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Dog person. Cat person. Now old enough to be a bird person. She/they.
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These are prisons.

The criminalization of homelessness and push towards mandated, coerced medical interventions and civil commitment—a bipartisan project—was always going to lead us here.

This is why when we talk about, strategize and organize around abolition, we must include ALL carceral spaces.
Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.

Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Ahmed is trapped in the North and desperately wants to get out
Donate to Help Ahmed rebuild his home and life in Gaza, organized by Yazan Alajrami
Hello, I’m Ahmed, a young Palestinian from Gaza. I’m writing with a heart … Yazan Alajrami needs your support for Help Ahmed rebuild his home and life in Gaza
gofund.me
October 1, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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my full @rollingstone.com story on the likelihood democrats abandon trans people to fund the government unless they face a mass movement calling on them to hold the line

cc @parkermolloy.com
Will Democrats Let the GOP Gut Trans Health Care?
Donald Trump and Republicans may try to ban funding to companies that perform trans health care. Some fear Democrats won't stop them.
www.rollingstone.com
September 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
If democrats hadn’t been the feckless wimps they are and actually stood up unequivocally for the rights of trans people in this country, Trump wouldn’t see this as a viable pressure point.

Giving into fascists only gets you more fascism, as always.
September 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
For anyone still questioning the level of control Israel has and exerts over Gaza (and for anyone thinking fundraisers must be scams because Palestinians in Gaza can't possibly have cell service):
JERUSALEM (AP) — In 'unprecedented operation,' Israeli army takes over mobile phones of Gaza residents to carry Netanyahu UN speech live.
September 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
It's been clear from the treatment of Palestinian accounts on here that moderation standards are applied selectively, not uniformly and without bias, and @moderation.bsky.app @safety.bsky.app letting this disinformation targeting trans people stay up is the latest example.
September 13, 2025 at 11:41 PM
This shows how shallow (or warped) the thinking of pundits is. George Floyd was killed by the state. That was the salience to protestors, and the motivation was to change the actions of the state. Kirk was not the victim of systemic state violence, but they somehow imagine he was.
Ok PBS just let David Brooks say that his friends texted him “this is our George Floyd”
September 13, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Alright I have a non monetary request to help someone in Gaza!

@rerogaza8.bsky.social is working on her studies and had to produce a podcast episode- so she interviewed @ssaakkhheerr2.bsky.social about his life in Gaza. Part of her grade is based on views- so give it some views!
💔 صرخة من تحت الركام | A Cry from Beneath the Rubble – A Story of Loss and Pain from Gaza
YouTube video by Reem Osama
youtu.be
September 11, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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I do not care about “respectability” I care about folks getting rounded up to camps during a time they are counting on inciting a riot and will be encouraging it

Do NOT snatch federal charges out the jaws of anonymity
September 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Um...as the old saying goes, when you want to convince people you aren't being Weekend At Bernie's, you open your press conference with serious unexplained technical glitches.
September 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Heads up: ICE took a Brazilian trans woman in DC.

Her name is Alice Correia Barbosa.

No one has been able to find her.

If anyone hears anything at all, please DM me or reach out to OP on Reddit:

www.reddit.com/r/washington...
From the washingtondc community on Reddit: Trans Woman Violently Taken by ICE
Explore this post and more from the washingtondc community
www.reddit.com
August 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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I was hoping this would be resolved but it appears that Mona isn’t making anymore posts so I’m going to speak on it. Mona gave her account over to the same person who was running Fidaa’s. I’m assuming she did this for help promoting and to avoid her account getting shut down for being in Gaza.
August 20, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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So Bluesky deleted an account I made (here, in the US) to provide updates on the condition of my friend Sondos Jad Al-Haq and her family of four, who are in Gaza.

Sondos has never used this account. She does not have the password, and has never logged into it.

@mommunism.bsky.social
August 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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The concerted effort that went into "warning" everyone about how Gazans were actually scammers in slave cities in Myanmar wasn't about anyone's safety, it was about making everyone feel better about doing nothing
August 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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alt text:

"Multiple cybersecurity experts that the ABC has spoken with say they have not yet seen any evidence to suggest Gaza-focused crowdfunding campaigns are being targeted by online scammers."

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
August 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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📍We are starving… No food, no medicine. I've lost half my weight, and dizziness follows me every day. Prices are insane, and we can’t afford anything. Please help us survive — your donation could save a life.🙏🍞
✅️Verified by : @mommunism.bsky.social
👉👉 gofund.me/aa119790
August 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Israel is intentionally starving the people in Gaza, we have let them, and no propaganda campaign can obscure this truth.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
July 31, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This was the goal of those unconstitutional executive orders, by the way.
NEW FROM @reuters.com: Top U.S. law firms have sharply scaled back their efforts to challenge the federal government in court, especially on behalf of pro bono clients, in the face of threats from President Trump.

www.reuters.com/investigatio...
July 31, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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NEW FROM @reuters.com: Top U.S. law firms have sharply scaled back their efforts to challenge the federal government in court, especially on behalf of pro bono clients, in the face of threats from President Trump.

www.reuters.com/investigatio...
July 31, 2025 at 11:37 AM