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Joshua Jiraffe @joshuajiraffe.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Hey what if we rewrote Trump's latest EO for good things? www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... "By the authority vested in me as a citizen by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Bill of Rights, the Civil Rights Act, and the National Labor Relations Act...

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Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency

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Joshua Jiraffe @joshuajiraffe.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

For those of you wondering if there's already a term for "taking a long term ownership position" in another country, why yes! Yes there is! today's word of the day is "ANSCHLUSS"

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Joshua Jiraffe @joshuajiraffe.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Law is not power. It simply disguises the power of the ruling class to arbitrarily impose their will on the powerless. Law will not protect us from the crimes of our government. The one power we have, as the people, as the masses, is to resist. They do not outnumber us, therefore they fear us.

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Joshua Jiraffe @joshuajiraffe.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

And the reality of shutting down science funding means your small town sewage treatment and water testing is gone. They're not doing this because they love fecal coliform bacteria. They're doing this so they can deny the ability to live to people they want to control, oppress, exploit, or expel.

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Joshua Jiraffe @joshuajiraffe.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

When they say things like DEI "does not improve the lives of those we serve," they really are spelling out exactly who they think the government serves, and who they think it should not.

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Joshua Jiraffe @joshuajiraffe.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Breaking news! Next Ross Douthat is going to interview Fritz Thyssen about how Weimar liberals drove the Ruhr Industrialists into Hitler's arms with cabaret shows and a minimum wage.

Screen shot of New York Times article headline that reads "How Democrats Drove Silicon Valley Into Trump's Arms" with the subtitle "Marc Andreessen explains the newest faction of conservatism" and the date of "Jan. 17, 2025"

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Joshua Jiraffe @joshuajiraffe.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

People who were previously so angry that Biden did socialism to make eggs expensive are suddenly discovering bird flu. I wonder what changed?

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Joshua Jiraffe @joshuajiraffe.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I find it very amusing that all the authoritarian cheerleaders in the US are out in full force arguing that undocumented immigrants are "Not subject to the jurisdiction" of the US government, which implies they cannot be arrested or charged with crimes by US law enforcement.

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a man in a suit is holding a wallet with two id cards in it and says " diplomatic immunity "

Alt: In a scene from the film Lethal Weapon 2, a man in a suit is holding a wallet with two id cards in it and says "diplomatic immunity."

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Joshua Jiraffe @joshuajiraffe.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Important to understand this a direct and deliberate tactic of dictatorship. When they say that people who don't inform on their coworkers will be punished, they mean you will be punished not for what you do, but what you do not do.

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Joshua Jiraffe @joshuajiraffe.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

A good reminder that activism is built on "Yes, and..." not "Yeah, but..." #OneNoManyYeses

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Joshua Jiraffe @joshuajiraffe.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

If you want to understand what I'm concerned the Trump Administration will do to oppress opposition, just go learn about the Chicago Police Department's Homan Square Facility. Things are going to be much simpler than you imagine, and having the legal right to operate a signal jammer won't help you.

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Joshua Jiraffe @joshuajiraffe.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

The value in understanding state surveillance capabilities is not to make yourself safe through countersurveillance, but to understand that you simply do not have the privacy you think you do, and that you should always live your life as if what you are doing is public, because it is.

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Joshua Jiraffe @joshuajiraffe.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Counter surveillance will not protect you from authoritarian persecution because authoritarian persecution does not rely on evidence. For authoritarians an accusation alone is sufficient evidence to arrest someone, and there are much simpler ways of manufacturing accusations than surveillance.

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Agency @anarchistagency.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

#CriticalVoices: "To humanize at least one of the countless people whose lives hang in the balance here, we offer the reflections of a Russian anarchist volunteer in northeastern Syria who has participated in the revolutionary experiment in Rojava for many years." anarchistagency.com/crimethinc-n...

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CrimethInc.: News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava

On the Collapse of Assad, the Future of Russia, and the Looming Turkish-Backed Invasion The toppling of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria was many years overdue. Yet the tragedies in Syria are...

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Rami Jarrah @ramijarrah.com · 21/12/2024

While Elon Musk has been parroting for the Far-right AfD in Germany, even capitalising on the tragic terrorist attack in Magdeburg. Turns out the attacker, Taleb Al Abdulmohsen, is an atheist who is fond of both the AfD and Elon himself. "I and AfD are fighting the same enemy to protect Germany"

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Joshua Jiraffe @joshuajiraffe.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

But George, a. I'm an anarchist, not a liberal, and b. I don't despise Constitutional Originalism, I think it's intellectually bankrupt. Just ask any History Ph.D. for the definition of the concept "Presentism" and ask them if they think it would be a good basis for interpreting the law.

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Joshua Jiraffe @joshuajiraffe.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

The right understands law differently from centrists. Centrists see the law as about fairness and protection for all. The right sees the law as about power of "us" to subjugate "them." In their view, sharing information is bad because it threatens their ability to dominate.

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

There is a meme format going around Bluesky where people share an image of an arrow pointing to the bottom right, where the alt badge is on Bluesky. The gag or punch line of this meme is that when the user selects the alt badge, they get a joke. This is not the intended purpose of alt text.

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Joshua Jiraffe @joshuajiraffe.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

The real problem with violence is simple: it doesn't actually solve the problem. This CEO will be replaced by another CEO who will do the exact same thing. We need systemic change, and if we confuse cathartic personal violence with systemic change, we remain captives of the status quo.

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Joshua Jiraffe @joshuajiraffe.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Funny when the far right literally harasses and intimidates everyone who is different off of Twitter, nobody calls Twitter a far right echo chamber (which it is) they say it's a space for "free thinkers" but wherever all the people harassed off of Twitter go, that's what they call the echo chamber.

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Joshua Jiraffe @joshuajiraffe.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

People forget: oppressive governments will not use billion dollar computers to crack your encryption when they can just cook up a false pretense to arrest you and hold you indefinitely. Proof: it is already happening. Encryption protects us from each other, not from states.

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Things that can be traced back to chattel slavery: - managerial practices - accountancy practices - actuarial principles, as applied in the insurance industry - payment models for healthcare services (capitation) - common carceral practices - modern policing - non-compete clauses

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Joshua Jiraffe @joshuajiraffe.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

So, I've been thinking about it, and Santa Claus is definitely eating the reindeer, right?

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IllCaesar @illcaesar.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Jesse Singal is a liar and a fraud of a journalist and I will prove it as an unassailable fact in this thread. I'll also talk about why I don't think BlueSky moderation will do anything about him afterwards so stick around or maybe just skip to that if you don't want to read the boring details.

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Joshua Jiraffe @joshuajiraffe.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I'm beginning to suspect we might have slightly mis-identified what kind of simulation we are living in.

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

One of the biggest mistakes a lot of historical socialists made was supporting the Boers in South Africa because they were fighting the British empire. They recognised Britain as a colonial force, but didn't apply this analysis to the settler colonialism of the Boers.

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Joshua Jiraffe @joshuajiraffe.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

And like, Trump is "that guy." We've all known a "that guy." This is classic toxic predator dude behavior. People pretend they don't know what's going on is either because they don't want to say out loud they support it, or they don't want to recognize the "that guy" in their own life.

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Dani Ellis @lapinesque.com · 08/12/2024

As details emerge from SDF and local sources, today’s impressive defence of Manbij is proof that a lightly armed but well prepared and highly disciplined defender can inflict intolerable losses on a more numerous & much better equipped attacker, even one with total air supremacy.

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Joshua Jiraffe @joshuajiraffe.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I take great comfort in knowing that I'm not handsome enough for cops to circulate my picture as the possible UHC shooter if I go out in a hoodie and a mask. Good luck, all you 7s of New York!

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Joshua Jiraffe @joshuajiraffe.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Letting fear of what could happen in the future justify preserving the status quo is the ideology of authoritarianism. No matter what comes next, the world is better off with Assad out of power. On to the next problem.

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

One of the victims of Assad was the anarchist Omar Aziz, who died whilst imprisoned in 2013. This short article details his role in the early days of the Syrian revolution. theanarchistlibrary.org/library/leil...

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The Legacy of Omar Aziz

Leila Al Shami The Legacy of Omar Aziz Building autonomous, self-governing communes in Syria 2017 copied from Web

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Joshua Jiraffe @joshuajiraffe.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

American Imperialism, Trump style. Act I: Greenland www.npr.org/2019/08/19/7...

Distracted boyfriend meme. Puerto Rico looks on angrily as Trump eyes Greenland

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Street tile in San Francisco remembering Federico García Lorca "murdered by Fascists during the Spanish Civil War "

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Akela Lacy @akelalacy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

NEW: a man in Oregon state prison has been in solitary confinement for more than 250 days. He’s a disabled combat veteran with PTSD - and the person to receive the harshest prison sentence in relation to 2020 BLM protests theintercept.com/2024/12/05/b...

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Oregon Prison Limits Solitary to 90 Days. This BLM Protester Has Been in the Hole for 250.

Oregon prisons limit solitary confinement to 90 days, but Black Lives Matter protester Malik Muhammad has been in the hole for some 250 days.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/12/2024

The far right is reclaiming climate change as an issue — even using it to argue an anti-immigration agenda. What most people don’t know is that this seemingly newfound fascination the right has with environmentalism actually started with a man named John Tanton. 📽️: @carissaqmb.bsky.social

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The Man Who Brought Climate Change Into Today’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric

The far right is now reclaiming climate change as an issue of their own — even using it to argue an anti-immigration agenda, just as President Donald Trump r...

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Joshua Jiraffe @joshuajiraffe.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Let's be clear: our institutions are reflections of our society. In a society like America, where transphobia is the dominant attitude, where many people support discrimination against trans people, and where many people shrug at violence against trans people, don't expect the court to be different.

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Joshua Jiraffe @joshuajiraffe.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

So far there's a lot I like about bluesky, but I'll say, one of the things it replicated from twitter is an impatience with depth and a reduction to quips, which often leads to needlessly adversarial tensions. Someone isn't insulting you if they explain their thought process, they're respecting you.

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Zoe Baker @anarchozoe.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Today is the birthday of my fav author and the most correct Italian who ever lived: Errico Malatesta. I strongly recommend reading him if you want to learn about anarchist socialism. This programme is a good place to start:

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An Anarchist Programme

Errico Malatesta An Anarchist Programme 1920 Il Programma Anarchico was drafted by Errico Malatesta and adopted by the Unione Anarchica Italiana at its...

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

"Our work". CNT AIT FAI, Collectivised Barcelona taxis unknown artist, 1936.

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Joshua Jiraffe @joshuajiraffe.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I see a lot of optimism acting like the coup in South Korea is over because they voted to reject Martial Law. Don't pop those corks just yet folks. A Coup isn't over while the person who tried the coup still has power.

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Joshua Jiraffe @joshuajiraffe.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

This is actually what I think at least 90% of Americans believe, but they aren't aware that Criminal Law and Immigration Law are two different things with different systems. All people (theoretically) have certain rights under criminal law. Not so with immigration law.

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Joshua Jiraffe @joshuajiraffe.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Question: Why do undocumented immigrants in America not have a right to a trial? Or a lawyer? Or bail? Answer: Because they haven't been arrested for committing a crime. This is intentional. If you didn't know it, think about why nobody tells you this.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

If you want to know what the endgame of "your body, my choice" might be ...

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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 03/12/2024

NEW: Canada’s immigration detention system discriminates against people with disabilities, including through widespread violations of their right to make crucial decisions about their own lives. #IDPD2024 www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...

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Joshua Jiraffe @joshuajiraffe.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

My challenge to my fellow Americans is this: Stop protesting your personal innocence. Your virtue means nothing if our society continues to oppress and persecute our neighbors. Instead of saying "not me" start doing the work to change minds and build counterpoint communities.

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Joshua Jiraffe @joshuajiraffe.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Trump is the symptom, not the disease. Although many Americans do not support him, they have not grappled with the reality that he represents a powerful consensus within our society. Rather than pretending he is a usurper, we must recognize he is what we have become, and work to change our society

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Found this random screencap of Big Bird looking like he's about to address the allegations.

A sad looking Big Bird sitting in front of a TV studio backdrop and a chyron identifying him as BIG BIRD, he looks like he's regretting not spending the money on a NDA.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

LGBTQ activists: They're definitely going after Obergefell. Many pundits and reporters: Stop being melodramatic with these exaggerated claims. Them: We're definitely going after Obergefell.

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Anthropology and Social Change @anthciis.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Watch this space for info on the next David Graeber Memorial Lecture! . Here’s a link to the previous ones including the most recent, from @davidwengrow.bsky.social in the 2023-2024 academic year: www.ciis.edu/news/david-g...

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David Graeber Memorial Lectures | CIIS

Watch and listen to the 2021 and 2022 David Graeber memorial lecture series from the Anthropology & Social Change department.

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