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the dragon & the hydra. #realloud

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“Voting becomes the premier instrument of the democratic imagination—supposedly, it activates the imagination with futurity, avoids paralysis with action, and can be repeated. What type of creativity will finally eradicate anti-Black brutality?
“Voting becomes the premier instrument of the democratic imagination-supposedly, it activates the imagination with futurity, avoids paralysis with action, and can be repeated. What type of creativity will finally eradicate anti-Black brutality? And could such creativity even operate within time? Could we still call such creativity democracy? Must we abandon time to enable the imagination to perform the mystical, the magical, and the ineffable? If we have understood nihilism as the entrapment (and misery) of metaphysics, the reduction of Being to value circulation (axio-ontology) and Being's forgottenness, and the neutralization of various hierarchies of existence and legitimacy (Vattimo), then Black nihilism would suggest that time is not a natural right or intrinsic resource. Time is a supreme onto-metaphysical value that traffics in anti-Black violence, subjugation, destruction, and must also be reduced to myth, fantasy, and displaced.” — Calvin Warren, Abandoning Time

ALT “Voting becomes the premier instrument of the democratic imagination-supposedly, it activates the imagination with futurity, avoids paralysis with action, and can be repeated. What type of creativity will finally eradicate anti-Black brutality? And could such creativity even operate within time? Could we still call such creativity democracy? Must we abandon time to enable the imagination to perform the mystical, the magical, and the ineffable? If we have understood nihilism as the entrapment (and misery) of metaphysics, the reduction of Being to value circulation (axio-ontology) and Being's forgottenness, and the neutralization of various hierarchies of existence and legitimacy (Vattimo), then Black nihilism would suggest that time is not a natural right or intrinsic resource. Time is a supreme onto-metaphysical value that traffics in anti-Black violence, subjugation, destruction, and must also be reduced to myth, fantasy, and displaced.” — Calvin Warren, Abandoning Time

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‼️ WE NEED EACH OTHER NOW ‼️ the US midterm election is here. after you vote (if you do), please DON'T let that be ALL you do. people across our world don't have basic necessities for their families. global community = real freedom. ➡️ sunflowersgrow.carrd.co ⬅️ #Midterms2026
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ICE Is Running One of the Largest Anti-Left Surveillance Operations in US History

ICE Is Running One of the Largest Anti-Left Surveillance Operations in US History

ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations is engaged in far-reaching spying against left-wing activists that rivals the FBI and CIA crackdowns on the Civil Rights and anti-war movements.

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The DFL governor (who will be replaced by a more conservative DFL governor) called in the National Guard to suppress the protests after Pretti was murdered, and the MPD helped escort the murderers away from the scene after they killed him. Please have an ounce of awareness people
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This seems borderline offensive when the highest rungs of the DFL controlled state government did zilch to help people like Alex before he was killed, and have not pledged to do anything to help his family (or the migrants on whose behalf he was killed) after his death
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Minnesotans place "I Voted" stickers at Alex Pretti's memorial
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the degradation of the term antizionist is complete. people just think it means not actively lying in service of israel
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Dawg sometimes this shit is mind blowing. We are asking/begging people to genuinely reconsider & strategize for a better world & their answer is for us to continue doing the same thing over & over
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if anyone is interested where this term originated please check out abolitionist ruth wilson gilmore and this essay collection about how freedom requires dismantling spatial inequality (esp in the context of prison abolition)...ill link the pdf to it down below
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organized abandonment
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(Ruth Wilson Gilmore) Abolition Geography - Essays Towards Liberation | Are.na

(Ruth Wilson Gilmore) Abolition Geography - Essays Towards Liberation | Are.na

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White supremacists are some of the most violently antisemitic people in this country but you wouldn’t know it based on popular discourse in this country because they don’t want to address the fact that white supremacist domestic terrorists are the #1 threat to most people here
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No, I’m not trusting that any of these white American nationalist politicians have anything to offer ppl in terms of protecting them from the dominance of Christian doctrine in this country. They have no interest in doing so and only discuss ‘antisemitism’ for a sadistic agenda
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I’m worried about antiBlackness and Islamophobia because I see these things endanger people in very daily pervasive ways in this country. And almost everybody nearly exclusively discussing antisemitism rn has no meaningful stance on either of those former things. So, idk.
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I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed but please stop looking to writers and poets for your ideologies and read actual thinkers. Compare, contrast, interrogate, scrutinize, keep your eyes peeled for stealth pro-colonial apologetics.
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I'm sorry but harping on about how Africans also sold slaves sounds like beer parlour histiography and a dogwhistle for the trivialization of colonialism. You all need to skeptical about the language of shared guilt.
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US is NOT cutting aid to Israel. Plan is to move it from State's budget--where the $ is formally classified as aid--to the Pentagon, where the $ is "cooperative" (but functions as aid). This is why $500M/yr for Israeli missile programs doesn't appear on foreignassistance dot gov
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President Trump on U.S. aid to Israel: "We were giving them $4 billion. We are. But it gets cut off at the end of the year. Why? Because they don't need it. "Why should we suffer the slings from lunatics like El-Sayed when they don't need it? It's a bad talking point."
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#JusticeForKoranIrvine On October 20, Koran Irvine, a 46-year-old Black man, father of two, was shot and killed while driving home from a 12-hour work shift. Irvine and Victor Romero, a retired NYPD detective, nearly collided while changing lanes on approach to the bridge. ↓
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first mistake is going on tiktok i fear
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trying to look up fantasy recs on tiktok and its just acotar, acotar, acotar, acotar
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In Javits Frimpong’s diary, he writes about corporal punishment in his school in Ghana and the fear it produced. And then to come to the U.S. and be killed on the way to school. Children are the most vulnerable, unprotected, and abused class all over this world.
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harm reduction is not just quantitative (i.e. something happening "slower" or "less"... especially as this is often not true for the issues that matter); it is changing the quality of harm itself! harm reduction leads to different outcomes!
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voting is not harm reduction nor is it radical. it’s playing into a system that you’ll never win
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I Won’t Vote by W. E. B. DuBois thenation.com/article/archiv…

I Won't Vote

Why he won't be voting in 1956.

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Native American Heritage Month!! By now you should know who’s lands you’re on (and possibly recognition/territory drama) and the colonization story where your head rests, you should’ve been to public local Tribal events, you should be sharing 💰 w/Natives, etc.
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