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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 3h

"Just as police tracked civil rights, Black Power, feminist, and anti-war protesters in the 1960s and ‘70s, today they snoop on organizers taking a stand against ICE, Israel’s war on Palestine, and Atlanta’s Cop City."

Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/police...

Police Departments Surveilled Activists in the 1960s and 70s — and Erased The Records

"Just as police tracked civil rights, Black Power, feminist, and anti-war protesters in the 1960s and ‘70s, today they snoop on organizers taking a stand against ICE, Israel’s war on Palestine, and At...

www.teenvogue.com

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 21h

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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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 19h

honestly I forgot you were on here

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 19h

definitely normal stuff going on online per usual

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 20h

!!!!

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nicole froio @nicolefroio.bsky.social · 21h

also if y'all want fact-checking, reporting and left media y'all need to pay for it, im so sorry to say. the reason we are losing is because every billionaire fucks with fox news & rarely do they ever invest in left-wing pubs.

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 22h

"where's the left media?" "where's fact-checked reporting?"

lately @teenvogue.com has run profiles: of Assata Shakur's revolutionary history; a 23-year-old Palestinian journalist; what's happening in Chicago's ICE protests; and organizing supporting LGBTQ+ youth

📍 www.teenvogue.com/news-politics

Journalist Plestia Alaqad Is Publishing Her Diaries From Gaza: "A Dystopian World"
"Every time I read it, I just feel disbelief — is this real? Did I really live that? Are there still thousands of people in Gaza living that?”
By Lex McMenamin

Politics
Assata Shakur Was a Black Revolutionary Who Fought for Freedom Even in Exile
“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
By Marian Jones

Politics
Inside Gen Z Candidate Kat Abughazaleh's Viral ICE Rally Tear-Gassing: "Fascism 101"
“If they are willing to do this to a congressional candidate in front of a bunch of press, imagine what they're doing behind boarded-up windows.”
By Maia McDonald

Politics
Hurricane Helene Devastated Asheville. A Local LGBTQ+ Organization Is Supporting Youth — With Cash
“We know that [direct cash transfers] are the number one support for preventing youth homelessness.”
By Colleen Hamilton

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The Marshall Project @themarshallproject.org · 1d

A 9-year-old pepper sprayed in handcuffs, crying for her dad. A teenager wrestled to the ground, and another pepper sprayed while waiting for the bus.

All were Black girls hurt by police.

Police Hurt Thousands of Teens Every Year. A Striking Number Are Black Girls.

www.themarshallproject.org

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

This was twenty-three months ago. Israeli forces have killed more than 16,365 kids since.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Jul 7

November 7, 2023 — Kids in Gaza host a press conference, in English, to beg the world for life.

“We come now to shout and invite you to protect us; we want to live, we want peace…we want to live as the other children live.”

At the time, Israel forces had killed over 4,200 kids like these.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 22h

our values haven't changed. we still focus on marginalized communities, on young people and their priorities, on covering what mainstream media won't, even under hostile circumstances. people say that's what they want — so read us!

come hang @teenvogue.com

Politics

www.teenvogue.com

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 22h

"where's the left media?" "where's fact-checked reporting?"

lately @teenvogue.com has run profiles: of Assata Shakur's revolutionary history; a 23-year-old Palestinian journalist; what's happening in Chicago's ICE protests; and organizing supporting LGBTQ+ youth

📍 www.teenvogue.com/news-politics

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Williams Institute @williamsinstitute.bsky.social · 1d

Three-quarters of surveyed trans and nonbinary immigrants in Los Angeles face poverty.

Read the full report at tinyurl.com/TNBImmigrantsLA

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 1d

Celebrate prime day by buying my book from Bookshop dot org (with free shipping and a little discount) or your fave indie bookstore.

Fuck Jeff Bezos, books don't need him.

Bookshop dot org: is.gd/iMcYEA

a book, with a blue cover and gradient red to yellow font that reads the dad rock that made me a woman by Niko Stratis. it's sitting on a wooden tabletop, behind it are records and a lamp and whatnot.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 1d

lmfaooooo

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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 1d

If you're a student or early career journalist or writer in the region, please pitch! Would love to help support your work. There's info in the pitch guide & pitching via the form is the best way to go. (If you let me know you've pitched, I can flag it to the team. Happy to brainstorm ideas, too!)

Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 14d

Student + early career journalists in Appalachia (or young folks who want to write): pitch 100 Days! Looking for stories w/ angles on young people, related to education & what's happening on campuses, politics, life & identity, & more. Rates start at $150 for opinion, $200-$400 for reporting.

100 Days in Appalachia's Call for Pitches

100 Days in Appalachia began as an experimental pop-up publication, designed to candidly narrate the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s presidency from within the heart of a region dubbed “Trump Country...

www.100daysinappalachia.com

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flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 2d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 2d

Over 45 days, then-21 year old Alaqad moved from one temporary shelter to another, unable to process the horrors she documented on her phone.

“Every time I read [my diaries], I just feel disbelief, like, is this real? Did I really live that? Are there still thousands of people in Gaza living that?”

Journalist Plestia Alaqad Is Publishing Her Diaries From Gaza: "A Dystopian World"

"Every time I read it, I just feel disbelief — is this real? Did I really live that? Are there still thousands of people in Gaza living that?”

www.teenvogue.com

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 2d

i keep repromoting this because Plestia really struggled to get her book published in the US, and it feels like this site is both really interested in talking about Palestine and also not really interested in reading Palestinian perspectives on their own experience

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 2d

do i experience toxicity on here? well let's just say i have thirty thousand followers and yet all of my posts have fewer than thirty thousand favs. have you ever heard of gang stalking

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 2d

23-year-old journalist Plestia Alaqad, like many Gazans, lost her home in the first days after October 7. unable to reenter her homeland, stuck watching the horror continue, she’s publishing her diaries from reporting on the ground.

full interview @teenvogue.com www.teenvogue.com/story/plesti...

Pic of Plestia Alaqad overlaid with text from interview: Plestia Alaqad: I can't believe that it's almost — [she pauses] no, it's not almost, it's actually two years. Okay, I can't believe that it's been two years of this ongoing genocide. When I was reporting in Gaza for 45 days, these 45 days felt like 45 years. And now it's 200 days feeling like 200 years for the people who are actually still on the ground facing bombing, displacement and starvation, which is being used as a method by Israel. Israel is literally ethnically cleansing people in Gaza, and we're watching a genocide unfold live on TV.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 2d

the replies have been limited sorry yall 🫶

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 2d

I have strongly considered doing so and honestly your encouragement may enable me lol

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 2d

between this and all the people like wishing death on her my replies are a nightmare

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 2d

to everyone saying she wasn’t deported she was kidnapped: I literally say in the piece that she was taken and allegedly beaten, please stop making it sound like I softened the circumstances around this story

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 2d

A message from my dear friend Tasneem in Gaza, whose daughter was hurt in an attack: "Alma has wounds on her forehead and front teeth. She can't eat because of the severe pain."

The civilians rely on our direct donations to survive. Please give to Tasneem and to others. ❤️🙏

tinyurl.com/Tasneemo

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