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Afroza
@mmeprufrock.bsky.social
Ethnographer of religion. Literature & public policy nerd. Cinephile. Decolonized socialist. Revolutionary optimist. Quaker Sufi. Immigrant eldest daughter. New Yorker in Philly.

Abolition-reparations; Liberation4ALL.
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Happy solstice, happy Yalda, happy Yule. It's the reason for the season!

Hope everyone gets to spend some quality time with their loved ones on this longest of nights, the Earth will stand still for the next three days and then the days start getting longer again; holy darkness birthing Light.
December 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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The blockade of Venezuela is a disgusting echo of U.S. imperialism in Latin America. We were lied to about Iraq and WMDs, and an entire generation paid the price.

Here we are again.

We cannot let a wannabe dictator drag us into another forever war.

www.axios.com/2025/12/17/t...
Trump orders oil tankers blockade in Venezuela, labels Maduro regime a "terrorist" group
The escalation exerts unprecedented pressure on the Maduro regime, threatening to bankrupt Venezuela's already struggling economy.
www.axios.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:56 AM
December 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
December 7, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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“Life in Gaza for the past two years has been a process of losing everything visible — our families, homes, streets,” @mohamhawish.bsky.social writes. It also means losing what cannot be seen: “the ability to speak without fear of being monitored by a machine.”
Watched, Tracked, and Targeted in Gaza
Life under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime.
nymag.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM
November 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
October 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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I obtained video of two FBI agents visiting an anti-ICE protester not charged with any crime.

While the media continue to mock Trump's war on "Antifa" as legally impossible, the FBI is quietly implementing it with investigations like these:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/video-fbi-...
VIDEO: FBI Agents Visit Anti-ICE Protester
“Your name was brought up.”
www.kenklippenstein.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
October 16, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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It feels as if we’re living frozen in time. Between a world we can no longer sustain and a future that’s asking us to wake up. Where nothing feels real anymore. Where everyone is waiting for something to shake things up. Because things can no longer go on this way.
October 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
These times require a lot of sabr (perseverance), which I struggle with more than with shukr (gratitude); the two pillars of faith.
September 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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September is next week already?! Time really flies when you're living in a dystopian hellscape.
August 28, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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If Trump died tomorrow, your MAGA neighbor is still gonna want immigrants deported because their ancestors took their grandparents to public lynchings.

Trump is not the root of the problem. He is a symptom of it. This is why we keep talking about decolonization. The problem is bigger than him.
August 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Zionism is Nazism.
July 24, 2025 at 12:19 AM
National strike, anyone?
July 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Every single Black Revolutionary leader saw the problem of collective liberation the same way.

The Black Panthers inspired and helped build Brown Berets and Young Lords.

Malcolm, Huey, Baldwin, Morrison, Assata- they were all for Palestine.

Our enemy is white supremacy.
June 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The imperial boomerang, from Palestine to LA.
June 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
June 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Do not capitulate in advance; not to fascism, not to AI, not the conservative turn which generally comes with hard times.

Their control is based almost entirely on fear & surrender. The only real efficacy of a panopticon is that people police themselves bc they think they're being watched.
May 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Happy 100th birthday to this Truth Teller.
May 19, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM

My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.

The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.

Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
April 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
May 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
April 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Remember when some people said “Abolish ICE” “Defund the police” and other people went “oh no that’s too extreme.”

Pepperidge Farm Remembers
April 17, 2025 at 11:57 PM