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24 Jan, 10 tweets, 3 min read
Nearly 1 In 5 Defendants In Capitol Riot Cases Served In The US Military pocket.co/xh2tAu h/t ⁦@rerutled⁩
The only insurrectionist shot dead by Capitol police was a 14yr veteran of the US wars on Iraq and Afghanistan
Like Ashli Babbitt, Jessica Watson is a white woman and a veteran of the US war in Afghanistan. Babbitt was Air Force. Watson was Army. Tweet by Cleavon MD: ARRESTED: Jessica Watson, 38, from Wood
We are told: Babbitt, who survived regime change wars overseas only to be killed attempting regime change at home, “loved her country & she was doing what she thought was right to support her country,joining up w/ like-minded people that also love their president & their country”
Even as she pummeled her way through the doors that held back the mob braying for violence from the upper echelons of U.S. government, this veteran of US wars & other white women are still remembered for the best versions of themselves. That is privilege

feministgiant.com/p/white-women-…
Babbitt and the other veterans who stormed the Capitol remind me of the men who joined the mujahideen to fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan only to return home to Egypt or Algeria and turn their guns on their own governments.

Is the U.S. ready to make those connections?
And is the US going to do anything about the fanatics *inside* the Capitol who incited and supported the fanatics who stormed the Capitol? Congresswomen Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert are dangerous and vile
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The white supremacists inside the Capitol and those who stormed it are a reminder that the fascism that Trump unleashed is not going to disappear just because he’s left the White House. He was fruition not aberration 👇🏽
I want to be clear: I am not calling for new “anti-terrorism” laws or increased surveillance, etc that I know will just be used against Black and people of colour and Muslims.

I am insisting that white supremacist fascists be held accountable via already existing laws.

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24 Jan
#France: I hear that @TwitterFrance has removed a tweet about what it would take to stop men from raping. I ask that question and more in my book Fuck le Patriarcat! Les 7 péchés pour prendre le pouvoir which is coming Feb. 4 via @massot_editions

Cover by Francesca Protopapa! Cover of Fuck le Patriarcat...
When I asked “How long must we wait for men and boys to stop murdering us, to stop beating us and to stop raping us? How many rapists must we kill?"
This TV episode was BANNED from rebroadcast, Australia 2019, because, among other reasons, I asked those Qs
IMAGINARY violence vs men so outraged viewers and the network that the episode was banned from rebroadcast in an ostensible democracy.

Imagined violence against men offends more than ACTUAL violence against women.

Fuck the patriarchy

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24 Jan
For interview on 10th anniversary of #Egypt’s #Jan25 Revolution I quoted Chicanx labor leader Cesar Chavez: “Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read...You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.”
The picture attached to my tweet is an aerial view of Tahrir Square in CAIRO at night full of people during the #Jan25 Revolution. I usually provide alt text but posted the above without it.
I often use César Chavez’s words when I speak about #Jan25 because they help understand:
- impact of the revolution in #Egypt
- impact in neighbouring countries that did not have revolutions/uprisings
- the regime is still in place; #Jan25 demanded fall of regime not just Mubarak
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23 Jan
I asked “How long must we wait for men and boys to stop murdering us, to stop beating us and to stop raping us? How many rapists must we kill?"
I ask more questions in the Violence chapter in my latest book The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls- here’s an excerpt feministgiant.com/p/how-many-rap…
The TV episode ☝🏽 was banned in Australia - an ostensible democracy - in 2019. My IMAGINARY violence vs men so outraged viewers & network that the episode was banned from rebroadcast.

Fuck the patriarchy

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23 Jan
There are too many white men in US newsrooms for whom Trump and Bannon et al were ideas to be debated and never real life to be endured and survived Tweet by Ben White: Deep down in places you don’t talk abo
Remember how many platformed Steve Bannon, the Pied Piper of Global Fascism, for tickets and "debate': The Economist, FT, New Yorker (which disinvited him but we remember), etc feministgiant.com/p/the-self-par…
The “Admit it, you miss Trump’s tweets” crowd often dovetail with the “This isn’t my America” crowd who live in privileged denial, who refuse to see that 74mln people voted for white supremacist fascism and that that fascism still threatens so many of us.
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22 Jan
Thank you @AhNidzara for this interview with #Albanian activist Ferdez Onuzi kosovotwopointzero.com/en/ferdez-onuz…. kosovotwopointzero.com/en/ferdez-onuz…
"Suburban girls...grow up in fear...of their father or any other male figure in the family... men outside the house, classmates, the neighborhood...their husband, brother-in-law, father-in-law, of every patriarchal & authoritarian figure who robs them of their freedom & spirit"
"The biggest challenge is to overcome this fear in the family, in the first structure of oppression....Raising your voice, demanding your rights, rejecting violence becomes a philosophy and a practice of life. These are important because what does life in servitude mean?"
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22 Jan
Armed white supremacists who stormed the Capitol Jan. 6 had wanted to assassinate politicians. Much of their hate and threats were directed at female politicians.

Trump’s pardon of Bannon is a reminder of that white supremacist patriarchy run amok feministgiant.com/p/the-self-par…
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“I wrote her a nasty note, put my feet up on her desk and scratched my balls,” Bigo told Matthew Rosenberg. His note to Speaker Pelosi: “Nancy, Bigo was here you bitch,” Bigo said.
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