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♡ Kate's haunted emporium 👻 🎃 🇬🇹~ FREE 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 @katespeace.bsky.social · 9d

this is for survival as a trans woman in 2025 America. As always, I appreciate everybody and am so grateful for your help. Thank you. ♡
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Dr.MRO/ Axel Folio @isasaxonists.bsky.social · 58m

A huge thank you to everyone who kept supporting Republic of Yarnia while I was away taking care of family abroad & navigating loss. It really means the world that you didn’t hit pause while I had to. Your orders & kind words kept this little yarn realm running.🧶

#indieyarndyer #yarnsky #yarnlove

Yarnians! Thank you for your support! Yarnia is back!

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 23h

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 21h

A 15-year-old autistic, intellectually disabled, and often non-verbal boy in Houston has been held in ICE custody for the past week without his family knowing where he was.

I confirmed this video is real with local news reports:

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 22h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Jen @jen0529.bsky.social · 18h

this is beautiful and I'm glad to see Mamdani speaking up for transgender rights in NY. transgender rights are Human Rights and we need to be doing more!

Katelyn does a beautiful write up about the ad.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 23h

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah I really need help with this . I’m gonna go hyperventilate into a bag but this has gone bad quickly

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · Apr 10

Welp it’s gotten real real if you can please help. If you can’t it’s really hard out here so share

gofund.me/a5ee0064

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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 1d

Unbearably violent images from Downtown Chicago where a classical music concert was played on the Chicago River. This is too elegant and magical to be seen.

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 1d

To all the Americans losing their jobs and farmers losing their farms, take comfort in the fact that the people in Argentina are doing great.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 21h

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/wyoming-library-settlement-book-bans-terri-lesley.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwdGRjcANWLXdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhlnY6nKj_j4zuP3VjNSstXWBaV1t8-sPQ5C3b_jS6WN...

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Olive 🍉 @limbischessystem.bsky.social · 9h

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„tent...
Out on the street, in this bitter cold,
trying to survive.
I lost everything in this war:
My home, my memories, my safety...
even the basic things people take
for granted.
I'm Remi, a girl who once had simple dreams“

✅ gofund.me/de96cb50

Please share - and give if you can

A photo of Reem.
Taken while displacement and famine in genocide.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 9h

Chicago journalist Debbie Brockman, who was thrown to the ground & handcuffed by ICE, has been released without charges

DHS said she assaulted an officer, but eye witnesses claim she didn’t

The lack of charges makes it clear that ICE is lying to try and cover up the fact that they attack the press

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 21h

The hush money payoff to Stormy Daniels cost more than house Leticia James bought for her grand niece.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 13h

Kai, I’m gonna be honest, I think he shares a special bond with most girls your age.

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 16h

‼️ My internet connection is very weak I’m still in the displacement camps. Can anyone tell if there are any eSIM that work in the Al-Mawasi area near the beach? It’s really urgent. ‼️ 😔

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 16h

An entire people suffer from the symptoms of post-traumatic stress, forced to coexist in a still besieged space, struggling to continue their lives in a situation that is anything but normal.
This is Gaza

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 14h

A 15 year old boy with autism went missing earlier this week

He was selling fruit with his family in Springbranch when he disappeared

They filed a missing person’s report & begged the public to help find him

Turns out he was in a Houston ICE detention facility

They kidnapped a disabled child!

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13h

It’s the Feds making Portland look like a war zone— not the protesters.

And honestly, these protesters are brilliant. They’re flipping the whole authoritarian cosplay on its ass!

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 12h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 9h

All October we’re racing to meet ongoing emergency needs for these six families ‼️ please share!!

Mohamed, his siblings, & their parents lost their home and remain catastrophically displaced. They need a new tent ASAP.

Give/find their link here. 18 hours left 🚨 61/1000

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

chuffed.org

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Josep Goded (New Main Account) @josepgoded2.bsky.social · 10h

The child Huda Abu al-Naja has died after a long struggle with illness. Despite repeatedly calling for medical treatment, her requests went unanswered, and she passed away today.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22h

Stay strong, stay beautiful, Chicago. c

Tweet from Fred Wellman: “Weird. I was told it’s a war zone.”
Below is a Time Out Chicago post showing a scenic city skyline at sunset with the text: “Chicago has been voted the Best Big City in the U.S. for the ninth consecutive year.”

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly, it’s exhausting that people think Gazans should only ask for help to survive to eat, to stay alive but not to dream, to study, or to rebuild their lives. Wanting education, safety, and a future isn’t greed. It’s being human.

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