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🇵🇸 miranda "username" garbo
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i like being nice online, it's not a bit
dead serious about human rights

lap steel dracula
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🇵🇸 miranda "username" garbo @garb0.bsky.social · Sep 22
Honestly the best way is to just have a short conversation if you feel like it - and if you don't, you absolutely don't have to interact 🙂‍↕️💜

The vast majority are very real, very desperate people

It's getting cold and people don't have ways to keep the rain out, they don't have winter clothing
garb0.bsky.social
Did you know that Dimona Radar Facility is a US base? I didn't know that.

web.archive.org/web/20081009...

It's separate from Dimona Nuclear Research Center, but if one is a potential target...

Diego Garcia may also be within range. Wild.

t.me/presstv/172959
^ PressTV (🇮🇷) video about US bases
Archive.org screenshot, cropped to focus on the article text. Archived on Oct 9 2008 Israel to install radar antennae near nuclear site 6 days ago JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel will install two massive radar antennae near the Dimona nuclear plant to bolster its defence measures against Iran, the Maariv newspaper reported on Friday. The 400 metre-high (1,300 feet) antennae will be erected in the Negev desert near a top-secret military site where Israel is widely believed to have developed the only nuclear arsenal in the Middle East, the paper said. An Israeli army spokesman said a new installation was being constructed but would not give further details, saying only that it was a "military facility serving current military activities." [...] The newspaper said the antennae were part of a massive new radar system that the United States will deploy in Israel, a project announced by the Pentagon earlier this week. The deployment comes amid heightened fears regarding Iran's nuclear enrichment programme, which the United States and Israel say is aimed at developing weapons that could threaten the Jewish state's existence. Iran insists its programme is entirely peaceful. Israel has long considered Iran its main strategic threat, both because of its nuclear programme and because of repeated statements by Iranian leaders predicting the demise of the Jewish state. The Pentagon was scheduled to deploy the radar to Israel in the autumn of 2009 for a joint exercise but moved it up a year following high-level talks in Washington. The United States deployed a similar radar to Japan in 2006 in response to a North Korean missile test. Also known as X-Band, the AN/TPY2 radar is designed to track ballistic missiles through space and provide ground-based missiles with the targeting data needed to intercept them. Data from the system will be provided to Israel's missile defence system, but the radar will remain owned and operated by the US military.
January 24, 2026 at 10:09 PM
garb0.bsky.social
ICE shot another person in Minneapolis, the video is awful
patch.com/minnesota/so...
ICE Shooting Reported 28th Street And Nicollet In Minneapolis
Police activity was reported Wednesday around 28th Street and Nicollet Avenue following unconfirmed reports of a shooting involving ICE.
patch.com
January 24, 2026 at 4:39 PM
garb0.bsky.social
Jan 23 2026
thecradle.co/articles/tru...

That one guy was right about capitalist encirclement

The genocide and slavery institution probably needs to be stopped soon. I do think they've gone especially rabid because it's a big anniversary year. It's almost funny, but I'm too weak to laugh
Trump weighs imposing 'total oil blockade' on Cuba in bid to topple government
Following the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, the White House reportedly believes the Cuban government is 'ready to fall'
thecradle.co
January 24, 2026 at 10:05 AM
garb0.bsky.social
Jan 24 2026
english.almayadeen.net/news/politic...

It bothers me how news outlets (as general practice?) rarely link the documents they talk about

The west was able to lie about Iran being "noncompliant" so effectively bc nobody was checking the docs

Document link:
web.archive.org/web/20260124...
english.almayadeen.net
January 24, 2026 at 9:22 AM
garb0.bsky.social
I am mad that this map of the "Technate of America" (from 1940) is real
digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:3...

Fascism doesn't spontaneously pop into existence
Fascism is capitalism in decay

These things do repeat until the *system at fault* is fully ripped out
...but straight copying is wild
Map of the "Technate of America" All of North America - the US, Canada, Mexico, and Greenland - are marked as part of the territory. Hawaii is included. Central America, Cuba, and the Caribbean are included. The topmost part of South America stretching across Colombia and Venezuela is included. This is from 1940. It's what the US is doing now. Notes: This map illustrates "The American Technate," a radical geopolitical proposal by a radical organization based on pseudo-scientific economics and authoritarian, nationalist politics. As the Great Depression deepened in the early 1930s, Americans looked in desperation to a variety of radical social and political solutions. One of the most popular was "Technocracy," which "offered a seemingly scientific explanation of America's ills," namely, the "disastrous inefficiency" of "the wage-price system, the very heart of capitalism." The technocrats proposed abandoning business and representative government as the driving forces of our economy, and replacing them with massive social engineering centered on "technicians - especially engineers . . . as the efficient, scientific, anticapitalistic, elite capable of reorienting the economic order around rational production and distribution. Theirs was a clarion call for technicians to plan and engineer the new order." Akin 1977, ix-x. "Politically unbiased experts in red-and-gray Technocracy uniforms would assay each nation's yearly energy output, then divide it fairly among the citizenry." Goods and services could be purchased at prices set out "on a table of energy equivalents calculated by objective Technocratic savants," all led by the "Great Engineer." Mann 2018, 273. While originally based on energy calculations by scientists at Columbia University, the Technocracy dogma was written by "a charismatic Greenwich Village layabout named Howard Scott." Scott, who "dismissed the world's businesspeople, social scientists, lawyers, and teachers as charlatans" (ibid., 273-74), was the long-time Director-in-Chief of Technocracy Incorporated. Its program was essentially a "techno-autocracy," with a self-perpetuating elite, overt hostility to "aliens and Asiatics," and a wide range of "fascist trappings." Temple 1943, 118-119. Along with these proposed steps, Scott wrote that the territory of the United States must be expanded in order to defend it properly. The new "Technate of America" was to include all of Canada, Greenland, Central America, the Caribbean, and parts of Columbia, Venezuela and the Guyanas. "Defense Bases" were to be established around the perimeter as far afield as Attu; Pago Pago; the Galapagos; Georgetown, Guyana; Bermuda; St. John's, Newfoundland; and Cape Farewell, Greenland. In Scott's words, "On the map accompanying this issue is delineated the geographical territory required for the adequate defense and operation of this Continental Area. . . . We should immediately acknowledge our planned intentions of consolidating these territories, not as separate political entities, but as part of the Continent of North America. . . . America must possess all North American territories on the accompanying map of the Technate, for the defense of this Continent." (Pp. 10, 12.) How to achieve this monumental consolidation? "The government of the United States should take immediate action to acquire these territories and others, such as Greenland and the Galapagos Islands. The acquisition of these territories should be a mandatory part of the program of Continental defense for immediate achievement - either by purchase, negotiation, or the force of arms." (P. 12.)
January 22, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Reposted by 🇵🇸 miranda "username" garbo
garb0.bsky.social
Participation is a human duty.

Everybody knows about the genocide, not everybody knows about the Palestinian hostages held in Israeli dungeons, or mandatory execution.

Humanity cannot be forced to move past what is being done to Palestine, to the Palestinian people.

EVERYBODY FEELS THE NAZI VIBES
يوم عالمي للتضامن GLOBAL DAY OF SOLIDARITY الأشرطة الحمراء | RED RIBBONS للمطالبة بالإفراج عن الرهائن الفلسطينيين Demanding Freedom for Palestinian Hostages السبت 31 يناير 2026 Saturday 31 January 2026 في الشوارع ✋ IN THE STREETS ✋ أمام السفارات ✋ AT EMBASSIES ✋ في الأماكن العامة ✋ IN PUBLIC SPACES ✋ The action then moves from screens to streets on Saturday the 31st of January, with posters carrying the faces of Palestinian hostages placed in public spaces. This is not meant as theatre, but rather to remember while people are still alive, refusing to await their death to set a memorial. It is a way of saying: these lives matter now, not later.
January 20, 2026 at 5:30 AM
garb0.bsky.social
Jan 15 2026
english.palinfo.com/opinion_arti...
^ READ.
I cannot physically place this issue in front of others, most of y'all can.

🩸 Mandatory execution is looming.

🩸 UNSTOPPED GENOCIDE EXPANDS, EVOLVES.

🩸 Hashtags the Red Ribbons Campaign is asking people to use:
#الحرية_للأسرى
#FreePalHostages
We must act before Palestinian hostages are executed in the world’s worst prisons
Warnings are no longer enough. Condemnation alone no longer carries any weight. We are standing at a moment that will be remembered, not for what was said, but for what was done.
english.palinfo.com
January 20, 2026 at 4:52 AM
Reposted by 🇵🇸 miranda "username" garbo
garb0.bsky.social
Probably worth thinking about [the state monopoly on violence] alongside [US and Israeli expansion]

These states exist to serve the big capitalists; the capitalists have a military.

What does that mean for the ordinary people who are not part of that class!
January 19, 2026 at 10:38 PM
garb0.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/NafXw4M...

Good discussion about basically all of the big empire chaos points rn

Listen to the Cradle about Iran in particular. Do not be a tool.

Nobody ever needed to condemn Hamas, nobody needs to condemn Iran now

~ class consciousness ~
Inside Trump's Board of Peace: Gaza as the blueprint for global dominance | Ep. 148
YouTube video by The Cradle
www.youtube.com
January 19, 2026 at 10:31 PM
garb0.bsky.social
Jan 19 2026
asramedia.ps?p=66310

Book:
asramedia.club/uploads/174%...

ALL Palestinian prisoners must be freed

The genocidal occupation must not be permitted to keep stealing people, dragging them off to the dungeons

This is the value of human life
Please be angrier
إعلام الأسرى يصدر كتابًا توثيقيًا حول جنين ومخيمها في سجون الاحتلال - مكتب إعلام الأسرى
أصدر مكتب إعلام الأسرى 19 يناير 2026، كتابًا توثيقيًا بعنوان "جنين في سجون الاحتلال: سجل مفتوح للأسر
asramedia.ps
January 19, 2026 at 12:59 PM
garb0.bsky.social
Jan 18 2026
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Readable version: archive.is/202601180234...

I did not realize so many were working on "immigration cases" now

The insurrection act army thing is probably gonna get more coverage today so hey - this one is already happening, care about this too
FBI Asks Agents to Voluntarily Travel to Minneapolis
The FBI is asking agents across the US to travel to Minneapolis for temporary duty, according to people familiar with the situation.
www.bloomberg.com
January 18, 2026 at 12:00 PM
garb0.bsky.social
peoplesforum.org/events/serie...

Totally free. You can go in person if you live in NYC, attend via Zoom, or just learn thru the recordings (which is what I'll be doing)
[SERIES] Hidden Histories of Rebellion in the United States
This is an 8-session seminar series that explores the hidden and often untold people’s rebellions that have shaped the history of the United States.
peoplesforum.org
January 16, 2026 at 6:51 PM
garb0.bsky.social
🇻🇪 Jan 9 2026
www.youtube.com/live/tOV6IA8...

CC -> auto-translate -> English

I did not realize the invading soldiers got so close to people's homes????

The US is a demon country, you do not DO this to people

Channel seems decent btw, bit easier than teleSUR English for me (still love u teleSUR)
Testimonio de un médico venezolano sobreviviente de los bombardeos de Trump
YouTube video by La Iguana TV
www.youtube.com
January 11, 2026 at 10:33 AM
garb0.bsky.social
albamovimientos.net
😤❤️‍🔥

albamovimientos.net/wp-content/u...
ALBA Bases for Unity book

~~~

ipa-aip.org
International Peoples' Assembly
😤😤😤❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

ipa-aip.org/notes/free-m...
Materials, print em off
Inicio - ALBA Movimientos
La Articulación Continental de Movimientos Sociales y Populares Hacia el ALBA, Es una plataforma que nuclea a a más de 400 organizaciones de 25 paises, en lucha por la Unión e  integración de Nuestra ...
albamovimientos.net
January 11, 2026 at 10:23 AM
garb0.bsky.social
Jan 4 2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Please read this one.

These people are being tortured.
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Kids in cages became a talking point (and nothing more)
And now this is normalized, too

That $100m wartime recruitment push is supposed to last an entire year

👁️👁️
2025 was ICE’s deadliest year in two decades. Here are the 32 people who died in custody
The deaths came as the Trump administration ramped up immigration enforcement, detaining a record number of people
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2026 at 11:32 AM
garb0.bsky.social
You are allowed to acknowledge how much revolutionary spirit there is rn

That's what this feeling is called

Our brains are screaming at us to do something about the constant, inescapable brutality

It's never been something happy or fun
It is like any other basic necessity
January 9, 2026 at 9:00 AM
garb0.bsky.social
About the US attack on Venezuela -
Diosdado Cabello has said there are 100 dead, and a similar number of wounded
(watching teleSUR English)

It is not surprising that the government responsible for this is also fine with street executions "at home"

Be outraged, but do not be surprised
January 9, 2026 at 7:27 AM
garb0.bsky.social
Jan 5 2026
qudsnen.co/post?id=6700...
Global Sumud Flotilla Asks Egypt to Authorize Overland Aid Convoy to Gaza Amid Acute Shortages and Israeli Blockade

Same as always, email the Egyptian consulate in DC 😇
Ask if visitors need the permit or the stamp to go see the Sumud Convoy cross into Gaza 😇😇
Quds News Network
Quds News Network (QNN) is the largest independent and comprehensive Palestinian youth electronic news network.
qudsnen.co
January 7, 2026 at 11:02 AM
garb0.bsky.social
Jan 5 2026
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260105-egy...
Egypt pressing to reopen Rafah crossing for stranded Palestinians; Israeli media reports
Egypt is pressing Israel and the United States to reopen the Rafah crossing in order to allow the return of Palestinians stranded in Egypt during the first phase of the ceasefire arrangements, Isra…
www.middleeastmonitor.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:49 PM
garb0.bsky.social
This isn't fully up to date, but the toolkit is good and practical in a way that's too rare - scroll down and you'll see the link to the Google doc, it's in a green box.
blackallianceforpeace.com/defend-venez...

I love resources that come with wheatpaste instructions. 💞
Defend Venezuela's Sovereignty Week of Action — The Black Alliance for Peace
blackallianceforpeace.com
January 5, 2026 at 3:03 PM
garb0.bsky.social
Hoping that Mexico and Brazil are too big and too economically useful, important, whatever for the US to mess with
But it probably would be unwise to put anything past these people right now

I don't like that the US was able to take out Venezuela's air defense, that is really not good
January 5, 2026 at 10:22 AM
garb0.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/FGhZWAF...

This is from answercoalition.org and breakthroughnews.org (📺: www.youtube.com/breakthrough...)

If you see people being pessimistic about the US left, please try to point them towards more useful groups

Criticism is healthy
Pessimism helps power
Mass Public Webinar: Stop the War on Venezuela!
YouTube video by BreakThrough News
www.youtube.com
January 5, 2026 at 9:23 AM
garb0.bsky.social
Don't believe anything the US or its allies say about Venezuela, Cuba, Colombia, Nicaragua, etc

US institutions are used to getting away with absolute demon behavior in Latin America. Israel comes in when the US gets heat, see the Guatemalan genocide

The CIA is off leash.

US collaborators lie.
January 5, 2026 at 7:45 AM
garb0.bsky.social
Jan 5 2026
english.almayadeen.net/news/politic...

Love and respect to all of the martyrs.

Watching the footage as it came in was terrible. You could tell when it was in the city. I still feel dread.

We have to get braver here.
US attack on Venezuela killed 80, including civilians By Al Mayadeen English Source: News Websites Today 00:54 2 Min Read The death toll from the US attack on Venezuela has risen to 80, including civilians and security forces, according to Venezuelan officials. Numbers may rise as the situation unfolds. (Image) A neighbor walks through an apartment building that was damaged during the US attack in Catia La Mar, Venezuela, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026. (AP) The death toll resulting from the US attack on Venezuela has risen to 80, The New York Times reported on Sunday, citing a senior Venezuelan official. According to the report, both civilians and members of Venezuela’s security forces were killed during the aggression. The official noted that the Venezuela death toll may continue to rise as authorities assess the full extent of the damage. The Cuban government also announced on Sunday that 32 of its citizens were killed during the US assault on Venezuela. Cuba declared a two-day mourning period on January 5 and 6, stating that funeral arrangements would be announced soon. On Saturday, heavy airstrikes, launched by the United States military, struck Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, and other areas in the country. Al Mayadeen’s bureau chief in Caracas reported hearing loud explosions across the capital, alongside intense military aircraft activity over the city. According to the correspondent, power outages were reported in several areas of Caracas following the strikes. Later reports revealed that strikes targeted multiple bases and civilian installations, including the Fort Tiuna military complex, La Carlota air base, and the Higuerote Airport. Additionally, Venezuelan media outlets reported explosions at La Guaira port in Vargas state, Venezuela’s largest seaport. Footage shared by citizens also showed military transport helicopters flying over the capital. Reports showed that the helicopters were operated by US special forces. Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump announced that US forces "captured" and flew out the Venezuelan president and his wife, in an unprecedented and illegal move.
January 5, 2026 at 6:54 AM