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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12h

I found this a really illuminating thread on what demonstrations do and why they matter.

Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 13h

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 14h

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21h

If you were out in the streets today, thanks. If you left feeling inspired, please seek out local ways that you can keep organizing with others.

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Jackie Goldman (they/them)🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌹 @jackiegoldman.bsky.social · 2d

There will be a Palestine contingent. We are meeting at City Hall at 1 and will join the March when it comes by. The anti fascism movement must center Palestine. Both Israel and the far right use same weapons and same tactics to enforce their violence.

WPRI 12 @wpri12.bsky.social · 2d

As political tensions continue to rise, a second round of nationwide “No Kings” demonstrations are scheduled to take place on Saturday, Oct. 18. Here's where: https://www.wpri.com/news/politics/where-are-no-kings-protests-happening-in-ri-se-mass/

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 2d

This is good reporting on the disaster in Alaska if you're looking for a reliable summary.

This is a bigger disaster than I think most are realizing. 1500 people have been displaced by the flooding with an exceptionally complicated response and recovery.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kz...

Rescue crews airlift hundreds out of rural Alaskan villages after powerful storm

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

www.youtube.com

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Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · 2d

A bunch of new people have followed me this week. Nice to see you all here! I wrote this book. If you have between $15 & $30, you could buy it, or donate that amount to a Palestinian fundraiser, immigrant defense effort, or environmental justice organization www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kate-...

Lessons from the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth

Climate anxiety is real—and this practical, accessible guide helps address it on personal, relational, and structural levels, from the founder of ...

www.hachettebookgroup.com

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Jackie Goldman (they/them)🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌹 @jackiegoldman.bsky.social · 6d

I'm 5'0 and proud of it

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Jackie Goldman (they/them)🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌹 @jackiegoldman.bsky.social · 7d

I PRd my 5k and got to chat with one of the people I saw on the train. The correct link is here, the event is 200k short of raising 2 million: getinvolved.unrwausa.org/fundraiser/6...

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Jackie Goldman (they/them)🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌹 @jackiegoldman.bsky.social · 7d

getinvolved.unrwausa.org/fundraiser/6...

2025 NYC Gaza 5K

getinvolved.unrwausa.org

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Jackie Goldman (they/them)🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌹 @jackiegoldman.bsky.social · 7d

It's so cool to be on a subway at 730am and see a handful of people all heading to the UNRWA fundraiser 5k. There is still time donate. Palestine still needs our money and our solidarity: getinvolved.unrwausa.org/fundraiser/6...

getinvolved.unrwausa.org

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Philip Eil @phileil.bsky.social · 11d

Good reporting from the ProJo's Kathy Gregg:

"Six Rhode Island lawmakers took an expense-paid trip to Israel in September, following a trip there earlier this year by Lt. Gov. Sabina Matos that has now drawn some flak."

These RI lawmakers took an expenses-paid trip to Israel during the Gaza offensive

Six Rhode Island lawmakers were invited by Israel to attend the "50 States, One Israel" trip, with expenses paid by the Israeli government.

www.providencejournal.com

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Philip Eil @phileil.bsky.social · 11d

Kathy's piece mentions @jackiegoldman.bsky.social's recent op-ed criticizing Matos's trip. A quote: "it strikes me as hypocritical for Lt. Governor Matos to talk about food deserts in Rhode Island while supporting a political regime that is imposing famine conditions on millions of people."

Lt. Gov. Matos' stance on Israel, hunger in RI a contradiction | Opinion

The writer lauds Lt. Gov. Sabina Matos and her campaign against food deserts in Rhode Island, but is disappointed by her visit to Israel, which has blocked humanitarian aid to Palestinians.

www.providencejournal.com

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Sam Bell @samuelwbell.bsky.social · 13d

Great op-ed by @jackiegoldman.bsky.social. While I support @sabinamatos.bsky.social’s work on hunger and food deserts, her Israel views have long been problematic. With the famine in Gaza, backing up the Netanyahu regime in yet another trip to Israel is especially irresponsible. t.co/mv4OFjzEZJ

https://www.providencejournal.com/story/opinion/columns/2025/10/04/lt-gov-matos-stance-on-israel-hunger-in-ri-a-contradiction-opinion/86168337007/

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 18d

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Jackie Goldman (they/them)🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌹 @jackiegoldman.bsky.social · 18d

G'mar chatima tova, may you have a safe and meaningful fast and may you be inscribed in the Book of Life. May this Yom Kippur give you the spiritual grounding you need for the many fights for liberation ahead. If you.need a place to celebrate Yom Kippur, I'm helping lead these services:

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Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · 19d

Some #PVDlocal/#RIlocal neighborly actions for you. Sometimes with a fundraiser, I think, "Am I glad people are doing this thing? Yes. Could *I* do it? No? Then let me kick in." neighborlyactions.substack.com/p/neighborly...

Neighborly Actions to Hold Up Our Heads

Close your Microsoft account for Palestine, dance your pants off to help shelter youth, and put some teeth in a ban on police-ICE cooperation.

neighborlyactions.substack.com

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Jackie Goldman (they/them)🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌹 @jackiegoldman.bsky.social · 19d

Yom Kippur/sweeping authoritarianism anxiety had me up early today and I logged on to work at 5:40. But at least my coworker is comforting.

A black cat named Frisbee is sitting on a blanket on the poster's lap.

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Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · 19d

Let's testify for our neighbors who can't safely do so. The proposed changes to the current ordinance are here: council.providenceri.gov/wp-content/u...

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Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · 19d

#PVDlocal: The Mayor's promises that PPD won't cooperate with ICE have proved empty. On 10/6, City Council's holding a hearing that could lead to a prohibition on police-ICE cooperation, as well as some protections for schools & courts. Get your testimony ready. 10/6, 5:30pm, City Hall, 3rd floor

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Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · 19d

As per uzh, watching someone's kid so that person can go, giving someone a ride, delivering someone's testimony for them are all legit forms of community participation

Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · 19d

#PVDlocal: The Mayor's promises that PPD won't cooperate with ICE have proved empty. On 10/6, City Council's holding a hearing that could lead to a prohibition on police-ICE cooperation, as well as some protections for schools & courts. Get your testimony ready. 10/6, 5:30pm, City Hall, 3rd floor

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19d

"We are asking the Department of War to deploy to our cities" should be a statement that ends any Governor's political career.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19d

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry: "Tonight, we're sending the Department of War a request to send the National Guard, asking them to deploy the National Guard here in Louisiana into our cities like New Orleans and Baton Rogue and others."

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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 19d

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 21d

Happening now: at the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago, Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino and other CBP/ICE agents emerge to patrol Beach Street and escort a vehicle out.

They ordered people out of the street, walked to the end of it and then back to the fence.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 21d

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21d

Jesus Christ, how are you so unbelievably bad at this?

A deeply unpopular president is recklessly destroying our government, wrecking our democracy, covering up pedophilia and now threatening to use military force against our own citizens but you're tsk-tsking about protecting healthcare?

Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 21d

The Trump administration’s threat to deploy troops in Portland is unlawful.

Here’s a thought.

Focus on protecting the healthcare of the American people.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 24d

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets.

• Joy Reid
• Don Lemon
• Melissa Harris-Perry
• Tiffany Cross
• Jemele Hill
• Marc Lamont Hill
• Karen Attiah
• Amber Ruffin

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