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schmoo @samuelernest.com · 4h

Zohran on the Christopher Street Pier talking about Sylvia Rivera and supporting trans New Yorkers—wow :') Hearing "STAR" out of the likely mayor is crazy

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 20h

Psychiatrists/NPs/therapists who could provide off-the-books, no-fee, Zoom-based care for individuals in crisis in ICE-targeted Chicago communities, please email me: [email protected]. Include whether you can prescribe, speak Spanish (or other languages), and available hours per week/month.

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schmoo @samuelernest.com · 1d

OUP is republishing some of his writing in November.

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schmoo @samuelernest.com · 1d

What on earth makes you think Israel wants to rebuild Gaza? Say the word genocide, Barack.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

Jump in where you can to improve and expand public libraries. www.librariesforthepeople.org

For The People

www.librariesforthepeople.org

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aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 2d

the background on zohran's colbert appearance is jaw-droppingly disgusting

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.bsky.social · 2d

Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job!

(this is an amazing chant. We should all be chanting this chant. Constantly.)

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 2d

Louis-Leopold Boilly, 'Self-Portrait', circa 1800, chalk

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schmoo @samuelernest.com · 2d

Cruised/got cruised on the walk this morning <3 the traditional three-steps-after-passing-then-look-back but we both turned after two steps, which was intimate—our eyes were at the same height. If he hadn't been talking on the phone, I would've said hey.

schmoo @samuelernest.com · 2d

HAHAHAH KARA

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schmoo @samuelernest.com · 2d

hahahahahahah

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schmoo @samuelernest.com · 2d

I got to see @mtrkdjoyce.bsky.social and Bailey today, so I'd say October was a success.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2d

Trump announces ceasefire deal is official on Truth Social

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schmoo @samuelernest.com · 2d

SO CLOSE

Homodoxy @homodoxy.com · 2d

Soooooo close to 1k in donations!!! Need 99 dollars. At $1k, I can apply to grants through my fiscal sponsor Fractured Atlas! If you can help me get towards that, I'd love you forever!
fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/homodoxy

Homodoxy

Books worth burning.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 21d

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball

Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

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schmoo @samuelernest.com · 3d

saying a prayer for Emily and all. Thank you for the update

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schmoo @samuelernest.com · 6d

Jesus

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Homodoxy @homodoxy.com · 6d

This is the letter I've been sending out! Please do read, donate, and share. I need $439 more until I can apply for grants through my fiscal sponsor, so please give a little if you can.

fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/homodoxy

Dear friend,
I hope you are well!
I am founding Homodoxy, a small press for gay/queer theology and literature, and I
write to ask for your help starting it. In a moment of increasing censorship and fear, we
need good writing about LGBTQ faith and sexuality to buoy our spirits, expand our
imaginations, and sustain queer life.
Too few books of queer spirituality go beyond tired debates about biblical support for
gay marriage, gay ordination, and trans people. Much writing from Christian presses
rehearses old arguments while ignoring the complexities of queer life and sexuality;
academic presses are beholden to the maintenance of academic fields and peer review,
which limit the risks their writers can take; and queer presses tend not to focus
predominantly on spirituality.
Homodoxy will build a home for writers beyond those limits. Inspired by gay
liberationist publishers and pietist tract distributors, Homodoxy will publish fables,
theology, essays, novels, devotionals, poetry, prayers, translations, and more. Our texts
will explore a niche in the market where spirit, sexuality, and craft meet to produce
thoughtful and daring queer writing.
Homodoxy is open to all genres, and its publishing program will feature two series:
1. Books Reprinted in Contemporary Contexts, or BRICC: BRICC reprints older,
out of-print, hard-to-find, and now expensive queer writing. Its name harkens
back with tongue in cheek to the iconic brick thrown at Stonewall. A briccis
foundational and projectile. We learn the past to break through present barriers
and build new futures. The BRICC series will resemble NYRB Classics in featuring
new introductions by writers, scholars, and artists that will frame the
republished or newly translated text.
I am in conversations with the estates of writers I admire and am reaching out to
others. I can’t send out contracts yet, but I hope to republish work by leatherman
Geoff Mains, the visionary lesbian poet Judy Grahn, Black pastor and queer
liberationist B…

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Homodoxy @homodoxy.com · 6d

OH! and the marketing newsletter form is up, so if you want to know when we've got books coming out, sign up here!!!
homodoxy.com/newsletter/

newsletter – homodoxy

Homodoxy's marketing newsletter, tentatively titledTongues, is in the works.

homodoxy.com

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Homodoxy @homodoxy.com · 6d

Fascism is here, friends. They're snatching books off the shelves, gender/sexuality profs out of classrooms, anti-genocide students out of campuses, Black and brown people off the streets, and arresting gays at a prominent cruising spot looking for people to deport.

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schmoo @samuelernest.com · 7d

The Guardian reports that a flotilla activist witnessed Israeli guards beating Greta Thunberg and doing "everything imaginable to her" to make her an example. The activists are being denied "water, sanitation, medication," and legal representation.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.

Lorenzo D’Agostino, a journalist and another flotilla participant, said after returning to Istanbul that Thunberg was “wrapped in the Israeli flag and paraded like a trophy” – a scene described with disbelief and anger by those who witnessed it.

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Pinko @pinkoscare.bsky.social · 7d

I live on the west side and I am very shook up right now. There's been a helicopter hovering all day. ICE throwing tear gas at a busy intersection with a grocery store! and a SCHOOL!!! People kidnapped from the Home Depot. It's like the stuff you read in history books, right there on your block.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 8d

I am just so fucking proud of her.

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schmoo @samuelernest.com · 8d

ofc

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schmoo @samuelernest.com · 8d

I would like to congratulate Woman on the achievement!

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