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Hip Hop Artist | Sociologist | Organizer | Activist | Strategist | Journalist | @tendemands.bsky.social Founder • Work: AP, Unicorn Riot, Counterpunch, Mass Appeal, Melina Abdullah, Noelle Cook, etc. • aka @philmandelbaum.bsky.social • thisisawkword.com

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Music is the soul of the movement.

“Hands Off! Melt ICE” drops March 23!

🔥🧊

🔗 bit.ly/preordermeltice

🎨 by @channeldraw.bsky.social

10.03.2026 21:21 👍 39 🔁 19 💬 4 📌 0
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Prairieland 19 Case Update The Prairieland 19 trial collapsed on day one in federal court, spotlighting how politically charged protest cases are handled. The case previews aggressive prosecution tactics, the implications it ha...

New - The Prairieland 19 trial collapsed on day one in federal court, spotlighting how politically charged protest cases are handled. The case previews aggressive prosecution tactics, the implications it has beyond the courtroom, and what to watch as it moves forward.

20.02.2026 19:18 👍 99 🔁 55 💬 1 📌 4
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PLOTS & PRAYERS: NAR Apostle Che Ahn Runs for  California Governor | Left Coast Right Watch New Apostolic Reformation apostle Che Ahn is running for Governor of California

NEW from LCRW: @katerqburns.bsky.social debriefs us on Che Ahn, the New Apostolic Reformation 'apostle' who preached that Christians of his ilk would "rule and reign through president Trump and under the lordship of Jesus Christ" and is running for California Governor next year.

03.07.2025 23:41 👍 32 🔁 20 💬 2 📌 7
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After work, I had to DoorDash to pay for our motel room. I brought my toddler with me to avoid childcare costs. A South Carolina mom lived in a $60-a-night motel and took her toddler on DoorDash runs to make ends meet. She can afford a mobile home now.

From one perspective, this is a story about grit and determination.

From another, it's a damning portrait of a country where someone working full-time at $11/hour lives in a $60-a-night motel with her toddler—then spends evenings DoorDashing with her kid because affordable childcare is nonexistent.

10.03.2026 20:00 👍 150 🔁 53 💬 2 📌 5

The DOJ is suggesting that gender-affirming care providers may be engaging in "conspiracy" because they're prescribing medications off-label. That poses danger for an important backstop in the event old restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone are restored:

10.03.2026 15:21 👍 404 🔁 153 💬 16 📌 33
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Is the FBI Investigating Environmental Activists? - Inside Climate News A recent visit by an FBI agent to a climate activist hints at a broadening Trump administration effort to target political opponents.

“The autocrat’s handbook is all about repression of our civil liberties and our rights,” Fisher said. Read all about the move by the federal government to investigate groups engaging in climate activism in @insideclimatenews.org insideclimatenews.org/news/0803202...

09.03.2026 13:58 👍 26 🔁 22 💬 2 📌 0
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Reports of the demise of irony have been greatly exaggerated

A year ago, Trump lambasted Zelensky in the Oval Office, pressing Ukraine to surrender

Trump said, “You don’t have the cards” and JD Vance attacked him for not wearing a suit

Now Trump is begging Ukraine to help in his war against Iran

09.03.2026 13:39 👍 1003 🔁 386 💬 70 📌 33
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Gulf states’ AI gamble goes up in smoke
Drone attacks raise concerns about vulnerability of data centres in the Middle East

Screenshot of The Telegraph Gulf states’ AI gamble goes up in smoke Drone attacks raise concerns about vulnerability of data centres in the Middle East

🚨 'Further concerns lie with the critical subsea cables that run under the Strait of Hormuz, the crucial trade artery that has been cut off by the war, and the Red Sea. These cables have previously been hit by sabotage in attacks blamed on Houthi rebels.'
➡️ www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/ec63220...

10.03.2026 15:08 👍 81 🔁 61 💬 3 📌 1
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Donate to Help Me Afford Life-Saving Medications, organized by Maryanne Chisholm I’m facing the terrifying possibility of losing access to medications that ke… Maryanne Chisholm needs your support for Help Me Afford Life-Saving Medications

I’m in a scary situation. My health insurance suddenly jumped to $2,400/month. Without coverage, my discounted medications cost $489/month out of pocket. These meds keep me mentally stable and protect my heart, preventing strokes.

If you can help or repost, thank you. ❤️
gofund.me/abeb719f8

10.03.2026 18:06 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Former DOGE staffer Justin Fox testified that his job at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) was flagging grants tied to “DEI” so they could be canceled under Trump’s executive order.

One problem: he admitted he didn’t actually know what DEI meant!

#ProudBlue
📹: 404 Media/TT & IG

10.03.2026 18:54 👍 174 🔁 129 💬 41 📌 13
Five Signs You Might Be a Karen
Five Signs You Might Be a Karen YouTube video by Pretty Damn Sketchy

Hit 50 subs this week, to celebrate, here are 5 Reasons You Might Be a Karen.
If you feel personally attacked, that’s between you and your manager.

youtu.be/l6xzL16vSoA?...

10.03.2026 19:02 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
Swift Justice - Behind the Hunger Strike - Kenneth Traywick Continues Fight for 'Prisoners' Rights'

Swift Justice - Behind the Hunger Strike - Kenneth Traywick Continues Fight for 'Prisoners' Rights'

NEW: Behind the Hunger Strike: Swift Justice Continues Fight for ‘Prisoners’ Rights’

Kenneth ‘Swift Justice’ Traywick started starving himself November 20, 2025, striking in solidarity with ‘prisoners’ across Alabama and the United States.

09.03.2026 22:15 👍 53 🔁 26 💬 1 📌 0

Important read.

09.03.2026 23:34 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Behind the Hunger Strike: Swift Justice Continues Fight for ‘Prisoners’ Rights’ - UNICORN RIOT Kenneth 'Swift Justice' Traywick started starving himself November 20, 2025, striking in solidarity with 'prisoners' across Alabama and the United States.

On November 20, 2025, Kenneth “Swift Justice” Traywick started starving himself. This wasn’t his first hunger strike.

09.03.2026 23:10 👍 149 🔁 111 💬 3 📌 3

As an anti-Cory Booker economist, that always votes blue, but doesn’t consider themself a Democrat. This is a move in the right direction. Doubling the standard deduction and boosting child tax credits will help the most marginalized among us.

The wealthy used to give to charity, they hoard now.

09.03.2026 22:38 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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The guy who voices Master Chief from the video game "Halo," who was featured in a White House meme video showing missiles blowing people up in Iran, calls it "disgusting and juvenile war porn" wapo.st/3NhffGm

09.03.2026 15:43 👍 5975 🔁 1522 💬 48 📌 78
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Federal Agents Are Intimidating Legal Observers at Their Homes: "They Know Where You Live" Immigration authorities in Minnesota have identified legal observers by name and address, and in some cases showed up at their homes.

"Across the Twin Cities, immigration agents have identified legal observers by name and address, and, in some cases, led them back to their homes after they engaged in lawful monitoring of immigration activity."
#Minnesota #USA #Housing #Surveillance #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

09.03.2026 22:43 👍 25 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 0

As a seventh US service member has tragically died in Trump’s illegal war against Iran

I’m wondering when this story-considering all the classified intel Trump has given Putin over the years (both intentionally and due to his administration’s incompetence)-is finally going to gain some traction

08.03.2026 21:26 👍 693 🔁 346 💬 35 📌 12
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‘The cover-up is brazen’: one journalist’s tenacious, traumatic fight to expose Ghislaine Maxwell

Lucia Osborne-Crowley has endured threats and sexual harassment to report on Jeffrey Epstein’s chief enabler. Maxwell’s conviction was only the start of the quest for justice, she says

Screenshot of The Guardian ‘The cover-up is brazen’: one journalist’s tenacious, traumatic fight to expose Ghislaine Maxwell Lucia Osborne-Crowley has endured threats and sexual harassment to report on Jeffrey Epstein’s chief enabler. Maxwell’s conviction was only the start of the quest for justice, she says

🚨 'This is her frustration: the coverage centres Epstein, Maxwell & Windsor & tries to unpack their psychology & connections, finding it easier to talk about political corruption than sexual abuse. The human collateral gets lost, as does the survivors’ agency.'
➡️ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

09.03.2026 15:24 👍 624 🔁 366 💬 12 📌 9
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US crude just posted a 35% weekly gain, the biggest since 1983.
Qatar's Energy Minister just went on the record with the Financial Times and said: ALL Gulf energy exporters *will* shut down production within days.

Global economy is about to hit a wall.

Yam tits' response: UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER.

07.03.2026 02:21 👍 140 🔁 90 💬 12 📌 4
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There are a lot of posts out there with the close-up visual of Markwayne Mullin on January 6, but this is a better perspective.

He’s not protecting others; he’s protecting himself and hiding. You can see plenty of people at the entry door, ready to take on the insurrectionists, but not Markwayne.

07.03.2026 16:18 👍 14827 🔁 6328 💬 1134 📌 467

I miss being anon. An “ally” photojournalist told the feds who runs the @eyerolls accts (knowing I have a trans teen at home) and it’ll never be the same.

There are so many reasons we should be allowed to be anonymous online. Freedom of speech being just one of them

09.03.2026 21:11 👍 42 🔁 29 💬 2 📌 2
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Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online The bipartisan push to remove anonymity from the internet is ushering in an era of unprecedented mass surveillance and censorship.

Got an anonymous account on here?

Soon, that may be illegal.

Will you stay?

08.03.2026 18:31 👍 474 🔁 318 💬 140 📌 46
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Making Another Murderer: The Captivating Case of Temujin Kensu Nearly a dozen witnesses have placed Temujin Kensu 450 miles away from a 1980s murder in Michigan. Yet, 40 years later, his conviction stands.

"Nearly a dozen witnesses have placed Temujin Kensu 450 miles away from a murder committed about 40 years ago."

"[D]espite being afflicted with autoimmune and heart and lung diseases, Kensu remains behind bars in Michigan."
#Michigan #USA #Drugs #Policing #Incarceration #Courts #Torture

07.03.2026 18:28 👍 39 🔁 25 💬 4 📌 1
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Making Another Murderer: The Captivating Case of Temujin Kensu - UNICORN RIOT Nearly a dozen witnesses have placed Temujin Kensu 450 miles away from a 1980s murder in Michigan. Yet, 40 years later, his conviction stands.

Making Another Murderer: The Captivating Case of Temujin Kensu

Nearly a dozen witnesses have placed Temujin Kensu 450 miles away from a 1980s murder in Michigan. Yet, 40 years later, his conviction stands.

NEW from UR contributor @philmandelbaum.bsky.social

28.02.2026 00:32 👍 56 🔁 30 💬 1 📌 0
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Making Another Murderer: The Captivating Case of Temujin Kensu - UNICORN RIOT Nearly a dozen witnesses have placed Temujin Kensu 450 miles away from a 1980s murder in Michigan. Yet, 40 years later, his conviction stands.

NEW:

No murder weapon was ever produced, and no gunshot residue was found on his clothing.

An ammunition box found at the murder scene contained a fingerprint that did not belong to him.

Yet Temujin Kensu remains behind bars in Michigan.

It’s been 40 years.

28.02.2026 00:25 👍 410 🔁 225 💬 12 📌 9

“Martin Sellner’s proposed ‘solution’ to the so-called ‘Great Replacement’ is remigration, a term used to explicitly call for the forced deportations en masse of migrants, including citizens, back to their ‘home countries’.”

the US regime has bypassed Sellner’s proposal to Nazi concentration camps

08.03.2026 18:06 👍 19 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 0

Available now:

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08.03.2026 17:38 👍 26 🔁 12 💬 4 📌 2

Not only did the US, per its own ‘intelligence,’ bomb this girls primary school, THEY BOMBED IT TWICE.

www.reutersconnect.com/item/the-pri...

08.03.2026 12:11 👍 1984 🔁 953 💬 90 📌 141
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Right-wing pundits want Trump to heal the MAGA rift over the Iran war via the mass deportation of American Muslims

Right wing Pundits Benny Johnson and Matt Walsh are calling for mass deportation of American Muslims. What media is missing is Black Americans are the largest component of the Muslim American community. This is simply a way for them to advocate deporting Blacks www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-rela...

08.03.2026 18:05 👍 65 🔁 31 💬 4 📌 1