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THREAD: Rikers Island, a monument to barbarity, is now banning the people confined to cages within its walls from getting mail from their children and loved ones. As I explain below, there is far more going on here.
LAPD expects people to buy that during a training exercise they “accidentally” beat a cop (who was investigating 4 other cops for sexual assault) to death so brutally that his spine was broken in 3 places. It has “suicide by 6 shots to the back of head” energy.
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What the BBC won't tell you is that no one died in Cuba due to the hurricane but due to the sanctions and embargo it's hard for Cuba to get the resources to rapidly repair the damage to the power.
Meanwhile hundreds died in Florida and Puerto Rico is without power -
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On 30 September, 2000, the second day of the Second Intifada, Zionist occupation forces in Gaza shot and killed 12-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah.
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Mentally preparing myself for all the pro-Ukraine accounts arguing that the region Ukraine has been bombing for the past eight years is in fact a deeply cherished organ of the motherland
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An environmental and colonial disaster is unfolding in a U.S. colony in the Pacific. Right now, on Guam, hundreds of acres of forest are being destroyed by the U.S. military for a massive live-fire training complex. 🧵
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Cuba had nearly 80,000 neighborhood town halls to hash out their new Family Code before it went to a vote. When’s the last time there was a town hall in your town of Anywhere, USA over legislation? When’s the last time you got to have input on a change to the constitution?
Today, Cubans vote on the most advanced and progressive law governing the family to ever exist in the history of humanity, the new Family Code.
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People who keep saying Puerto Rico should become a state to receive more help from the federal government must be forgetting about Jackson, Mississippi and the Navy poisoning the water in Hawai’i and the federal response to Katrina. The states have been abandoned, too.
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Puerto Rico fights many battles: colonialism, climate change, disaster capitalism, etc. But the most prominent is against narratives that omit the role the US government has in every layer of suffering perpetuated on the island colony.
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Today we mourn the countless freedom fighters from Ireland, India, Kenya, and other former colonies who lost their lives struggling for independence from the British government and monarchy. In their honor, we are sharing some threads summarizing the crimes of this empire 🧵




















