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this year can we all please make sure to remember that revolutionary action is not: a) fictional, b) a thing of the past, or c) doomed to fail.

thank you. have a good few days and remember to always stand beside and act in solidarity with all oppressed people across the world. our society can must and will be radically changed.

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people are always slandering historians for saying reasonable things like "some things that seem romantic to us were platonic in the context of the times", when there's so many evil historians you actually have to look out for. number 1 : the closet royalist

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A very happy birthday to a man who:

would sit in the corner with Brount at his own birthday party

would ask for 'just an orange juice, please, I have some work to do later'

would absolutely dread party games

would try desperately (but wouldn't quite manage) to set his face to 'oh wow I didn't expect that' as he receives his fifth collection of selected works of Rousseau

would hope that taking Brount for a walk with the Duplay girls counted as 'going out on the town'.

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- Twelve Who Ruled, R R Palmer

It is early Year 2, and there's war at all the borders, the victories are starting to trickle in, but there's not enough shoes, and the dead are mounting in the Vendée, and there's bread lines and requisitions, and royalists and spies, and street agitators and swindlers ten times as many, and traitor is an easy word to throw around.

And the Committee of Public Safety pays a ransom for an astronomer, who is stuck in Spain, where he has been traveling to measure an arc of the meridian in preparation for the metric system.

In the brutal churn of trying to run a threatened, hungry, exhausted new republic, somehow, incredibly, there is time for considering and allocating a payment for a hapless scientist on a mission to measure the world. There's time for calendar and metric system and agriculture and laws and multiple constitutions. There's determination to change the way the world runs and not just the way it is ruled, and its legacy may be debated by people who understand it far better than I do, but it rings eternal in my simple scientist's heart. (even now, even when my own vocation is actively being destroyed; there is a unique kind of hope in measuring the heavens).

Happy birthday, Robespierre.

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MARINA - CUNTISSIMO

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🌍✨ A Voice from Gaza: Fighting for Hope ❤️‍🩹

Hi, my name is Mosab , and I’m from Gaza. Life here has been harder than I could ever imagine, but today I’m sharing my story with hope in my heart, because your kindness has already given us so much strength.

This journey hasn’t been easy. The war has taken 25 family members from us—25 beautiful souls we loved deeply. Their laughter, their presence, their love… all of it is gone, leaving behind memories that are both precious and painful. Every day, I carry the weight of their loss, but I also carry their spirit, which gives me the strength to keep going.

Our Journey So Far

When I first reached out, I couldn’t have imagined we’d make it this far. Your support has been a light in these difficult times, and we are so deeply grateful for every single contribution.

But the road ahead is still challenging. Every day, we’re reminded of how much we’ve lost and how much we still need to rebuild.

Here’s what life in Gaza looks like for my family right now:

🏠 Safety: The uncertainty of tomorrow weighs heavily on us.

😢 Loss: The absence of the 25 family members we’ve lost is a pain we carry every moment.

💔 Dreams on Hold: The future feels so far away when survival takes all our strength.

How You Can Help Us Cross the Finish Line Even the smallest act of kindness can make a difference:

$5 may seem small, but for us, it’s a little relief, a moment of comfort, and a reminder that kindness still exists. ❤️

Can’t donate? Reblog this post to help us reach someone who can. Every share matters more than you know.

✅️ Vetted by @gazavetters ( #309 ) ✅️

Why Your Support Matters Your kindness isn’t just about helping us meet our goal—it’s about reminding us that we’re not alone in this fight. It’s about hope. It’s about survival. And it’s about giving my family a chance to rebuild our lives, even in the face of unimaginable loss.

Thank you for helping us get this far. Your generosity and compassion have already brought us closer to a better tomorrow, and for that, I’m endlessly grateful.

With all my love and gratitude,

Mosab and Family ❤️

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Ang wiweird talaga ng mga "kaliwa" mula sa kanluran na palaging pinupuri yung bansang to lol

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Not that it's anything new, but the "voluntary" in "voluntary migration" really drives home the utter shamelessness of the occupation.

They destroy Gazan homes, hospitals, schools, roads, universities, infrastructure, cut off their water and electricity, then when they have no choice but to escape the hell that was created for them, claim they "voluntarily" chose to leave their land behind and have no right to return.

When Nakba deniers claim that Palestinians "chose" to leave their land, remember this.

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the fruit conceals its flowers and its seeds inside, always inside. Conception almost

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I got reminded of this

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modern frev au but not with millennial french revolutionaires going to college... But time travel. They just come here out of nowhere. They judge our scandalous mass produced clothes, traffic frightens them, our ultraprocessed food makes them sick. they get angry at our history books, and when you tell them England is still a monarchy they burst out laughing.

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Women of the Paris Commune: Louise Michel

Today in 1871, the Paris Commune was established and ruled over parts of the city until the end of May, facing violent repression from the Versailles government. During its activity, the Paris Commune even established its own Committee of Public Safety. In the next few weeks, I plan to provide portraits of a few of the women majorly involved in the Paris Commune despite being barred from many offices and still facing oppression even from their male comrades. I thought it suitable to begin with Louise Michel, who like many of us here, was also an admirer of Saint-Just.

Louise Michel (1830-1905) was a teacher, poet, feminist, and fighter in the National Guard.

Before the Commune, in 1865 Michel opened a school in Montmartre, which became known for its progressive methods. She was also a correspondent of Victor Hugo, and she would sometimes sign her letters to him as "Enjolras." In 1869, fellow future Communarde André Léo announced the Société pour la Revendication des Droits Civils de la Femme (Society for the Demand of Civil Rights for Women), and Louise became a member.

During the Seige of Paris the next year, Michel fought in Montmartre.

When the Paris Commune was declared, she was elected head of the Montmartre Women's Vigilance Committee.

"It is true, perhaps, that women like rebellions. We are no better than men with respect to power, but power has not yet corrupted us."

In her memoirs, Michel wrote that the realities of the revolutionary government strengthened her resolve to end discrimination against women. On her frustration at male comrades, she declared, "How many times, during the Commune, did I go, with a national guardsman or a soldier, to some place where they hardly expected to have to contend with a woman?" She challenged her comrades to "play a part in the struggle for women's rights, after men and women have won the rights of all humanity."

Louise was put on trial in December of 1871 for her affiliation with the Commune. During her trial, she dared the judges to sentence her to death, saying "It seems that every heart that beats for freedom has no other right than a bit of lead, so I claim mine!"

A very powerful part of her speech before the court reads:

"But why should I defend myself? I have already told you I refuse to do it. You are the men who are going to judge me. You are in front of me publicly. You are men and I, I am only a woman. Nevertheless, l am looking you straight in the face. I know quite well that anything I tell you will not change my sentence in the slightest. Thus, I have only one last word before I sit down. We never wanted anything but the triumph of the great principles of Revolution. I swear it by our martyrs who fell on the field of Satory, by our martyrs I still acclaim here, by our martyrs who some day will find their avenger."

However, she was deported to New Caledonia where she would spend 8 years in exile. While there, Louise embraced anarchist principles, befriended and supported the local Kanak people, encouraging their fight for independence from France.

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That one twitter user with history on their uname is so obsessed with Marie Antoinette gives me the ick.

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“I am what God made me”

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My pocas arrived. I'll need (a) cardholder(s) dawg

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Carlos Diehz really is that bitch. Starts acting at fifty years old when his youngest kid moves out of the house, does a couple of student films and then gets cast in possibly the best film of the year alongside some of the best actors alive and at no point is he outmatched or out of his depth. we stan

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Mfw it's sold out on Japan and then I ended up getting the little prince figure on my third try.