Michael Sappir
@m.sappir.net
Jewish-Israeli, against apartheid and genocide. Never not mad at Germany. Co-host parallelweltpalaestina.info (in German), co-founder @thediasporist.bsky.social
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Michael Sappir
@m.sappir.net
· Aug 8
Stickers Against Germany – the Diasporist
The antideutsch leftists papering cities in pro-Israel stickers
thediasporist.de
In Germany, I developed a slight obsession with political stickers – and especially the unhinged pro-Israel stickers from the German left's creepy philosemitic neocons, the "anti-Germans" (the most German Germans). For @thediasporist.bsky.social, I wrote up some of the wildest examples
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i need everyone to understand
prisons have now officially become forced detransition conversion camps
i am begging you all to stay safe, things are getting dark
for cis people, they are making new laws to imprison us and now this when they do, this. do the math, this is a genocide. we need help.
prisons have now officially become forced detransition conversion camps
i am begging you all to stay safe, things are getting dark
for cis people, they are making new laws to imprison us and now this when they do, this. do the math, this is a genocide. we need help.
BREAKING: Trump admin issues new policy aimed at ending transgender-related care in federal prisons.
"It's a really dangerous policy,” an ACLU lawyer representing trans people in federal prison suing the Trump administration tells Law Dork of the new Bureau of Prisons policy.
"It's a really dangerous policy,” an ACLU lawyer representing trans people in federal prison suing the Trump administration tells Law Dork of the new Bureau of Prisons policy.
Trump admin issues new policy aimed at ending transgender-related care in federal prisons
"It's a really dangerous policy,” an ACLU lawyer representing trans people in federal prison suing the Trump administration tells Law Dork of the new Bureau of Prisons policy.
www.lawdork.com
February 20, 2026 at 12:40 AM
i need everyone to understand
prisons have now officially become forced detransition conversion camps
i am begging you all to stay safe, things are getting dark
for cis people, they are making new laws to imprison us and now this when they do, this. do the math, this is a genocide. we need help.
prisons have now officially become forced detransition conversion camps
i am begging you all to stay safe, things are getting dark
for cis people, they are making new laws to imprison us and now this when they do, this. do the math, this is a genocide. we need help.
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This new Lancet study would indicate that the death toll in Gaza is actually around 120,000 at minimum, if the undercount rate is similar since January 2025.
Violent and non-violent death tolls for the Gaza conflict: new primary evidence from a population-representative field survey
This first independent population survey of mortality in the Gaza Strip shows that
violent deaths have substantially exceeded official figures whereas the demographic
composition of casualties aligns ...
www.thelancet.com
February 19, 2026 at 11:48 PM
This new Lancet study would indicate that the death toll in Gaza is actually around 120,000 at minimum, if the undercount rate is similar since January 2025.
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I urge you to listen to this with the sound on because this is literally what his attorney whispered to him
Les Wexner's attorney during the House Oversight Committee deposition on Epstein:
"I will fucking kill you if you answer another question with more than five words."
"I will fucking kill you if you answer another question with more than five words."
February 19, 2026 at 10:49 PM
I urge you to listen to this with the sound on because this is literally what his attorney whispered to him
They just don’t have enough guys 🤷
And they never will 🥰
And they never will 🥰
FBI, FACING A STAFF SHORTAGE, WILL SCALE BACK VETTING REQUIREMENTS FOR EMPLOYEES APPLYING TO BECOME AGENTS, ACCORDING TO TWO SOURCES.
February 20, 2026 at 12:26 AM
They just don’t have enough guys 🤷
And they never will 🥰
And they never will 🥰
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Every day there's some new horror. Forcing trans people off their hormones is just absolutely sadistic.
BREAKING: Trump admin issues new policy aimed at ending transgender-related care in federal prisons.
"It's a really dangerous policy,” an ACLU lawyer representing trans people in federal prison suing the Trump administration tells Law Dork of the new Bureau of Prisons policy.
"It's a really dangerous policy,” an ACLU lawyer representing trans people in federal prison suing the Trump administration tells Law Dork of the new Bureau of Prisons policy.
Trump admin issues new policy aimed at ending transgender-related care in federal prisons
"It's a really dangerous policy,” an ACLU lawyer representing trans people in federal prison suing the Trump administration tells Law Dork of the new Bureau of Prisons policy.
www.lawdork.com
February 19, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Every day there's some new horror. Forcing trans people off their hormones is just absolutely sadistic.
Gotta love that liberty
Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.
Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:
Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:
February 19, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Gotta love that liberty
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Now look, I get that I’m not a high powered Dem consultant, but is there a reason we can’t run on seizing the FUCKING SLUSH FUND Trump is setting up and sending every criminal in this administration, including but not limited to those in DHS/CBP/ICE to fucking jail? Is that not a thing we can do?
February 19, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Now look, I get that I’m not a high powered Dem consultant, but is there a reason we can’t run on seizing the FUCKING SLUSH FUND Trump is setting up and sending every criminal in this administration, including but not limited to those in DHS/CBP/ICE to fucking jail? Is that not a thing we can do?
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the point of a billionaire tax is not to raise money on an ongoing basis. it is to make being a billionaire illegal
It will not work, and is wrong in principle
Don’t go after the rich to fix broken budgets
It will not work, and is wrong in principle
econ.st
February 19, 2026 at 8:43 PM
the point of a billionaire tax is not to raise money on an ongoing basis. it is to make being a billionaire illegal
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let's have a spirited international sporting event focused on "purging the billionaires and the fascists and salting the defiled earth from whence they sprang" - we can give out fun prizes
We should view "even the British monarchy are better at holding their elites to account for their crimes than the US is right now" not as proof that we're doomed -
but as an inspiring challenge to do an even BETTER job of purging our loathsome murdering-rapist tech CEO and MAGA class.
but as an inspiring challenge to do an even BETTER job of purging our loathsome murdering-rapist tech CEO and MAGA class.
February 19, 2026 at 6:37 PM
let's have a spirited international sporting event focused on "purging the billionaires and the fascists and salting the defiled earth from whence they sprang" - we can give out fun prizes
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Stratton is being massively outspent by an ICE-friendly frontrunner and folks should donate to her campaign stat. Early voting has already started, the primary is in one month. www.julianastratton.com
Fighting for Illinois | Juliana Stratton for U.S. Senate
I've spent the last six years serving as Lieutenant Governor of the great state of Illinois and I'm running for U.S. Senate.
www.julianastratton.com
February 19, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Stratton is being massively outspent by an ICE-friendly frontrunner and folks should donate to her campaign stat. Early voting has already started, the primary is in one month. www.julianastratton.com
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She's running to replace Dick Durbin and, uh, to say this is a welcome change in tone and attitude would be a hell of an understatement.
February 19, 2026 at 7:45 PM
She's running to replace Dick Durbin and, uh, to say this is a welcome change in tone and attitude would be a hell of an understatement.
Surreal to get a stream of clips from a Trump show titled “Board of Peace” occasionally interrupted by updates about same Trump’s impending invasion of Iran
February 19, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Surreal to get a stream of clips from a Trump show titled “Board of Peace” occasionally interrupted by updates about same Trump’s impending invasion of Iran
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Truly the public is not furious enough.
February 19, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Truly the public is not furious enough.
Queen shit
February 19, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Queen shit
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The next president should just immediately seize Trump's assets to the dollar value of all of these corrupt emoluments on the grounds that because emoluments are unconstitutional, the money was never Trump's in the first place.
Let him try to get them back in the civil asset forfeiture process.
Let him try to get them back in the civil asset forfeiture process.
Wow the exact same amount he was suing the IRS for. He just took it. Not only impeachable but [Redacted] as well.
February 19, 2026 at 7:00 PM
The next president should just immediately seize Trump's assets to the dollar value of all of these corrupt emoluments on the grounds that because emoluments are unconstitutional, the money was never Trump's in the first place.
Let him try to get them back in the civil asset forfeiture process.
Let him try to get them back in the civil asset forfeiture process.
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Kinda weird that the party that controls the House, the Senate, and the White House claims there's rampant voter fraud.
February 19, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Kinda weird that the party that controls the House, the Senate, and the White House claims there's rampant voter fraud.
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March 27, 1936: Portraits of the Führer are raised on official buildings across Berlin. This one at the Potsdamer Railway Station reads "Freedom - Peace"
February 19, 2026 at 7:21 PM
March 27, 1936: Portraits of the Führer are raised on official buildings across Berlin. This one at the Potsdamer Railway Station reads "Freedom - Peace"
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I've been saying it a lot, but these deaths line up with what happened in early concentration camps during other regimes: Deaths from poor conditions, disease, or abuse. These deaths are not accidental. They are the direct result of a camp system that is designed to harm those being imprisoned.
I received notification of yet another death at an ICE facility, meaning 38 people have died in custody since Trump returned to office.
ICE is failing to ensure the health and safety of the people it is responsible for.
We need immediate oversight of this entire operation.
ICE is failing to ensure the health and safety of the people it is responsible for.
We need immediate oversight of this entire operation.
February 19, 2026 at 7:22 PM
I've been saying it a lot, but these deaths line up with what happened in early concentration camps during other regimes: Deaths from poor conditions, disease, or abuse. These deaths are not accidental. They are the direct result of a camp system that is designed to harm those being imprisoned.
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This is the eighth death in ICE custody in the last seven weeks.
I received notification of yet another death at an ICE facility, meaning 38 people have died in custody since Trump returned to office.
ICE is failing to ensure the health and safety of the people it is responsible for.
We need immediate oversight of this entire operation.
ICE is failing to ensure the health and safety of the people it is responsible for.
We need immediate oversight of this entire operation.
February 19, 2026 at 6:12 PM
This is the eighth death in ICE custody in the last seven weeks.
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This is well put. So *many* technologies are joyous and progressive. The web was invented in a PUBLICLY FUNDED UNIVERSITY! It is, in fact, an aberration that the fascist VCs think they're the default with their approach to tech. They were only ever supposed to be a tiny fraction of the ecosystem.
Once, technology solved problems. People liked having problems solved, so they liked technology.
Tech execs started to think of that sentiment as their due. So when they stopped solving problems, and people stopped liking them, they became outraged. "How dare you not love whatever we give you?"
Tech execs started to think of that sentiment as their due. So when they stopped solving problems, and people stopped liking them, they became outraged. "How dare you not love whatever we give you?"
I am a luddite and to me there is a lot of joy in technology. In technology that we deploy for all our wellbeing. Solar panels and vaccines, high-speed rail and wikipedia.
But they joy stems from the feeling of being able to be part of humanity in an embedded, meaningful way. Not from buying shit.
But they joy stems from the feeling of being able to be part of humanity in an embedded, meaningful way. Not from buying shit.
February 19, 2026 at 5:42 PM
This is well put. So *many* technologies are joyous and progressive. The web was invented in a PUBLICLY FUNDED UNIVERSITY! It is, in fact, an aberration that the fascist VCs think they're the default with their approach to tech. They were only ever supposed to be a tiny fraction of the ecosystem.
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The American president is more insulated from accountability than a British royal.
Our political system provides the elite with immunity. It has to change.
Our political system provides the elite with immunity. It has to change.
February 19, 2026 at 2:44 PM
The American president is more insulated from accountability than a British royal.
Our political system provides the elite with immunity. It has to change.
Our political system provides the elite with immunity. It has to change.
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pedophile prince arrested in england. insurrectionist president sentenced to life in prison in south korea. meanwhile every day for our pedophile insurrectionist president is like a birthday party for a mentally disabled boy with rich parents.
February 19, 2026 at 2:58 PM
pedophile prince arrested in england. insurrectionist president sentenced to life in prison in south korea. meanwhile every day for our pedophile insurrectionist president is like a birthday party for a mentally disabled boy with rich parents.
This is exactly it. Americans falsely believe that due to the age of the republic, they are inherently and irrevocably more democratic than others. This breeds complacency and obscures the reality of rising authoritarianism.
To be fair Brazil and South Korea cracked down on Yoon and Bolsonaro *precisely because* they have been dictatorships in living memory, and the UK monarchy let itself be investigated like this *because* other monarchies collapsed. Assuming your institutions are unimpregnable per se... not so smart
February 19, 2026 at 7:29 PM
This is exactly it. Americans falsely believe that due to the age of the republic, they are inherently and irrevocably more democratic than others. This breeds complacency and obscures the reality of rising authoritarianism.
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To be fair Brazil and South Korea cracked down on Yoon and Bolsonaro *precisely because* they have been dictatorships in living memory, and the UK monarchy let itself be investigated like this *because* other monarchies collapsed. Assuming your institutions are unimpregnable per se... not so smart
February 19, 2026 at 1:46 PM
To be fair Brazil and South Korea cracked down on Yoon and Bolsonaro *precisely because* they have been dictatorships in living memory, and the UK monarchy let itself be investigated like this *because* other monarchies collapsed. Assuming your institutions are unimpregnable per se... not so smart