“But the hushing of the criticism of honest opponents is a dangerous thing.” — W.E.B. Du Boishttps://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mlnwrgvcfk22The year before the Voting Rights Act became law, Nina Simone wrote these words in “Mississippi Goddam”: “Oh, but this whole country is full of lies,
You're all gonna die and die like flies.
I don't trust you anymore.
You keep on saying, ‘Go slow’” She was not a spoiled White cosplayer. [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 May 2026 13:53 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlnwrgvcfk22https://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mlnyex67cs22“When you watch German police conduct in 2025/2026, you no longer wonder how Nazism took hold in Germany.”12 May 2026 14:21 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlnyex67cs22https://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mlouxzjryc2yThis morning ICE kidnappers completely blocked one side of a Middle Tennessee highway while racially profiling drivers and violating their rights. The individuals in this video were U.S. citizens and they were not detained.12 May 2026 22:53 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlouxzjryc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mlphzcaews2a#otd 1794 (sometime in May) — during the Haitian Revolution (began in 1791) former enslaved person Toussaint L'Ouverture joined the French (who had recently abolished slavery in its colonies), abandoning the Spanish Army (Spain would not agree to abolition). C.L.R James writing:13 May 2026 04:34 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlphzcaews2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mlphhjwbuc2aThe opposition party just voted to authorize executions of Palestinians without due process. If you think dethroning Netanyahu is going to change anything, then you’re living in a fool’s paradise. [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 May 2026 04:24 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlphhjwbuc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mlph6yqaqk2aReminds more of the time Biden appointed that chief archivist to the US Archives, and she replaced pictures of MLK marching at protests with Nixon meeting Elvis. So this is how the lesser evilism thangy works then. Setting everything up for the greater fascism. [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 May 2026 04:19 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlph6yqaqk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mlpglzvu322aFrom Code Pink: “Two activists disrupted the Lockheed Martin-Politico ‘Security’ Summit in D.C. this morning in protest of the arms manufacturer's complicity in the genocide in Gaza and the wars of aggression against Iran and Lebanon.”13 May 2026 04:09 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlpglzvu322ahttps://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mlpg3vz5qs2a“Today in Labor History May 12, 1971: The Panther 21 were acquitted in New York on charges of conspiring to bomb buildings after it was revealed that the undercover police had infiltrated the Black Panther Party, created the plans for the violence, and framed innocent Panthers.” https://kolektiva.social/@MikeDunnAuthor/11656202363312132713 May 2026 04:00 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlpg3vz5qs2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mlnse7jpas22Lesser evils make greater evils probable.12 May 2026 12:34 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlnse7jpas22https://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mlpfgpf5nc2a“Enbridge is also responsible for the two largest inland oil spills in U.S. history: 1.68 million gallons near Grand Rapids, Minnesota, in 1991, and more than 1.2 million gallons into Michigan’s Kalamazoo River in 2010.” https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/enbridges-line-5-reroute-blasts-through-bedrock-without-permits-threatening-the-great-lakes/13 May 2026 03:48 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlpfgpf5nc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mlpcn57evc2tHere’s the thing though. Hitler lost his election. He was appointed. And then blood was spilled to depose him. Voting has never stopped fascism.13 May 2026 02:58 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlpcn57evc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mlpc5sw3bk2tErica Nanton is so good at localizing the threat of US imperialism.13 May 2026 02:49 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlpc5sw3bk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mlpbencymc2t“Italy witnessed a massive nationwide general strike in more than 75 cities as millions marched in solidarity with Palestine and demanded an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza.” https://mastodon.neometropolis.net/@QudsNen/11656432400254091213 May 2026 02:35 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlpbencymc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mlpagxdr7s2tWhen asked to speak at the rally, Brando’s comments included, “I’m here to try to dig it, because I as a white man have a long way to go and a lot to learn. I haven’t been in your place.” #otd #history13 May 2026 02:18 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlpagxdr7s2thttps://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mlp7ctfkp22t“Gez also concedes that the death penalty is unlikely to be applied, but her desire for executions even of those she accuses of picking fruits (planted on land stolen from Palestinians by Israeli colonists), is a good indication of the quality of the ‘justice’ Palestinians can expect in Israel.” https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israel-still-cant-find-any-7-october-rape-victims-prosecutor-admits13 May 2026 01:58 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlp7ctfkp22thttps://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mlp23kewj22f“Exposed: Israeli military medics are training on donated bodies supplied by two U.S. universities – all without the donors' consent. Dena Takruri investigates from California.” https://share.upscrolled.com/en/post/7c9a1b50-4e5f-11f1-8080-8000111635be/13 May 2026 00:25 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlp23kewj22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mlowsbapcc2f“Scenes from the Tennessee legislature as it enacted the largest attack on Black voters since pre-1965.”12 May 2026 23:26 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlowsbapcc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mlouxzjryc2yThis morning ICE kidnappers completely blocked one side of a Middle Tennessee highway while racially profiling drivers and violating their rights. The individuals in this video were U.S. citizens and they were not detained.12 May 2026 22:53 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlouxzjryc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/micchiato.bsky.social/post/3mlouieur522y“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both” Frederick Douglass said “words or blows,” not “votes.” [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 May 2026 22:44 +0000at://did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlouieur522y