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Mar 2 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
After Roman Abramovich sells Chelsea, will Saudi and Emirati ownership of other football clubs then come under scrutiny? Fuck Putin. Yes. And also fuck autocrats and autocracy everywhere. #UkraineRussiaWar
I was ready to end my support of Manchester United when Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman expressed interest in buying the club. There are hideous amounts of money in modern football and horrendous ownership tied to that money. #Abramovich #Chelsea #UkraineRussiaWar
The #UkraineRussiaWar has brought up so many double and triple standards over whose lives matter, which autocracies must be fought, often by the very democracies that prop up other autocracies. And some of us are at the intersections of all this hypocrisy.
Incidentally, I interviewed #Abramovich in Seattle in 2000 for Reuters News Agency when he governor of Chukotka and was in Seattle to discuss (I think, because my memory is shit) natural gas deals.
And as for United, and before anyone brings it up, I've already written about disgraceful record of ex and current players with the domestic and sexual abuse of women feministgiant.com/p/essay-femini…

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After antics at #SOTU, I remind you the predictably-craven GOP leadership initially backed Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert’s male GOP opponents because party leaders thought the two women were extremists who did not stand a chance in primaries. feministgiant.com/p/a-white-supr…
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Mar 2
Who's about to watch #StateOfTheUnion?

What do you expect?
I don't know about you all, but I can't believe it was just a year ago that that fascist fuck Trump was droning on forever at the 2021 #StateOfTheUnion. It feels like it's been 10 years already.
A pandemic--and hello, it is not over--will do that to you.
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Mar 2
I will be watching the #StateOfTheUnion tonight and I’m wondering if the speech writer has an equivalent to “Axis of Evil” that (and fuck that phrase) will be used by the US to capture this moment.
There’s a fucking global pandemic still. A lot of us who are saying fuck imperialism of all kinds and who obviously oppose the Russian invasion of Ukraine are being yelled at to fall into line if we don’t say exactly what we’re supposed to say about #UkraineRussiaWar
And some of us come from places the history of which is rife with the debris of the West vs Russia/USSR imperial enmity. And so many other historical empires. We say fuck off to US and Russian imperialism and increasingly today also Chinese imperialism.
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Mar 1
A bill to enshrine the right to abortion in federal law was blocked by Senate Republicans and Joe Manchin on Monday. h/t @SChenHayes theguardian.com/world/2022/mar… #AbortionIsHealthcare
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected in June to decide a Mississippi case which could gut abortion rights nationally. I wrote this on the tag team of white, Christian women terrorists, legislators, attorneys general, governors, and judges who paved this path feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-te…
When Roe v Wade is overturned, (”if” is a pipedream at this stage), convicted terrorist Raychelle “Shelly” Shannon can claim that she firebombed a path for Mississippi AG Lynn Fitch, who is the face of a law that looks set to end the federally protected right to an abortion… 1/2
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Mar 1
In 2016, my feminist sister & comrade @AhNidzara took me to #Srebrenica where Bosnian Serb forces systematically murdered 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men & boys in the worst crime of the Bosnian war. It remains the only massacre on European soil since World War II to be ruled a genocide
As many have pointed out, media coverage and political statements around #UkraineRussiaWar remind us that sympathy and support during war is never equal: it depends on how you look and how you pray and is undergirded by white supremacy, anti-Blackness, and Islamophobia.
All of Europe—the entire world—knew of the horrors that Bosnian Muslims were being subjected to right there in Europe. But they were the “wrong” kind of “blonde and blue eyed” and “civilized” Europeans.
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Mar 1
In Feb. 2018, I wrote this about global authoritarianism, focusing on Sisi in Egypt, Putin in Russia, and Trump in the U.S.

Fuck all three of them.

nytimes.com/2018/02/11/opi…
From an autocrat who, having eliminated any serious competition, is basically running against himself in elections to clampdown on media to ensure only the regime's voice during war is hear, in #Egypt Sisi channels #Putin.
When we complain to Egypt’s Western allies about whichever autocrat is in power, we are asked, “But who is the alternative?” It is a question designed to frustrate.
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