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Khin Ohmar @khinohmar.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Every activist my age has our ‘8888’ story. It was a time of intense energy, as we deeply believed the country could rise up and break free. Read more 👉 kohmar.substack.com/p/letters-to... #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar @pvamplify.bsky.social
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ALTSEAN-Burma @altsean.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This World Humanitarian Day (19 Aug), we remember Ko Athar (24), Ko Myat Thu (19), and Ko Leon (24), three queer aid workers brutally killed by the junta. Humanitarian work should never be a death sentence. #WorldHumanitarianDay #ActForHumanity #ProtectAidWorkers #Myanmar #LGBTQ
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Milk Tea Alliance Calendar @mtacalendar.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
To Myanmar... @khinohmar.bsky.social has been doing a series of "letters to a young activist" the 1st of which was published by @dvbenglish.bsky.social english.dvb.no/letters-to-a... & @pvamplify.bsky.social weekly highlight talks about how both flooding & flood relief are weaponised in Myanmar 19/
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Water as Warfare: How Myanmar Military Weaponizes Flooding in Central Myanmar - Progressive Voice
The people of Central Myanmar already face an acute humanitarian catastrophe from the illegal military junta’s ongoing terror campaign[...]
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Edith Mirante @edithmirante.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
9. Burma's kyat lost value as trading currency during Ne Win's rule. People used barter, illicit markets, street currency exchange to obtain, exchange goods. Currencies of neighboring countries such as Thai baht were in use, while US$ fetched a high rate in kyat (illegally.)
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Edith Mirante @edithmirante.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
8. Gen. Ne Win took power in 1962 coup, ruling Burma for decades. Military control of economy. As international trade was closed down, illicit markets arose. Ne Win suddenly demonetized Burma's 50 & 100 kyat notes in 1964, wiping out people's cash savings. www.irrawaddy.com/specials/on-...
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On This Day | The Day Myanmar Experienced the Socialist Era's First Demonetization
On this day in 1964, Gen. Ne Win’s regime caused financial havoc when it demonetizedtwo banknotes and ceased exchanging them for legal tender just a few days later.
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Edith Mirante @edithmirante.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
1. This History Thread is about money in Burma (Myanmar.) Various forms of currency have been used, often with significant political as well as economic effects. 21st Century Myanmar evolved from barter/cash to electronic innovations. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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Edith Mirante @edithmirante.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
During the early 1990s, between the 3 of us, Khin Ohmar, Zarni & I gave Burma talks in every state of the US. Ohmar was a tireless & impressively effective introducer of Burma (Myanmar) issues to previously unaware Americans. Her important essay describes how her calls to action took form:
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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Footage from Resistance forces in Myanmar show FPV drone attack on Tada-U airbase near Mandalay Reports state that four aircraft were damaged, two of them significantly/destroyed. This is big as these aircraft are costly & regularly bomb civilians. There have been few successful attacks on airbases
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Edith Mirante @edithmirante.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
14. Soon after Feb. 2021 coup, my History Thread posted Mar. 6, 2021 was "the poetry of Burma (Myanmar) and political resistance." Poets continue to inspire & participate in the anti-coup revolution: myanmar-now.org/en/news/we-c...
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‘We cannot write as before’: Women poets of Myanmar’s Spring Revolution
While Myanmar's poet-soldiers make headlines, a generation of women writers is forging a poetry of courage
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Edith Mirante @edithmirante.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
1. This History Thread adds update articles on some previous 2020-26 History Thread topics (military, environmental, foreign relations, even poetry). Links to those original threads are at projectmaje.org + others, posted monthly since Sept. 2017. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
Yellow flowers & a playground swing set with star decorations, in Chin State, Myanmar.
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Edith Mirante @edithmirante.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Myanmar Now: "The former prisoner said Dein Daung... taught young prisoners about literature & history. [when asked] what he planned to do after his release. He reportedly said he wanted to visit internally displaced people and share their hardships." myanmar-now.org/en/news/myan...
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Myanmar political prisoner Dein Daung dies after delayed medical treatment
The 60-year-old died en route to a hospital five minutes’ drive from the prison after experiencing severe breathing difficulties
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Edith Mirante @edithmirante.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Industrial History Belt touring my "Where the Mithuns Are: Essays on War, Art and Beasts" at cool venues The Reading Room CLE in Cleveland Ohio (Sept. 26, 2PM, tix $5 advance) & @burningbooks.bsky.social in Buffalo NY (Sept 27, 7PM, free.) Looking forward to Lake Erie & of course Lake Ontario! 📚
map showing Lake Erie & Lake Ontario, with info about Edith Mirante events at Reading Room Cleveland Sept. 26 2PM & Burning Books, Buffalo NY Sept. 27 7PM.
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Edith Mirante @edithmirante.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
1. This History/Literary Thread is about my new book "Where the Mithuns Are: Essays on War, Art and Beasts" (how to order it is at end of thread!) These exciting essays include WW2 Burma & #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar, bison, elk, wolves, Heizer's "City" & Indigenous mound sites. 📚
display of books titled "Where the Mithuns Are" by Edith Mirante. Cover is painting by Anthony Gross of people in WW2 Chin area of Burma.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thousands of immigrants did the hard, dirty work of clearing rubble and toxic dust and debris from Ground Zero. Many were undocumented laborers sent to work every day with no special PPE, and got cancer as a result. Now some of those same people are living in fear of ICE. www.npr.org/2026/09/11/n...
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They cleaned up ground zero. Now many are hiding from ICE
After 9/11, thousands of rescue and cleanup crews went to work at ground zero. They were exposed to toxic debris and experienced psychological trauma. Today, many say they live in fear of deportation.
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Mekong.Net @mekong.net · 10/09/2026
Obviously, since Trump is a clever business genius, he's going to send all three checks in the same envelope, thereby keeping postage costs down. #trump #maga #republicans #liar #gulliblepeople
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 09/09/2026
You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.
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Mekong.Net @mekong.net · 09/09/2026
And there are still people who believe this absurd serial liar. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don... #trump #maga #republicans #shameless
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Trump says firefighters near ground zero carried him to safety ‘right after’ 9/11 attacks
The president later said on Truth Social that he wasn’t at the World Trade Center “on the same day as the collapse, but shortly thereafter.”
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
On the left: Oliver North, convicted for his role in illegally selling missiles to Iran during the Reagan administration. On the right: Fox News “military analyst” Oliver North, who thinks Iran shouldn’t have missiles. Same guy. Same Oliver North.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New Public Comment on the self-interested case for quitting X publiccomment.blog/p/it-is-past...
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It Is Past Time for You to Quit Elon Musk's X
Yes, I'm talking to you. 🫵
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16/08/2026
The guy who did such an incredible job with the Reflecting Pool, Ballroom, Kennedy Center, National Mall, and Great American Fair is going to redesign our warships. What could go wrong?
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
#BlueWaveIn80Days Here's a great meme to send to any Independents you know In 80 days WE CAN VOTE OUT every Republican that goes along with Trump's lies and Corruption Your VOTE MATTERS Go to Iwillvote.com
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Joe Roberts 🔥💙🔥🐸 @robbyjoe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
He didn’t change. They did.
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Mekong.Net @mekong.net · 08/08/2026
medium.com/@curate.LA/t... An interview with Cambodian-American artist Tidawhitney Lek. #TidawhitneyLek #ShelleyHolcomb #Art #Artists #Khmer #Cambodian #KhmerAmerican #CambodianArt #Immigrants
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Traversing Time and First-Generation Guilt with Artist Tidawhitney Lek
Interview and photography by Shelley Holcomb
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Mekong.Net @mekong.net · 08/08/2026
For International Cat Day, work by Cambodian-American artist Tidawhitney Lek. #cats #InternationalCatDay #khmer #cambodian #CambodianArt #immigrants #art #TidawhitneyLek #KhmerAmerican
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Mekong.Net @mekong.net · 17/07/2026
Years ago a friend's mother fell prey to an online scammer who claimed to love her. She sent him huge sums of money. Her daughter tried to convince her it was a scam, but no amount of evidence would dissuade her. I think of that whenever I see MAGA fawning over Trump. #maga #trump #scams
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/07/2026
to hear Trump tell it, American elections were completely corrupted while he was president and he was helpless to stop it, then they were cleaned up by Biden ahead of Trump's victory in 2024, and now that Trump is president again they are once again becoming third world caliber
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Michael Feinberg (National Security and Intelligence Analyst) on the continued weaponization of the DOJ.
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Navy Man (descendant of ANTIFA since the revolution) @navymanhy.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Brilliant. How real trolling is done.
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judithbolyard.bsky.social @judithbolyard.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
lol
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Mekong.Net @mekong.net · 19/06/2026
From a speech by Frederick Douglass. Full text here: www.historyplace.com/speeches/dou... #juneteenth #america #history #historyplace
A quote from a speech by Frederick Douglass, delivered on July 4, 1852: "At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. Oh! had I the ability, and could I reach the nation's ear, I would today pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder."
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Mekong.Net @mekong.net · 17/06/2026
Remember how Trump promised to "drain the swamp?"
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Andy Brouwer @andybrouwer.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Memory from October 1994 when the only access to the upper/top level of Angkor Wat was via the terrifying original, worn stone steps. Today a safer stairway is available. It’s well worth it. Every 14th and 28th after 1pm, the top level is closed. #Cambodia
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Edith Mirante @edithmirante.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Publishing cliché: WW2 history books are ideal Father's Day gifts. "Where the Mithuns Are" is my WW2 antifascist histories book for your incredibly cool dad(s) or your incredibly supportive stepmom. Order now (US only; ebook for international readers tba soon) from: blueearbooks.com/where-the-mi...
Karl Yoneda (Communist labor organizer) in US Army, broadcasting at Battle of Myitkyina, Burma with Proctor Melquist, Karl reading into microphone as Proctor watches. World War 2.
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Quebecoiswolf 🔜 Furpoc @quebecoiswolf.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Being an American during the 250th Aniversary of the United States feels a lot like if the terrorists in Die Hard demanded that the hostages continue having their Christmas party.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Over 50 years later, this anti-Vietnam War PSA still rings true.
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
This New Yorker cartoon is accurate but a gut punch.
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Edith Mirante @edithmirante.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Bay Area Summer event: @jamesstout.bsky.social & @edithmirante.bsky.social will discuss their experiences in conflict zones & their most recent books, James' "Against the State" & Edith's "Where the Mithuns Are" at Clio's Books in Oakland July 14, '26. Get tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/antifascis...
Two books, "Against the State" by James Stout and "Where the Mithuns Are" by Edith Mirante, on background of rocks.
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Edith Mirante @edithmirante.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
1. This (recent) History Thread is about situation in Chin State, Burma (Myanmar) during 2025, based on my new Project Maje report "The Mountain People: An Update on Revolution in Chin State, 2025" www.projectmaje.org/chin_report_... #WhatsHappeningInChinState 🌄 #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar 🌿
a road in Chin State leading to mountain ridge, low buildings at side. title: The Mountain People: An Update on Revolution in Chin State, 2025
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Edith Mirante @edithmirante.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
1. This History Thread is about dams in Burma (Myanmar), a country of great river systems, where large dam projects have been locally seen as environmental & cultural threats. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar 🌿
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Edith Mirante @edithmirante.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
1. This History Thread is about the mountains of Burma (Myanmar.) The distinctive terrain has formed borders & provided population enclaves with safe havens & means of resistance. Mountains may be sacred. Or despoiled by mineral & timber exploitation. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar 🌄
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Edith Mirante @edithmirante.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
1. This History Thread is about landmines in Myanmar (Burma.) These indiscriminate weapons continue to kill. By post-coup 2023 Myanmar world's deadliest landmine country acc. to International Campaign to Ban Landmines. Mines manufactured by regime. Demining lacks funding. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/05/2026
I rarely say “major breaking” and rarely put out these video hits, but this is pretty major.
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The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Our latest exhibition, Hidden: Photography and Displacement under the Khmer Rouge, presents a personal yet universally resonant exploration of memory, loss, and survival under the regime. On display this week only, closing 15th May 2026. Find out more: buff.ly/mG0m0VD
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Hidden: Photography and displacement under the Khmer Rouge   - The Wiener Holocaust Library
Hidden is a long-term collaborative project by Charles Fox and Prum Sisaphantha, also known as Pantha. The exhibition follows Pantha’s personal journey during the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia…
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Drew Webb 🏳️‍🌈 @archeryfan93.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
John Roberts OWNS every decision from his disastrous Supreme Court. I HATE him so much
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Mekong.Net @mekong.net · 02/05/2026
Everything Kash Patel says prompts me to ask: Where is the "savant" part of this idiot?
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Sorry HogsBreath, We're Sticking With Mark Kelly, Senator, Astronaut And Navy Pilot.......
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🦋MOM🦋 @momcjl.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
This is how ridiculous the GOP is in 2026.
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
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Mekong.Net @mekong.net · 23/04/2026
You Were Warned (Sunday Opinion section from the New York Times, October 27, 2024) #trump #maga #newyorktimes #media #press #republicans #fucktrump #fuckmaga #WakeUp #RepublicansGrowASpine #IfYouVotedForTrumpShameOnYou #StopBuryingYourHeadInTheSand
A copy of the New York Times Sunday Opinion section lies on a bench on a Chicago subway platform. The full-page headline reads: "DONALD TRUMP SAYS HE WILL / PROSECUTE HIS ENEMIES ORDER MASS DEPORTATIONS USE SOLDIERS AGAINST CITIZENS ABANDON ALLIES PLAY POLITICS WITH DISASTERS / BELIEVE HIM."
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