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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"Steinem spoke openly about her relationship to The Agency in the 1950s and ’60s after a magazine revealed her employment by a CIA front organization, the Independent Research Service...

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The Feminist Was a Spy

Steinem was an energetic global representative.

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

My reading group finished the classic by Franz Neumann: Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism, 1933–1944 this summer. Parts of his analysis of Nazi political economy leapt off the pages- e.g. the 'move fast and break things' attitude of Nazis when they got to power...

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Cockroach Janta Party (Cockroach People's Party) started after India's Chief Justice Surya Kant said: "“There are youngsters like cockroaches... Some of them become media, some of them become social media, RTI activists and other activists."

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Cockroach Janta Party (CJP): How Abhijeet Dipke's collective became an online sensation

A satirical collective named after the cockroach has got millions of online followers in less than a week.

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Atlah church - coming in with not one but two vans plastered with expensive propaganda/delusions. And this pic is from yesterday!

Picture of van plastered with manning as Muhammad Ali standing over Mamdani.

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

when @maketheroadny.bsky.social asks members and volunteers to do something- i do it- no questions asked. call, write (I did). we have got a chance here for a light-shining victory. win.newmode.net/ny4all

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New/Mode | Make your voice impossible to ignore

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Mojtaba Khameini's father (Ayatollah Ali), mother, sister, brother-in-law & WIFE were killed by US at start of war. & now "As supreme leader, Khamenei will have the final say on whether Tehran fights on or seeks a compromise." Greek tragedy comes to life to change the world.

ft.com

Iran’s choice of Khamenei’s son as supreme leader signals continuity of hardline policies

Selection of Mojtaba Khamenei is seen as act of defiance against war launched by US and Israel

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

it's hard to know what to post about now. actual irl activities in migrant mutual aid? hard NO. but - If you are in Baltimore, and want to spend a wintry night warming up with comrades scheming about a network of solidarity cities, come to the historic @redemmas.org - Feb 21st 7 pm!

redemmas.org

Maliha Safri, Marianna Pavlovskaya, Stephen Healy, and Craig Borowiak present "Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation"

Mapping the transformative effects of America’s urban solidarity economies.

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

From William J. Barber, II and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove: "The masks. The lies. The celebration. These are the hallmarks of a lynching. They clarify what we are facing. These are not men who made a mistake."

open.substack.com

A Man Was Lynched Yesterday

Alex Pretti was killed by people who celebrated his death. They do not need better training. They demand a moral movement to disarm them and reconstruct democracy.

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Kumail Nanjiani as H-word Inspector in Brooklyn: "My mom is into Marxism. She's got a Moms for Marx sticker on her Subaru."

youtube.com

Brooklyn Coffee Shop Episode 55: Kumail Nanjiani, Barista Training Expert 🪪☕️

YouTube video by Pooja Tripathi

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Tonight, 8pm, sign up! Minnesotan organizers leading solidarity action call. This training will cover: Why labor unions, social justice organizations, and thousands of outraged Minnesotans will enact a unified, statewide pause in daily economic activity on Friday, January 23rd.

mobilize.us

Solidarity Mobilizations Training: ICE Out of Minnesota and Out of Everywhere · Showing Up for Racial Justice

**Ready to stand in solidarity with the Twin Cities, honor the memory of Renee Good, and use this moment’s national momentum to deliver a serious blow to ICE and Trump’s agenda?** Join SURJ for a trai...

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

holding the contradictions of life is very hard right now... i need to embroider that on a tshirt and wear it to teach next week. right after I finalize syllabi, of course I'll have oodles of time...

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

This still has free tix available! convo with @danieldenvir.bsky.social about municipal socialism for a live recording of @thedigradio.bsky.social. (sidenote, I had to deal with Ezra Klein's abundance 🙄 for a student's university paper, and asked her to check out some Dig podcasts as antidote).

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Zohran and the Return of Municipal Socialism

To celebrate the Municipal Socialism issue of Jacobin, out in December, join us for a live recording of The Dig podcast.

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I’ve turned a lot to Palestine Legal for help and advice in the last 10 yrs- plus they are just a collection of cool people. Please consider supporting this fundraiser.

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

from @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social and ME O'Brien: "O’Brien: What does the commune mean to you? Kelley: It means we take care of each other. It means everything for everyone. It means we communized the shit out of this place. It means we took something that was property and made it life."

commonnotions.org

Everything For Everyone — Common Notions Press

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I had started reading this book Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 (by @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social and M. E. O’Brien) in the summer and then got interrupted, but I'm finishing it now!! it should be required reading for NY DSA chapters.

commonnotions.org

Everything For Everyone — Common Notions Press

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Queens is amazing- lots of zohran posters in storefronts and goat for 6.99 a pound? As opposed to 18.99 per pound in curry hill…

Storefront with a picture of Zohran and sale of goat sign

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

In Queens, at the big rally- and Kathy Hochul was repeatedly interrupted by “tax the rich” chants. She also butchered Z’s name and people started chanting the correct pronunciation. But Zohran came out and saved her- people cheered and he escorted her off stage. #shareyourshine

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Chicago, you have my heart always. The neighborhood he describes - Belmont Cragin- was where I went to grade school.

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Rally for zohran volunteers tonight in Washington heights. On stage is a 15 and 80 yr old volunteer talking about volunteering bec they are New Yorkers worried about fascism and inequality.

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

So this is People magazine: "“I started noticing, around 9 months, she was saying ‘agua’ instead of water” “She’s acknowledging what her teacher is saying and doing what she’s telling her to do in Spanish, which we thought was awesome,” Ebony shares.

people.com

Parents Surprised When Their Daughter Started Speaking Spanish. Then They Realized Where She Learned It (Exclusive)

A viral TikTok captured the moment Ebony’s toddler responded in Spanish to her daycare teacher, and now the family is embracing bilingual learning together.

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I am so grateful for the thinking of Raul Peck. One early line in film is haunting quote from Orwell: “my starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice.”

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Raoul Peck. I think I snagged the very last seat sold tonight… he is to also speak afterwards.

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

I thought Tony Blair was done damaging (remember his full-throated support for Bush's war in Iraq?) He's back calling this plan "bold and intelligent". Apparently, we have Jared Kushner to thank for setting up the Tony Blair Institute for Social Change -TBI. better acronym GFOH

bbc.com

Trump and Netanyahu agree new US peace plan for Gaza and warn Hamas to accept - live

President Trump says Israel would have US backing to

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

this comedian summed up two weeks of lectures on race, Indians,and US: "Bhagat Singh Thind goes to US Supreme Court. Is this Brown guy white? Nope! go back to India. They deported those 3000 Indian people."

youtube.com

Indian American History 101 | Nimesh Patel

YouTube video by Nimesh Patel

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

McCarthy Blacklists are associated with Hollywood, but they rippled thru other fields including radio, labor organizations, education, religion and the government itself. What are today's watchlists? Canary Mission The Professor Watchlist ...are there others I miss?

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Fall canvas Zetrocard! From a Jackson heights shift where I got to talk to folks in Urdu, Spanish, and English

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Thank you @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social and Emily Holloway for so skillfully interviewing myself and my 3 coauthors! Nice summary of how we got to this decade long project.

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Sign up for the big fall mayoral canvas for Zohran this weekend New Yorkers and you can get this card! I’ll be in Jackson heights volunteer.zohranfornyc.com/canvass-for-...

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

"US President Donald Trump has unveiled a series of blunt interventions into the workings of both the financial system and the operations of private companies... On Monday evening, he announced the firing of Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

“They uprooted thousands of trees in an area of four square kilometers, which represents up to half of Mughayyir’s olive production,” Jabr continued. “All the families of the village have been affected.”

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

NYC has its own dating app (Oh Hi) and they published a manifesto: www.ohhi.dating/manifesto Their entry for Andrew Cuomo's dating profile: "An overbearing, pestery creep...Doesn't know how to act. Loud. Oblivious. Bad tipper. Doesn't get the joke. Can't take a hint. "Well actually..."

picture of Andrew Cuomo on "Oh hi" dating app. describing his qualities...

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Toxic masculinity of crypto-bros: "According to a report by ESPN, there is a nationwide publicity effort underway to market a new crypto coin that involves throwing green sex toys, often in the shape of a phallus, at WNBA players."

gothamist.com

NYPD nabs alleged WNBA sex-toy tosser, lawyer says DA hunting crypto bros behind the craze

An Ohio man surrendered after allegedly hitting a 12-year-old girl with a green phallus. His lawyer says prosecutors want him to name names.

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Remember in December 2023? when apologists were busy saying Israel would never target hospitals, doctors, would never violate the ethical minimums during war and siege?

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

The "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" uses shady labor (every existing Palestinian firm with experience rejected and boycotted) & runs a Killing Field, UN and IDF soldiers say. This is the apex neoliberal outcome: make a foundation for killing starving people, get state $, repeat.

unrwa.org

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Supervillainpacs spent $16m on Cuomo (on top of $8 million from Cuomo's campaign)+$6million against Zohran. Mamdani? spent zero on attack ads+ got $371,000 in Superpac $ from WorkingFamilies, and ran using the city matching funds of $8m + LABOR of 40,000 volunteers Simple eqn: Labor > $

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

"Dreaming demands solidarity." Zohran Kwame Mamdani, June 25th, 2025 (in the wee hours).

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Zohran's campaign was a marvel- they will write books on it. I learned from canvassers, all of whom were younger than me. There was discipline, organization, intention, warmth. And it made me speak to my neighbors in a never-before way.

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Bill De Blasio: "My view is people are hurting and affordability is the issue and the Times just does not understand what everyday people are going through. They’ve disconnected from New York City more and more with every passing year... It was unbelievably ageist and out of touch."

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

One day I invited a prominent anti-discrimination attorney for a lecture. One student Q: how has your belief in justice changed? A: i don't believe in justice in the justice system. You can gain some money for lost wages, but that is not justice. more need to say that.

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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 17/06/2025

And in case the meaning there wasn't clear enough, here's the crowd breaking into a spontaneous "Don't rank Cuomo" chant:

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

At the rally with @sangaymishra.bsky.social + army of volunteers for Zohran, & chatted with his parents in the line. No kings- to a city we the people will make!

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Cuomo’s continuous “mispronouncing” of Mamdani’s name is another racist move he continuously pulls

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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Today I wish Mike Davis was still alive.

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