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Charl Peter Gerida

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Nied [5'7"] @nied.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
It's notable how much effort the Biden admin put in to trying to get food-aid into Gaza.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
they needed a janky pier in Gaza because the policy of the Israeli government was to starve everyone in Gaza to death
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
notably, this is the worst answer the survey team had ever gotten, even from states actually involved in genocidal violence.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
yeah -- the thing i'm trying to get at here is that what is happening in New York is, in a very real sense, normal idiosyncratic ethnic politics, but heightened both by antisemitism and the horror of what is happening in Gaza. it's like if Serbian nationalism was a live issue in 1997.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
it is incredible how many people have invested their entire identity in what was in most cases a pig butchering scam and, when it was not a pig butchering scam, stole food from the starving to feed people with smartphones
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the abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 10h
*as part of a movement* with institutional power, individualized acts of resistance add up. in isolation, they are aaron bushnell self-imolating. emotionally evocative, perhaps radicalizing, but able to go no further without help.
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the abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 11h
I sympathize but what you have to realize is that you, individually, have far more ability to keep the left a safe place for Jewish comrades than to abolish the state of Israel. and indeed we need the former to make the latter possible.
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the abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 10h
a lot of the grief within the left for other parts of the left in the case of Palestine comes down to treating this as something that can be slowed or stopped by direct action when it is a collective action problem and collective action requires more than individual courage
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 13h
should be instructive for democrats that Magyar is living up to his promise to prosecute Orban officials for corruption and is continuing to poll extremely highly
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the abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 9h
Complete vindication for LA DSA lmao
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 16h
shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 4h
destroying Greek life would be useful for stemming an entire mode of social reproduction which, as I must remind everyone, was born of the confederate south. Greek life prides itself on keeping the tradition of rape alive in more than one form. Sometimes literal.
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 18h
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 18h
The Cornell victim has been doxxed on X. So worried for her. I hate this planet.
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 17h
She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 18h
Schumer and Gillibrand just voted yes for Van Hollen's resolution demanding a State Department human rights report on Israeli conduct in the illegally-occupied West Bank.
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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 17h
These are, as @diplomatofnight.com would say, pretty low stakes but would be massive shifts for the US. Also even doing the first one would probably cause the Israeli government to lose their goddamn mind, but hey. They need to feel the heat.
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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 19h
I’m da communist poster who pays Elon musk for x verification. I’m building communism by paying Elon musk to post on his Nazi website that produces AI generated CSAM.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 16h
Tonight, 47 Senators supported my resolution to get accountability for the 9 Americans killed on the West Bank & for Palestinians who face injustices daily. That's more support than we've ever had in this fight. Republicans blocked us, but we won't stop until we get justice.
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Thomas HD @degolierthomas.bsky.social · 19h
Holy shit there is a whole website
rickettspardon.com
Pete Ricketts and the John Arias Pardon | Nebraska
Pete Ricketts voted to pardon John Arias, convicted of first-degree sexual assault and originally charged with weapon use, terroristic threats and false imprisonment, while victim Jody Snogren was not...
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 17h
Genuinely psychotic reactions and also unfortunately the people paid to fight antisemitism think these people are their allies in the fight against holding Israel accountable for anything.
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Reconstruction 3 Enthusiast @squalortoballer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It never happens because the national orgs are set up to shift blame to individuals or at most local chapters. This article is very good on the topic. They basically have crisis management cleaners who make all this stuff go away.
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The Dark Power of Fraternities
A yearlong investigation of Greek houses reveals their endemic, lurid, and sometimes tragic problems—and a sophisticated system for shifting the blame.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 23h
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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Reconstruction 3 Enthusiast @squalortoballer.bsky.social · 21h
I read this article when it first came out and it made me an abolitionist.
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
*However* if the crackerpocalypse is real (low income white voters staying home or flipping) then shit is gonna go absolutely gangbusters. However, that is hard to believe in our times of extreme polarization and affective partisanship
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sleepynaut @grovewalker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
photo of werner herzog with a speech bubble added so that it looks like he is saying the quoted post
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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Independent has a photo of the slide we weren't able to see during the Smith hearing. No texts from Smith in it.
JP Cooley: Is 109 Row 1 reserved for Jack? 
JP Cooley: Damn. Thank you for saving -- but we are good. Ask Harbach. 
Gavin Wallach: He is already down here. Thanks.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 22h
also, the answer, as always, is for congress to do their fucking jobs
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the right's crippling lack of ball knowledge strikes again
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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026
the left has gotten sports, in its entirety, in the national divorce this is why bluesky is the official app of sports
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 23h
The reporting has been corroborated by the Guardian.
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Israel does not have right to close UK consulate in Jerusalem, Foreign Office advised
Former attorney general Dominic Grieve says Israel is not entitled to shut mission in occupied Palestinian territory
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 23h
Incredible, Democrats have officially hit a 10 point lead on the generic ballot
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 23h
Worth looking at what Biden's top human rights diplomat Dafna Rand has to say about whether or not the Biden administration used all of the tools available to pursue an end to the end of the genocide in Gaza. Her conclusion, based on extensive interviews with other Biden alumna: no
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 20h
Good example among dozens or hundreds of how Trump is actually extremely self interested and the war on ICC/ICJ is largely an attempt to protect himself while Biden was just ideologically opposed to the US not having a monopoly on the Palestine question.
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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's fascinating to see how seriously people take the Marwan Barghouti terrorism charges when his captor was literally involved in this assassination
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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 21h
We Taught This Chimpanzee to Understand the Median Voter's Politics and He
Hanged Himself
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brent sewer socialist🚰🌹 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The average voter is amazing
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Dave Against The Machine🏴 @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 23h
Today alone there have been 3 GB polls showing Dems with a double digit lead: D+ 10 Quinnipiac D+ 15 YouGov D+ 16 Angus Reid
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 23h
Funniest part to me is Jack Smith using 110% of his lawyer brain. He avoids making the connection himself; he doesn't even say "Hawkeyes," he just says "Iowa." He knows it's better to let everyone figure it out on their own. He also knows from Klobuchar's grin that she'll dunk it for him.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/09/2026
mein gott!
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Semi-related, I don't think I believe ~whatever~ is going on in Republican internals in Arkansas, but even an understated faltering with low income southern white voters could lead to some absolute fuckin nonsense outcomes
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Andrew Robbins @robbinsa.me · 29/09/2026
calling it now, we're gonna see Tracy held on contempt when he refuses to disclose who told him the doxx
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Trump era has really fucked everyone up in profound ways. Turns out electing the physical embodiment of the most demonic things about American society to the Presidency was a mistake
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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 22h
don’t get headline sniped, these are standard plans from a liberal/progressive policy standpoint.
The platform, dubbed the Building A Healthier America Policy Agenda, takes aim at pesticides in food, backing legislation that would give people the right to sue pesticide manufacturers over harm caused by the products. It seeks accountability for polluters, with a pledge to get industry lobbyists out of regulatory agencies. And it aims to get substances such as lead and microplastics out of water, in part by strengthening federal drinking water rules. It also proposes investments in school meal programs and grocery stores on wheels.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Anyone who suggests we just turn the page is in league with the GOP. This guy is telling you they tried to overthrow the government. You don't just pretend it never happened @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
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the abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Smith could be the Republican hunting Resist Lib crusader that many convinced thenselves Garland would be.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026
third way figured out dems should stop attacking trans people? third way?!
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