claim that immigrants have “invaded” the country to justify possibly suspending habeas corpus, part of the constitutional right to due process. A faction of the…
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alessandrocamon.bsky.social @alessandrocamon.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Bombing countries in the name of freedom was always a fraud. People were “liberated” only of their lives. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/w...
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Israel’s Deadly Assault on Iran Prison Incites Fury, Even Among Dissidents
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 04/07/2025
Every 4th of July, I take the time to read "What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July." Let us begin: "I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us."
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(1852) Frederick Douglass, "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July"
Explore the speech "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July" delivered by Frederick Douglass in 1852, including full text and historical context.
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alessandrocamon.bsky.social @alessandrocamon.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
they’re not allowing elected officials to see the concentration camp because it’s a concentration camp
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alessandrocamon.bsky.social @alessandrocamon.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Standards
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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
The book launch for *Freedom Ship* with Tony Norman at City of Asylum (@cityofasylum.bsky.social) last week was a blast. Thanks to those who organized the event and those who attended. The one-hour video is available here: cityofasylum.org/about-us/pro...
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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Looking forward to this book, *Common People: A Folk History of Land Rights, Enclosure and Resistance* by Leah Gordon and Stephen Ellcock, coming in October. watkinspublishing.com/books/common...
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alessandrocamon.bsky.social @alessandrocamon.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Next they will add “plunder” - the properties of deportees can be seized and appropriated by agents based of Trump’s “finders keepers” executive order.
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alessandrocamon.bsky.social @alessandrocamon.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Genocide always starts with dehumanizing speech such as this. The aspiring exterminators start describing people who don’t look, sound, or vote like them, as “animals” or less — animal feed.
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