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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 2h

Some exciting news: Vancouver is very close to electing this man as their mayor

Pete Fry protesting war and imperialism with a sign 'Let the oil companies fight their own war"

Pete Fry "1991 respectively posing, protesting and working at Graceland, the then-coolest club in the City"

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 2h

Wow I bet that works for Palestinians held captive by Israel

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Israeli Oct. 7 hostage shares how she survived 50 days in Hamas captivity after massacre: I demanded that they respect us'

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Lee Saunders @leesaunders72.bsky.social · 2h

A vote for Labour is a vote for genocide and gaslighting. A vote for Labour is vote for Israel's impunity. Vote Green. 💚

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2h

Our offerings:

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2h

Anyway, super-excited to be talking with Anand about his new book, Man in the Mirror, tomorrow, and you can think of this as a rematch, because here's our conversation in Brooklyn about my new book this spring.

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Rebecca Solnit Discusses "The Beginning Comes After the End" With Anand Giridharadas

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2h

Because

Map of states with smaller population than L.A. county.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2h

and this probably corresponds very well to the fact that most of their support comes from suburban-to-rural America, which is why voting maps show a sea of red and an archipelago of blue (and obscure that actually the islands hold more people than the ocean).

2024 election map by county: lots of red mostly representing low-density places, blue that includes the Navajo nation, coastal California, northern New Mexico and New England, but is mostly urban.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2h

The right-wing idea is that somehow people cannot thrive amidst difference/diversity and cities demonstrate that they do and that lots of us find it enriching and rewarding to live among people who are not clones marching in lockstep. They treat diversity as a threat....

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3h

"You treat Muslims like dangerous outsiders but you seem ignorant of the fact that the town you claim to live in has about 285 mosques, and somewhere between 400,00 and 800,000 Muslims, according to New York’s wonderful religious scholar Tony Carnes....."

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3h

A decade ago our NYC atlas was published and I wrote this letter to candidate Trump and conservatives, pointing out that all the "terrible things that might happen" they like to dwell on were just realities in the thriving metropolis. Lots of queers, Muslims, Jews, immigrants....

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New York City is a Book Conservatives Should Read

Dear Donald Trump, I wonder if you have ever actually explored the New York City you claim to live in. I recommend it, because it has beauties and splendors that undermine so many of the assertions…

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In 1997 I was at an art conference where everyone was saying cozy things about close-knit deeply rooted small communities so I stood up and said "I am a San Franciscan and I live among people those close-knit deeply rooted small communities wanted to kill."

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Anand Giridharadas | City Arts & Lectures

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Anand is the best (and I'm doing an event with him at, yes, @cityartssf.bsky.social Thursday, for his new book Man in the Mirror). Couldn't agree more that cities are refuges or places of last resort for people kicked out of rural/suburban/pseudo-idyllic America.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 2h

Having trouble deciding which books to buy from Amazon during Prime Days? Try this: None, then go support an independent bookstore instead. 😌

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3h

I think we know what this means

Variety: Glen Powell Is Staying Quiet on Politics Because It 'Divides People' and 'I Genuinely Do Not Like the Discourse'

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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 2h

The super-rich are buying everything, pushing up the prices of everything. Expect it to keep getting worse until they're taxed accordingly. #TaxWealthNotWork BBC News - Boots sold in £7bn deal to Canadian billionaire family www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Boots sold in £7bn deal to Canadian billionaire family

The sale of the High Street chain was announced on Wednesday.

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Isaac Pickell @isaacpickell.bsky.social · 2h

Free Palestine, and all of us.

What kind of child

When I introduce myself as a Jew,
I am always asked, sometimes with words,
what I think about genocide—microscoped

under the coverslip in the plume, the sickgrowth.
Now, I had liberal parents, but Zionism
is a fog, something of the sky that comes

from the earth. Now teenagers in Tel Aviv
will go in front of a camera and say death
to all Arabs like the most normal thing in the world.

Now people act like there is something wrong
with us—and it’s true there’s been a turn
toward extremism, for lack

of a better word. Here and across the sea:
in my Jewish men’s bowling league, people booed
when the TVs showed an Abdul El-Sayed commercial.

Jews spent four thousand years not doing this—
so many times we had so little left, and never thought
now is the time to be covetous. But when there is sick,

it seeps, spreads. It cores—at Sunday school, children
are asked to ask their parents for money to plant trees
like the most normal thing in the world, draped in blue

and white and greenwashed. What kind of child
doesn’t like a tree? What kind of child doesn’t love
a land that says it loves you back. So we drink from the tap

nailed into bark, dribbling from our chins.
But the water’s bad and the roots are
someone else’s roots—we can’t generation

our way out of this. We need axes and maybe
a new covenant. Israeli society isn’t broken, it was built
to be a poison well.

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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 1h

200,000 people from one of the poorest countries on earth are now displaced due to renewed fighting while an all out war in the Gulf edges nearer. Great that Britain is pouring fuel on the fire by helping the oil tyrants of Saudi refuel their bombers 😡 www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

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UN says more than 200,000 Yemenis displaced as fighting rages

The number is significant increase from 76,000 reported by UN migration agency in mid-September

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 18h

The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 18h

The French police are so militarized they blew up a 15-yr-old’s hand and took the eye of another one. Why are grenades being used to quell student protestors who are unarmed? Now the labour unions are stepping in to protect the students

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1h

i do think it's worth stopping for a moment to recognize how extraordinary and how fucked up it is that this sentence exists.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 4h

Amal is living with her two young children in a tent in Al Mawasi. She is asked what daily life is like.

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Punished 'Woke' Bane @baneforyou.bsky.social · 8h

Put it this way - you often hear Kemi Badenoch say she wants Reform voters to return to the Tories and us crafting policy to that effect. I don't think I ever hear that about Green voters from Labour.

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Punished 'Woke' Bane @baneforyou.bsky.social · 8h

And this extends beyond JLM of course - everyone at the top of the Labour party revelled in kicking the shit out of its left wing base, particularly on this issue, but really, in general too. You think they'd welcome such people *in exile*?

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Punished 'Woke' Bane @baneforyou.bsky.social · 8h

I take this opportunity to remind people, once again, that prior to this weekend the Jewish Labour Movement was publishing letters it had written to the Green party saying it was antisemitic and trying to dictate its membership policy. This issue would always be used to reject an electoral alliance.

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Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk · 9h

I have very mixed feelings about that 'Zionism is Racism' motion and don't really want to wade in with anything that isn't very, very well thought through, so I'm just going to share the fascinating results of the Jewish Greens group's poll of members: jewishgreens.greenparty.org.uk/2026/10/02/s...

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Survey Results Briefing - Jewish Greens' views about upcoming motions to conference - Jewish Greens

Survey Results Briefing In February of this year, Jewish Greens officers published a statement urging party members to vote against the motion, Zionism is Racism, at Spring Conference. Following a lar...

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the pickwicker man @pickwick.bsky.social · 7h

And sorry but I think every single uninvolved person doing handwringing "ooh but it was tactically unwise" stuff is playing into the hands of the - surely unarguable - pro-Israel genocide supporters

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the pickwicker man @pickwick.bsky.social · 7h

No matter what you think of the motion you've gotta admit that 99% of the reaction to it is bad-faith harassment of any pro-Palestine action

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the pickwicker man @pickwick.bsky.social · 7h

The media is going after the Palestinian woman who put forward the Green motion, by the way, deep-diving into her past till they found something they could use to link her with terrorism

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 6h

*This* should be the final word on the life and death of that c**t Archer. 👇👇👇👇

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IDF Hannibal Brigade @hannibalbrigade.biz · 6h

The mainstream English language media has intentionally avoided this topic. @asawinstanley.com, on the other hand, has done excellent reporting on it at @intifada.bsky.social

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Army was ordered to kill Israelis on 7 October, defense minister confirms

Hannibal orders "tactically" issued, Yoav Gallant admits.

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IDF Hannibal Brigade @hannibalbrigade.biz · 6h

While Zionists will still claim this is an “antisemitic conspiracy theory”, Israel’s Minister of Defense at the time Yoav Gallant stated directly to journalist Amit Segal that the Hannibal Directive was used on October 7

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 9h

I can't believe the party that enacted the first new anti-trans legislation since Thatcher and is still selling arms to the IDF is now stamping their feet and refusing to work with Greens, a party that, just to remind you, HASN'T said "please work with us, Labour".

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Spookably UnAwake @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Similarly it's clarifying to see a depressingly large number of left wingers agree that it was silly and unwise to point out a genocidal ethnonationalist ideology currently carrying out a genocide is racist. To see them cravenly continue to prize Zionists hurt feelings over Palestinian lives.

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zbo1.bsky.social @zbo1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I can’t understand why someone would hesitate to give these nice people nukes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Kl...

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Leon Klinghoffer - Wikipedia

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Spookably UnAwake @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

They'll handwave about supporting a two state solution but you better bet they'll oppose the Palestinian state having anything close to the same level of military as Israel, let alone nukes. If they're feeling generous they'll allow a "security force".

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Spookably UnAwake @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If nothing else the Zionism is Racism motion sure has caused a lot of "I'm very critical of Netanyahu and oppose the genocide" types to break cover and admit they're committed to a Jewish supremacist state in Palestine.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 20h

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 10h

…us *were* willing to be That Guy, more often, more consistently and more insistently, abusive behaviour would probably decrease.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 10h

It totally has to be this. As I discussed in another thread last week, this is complicated by the fact that if you do become ‘that guy’, you are VERY quickly excluded from the kinds of situations and conversations that expose you to knowledge of this behaviour, but the awkward fact is, if enough of…

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 10h

It's got to at least start with other men making it taboo, socialising out the sort of low level male harassment of women & girls that would otherwise be part of bonding, booting X out of the pub quiz team bc he hit his wife etc etc. Unfortunately, this makes things awkward for many blokes

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 10h

…to face up to; to build in functional layers of social and legal accountability that mean that people don’t act in ways in which - and the above passage is vital here - they *know to be wrong*. Telling people rape is wrong isn’t enough, cause people know rape is wrong already.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 10h

A culture of impunity is an *incredibly* powerful social force, and we’ve seen again and again that where such cultures occur, they are basically always responsible for widespread abuse. It’s not the nicest thing to think about, but it’s also something that societies have, often too late, learned…

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 10h

…gone through a period where they brutally murdered people like you, and indeed literal members of your family? I don’t remember all the details, but I do remember that acknowledgement was a central factor. You could not pretend this hadn’t happened.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 10h

People will roll their eyes at the comparison, but years ago I read a fascinating article about people living in Rwanda, and how the country was dealing with the seemingly impossible task of functioning normally after a genocide - how were you supposed to live as neighbours with people who had…

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 10h

I think that a frequent objection when anyone tries to be realistic about sexual violence is ‘you can’t be saying that you want to call THAT many men rapists?’ and yet that’s precisely the process society will need to go through to even begin to *think* about this.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 10h

This is incredibly important. I feel deeply that curbing sexual violence will come from raising social expectations of men, not from ‘educating’ them. I fear this is an unpopular view, because people are afraid to face up to the scale of the issue.

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liz 🍉 ليز @lizardry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ahmed from Palestine is going through tragic circumstances as he tries to complete his education, get his mother medical treatment, and find shelter for his family. He feels let down by the lack of assistance. Please help him and alleviate their suffering. 🇵🇸 Contribute ⬇️🫂🕊️ chuffed.org/project/157281

Collage of four photos of Ahmed. The top left is him standing in front of his family's tent. The top right is him standing at the entrance to the tent. The bottom right is a selfie, and the bottom left is him seated next to his parents on a bench outside the tent.

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