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For her performance of "Strange Fruit" a song about lynching African American people, she would silence the crowd, a spotlight on her face. On the final note, all lights went out and she was gone.... Singer Billie Holiday,1947 #WomensArt (Image by D.Hagerman)

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Here is a quick recap of »My Voice, My Choice« journey so far. 🧵 We're a group of friends who found it unacceptable that across Europe, more than 20 million women do not have access to abortion.

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Israel's hostage taking has reached new levels of inhumanity. And its Western backers (US. UK, Germany, France etc.) are increasingly complicit in this crime against humanity. Time to tell our leaders: You too are war criminals by association www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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A true American patriot!

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The screens at the Department of Housing and Urban Development were playing this video this morning

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🧵Who is opposing the Trump administration? I analysed 76 actions of the administration since inauguration and then searched for meaningful opposition to each. I grouped the types of opposition and considered what we can learn from both them & actions where opposition has been lacking 1/24

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Elon Musk proposed closing Radio Liberty. Well, as a person who was thrown into a concentration camp and put through torture because of my writing for Radio Liberty, I can say that Europe is far from free. The work of the Ukrainian bureau of Radio Liberty is one of the main elements of ... 1/2

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Usefully sober fact sheet on Ukraine. Please share with those who need it. understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

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This is valor. Black History is American History. #BlackHistoryMonth

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Thank you for following and sharing my art. I now have more followers here than I gathered on the bird site for over 10+ years (RIP). More than on Insta, too. I am happy to see dozens and even hundreds of interactions with my work daily. It keeps my spirit while I am down and not active much. 💙

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www.palestinechronicle.com/china-expand...

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Over 120,000 Japanese Americans forced into imprisonment in internment camps simply because they were of Japanese heritage.

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The Israeli state cannot stand progressive Jews who fight its misanthropy. They repeatedly targeted the brilliant Ofer Cassif, an elected Member of the Knesset, who campaigns tirelessly to end Apartheid. They are having another go now. Let's stop them! www.timesofisrael.com/far-left-mks...

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UPDATE: It's happening now. German police entered the new venue to break up our meeting with Francesca Albanese and Amnesty International. The miss no chance to prove that totalitarianism is back in Germany even before the AfD has won gvt

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Georgian resistance continues to be a beacon in our collective dark night. Sometimes even literally. Witches were employed even in WW2. The power of belief is tremendous - especially the belief of where the power resides.

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Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions theonion.com/historians-p...

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"Foreign investment in rebuilding Ukraine’s economy is being coordinated by the world’s largest asset manager, Blackrock." "One of the conditions imposed by the IMF in last year’s $15.6bn loan to Ukraine is for the government in Kyiv to produce a strategy on privatisation. "

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🟥 On the 38th day of her hunger strike, unjustly detained co-founder and CEO of Batumelebi and Netgazeti, Mzia Amaglobeli, announces the end of her strike and urges other political prisoners to do the same. Letter below⤵️ #GeorgiaProtests #RepressionInGeorgia #TerrorInGeorgia #MediaUnderAttack

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Who do people think the “who” is in “Vote Blue No Matter Who?”

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“…The UK🇬🇧 must move first 🔹London can hit GD’s financial network in Europe 🔹UK action motivates Berlin, Paris and Brussels 🔹A UK-EU tag team can break GD’s financial system The UK has the tools, the EU has the weight. Together, we win…” 🇬🇪🇪🇺 #GeorgiaProtests #terrorinGeorgia 🧵 ⬇️

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TikTok ban's sponsor Mike Gallagher says "the bill was dead until October 7th, and people started to see a bunch of anti-Semitic content on the platform and our bill had legs again." Full video here: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/tiktok-ban...

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Senator Mark Warner spills the beans about "the real story" of how the TikTok ban went down. Turns out, its passage had more to do with the Gaza war than China. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/tiktok-ban...

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Why is Europe declining ever so fast? Here is the gist of it - that it takes no more than 3 mins to explain is the saddest part... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl51...

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And for new, free and fair elections, we need pressure from our friends in addition to our mobilization in Georgia. Firm non-recognition, sanctions, etc.

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“If you're going through hell, keep going.” We will win! 🇬🇪🇪🇺 #GeorgiaProtests Day 80 📸 Ezz Gaber

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I feel like Catch 22 is one of the most obviously leftist books just bc the protagonist is a smart guy who understands the insanity around him in perfect clarity, but nobody takes him seriously because it's also turned him into a miserable, high-strung neurotic And what's more leftist than that

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#Sudan: As RSF intensifies attacks around El Fasher and tightens its siege on the city and Zamzam camp, we are deeply concerned for the safety of our staff and the hundreds of thousands already suffering under shelling and starvation in Sudan’s largest displacement camp.

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Russia attacked Kyiv, Ukraine with ballistic missiles and drones, specifically targeting apartment buildings, office spaces, and civilian infrastructure while people slept at night. Firefighters worked bravely throughout the night to rescue victims and put out the emerging fires. #StandWithUkraine

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"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all." Arthur C. Clarke

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The dumbest people who have ever existed are running the country

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This is a protest map of Serbia, population ~7 million. At this point, almost every damn town and municipality went out for a blockade, protest or both, multiple times, even villages with 500 people. Largest protest so far had ~220k people. A big one is scheduled in a few days.

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The world in 2025. Hundreds of thousands of Germans oppose neo-fascism. The top aide to the president of the United States supports it. apnews.com/article/germ...

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On the days I am about to give up, this Gwendolyn Brooks poem gives me an anchor.

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Spread the word! #revolution #abolishtheoligarchy #shutdown315 #unitedwearestonger #oligarchy #shoplocal #shutdown

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