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Ground Zero: One Billion Screams

@polanimalclass.bsky.social
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We are one billion screams. In the slaughterhouses. In the labs. We are The Political Animal Class. My name is Sharath Prabhu. I'm a PhD student in political theory @UCIrvine Toward a new theory of insurgent animal politics.

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Graham Use ALT @grahamm.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
It is only through unthinking, uncritical, subservience to gratuitously violent, indefensible cultural norms that people look at us askance when we fight for justice for the victims of their conditioned apathy, malevolence & antipathy. We are #OneBillionScreams We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social
A still conscious young cow individual in a stunning chamber in an Australian slaughterhouse falls to his knees after receiving a blow to his skull. The floor is awash with spilled blood.
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Pauline Park @paulinepark.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Graham 🏴Use ALT: "A society wholly premised & built upon eternal systematic violence inflicted upon the most vulnerable, upon those who are unable to organise & fight back, dreams of peace. If the devil existed, he could hope for nothing better. We are #OneBillionScreams" @polanimalclass.bsky.social
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Sharath Prabhu @sharzard5.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Our kin are murdered in front of us, and we stare at their remains in horror. You could have easily been born as us. We are #OneBillionScreams We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social
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Pauline Park @paulinepark.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Sharath Prabhu (@sharzard5.bsky.social): "Heads swirling with the fumes of ammonia, we shriek in this artificially lit hell. We are political animals who resist. We are not ghosts. We are #OneBillionScreams. We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social"
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Graham Use ALT @grahamm.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
You claim that murdering us for your nonessential purposes is ‘natural’, so we’re wondering why you hide & cower away from the violence inflicted upon us? Being sickened, and even traumatised by such brutality is entirely incompatible with such claims. We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social
A wide eyed, fully conscious, week old male calf on the kill table in an Australian slaughterhouse is being gripped around the head by the gloved hands of a worker who is about to slash his throat. The floor below is a pool of spilled infant blood.
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Graham Use ALT @grahamm.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
What might we learn from a society that normalises violence & disavows & disowns innate empathy & compassion? What are the wider implications of a society built upon mercilessness, callous indifference & gratuitous cruelty? We are #OneBillionScreams We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social
A close up photograph of the face of a fawn coloured calf individual. A human is sat astride his back and is forcing his face into the ground whilst using a hot iron instrument to burn away his horns.
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Graham Use ALT @grahamm.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
We can continue to be ‘normal’, & be on the side of violence, of force breeding to kill. The side of death, injustice & tyranny. Or we can stand in solidarity with the oppressed, draw upon our integrity of character & do what is right. We are #OneBillionScreams We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social
A close up photo of the head of a young cow individual with a tether around their face binding them closely to the metal bars of the enclosure where they are incarcerated.
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Graham Use ALT @grahamm.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
A minimal level of decency is to recognise & honour each other’s legitimate right to life, freedom & self determination. It is to refuse to privilege our own desire for self-gratification over another’s desire to be free from violent oppression & death. We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social
A close up, black and white photograph of the heads of three young cow individuals, nuzzling each other.
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Graham Use ALT @grahamm.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
If we could speak your language, what do you think we might say about your treatment of us, your refusal to consider us, your petty rationalisations & feeble excuses for the atrocities you commit upon hundreds of billions of us? We are #OneBillionScreams We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social
A close up photo of a female chicken with their head looking out of a gap in the bottom of the filth strewn tiny metal cage in which she is imprisoned with countless others. In the foreground is an egg.
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Graham Use ALT @grahamm.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
You constructed an oversaturation of forces, attitudes, traditions & beliefs to erase the legitimate interests of us nonhumans & render us unworthy of moral consideration. We resist, we fight, but in merciless disregard, you ignore us. We are #OneBillionScreams We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social
A close up photograph of the left eye of a distressed young pig. Viewed through a gap in the side of a slaughterhouse truck.
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Graham Use ALT @grahamm.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
When you consume the end products of the exploitation of us fellow animals, you’re not only endorsing & normalising all violence, you’re also perpetuating & reinforcing eternal hierarchies of dominance, supremacy, inequality & injustice We are #OneBillionScreams We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social
A human wielding a bolt gun walks among the countless young pig individuals crammed tightly into a farm building.
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Graham Use ALT @grahamm.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Violence is intrinsic to any form of exploitation of me or any sentient animal. You cannot reform violence, oppression, suffering & death. If you oppose violence & injustice then you demand total abolition. #ThisIsMyGroundZero We are #OneBillionScreams We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social
A newborn infant piglet lies cowering on the metal grate floor of a darkened Australian farm building. His mother (just visible), lies unable to reach him behind the metal bars of her prison.
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Graham Use ALT @grahamm.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Just like you, my life is of utmost importance to me, despite your vile perspective that sees me only in terms of utility. You may rationalise my violent abuse to soothe your conscience but that ignores the only perspective that matters; mine. We are #OneBillionScreams @polanimalclass.bsky.social
A close up photo of the head of a young cow individual with yellow plastic number tags pierced into both ears,  looking out the bars of the enclosure where they are confined.
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Graham Use ALT @grahamm.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
If you’ve already decided it’s okay to violently exploit & kill me for your own purposes, any subsequent claim to care about me is merely a pretence, an exercise in self-deception, a lie. You’re clearly more interested in my death. We are #OneBillionScreams We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social
A young piglet looks out of a hole in the side of a slaughterhouse truck.
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Ground Zero: One Billion Screams @polanimalclass.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
We are #OneBillionScreams We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social
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Ground Zero: One Billion Screams @polanimalclass.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Relegated to the margins of your systemic speciesist empire, we scream day and night for liberation. But we are not alone. We are of a class. We will make you listen to us. We are #OneBillionScreams We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social
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Graham Use ALT @grahamm.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
We scream in agony every minute. We plea for mercy. You’ve been taught to ignore our screams & pleas by merciless people who profit from our agony. What will it take to make you caring people actually care? We are #OneBillionScreams We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social
A distressed young pig individual in a tiny, solitary cage, chews on the bars of his prison in a darkened farm building. Alongside him a several other incarcerated pigs.
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Ground Zero: One Billion Screams @polanimalclass.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
These are the 3 Core Strategies of @polanimalclass.bsky.social during Amplification, our first phase on social media. Through them, we build vision, identity, and power. We are #OneBillionScreams We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social
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Ground Zero: One Billion Screams @polanimalclass.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
We are #OneBillionScreams We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social
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Graham Use ALT @grahamm.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
We can offer our hollow, tired excuses, but our exploitation & killing of nonhuman animals is just an exercise in the abuse power uncoupled from accountability. We enact this tyranny simply because we’re able to & they’re unable stop us We are #OneBillionScreams We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social
A close up photo of the head of a young male calf poking his face through a gap in the front of his tiny, solitary cage to drink from the nozzle of the feeder just outside. Removed from his mother at birth, he will live here until he reaches ‘slaughter weight’.
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Ground Zero: One Billion Screams @polanimalclass.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
We are those who scream hour after hour, Day after day, to the universe, As our skin is sliced off, as our testicles are ripped out, as we are gassed. We, the wretched of your anthropocentric, capitalist dominion, Fight back. We are #OneBillionScreams We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social
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Ground Zero: One Billion Screams @polanimalclass.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
We aren't after animal welfare. We aren't after even animal rights alone. We aim for a new existential-political horizon, Where animality reorders the very foundations, Around which we coalesce. We are #OneBillionScreams We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social
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Ground Zero: One Billion Screams @polanimalclass.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Not just another "animal group." A force they can't ignore. We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social
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Ground Zero: One Billion Screams @polanimalclass.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
This Is Our Ground Zero. Join us @polanimalclass.bsky.social We are #OneBillionScreams
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Ground Zero: One Billion Screams @polanimalclass.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
One billion screams of animals do not evaporate. We forge political power from their resistance. We organize around the scream. We are #OneBillionScreams We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social
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Ground Zero: One Billion Screams @polanimalclass.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
We are#OneBillionScreams We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social
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Ground Zero: One Billion Screams @polanimalclass.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
What is the Political Animal Class? A broad overview. We are @polanimalclass.bsky.social We are #OneBillionScreams
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Ground Zero: One Billion Screams @polanimalclass.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
The powerless are never alone. We are a class. We do not stand by while our class is oppressed. As #OneBillionScreams, we are the Political Animal Class. And we will take this struggle to the highest levels of power. @polanimalclass.bsky.social
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Ground Zero: One Billion Screams @polanimalclass.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Dominated by anthropocentrism and capitalism, the world sees as you nothing. People ignore your desperate, shrill screams. But some of us boil with fury for you every day. We will force your suffering on the table. We turn your screams into political force. @polanimalclass.bsky.social
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Ground Zero: One Billion Screams @polanimalclass.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
If you're a vegan and a leftist, If you feel politically powerless, If you want to build a new bloc, That empowers us to speak radically, About animal liberation. Even as we see all oppression is intertwined. Join us. This Is Our Ground Zero. #OneBillionScreams @polanimalclass.bsky.social
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Ground Zero: One Billion Screams @polanimalclass.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Nonhuman animals don't struggle alone and forgotten in the slaughterhouses and labs. We are with them. We are the the conduit through which their screams turn into political power. This is our ground zero. #OneBillionScreams @PolAnimalClass
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