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No.65 Rebell

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Real king vibes right here
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February 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM

ZDYK0

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A glimpse of my incoherent music taste:

February 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM

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Ken Klippenstein

@kenklippenstein.bsky.social

Generative AI is essentially copy paste but with large datasets analyzed probabilistically. Maybe that's useful but it's not intelligence and doesn't justify the absurd amounts of investment it's attracted

January 28, 2025 at 1:07 AM

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Ned Resnikoff

@resnikoff.bsky.social

Traditionally fascism has always been an alliance of the barroom bully, the wife beater, and the workplace tyrant

Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · Jan 27

this piece is quite good mostly because it gets at the real reason for a lot of maga support. it's not about trump. they simply hate having to think about what they say and they absolutely will not stand for having to take responsibility for their speech. not remotely deep. nymag.com/intelligence...

January 27, 2025 at 8:52 PM

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jamelle

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we have a president with a tenuous grip on small legislative majorities who is out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has just demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. if i were an elected member of his domestic opposition, i might try to draw real blood.

January 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM

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Brendel

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It’s really funny that a running list of people who have demonstrated more political courage than the people who raise millions of $ and whose entire job it is to have oppositional political courage are

- Quakers
- Episcopalians
- Navajo Nation
- The President of Columbia
- Reddit comic book fans

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Jan 27

we have a president with a tenuous grip on small legislative majorities who is out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has just demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. if i were an elected member of his domestic opposition, i might try to draw real blood.

January 27, 2025 at 11:31 PM

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Al Jazeera English

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Tens of thousands of Palestinians in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem are set to lose education, healthcare and other services provided by UNRWA on Thursday.

🔴 LIVE updates: http://aje.io/vq4fki

January 27, 2025 at 11:07 PM

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Phil Dorroll

@phildorroll.bsky.social

A fact I like to point out in my classes is that by the beginning of the Civil War, every white-controlled Christian denomination in the American South had developed a pro-slavery theology and adopted it as their official position- except for the Quakers.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · Jan 27

Oh, per @nbcnews.com: Quaker groups file suit over the end of policy restricting ICE arrests in houses of worship.

Note: Quakers were some of the earliest supporters of Sanctuary, even putting out a booklet on the topic in 1984 (it's still available). www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Quaker groups file suit over the end of policy restricting ICE arrests in houses of worship

The suit appears to be the first from a faith-based organization challenging the change in court.

www.nbcnews.com

January 27, 2025 at 9:52 PM

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H.D. Gregg - Designated Terrorist™️

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Not only did 'Israel' fail to evacuate its army from Southern Lebanon on Sunday, as stipulated in the ceasefire agreement, its forces also shot over 130 Lebanese civilians attempting to return home in accordance with the deal, killing 23 and wounding 109

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Craig Murray: Israeli Atrocities Continue in Lebanon

Rampant war crimes and ceasefire violations mark the trail of the Greater Israel project as it advances — with help from the U.S.-backed government in Beirut — in southern Lebanon. By Craig Mur...

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January 27, 2025 at 10:41 PM

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Phil Lewis

@phillewis.bsky.social

Colombian President Gustavo Petro's full post ordering an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods, says he doesn't really like traveling to the U.S. because it's “a bit boring” and invokes the ancestors

Trump, I don't really like travelling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some commendable things. I like going to the black neighbourhoods of Washington, where I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me, because they should join together.

I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller

I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, are memorable in the history of the USA and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are within the USA as well as within my country

I don't like your oil, Trump, you're going to wipe out the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a glass of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I'm not, nor is any Colombian.

So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance, like they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you. I don't want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can't accompany me, I'll go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you didn't understand that, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of which I am one, perhaps the last.

You will kill me, but I will survive in my people, which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom.

You don't like our freedom, okay. I don't shake hands with white slavers. I shake hands with the white libertarian heirs of Lincoln and the black and white farm boys of the USA, at whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid.

They are the United States and before them I kneel, before no one else.

Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond.

Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Cordoba, the civilization of that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resistance fighters turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take refuge in its African songs.

My land is made up of goldsmiths who worked in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs and of the first artists in the world in Chiribiquete.

You will never rule us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, who is called Bolívar, opposes us.

Our people are somewhat fearful, somewhat timid, they are naive and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, today's Panama, formerly Colombia, which you murdered.

I raise a flag and as Gaitán said, even if it remains alone, it will continue to be raised with the Latin American dignity that is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President, an immigrant in the USA,

Your blockade does not scare me, because Colombia, besides being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and you will give it your sweetness.

FROM TODAY ON, COLOMBIA IS OPEN TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE AND HUMANITY.

I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the United States, and I do the same.

Let our people plant corn that was discovered in Colombia and feed the world

January 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM

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CHOAM for the holidays

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these poor boys, in brazil

January 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM

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rudy

@rudyrudyrudy.bsky.social

Being a bills fan is all about suffering

January 27, 2025 at 3:02 AM

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Unusual Whales

@unusualwhales.bsky.social

BREAKING: Columbian President Petro announces that if there will be tariffs on Columbian goods, he will add 50% tariffs on US goods, and says he will not give in to retaliation.

He says, "I will resist you."

January 26, 2025 at 9:38 PM

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Phil Lewis

@phillewis.bsky.social

BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — Colombian president orders increase of import tariffs on US goods in retaliation to similar order from President Trump.

January 26, 2025 at 10:04 PM

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Comrade Golem 🕎🇵🇸🌹

@redpleb.bsky.social

Columbia and Mexico are showing more backbone than the entire Democratic Party and liberal press corps

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Jan 26

NEWS

After President Petro of Colombia denied entry of two US repatriation flights of Colombian migrants, President Trump has announced these retaliatory measures.

Petro said he wouldn’t allow the flights in until Trump establishes a protocol for the dignified treatment of migrants.

I was just informed that two repatriation flights from the US, with a large number of Illegal Criminals, were not allowed to land in Colombia. This order was given by Colombia's Socialist President Gustavo Petro, who is already very unpopular amongst his
people. Petro's denial of these flights has jeopardized the National Security and Public Safety of the US, so I have directed my Administration to immediately take the following urgent and decisive retaliatory measures:
-Emergency 25% tariffs on all goods coming into the United States. In one week, the 25% tariffs will be raised to 50%.
-A Travel Ban and immediate Visa
Revocations on the Colombian Government Officials, and all Allies and Supporters.
-Visa Sanctions on all Party Members, Family Members, and Supporters of the Colombian Government.
-Enhanced Customs and Border Protection
Inspections of all Colombian Nationals and Cargo on national security grounds.
-IEEPA Treasury, Banking and Financial Sanctions to be fully imposed.

January 26, 2025 at 8:26 PM

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bkeithb

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Via classconsciousnessproject.blog

classconsciousnessproject.blog/2025/01/25/w...

We Only Want The Earth by James Connolly

James Connolly is best known today for his heroic deeds in the Easter Rising of 1916, which ultimately saw him executed by the British imperialists. Connolly though was a man of the working class a…

classconsciousnessproject.blog

January 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

@aoc.bsky.social

Community is the antidote to despair.

Happy to host! 🌹

NYC-DSA 🌹 @socialists.nyc · Jan 26

Building the multiracial working class today in the Bronx with @aoc.bsky.social at our DSA 101.

January 26, 2025 at 1:38 AM

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Nahal Toosi

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We’re talking about 2.2 million people.

Jon Gambrell @jongambrell.bsky.social · Jan 26

APNewsAlert: ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) — Trump says he is pressing Jordan, Egypt to take in Palestinians from Gaza, floats plan to 'just clean out' territory.

January 26, 2025 at 2:42 AM