Talia "Barbara Smith Stan Account" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎
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Today, I wish to discuss how the difficult questions of third world feminism are elided and obscured by Western feminists---both white and not---and kindly ask feminists all over the world to grow a fucking pair.
Read: taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/no-country...
Read: taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/no-country...
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words from lexi alexander, who had been suspended from this platform for being palestinian
January 3, 2026 at 6:48 PM
words from lexi alexander, who had been suspended from this platform for being palestinian
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Creating and consuming art in a time of shit is fine and normal of course, but we better not see Americans self-promote with some variant of that grim 'joy is resistance! escape into my cozy game/book/etc to get away from the news of our country doing genocidal imperialism again!'
January 3, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Creating and consuming art in a time of shit is fine and normal of course, but we better not see Americans self-promote with some variant of that grim 'joy is resistance! escape into my cozy game/book/etc to get away from the news of our country doing genocidal imperialism again!'
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i stand by it
i don't think it's that conspiratorial to say rape culture is driving our foreign policy
January 4, 2026 at 9:47 AM
i stand by it
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This is the biggest and most important thing. Pretending it isn't happening and hoping it goes away is naive. It will neither stop nor end until it is MADE TO.
The sooner you realise that "Who's gonna stop me?" is what motivates the bulk of conservative politics and animates today's male grievance movement, the better.
January 4, 2026 at 9:33 AM
This is the biggest and most important thing. Pretending it isn't happening and hoping it goes away is naive. It will neither stop nor end until it is MADE TO.
"I'm sorry, but spilling the blood of the undercastes is the only way for citizens of empire to overcome their moral impairment. Perhaps in another few massacres they'll finally understand browns are people too. Be patient---boys will be boys!
They're just following orders, you know."
They're just following orders, you know."
The fact this brave child-murderer is blocking everyone dunking on him (for the crime of racist mass murder and such) is funny. Courageous enough to go shoot unarmed civilians and children, but not enough to face some social media criticism!
January 4, 2026 at 9:32 AM
"I'm sorry, but spilling the blood of the undercastes is the only way for citizens of empire to overcome their moral impairment. Perhaps in another few massacres they'll finally understand browns are people too. Be patient---boys will be boys!
They're just following orders, you know."
They're just following orders, you know."
Feels like for a lot of people, the president's biggest sin is just being to blunt too put a nice, jingoistic, propagandistic cover on what the what US is and does and always has been.
Public figures squawking about democracy and liberation while he goes "BLOOD AND OIL" is darkly, darkly funny.
Public figures squawking about democracy and liberation while he goes "BLOOD AND OIL" is darkly, darkly funny.
January 4, 2026 at 9:14 AM
Feels like for a lot of people, the president's biggest sin is just being to blunt too put a nice, jingoistic, propagandistic cover on what the what US is and does and always has been.
Public figures squawking about democracy and liberation while he goes "BLOOD AND OIL" is darkly, darkly funny.
Public figures squawking about democracy and liberation while he goes "BLOOD AND OIL" is darkly, darkly funny.
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palestinians protested for george floyd while being genocided. koreans protested for gaza under the threat of martial law. i promise you we can go harder.
January 4, 2026 at 8:59 AM
palestinians protested for george floyd while being genocided. koreans protested for gaza under the threat of martial law. i promise you we can go harder.
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Trump's administration has a body count in the hundreds of thousands, concentration camps for its own citizens and is headed up by a convicted rapist with credible accusations of child abuse against him.
If we want to play 'remove the bad guy' there's only a few places worse than the US.
If we want to play 'remove the bad guy' there's only a few places worse than the US.
Maduro sucking or not sucking is a peripheral question and a classic misdirection. The USA isn’t removing Maduro because he sucks! They’re removing him because he refuses to give them what they want
January 4, 2026 at 8:53 AM
Trump's administration has a body count in the hundreds of thousands, concentration camps for its own citizens and is headed up by a convicted rapist with credible accusations of child abuse against him.
If we want to play 'remove the bad guy' there's only a few places worse than the US.
If we want to play 'remove the bad guy' there's only a few places worse than the US.
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if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live
January 3, 2026 at 5:00 PM
if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live
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This is how I find out about the fic. archiveofourown.org/works/768035...
I love receiving feedback on the things I have written. I love comments from Real Human Beings. I wonder what exciting thing Amelia has to tell me about Katherine and "Nichole RCBG fall through a portal to Gunmetal Olympus that's it thats the fic"?
January 3, 2026 at 7:59 PM
This is how I find out about the fic. archiveofourown.org/works/768035...
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Reminder that almost a quarter century ago, Schumer voted for the Hague Invasion Act, declaring that the US would militarily invade the Hague were it ever to be prosecuted by ICC for war crimes.
Biden did too, it was an overwhelmingly bipartisan agreement to be unaccountable to international law.
Biden did too, it was an overwhelmingly bipartisan agreement to be unaccountable to international law.
Look at how many names on this list are *still in power*, still kicking around. They weren't exactly young then, but now a lot of them are much much richer.
January 3, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Reminder that almost a quarter century ago, Schumer voted for the Hague Invasion Act, declaring that the US would militarily invade the Hague were it ever to be prosecuted by ICC for war crimes.
Biden did too, it was an overwhelmingly bipartisan agreement to be unaccountable to international law.
Biden did too, it was an overwhelmingly bipartisan agreement to be unaccountable to international law.
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revenge for a thousand real and imagined slights all of which amount to revenge for the crime of resistance to their "natural" authority over the rest of us.
January 3, 2026 at 6:10 PM
revenge for a thousand real and imagined slights all of which amount to revenge for the crime of resistance to their "natural" authority over the rest of us.
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it's revenge for MeToo in particular. revenge for child abuse laws (which mra/fathers rights orgs & family values conservatives have been crying about since the 90s and earlier), it's revenge for the trans tipping point. it's revenge for the "male loneliness crisis" that doesn't exist.
January 3, 2026 at 6:09 PM
it's revenge for MeToo in particular. revenge for child abuse laws (which mra/fathers rights orgs & family values conservatives have been crying about since the 90s and earlier), it's revenge for the trans tipping point. it's revenge for the "male loneliness crisis" that doesn't exist.
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yes as a group. yes all cis men benefit from this mass sexual violence against their social subordinates. all cis men benefit when someone gender marginalized has to leave public life to escape the sexual violence of men, even if they're not the ones doing it.
January 3, 2026 at 5:47 PM
yes as a group. yes all cis men benefit from this mass sexual violence against their social subordinates. all cis men benefit when someone gender marginalized has to leave public life to escape the sexual violence of men, even if they're not the ones doing it.
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whole thread. CW rape.
what we're seeing with elon's digital rape & CSAM machine is collective gleeful revenge by cis men as a group against women as a group, trans people, and yes even children, for the crime of resisting the status of sexual property. bringing down the boot.
what we're seeing with elon's digital rape & CSAM machine is collective gleeful revenge by cis men as a group against women as a group, trans people, and yes even children, for the crime of resisting the status of sexual property. bringing down the boot.
I‘m discontinuing my social media use for the foreseeable future and I want to explain why.
I woke up in the new year to discover that some guy on here had saved photos I took on New Year’s Eve and used Grok to remove my clothes. I know this because he showed me.
I woke up in the new year to discover that some guy on here had saved photos I took on New Year’s Eve and used Grok to remove my clothes. I know this because he showed me.
January 3, 2026 at 5:45 PM
whole thread. CW rape.
what we're seeing with elon's digital rape & CSAM machine is collective gleeful revenge by cis men as a group against women as a group, trans people, and yes even children, for the crime of resisting the status of sexual property. bringing down the boot.
what we're seeing with elon's digital rape & CSAM machine is collective gleeful revenge by cis men as a group against women as a group, trans people, and yes even children, for the crime of resisting the status of sexual property. bringing down the boot.
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A lot of us have left the media industry because this is what the industry has become… one has to wonder whether the Pentagon Papers would have been published today. NYT likely would have buried it
(Semafor) - The New York Times and Washington Post learned of a secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin Friday night — but held off publishing what they knew to avoid endangering US troops ..
@semafor.com
www.semafor.com/article/01/0...
@semafor.com
www.semafor.com/article/01/0...
January 4, 2026 at 6:38 AM
A lot of us have left the media industry because this is what the industry has become… one has to wonder whether the Pentagon Papers would have been published today. NYT likely would have buried it
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New RCBG cover story just dropped
December 31, 2025 at 11:58 PM
New RCBG cover story just dropped
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Hah how did I miss the @naokan.bsky.social win? Shame on me, I voted for her even.
January 3, 2026 at 5:28 AM
Hah how did I miss the @naokan.bsky.social win? Shame on me, I voted for her even.
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There is no "become." People need to stop fucking acting like this is something new. We're the country of slavery, genocide, and systemic oppression so vile that we literally inspired the Nazis. None of this is new, it's what we've always been. Accept it so you can fight it.
Every American should be ashamed of who we are and what we have become as a nation today. We have a long history of military misadventures and even crimes but the attacks we have been conducting on Venezuela are among the most wanton, egregious and least defensible acts we’ve ever conducted.
January 3, 2026 at 9:12 AM
There is no "become." People need to stop fucking acting like this is something new. We're the country of slavery, genocide, and systemic oppression so vile that we literally inspired the Nazis. None of this is new, it's what we've always been. Accept it so you can fight it.
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Journalist Mary Mena is on the phone with CNN right now from Caracas confirming air strikes in the city. She said it started about an hour ago (2am local time)
January 3, 2026 at 7:04 AM
Journalist Mary Mena is on the phone with CNN right now from Caracas confirming air strikes in the city. She said it started about an hour ago (2am local time)
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You wanna know what’s really interesting is Hawaii (or maybe I should say mostly Hawaiians) is pretty anti-military, but pro-cop. But for like similar reasons. Bc *we* are the region bombed and poisoned by the military, but everyone’s uncle is a cop (mine included 🥴). I have a hard time grasping it.
The sheer cognitive dissonance it takes for USians to shriek "ACAB but the poor widdle imperial goons had no choice and respect the troops and and and" always belied such a rank, foul hypocrisy.
Cops are bad because they hurt USians, who are people, but soldiers hurt foreigners, so who cares.
Cops are bad because they hurt USians, who are people, but soldiers hurt foreigners, so who cares.
'Cops are pigs but US soldiers are just poor little birthday blorbos who had no other choice but to join the genocide machine uwu'
January 3, 2026 at 8:51 AM
You wanna know what’s really interesting is Hawaii (or maybe I should say mostly Hawaiians) is pretty anti-military, but pro-cop. But for like similar reasons. Bc *we* are the region bombed and poisoned by the military, but everyone’s uncle is a cop (mine included 🥴). I have a hard time grasping it.
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This idea that the military is here to protect us is absolutely absurd. They have been bombing Indigenous lands forever. it’s not to protect US citizens in any way, it’s to protect the state.
January 3, 2026 at 8:51 AM
This idea that the military is here to protect us is absolutely absurd. They have been bombing Indigenous lands forever. it’s not to protect US citizens in any way, it’s to protect the state.
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Hey y'all, please stop being racist as hell and saying the bombing of Venezuela is a distraction from the Epstein Files. People are suffering, you absolute fucking ghouls.
January 3, 2026 at 7:28 AM
Hey y'all, please stop being racist as hell and saying the bombing of Venezuela is a distraction from the Epstein Files. People are suffering, you absolute fucking ghouls.
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Yeah the liberal American sentiment of 'respect the troops no matter what' only grows more and more infuriating to everyone outside the US as every year passes and time is trampled to mush under the boots of empire.
The sheer cognitive dissonance it takes for USians to shriek "ACAB but the poor widdle imperial goons had no choice and respect the troops and and and" always belied such a rank, foul hypocrisy.
Cops are bad because they hurt USians, who are people, but soldiers hurt foreigners, so who cares.
Cops are bad because they hurt USians, who are people, but soldiers hurt foreigners, so who cares.
'Cops are pigs but US soldiers are just poor little birthday blorbos who had no other choice but to join the genocide machine uwu'
January 3, 2026 at 8:29 AM
Yeah the liberal American sentiment of 'respect the troops no matter what' only grows more and more infuriating to everyone outside the US as every year passes and time is trampled to mush under the boots of empire.
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if you can kill kids for a paycheck but can't fucking handle looking for a real job you're worse than fucking useless.
January 3, 2026 at 7:49 AM
if you can kill kids for a paycheck but can't fucking handle looking for a real job you're worse than fucking useless.