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Amelie W

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@amelie@kind.social is where I do my socials, and I hope you will join me once this site follows twitter's footsteps. Or even before! Stories: odaw.blogspot.com Games: tehamelie.itch.io Address: Sweden

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 2h
Let's have a moment of silence for all the men who lost their girlfriends in the Ukrainian attack on Russian data centers.
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Amelie W @tehamelie.bsky.social · 21h
I hope fascist and white supremacist movements everywhere take note of how much their online presence is dropping with the loss of Russian data centers. Let them figure out whose side they're on.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
French TV is astounded by the turnout at Melenchon's rally. It's coming, a Socialist Spring. First Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil in October. Then Pedro Sánchez in Spain in November. Then Jean-Luc Mélenchon in France in April. MAKE. IT. HAPPEN.
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Paul Graf @paulginva.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is the most articulate and impactful piece I've read regarding the Pentagon's planned livestreamed execution of Nidel Hasan. Please read it.
The Space Coast Rocket @CoastRocket

WE COUNT THE ENEMIES WE KILL. WE RARELY COUNT THE ONES WE CREATE.

Nidal Hasan was a patient on my floor in the surgical trauma ICU at Brooke Army Medical Center.

I wasn't there when he arrived. I had just left for my deployment to Mosul, Iraq. But the nurses and doctors who cared for him were my peers and my friends, and I know exactly what that required of them, because every one of us had done some version of it before. Before anyone tells me what strength looks like, understand what that work demands.

I have cared for a drunk driver who wiped out an entire family and landed in our ICU himself. I have cared for gang members who shot up a block while children were stepping off a school bus, then ended up on our unit with bullets of their own. I have kept alive people who murdered their own families and failed at taking their own lives. And in Iraq, I saved the lives of the very enemy fighters who had just tried to kill us and miraculously survived our response.

Every one of those patients got our best. Not because we felt anything for them, but because of who we were. You set aside anger, grief, prejudice and every personal feeling you have, because a life in front of you is a life in front of you. That's the oath. That's the duty.

So when Hasan came through those doors, my colleagues did what we had always done. They preserved the life of a man who murdered thirteen people and would have killed them too, given the chance. He killed those men and women in one of the very same buildings many Soldier's like myself have been in when I was stationed at Fort Hood.

He is alive today because they did their jobs. That was not sentiment. It was a hard, tangible expression of the values this country claims to stand for. Our principles had to mean something even when the person benefiting from them had violated everything we believed in.Now the Pentagon plans to livestream his execution by firing squad on Dec. 3, and our leaders apparently believe turning his death into a public spectacle will demonstrate American strength. I think it demonstrates how little they understand the enemy they claim to be fighting. We kept Nidal Hasan alive, now our leaders want to make him a martyr.

Hasan walked into Fort Hood expecting to die. He believed his death would be rewarded. At his trial, he called no witnesses and offered no defense, and his own court-appointed lawyers worried he was seeking execution. He failed at martyrdom once. Now we're about to hand it to him, in high definition, for every extremist with an internet connection to replay, manipulate and celebrate.

We supply the footage. They supply the meaning.

Long after the politicians finish congratulating themselves, that video will still exist. Their moment of bravado becomes somebody else's recruiting material for decades. And this failure to think past the immediate display of power reaches far beyond one execution. We count the enemies we kill. We rarely count the enemies we create.

Look at the school in Minab, Iran, where multiple investigations attributed the strike that killed more than 100 children and their teachers to us. You cannot bury people's children beneath the rubble of their classrooms and expect a speech about American intentions to decide how they remember you. No denial brings those children home. No claim of good intentions makes their parents forget whose weapons killed them.If those were our children, we would remember for the rest of our lives.

We would demand accountability. Many of us would want vengeance.

We would tell their stories to the next generation. We know this because we did exactly that after September 11.

Why do we imagine other people love their children less, grieve less deeply, or remember less clearly?

We have developed a horrifying talent for creating more terrorists than we will ever stop. We inflict suffering, evade responsibility, and then act as though the anger that follows came out of nowhere.

Think back to the first time you saw one of those al Qaeda videos of an American being beheaded. Remember the sickness in your stomach.

Remember the rage. Remember thinking that only savages would film a killing and send it out for the world to watch. Now ask yourself what the rest of the world will see when the camera is ours.

Terrorist organizations stage executions for the cameras. Authoritarian regimes make death a public spectacle to feed fear and rage. Watching our own leaders reach for those same tools should force us to confront how much of ourselves we are surrendering in the name of defeating them.

The line separating us from the people we condemn has to live in our conduct. A flag cannot hold it for us. Neither can a uniform, a title, or a declaration that we are the good guys.

On that ICU floor, on a bloody street in Mosul, and in trauma bays across this country, people like my colleagues hold that line every day under circumstances most will never face. They keep monsters alive because their duty and their humanity are bigger than their hatred of what those monsters have done.Execute him if that's the sentence. But do it the way a confident nation does; quietly, lawfully, and without giving him the stage he always wanted. Let him be forgotten.

I expect our leaders to show at least as much discipline as the nurses who had to care for him.

They keep telling us they are defending what makes America different. Every day, they make that difference harder to see.

Robert W. Burns III is the editor and publisher of The Space Coast Rocket, an Army veteran and a retired trauma nurse. The views expressed in this column are his own.

CBS News @CBSNews

The U.S. military plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan, the ex-Army major who was convicted of the 2009 killing of 13 people at Fort Hood, when he faces a firing squad on Dec. 3, a Pentagon official said.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said earlier Thursday the Pentagon planned to make the execution public.

Hasan's case could mark the military's first execution of an American service member since 1961.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.
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Justin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Amelie W @tehamelie.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Of course, the Republican party has bigger problems than Trump, such as all the people enabling Trump, and the philosophy that led to making Trump a viable candidate for politics.
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Catalina Fernandes @catalinafernandes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Pro-Palestine protesters unfurled a massive Palestinian flag outside the Israeli Embassy in Athens, Greece, in a demonstration of solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. The display highlighted continued public opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza and calls for justice and accountability.
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Amelie W @tehamelie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The secret is that conservatives have no end goal. There's no vision of the country where it's perfect, without foreigners, queer people or women with opinions. There is only more power. Taking power and holding it over everybody else.
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Amelie W @tehamelie.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Oh no, a very old sick person might die if you uphold the rule of law? Whatever can you do
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☭🔻Watchdog🔻☭ @comradewatchdog.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Can we just have ONE DAY where Israelis are permitted to mourn those they lost on Oct 7?" Palestinians haven't been able to mourn a single day without having bombs dropped on them.
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Amelie W @tehamelie.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Healthy people don't die of disease. If he's worthy of life, he will live.
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ICE surrounds and fires multiple rounds wounding a man in front of his child in New York this afternoon. One of the agents on scene of the NYC shooting was posing as construction worker. ABOLISH ICE!
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Amelie W @tehamelie.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Think about establishing a permanent presence in the Gobi desert and you can imagine an effort roughly 0.02% as difficult as doing it on the Moon.
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Catalina Fernandes @catalinafernandes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A pro-Palestine demonstration was held in Tokyo today, demanding that Israel stop the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. Demonstrators also called on the Japanese government and corporations to stop aiding Israel’s genocide and demanded sanctions against it.
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Amelie W @tehamelie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I've seen more subtle data manipulation
A well produced graph of the "medal race" between the United States and China, where the former graph looks bigger thanks to a total of 79 medals over 70 and extending the US's 25 gold medals portion to the same size as China's 32 gold medals.
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Amelie W @tehamelie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Meh. His braindead lies are usually more entertaining than that.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
They think we’re all idiots As Jon Stewart says — if the goal is guaranteed income and jobs, why wait? Why is it only “socialism” if we don’t hand them trillions of dollars first?
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Amelie W @tehamelie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh, you're not even Israeli. Good job whining on behalf of people who would love it if you died in a hate crime to prove Jews can only be safe in their little ethnostate, then.
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Amelie W @tehamelie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'm not feeling those things, thank you. I'm also not a bigot just because I don't support Israel's terrorism. And I also don't support Hamas' terrorism. How does it feel to not have a leg to stand on to defend your state terrorism?
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Amelie W @tehamelie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
No, I hope you don't get one moments peace before Palestine is free and the murderers are in prison.
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Amelie W @tehamelie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
After three years of intensive ethnic cleansing you want a day to yourselves to remember why you started it? This spectacle looks more like an excuse to refresh your bloodthirst than mourning.
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Amelie W @tehamelie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If you could make it one day without violating your ceasefire and killing more Palestinians maybe.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Piers Morgan “Mohammed, do you condemn the Hamas attacks on October the 7th?” Mohammed Hijab “Yes, I do. Do you condemn Israel killing over 1000 kids?” Piers Morgan “I believe Israel has a right to defend themselves” That answer should be on the tombstone of his career.
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Amelie W @tehamelie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Imagine having to physically put your compost in a bag and physically take it out the door for the garbage collectors instead of spending hundreds of dollars on a machine in your sink that flushes it down and only occasionally takes your fingers off or destroys small precious items, how do we live
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Their Devil @iamdevil.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s been going around lately.
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Amelie W @tehamelie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I've seen this several times. It's congruent with fascism; to be a fascist you have to be the sort of person who think you can fight twenty people and win. And proving them wrong is really the only way you can fight fascism.
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There is nothing to indicate Trump will have a change of heart and accept an election loss like an adult American.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
All this is obvious, true and but for a couple of very brave pieces in WSJ, not reported or discussed in US corporate media, which are afraid of him.
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Amelie W @tehamelie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hitler didn't even understand the depths of depravity conservative men will go to to protect what they see as masculinity.
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Amelie W @tehamelie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you're killing 1400 people without trial, it doesn't matter what label you put on them, you're not making people safer more than any terrorists are.
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Amelie W @tehamelie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"If you don't like it in this country, go somewhere else" they say while they think they have to fundamentally change their country's entire ethnic, cultural and economic makeup to fix it
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Amelie W @tehamelie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The rare authority of authoritarian dictatorship
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Amelie W @tehamelie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Somehow, Israel's actions keep creating the threats they say they want to prevent, over and over for the entire history of the nation.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Israel fans chanted IDF and made monkey noises at black Irish players during the game against Ireland. Ban Israel.
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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds 16 September 2025 GENEVA – Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Stirring peach by Indonesia at UN. 280 million people. The UN and multilateralism cannot survive whilst Israel violates every principle of UN. Multilateralism, Human rights, right to sovereignty and self determination, peace. youtu.be/1fyOGzJIoCY?...
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FULL: '1,000 Friends Too Few, One Enemy Too Many', Indonesia FM Calls Out Israel & UN Gaza Failure
YouTube video by NDTV World
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Fucking facts. They always have to have a boogeyman to deflect attention away from who they really are.
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Amelie W @tehamelie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Better let the ICC prosecute them then.
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Amelie W @tehamelie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A more serious suggestion than anything coming from "The ICC is an illegitimate, antisemitic, corrupt organization trying to destroy Israel and also ICC prosecute our enemies or else" Netanyahu.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
When Israel barred international journalists from Gaza in October 2023, the explanation was for their “safety” claiming that reporters could not be protected in an active war zone. One year after the one-sided ceasefire, Israel’s excuse has been invalidated, yet the ban remains.
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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Over 3500 people have been arrested in the UK for voicing support for Palestine Action. Anti-terrorism legislation was used for these arrests. The result is that one of the largest demographics of terrorist in the UK is now elderly middle class white people.
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Amelie W @tehamelie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You're lying. Would you like me to humiliate you by explaining what you're lying about, or should we just leave it at that, accepting that your word means nothing.
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Amelie W @tehamelie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The US is always against every possible UN resolution and then refuses to acknowledge them anyway and threatens to leave the UN and refuses to pay its membership fee. Some bizarre fetish for posturing against human rights. Really this is the most normal American thing Trump has done.
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Amelie W @tehamelie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Conservatives are always the poor honest brave uwu babies trying to save the common people from exploitation by the great elite. Always, no matter how entrenched their power is.
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Amelie W @tehamelie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What's weird is, technology was so advanced by 1970 that it became, on balance, a loss to society to have anybody have to work rather than study and learn things freely after their desire. But making people have to work for work's sake became more important than a world where we didn't have to work.
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Amelie W @tehamelie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You want to call Palestinians a death cult based on one person living through a genocide who wants to see some kind of justice? What should we call Israelis then, who accept a regime that's killed and displaced millions of people because they want their land?
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Amelie W @tehamelie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Well, if you give them more than the choice to die lying down or die fighting back you could maybe help them.
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Amelie W @tehamelie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oh, they're always trying to deregulate it. Rich people think rich people should get better access to healthcare than others, unsurprisingly. But in places that restrict election campaign spending and disinformation they have trouble getting political support for it.
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