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Jessica Hershey @hersheykiss.com · 14h

Must see TV...

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 21h

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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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 14h

🧵 regarding the shutdown:

The Democrats aren’t being clear enough about this but we can be: this shutdown is about saving lives.

If we don’t reverse the Medicaid cuts (and the ACA subsidies on insurance bought through the exchanges) that Republicans made this year, people will die.

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Carol @cvc5280.bsky.social · 20h

I’m so looking forward to getting the three copies I ordered; one for myself and the others for two activist friends.

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

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

I know not everyone is who they thought they would be under a fascist, authoritarian regime. That's okay. But it's time to do more than react and post about it. It's time to get organized—including mapping or creating lines of support and defense in your community.

Mapping Community Defense and Care in Our Neighborhoods

This worksheet can help us prepare for Trump's military interventions at the neighborhood level.

organizingmythoughts.org

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

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Sam @whogivesafocal.bsky.social · 22h

An tseachtain seo // this week

Scríobh mé faoi Mhanchán Magan. Is féidir leat peann glas a tabhairt dom. Fadbh ar bith.

Léigh agus Cláraigh anois at the link in bio !

A canva graphic over a photo of a botharín in Kildare that says ““Manchán saw beyond borders through language. It wasn’t that he saw the Irish language as exceptional in its ways of expression, he saw that there was commonality in this expression with languages globally that is being eroded via neocolonialism.”

A canva graphic over a photo of a botharín in Kildare that says as Gaeilge ““Chonaic Manchán thar teorainneacha trí theanga. Ní fhaca sé Gaeilge mar eisceachtúil ach ó thar go bhfuil cosúlachtaí aici leis aon teanga eile. Tá na ceangail seo creimthe ag nuachoilíneachas.”

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Former Brundlefly @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 1d

Holy shit they woke up grandpa

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) says he has been denied 4 times to see what is going on inside the Broadview, IL ICE facility:

"Something's going on in there that they don't want us to see. I don't know what it is, but all Americans should be asking the same question."

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Sam @whogivesafocal.bsky.social · 3d

Inniu, I pay tribute to Manchán Magan who taught us that our connections to each other are what make us divine and human

The Death of Manchán Magan Reminds Us to Relate to Each Other

We must commit to Manchán Magan's revolutionary and anti-colonial act of remembering.

whogivesafocal.ghost.io

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 3d

Red text by @thatguywasfly.bsky.social

Red text: Regime propaganda at this point relies on people hating women & people of color so much that the rest of their brain shuts down completely.

cool texas Timothy on Twitter: this is a photo of disciplined everyday working-class people standing against fascist brownshirts that are commonly seen tripping over their own feet, dropping their weapons & getting chased out of town by civilians.

Quoted tweet from Homeland Security: They're not sending their best. [Photo of a brown-skinned woman in a gas mask & goggles who has linked arms with people next to her, & on the photo it says "They're not sending their best. JOIN.ICE.GOV"]

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No Mods, No Masters @julieofthespirits.bsky.social · 2d

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 3d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Natalie Portman with a shaved head in the film V for Vendetta, which is a movie not real life, gazes at the masked anarchist revolutionary V, who again, is not real life but based on a comic book character.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 3d

When the Trump regime says "Antifa", they don't only mean protesters, but in their own words: "anti-capitalists; pro-immigrant and anti-racism advocates; all trans people; and anyone with hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality." Remember that.

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Sam @whogivesafocal.bsky.social · 3d

“to not know where the underwater reefs are that house the kelp and fish to survive because we lost the word that gave us that ancestral knowledge keeps us reliant on our broken systems instead of the Earth we are all a part of. It keeps our minds and tongues colonized.”

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Sam @whogivesafocal.bsky.social · 3d

Manchán saw beyond borders through language. It wasn’t that he saw the Irish language as exceptional in its ways of expression, he saw that there was commonality in this expression with languages globally that is being eroded via neocolonialism.

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Sam @whogivesafocal.bsky.social · 3d

Inniu, I pay tribute to Manchán Magan who taught us that our connections to each other are what make us divine and human

The Death of Manchán Magan Reminds Us to Relate to Each Other

We must commit to Manchán Magan's revolutionary and anti-colonial act of remembering.

whogivesafocal.ghost.io

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 4d

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

organizingmythoughts.org

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 4d

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 4d

Seems like a good day to help someone in Gaza

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 5d

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Ramadan. Ramadan is 23 years old and worked in his father’s sewing factory. His father was killed and now he’s responsible for his family including his siblings Rula, 26, Rami, 20 and Ramey, 17 as well as his 2 year old nephew Jihad.

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Sam @whogivesafocal.bsky.social · 4d

New perks for paid subscribers are available for my newsletter Who Gives a Focal?

Subscribe now! For fresh hearth recipes and analysis in your inbox! whogivesafocal.ghost.io#/portal/

A green canva announcement graphic with a simmering cauldron and plants that says “new perks! Become a paid subscriber today and get access to recipes directly from my hearth practice”

A mustard yellow canva announcement graphic with a simmering cauldron and plants that says as Gaeilge “buntáistí Nua: éirigh síntiúsóir inniu agus beidh ag teacht agat ar oidis ó mo theallach”

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 5d

And if youve been on the fence, now would be a great time to subscribe to CAW! Especially since im actually gonna have the time and space to put more and more up there!
Venmo: Vicky-surge
Cash App: $VickySurge1312
Cawshinythings.com

CAW Journal

a worker-run anarchist platform of art, culture, and all the shiny things we can find!

Cawshinythings.com

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 5d

I need some help. Got laid-off on Friday: unannounced budget change + my position was first cut, so it was a total surprise. Thanks to a tax status loophole my employer manipulated, I cant get unemployment. In short im SOL

Anything you can give would be huge
Venmo: Vicky-surge
Cash: $VickySurge1312

A cardboard bankers box sitting on top of an office chair filled with assorted odds and ends as I cleaned out my desk

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Sam @whogivesafocal.bsky.social · 4d

New perks for paid subscribers are available for my newsletter Who Gives a Focal?

Subscribe now! For fresh hearth recipes and analysis in your inbox! whogivesafocal.ghost.io#/portal/

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 8d

The biggest pushback to "defund police" was people saying but that's anarchy! What about public safety?

So, to be clear, cops zip tying naked kids at 2am and throwing them into vans while damaging their homes looks like law & order and public safety to you?

This is what makes you feel safe?

FOH

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Maggie Sivit @msivit.bsky.social · 8d

An update from Jessie Fuentes

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 8d

**raiding an emergency room**

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8d

“ICE detained a sitting elected official while raiding an emergency room. Earlier this afternoon, they deployed tear gas indiscriminately in the middle of a city street.”

Illinois State Police assist feds in Broadview protest, Chicago alderperson cuffed at hospital, rapid responders tear gassed in Logan Square • The TRiiBE

A roundup of ICE activity in the Chicagoland area on Oct. 3.

thetriibe.com

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