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Anarchist/Librarian/Bird Friend All were considered equal during carnival. Here, in the town square, a special form of free & familiar contact reigned. Bakhtin

New York
Joined March 2009
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Cracovia, sabato pomeriggio. Un ragazzo polacco uccide il padre, la madre e la sorella. Poi sale in macchina, fa centocinquanta chilometri e spara sulla folla in piazza del Mercato: sei passanti morti, una quindicina di feriti. Il ministro dell'Interno polacco lo descrive come un ultranazionalista affascinato dall'estrema destra. Che fanno intanto gli italici nazisti? Prendono le distanze? Figuriamoci. Si mettono a rilanciare foto false, alcune costruite con l'intelligenza artificiale, per far passare l'assassino per un antifascista. Sei morti in piazza e la loro prima preoccupazione è ripulire la divisa. Buttarla in caciara, come sempre. Quello stesso sabato, a Gorizia, i terroristi di destra di CasaPound provano a sfondare il cordone della polizia per arrivare a un corteo antifascista. Tre agenti feriti, uno con la spalla lussata e tre settimane di prognosi. Avete sentito il nostro governo? Per Cracovia Meloni ha trovato tutte le parole: vile, inaccettabile, violenza, terrore. Tutte tranne due, estrema destra. Per Gorizia nemmeno quelle. Da Palazzo Chigi e dal Viminale neanche una riga per i tre poliziotti feriti da quei terroristi. Loro stanno con la polizia, sempre. Ma fino a un certo punto.
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ChristineKaratnytsky retweeted
it's actually insane to me how Poland, a country who never faced a shooter before, dealt with it so much better than countries frequently facing similar tragedies. 2 policemen armed with funny glocks neutralized the shooter equipped like terminator. Ambulances were there in 5 minutes. Qualified witnesses threw themselves in to aid the shot. Employees of big stores, tiny stalls, museums, transport, everyone knew what to do to protect as many people as possible and with nerves of steel. The public went to donate blood in droves so big the hospitals after few hours couldn't take any more. Like there are some serious notes western governments should pen from this
Kolejny bohater zamachu w Krakowie. Tym razem motorniczy tramwaju Otworzył wszystkie drzwi tramwaju przed ludźmi uciekającymi przed zamachowcem. Kolejny bohater tragedii w Krakowie. Wśród dramatycznych historii z sobotniego zamachu jest również ta o motorniczym, który znalazł się w samym centrum wydarzeń. Jego postawa zasługuje na ogromny szacunek. Kiedy na ulicach Krakowa rozległy się strzały, w stronę Placu Wszystkich Świętych zaczęli uciekać przerażeni ludzie. Motorniczy otworzył wszystkie drzwi tramwaju, umożliwiając im schronienie się w wagonie. Dla uciekających pojazd stał się miejscem, w którym mogli choć na chwilę ukryć się przed zagrożeniem. W środku rozgrywały się dramatyczne sceny. Ludzie kładli się na podłodze, rodzice osłaniali dzieci własnymi ciałami. Magdalena Młodawska, świadkini wydarzeń, opowiedziała w TOK FM o rodzinie z trójką maluchów. Ojciec osłaniał dwójkę dzieci, powtarzając: „Nie podnoś głowy, nie podnoś głowy”. Mimo ogromnego napięcia motorniczy zachował opanowanie. Poinformował pasażerów, że tramwaj nie pojedzie dalej, ponieważ ma uszkodzone szyby. Świadkini szczególnie podkreśliła jego profesjonalizm. W ostatnich dniach słusznie mówi się o odwadze policjantów i lekarzy. Warto jednak pamiętać także o zwykłych pracownikach, którzy w obliczu tragedii pomagali innym. Ten motorniczy wykonywał swoją codzienną pracę. Gdy ludzie potrzebowali schronienia, otworzył im drzwi. Za taką postawę należy mu się ogromny szacunek.
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ChristineKaratnytsky retweeted
The first @draagnet dispatch from the besieged & flooded Gaza Strip: @Tamer_Alnoaizy spent hours walking through Gaza's displacement camps, where Palestinians whose homes were destroyed by Israeli bombs are now sleeping in freezing mud water.
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ChristineKaratnytsky retweeted
The Edward Gibbon of the 31st century just found the finishing scene of his magnum opus.
😳 Douthat's last question to Trump: "100 years from now, while you're working out your situation in purgatory, what is the line that your presidency is remembered with?"
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The "wrong side" implies poor judgement and moral failing but Schumer's positions and actions are, and always have been, his political choice. It was his choice as an elite neoliberal politician to effect these 'significant and terrible events' as policy.
As an elected official in N.Y. I have been around Chuck Schumer, attended events with him, chatted with him, met with him when I was running for Mayor etc. He has a brilliant mind and is a prodigious fund raiser. However, he was on the wrong side of the disastrous Iraq war (along with Hillary Clinton), helped to cause the great 2008 recession bc of the donations of the financiers who pushed for deregulation of that industry & the subsequent meltdown. He was on the wrong side of this debacle in Iran and sadly continued funding Israel as Palestinians were and are being ethnically cleansed in Gaza & now the West Bank. These are all very significant and terrible events in the life of our country & he was on the wrong side.
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ChristineKaratnytsky retweeted
Remember when settlers did kristallnacht in the West Bank on Holocaust Remembrance Day?
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ChristineKaratnytsky retweeted
Happy belated birthday to non-cooperating Prairieland prisoner, Elizabeth Soto! Her birthday was November 8th! Elizabeth was sentenced to 50 fucking years in federal court back in June! And she's now being held in Johnson County Jail as she still has state charges!
Replying to @ADayIn1920
excerpt from Elizabeth Soto's powerful post-sentencing statement. and the images are the full statement. "To the world, We cannot let this stand. For the people who come after us, we must never give up. We will go home."
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ChristineKaratnytsky retweeted
I have been enjoying talking to mass effect players about development and gameplay questions. Feel free to keep them coming! My focus was gameplay and systems design.
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I cannot believe the Republican message of "get fucked" didn't resonate with people
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#Egypt 🇪🇬 Tomorrow Egyptian journalist Lina Attalah faces a retrial on "false news" charges, after a 1-year sentence handed down in absentia. the case that fined her EGP 3m and ordered Mada Masr shut, where her appeal is set for 25 Nov. @AFTEegypt reports afteegypt.org/en/legal-profi…
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ChristineKaratnytsky retweeted
Silicon Valley has turned the whole internet infrastructure into dual use tech. Implicating us all in the war machine that is killing our people in Palestine and beyond.
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Replying to @UntoldMag @alaa
“All of the internet is now dual use”. The same AI systems are used to control migration, target people in Gaza and surveil dissidents in the Arab world, while the infrastructure itself is concentrated in the hands of Google, Amazon and other major players. #BigTech #AI #Gaza
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ChristineKaratnytsky retweeted
“We need to become much more hostile toward them”, he says of Big Tech. Alaa Abd el-Fattah argues the internet should be treated as a public utility, compares major platforms to Lockheed Martin. “These monopolies need to cease to exist” untoldmag.org/platforms-war-…
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Over 13 years, Mada Masr has published 23,558 articles by 1,735 unique writers (240 with 10+ articles). ​That includes: • 6,292 long-form features (959 bylines; 131 wrote 10+) • 2,561 op-eds (857 bylines; 53 wrote 10+)
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ChristineKaratnytsky retweeted
It's important this performative video is met with the scorn that it deserves. Silence would be unacceptable. But it's actually worse to have Labour making sad videos whilst continuing to arm a genocide and arrest those who protest. It should be beneath contempt.
The humanitarian situation in Gaza is getting worse. Heavy rain. Flooded tents. The reality on the ground is heartbreaking. The UK government will not stand by. We will not rest until we bring an end to the intolerable suffering.
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ChristineKaratnytsky retweeted
Every time they say 'humanitarian situation,' they are covering up the fact that it is primarily a political and entirely deliberate situation in which they are complicit, not least by punishing people who point this out.
The humanitarian situation in Gaza is getting worse. Heavy rain. Flooded tents. The reality on the ground is heartbreaking. The UK government will not stand by. We will not rest until we bring an end to the intolerable suffering.
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ChristineKaratnytsky retweeted
Lawful permanent resident:
Just met a woman, a lawful permanent resident from Missouri, who was detained in moldy conditions inside a camp for 6 months. Her husband is a Navy veteran. She’s been in the country for 50 years. What are we even doing. 🤦‍♂️
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Yes it is
Unfriendly reminder that Bluesky is deeply anti-Palestinian and generally anti-crowfunding to the point where Alex Winter made a post for a Palestinian family in Gaza on Bsky and they deleted his post some time later.
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ChristineKaratnytsky retweeted
Our lives in Gaza are trapped between relentless bombardment, the rubble of homes destroyed by the Nazi occupation, children whose limbs have been amputated before they even had the chance to experience childhood, and elderly people exhausted by age and war, now unable to walk, waiting for a helping hand to reach out and help them carry on with life
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ChristineKaratnytsky retweeted
Watch the full interview here: youtube.com/watch?v=6P9kxT7D… Pulitzer Prize-winning author Benjamin Moser spoke to Declassified about his new book 'Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History'. Moser, who has been lauded for his previous works, had just one review in the British press at the time of recording, and said no bookshop in London would host his book launch. 'I knew writing this book would dynamite my career,' he told us. Declassified editor Phil Miller spoke to Moser about the history of Zionism, which he describes as 'almost comically racist'.
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