Brendan O'Connor @_grendan Twitter profile

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Brendan O'Connor

@_grendan

10 months

Lol what the hell

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1 month

We hear you, we see you, we arrest you

chlobuchar

@me_im_chloe

1 month

My friend received this email from NYU after they called the police and arrested her lol. You rlly cannot make this up.

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NYU faculty I wasn’t familiar with your game

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1 year

what they had going on was cocaine

annie thee scorpio

@ricciardoroy

1 year

we don't speak enough about what diego maradona and colin farrell had going on in the noughties as a society

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2 months

He’s about to deploy 50,000 cops to the moon

Chris Sommerfeldt

@C_Sommerfeldt

2 months

The mayor has mostly just watched the eclipse silently. When @katie_honan asked him why he was looking so serious, he chuckled in response.

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These pieces about how “the left” is being “torn apart” by the question of Palestine are completely detached from the real political and intellectual activity happening in the United States right now

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@_grendan

8 months

It must be so humiliating to have your fashy little scene get taken out behind the woodshed by Jack antonoff lol

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@_grendan

3 months

some days you're the dung beetle and some days you're the frog. and buddy, every so often, you're the big ball of shit.

Nature is Amazing ☘️

@AMAZlNGNATURE

3 months

Dung beetle casually running over frogs with its big ball of shit 💀

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25 days

everything I hear and read about UCLA last week is totally surreal and terrifying

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@_grendan

10 months

"A couple months after we started organizing, we learned something about our former owner and his family, specifically his fascist spawn kids: the fruits of our labor paid for the production of some fucking transphobic bullshit movies. (1/3)

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Brendan O'Connor

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it is just so unbecoming of a journalist to log on here and complain about how nobody in a social movement wants to talk to you. earning the trust of sources is literally the job! this is going to drive me fucking nuts.

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Brendan O'Connor

@_grendan

7 months

A source shared with me this resignation letter from Victoria Ruiz, the pro-Palestine public defender who was forced out of her position this week by a NY Post-led harassment campaign. Tells her side of the story.

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2 months

amid all the fear and anxiety, I will never not be heartened by the masses seizing a chance to liberate themselves

Proletariat2.0🇵🇸🇿🇦🔻

@0Proletariat2

2 months

⚡️ Palestinians in the West Bank are tearing down the apartheid wall. May Allah grant them victory. All the apartheid walls must come down.

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@_grendan

7 months

Celtic’s legendary Green Brigade have been indefinitely banned from attending their team’s matches, in no small part due to their unceasing solidarity with Palestine

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@_grendan

2 months

others have pointed this out but it's so funny to me that this kid reports his butt off for months, works the family connections, gets a big splashy feature in the atlantic, and what does he come up with? yet another campus culture war story

Alex Yablon

@AlexYablon

2 months

i understand being proud of your kid but do the bakers have any idea what this looks like to literally anyone else in the industry

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8 months

I love seeing an Ashley Reese tweet, chuckling, and moving on with my day—only to realize, six hours later, that a thousand of the weirdest people on the Internet have gotten really upset about it for some reason. This happens multiple times a week.

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@_grendan

8 months

Out of curiosity I just looked up the “behind the woodshed” idiom. Apparently it means a private reprimand! I thought it meant getting shot in the head

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@_grendan

8 months

Bob Menendez is being persecuted for practicing New Jersey culture

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23 days

In response to student protests, the CUNY board of trustees, which has plead poverty in union negotiations for the past year+, is introducing a resolution to authorize a new $4 million contract with a security firm that advertises its ties to the Israeli surveillance state

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@_grendan

8 months

We are watching in real time the mainstreaming of holocaust revisionism and, ultimately, Nazi apologism. All credit to liberal hacks like Timothy Snyder and Anne Applebaum for laying the propagandistic groundwork

noah kulwin

@nkulw

8 months

Whoever commissioned this deserves **********

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@_grendan

10 months

So I want to dedicate this victory, and whatever small part I played in it, to all of our trans comrades, to all of our trans brothers and sisters, in this industry and outside of it. Because we can fight for a better world, together, for all us." (3/3)

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7 months

I don’t think this is gonna happen but if they run Tlaib out of office I will simply never vote for a Democrat ever again 👍🏻

Ryan Grim

@ryangrim

7 months

New @RashidaTlaib statement. You could poll this whole thing and probably find 85% support for all of it, yet she’s on track to get censured

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1 month

what is the point of playing this dumb? or are elite journalists truly so incurious

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Brendan O'Connor

@_grendan

10 months

We talked amongst ourselves about what we were gonna do about this, as workers in this place. What were we gonna do? We were gonna fucking win a union. And what did we do? We fucking won a union. (2/3)

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@_grendan

2 months

his ass is not reading Capital

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20 days

No

atomly

@atomly

21 days

🇵🇸 wow, very rare clapton w!

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@_grendan

10 months

if only there were some indication that there might be something shady about the anti-pickpocket vigilante who dedicates her spare time to "protecting the tourists"

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1 month

love to wake up and immediately be a dipshit

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9 months

“Mayor Eric Adams, a former police captain, has said he wants to see police further embrace the ‘endless’ potential of drones, citing Israel’s use of the technology as a blueprint after visiting the country last week.”

Jake Offenhartz

@jangelooff

9 months

The NYPD will send drones into the sky to surveil Labor Day gatherings, such as "a large party in a backyard," officials announced today. Privacy and civil liberty advocates say the "sci fi scenario" flies in the face of existing law.

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20 days

it is critically important that we grasp just how pervasive eugenics and its ideological derivatives are within the American ruling class—especially so in Silicon Valley.

RationalWiki

@RationalWiki

21 days

so this is pretty wild. "Works in Progress" is an official magazine of payments processor @Stripe . But "demographic winter" is a dog whistle for the white nationalist Great Replacement Theory. What the hell is going on at Stripe?

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@_grendan

20 days

Under no circumstances do we have to hand it to Eric Clapton

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@_grendan

25 days

what's really interesting is why zionists and fascists are apparently so obsessed with the fuckability of student protestors

Solveig Gold

@solveiggold

26 days

Why are the elite college protestors so unattractive? No really, why? Some musings.🧵

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Brendan O'Connor

@_grendan

6 months

Brother do I have some news for you about race

Matthew Chapman

@fawfulfan

6 months

Palestinians and Israelis are the exact same skin color. They're both of majority-Middle Eastern descent. This insistence by certain American leftists of trying to map a racial struggle onto this conflict is ridiculous.

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@_grendan

16 days

haha, cool

Alex Press

@alexnpress

16 days

Business titans privately urged NYC mayor to use police on Columbia protesters, chats show

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@_grendan

1 month

CUNY students are an inspiration

The New York War Crimes

@nywarcrimes

1 month

City College of New York right now.

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@_grendan

1 month

So fucking sick of this shit man. Good reporting from Jake but the damage is done. And where are the disinformation people on this I wonder

Jake Offenhartz

@jangelooff

1 month

Pressed to back up his claims that "outside agitators" co-opted Columbia's protests, @NYCMayor has repeatedly mentioned a woman on campus whose husband was "convicted for terrorism." I spoke to that woman – a 63-year-old retired teacher – earlier today.

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@_grendan

1 month

NYPD is sweeping Columbia’s campus; financial support for arrested/evicted students can be shared via Venmo: @/bcabolitioncollective

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6 months

It is quite simply not true. It’s bad journalism that proceeds from bad premises

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Brendan O'Connor

@_grendan

10 months

Want to organize your restaurant and win a union? Let no one say it can’t be done

Barboncino, a Brooklyn Pizza Restaurant, Becomes a Union Shop

Staff at this Crown Heights restaurant voted to join Workers United, making the pizzeria New York City’s first to have a unionized staff.

www.nytimes.com

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@_grendan

1 month

One of the coolest things I’ve ever been part of

Mel Buer

@mel_buer

1 month

SUCCESSFUL DEARREST AT LABOR NOTES 2024

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@_grendan

1 year

incredible things are happening in Italy

‘Too provocative’ mermaid statue causes stir in southern Italy

Art school headteacher hails ‘tribute to the great majority of women who are curvy’ amid social media uproar

www.theguardian.com

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Brendan O'Connor

@_grendan

10 months

If this is some stupid Elon sex joke I’m gonna be so fucking pissed

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@_grendan

1 year

There are a lot of fucking morons on here but these two might take the cake

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@_grendan

28 days

Sitting on a bench outside Palantir HQ asking people to tell me about what they do for work and getting mad when they ignore me

Peter Baker

@peterbakernyt

28 days

When protests are not about actually explaining your cause or trying to engage journalists who are there to listen. ⁦ @Peggynoonannyc ⁩ describes her visit to Columbia before the raid.

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@_grendan

8 months

One wonders why the public seems so anxious to believe unsourced, unfounded claims about mass rape and beheaded infants

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@_grendan

7 months

Imagine telling Celtic support not to fly the Palestinian flag 🇮🇪🇵🇸

FC PALESTINA

@fc_palestina

7 months

A literal sea of flags as expected 👏🏻 🍀

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1 month

Antisemites Against Antisemitism lol

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2 months

I am reminded of the Attica rebels who fought for the freedom to self-organize their community and to sleep under the stars, if only for a few nights

Hell Gate *subscribe today!*

@HellGateNY

2 months

Like many New Yorkers, incarcerated people are eager to see the rare total eclipse on April 8. Instead, DOCCS has ordered a total lockdown for all state prisons before, during, and after the eclipse. @rebeccakmccray reports:

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@_grendan

11 months

today marks 10 years sober, one day at a time :)

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@_grendan

8 months

for me, the most exciting organizing project going in DSA right now is the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee. as far as I know, there is nothing like it on the American left, and right now we are raising funds to grow EWOC’s capacity to support new worker organizing.

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25 days

actually, sorry not everything: there are also stories of bravery, solidarity, and immense courage. Mike Davis's "social miracles."

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5 months

I hate a "two things can be true" ass bitch

Zack Beauchamp

@zackbeauchamp

5 months

Two things can be true: 1) Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza 2) Those crimes do not include genocide

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Brendan O'Connor

@_grendan

10 months

Shout out to the driver who just yelled at me and Julia “yo we boycotting this spot” as we sat and worked at Playground in Bed-Stuy. Now we know!

Local Uproar: Popular Bed-Stuy Coffee Shop Faces Boycott Over Allegations of Labor Injustice

Long touted as a community space, Playground Coffee Shop is facing a boycott amid claims of wage theft and allegations the business profited off the images of its young, LGBTQ+ employees of color.

www.bkreader.com

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@_grendan

7 months

a testament to the depravity of the situation is that we have to ask whether the IDF is targeting journalists and their families or if its campaign of indiscriminate carpet bombing is so extensive that this many journalists and their families have now been killed

Mohammed El-Kurd

@m7mdkurd

7 months

They’re going after the journalists and their families one by one. Open your eyes

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@_grendan

6 months

As @BigMeanInternet says if you want to write a story about some guys arguing with each other that’s… fine? But that’s a different story

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@_grendan

6 months

tonight, @PSC_CUNY became the first public sector union in New York state to endorse a ceasefire, voting to endorse this letter from the U.S. labor movement calling for "an immediate ceasefire and end to the siege of Gaza"

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1 year

Not to make this about TCW but the discourse around the ambient smell of weed was really telling: there is a class of people who not only feel entitled to control everything that they perceive but feel violated when anything they do not explicitly invite occurs in their proximity

Blair

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"I think if a poor, black man frightens me he should be killed" vs. "what the fuck is wrong with you?" Really grim times.

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11 months

Day 1 on 16 of gf being out of town

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This guy is a known fascist agitator who has consistently attempted to infiltrate anti-Zionist protests and consistently been rebuffed

Jake Sherman

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1 month

One sign here at the Columbia protest. This man is ranting about Jews controlling the universe. He has a black face mask on.

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My tongue just rolled out of my mouth in the shape of stairs and I’m stomping my feet on the ground howling at the moon. I pulled a giant hammer out of my pocket and am hitting myself over the head with it. My eyes popped out of their sockets. Sirens are blaring.

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@_grendan

2 months

being a media nepo baby does not preclude you from doing good work and exhibiting real craft, which is why it's all the more embarrassing when one doesn't

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@_grendan

1 year

as communists we cannot allow Thomas Chatterton Williams to take calling things "deeply unserious" from us. this is a red line.

Thomas Chatterton Williams

@thomaschattwill

1 year

For the record, I don’t care if people smoke (or drink!), but the imposition of the odor all over public spaces is weird and feels deeply unserious

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@_grendan

1 month

Sowing division and resentment. Disgusting.

Luca Saeed

@cityascanvass

1 month

🚨City College announces it is closing its food pantry as a result of the solidarity encampment. In 2022, 40% of CUNY students reported having low or very low food security. Thats 110,000 students.

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@_grendan

1 year

Support the workers at Barboncino in their struggle for union recognition! Like and subscribe!!! Eat union!!!!! @barbounited

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@_grendan

8 months

Show’s over folks!

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@_grendan

1 year

Damn Francis okay

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@_grendan

7 months

huh, I thought this was about freeing hostages? I guess they haven't seen the posters

Younis Tirawi | يونس

@ytirawi

7 months

Israeli military soldiers hoisting names of ex Israeli settlements in Gaza. First picture, raising the name of ex- outpost Neveh Dekalim. Other picture, displaying a placard indicating the former ex-outpost of Gush Katif with Israeli flags.

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@_grendan

1 year

Memories ✨

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@_grendan

8 months

All these liberals so concerned with the defense of democracy at home solemnly assenting to the nuanced necessity of fascist, genocidal violence abroad

TIMES OF GAZA

@Timesofgaza

8 months

Al-Rimal neighborhood, which used to be one of Gaza’s most vibrant areas, has been turned into rubble by the lsraeli air attacks.

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1 year

pretty remarkable that nearly eight years after Trump announced his 2016 presidential campaign and transformed the character of political violence in the US the bastions of bourgeois sense-making cannot break free from the idea that "both sides are bad"

The New Anarchy

America faces a type of extremist violence it does not know how to stop.

www.theatlantic.com

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Brendan O'Connor

@_grendan

11 months

Without remarking AOC’s vote one way or another, “do what the unions tell us to do” is not good strategy for a socialist organization

Brett "Solidarity 2024" Banditelli

@banditelli

11 months

That someone would suggest expelling AOC *ON A DSA LABOR PANEL* for doing what unions told her to do is the kinda shit that makes me question my lifetime membership lol

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@_grendan

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I’m sure Columbia’s commencement will go off without a hitch now

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@_grendan

1 year

"Colin Farrell in the early 2000s... wow... what a life... king shit... living the dream... I want to be him" not to be a downer but this man was hitting rock bottom lmao

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@_grendan

8 months

There’s the question of who bombed the hospital and then there’s the question of why so many displaced people were seeking shelter there to begin with

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@_grendan

7 months

the door to mainstream Holocaust revisionism and Nazi apologia opened by liberal enthusiasm for the war in Ukraine has been fully kicked off its hinges by liberal enthusiasm for the war on Gaza

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@_grendan

3 months

Maccabi Tel Aviv came into this match with a 4-1 lead this is a world historical bed shitting

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@_grendan

8 months

I feel, quite simply, insane

Evan Hill

@evanhill

8 months

Clarification from the White House regarding Biden's remarks

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@_grendan

8 months

are you indeed

Breaking911

@Breaking911

8 months

POWERFUL: Columbia Professor Shai Davidai calls out universities for allowing pro-terror demonstrations on campus | "I am speaking up because I am afraid. I am 40-years-old and I was shivering to come to my own employment."

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Brendan O'Connor

@_grendan

6 months

Looks like good organizing and political education to me 👍🏻

Josh Marshall

@joshtpm

6 months

truly amazing paragraph

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8 months

This man, who proudly participated in the Deir Yassin massacre, has given thousands of lectures to members of the IDF

Lehi Fighter Recalls 1948 Battle At Deir Yassin

Arab women and children had rifles like the men. We had to battle our way from house to house. Arab men dressed as women surprised more than one of our troops.

www.jewishpress.com

Mohammed El-Kurd

@m7mdkurd

8 months

“Erase their families, their mothers and their children. These animals can no longer live.” Israeli reservist talking about Palestinians

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8 months

It is not an accusation, it is literally what happened

How Columbia Ignored Women, Undermined Prosecutors and Protected a Predator For More Than 20 Years

For decades, patients warned Columbia about the behavior of obstetrician Robert Hadden. One even called 911 and had him arrested. Columbia let him keep working.

www.propublica.org

Sheila Coronel

@SheilaCoronel

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Protesters ⁦ @Columbia ⁩ president’s investiture accuse the university of protecting a sexual predator in its medical school.

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@_grendan

7 months

seems to me this is about suppressing speech in solidarity with Palestine, but/and it's also about sanitizing the club according to the needs of capital (its ownership) and regulatory bodies (UEFA). obviously these are intertwined.

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@_grendan

5 months

Back in my hometown. Two teens just pointed at me and shouted “millennial!” :\

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7 months

Burning people alive

روني الدنماركي

@Aldanmarki

7 months

We're getting some footage out despite the Gaza internet collapse. The IOF is now striking downtown Gaza City with banned phosphorus munitions.

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“I am completely out of options and as of last week, have stopped all work to turn to home-based hospice for the remainder of my time. No matter how much I love the challenge of a good fight, this was never one I could win.”