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Abby Olcese @abbyolcese.bsky.social · 6h

I literally think this every time I see a photo of Elon Musk.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Cornell’s new era of transparency should begin with this guy admitting he hit Gaza protestors with his car on purpose and then lied about it. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/n...

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Cornell President Calls Rape Inquiry ‘Defining Moment’ for Campus

Michael I. Kotlikoff said in a video the university would be more transparent, hold Greek groups accountable and improve sexual assault prevention.

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Jai 💛✨ @theejaister.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Dream got T-Spoon to narrate Angel's DPOY video. 🥺

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You really can’t make this shit up.

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mrfett @mrfett.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026

Weekly reminder that tomorrow is Friday, so he'll be saber-rattling to raise the price of oil. On Monday he'll talk peace again. He has the futures market in his pocket, it's all collusion to make shitloads of cash.

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mrfett @mrfett.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026

I've read SO many papers where the authors do this, but they're not measly undergrads lol. Can I get away with this endnote you think?

Screenshot of a page of endnotes from the author's paper, with the following note highlighted in blue:

Dr. Teitelbaum, himself a Fulbright Scholar, retired anthropologist and community activist well-known to Montgomery County politicians with whom he frequently communicates, told the author he knew Blair Ewing personally and that Ewing worked for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). While on the school board, Ewing was known as the liberal opposition to Marian Greenblatt. For more on the domestic activities of the CIA during the Cold War, see the excellent 2025 work by Villanova University’s Gabriel Rockhill, Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? The Intellectual World War.

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mrfett @mrfett.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026

smdh I was rooting for a Caitlin Clark fan? no surprise we got dunked on.

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mrfett @mrfett.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

Saw some Zionists on here pretending their cult is real and that they could never leave Israel. lol. youtu.be/J21sKSRFdcM?...

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Israelis: What language did your grandparents speak?

YouTube video by Corey Gil-Shuster

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Once again, I gotta say: you cannot treat anything you’re feeding into an AI as anonymous. There are enormous ethics implications for, e.g. referees who are clearly uploading others’ unpublished papers without consent, let alone health care professionals or law enforcement

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mrfett @mrfett.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026

OK I'm sorry but I'm just really feelin' myself right now, I don't think I could've discovered a more perfect title, I'm so psyched! "I Have Had Your History Crammed Down My Throat": The Civil Rights Work of Roscoe R. Nix From 1968-1989

Title of Proposed Presentation: "I Have Had Your History Crammed Down My Throat": The Civil Rights Work of Roscoe R. Nix From 1968-1989

Keywords: integration, desegregation...

Using a cultural history approach and sources previously unexamined, this paper focuses on the career of Montgomery County Maryland Civil Rights leader Roscoe R. Nix. Beginning with Nix's appointment by Maryland's Gov. Agnew to the state's Commission on Human Relations after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968, continuing through his tenure on the Mongomery County School Board from 1974-1978 and then chronicling his activism throughout the 1980s as President of the Montgomery County NAACP, this paper examines the public service career of a Black community leader during an era in which racial animosity re-emerged as a primary driver of public policy.

As a highly populated county composed of both wealthy, insular incorporated enclaves with their own police force such as Chevy Chase, as well as unincorporated census-designated places where residents share police, school and government services with over a hundred thousand others like Silver Spring, Montgomery County's most prominent historical narratives have favored global minority perspectives at the expense of narratives more representative of its global majority population. By utilizing a Cultural History approach to examine the perspective of Roscoe Nix as he fought for change from both within Maryland government and outside of it, this paper clearly outlines the reasons Mr. Nix fought for racial equity within Montgomery County schools and the resulting racial backlash from that county's wealthiest communities. I present the new historical argument that by successfully confronting widespread racial discrimination through a sustained multi-decade campaign of engagement from both within local government and from outside of it, Roscoe Nix was integral to Silver Spring's transformation into America's fourth most diverse city.

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mrfett @mrfett.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026

2 weeks to graduating, and I found the title for my Senior Thesis. Psyched to be in the home stretch!

Screenshot of the author's paper's title page that reads:
“I Have Had Your History Crammed Down My Throat”
The Civil Rights Work of Roscoe R. Nix From 1968-1989

Below that is a zoomed in screenshot of a January 15, 1979 Washington Post article by Neil Henry titled, "Montgomery School Board, Blacks in Bitter Dispute" of a quote by Roscoe Nix given in response to a caller during a WAMU debate hosted by Fred Fiske about the black studies course Nix created and the racist Reagan ass-kisser Marian Greenblatt eliminated at American University on January 12, 1979:
"I have had your history crammed down my throat," Nix replied.

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mrfett @mrfett.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026

In researching Roscoe R. Nix, I learned he wrote his first letter to the editor in defense of fellow Alpha Phi Alpha member Paul Robeson in '48, presented awards in his name in '78, and was recorded discussing his legacy as late as 2005 at the age of 84. Susan Robeson "The Whole World in his Hands":

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Pic of Robeson in front of Lincoln statue:
American Crusade to End Lynching rally, after White House meeting with President Truman, Lincoln Memonal, Washington, D.C.

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The Philadelpina Tribune September 24, 1946
ROBESON TELLS TRUMAN: DO SOMETHING ABOUT LYNCHINGS OR NEGROES WILL
Washington -Paul Robeson, Negro baritone, spearhead of the American Crusade to End Lynching, said yesterday after a White House visit that he had told the President that if the Government did not do something to curb lynching, "Negroes would."

To this statement, Robeson said, the President took sharp exception. The President, he said, remarked that it sounded like a threat. Robeson told newspapermen he assured the President it was not a threat but merely a statement of fact about the temper of the Negro people.

Robeson asked the President to make a formal declaration of
disapproval of lynching within the next 100 days. Robeson explained the next 100 days would be an appropriate time for the President to act, because it was on September 22, 1862, that Lincoln issued the proclamation freeing the slaves and it was on January Ist that it became effective,

The President, Robeson said, told the delegation that Government action against lynching was necessarily a political matter, and that timing was important. The President... said that this was not the time for him to act.

The singer said he also pointed out what he considered misdirections in American foreign policy. He said it was hard to see the distinction between current lynchings and the Nuremburg war crimes trials.
He explained that he meant by this that the United States could not logically take the lead in punishing the Nazis for the oppression of groups in Germany while the Government here permitted Negroes to be lynched and shot. To this, he said, the President objected that loyal Americans should not mix domestic problems like lynching with foreign policy. Robeson said... he did not see how the two could be separated.

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mrfett @mrfett.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026

"my father was a slave, and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you. And no fascist-minded people will drive me from it. Is that clear?" -Paul Robeson testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1956

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mrfett @mrfett.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026

Looking for inspiration for the title of a paper I’m finishing about Montgomery County, Maryland Civil Rights giant Roscoe R. Nix in “The Messenger Reader” and came across this gem from the legendary A. Philip Randolph from a longer article titled, “The Negro in Politics” published in July of 1919:

THE RISE OF POLITICAL RADICALISM AMONG NEGROES
The political Radicalism of the Negro has been marked by three definite movements: First, the entrance of the Negro into the Democratic Party; second, the transition to the elective idea of representation; third, and the most fundamental and significant of all is, the change from the old parties to Socialism.

The last of these changes has been the result of the rise of a new type of leaders. The old Negro leaders have had the intent to serve the interests of the Negroes, but they have lacked the knowledge as to how they could best serve them. And it is recognized today that the possession of an intent to do good without the knowledge, is more fatal than the possession of knowledge without the intent. To illustrate: History attests that during the early Christian era, Marcus Aurelius was the most savage persecutor of the Christians, yet he was one of the most upright of men and it is maintained that he persecuted them on the ground that he was saving them from the consequences of their folly. His intent was to do good. Even Protestant historians accord to those Who maintained the Spanish Inquisition, honest intentions, while they murdered, massacred and outraged the heretics of their day. The suppression of free speech, the freedom of the press and the lynching of Negroes and I.W.W. are based upon the intent to subserve the country's interests. The system which produces these conditions, determines the social consequences of the policies, adopted by both good and bad men. Thus, it is apparent that an individual's power to do social and personal mischief is, in proportion to the intensity of his belief in the rightness of his act and the absence of knowledge as to its

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social consequences. An ignorant man may take Bicloride of mercury for quinine; the result is death, though his intent and desire was to live.

THE FUTURE OF THE NEGRO IN AMERICAN POLITICS

Thus it is obvious that the hope of the Negro lies, first in the development of Negro leaders with the knowledge of the science of government and economics, scientific history and sociology; and second, in the relegation to the political scrap heap, those Negro leaders whose only qualifications are the desire to lead and the intent to do good.

The old Negro leaders have been factors in producing and perpetuating a patent contradiction in American politics: the alliance of a race of poverty, the Negro, with a party of wealth, the Republican Party.

The Republican Party has been the instrumentality in American politics of abolishing agricultural feudalism of the South for the establishment of industrial capitalism of the North. Industrial slavery has been substituted for human slavery.

But how is the Negro to know which party to support? Before answering this question may I observe that a party is a body of individuals who agree upon a political program and who strive to gain control of the government in order to secure its adoption. Its campaigns are made possible by a fund created by those persons who desire the adoption of its program. It is natural and plain, then that those who supply the funds will control and direct the party.

Now, it is a fact of common knowledge that the Republican and Democratic parties receive their campaign funds from Rockefeller, Mor-gan, Schwab, Shonts, Ryan, Armour and other capitalists. It is also a fact of common knowledge, that the chief interests of these capitalists are: to make large profits by employing cheap labor and selling their goods at high prices to the public.

Thus, since the chief interests of the workers are more wages, less work, cheaper food, clothing and shelter, it is apparent that their chief inte…

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I maintain that since the Socialist Party is supported financially by working men and working women, and since its platform is a demand for the abolition of this class struggle between the employer and the worker, by taking over and democratically managing the sources and machinery of wealth production and exchange, to be operated for social service and not for private profits; and further, since the Socialist Party has always, both in the United States and Europe, opposed all forms of race prejudice, that the Negro should no longer look upon voting the Republican ticket, as accepting the lesser of two evils, but that it is politically, economically, historically and socially logical and sound for him to reject both evils, the Republican and Democratic parties and select a positive good—Socialism.

The Negro, like any other class, should support that party which represents his chief interests. Who could imagine a brewer or saloonkeeper supporting the Prohibition party?

It is like an undertaker seeking the adoption of a law, if possible, to abolish death.

Such is not less ludicrous, however, than that of a Negro, living in virtual poverty, children without education, wife driven to the kitchen or wash-tub: continually dispossessed on account of high rents, eating poor food on account of high cost of food, working 10, 12 and 14 hours a day, and sometimes compelled to become sycophant and clownish for a favor, a "tip," supporting the party of Rockefeller, the party of his em-ployer, whose chief interests are to overwork and underpay him. Let us abolish these contradictions and support our logical party—the Socialist Party.

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

put another way: @kairyssdal.bsky.social didn't think speaking up for his trans colleague (then the *only* out trans reporter in the usa) was important. but he *does* think speaking on shunning ice coffee drinkers from employment is necessary. m-kay. judge his professional ethics accordingly.

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

in 2017, a trans reporter was fired at @marketplace.org for writing a blog post abt the need for journalists to resist rising fascism, racism and transphobia. @kairyssdal.bsky.social, the host of the show, said nothing & let his colleague's career be murdered. judge his hr tips accordingingly.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 25/09/2026

In a world where Black liberals defend the US empire and continuously throw Black and Brown people in nonwestern countries under the bus, for "privileges" in capitalist and white supremacist systems, be class conscious working class Black folks like these. These are the kinda Black folks I love. ✊🏾🖤☭

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mrfett @mrfett.myatproto.social · 25/09/2026

Started with lies of Christian genocide, then bombs, then troops while suggesting Nigeria end relationships with Russia and China. Now Terra Industries (CIA-linked) is “protecting” critical minerals. youtu.be/76WjNKoHNDU?...

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Nigerian News Outlets Delete Story About US Nigeria Mineral Deal Amid Rising Public Awareness

YouTube video by The African Spearhead

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New — I had the opportunity to see NAZA, the documentary freaking out the Israeli government because of its horrifying firsthand descriptions of the way the IDF has used AI to target and massacre Palestinian civilians. My thoughts on the film’s damning revelations, and the banality of evil:

thehandbasket.co

I saw the documentary the Israeli government doesn’t want you to see

'NAZA' dispels once and for all the myth that the IDF didn't target civilians in Gaza.

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mrfett @mrfett.myatproto.social · 25/09/2026

Best explanation of the dangers that I've read; the concern is that these tools can be weaponized and do real harm to society if their development is not heavily regulated, regardless of if they're "sentient" or not. It sounds like the ability of these algorithms to elude human control is the issue.

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.

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mrfett @mrfett.myatproto.social · 24/09/2026

Yesterday an elderly Fulbright scholar I was interviewing about his experiences fighting for integrated schools against Reagan-aligned conservative politicos in Montgomery County, MD during the early 80s told me his personal friend on the school board, today touted as a liberal champion, was CIA.

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mrfett @mrfett.myatproto.social · 23/09/2026

I haven't read the latest Nikole Hannah-Jones essay yet, but I've seen the usual suspects jumping to criticize her. Haven't had a chance to peep it yet because I've been working on my own project about Maryland Civil Rights pioneer Roscoe R. Nix. This architect of school integration had his doubts:

predominantly black schools were learning up to expectancy, their schools should be left alone. He strongly advocated quality education. Nix commented on the advantages and disadvantages of segregation and integration. Bernstein recorded his remarks at length:

He noted that most of the black leaders in the United States have been educated in black institutions. He spoke of growing up in rural Alabama, attending segregated schools, and suggested that his background had given him a strong sense of his own blackness. His children, though, had gone to predominantly white schools in Montgomery County, and the stresses of that experience had caused his daughter to choose a black college. She was in search of her own identity, and a less complicated social life. She needed time, Roscoe said, to feel safe and nurtured in a black environment.

"Yet with all the penalties that integration has levied on black children in the last twenty years," he continued, I still believe in desegregation, although I fear it too." As he spoke, there were painfully long pauses between sentences and beads of perspiration popped out on his upper lip. He conceded that there were two sides to the issue, and paid tribute to the agonies of blacks in a white society, but he concluded, nevertheless, that the agony should not be avoided.

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Air-rum @aarum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🗣️ YALL👇🏾🔥🤎

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demur.bsky.social @demur.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Here’s the Senate Leader if I ever saw one.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

FAFO aside, his shock is a great distillation of how whiteness as a social construct is built around shattering communal understanding of our interconnected human ecosystem in favor of a mythical individualism How whiteness leaves its adherents defenseless against our shared oppressors: capitalists

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I kept suggesting to a grad worker union that if we really want to make admin negotiate we need to make fliers to hand out to parents at campus tours. Just simple info pamphlets explaining funding and pay and how our working conditions are students learning conditions.

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mrfett @mrfett.myatproto.social · 19/09/2026

I hope I’m not the only one who had no idea the afrobeats genre was entirely dominated by US Intelligence. youtu.be/unxVwgGPvpE

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Afrobeats And Its Links To US Secret Intelligence

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mrfett @mrfett.myatproto.social · 19/09/2026

“Come on feet, do your thing!” I saw this 1972 Broadway show by Melvin Van Peebles referenced in an old WaPo letter to the editor I discovered while doing research. You owe it to yourself to check it out! youtu.be/weVm6vn7SOg

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Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death -by Melvin Van Peebles - Tony Awards 1972

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mrfett @mrfett.myatproto.social · 18/09/2026

The propagandists still calling the Houthis, “hillbillies in flip-flops” sound stoopid. It’s 2026: these hillbillies have MRAPs, shoulder-fired rockets and anti-drone tech.

Video still of Electronic Intifada’s Jon Elmer showing a Houthi fighter displaying an electronic drone jamming device captured from routed Saudi forces.

https://youtu.be/sH_nMBMgFdM?t=799

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 17/09/2026

Video: Anyone Who Would Support Genocide Would Have Supported Slavery. Not this amazing Black lady dropping nothing but the truth! And yes, anyone who is fine with genocide, would definitely have been fine with slavery. And it's not just coward celebs like ed sheeran, but also beyonce, jayz, etc.

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Otter Poppa's Poppaler Nature Facts @peezkyweezky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Telling the democrats explicitly what it will take to *earn* your vote is actually the most supportive thing you can do for a party. You're trying to help them win the votes of you and people who think like you. The Dems know that's a lot of people, since they claim we lost them the '24 election

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mrfett @mrfett.myatproto.social · 16/09/2026

Posted a lot of George Jackson during Black August; for Hispanic Heritage Month let’s break out the late Johanna Fernandez’s “The Young Lords,” a radical history of the revolutionary Puerto Rican urban guerrilla force active in late 60s/early 70s New York City:

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räy. 🇵🇷🇧🇸 @rayelrey.latinsky.app · 15/09/2026

It is now Hispanic Heritage Month!!! This will be a thread of all 24 featured countries across 5 continents!

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Hispanic Heritage Month: Proud Latina Graphic

ALT: Hispanic Heritage Month: Proud Latina Graphic

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

if only tenured academics had a fraction of the courage & solidarity of macklemore, finneas, aaron rowe, lukas graham and beoga (not to mention of their own students) then universities could have been a bulwark against fascism—instead of an engine of its execution

$a photo of the sea behind the text if only tenured academics had a fraction of the courage & solidarity of macklemore, finneas, aaron rowe, lukas graham and beoga (not to mention of their own students) then universities could have been a bulwark against fascism— instead of an engine of its execution$

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 14/06/2026

The wild thing about liberalism, and Black liberal "anti racism activism", is that it doesn't seek liberation for Black folks, but "representation" in the same capitalist and white supremacist systems that shackle BIPOC. This fool got his seat at the table, and now he's one of them. Activism done!

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mrfett @mrfett.myatproto.social · 15/09/2026

Listening to Shaka Shakur clearly articulate the rationale for trans-rights while organizing for the people of Indiana still struggling without reliable power from behind the prison bars that currently keep him incarcerated as a political prisoner is inspiring. Check it: youtu.be/AHZ-aneLIAM

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‼️Free 'Em All! An Important Update From Shaka Shakur

YouTube video by iMWiL!

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mrfett @mrfett.myatproto.social · 15/09/2026

If Ed Sheeran isn't complicit then I suppose we'll see him fly Bob Dylan in for the next show, yeah? youtu.be/pKcZDw9j7IY

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[BBC] Glastonbury 2025 Bob Vylan "Death to the IDF" chant

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mrfett @mrfett.myatproto.social · 15/09/2026

I don't wanna see any little SWAT kids come to my door this year. You wanna wear a badass uniform, be a Houthi for Halloween.

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mrfett @mrfett.myatproto.social · 15/09/2026

I really dig this "business casual guerrilla fighter" fit:

Picture of a group of Houthi seated, all wearing some variation of: a keyfiyyah (either wrapped on their heads or around their necks), blue or white long sleeve collared shirt, tan vest, loose olive/drab pants and Birkenstocks. Most have short buzzed hair and minimal facial hair.

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mrfett @mrfett.myatproto.social · 15/09/2026

It’s been what, 2 months since Whiskey Pete announced his stupid plans to test all soldiers to see if they need their balls shrunk? Harvard Medical School has already put together a curriculum for military doctors, attempting to make money off it. Meanwhile, medical care downrange is OUTSOURCED.

Picture of a mailer sent by Harvard Medical School. One picture shows a soldier doing PT at dawn, the others are generic stock photo medical images and the text is pasted below:

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mrfett @mrfett.myatproto.social · 14/09/2026

As removal of the American President’s long knife triggers fountains of blood from the back of the Saudi Crown Prince, I’m finding that viewing this recent conflict using the framework of cartel warfare is helpful. youtu.be/5oEqhaRgoos?...

youtu.be

Operation Southern Spear: Uncovering the CIA’s Killing Spree in Latin America

YouTube video by BreakThrough News

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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 14/09/2026

btw Kanye did a song Heil Hitler and no one stepped in to oppose his tour(s), which is ongoing. In fact, Kanye is scheduled to perform at one of the stadiums Macklemore has been stopped from being at.

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