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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
she/they agender

draculas curse still applies, single eye emoji
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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
Nov 11 2025, 13h ago

Israeli parliament advances death penalty bill backed by Ben-Gvir
www.reuters.com/world/middle...

This bill legalizes murder.
Military courts = rubber stamps.

Israel must be stopped and held accountable for crimes against humanity and genocide.

DUTY TO PROTECT STILL APPLIES.
JERUSALEM, Nov 11 (Reuters) - The Israeli parliament has advanced a bill that would mandate the death penalty for Palestinian militants convicted of killing Israeli citizens, with some lawmakers believing it would prevent future prisoner-release deals. In a vote held late on Monday - the first of several needed for the measure to become law - the bill passed with 39 in favour and 16 against, out of 120 lawmakers. The Reuters Gulf Currents newsletter brings you the latest on geopolitics, energy and finance in the region. Sign up here. Far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir had called on all political factions to back the bill, which he has said was aimed at creating deterrence against "Arab terrorism".
November 12, 2025 at 9:37 AM
garb0.bsky.social
Nov 8 2025
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

May 8 2025
aja.ws/x37jd2
Starting point for AR searches

The mandatory death penalty bill is advancing through the Knesset, this is a green light for execution of prisoners

ALL Palestinian prisoners must be released from ALL Israeli torture dungeons
Israel’s underground jail, where Palestinians are held without charge and never see daylight
Exclusive: Detainees at Rakefet include nurse deprived of natural light since January, and teenager held for nine months
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:15 AM
garb0.bsky.social
Nov 4 2025
www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-28...

You can see participating agencies, pending agencies, and encounter reports here:
www.ice.gov/identify-and...

The encounter reports remind me of ICE's death in custody reports. Suspiciously low numbers, narrative support.
www.ice.gov/doclib/about...
Texas Turns Its Sprawling State Police Force Into Immigration Agents for Trump
The notorious 287(g) task force program has finally reached DPS, raising fears of widespread racial profiling.
www.texasobserver.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
garb0.bsky.social
Nov 6 2025:
www.truthdig.com/articles/mil...

This story also ran in the Orinoco Tribune, but they took out all those nice links. Idk why.
orinocotribune.com/millions-of-...

I'm glad they have air defense.
Worried about the US crying Hamas.
Armed resistance is not bad or wrong.
Millions of Venezuelans Join Volunteer Militias as US Attacks Continue - Truthdig
Following a decade of economic sanctions on Venezuela, the current wave of boat strikes isn’t actually aimed at stopping drug trafficking.
www.truthdig.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
garb0.bsky.social
It is really not normal for the entire govt to be this petty
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

You can still read the not-by-the-US-govt reports here:
www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies...
They're both useful, the news skips over some things. Especially now. :')

Other countries:
www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies...
Human Rights Council reschedules human rights review of the United States of America; regrets “non-cooperation” with UPR mechanism
GENEVA - The Human Rights Council adopted a decision on “non-cooperation of a State under review with the universal periodic review [UPR] mechanism” at an organizational meeting held on 7 November in ...
www.ohchr.org
November 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
garb0.bsky.social
I see people looking back to Marx etc for direction lately. Remember that the US has had its own beautiful movements, we don't need everyone going off to invent their own wheels.

Or:
The system hasn't changed, don't do extra work for even less!

Read this book here:
archive.org/details/A.Ne...
INTRODUCTION Serving the People Body and Soul Over three days in the spring of 1972, the Black Panther Party, the radical political organization that had emerged in Oakland, California, almost six years prior, held a Black Community Survival Conference — a gathering that combined elements of a rally, a street fair, and a block party — in that city’s De Fremery Park.1 On March 27, standing before a large banner carrying the slogan “Serve the People Body and Soul,” the Party’s chairman and cofounder Bobby Seale spoke on a public address system to the assembled mass of Panther loyalists, political allies, locals, police, and passers-by about the organization’s slate of free community service programs. These “survival programs” were established partly to help poor blacks cope with the surveillance and harassment they experienced at the hands of agents of a mounting “law-and-order” state. These programs were also intended as a stopgap solution to the diminished provision of social services by a shrinking welfare state. Against a backdrop of barbecuing; children’s presentations on black and radical history; speeches by members of other activist groups, such as Johnnie Tillman of the National Welfare Rights Organization; a performance by the pioneering a cappella group the Persuasions, and other entertainment, Party cadre and volunteers distributed information about more than a dozen no-cost community service initiatives, including escorts for senior citizens to medical appointments, free elementary (end of page)
November 9, 2025 at 4:29 AM
garb0.bsky.social
Cheese Cave is a dark rival to Corn Palace. I always forget it's real.

www.farmlinkproject.org/stories-and-...

Corn Palace:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_Pa...

It's easy to laugh at US absurdities and move on, but moving on is how systems remain intact.

The food crisis is here and people need help.
Cheese Caves and Food Surpluses: Why the U.S. Government currently stores 1.4 billion lbs of cheese
Hundreds of feet below the ground in Missouri, there are hundreds of thousands of pounds of American cheese. Deep in converted limestone mines, caves kept...
www.farmlinkproject.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:31 AM
garb0.bsky.social
This is the best one-off "why is this happening to the people of Sudan and how can we help" video I've seen yet:
youtu.be/YqHp7L3qmlM

They recommended this site:
decolonizesudan.org

Resources:
--> decolonizesudan.org#resources

Boycott UAE, keep learning
Decolonization is a global struggle
🌹🇸🇩🇵🇸✌️
The Untold Truth About The Sudan War | African Stream Founder Ahmed Kaballo Breaks It Down
YouTube video by Sell Afrika To Afrikans
youtu.be
November 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM
garb0.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/REEY4sW...

Fuck Israel, fuck the US
Breaking news and analysis on day 755 of the Gaza genocide | The Electronic Intifada
YouTube video by The Electronic Intifada
www.youtube.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:07 PM
garb0.bsky.social
Bad bad bad shit
130+ killed in Rio, familiar justification

It does seem a bit creepy that a wikipedia article was already the top result in english but the citations are useful sources, read em

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operati...
Archived Oct 30:
archive.is/H7UXq

Extremely fucking nervous
Be wise
Operation Containment - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
October 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
garb0.bsky.social
Do what you can when you can
Attention being split across so, so, so many crises feels awful and that is normal

People I learn from keep recommending this documentary, a film crew that was already in Venezuela ended up in the middle of the 2002 coup. Haven't watched it yet.
youtu.be/iH5nzZU0qCc
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
YouTube video by Proletarian TV
youtu.be
October 30, 2025 at 11:04 AM
garb0.bsky.social
Do you wonder what people are supposed to do when antisocial tech freaks keep eliminating jobs?

I used to find comfort in the idea that at least jails and prisons have food and bunks, that the financial incentive for companies or the state means people stay alive.

This doesn't feel certain anymore
October 29, 2025 at 1:06 AM
garb0.bsky.social
ICE raids remind me way too much of "mowing the lawn"

Murdering people on boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific, then sharing the footage in the name of the government absolutely seems like "mowing the lawn"

The IOF got recruitment up by offering outrageous pay - ICE bonuses during recession...
October 25, 2025 at 5:04 AM
garb0.bsky.social
Program/schedule for the Gaza Tribunal:
gazatribunal.com/program-of-t...

Current time in Istanbul for reference:
www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/t...

Purpose and demands:
gazatribunal.com/the-sarajevo...

Watch here from Oct 23-26:
www.youtube.com/@gazatribunal

🇵🇸 ✌️
October 23, 2025 at 8:08 AM
garb0.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/43hGQt2...

This isn't legally binding, but they're doing evidence preservation and documentation & I am always happy to see things like people's tribunals happening.

This era requires collective action for all things. Don't wait on politicians and the like. They aren't for us.
GAZA TRIBUNAL ISTANBUL FINAL SESSION | ENGLISH
YouTube video by Gaza Tribunal
www.youtube.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:40 AM
garb0.bsky.social
From Oct 19 2025
www.aljazeera.net/news/2025/10...

EN: www-aljazeera-net.translate.goog/news/2025/10...

I don't know if this has been covered much, I am very drained & have been watching instead of reading news

Al Jazeera English didn't mention this on 20-strike-day, but the Arabic broadcast did
خامسا: المعتقلون المفرج عنهم يواصل الاحتلال تعنّته وتأخّره في الإفراج عن النساء والأطفال الذين ما زالوا رهن الاعتقال. 2. لم يلتزم الاحتلال حتى تاريخه بتزويد الحركة بكشف دقيق وشامل بأسماء وبيانات المعتقلين في سجونه، ولا بأسماء مئات الشهداء الذين لا يزال يحتجز جثامينهم. 3. لم يلتزم الاحتلال بالسماح لذوي المعتقلين المفرج عنهم والمبعدين خارج فلسطين -في صفقتي 19 يناير و9 أكتوبر- بمغادرة الضفة الغربية للقاء ذويهم. 4. تعرض المعتقلون للضرب والإهانة والتعذيب الممنهج، وحتى من تم الإفراج عنهم استمر الاحتلال في إهانتهم وتجويعهم وضربهم حتى لحظة تسليمهم للصليب الأحمر. Fifth: Released Detainees The occupation continues its intransigence and delay in releasing the women and children who remain in detention. 2. To date, the occupation has not committed to providing the movement with an accurate and comprehensive list of the names and data of the detainees in its prisons, nor the names of the hundreds of martyrs whose bodies it still holds. 3. The occupation has not committed to allowing the families of the released detainees and those deported outside Palestine - in the January 19 and October 9 deals - to leave the West Bank to meet their families. 4. The detainees were subjected to beatings, humiliation, and systematic torture. Even those who were released were continued to be humiliated, starved, and beaten by the occupation until they were handed over to the Red Cross
October 21, 2025 at 10:05 AM
garb0.bsky.social
If there's a translated version of this, it isn't on the Al Jazeera English YouTube channel yet

You can get the idea without understanding Arabic

I don't know why English language media is so quiet about Palestine right now. Also alarmingly quiet about ~north Latin America.

youtu.be/gDmOhjS-01w
عمليات البحث عن رفات الأسرى الإسرائيليين في قطاع غزة تواجه طبقات معقدة من العقبات
YouTube video by AlJazeera Arabic قناة الجزيرة
youtu.be
October 21, 2025 at 3:38 AM
garb0.bsky.social
palinfo.com/news/2025/10...
44 شهيدًا ومصابون بغارات الاحتلال على قطاع غزة
استشهد 44 مواطنًا وأصيب عدد آخر اليوم الأحد، إثر قصف إسرائيلي متواصل على مناطق متفرقة من قطاع غزة.
palinfo.com
October 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
garb0.bsky.social
If you like to think about actual empire collapse and need something to listen to for an hour, this is good:
youtu.be/LatGGT8hAIs

Also thinking about these again, for me bleak media builds ?something
The Plague, Camus
archive.org/services/img...
On the Beach, Shute
www.fadedpage.com/books/201312...
Chris Hedges talks with Dave about journalism, censorship and empire
YouTube video by The Sunday Shot
youtu.be
October 19, 2025 at 11:15 AM
garb0.bsky.social
Time is in CST, this was posted about 40m ago. I haven't found a second source for the picture, so take that as you will.

To me, this is still not adequate warning
and the problem with the yellow line is less its previous invisibility
and more that an IOF murder line is blocking people's movement
Today at 2:34 AM (CST) About four yellow concrete cubes and a few yellow signs are sitting in a small cleared area before damaged buildings in Gaza. The color can be distinguished from the hellish gray-dust color that coats everything now, but it doesn't stand out as much as one might expect from life or death warning markers. Screen translation of the text at the bottom of the post: "This morning, the occupation army began drawing a yellow line inside the Gaza Strip with cement cubes, which means we will lose more than half of the area of our Strip on the ground. According to the statement, any approach by residents will be met with fire"
October 19, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Reposted by 🇵🇸 miranda "username" garbo
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After 7 paragraphs musing about potential Hamas 'ceasefire violations' like 'not finding bodies under all the rubble quickly enough' we get a casual mention that the IDF has killed 38 people in paragraph 8
October 19, 2025 at 6:48 AM
garb0.bsky.social
www.almizan.earth
This concept makes me happy. The document's worth checking out, it's under 100 pages. Plants good, caring about climate emergency good
Home | Al Mizan
www.almizan.earth
October 19, 2025 at 1:52 AM
garb0.bsky.social
From Oct 7 2025
reliefweb.int/report/occup...

I firmly believe all Palestinians held in Israeli prisons must be freed & protected from that state

There are at least 9000 people (that we know about) still imprisoned by Israel.

The actual count is likely higher, as there is no accountability.
Israel's Knesset National Security Committee Approves Draft Bill Making Death Penalty Mandatory for Palestinian Detainees - occupied Palestinian territory
News and Press Release in English on occupied Palestinian territory about Protection and Human Rights; published on 6 Oct 2025 by Al Mezan
reliefweb.int
October 16, 2025 at 9:48 PM
garb0.bsky.social
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

Get COGAT the fuck outta there, this is not serious
Israel imposes new Gaza aid restrictions as truce comes under strain
Israeli forces kill several Palestinians in Gaza as the Israel-Hamas ceasefire comes under growing strain.
www.aljazeera.com
October 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
garb0.bsky.social
When international journalists & body-finding teams are able to enter Gaza, I really really hope they check the wells ASAP

Especially over where people would wait for the Wadi Gaza GHF site to open. There's video that can help for at least one night's cruelty.

A lot of wells became open pits 😐
October 14, 2025 at 11:43 PM