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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 5h

Honestly, it’s exhausting that people think Gazans should only ask for help to survive to eat, to stay alive but not to dream, to study, or to rebuild their lives. Wanting education, safety, and a future isn’t greed. It’s being human.

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Azzoz💔🍉 @azzozz.bsky.social · 23h

@lefthemisphere.bsky.social Hi, I'm Azoz, 16,
The war took from me my childhood, father, home, and learning 😭
Now, I'm the breadwinner for Mom
We're searching for a place to go, and the cost is too high
Instead of going to school, I go to gather firewood, fetch water😔💔

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mohammed554.bsky.social @mohammed554.bsky.social · 21h

@lefthemisphere.bsky.social I am Muhammad. We live in a state of genocide. We are suffering from hunger and my sister Retaj suffers from anemia. She needs food. I need $300. Please don’t ignore me. 😭💔💔

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Anas Basil 🍉 @annas-basil4.bsky.social · 18h

@lefthemisphere.bsky.social
We’re safe, but everything around us isn’t. Two years of war left nothing standing. If kindness could rebuild walls, Gaza would already shine again.
🤍 Be part of the light that helps Gaza stand again.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 16h

There may be a ceasefire but families in Gaza have lost almost everything and are having to rebuild. Mahmoud has a new baby arriving soon too ❤️

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Mahmoud. Mahmoud was a computer engineer doing web development before this. He’s lost his job and home (and many coworkers) and is in a tent with his family including his children Zeina, 6 and Zane, 2. His wife Malak is 7 months pregnant.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 20h

Giving the Nobel Peace Prize to someone who enthusiastically supports the first extrajudicial massacre by Trump and his apparatus of her countrymen in small boats is bleak.

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 23h

They gave the Nobel Peace Prize to someone who supports and praises Trump’s extrajudicial execution of Venezuelan civilians?

Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 1d

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Amber J Martin, Ph.D. @lefthemisphere.bsky.social · 1d

“When we speak of raids, of suspicion, of the quiet erosion of rights, we’re not predicting — we’re recalling. Listen to Black people. The warning isn’t a sermon; it’s a survival manual.”

theintercept.com/2025/10/08/c...

Black People Knew This Would Happen

Generational experience has taught us what happens when the state builds a weapon for someone else: Sooner or later, it finds a way back to us.

theintercept.com

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 1d

Keep your corrupt, grubby, abusive hands off Tish James, Donald Trump.

Your cowardice is showing — weak men seek revenge on powerful women who hold them to account.

But NY’rs don’t play. Our AG has been a fierce warrior for our rights, time & again. You better believe we’ll be there for hers.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

The Attorney General of New York was just indicted by our tinpot dictator

Letitia James criminally charged in Trump’s latest effort to punish rivals

Prosecutor who sought charges was installed amid Trump frustrations with pace of investigations against rivals

www.theguardian.com

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Amber J Martin, Ph.D. @lefthemisphere.bsky.social · 2d

There is still so much need in Gaza. Help by donating and sharing.

chuffed.org/project/1102...

Please Donate to Oday Halawa in Gaza to survive and build a home

My name is Mohammed A and I live in Mississauga, ON Canada. I am setting up this fundraising page for Oday Halawa from Gaza. He is looking for donations to pay for daily necessities for his family and...

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 2d

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 2d

"[C]onversion therapy increased 'serious psychological distress [compared to those who received no therapy] (47% vs 34%), depression (65% vs 27%), substance abuse (67% vs 50%), and attempted suicide (58% vs 39%).'"

With "affirmative therapy [..] suicide attempts plummeted to 3%."
#USA #Healthcare

The Unscientific Nonsense of Conversion Therapy — Assigned

Conversion therapy is not only ineffective at its purported goal, but also only serves to amplify psychological distress.

www.assignedmedia.org

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Amber J Martin, Ph.D. @lefthemisphere.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone may join us in our solidarity fast.

docs.google.com/document/u/0...

GAZA SOLIDARITY FAST: A CALL TO ACTION

GAZA SOLIDARITY FAST: A CALL TO ACTION CUNY FSJP calls on you to join teachers, students, and staff at schools and universities in and beyond New York City standing in solidarity with Gaza through a ...

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 3d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Amber J Martin, Ph.D. @lefthemisphere.bsky.social · 3d

Free.

Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 3d

A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness compiles Francesca Albanese's damning reports on Israel’s conduct in Palestine since October 2023.

The ebook is free to download. We encourage readers to donate to @unrwa.org to support their critical work: www.plutobooks.com/product/a-mo...

Book cover and promotional image for A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness: Reports on Israel’s Genocide in Palestine by Francesca Albanese, edited by Mandy Turner and Lex Takkenberg. The cover features an illustration of two women in red and black dresses holding a white dove against a red background. Text above reads “READ THE REPORTS FOR YOURSELF.” A yellow circle on the right says “FREE EBOOK – Available on plutobooks.com.

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Amber J Martin, Ph.D. @lefthemisphere.bsky.social · 4d

Help Kholoud and her family survive the worst days of their lives.

gofund.me/7e11b57f9

Donate to Help Ahmed and his family survive in Gaza, organized by AHMED ALJA

I am Ahmed, a Palestinian living in Gaza since 1998 after losing my father in 199… AHMED ALJA needs your support for Help Ahmed and his family survive in Gaza

gofund.me

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Kholoud family @mmkholoud.bsky.social · 13d

Displacement means a tent, transportation, renting a place for the tent, and buying some necessities such as a water barrel. It is difficult. We need your help.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 5d

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson.

www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

Judge blocks South Carolina from giving DOJ millions of voters' data
Sep. 3, 2025

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Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 5d

UNRWA reporting Israel’s 2 year long war on Gaza:

⭕️ Nearly all of Gaza’s residents have been displaced

⭕️ Nearly 80% of structures damaged or destroyed

⭕️ Over 370 UNRWA workers killed.

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Thomas Long @rayosunlong.bsky.social · 6d

People keep asking “how did the Nazis do it?”

Just look around you.

That’s how.

Who’s actually doing something to stop them?

Nobody.

The people who have any power are just trying to figure out how to approach this in a poll tested manner.

So it’s on us.

Sorry to be blunt. But it’s true.

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Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 6d

Massive escalation at the ICE facility. Federal agents made multiple arrests (at least 4), threw out gas, and shot tons of pepper balls.

Heard one of the people arrested screaming minutes later. Not possible to get a visual.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 8d

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

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

‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 10d

A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough for the first time since 2012.

The infant was less than two months old and was not old enough to receive the pertussis vaccine.

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Mississippi Baby Dies of Whooping Cough Amid Rising Cases

A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough for the first time since 2012. The baby was less than two months old—too young for vaccination.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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