Forced to walk the plank by the moderators at the Masto flagship (mastodon.social) for opposing genocide in Palestine. Resurfacing here. “But the hushing of the criticism of honest opponents is a dangerous thing.” — W.E.B. Du Bois
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Last Notes npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 Pennsylvanians protest against Lockheed Martin, US military contractor with Israel. https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/116/420/772/934/735/664/original/1ec1b87715ef60e1.mp4 npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 Lebanon’s religious diversity. The country is not a monolith. https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/116/409/111/299/706/103/original/a82004fa20dee1b0.jpeg npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 First iris of the season checked in out back today. #bloomscrolling #flowers #nature #photo https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/116/404/342/971/645/605/original/b6f58ba3e9194db0.jpeg https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/116/404/345/286/739/546/original/ba2deb5fa67ac8bf.jpeg npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 Those who rhetorically ask where a #protest went can pound sand. Movement #protests don’t disappear. “Mass protests following the 2020 #police-perpetrated killing of George Floyd deepened relationships and coordination across the city. When #ICE surged, people knew how to respond and who to call.” https://truthout.org/articles/what-do-authoritarians-fear-most-people-who-stick-up-for-each-other/ npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 “A protester breached the airside perimeter at Shannon Airport in #Ireland today, climbed onto the wing of a parked #US Air Force C-130 Hercules and damaged the fuselage with what is believed to be an axe, taking the aircraft out of service. Shannon Airport briefly closed. The man was arrested by Gardaí and the Armed Support Unit. Shannon has been used as a key US #military transit hub throughout the #Iran war, despite the Irish government's insistence it is not being used for #war.” https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/116/386/932/966/700/288/original/1fecbeaa12e13195.mp4 npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 “The shipment included lasers, targeting sights, fire control systems, and components used in fighter jets. These items require strict authorization before they can transit through Belgian territory” #UK #Israel #Belgium https://qudsnen.co/post?id=67534&slug=uk-arms-firms-caught-attempting-illegal-weapons-shipment-to-israel-via-belgium https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/116/384/170/895/048/363/original/ef0a13748858a32f.jpeg npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 “9-year-old Palestinian girl Ritaj Rihan was shot and killed by Israeli fire while sitting in class inside a makeshift tent classroom at Abu Ubaida Al-Jarrah School in Beit Lahia, northern #Gaza. 💔💔💔💔” #warcrimes #israel #genocide #Palestine https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/116/378/686/625/343/679/original/6d6b6b0bfd8bf84f.mp4 npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 Where have we seen this before? #nevent1q…7ge8 https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/116/352/342/986/207/700/original/bc57280a1ada7a67.jpeg npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 Zionism is a death cult. https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/116/321/929/819/800/369/original/3b43745919b0f852.jpeg npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 This is a #warcrime. “Breaking | Lebanese Paramedics Hussein Darwish, Adel Qadouh, Ibrahim Zaher Abu Zeid, Ali Joha and Hassan Moussa Noureddine were killed last night in an Israeli airstrike targeting Al-Risala ambulance team on the Zoutar al-Gharbiyeh road in southern Lebanon.” https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/116/307/444/495/237/657/original/579eb6cdceb9f6d8.jpeg npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 We are not talking enough about how unmasking these mercenaries in roles of “helping” at #airports (as is being branded by every local newscast I’ve seen) is likely a PR drive to manufacture white comfort with and assimilation of #ICE fascism. That may or may not involve their street violence. https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/116/279/450/288/666/004/original/5b6267bc5dc0427e.jpeg npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 “A child was killed, and several others were injured in a US-Israeli airstrike that targeted a residential and tourist complex in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz on Saturday.” https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/116/267/804/658/656/400/original/734d69b6a2048131.mp4 npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 Feminism for #Iran, but not for #Gaza. “Israeli soldiers set dogs on Palestinian #women, assaulted pregnant mothers, and threatened them with rape — all of this with #US support and under the protection of six US vetoes.” #warcrimes #genocide #uspol https://www.newarab.com/opinion/us-israeli-operation-iran-feminist-war-ask-netanyahu npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 “The last photo of Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, a third-grade student killed in the reported #US/Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab, #Iran. He is waving goodbye to his mother.” #Trump #warcrime #usa #war https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/116/185/303/458/420/294/original/68f6b09f0187591c.jpeg npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 #Trump has bombed 11 #hospitals, 7 Red Crescent Emergency Centers in #Iran, according to an Al Jazeera report. These are not strategic #military targets. Further evidence that war in #Gaza was a dress rehearsal. #war #warcrimes #genocide npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 “‘The principal called the parents and told them to come and pick up their #children. But the second bomb hit that area as well. Only a small number of those who had taken shelter survived.’ Almost all the 165 people killed in the attack were girls aged between 7 and 12, according to local officials. There were around 170 girls at the school in southern #Iran’s Minab at the time.” #trump #warcrimes #usa https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-iranian-girls-killed-double-tap-strikes-minab-school npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 Al Jazeera commentators talking about the sequence of invading #Venezuela and now #Iran indicates that #Trump wants to stop #oil flowing to #China. That makes more sense geopolitically than claims that the attacks are a designed distraction from #Epstein (which has had relatively little traction in the #US like it has in #Europe). npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 Dick Cheney’s dream realized. https://www.thedailybeast.com/director-of-national-intelligence-cites-donald-trumps-executive-privilege-to-block-intel-from-democrats/ npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 Israel detonated an explosive robot in the Zeitoun neighborhood, east of #Gaza City. What #ceasefire? #warcrimes #genocide https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/116/126/271/726/023/678/original/e4245b65c0935b1b.mp4 npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 @nprofile…49jh The Atlantic writer, Tom Nichols, has in the past downplayed both #Jan6 and #COVID. I guess it is good to see the white moderate finally getting around to recognizing rising reactionary threats to democracy. https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/116/121/587/995/771/123/original/ef1edeaf097b835a.jpeg https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/116/121/588/277/495/483/original/797246033bd13299.jpeg npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 Nearly 200,000 Nashvillians without power this morning due to freezing #rain and sleet on top of yesterday’s snowfall. We may get a notch above freezing today but the rest of the week our forecast is below freezing. #Nashville Electric advises us to prepare for a multiple day event. Reportedly the city’s warming shelter was full and turning people away last night. Middle #Tennessee is in a tough way right now. City and state leaders knew this was coming for a week. #weather #severewx #winter npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 @nprofile…dzr8 Davos embodies what Gramsci called “economic-corporate caste spirit.” @nprofile…w4d7 npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 @nprofile…cj3j They’re also the ones who were most likely participating in the J6 insurrection. The irony is they are the group that Democrats are going hardest after. @nprofile…tr97 npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 @nprofile…2h0q I can think of a few reasons re: Germany and several have to do with the Social Democrats. @nprofile…p227 https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/902/699/521/840/489/original/6b5f8b0b8e0ecc06.jpeg npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 “these detention centers ‘go against ancestral values of responsibility, human dignity, and respect. This line of business is an unjust investment on many levels, including adjacency to work that co-signs ICE methods including lack of due process for detainment, incarceration and rampant mistreatment of thousands of Indigenous relatives from Central and South America’” https://alaskabeacon.com/2026/01/12/shareholders-ask-bering-straits-native-corporation-to-divest-from-ice-contracts/ npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 “We know our Indian reservations were the government’s first attempts at detention centres. We were placed here because we were treated as prisoners of war …. We must ask ourselves why we would ever participate in something that mirrors the harm and trauma once done to our people” https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/ice-contracts-indigenous-nations-9.7039930 npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 “State and local governments across the U.S. hold more than $4 trillion in all investments in their investment portfolios. At least $1.6 billion in #Israel Bonds is held between state governments, municipal governments, and public pension funds nationwide. Those #investment dollars come from every individual, household, and business within the municipal or state borders that pay property #taxes, income taxes, and sales taxes” https://newsletter.mariannedhenin.com/the-quiet-success-of-the-israel-divestment-movement/ npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 “The [Border Patrol] guy, I’m telling him like, ‘Please step off the school grounds,’ and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he’s trying to push me, and he knocked me down” #minneapolis #ice #police #education https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/08/after-border-patrol-clash-at-roosevelt-minneapolis-schools-cancel-classes npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 @nprofile…3vsh @nprofile…939n So, if a primary goal is to distract from Epstein, then why stage a military invasion and kidnapping during what’s generally understood as the weekend news dump period when public attention to news is not maximized? Those who insist that every outrage caused by Trump leads back to distraction from Epstein risk losing traction at those moments when we will really need full attention on Epstein. Overplaying one issue over and over risks desensitizing to that issue. People will grow fatigued with the sheer repetition. npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 @nprofile…939n @nprofile…3vsh Arguing that invading for the oil is a pretense to distract from Epstein seems a weird framing of what is happening. The simplest explanation is that the oil industry wants the transfer of Venezuelan wealth directed back to them and Trump wants his Monroe Doctrine empire from Greenland to Antarctica. npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 One of the strongest advocates for #Palestine, Lexi Alexander, was recently suspended from #Bluesky without explanation. Truth is that her advocacy was becoming too influential. Even before bsky mods booted her she was promoting #UpScrolled, which is one of the few safe #socialmedia sites for Palestinians. Issam Hijazi is the founder of UpScrolled. I joined UpScrolled because I value Lexi’s perspective and bsky mods won’t stop me from following her. If you have an UpScrolled account let me know and I’ll follow you too. https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/811/919/805/845/136/original/5b4601f08a2eae92.jpeg https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/811/920/146/684/145/original/2598551b5958c725.jpeg npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 My subscription to Ivory is scheduled to renew in January. I won’t be renewing because I don’t use Masto enough to justify it. It will be over to the standard Masto crap app + the browser on my laptop at that point. Yesterday I logged in under my current instance on the crap app for the first time since getting kicked off the mastodondotsocial instance November 2024. I will miss Ivory. npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 “‘We’re being detained,’ she told me. ‘Take care of Sofía’” …. She overheard her brother telling the #ICE officers that they had a small child at home and begging them to let his wife go. Then the call dropped.” https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2025/12/oregon-couple-deported-forced-to-leave-toddler-behind.html npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 “On one occasion, an Israeli settler began ploughing the land of Khoury's family around Taybeh. ‘We were too scared to approach him because you can get shot — and they walk free,’ she says. ‘After October 7, they don’t care anymore — everything is on camera, documented, and still there’s no accountability.’” https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41761412.html npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 “A whole range of mechanisms was devised and implemented not only to maintain nearly impregnable patterns of segregation between Arabs and Jews, but also to erect fairly rigid lines of separation between various Jewish ethno-classes. Segregation mechanisms included the demarcation of local government and educational district boundaries, the provision of separate and unequal government services (especially in education and housing), the development of largely separate economies, the organization of different types of localities in different statewide “settlement movements” and the uneven allocation of land on a sectoral basis” https://www.merip.org/1998/06/democracy-or-ethnocracy/#%5B5%5D https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/752/499/818/768/944/original/08a9313c59d9f5af.jpeg npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 Fascism is an unsustainable institution. https://www.chron.com/culture/article/university-of-austin-staff-exodus-21248040.php npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 #Democrats #fascism #history #uspol #politics #uspolitics https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/post/3mabfvd5ll22v npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 Conjure man been workin’ https://www.fox8live.com/2025/12/17/ice-voodoo-doll-discovered-new-orleans-immigration-crackdown-continues/ npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 “The difference in the treatment of Ms Rachel and Nas Daily could not be clearer. It may be possible to laugh off the Antisemite of the Year award given by a pro-Israel organisation, but the threats and harassment are another matter.” https://www.newarab.com/opinion/nas-daily-and-ms-rachel-tale-two-youtubers npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 “when the country … belts tightened over hollow bellies, idle hands cracked and chapped with the cold of that coldest March day of 1932, started marching from Detroit to Dearborn … all they could think about at Ford’s was machineguns. The country was sound, but they mowed the marchers down.” They shot four of them dead. — John Dos Passos, The Big Money (1933) #books #fiction #history #labor npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 Genocide experts to HRC: the kids are alright. “‘Clinton’s recent remarks at the #Israel Hayom Summit on 2 December amount to outright #genocide denial,’ the group said. ‘Secretary Clinton’s framing is not at all an accurate reflection of why Americans are growing more critical of Israel…. Young people in the U.S. are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide’” https://truthout.org/articles/genocide-experts-slam-hillary-clinton-for-genocide-denial-in-gaza-remark/ npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 “In her ruling Monday, Chief U.S. District Judge Denise J. Casper wrote that Öztürk is likely to succeed on claims that the termination was ‘arbitrary and capricious, contrary to #law and in violation of the First Amendment.’” https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-12-09/turkish-student-who-criticized-israel-can-resume-research-at-tufts-after-visa-revoked-judge-rules npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 “What happened in Jackson Heights fits a larger pattern: small-scale #ICE operations are happening at a faster clip than the dramatic, highly publicized raids that dominate national #news. These are more surgical actions, often taking place in #NewYork’s boroughs, where agents can maneuver more easily than in dense downtown Manhattan” #immigration https://haitiantimes.com/2025/12/08/jackson-heights-ice-raid-immigrant-community-response/ npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 “kidneys donated by Black people are discarded at higher rates because the algorithm downgrades their quality based on the donor's race. This means that some good kidneys may be wasted, raising several ethical and practical concerns.” #medicine #ethics #racism https://www.star-telegram.com/opinion/us-viewpoints/article313460601.html#storylink=cpy npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 Just signed up for #Upscroll. It’s Palestinian-owned so I won’t be banned for supporting #Palestine like I was here on #Mastodon a year ago. #socialmedia #warcrimes #genocide https://share.upscrolled.com/en/user/c4abf67b-93e4-430d-90c6-46d1a6a152f9/ npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 #otd #history #books #fiction https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/post/3m6z3oesfyc2d npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 “For both speakers, the dead children are secondary to Israel's image; they are only casually referenced as a cause of unreasonable and uncalled-for hatred for Israel.” https://substack.com/@alonmizrahi/note/c-181218264?r=3fzhfc npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 “[Teddy Roosevelt] engineered the Panama revolution under the shadow of which took place the famous hocuspocus of juggling the old and new canal companies by which forty million dollars vanished into the pockets of the international bankers, but Old Glory floated over the Canal Zone” — John Dos Passos, 1919 (1932) #books #fiction #history #politics npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 “‘What’s the use of a league of nations if it’s to be dominated by Great Britain and her colonies?’ …. ‘But don’t you think any kind of league is better than nothing?’ …. ‘It’s not the name you give things, it’s who’s getting theirs underneath that counts.’ …. ‘That’s a very cynical remark.’ …. ‘This is a time … when if we aren’t cynical we’d shoot ourselves.’” — John Dos Passos, 1919 (1932) #books #fiction #history #politics #uk #usa npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 Where you at #Mastodon? #socialmedia #Bluesky #Twitter #reddit #threads https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/11/20/americans-social-media-use-2025/ npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 @nprofile…jpsa At the time it seemed poetic to see both back to back. Now I consider it an indiscretion of youth. And, no, you aren’t missing anything. npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 @nprofile…jpsa When I was in high school a group of us went to see Flash Gordon at 9p and stayed for the porn spoof Flesh Gordon at the midnight showing in the same theater. The former had some okay Queen instrumentals the latter had a terrible but funny song called “Puberty Love.” npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 “Bovino left town with many of his agents after having brutalized and abducted so many of our neighbors and community members — violating their rights in the process …. Even with him gone, ICE continues to have a major presence in Illinois” https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/14/homeland-security-naval-station-great-lakes/ npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 All you fascists bound to lose. All you #Democrats bound to surrender to fascists. https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/531/205/198/861/684/original/def8893d6b9c5285.jpeg npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 “Over the years, Slow Factory has worked to address the intersecting crisis of climate justice and social inequity through open education, narrative change, and regenerative designs …. ‘Arabic words often inspire fear in America — but these were the words of the right to freedom of speech and press’” https://www.newarab.com/features/inside-slow-factorys-revolutionary-world-celine-semaan npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 #Nashville #uspol #uspolitics #travel https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/post/3m4lc7lr2g224 npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 “Regardless of the motives, however, #Trump proved once again that when an American president makes a firm demand of #Israel, he cannot be ignored. #Biden knew that, too. It just didn’t matter to him because he didn’t want Israel to stop.” #uspol #uspolitics #politics #Gaza #Palestine https://mondoweiss.net/2025/10/democrats-finally-seem-ready-to-address-the-gaza-genocide-but-it-wont-matter-if-they-dont-support-palestinian-rights/ npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 “Seventeen months of high-definition horror, posted in real-time by Palestinians themselves, fundamentally altered the credibility calculation in the Western mind. People started believing Palestinians. Worse, from #Israel’s perspective, they started going back through the archive, re-evaluating decades of Palestinian testimony with fresh eyes. The #Nakba? Maybe that actually happened the way they said it did. Deir Yassin? Jenin? The prisoner abuse? All of it suddenly crackling with an electric charge of plausibility it never had before.” https://collateraldamage.com/2025/10/23/248/ npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 Devil’s Garden, Arches National Park, #Utah (4 weeks ago) #photo #nature #nps https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/420/980/541/637/641/original/fcc94c5efba848c2.jpeg npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 @nprofile…s4u0 I’m not sure that Thomas Zimmer considers the probability that the greater white privilege of the protest may determine whether or not Trump mobilized federalized troops or MAGA thugs. @nprofile…eash https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/418/172/371/090/935/original/860e7105c346fd16.jpeg npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 #books #scifi #fiction #history https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/post/3m3dqvcn2e22w npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 They were hostages. No less kidnapped than the Zionist detainees. https://mastox.eu/@GlobalSumudF/115366351535168284 npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 Based https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/338/722/998/303/002/original/3065ff5b57623961.jpeg npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 My social media mantra. https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/338/701/190/113/903/original/a10bfd6738b7a1e5.jpeg npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 @nprofile…j393 Your reply reads like you believe I was careless in my posting. Do you believe that I deserved to be kicked off the instance? npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 @nprofile…y6sf I have a load of respect for her. I wonder why she’s not posting here? Maybe because she hasn’t found the same supportive community she finds on bsky? (BTW, the moderators on your instance terminated my account there because of my pro-Palestine toots. Masto doesn’t live up to the hype in my book). https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/335/564/443/122/069/original/d53db9ccc1bc4805.jpeg npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 @nprofile…j393 Moderators of the instance you are on suspended my account there almost exactly a year ago for posting pro-Palestine content like the screenshot below and for comparing genocide to the Holocaust. Given the potential for moderation bias and intolerance here, Mastodon has not been any better for me than any other social media platform. @nprofile…m680 https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/333/313/499/085/461/original/6209b5e29fecbd25.jpeg npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 @nprofile…fp6z The US Army founded Fort Bliss in 1848 to bar Apache communities from crossing the border. It’s always been a white supremacist outfit. npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 Why isn’t Democrat Pritzker telling his cops to stand down? “Illinois state police arrested people who tried to block … [ICE] vehicles, in a bid to localize crowd control of protests outside the Broadview ICE facility, where protesters have tried to disrupt ICE activity” https://organizingmythoughts.org/must-reads-and-the-war-on-chicago/ npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 Portland cops aiding Trump’s Gestapo. Democrats are in charge of the municipal government. “federal law enforcement officers use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats. That was the case even before Thursday’s protest, when fights broke out between protesters and counterprotesters, leading to three arrests by Portland police” https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/10/federal-officer-blasts-chemical-spray-into-vocal-but-nonviolent-portland-protester-video-shows.html npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 @nprofile…jleu Did Jake ever apologize for reporting without confirmation in late 2023 that al-Shifa Hospital was controlled by Hamas? npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 @nprofile…rh2x He might have known the correct name but it is standard practice for Zionists not to use the word “Palestine” lest they give it nation-state legitimacy. @nprofile…jleu npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 2 weeks ago today I stood beneath the balcony of The Stanley Hotel in #Colorado where Stephen King said he sat down in 1974, lit a cigarette, looked out at the #Rockies, and had his entire novel, The Shining, finished in his mind by the time his cigarette was spent. #books #fiction #horror https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/319/067/540/830/115/original/5660341c5c3de4f9.jpeg npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 @nprofile…5rv0 Assuming one has the resources to get out as well as a place to land. npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 This skeet has an apt existential analogy that applies to changing instances here at Masto: the myth of Sisyphus repeatedly rolling the rock up the hill only to watch it roll down again. https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/315/571/410/131/717/original/326612167f767d39.jpeg npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 Why Masto may be unsustainable in the long run. #socialmedia #fediverse #mastodon https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/313/925/966/349/451/original/db19508bf8214ad1.jpeg npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 China Miéville writing on the ultra-reactionary, counter-revolutionary syndicate, Black Hundreds, October 1917 in Revolutionary #Russia. “A mob of Black Hundreds chanting ‘Beat the Yids!’ attacked and murdered several people they accused of ‘speculation’ — a charge provoked by finding galoshes in a Jewish-owned store the clerks of which had claimed they had none. The rampage continued throughout the night and the next day. The newspapers and authorities tried to link the Bolsheviks to the violence. This was a growing theme in the liberal press, despite its patent political absurdity, and despite the recorded efforts of Bolshevik soldiers in the town to stop the carnage.” #otd #history #books npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 My regular reminder on how I define fascism: a right-wing movement that 1) tends to be hostile toward subaltern ethnic or cultural groups while advocating homogeneous ethnic or cultural rehabilitation (frequently cast as utopian, generally supremacist); 2) tends to oppose Marxism, l anarchism, and worker-led democracy and revolution in favor of state capitalism via centralized dictatorship that appeals to strong police powers; 3) tends to favor militarized command structure predominated by petty bourgeois, white-collar labor that reorganizes direct action and occludes class-based activism. npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 #government #shutdown #uspol #politics #nationalparks #republicans https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/post/3m25xya4h6c2v npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 I find that liberals losing arguments fall back on the bad faith question, “What’s your plan?” Thing is, I didn’t create this system and our ballots won’t change the status quo. So asking what my plan is as if anyone outside donors and party machines have flex is a viciously circular trap. npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 Brian Kilmeade is not the first journo to advocate exterminating people living without a roof over their heads. Gale Ahrens writing on the murderous late 19th century newspapers: https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/115209143141036777 https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/209/223/906/968/271/original/422c75d665a08bb8.jpeg npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 “#freespeech to the right means they get to say whatever they want without consequence and we can either agree with them and parrot their words or shut the fuck up” — Meg Pillow #uspol #politics #politicalviolence #press #news #media #guncontrol #guns #charliekirk #briankilmeade https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/208/821/003/774/392/original/b71d1ab332507afa.jpeg npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 Further proof that even if you distance yourself from #politicalviolence conservatives will still find ways to take you down. “I made clear that not performing over-the-top grief for white men who espouse violence was not the same as endorsing violence against them.” #press #news #uspol #politics #charliekirk #guncontrol #media #guns https://karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washington-post-fired-me-but npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 #history #otd #nola https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/post/3lyskedrsa22j npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 “Do not waste your tears over fascists. The U.S. plotted and assassinated Lumumba, chopped his body into pieces, and dissolved it in acid, not just because they labeled him a Communist, but because he was fighting for Congo’s peace. They killed Lumumba to ensure that one of the world’s wealthiest nations would become a site of extreme poverty, kept easily exploitable through perpetual violence. Every martyr story like Lumumba that has been told over and over again shows how cheap our blood is, how NOTHING our life is. I do not weep over the death of American white supremacists; I fucking cheer. One less of them means a Black or brown child can live another day.” https://x.com/nyeusi_waasi/status/1965996459603476766 npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 “That must be the reason … why poverty-stricken old Negroes … lived so long — because to them, no matter how hard life might be, it was not without laughter.” — Langston Hughes, Not Without Laughter (Chapter 25) #books #fiction #HarlemRenaissance #art https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/177/948/249/911/831/original/9751e1725bd98da5.jpeg npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 And allegedly droned a flotilla in Tunisian waters https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mxc7liuon6iq5gzapmmwkq22/post/3lyfvavkjv22c npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 #otd #history #Nashville #education https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/post/3lyg2bqoozc2d npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 #otd #history #Nashville #education https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/post/3lyfzt2jgrk2d npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 @nprofile…uuc2 This bsky account? The bio doesn’t exactly scream “false news account.” Fake news accounts usually pose more newsy, less partisan. @nprofile…7hmy @nprofile…w03n https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/169/049/676/428/263/original/1dac4ca020b5de5c.jpeg npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 #photos #nature #flowers https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/post/3lybnizo7ek2j npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 @nprofile…7hmy That’s the response I see gaining traction across platforms. I have yet to see anyone dispel that information. @nprofile…uuc2 @nprofile…w03n npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 @nprofile…ywqr I disagree. [Disclaimer: I don’t own a gun, and I believe the NRA is a racist organization] @nprofile…wdet https://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3lglcgetlkc2f npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 So, if Trump goes to war with Venezuela how will the liberals respond? Crickets or patriots? npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 @nprofile…uuc2 Again, some have claimed on #socialmedia that this video is from a previous Taste of #Chicago event. Until an independent, reliable #press source demonstrates that this was actually a proactive move to stop #ICE, I’m not buying that Illinois #Democrats are this tactically mobilized against #Trump. I need proof that the vid is bona fide. @nprofile…w03n npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 @nprofile…w03n Reports on social media platforms are that blocking off streets with ice trucks is standard practice every year for the “Taste of Chicago” event. Also, the City of Chicago used salt trucks in 2024 to set up a security perimeter around Trump Tower to aid Trump when he was there. Why would they use them against him now? Was he less of a fascist in 2024? @nprofile…uuc2 https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/donald-trump-chicago-oct-10-2024 npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 Democrat and former Confederate General John B. Gordon “inviting” formerly enslaved Black Georgians to support his white supremacist campaign for governor (September 1868): “The radicals have told you that the Southern people were your enemies; but, believe me, this is not so. I was opposed to your freedom …. We were all opposed to your freedom. Now, that's honest, isn't it? …. And why was this so? I'll tell you. We did not do this because we were your enemies, but because we had bought you and paid our money for you.” npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 There is no safe social media platform. Write content? Assume the risk. Never trust developers. Any of them. npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 “Youman Wilder, founder of Harlem Baseball Hitting Academy, faced off with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on July 3 at Manhattan’s Riverside Park, where he’s coached boys of different ages.” https://bsky.app/profile/assisiproject.com/post/3lxpwnrvoc22p npub17nxnn9kmyqjxzqdk0th62pj3gxnvt6dngvrdpsh29t9wpr4ry8dqqaqcrr micchiato 🎋 “It matters not that I am pitied, even by my white fellow-workers who are conscious of the fact that besides being an economic slave as they, I am what they are not – a social leper, of a race outcast from an outcast class. Theirs is a class, which though circumscribed in its sphere, yet has a freedom of movement – a right to satisfy the simple cravings of the body – which is denied to me. Yet I see no other way of upward struggle for colored peoples, but by way of the working class movement” — Claude McKay, How Black Sees Green and Red (1921)