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@awkword.bsky.social
Hip Hop Artist | Sociologist | Organizer | Journalist • @tendemands.bsky.social Co-Founder | @crushcolonialism.bsky.social Board | @joindayenu.bsky.social Comms | @unicornriot.bsky.social Writer • aka @philmandelbaum.bsky.social • thisisawkword.com
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You may be considered a terrorist if you’ve complained about AI Trump and the Justice Department have “declared war on… opponents of AI,” with opponents of AI being classified under NSPM-7 as “further[ing] the propaganda or other goals of a foreign power” www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-think...
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If this @thedailyshow.com segment has you curious about Yvonne St. Cyr, I spent years tracing her road to Jan. 6 in my book The Conspiracists. It didn’t begin with QAnon. It ran through the Marines, evangelical Christianity, New Age wellness, and eventually conspirituality. 1/2
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BEWARE Voting machines changing votes Check the results before walking away! Reports are from Florida, Texas, Tennessee and Ohio Pay attention!!! www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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When Democrats take the House and Senate, they MUST excise Elon Musk and his companies from the US government Then they must investigate DOGE, X, Starlink, and his interference in our elections He must be under oath-so that in 2028, with a Democratic president, he might face criminal charges
The United States is actively helping Putin murder civilians in Ukraine. Trump is doing everything he can to force Ukraine to surrender to his friend and ally Putin so they can be subjugated by the Russians again.
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The EU is shifting its Arctic strategy away from climate change toward hard security & geopolitical concerns driven by rising threats. This pivot addresses record shipping volumes, hybrid warfare tactics such as satellite jamming, & the protection of critical infrastructure like submarine cables.
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BREAKING: The Trump regime has attempted to hack voting machines. Trump appointees asked the federal cybersecurity agency CISA to secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it ! www.propublica.org/article/cisa...
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NEW: How The Proud Boys Lost Their Name Nearly six years ago, the Proud Boys vandalized a historically black church’s property during the unrest following the 2020 Presidential Election. The case resulted in the group losing the trademark to their name, but it didn’t end there.
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🚨 Congress is considering a "permitting reform" bill that would provide massive giveaways to Big Oil, eviscerate our environment, harm our health, increase energy costs, and impose deep damage on frontline communities. TELL CONGRESS: STOP THE "PERMITTING REFORM" BILL: dayenu.org/stop-permitt...
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The EPA is planning to repeal the pollution limits set on power plants. This would accelerate the climate crisis, increasing pollution, illness and premature death, as well as exacerbating environmental injustice. Join us in submitting your comments to the EPA here: dayenu.org/epa-power-pl...
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My latest w/ TNN. This is a piece that I hope will be inspiring for folks, especially in the current bleak times
Despite Seattle's reputation as a trans haven, the University of Washington has reacted to escalating attacks on trans rights with silence — even after a trans student was murdered. But trans academic workers, unionized with UAW, are fighting back. Our latest, from @thefreeradical.org.
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That Novel Peace Prize is still bugging him. Meanwhile, Trump has bombed Iran and Yemen, launched military action in Venezuela, expanded strikes in Somalia, Iraq and Nigeria, and several of those “8 wars” he claims to have ended either weren’t wars, weren’t ended, or resumed fighting. Peace! 🕊️
Trump: "There's never been anybody in the history of the Nobel Prize that deserves it more. I settled eight wars. I stopped the total obliteration of the world."
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🔹️Trump : “I can do whatever I want, if I want. I could’ve done very bad things to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden" 🔹️ICE investigated 100s of voter regist. groups and considers spying on them 🔹️Rs brace for defeat & Trump impeachment And more !👇🏻 aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-trump...
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Stocks of crude oil in the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve are at their lowest since October 1982. Natural gas inventories are also depleted. A bad winter could bring about a "bloodbath" in the gas market in the first quarter of 2027 if storage hits minimal levels. www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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Air pollution from gas-powered AI data centers is expected to add at least $20 billion in health care costs per year. This finding is part of a report, The Hidden Health Costs of AI Data Centers, from a group representing 800 former EPA employees. Get the report: safernotsicker.org/take-action/...
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“We are all in shared struggle against imperialism. That’s why… it all comes back to what do we mean when we say development. Development for whom?” Breaking the Media Blackout of Student Protests in India speakingoutofplace.com/2026/09/29/b...
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Protect public education! The voucher system will cut inclusion & diversity in private schools The new voucher rules prevent NY from protecting all kids. Gov. Hochul hasn’t opted in yet. QUICK SIGNATURE: tell her to keep NY out! via @momsrising.org action.momsrising.org/sign/NYVouch...
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"Even if he gets an hour to eat or to exercise, he's alone," attorney Mutimer said. "He's looking at having his liberty potentially taken away. ... He is looking at being removed from the military, losing his benefits and potentially spending significant time in jail." #StandWithMajorWatson #resist
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Even the lame-duck "speaker of the House" has voiced disquiet and warns against the Trump/Hegseth plan to have a livestreamed-fire-squad execution of Nidal Malik Hasan in December. Trump and his sycophants are losing ground each day. We can win the Midterms ! www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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🚨 Russia isn't just preparing a chemical attack—they're already doing it. @olgalautman.bsky.social latest report reveals how Moscow uses its Syria playbook to setup new false flags, despite already using chloropicrin & CS gas on Ukrainian forces for years with little media notice 👇
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Virtix is one of several companies replacing Medicare with AI for prior authorization. The companies make 25% on money they save Medicare, incentivizing denial. The pilot program is in 6 states. And private equity owns it all. Get ready for your hair to catch fire. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Znue...
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On Indigenous Peoples Day and every day, we honor and learn from Indigenous cultures, and the way they interact with our sacred land. This quote was shared with us by @jendeerinwater.bsky.social and our partners at @crushcolonialism.bsky.social.
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The new ICE facility for children set to open at an abandoned Air Force barracks in Louisiana puts kids at risk of child trafficking. www.thequeenzone.com/new-ice-faci...
ICE is opening a prison for children on a toxic waste site in Louisiana. www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
ICE is opening a prison for children on a toxic waste site in Louisiana. www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
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#TheMagazine | "Being Maasai is about more than traditional clothing or language. It is about respecting our community, caring for the land and livestock, listening to Elders, and protecting the values passed down through generations." 🤲 Support our work: crushingcolonialism.org/donate
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🚨 An alarming breakdown of Pete Hegseth's rhetoric, which frames the military as moral crusaders superior to 99% of Americans while labeling media and intellectuals as traitors. The goal? A military isolated from society, recruited strictly from conservative colleges.
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IT'S TIME TO EXPOSE TRUMP'S MISAPPROPRIATION OF FUNDS !!! A pro-Trump group created his most recent $20M-three-minute ad... The NYT reported that Trump personally asked to find TAXPAYER MONEY to pay for his ads. And the grift list goes on right here ! 👇🏻 aaronparnas.substack.com/p/major-deep...
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Trump has hired Elon Musk to co-direct a new Pentagon initiative on the future of warfare. www.war.gov/News/Release...
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Peter Thiel thinks it's okay to be evil if you're competent. "If you're evil, you're not bad and therefore you're actually maybe you're actually kind of kind of good because you're at least getting something done." ― Peter Thiel www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7yl...
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🚨 A fire at a Starlink satellite station in central Poland was a deliberate "act of sabotage". A Polish government minister said the fire was "deliberately designed to disable the station...disrupting internet access for various institutions, including the Ukrainian army". #Ukraine
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🚨 BREAKING: A major incident has been declared near the US-used airbase RAF Fairford Gloucestershire. Several men arrested under the Explosives Act, prompting multiple property evacuations in Whelford. Army bomb disposal experts are currently on the scene. Police believe incident is contained.