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Amina

@ayasinvan.bsky.social
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Urban Planner•PanAfrican•BAP•former Vancouver Planning Commissioner• #newwest 📚 🏗️cities/‘hoods are capitalisms playground for race-class struggle and yet I love public housing, parks, trains, libraries, bike lanes & benches when we get them

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Fiona @fionasmall.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Lowkey love how weird and serious Quebecois are over the French language that KFC is PFK (Poulet Frit Kentucky) in Québec while still being called just KFC in France
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Jenny Kwan @jennykwan.bsky.social · 15h
Selling off Canada’s public infrastructure won't lower costs or build a fairer future for working families—it just guarantees higher corporate profits. You don’t build a stronger country by selling it off. My latest op-ed in @TheHillTimes www.hilltimes.com/2026/10/07/y... #cdnpoli #VancouverEast
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You don’t build a stronger Canada by selling it off - The Hill Times
The choice is not between doing nothing and privatizing everything. It is between building an economy that serves people, and building one that serves investors.
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chimera @chimeraxmachina.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
First in Germany, now in France. Young people in Europe are fighting back against austerity and militarism. If we don't challenge our ruling class we'll be left with no prospects besides being turned into cannon fodder for some rich fuck's war.
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Erin Blondeau ✷ writer & researcher @erinblondeau.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
From Cornell to Canadian Hockey: How men learn to dehumanize women Published today in @ricochetmedia.bsky.social ricochet.media/justice/from...
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From Cornell to Canadian Hockey: How men learn to dehumanize women
The Cornell 7 case is not an isolated horror story. Elite fraternities, hockey teams, and other cultures of male entitlement teach men to treat women as objects — while powerful institutions shield th...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.
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Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
When traveling my least favourite people to come across and have small talk with are other Canadians, unless they’re Black Canadians (who are rare to run into). I also hate to admit this but even American’s are much more interesting to hold conversations with abroad, incl when it comes to politics.
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Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Due to the disproportionate use of violence from the police, the Saint-Denis Mayor Bally Bagayoko placed himself between the police and youth, and was tear gassed for it. Bravery, a rare act from a politician! Everytime the French rise up it reminds me just how propagandized and meek Canadians are.
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Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Apparently municipal elections are "spiritual fights for truth, love, humility and light" now. Meanwhile, everyday people are just fighting for actual deeply affordable housing, affordable groceries and an end to this cartoonish election season in British Columbia.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Over and over some people demonstrate that racism IS a material interest in their decision making and that the racism supercedes everything else. But some refuse to take these folks at their word.
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Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My 999th reason for opposing Israel, beyond its occupation/genocide in Palestine, is the long list of African nations whose sovereignty it’s undermined. Take “North W Somalia” my ancestral land: Zionists planned to colonize “the land of cush” since the 1940’s Harar plan and they’ve nearly succeeded.

Document that reads:
“Angola, Northern Kimberley, etc. Everyone of these has its disadvantages and its political and other difficulties.
I believe there is only one territory which combines in itself all the
four advantages I have mentioned
My proposal is to unite the so-called HARRAR-territory of /
Ethiopia with part of British-Somaliland and create there a state for the European Jews.
This territory is large enough; it would be easy to devote 60,000 .
to 70,000 square miles there for this purpose.
This territory
is e
inhabited by a small agricultural population, who are not likely to raise....
-essons learned by the Palestine experience, namely, to prevent the
Nevertheless it will be necessary to remember the
territory being overrun by people from other parts of Ethiopia and to : keep out foreign agitators.
The climate on the plateau is absolutely healthy and suitable for Europeans. Those parts of the Somali coast which have a bad climate could be improved in measurable time by irrigation.
The HARRAR territory is particularly suitable for agriculture and
hence for mass immigration.
Iwould have ready markets for its
agricultural and later its industrial products in the interior of Africa,-in the Arabian countries and in parts of India.
Politically these territories belong, as already stated, to Great
Britain and the Empire of Ethiopia.
In July 1935 the British
Government proposed to the Emperor of
Ethiopia that the port of Zeila and certain other parts of British Somali-land be ceded to him if he were prepared to make certain concessions to - , Italy.
It is therefore not impossible that the British Government may : today be ready to cede a rather larger portion of Somali-land together with the port of Berbera to the European Jewish state we have in mind.
The Imperial House of Ethiopia claims its descent from the Jewish
King David, and the Emperor bears the title "Lion of Judah."
Should this not also imply a certain obligation to offer much needed
help to this half…A text with a map: “On the question as to who should inhabit this new state, 1 offer
the following suggestions:
No one should be compelled to emigrate into this state.
Every Jew, whether he considers himself as such or is classed. as
such against his will, should have the right sp enter this state Beyond these two points the Government of HARRAR should
have the right to give or deny permission to enter or reside in its territory.
Published by Hermann Fuernberg, 18 W. 75th St., New York, N. Y
Text from the Zionist Harare council reads: 
“HARRAR COUNCIL.
Council for An Autonomous Jewish Province in Harrar
18 West 75th Street
New York 23, N.I.
March 34, 1944
MI. Paul Richman
/o B'nal Birdth
Washington, D. C.
My dear Mr. Richman,
We were very happy to disouss the Harrar project with you last wook, Thie project was originally thought out by Mr. Hemann Fuernberg several yeare ago, but could not at that time be executed owing to the outbreak of war, We feel however that the time has now come when the project can be put into operatior granted the cooderation of the Goverments of Ethiopia, United States and Great Britaln. To develop the plan, the Harrar Council was formed about six months
ago, the members of which are all Jews from Europe.
The main advantages of the Harrar scheme are threefold:
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: 2.
The territory 1s large enough to accomodate the very large number of Jewe whose enigration from Europe will become inevitable in the near futures the alimatic conditions are such that frult, grain and vegetables grown in Europe can also be grown in Harrar, thus assuring favorahle living nditions for a people emanating from Central Europe.
The territory is very sparsely populated, so that the political and racial obstacles to a free development found elsewhere are not 11kely to arise.
3. We have
ason to belleve that the Emperior of Ethiopia, himself a
descendant of the House of David, 1s favorably inalined towards the Jewish people, and judging by speeches delivered by him, there seams a fair probability that he will be willing to cooperate to a large extent.
If we
should succeed in founding the Province of Harrar under the conditions of autonomy and self-administration which we regard as essential, a permanent home for a large Jewish population would arise, where their cultural and economic development could proceed unimpeded.”
Our project 1s in no way a rival to Palestine; in fact we feel the strength of the spiritual appeal which Palestine makes and fully apprec…
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CTV News Vancouver @ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
‘Unusual’ ties between Vancouver police, mayor’s party scrutinized as crime analyst joins campaign
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‘Unusual’ ties between Vancouver police, mayor’s party scrutinized as crime analyst joins campaign
For the second election in a row, a senior crime analyst with the Vancouver Police Department is running in a partisan campaign for city council—raising new questions about politicization within one of B.C.’s most powerful institutions.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Jeannie Ehaloak shared some of her experience as a survivor of residential school, including being so young that by the time she returned home for the summer after her first year at the school, she had forgotten who her parents were.
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Jenny Kwan @jennykwan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Liberal MP Sean Casey was demoted by Mark Carney last week after voting in favour of Jenny Kwan’s Bill C-233, the No More Loopholes Act. When will the Liberals stop punishing MPs for doing their job—and finally act to close this loophole?
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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 24/09/2026
International human rights organization Amnesty International has called for the abolition of ICE for the first time in a new report alleging human rights abuses in the Trump administration’s immigration operations.
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Amnesty International calls for abolition of ICE for the first time in new report • Minnesota Reformer
International human rights organization Amnesty International has called for the abolition of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a new report alleging human rights abuses in the Trump adminis...
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 26/09/2026
Adam Abdullah first spoke with MPR News on Sept. 8, during one of the 10-minute calls he was allowed each day from the prison at the U.S. naval base.
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Man arrested in St. Paul among 8 deported to Somalia from Guantanamo Bay
U.S. immigration authorities on Thursday deported a group of eight Somali men who’d been held for about a month at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Among them was Adam Abdullah, 31, who has no criminal record an...
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Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m just wondering out loud here, but if white anglo-nationalists in Canada are writing manifestos about “nationalism,” “ancestry,” and “remigration,” shouldn’t they be the first ones to lead by example and remigrate back to their ancestors peasant lives in England, Scotland, Ireland and Germany+++?
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 28/09/2026
The lie that privatization will reduce wait times is already being exposed, but that won’t stop political leaders from continuing to try to destroy our public healthcare system.
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Emily Lowan (she/her) @emilylowan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I am disgusted by the appearance of white nationalists on the Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc reserve. This is happening just days before the National Day for Truth & Reconciliation. I stand with Indigenous communities & all marginalized communities in the fight for a future free from racist intimidation.
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Apparent white nationalist gathering spotted on Tkʼemlúps reserve Sunday
TK'EMLUPS - A post on social media appears to show a group of masked individuals gathered on the Tkemlps te Se...
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Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The MAGA (Trump/Miller) cult got swept into believing if they ran with reviving pseudo-race science that they’d be handed Black and other non-white racialized people’s jobs, homes and businesses. Instead, they got AI slop, data centres in their backyards, and another war raising the cost of living.
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Mary Grace @emgeekay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sean Casey was punished for doing the right thing - standing up against Canada's arms shipments to facilitate genocide. Bravo to all 15 Liberal MPs who did so. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Liberal MP says he was demoted for supporting NDP bill targeting arms export controls | CBC News
Charlottetown MP Sean Casey says he was removed from his position as parliamentary secretary to the minister of veterans affairs because he voted against the government and supported an NDP private me...
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 25/09/2026
Exactly zero of the people who continue to scream "ITS NOT GENOCIDE," have the courage or integrity (or ability) to refute my fact based arguments proving Israel IS committing genocide and Netanyahu IS a war criminal. Why? Because Facts Are Stubborn Things.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal and his government has committed genocide in Gaza. The United States should stop all military assistance to Israel. Saying this is not antisemitic. (I’m Jewish, by the way.)
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Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ATP I wouldn’t be shocked if the federal gov under Carney moves towards defining anti-colonialism and anti-imperialism as “hate speech,” under Public safety Canada guidelines. Carney isn’t just selling Canada off, he also continues to capitulate to violent anti-Indigenous and anti-Palestinian racism
BREAKING
Canada defines anti-Zionism as antisemitic

Government
Gouvernement
of Canada
du Canada
Public Safety Canada
National Commitments to Combat Antisemitism - Summer 2026
Progress Report
Intended outcome
Institutions across Canada have increased access to tools, guidance, and training to support the recognition, understanding and response to contemporary manifestations of antisemitism, including anti-Zionism, as outlined in the Canadian Handbook on the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism.
Public Safety Canada is promoting anti-Palestinian racism and distorting Jewish history
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Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Canada consistently stays in the room to support and applaud [white] settler-colonial war criminals.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Canada stayed
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Is Prime Minister Carney a climate denier? My latest newsletter explores the concept of "the new climate denialism": sethdklein.substack.com/p/is-prime-m...
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Is Prime Minister Carney a climate denier?
Unpacking “the new climate denialism”
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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Legal Defense Fund is calling for accountability in the investigations of suspicious deaths of Black people across the country. Over the past year, at least 10 Black people have been found hanging from trees, with some deaths ruled suicides that families question. bit.ly/3SOrltz
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A Series of Hanging Deaths Has Black Families Demanding Answers
Over the past year, at least 10 Black people have been found hanging from trees, with some deaths ruled suicides that families question.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Canada had a legal duty to arrest Netanyahu as he crossed Canadian airspace www.ctvnews.ca/world/israel...
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Netanyahu crosses Canadian airspace with arrest warrant in effect
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu travelled through Canadian airspace on Thursday, despite facing an international arrest warrant.
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Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A Vancouver-area First Nation has issued a travel advisory for the US, after members were detained by ICE.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sorry but even though it’s an unpaid position, this strikes me as extremely weird!!!! Appointing his own wife? Seriously?
CBC headline reads: Diana Fox Carney appointed Canada's 1st ocean envoy, chair of Our Ocean Conference

Halifax to host international conference on ocean conservation in 2027
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Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“It is driven not only by the far right’s openly fascist answers to these crises but also by the supposedly liberal centre, which has internalised and normalised new forms of anti-migrant state racism, partly out of conviction and partly out of panic.” The centre is strengthening the fascist AfD.
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Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I miss when blackness was a politic, not a phenotype. Within seconds, I knew he'd name HOA nations. That's how attuned I've become to this revival of racial pseudoscience from within the Black "community." ATP white ppl could disappear tomorrow and this shit would still flourish, finding new hosts.
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Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It is wild to me that in 1985 a route connecting Alberta’s 2 largest cities was discontinued in, & that in 1990 a service was discontinued that used to serve Canada’s 5 largest metros. How has the country gone the better part of 4 decades without ANY rail service to its 3rd largest city?
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Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Normalize believing when IOF soldiers, Israeli officials, and Israeli citizens repeatedly - in their own descriptions and accounts - make it clear that they are in the process of annihilating Palestinians. www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-...
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‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local C...
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Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Genocidal entity is asking the world to “look away.”
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Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Quite the polarizing masterclass in deflection. Through this ad Sim/ABC are consolidating his base, racializing the political conflict between ABC and COPE while mining for a specific, information-isolated segment of voters who will see themselves in his story and never learn about his record.
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 23/09/2026
Poorly disguising masks have fully fallen and fascists are no longer pretending to be anything else and yet our public discourse is still filled with hedging takes around "anti-immigration activists", "legitimate concerns" and "populism"
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Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
B.C. is having another political crash out season. Municipal elections Oct 17, provincial election Oct 24, Ebys own ministers fleeing the set. This might be the BCNDP’s season finale, it’s been a painful watch and I can’t recall living anywhere else that aired back-to-back election seasons like this
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW: Canadian Oil Giant Enbridge Builds Unauthorized Pipeline Bypass Following 1.3M Gallon Spill After the largest oil & gas spill in WI history, Enbridge's defiance of legalities raise serious questions about the state’s ability to regulate large, multinational corporations. Article at our site.
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Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
All of this tracks. Most white journalists cant conceive of white nationalism as anything but fringe, so they report the open white supremacy of the MAGA movement as something else (economic anxiety!) as they did with the tea party. Tough to admit that it's just the same old basic white nationalism.
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🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 22/09/2026
Carney, like Keir Starmer, is having police arrest senior protestors demonstrating against his agenda.
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Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There’s been a lot of talk about 🇨🇦 sovereignty, but true sovereignty means having control over our own public infras. If we sell our non-profit public operating airports to private investors without debate, we’re giving away our sovereignty piece by piece. This isn't democracy; it's a backroom deal.
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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 22/09/2026
Something I feel folks don't talk about enough, is how Black liberals CONSTANTLY have to put on a show of stupidity for the white capitalist ruling classes. It's all part of "securing the bag" for them. Cos you can't tell me Black liberals don't understand systemic oppression. They actually do!
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
My theory about Black athletes taking up golf as hobby making them dangerously proximal to the most soulless capitalists on earth & completely eroding their understanding of social responsibility remains undefeated
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I am told all the time by folks affiliated with the fossil fuel industry that Asian demand for LNG will grow "for decades". Yeah, about that:
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
Edgar Allan Poe really ruined it for anyone who just wants to show their bitter enemy something cool in a catacomb.
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Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I look at his actions, not words. Carney introduced legislation to end strikes in fed regulated sectors. Trump doesn’t need to turn Canada into the 51st state, because Carney is well into the process of selling Canada off and out, incl to those who brought Trump into power and sustain him in the U.S
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Unions hammer Carney government’s revamp of labour rules: ‘This bill neuters the right to strike’
Unions and labour organizations across the country blasted the federal government’s new legislation overhauling labour law Monday, saying it will make strikes in federally regulated sectors all but im...
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Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Exactly! It’s the colonial method of non-violence for the oppressed while the oppressor state (Israel) is able to exert unrestrained violence with the full support of other violent colonial entities. And the fact that those two, specifically, are explicitly supporting this form of violence is wild!
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I spoke to a man who found himself on a deportation flight one dawn having no clue where he's going, after spending nearly two years in ICE detention. The purpose is to delete people. I am being quiet as to who they are and where they went because the US government targets those who speak up.
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Amina @ayasinvan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Fascism has been revived in the U.S and is reemerging across Europe and the U.K because of the socio-cultural disease of white nationalism and the deference to whiteness as authority and religion across Euro-American societies, incl Israel, not because of a single ‘charismatic nationalist leader.’
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