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Hey all - Aji and Wings desperately need sales to make it through the end of the year, so I'm going to thread some of @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social 's posts of their jewelry here. The most reliable way to purchase is to email Aji at ndnsilverbywings (at) gmail (dot) com. All of these are handmade.
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A young mother separated from her 3-year-old and 7-year -old daughters who beg her to collect them. 11-year-old boy lives alone for 3 months, walking to 5th grade graduation by himself, administering his asthma meds with a nebulizer.
Photo: women sobbing at the airport when their kids don't arrive.
Photo: women sobbing at the airport when their kids don't arrive.
NEW: A growing number of children have been left in the care of relatives, neighbors & babysitters after parents have been deported by ICE.
Few countries have been as vocal as Venezuela, which claims 150 children have been separated.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/n...
Few countries have been as vocal as Venezuela, which claims 150 children have been separated.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/n...
Deported and Desperate to Be Reunited With Their Children
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:29 AM
A young mother separated from her 3-year-old and 7-year -old daughters who beg her to collect them. 11-year-old boy lives alone for 3 months, walking to 5th grade graduation by himself, administering his asthma meds with a nebulizer.
Photo: women sobbing at the airport when their kids don't arrive.
Photo: women sobbing at the airport when their kids don't arrive.
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Photos from St. Paul today captured by MPR photojournalist Kerem Yücel. He filed them even after being hospitalized after being injured by a less lethal munition.
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Photos from St. Paul today captured by MPR photojournalist Kerem Yücel. He filed them even after being hospitalized after being injured by a less lethal munition.
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Hey guys. @noorhassan3.bsky.social is not doing well, she and her family is starving, no one is helping
Please consider donating, or putting her into your share rotation. Please help her
She is in gaza, i have verified her
ko-fi.com/noor320819
Please consider donating, or putting her into your share rotation. Please help her
She is in gaza, i have verified her
ko-fi.com/noor320819
November 26, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Hey guys. @noorhassan3.bsky.social is not doing well, she and her family is starving, no one is helping
Please consider donating, or putting her into your share rotation. Please help her
She is in gaza, i have verified her
ko-fi.com/noor320819
Please consider donating, or putting her into your share rotation. Please help her
She is in gaza, i have verified her
ko-fi.com/noor320819
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Nov 25 Fathi update:
Fathi wants me to thank everyone who helped his family get a 10kg canister of cooking gas. He should have it tomorrow 🥹
Thank you everyone 😭😭😭 the generosity is so beautiful
$25/$500 for winter clothes 🔁💸
- Nicola
gofund.me/4f9407199
@mommunism.bsky.social
#SaveFathi
Fathi wants me to thank everyone who helped his family get a 10kg canister of cooking gas. He should have it tomorrow 🥹
Thank you everyone 😭😭😭 the generosity is so beautiful
$25/$500 for winter clothes 🔁💸
- Nicola
gofund.me/4f9407199
@mommunism.bsky.social
#SaveFathi
November 26, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Nov 25 Fathi update:
Fathi wants me to thank everyone who helped his family get a 10kg canister of cooking gas. He should have it tomorrow 🥹
Thank you everyone 😭😭😭 the generosity is so beautiful
$25/$500 for winter clothes 🔁💸
- Nicola
gofund.me/4f9407199
@mommunism.bsky.social
#SaveFathi
Fathi wants me to thank everyone who helped his family get a 10kg canister of cooking gas. He should have it tomorrow 🥹
Thank you everyone 😭😭😭 the generosity is so beautiful
$25/$500 for winter clothes 🔁💸
- Nicola
gofund.me/4f9407199
@mommunism.bsky.social
#SaveFathi
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i added a gazillion more wreaths to nora.jewelry
November 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
i added a gazillion more wreaths to nora.jewelry
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🚨Urgent My mother is in very bad shape, tears in her eyes 😭
🛑 I beg you, my family is deteriorating. My family is starving and freezing from the cold, without warm clothes or shelter 😭
I feel so sorry 💔
Please support us, lend a helping hand, and share my story 🙏🥺
www.chuffed.org/project/1158...
🛑 I beg you, my family is deteriorating. My family is starving and freezing from the cold, without warm clothes or shelter 😭
I feel so sorry 💔
Please support us, lend a helping hand, and share my story 🙏🥺
www.chuffed.org/project/1158...
November 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
🚨Urgent My mother is in very bad shape, tears in her eyes 😭
🛑 I beg you, my family is deteriorating. My family is starving and freezing from the cold, without warm clothes or shelter 😭
I feel so sorry 💔
Please support us, lend a helping hand, and share my story 🙏🥺
www.chuffed.org/project/1158...
🛑 I beg you, my family is deteriorating. My family is starving and freezing from the cold, without warm clothes or shelter 😭
I feel so sorry 💔
Please support us, lend a helping hand, and share my story 🙏🥺
www.chuffed.org/project/1158...
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there's that now-famous internet line about how climate change means watching clips of climate disasters on people's phones until you're the one filming it, and it feels like there's some parallel about watching fascist deportation goon squad videos until it's filmed on the streets you recognize
November 26, 2025 at 4:24 AM
there's that now-famous internet line about how climate change means watching clips of climate disasters on people's phones until you're the one filming it, and it feels like there's some parallel about watching fascist deportation goon squad videos until it's filmed on the streets you recognize
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I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Ahmed. Ahmed was a driver but he lost his car and his home. He is trying to take care of his four children. Fires who is in dental school, Mohammed who finished his final year of high school, Halal, a 7th grader and Bisan, a 5th grader.
November 25, 2025 at 9:55 AM
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Ahmed. Ahmed was a driver but he lost his car and his home. He is trying to take care of his four children. Fires who is in dental school, Mohammed who finished his final year of high school, Halal, a 7th grader and Bisan, a 5th grader.
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Mini Glass Collage Wreath #6 nora.jewelry/products/min...
Mini Glass Collage Wreath #6
Handmade in my kiln by me! These work nicely as Christmas tree ornaments but also look good hanging on a wall or in a window. They come with a loop of ribbon for hanging. NOTE: This is a handmade fused...
nora.jewelry
November 26, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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I implore compassionate hearts to stand with me. My brother is dying in the tent. He was discharged from the hospital because we couldn't afford treatment. My brother will lose his leg if he doesn't receive treatment I beg you, compassionate hearts to help🥺
@mommunism.bsky.social
gofund.me/394f690b
@mommunism.bsky.social
gofund.me/394f690b
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I implore compassionate hearts to stand with me. My brother is dying in the tent. He was discharged from the hospital because we couldn't afford treatment. My brother will lose his leg if he doesn't receive treatment I beg you, compassionate hearts to help🥺
@mommunism.bsky.social
gofund.me/394f690b
@mommunism.bsky.social
gofund.me/394f690b
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There is NO FUCKING EXCUSE for this to be happening.
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
A third infant has died in Kentucky, KYDPH adds:
“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”
s3.amazonaws.com/nursing-netw...
“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”
s3.amazonaws.com/nursing-netw...
November 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
There is NO FUCKING EXCUSE for this to be happening.
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again."
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡
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Mini Glass Collage Wreath #7 nora.jewelry/products/min...
Mini Glass Collage Wreath #7
Handmade in my kiln by me! These work nicely as Christmas tree ornaments but also look good hanging on a wall or in a window. They come with a loop of ribbon for hanging. NOTE: This is a handmade fused...
nora.jewelry
November 26, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Mini Glass Collage Wreath #7 nora.jewelry/products/min...
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hey so I have a job but I'm not starting for a few weeks and I won't get paid for longer. We're like $700 short on the mortgage, can anyone help out? (anything else will go to living expenses until wife gets paid again) #UglyDogs #MutualAid
gofund.me/e187e74db
paypal.me/writerbecc
gofund.me/e187e74db
paypal.me/writerbecc
November 25, 2025 at 10:06 PM
hey so I have a job but I'm not starting for a few weeks and I won't get paid for longer. We're like $700 short on the mortgage, can anyone help out? (anything else will go to living expenses until wife gets paid again) #UglyDogs #MutualAid
gofund.me/e187e74db
paypal.me/writerbecc
gofund.me/e187e74db
paypal.me/writerbecc
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Mini Glass Collage Wreath #8 nora.jewelry/products/min...
Mini Glass Collage Wreath #8
Handmade in my kiln by me! These work nicely as Christmas tree ornaments but also look good hanging on a wall or in a window. They come with a loop of ribbon for hanging. NOTE: This is a handmade fused...
nora.jewelry
November 26, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Mini Glass Collage Wreath #8 nora.jewelry/products/min...
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I’m going to go tread water for a while; if you’re so inclined, or you run a charter helicopter business out of Oahu, help me out here. Small ask to close it out. It be really, really, wonderful to just not talk about this anymore.
gofund.me/8514570e1
gofund.me/8514570e1
November 26, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I’m going to go tread water for a while; if you’re so inclined, or you run a charter helicopter business out of Oahu, help me out here. Small ask to close it out. It be really, really, wonderful to just not talk about this anymore.
gofund.me/8514570e1
gofund.me/8514570e1
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OH is that quoted bit the cause of the day's issues? Gosh, here's the real secret.
Many writers don't need to pretend that they make their money from the book; they do make their money from the books.
They're just poor. They make as much money as their neighbors who are CNAs or Walmart greeters. 🧵
Many writers don't need to pretend that they make their money from the book; they do make their money from the books.
They're just poor. They make as much money as their neighbors who are CNAs or Walmart greeters. 🧵
i mean it's odd to say "tell us how you make your money" and then not actually let us respond, but
Hello, I make my money from writing books and through the kindness of people who bail me out of emergencies on ko-fi and kick in a few bucks a month on patreon
my biggest advance was $15k per book
Hello, I make my money from writing books and through the kindness of people who bail me out of emergencies on ko-fi and kick in a few bucks a month on patreon
my biggest advance was $15k per book
November 26, 2025 at 5:44 AM
OH is that quoted bit the cause of the day's issues? Gosh, here's the real secret.
Many writers don't need to pretend that they make their money from the book; they do make their money from the books.
They're just poor. They make as much money as their neighbors who are CNAs or Walmart greeters. 🧵
Many writers don't need to pretend that they make their money from the book; they do make their money from the books.
They're just poor. They make as much money as their neighbors who are CNAs or Walmart greeters. 🧵
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Did you really read this whole long thread? Wow! Go spread the word: DOGE isn't actually over.
The "DOGE is gone" articles are clickbait but this one gets it closer to the truth: DOGE is not gone, it just claims to have "no centralized leadership" anymore -- in other words, its leadership is hiding in an attempt to avoid blame.
DOGE no longer has ‘centralized leadership’ under White House tech team, personnel head says
The team that was altered to house DOGE — formerly the U.S. Digital Service — is also still doing its own technology work across agencies.
www.nextgov.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Did you really read this whole long thread? Wow! Go spread the word: DOGE isn't actually over.
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They're not esoteric. Any of the conspiracy theories that shaped DOGE's mission can be found easily by browsing Twitter or Facebook for a few minutes. Apparently billionaire brains get cooked by social media in exactly the same way poor people brains do.
November 26, 2025 at 4:15 AM
They're not esoteric. Any of the conspiracy theories that shaped DOGE's mission can be found easily by browsing Twitter or Facebook for a few minutes. Apparently billionaire brains get cooked by social media in exactly the same way poor people brains do.
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Anyway, this is just my experience as a software engineer; I haven't even touched the stuff DOGE did to public health or foreign aid. But from a distance it looks pretty clearly motivated by the same swirl of anti-government, anti-minority conspiracy theories.
November 26, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Anyway, this is just my experience as a software engineer; I haven't even touched the stuff DOGE did to public health or foreign aid. But from a distance it looks pretty clearly motivated by the same swirl of anti-government, anti-minority conspiracy theories.
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DOGE stole the phrase "waste, fraud, and abuse" from government regulations, where it is used to prohibit corrupt contracts, and inverted its meaning:
They use it to mean a leftist conspiracy imagined to engage in the financial corruption that DOGE is actually doing by self-dealing gov contracts
They use it to mean a leftist conspiracy imagined to engage in the financial corruption that DOGE is actually doing by self-dealing gov contracts
November 26, 2025 at 4:03 AM
DOGE stole the phrase "waste, fraud, and abuse" from government regulations, where it is used to prohibit corrupt contracts, and inverted its meaning:
They use it to mean a leftist conspiracy imagined to engage in the financial corruption that DOGE is actually doing by self-dealing gov contracts
They use it to mean a leftist conspiracy imagined to engage in the financial corruption that DOGE is actually doing by self-dealing gov contracts
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Everything that DOGE touched, they added visible evidence of their assumption that there is a real live DEI conspiracy which can be fought with lawyers and funding cuts
Here it is at the top of the DOJ Civil Rights Division website
Here it is at the top of the DOJ Civil Rights Division website
November 26, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Everything that DOGE touched, they added visible evidence of their assumption that there is a real live DEI conspiracy which can be fought with lawyers and funding cuts
Here it is at the top of the DOJ Civil Rights Division website
Here it is at the top of the DOJ Civil Rights Division website
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They also hunted down all grants that went to any purpose containing "LGBTQ" or similar words. I think it is pretty clear this is the brainchild of a conspiracy theorist who wants to "follow the money" to find out how the imaginary cabal of perpetually triggered leftists gets funded.
The majority of DOGE's "work" is to use LLMs to search federal grants for the keywords "LGBTQ," "BIPOC," and similar, and then to cancel those grants.
They are targeting minorities in the most literal, automated way. The outcomes of this are all over their own website:
They are targeting minorities in the most literal, automated way. The outcomes of this are all over their own website:
November 26, 2025 at 3:44 AM
They also hunted down all grants that went to any purpose containing "LGBTQ" or similar words. I think it is pretty clear this is the brainchild of a conspiracy theorist who wants to "follow the money" to find out how the imaginary cabal of perpetually triggered leftists gets funded.
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I don't think I have to explain that hunting down every instance of "LGBTQ" and "nonbinary" from all government software is the result of a homophobic conspiracy theory. It's not subtle.
November 26, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I don't think I have to explain that hunting down every instance of "LGBTQ" and "nonbinary" from all government software is the result of a homophobic conspiracy theory. It's not subtle.
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I've taken a deep dive into the DOGE bro's open source software code commits to verify they never wrote (or even oversaw) any code beyond culture war messaging. It's all trivial stuff like this: taking out the "nonbiary" option on some form.
November 26, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I've taken a deep dive into the DOGE bro's open source software code commits to verify they never wrote (or even oversaw) any code beyond culture war messaging. It's all trivial stuff like this: taking out the "nonbiary" option on some form.
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Although DOGE occasionally pretended to modernize some computer system, the only non-vaporware changes to software they ever oversaw (mostly they didn't write the code themselves, just leaned on someone else to do so) were to remove "DEI" stuff from government websites
November 26, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Although DOGE occasionally pretended to modernize some computer system, the only non-vaporware changes to software they ever oversaw (mostly they didn't write the code themselves, just leaned on someone else to do so) were to remove "DEI" stuff from government websites