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Leilani (she/her) @glittergremlei.bsky.social · 3h

#KeepEyesOnSudan & please direct funds to Sudanese civilian lead efforts. No one should be without medicine, (nourishing) food, clean drinking water, & safe accommodations.

Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 7h

The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.

Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .

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Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4h

The Sudan Solidarity Collective supports organizations led by Sudanese civilians: including emergency response rooms, mutual aid, labor and farmers’ unions. Please give what you can and/or share.

Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 7h

The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.

Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .

sudansolidarity.com

Home - Sudan Solidarity Collective

Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...

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WIRED @wired.com · 5h

The country’s grid operator says shifting from coal to clean power is not only possible but inevitable. The work there could provide a road map for other countries.

Australia’s March Toward 100 Percent Clean Energy

The country’s grid operator says shifting from coal to clean power is not only possible but inevitable. The work there could provide a road map for other countries.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 18h

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social · 11h

Context: the Trump administration has also made deep cuts to support for food banks.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Feb 5

that said: I think the "it's not fascism unless they're good at it" brand of analysis probably isn't the move

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Feb 5

like these guys might just have more dollars than sense. that's never stopped anyone from bringing ruin to other people but it's also the rare kind of thing that can bring ruin to the powerful

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Feb 5

just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't

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Mena 🕊️🌹 @me--na.bsky.social · 5h

I’m Taghred from Gaza, a mother to my only daughter, Mena a miracle that came after 14 y of waiting and heartbreak.

Today, Mena can’t walk like other children. Hunger has weakened her fragile body, and pain grows with each passing day.

Mena needs your humanity… your open hearts❤️
gofund.me/6750d2bd

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 5h

It's my 40th birthday! That's right, 40 years around the sun on this raggedy planet. i know, you wanted to bless my cashapp so I can afford to go to this literary conference in New York this weekend. I won't take that from you. It's $chantallisette

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 12h

this video is AI generated. the reporter has three arms and people in the background phase in and out of each other, and it comes from an AI sharing account

be cautious with what you share these days, friends

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 3d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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M.O.T.A.Z @motaz-aarchitect.bsky.social · 8h

STOP A MOMENT🚨

This campaign is all I have left to provide food for my family💔

Donations have decreased a lot & my campaign needs your support now more than ever😭

Please keep supporting my family & me so we can have daily food

Please🙏🏻Share & Donate
🔗 gofund.me/4851238e8

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 14h

this made me laugh so hard

Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 14h

I emailed the guy who originally drew Pepe to see if he had any comment about the current frog reclamation, and he was like uh what are you talking about

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 15h

Pepe is Portland Frog’s Wario

Spooky Witch Kat (hag/witch/banshee) 🖤💜👻🎃💀🐈‍⬛💜🖤 @switchkat13.bsky.social · 15h

Pepe walked on the wrong side of history, so his fellow frog persons are making up for that in spades.

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 21h

And he’s a dancing machine. Passersby are either delighted or just move on like they see dancing frogs on Clark Street every day.

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Leilani (she/her) @glittergremlei.bsky.social · 14h

OP is making this point through the thread but just to reeeeeaallly be my usual overly direct self:

I do not give a single fuck what is in your heart. Only the work of your hands/feet/mouth/money/policy.

Fuckers.

Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 21h

* Cuts to the programs that allowed schools and food banks to buy fresh produce

stophunger.org/usda-cuts-1-...

USDA cuts $1 billion for schools and food banks to buy fresh food from local farms

The Trump administration announced it will cut $1 billion in federal programs that allowed schools and food banks to buy fresh food from local farmers and ranchers — as part...

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Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 21h

* The impact of tariffs on people at the margins

www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/b...

Trump’s tariffs could push nearly 1 million Americans into poverty, report finds | CNN Business

President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff regime is already reshaping global trade and spiking government customs revenue. But these historic import taxes could also push more Americans into poverty, a...

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Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 21h

* Cuts to the programs that allowed schools and food banks to buy fresh produce

stophunger.org/usda-cuts-1-...

USDA cuts $1 billion for schools and food banks to buy fresh food from local farms

The Trump administration announced it will cut $1 billion in federal programs that allowed schools and food banks to buy fresh food from local farmers and ranchers — as part...

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Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 21h

* Food Banks bracing for the cuts

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Americans and US food banks brace for Trump cuts: ‘Battling hunger is no longer a priority’

Looming funding cuts to the US food assistance program come as food prices continue to rise under Trump’s administration

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Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 21h

More on SNAP

www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

By the Numbers: Harmful Republican Megabill Takes Food Assistance Away From Millions of People | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

The harmful Republican megabill, enacted on July 4, will dramatically raise costs and reduce food assistance for millions of people by cutting federal funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance...

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Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 21h

* Cuts to SNAP benefits

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The Trump Administration Is Rushing to Implement SNAP Cuts

The USDA is screwing the states by ordering them to implement SNAP work requirements practically overnight.

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Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 21h

* Cuts to food aid

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Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

On a sweltering morning in Vidalia, Louisiana, Shannan Cornwell and Freddie Green got in a long line to wait for food. The couple has struggled to pay for groceries amid soaring prices and health setb...

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Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 21h

A) Donald Trump, domestic humanitarian

* Cuts to support for the otherly abled

www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-a...

Trump Administration Abruptly Cut Off Highly Effective Support for Disabled People Experiencing Homelessness | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

The Trump Administration abruptly ended federal support for a highly effective intervention that helps disabled people experiencing or at risk of homelessness access benefits to help them stabilize...

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Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 21h

Thread 🧵

The administration pushed back hard after Trump was denied the Nobel Prize, suggesting that the President has "a humanitarian heart."

I have some doubts....let's explore why by returning to some of the other actions that Trump has taken in his second term

Trump will “continue making peace deals, ending wars, and saving lives”, he wrote. “He has the heart of a humanitarian, and there will never be anyone like him who can move mountains with the sheer force of his will.”

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