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she/they, savarna migrant on stolen land | spadeworker, poet, illustrator organizing around jails/gender/disability | palestine kashmir hawai'i zindabad | 😷up

[🖤ShutItDown2024🇵🇸 @cemicool]

Have been off X but I did launch this resource recently: https://t.co/SYLh1P0VE7 on fighting carceral infrastructure of all kinds, particularly features recommendations on landscape assessments pre-organizing, avoiding identity reductionism, & rejecting carceral alternatives.

[Noah Hurowitz @NoahHurowitz]

Update: I got into the Israel real estate event at Park East Synagogue.

Inside I saw at least one table advertising properties in the West Bank, including Kfar Eldad and Karnei Shomron.

[Ollie Vargas @Ollie_Vargas_]

Bolivia's workers unions announce an indefinite general strike against the neoliberal austerity measures announced this week.

No dialogue or negotiation, all the measures must be repealed first. No honeymoon period for the right-wing govt.

[Ashok Kumar | 🇵🇸 @broseph_stalin]

Running on Palestine in the primary, diluting it in the general, and then going quiet after election is a worrying trajectory for Zohran.

[James🔻 @GoodVibePolitik]

Super fun optimistic piece releasing tomorrow

[Nerdeen Kiswani @NerdeenKiswani]

This is deeply disturbing and not enough people are talking about it.

Zohran Mamdani just went to the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Ohel in Queens, venerating the founder of the racist, Zionist Chabad movement.

The Rebbe’s movement has a long history that should make anyone pause. In 1991 a car in his motorcade killed 7‑year-old Gavin Cato, a Black Caribbean child in Crown Heights. The first ambulance to arrive was Jewish Hatzalah, which took the Jewish driver and passengers before treating the child, who was killed by the motorcade. The Rebbe never apologized or took responsibility.

Fast forward to April 2025: Chabad invited far-right Israeli Minister Itamar Ben‑Gvir to their Brooklyn headquarters. Outside, a mob of Orthodox men chanted “death to Arabs,” surrounded and chased a woman they thought was a protester, threatened her with rape, kicked her, hurled cones and trash cans, and another Jewish supporter of Palestine was hospitalized with a bloody head wound. Hundreds followed her for blocks before police got her to safety.

Chabad-Lubavitch is actively cheering on and materially supporting the Israeli military. Branches have raised tens of thousands of dollars for the IDF, a Chabad charity in the U.K. was officially warned for buying military equipment for soldiers, and senior rabbis in Israel lobbied the government on war policies and settlements, framing military action as religiously mandated. Their “Moshiach” messaging and flags are everywhere — on Israeli tanks in Gaza and across NYC streets — signaling a messianic justification for this violence.

So Mamdani is venerating the leader of a sect that:
• is politically and rabidly pro-Israel,
• has tolerated violent, anti-Arab racism,
• never reckoned with a racist tragedy in its own motorcade,
• has materially and ideologically supported military operations in Gaza.

Meanwhile, he hasn’t said a word about Gaza since the ceasefire on October 10, even though around 400 Palestinians have been killed, including children and civilians. Our people are dying daily, and not a whisper.

[maria ☭🔻 @resistancestan]

mamdani bros are like just this one bro trust me bro this one is different bro

[Andre2000 🔻 @ComradeAndre2k]

Every time I mention these 2 books the same people get mad. It just exposes the settler colonial contradictions of many on the “left”

[Mezna Qato @meznaqato]

Call for proposals for this first issue of @RadHistReview on Radical Histories of Palestine and Palestinians. The call for papers/proposals is in both English and Arabic. Please spread far and wide. https://t.co/MYg8vJsXoB

[Kevin Lozano @kevlloydlozano]

absolute barn burner of an essay on the bronx fires
and 1970s nyc

https://t.co/OlChR2wKHu

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

yeah you don't really "celebrate in the streets" at the end of a genocide, you just sigh and weep for the dead

[Ayesha A. Siddiqi @AyeshaASiddiqi]

my mom always says to me “you know everything bad about the world, all the bad things about everything there is to know” but i know about the good things too alhumdulillah

[Dalit Solidarity Forum @dsf4us]

BREAKING: DSF & Savera express grave concern over reports that DOJ closed its probe into BAPS’ trafficking & exploitation of 200+ Dalit & marginalized workers. We demand full accountability & justice. Read the full statement here: [https://t.co/5NJlFLsLSf]

[🖤ShutItDown2024🇵🇸 @cemicool]

Boost!

[FK @kfortzx]

Not even exaggerating, having good friends will save your life fr

[Miranda Holmqvist @MirandaHqv]

Mary Oliver

[onagapnotsew @westonpagano]

While you're all talking about Charlie Kirk, Israel just took more hostages in one single day than Hamas has taken in their entire existence.

[leopard print bussy @bigsnugga]

it was fun while it lasted i guess

[Vitalist International @VitalistInt]

the current government in nepal is not communist. it is a coalition government of stalinists and social democrats. those overthrowing it are proletarians, angry autonomous youth, and maoists who support the other communist party.

[Vasiliki Albedo @minorroarr]

what a gorgeous expansive ending
W.S Merwin