Leona Caelestis
@leonacaelestis.bsky.social
Writer, radical witch, cat in human form
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The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
If you think of Patrick Bateman from American Psycho as "America/neoliberalism personified", then the ending has a much grimmer interpretation than "he imagined it all": that he committed all these atrocities but the rest of world simply chose to turn a blind eye or covered it up for him. #booksky
a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair and looking at the camera .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair and looking at the camera .
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November 11, 2025 at 3:17 AM
If you think of Patrick Bateman from American Psycho as "America/neoliberalism personified", then the ending has a much grimmer interpretation than "he imagined it all": that he committed all these atrocities but the rest of world simply chose to turn a blind eye or covered it up for him. #booksky
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I’ve been writing an essay that includes a discussion of the obsession that Israeli settlers have with destroying olive trees. By coincidence I found a video from 3 days ago of them doing that again.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I’ve been writing an essay that includes a discussion of the obsession that Israeli settlers have with destroying olive trees. By coincidence I found a video from 3 days ago of them doing that again.
www.instagram.com/reel/DQwTJJH...
www.instagram.com/reel/DQwTJJH...
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Community volunteers set out to track potential
ICE activity and alert residents to possible raids in Los Angeles.
The patrols reflect growing tensions between immigration enforcement and neighbourhoods determined to protect their own.
RON GOCHEZ
Leading member Unión del Barrio
ICE activity and alert residents to possible raids in Los Angeles.
The patrols reflect growing tensions between immigration enforcement and neighbourhoods determined to protect their own.
RON GOCHEZ
Leading member Unión del Barrio
November 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Community volunteers set out to track potential
ICE activity and alert residents to possible raids in Los Angeles.
The patrols reflect growing tensions between immigration enforcement and neighbourhoods determined to protect their own.
RON GOCHEZ
Leading member Unión del Barrio
ICE activity and alert residents to possible raids in Los Angeles.
The patrols reflect growing tensions between immigration enforcement and neighbourhoods determined to protect their own.
RON GOCHEZ
Leading member Unión del Barrio
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She operates on another level.
A phenomenal woman.
A phenomenal woman.
November 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
She operates on another level.
A phenomenal woman.
A phenomenal woman.
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Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
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@muhammadshehada.bsky.social chronicles the history of the decades-long siege on the people of Gaza.
The History of the Relentless, Decades-Long Siege on the People of Gaza
My first memory of Gaza is an airstrike. My second is an Israeli checkpoint. My third is of frequent demonstrations. And my fourth is of my overcrowded UNRWA school for Palestinian refugees. Gaza i…
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November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
@muhammadshehada.bsky.social chronicles the history of the decades-long siege on the people of Gaza.
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good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
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BBC Trump row: Pro-Israel bias over Gaza is the real scandal - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/bbc-trump-row-gaza-genocide-whitewashing-israel-bias
BBC Trump row: Pro-Israel bias over Gaza is the real scandal
The corporation stands at a crossroads. Down one path lies self-censorship and hollow apologies; down the other lies the public it was built to serve
www.middleeasteye.net
November 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
BBC Trump row: Pro-Israel bias over Gaza is the real scandal - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/bbc-trump-row-gaza-genocide-whitewashing-israel-bias
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Today I wrote about Zohran Mamdani's historic win, the energizing power of holding to shared principles of decency, and a taxonomy of the endlessly intertwined relationship between shame and vision. www.the-reframe.com/the-extraord...
The Extraordinary Power of Standing For Something
Winning by creating vision in the positive space of shared standards, and expertly negotiating the negative space of shame.
www.the-reframe.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Today I wrote about Zohran Mamdani's historic win, the energizing power of holding to shared principles of decency, and a taxonomy of the endlessly intertwined relationship between shame and vision. www.the-reframe.com/the-extraord...
I'm surprised people still think it's a partisan issue AFTER EVERYTHING, as if Dems can't do it because they are not brave enough or have bad tactics. They serve the same belief system.
Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
WASHINGTON—Having thus far caved on eliminating the filibuster, advancing an adequate climate change agenda, and protecting voting rights, congressional Democrats told reporters Wednesday they were si...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I'm surprised people still think it's a partisan issue AFTER EVERYTHING, as if Dems can't do it because they are not brave enough or have bad tactics. They serve the same belief system.
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Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism,” presenting colonialism and enslavement as eternal.
Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past but combating a pernicious ideology.
Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past but combating a pernicious ideology.
One Day, Britain’s Monuments Will Fall
Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism,” presenting colonialism and enslavement as eternal. Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past but combating a pernicious ideology.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Monuments, museums, and cultural institutions were often created in the image of “militarist realism,” presenting colonialism and enslavement as eternal.
Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past but combating a pernicious ideology.
Undoing this legacy is not erasing the past but combating a pernicious ideology.
A friend of mine studying PhD in a prestigious US university said they've lost four students this year, and 3 students plus 2 professors at another, majority of which said to be suicides. Very revealing of our times.
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
A friend of mine studying PhD in a prestigious US university said they've lost four students this year, and 3 students plus 2 professors at another, majority of which said to be suicides. Very revealing of our times.
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'Genocide stopped only in media': Gaza endures daily bombings a month into truce - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/genocide-stopped-only-media-gaza-endures-daily-bombings-month-truce
'Genocide stopped only in media': Gaza endures daily bombings a month into truce
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<div class="field field-field-text"><p>A month into the ceasefire in Gaza, almost nothing has changed for Manar Jendiya.</p>
<p>Originally from Gaza City, the <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinian</a> mother has remained displaced in Deir al-Balah since the truce took effect on 11 October, as most of her neighbourhood, Shujaiya, remains under <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli</a> control.</p>
<p>Two weeks into the agreement, Israeli forces heavily bombed the area where she was staying, forcing her to seek refuge elsewhere.</p>
<p>One of the attacks killed her sister.</p>
<p>“Her husband was killed earlier in the war, so she had been caring for her children alone,” Jendiya told Middle East Eye.</p>
<p>“When the attacks in Gaza City escalated and evacuation orders were issued repeatedly, she didn’t want to risk losing her children as well, so she sought refuge in a makeshift tent in central Gaza,” she added.</p>
<p>“She never imagined she would be killed here too, leaving her children without a mother or father.”</p>
<h3>Read more: <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/genocide-stopped-only-media-gaza-endures-daily-bombings-month-truce">Gaza endures daily bombings a month into truce</a></h3>
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November 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
'Genocide stopped only in media': Gaza endures daily bombings a month into truce - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/genocide-stopped-only-media-gaza-endures-daily-bombings-month-truce
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If you thought Frankenstein's Tower in the Guillermo del Toro movie looked cool, check out the real-world inspiration behind it...
November 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
If you thought Frankenstein's Tower in the Guillermo del Toro movie looked cool, check out the real-world inspiration behind it...
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‘It will never be forgiven’: UN climate chief warns world to act or face disaster
‘It will never be forgiven’: UN climate chief warns world to act or face disaster
Faltering governments will be blamed for famine and conflict abroad, and face stagnation and inflation at home, says climate chief at start of Cop30
Governments failing to shift to a low-carbon economy will be blamed for famine and conflict abroad, and will face stagnation and rising inflation at home, the UN’s climate chief warned on Monday at the start of the Cop30 climate talks.
Simon Stiell, the executive secretary of the UN framework convention on climate change, addressed the gathering of ministers and high-ranking officials from nearly 200 countries, in a stark portrayal of the price of failure on the climate crisis. Continue reading...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
‘It will never be forgiven’: UN climate chief warns world to act or face disaster
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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Israeli army continues demolition of residential buildings in Khan Younis - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-army-continues-demolition-residential-buildings-khan-younis
Israeli army continues demolition of residential buildings in Khan Younis
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<div class="field field-field-text"><p>The Israeli army on Monday carried out demolition and explosion operations on residential buildings in the eastern areas of Khan Younis city, South of the Strip, Al Jazeera Arabic reported. </p>
<p>Israeli demolition operations, which have been noticeably increasing in pace and intensity recently, target every two-storey building or house, according to Engineer Hamdan Radwan, mayor of Bani Suheila in eastern Khan Younis. </p>
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November 10, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Israeli army continues demolition of residential buildings in Khan Younis - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-army-continues-demolition-residential-buildings-khan-younis
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I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.
November 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM
I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.
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Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
Still not sure what to do with my #novel after research aka rigorous googling on the seemingly pretty fucked up #publishing space. Decide to #witch it instead. #booksky
November 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Still not sure what to do with my #novel after research aka rigorous googling on the seemingly pretty fucked up #publishing space. Decide to #witch it instead. #booksky