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👏🏻say. it. with. me… 👏🏻 ⚠️Every day the Trump regime continues⚠️ ⛔️we are all in danger⛔️

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Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
remember Authoritarians don’t want to lift the boots off our necks, they just want to be the ones wearing the boots
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Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This shit keeps happening to the Left because we allow pro-authoritarian Stalinists, Maoists, and Tankies with bad foreign policy views into our spaces just because they tell us they also hate rich people.
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Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Hlai people are the indigenous people of the island of Hainan. their language is part of the Kra–Dai language family which includes Thai languages. Han Chinese did not begin settling Hainan in large numbers until the 12th century, where they’ve now become the majority.
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Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
FB has a new AI translator that translates in the voice of the speaker, and it’s very creepy for some reason.
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Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Let all genders play sportsball together, and also get rid of school sports is my hot take…
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Jasmin Mujanović @jasminmuj.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Serbia’s President says the remains of genocidaire Mladic to arrive in the country today and that “tens of thousands” are expected to attend his funeral. There can be no illusions any longer about the nature of this regime, and its direct threat to Bosnia. www.nedeljnik.rs/vucic-preuze...
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Vučić: Preuzeto Mladićevo telo, na sahrani se očekuju desetine hiljada ljudi - Nedeljnik
Predsednik Srbije Aleksandar Vučić izjavio je danas da je telo preminulog generala Vojske Republike Srpske Ratka Mladića, osuđenog u Hagu za genocid i ratne zločine, preuzeto i da bi trebalo danas da ...
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Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I have noticed the shift in Israeli society for a decade now. It’s very normal now for an Israeli to express genocidal expulsion fantasies towards the Palestinians. www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026...
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Otherwise Occupied • Israel isn't debating a Palestinian state. It's preparing for expulsion
Gadi Eisenkot's position on Palestinian statehood is beside the point. Across Gaza, the West Bank and Israel itself, the machinery for making Palestinian life impossible is already operating, laying t...
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Avi Issacharoff: “Netanyahu is the father of the very conception that cultivated Hamas as the governing authority in Gaza, that said again and again that Hamas was restrained and preferable to the Palestinian Authority.” www.ynetnews.com/opinions-ana...
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This is the truth that Netanyahu is trying to forget
Opinion: The prime minister’s focus on whether he was awakened on October 7 obscures years of policy that strengthened Hamas, ignored repeated warnings and treated the group as deterred, helping creat...
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 01/09/2026
Who are the people behind hate networks, and who funds them? On Thursday, Bellingcat researchers will explore methods for mapping personnel and financial connections, focusing on how these networks enable organised hate groups to operate across borders. Join us live: discord.gg/bellingcat?e...
Mapping Hate Networks Across Borders, Bellingcat Stage Talk , Thursday 3rd of Sept, 5pm CEST/11am EDT discord.com/invite/bellingcat
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Support my work to continue: www.gofundme.com/f/help-fared...
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Donate to Help Fared Recover and Return to Photojournalism, organized by Sean Hastings
Fared is an independent conflict photojournalist whose work has brought… Sean Hastings needs your support for Help Fared Recover and Return to Photojournalism
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 15/08/2026
After decades of fighting colonial erasure, the Siraya have become Taiwan’s 17th official Indigenous group, and the first from the lowland Pingpu communities to gain legal recognition. The landmark designation grants long-overdue rights and protections. @yennikwok.bsky.social reports for #Mongabay.
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Siraya gain recognition as Taiwan’s 17th official Indigenous group
In a significant milestone, the Siraya people of Taiwan have won legal recognition from the government as the island’s 17th officially designated Indigenous group. In late July, the Siraya were the…
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Mainstream media isn’t talking about it, but bulldozers and construction crews have descended upon Texas’ Big Bend National Park as the Trump administration moves forward with its border barrier project. The project will permanently damage one of our nation’s greatest natural treasures.
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Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The jaguar was once a common animal in the area that became the United States from California to Florida. Native American artifacts depicting jaguars have been found in Missouri and Florida. And as late as 1826 a jaguar was spotted near Monterey, California.
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Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The Native American murals in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands on the border between Texas and Mexico represent some of the most significant rockart in all of North America, with a more than 4,000 year old tradition that is still represented by Indigenous Peoples in the United States and Mexico today.
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Mark Mola @markmola.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Bless the wee cotton socks of the Bolshevik writers who could, talking about the Caucasus, skip easily from "We must free them from Imperialism", to, "This isn't the anti-imperialism we expected, why hate us?, to, "Kill them all, or deport them, all we did was try to save the savages!"
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Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
After the communist revolution, the Chinese state actually ramped up its Han settler-colonial policies in Central Asia. When the CCP took control in 1949 the population of Xinjiang was 75% Uyghur, and 6% Han Chinese.
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Eric Alterman @ericalterman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
forward.com/opinion/8409...
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Israel's government doesn't want to protect American Jews. It wants to use us.
Leaders’ silence when the Tree of Life massacre followed Trump’s anti-immigration tirades speaks volumes about the current campaign to tie Mamdani to a violent attack.
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Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Around 1 million Taiwanese indigenous people live in Taiwan today where their Ancestors have lived since time immemorial. In the 1600’s the Dutch colonial admin. encouraged Han Chinese settlement, and the Chinese settlers have since become the majority population on the island.
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Thomas Batchelor @tobbinatorscw.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
once again wishing that the rest of the world especially on the left would update its understanding of taiwan from the chiang-era project national glory
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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Xi: My ‘I pinkie swear I’m totally not selling weapons to Iran’ T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt
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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/07/2026
they are now asking for untold billions of dollars in order to fund their desperate attempts to return us to the pre-war status quo, which they will not be able to do the absolute best case scenario here is that things are worse for everyone than if they'd never started this evil clusterfuck
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/07/2026
Mamdani on Netanyahu: "It stems from the belief in how can there be a sanctity in something beyond an understanding of the world where might is right, and justice is simply decided by those who are the strongest?"
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The political project of Israel's government is the elimination of Palestinians from Gaza (and eventually between the river and sea). Their actions and words all point in that direction, and that has remained unchanged. Beyond the question of how you call it, we need to recognise it for what it is.
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Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
In May, the Shibechari Ainu Tribe, an Indigenous community in Hokkaido, filed a lawsuit against the Japanese government with the Sapporo District Court, seeking the return of the remains of 279 Ainu ancestors. www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07...
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With lawsuit over remains, Ainu continue fight for cultural recognition
The Shibechari Ainu Tribe in Hokkaido hopes the lawsuit will set a legal precedent that helps address the injustices stemming from the removal of Ainu remains from their graves.
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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
We’re on the streets of Israel doing deep canvassing! We launched a campaign called “Who Doesn’t Want Peace” in which we set up “peace booths” in busy areas across the country so activists could speak with the public about our future. (1/3)
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
KANEW: “Bill Maher says he’s open to voting for Vance in 2028… Bill Maher is not your friend, Democrats. He’s John Fetterman with a talk show. Time to turn him off.”
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Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Standing Together activists have launched a political party in Israel called A Place For Us All that advocates for an end to the Occupation and Genocide in the West Bank & Gaza. This is one of the only joint Palestinian-Jewish parties in Israel. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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'Choose hope': Natalie Portman backs Arab-Jewish party ahead of Israeli election
At a fundraiser for A Place for Us All, Portman praised the new Jewish-Arab slate as 'one of the most courageous and exciting developments in Israel-Palestine in recent years,' adding that the establi...
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Tom Phillips @tomphillips.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The Guardian spent two days touring the destruction in the Sararé Indigenous territory with government forces, the only foreign media organisation given permission to visit the embattled area, where about 200 members of the Nambiquara people live.
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Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
In many places in Russia’s East, indigenous peoples do not have hunting and fishing rights on their own ancestral land. Many indigenous people are charged with poaching, and then forced to join the military to avoid exorbitant fines and jail time.
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Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The genocide of Indigenous Peoples to take their land and exploit the resources continues in the Amazon. In 2023 alone, 208 Indigenous Amazonians were murdered by ranchers & land-grabbers.
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Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Nega Pataxó was a professor & leader of the Pataxó Hã Hã Hãe People. She was assassinated on January 21, 2024, at the hand of Brazilian settlers in an organized attack in which landowners surrounded the community with trucks and shot at them. Two other leaders were also injured.
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Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
By the fall of 2022 it was clear that Russia was targeting indigenous non-Slavic minorities for forced conscription into its invasion of Ukraine. They especially targeted Crimean Tatars, Dagestanis, Chechens, Kalmyks, Buryats, Tuvans, Yakuts, and orher indigenous peoples of Siberia & Russia.
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Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The Uralic Languages are a family of related non-Indo-European languages spoken by people indigenous from Northern Scandinavia to the Taymyr Peninsula south to the Baltic Sea and both banks of the Volga River.
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Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Josepha Littlewolf Basurto was a 31 years old member of the Round Valley Indian Tribes. Her body was found 10 days ago at an illegal cartel-ran weed farm on the reservation, her death has been ruled a homicide. Native Americans in N. Cal & S. Or are disproportionately affected by this violence
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
🔥 @aoc.bsky.social in Memphis: “We have to have the courage to stand up against projects that hurt people…. THESE ARE MAKING PEOPLE SICK.” AOC & stood outside xAI in MEMPHIS with to oppose the environmental racism of Musk’s Colossus + other data centers
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Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
My painting SAGUARO
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Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Back into the Flames Muyesser Abdul'ehed (Uyghur poet) Don’t think of crying if the news says I have died. Instead, say that I’m free now from cold from hunger from thirst from the hardship of identity. Take one rock from your heart, grow lighter.
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Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Nothing Works Aynur Qaram (Uyghur poet) My homeland has no place for my body Other lands have no room for my soul November 18, 2020. DC
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Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
If you wanted Europe for Europeans you would advocate white people outside of Europe to migrate back to Europe… what Elon Musk wants to defend is global white supremacy.
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Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Shortly after October 7th I begged people in the pro-Palestine camp to stop brining the question of indigeneity to the debate re: Israel-Palestine, and I have to say, I was right…
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Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I’m hoping it was Russia that killed Lindsey Graham though…
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Israeli settlers armed with clubs, rocks & a knife blocked our way and attacked us & another group of journalists today in the occupied West Bank. At the same location where settlers beat US citizen Saif Musallet to death, one year ago today @jeremydiamond.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2026/07/11/m...
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Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
”But China stands up to the U.S. and imperialism“ no they DO NOT. After perfecting their facial-recognition software to monitor their own Muslim ”problem” guess who China sold that facial-recognition technology to? I‘ll give you a hint, they have a blue and white flag and it rhymes with Shmisrael…
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Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
In Hitler's American Model, James Whitman identifies many of the ways that the Nazis drew inspiration from America’s genocide of the Native Americans as we settled the west. And especially how they enacted anti-Jewish policies modeled on Jim Crow laws and various overtly racist U.S. policies.
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Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
When the Soviet Union fell the Chinese leadership were very terrified that they would be next. Which led to various postmortems from Chinese party officials re: the Soviet Union and how it all went tits up Anyway. This explains not only the reactionary turn China took towards reforms and opening up…
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Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Xi Jinping’s "Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress" that came into effect on July 1, 2026 mandates policies that China's 55 recognized ethnic minorities be assimilated into a single, state-defined identity centered on Han Chinese culture and Chinese Communist Party ideology.
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Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
America First populism isn’t going away, swing voters have just soured on Trump’s ability to deliver it Increasing border security is apparently still just as popular as stopping weapons to Israel with this group…
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Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
so like are we ready to all get behind AOC yet?
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Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
yikes
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Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
—That whenever any Form of Govt. becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles… as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
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