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“Radical Left Lunatic Troublemaker Layabout” she/her Live on stolen land colonized by 🇨🇦 Free 🇵🇸

“First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists… Then they came for the trade unionists… Then they came for the Jews… Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me”

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 5d ago

At astonishing speed, our rights are being cancelled, worldwide. In the UK, the prosecution of Rajiv Menon KC is the latest example of blatant authoritarianism. Why? Because this is what billionaires and corporations demand. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Israel supports terrorists settlers to run rampant in the West Bank, and when an Israeli is killed attacking a village, it’s always Palestinians who pay the price regardless of where the guilt lies. Israel wants this so they can steal more land and slaughter more people, like I saw the IDF do today.

Four Palestinians and one Israeli killed during West Bank settler attack

Several others seriously injured in attack that residents of Palestinian village say also involved Israeli military

theguardian.com

Nicaragua's president Daniel Ortega has declared there will be no more elections in the country.  Ortega has been in power since 2007, and the country has not had fair elections for years. Learn more:

A Muslim woman was swarmed by a rabid mob of bigots in Moncton and attacked in front of her 7yo. Reported by the Nat’l Council of Canadian Muslims, and not a peep from media. Where’s the support for the Muslim community, facing rising hate crimes? Tech bros platforming hate speech are complicit.

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“Italy's far-right Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini defended the police, while Galeazzo Bignami—head of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy party in parliament's lower house, praised the officers' "professional conduct".” … in response to suffocating Abderrahim Fakir to death. RIP

Anger in Italy after Morroccan dies in police custody

Abderrahim Fakir, a 42-year-old from Morocco who moved to Italy when he was five, died Sunday in Bologna while being forcibly held down by two police officers.

newarab.com

Zionists swarm the Gaza border, including 9 members of the Knesset, frothing at the mouth to settle on the bones of Palestinians they’ve slaughtered and continue to genocide. Israeli settler extremist Daniella Weiss openly supports ethnic cleansing, saying there will be no Arabs left in Gaza.

Israel’s far-right openly boasts of resettling Gaza as election looms | CNN

With elections looming in October, Israel’s right wing is turning the push to rebuild Jewish settlements in Gaza into a central issue of their campaign.

cnn.com