Saum Haas she/her
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Independent scholar. Anticaste savarna. Abolitionist. Lives with horses, swords, overwhelming rage, and a traumatic brain injury. https://linktr.ee/SaumyaAryaHaas 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #LandBack #BlackLivesMatter #TransRightsAreHumanRights
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So many apps, so little executive function
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I’ve been learning Arabic, and I’m on the section for food.

While I sound out
Falafel
Tabbouleh
Kebab

I think of my friends in Gaza.

I think about how long it has been - and how long it will be - before they, and their children, will eat any of these things.

Please, help if you can.
Screenshot from language learning app, showing a cartoon Black person with a yellow hair scarf, yellow shirt, and blue pants. There is a speech bubble with some Arabic words. 

Above that it says: 
Translate this sentence 

Translation below in English: 
I must eat
nsomniasaum.bsky.social
Please enjoy this picture of a Spicebush swallowtail / green-clouded butterfly, Papilio troilus, on Eastern Purple coneflower, Echinacea purpurea, and share this post because my friend needs a kidney.

kidney4naomi.info

Photo description: a black butterfly with blue-green markings and white spots along its wings, perched on a purple-pink flower. Background is blurry grass and yellow flowers.
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luckytran.com
The BS asymmetry principle: The amount of energy needed to refute BS is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.

Thank you to every science communicator who is doing the almost impossible work of countering misinformation every day. Every single one of you is saving lives!
nsomniasaum.bsky.social
Truth coming from the well, armed with her whip to chastise humanity.

“La Vérité sortant du puits armée de son martinet pour châtier l'humanité,”
Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1896.

Image description: a European oil painting in a realistic style. A pale-skinned, nude woman climbs out of a stone well in the corner of a courtyard, her mouth open in a wail. 

She is looking directly at the viewer. In one hand she holds a scourge (whip). 

Background shows some greenery on a stone wall, and a pulley system with a rope and bucket.
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mprnews.org
“The Capitol Mall area gets visited by people from all around the world, and it's a good way to remind them of the land they're standing on and the people who have been here for a thousand years,” said Bruce Savage, chairman of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.
Tribal nations’ flags raised in historic moment at Minnesota State Capitol
Flags of the 11 federally recognized tribes in the state were raised for the first time Friday morning at the new Tribal Flag Plaza. Some tribal leaders say the plaza will serve as a reminder that tri...
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luckytran.com
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
nsomniasaum.bsky.social
“Learn about Black, Asian American, Latine and LGBTQIA + history, and our history of solidarity in civil rights struggles at our hybrid event.
The in person conference is reserved for educators only, but the virtual conference is open to all.”

#Education #Solidarity

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2025 Pluralistic Education Conference
YouTube video by The E Pluribus Unum Project
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mahtowin1.bsky.social
As the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS) continues to gather oral testimony from Indian boarding school survivors, Native Hawaiians who live off-island have also been asked to contribute to the oral history project.
www.underscore.news/justice/main...
Mainland Living Native Hawaiians Asked to Contribute to Boarding School Oral History Project - Underscore Native News
The National Boarding School Healing Coalition meets with survivors in Portland as part of an ongoing oral history project with the Library of Congress.
www.underscore.news
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51st.news
The 51st @51st.news · Aug 31
Residents are finding all sorts of ways to fight ICE: They're recording and reporting. They're wheatpasting and sharing know-your-rights materials. And they're stepping up to care for each other, from delivering groceries to walking kids to school. 51st.news/dc-residents...
With cellphone cameras and tip lines, D.C. residents find small ways to fight ICE
How neighbors and school communities are organizing against the immigration crackdown.
51st.news
nsomniasaum.bsky.social
Satisfying. Got rid of some invasive Cirsium vulgare, Bull/Spear Thistle. This thing was as tall as me.

#PlantNative
#NativeHabitatRestoration
#ProtectEcoSystems
#ThisIsStolenLand
Photo description: a cart overflowing with a prickly plant with some half-open purple-pink flowers, in an asphalt driveway.
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Periodic reminder that the only reason we have to “protect trans people” is because we (cis people) built and maintain a system of centrifugal force that violently flings people to the margins.

Scroll for some ways to support trans people.
Photo description: 
selfie of a brown skinned woman with messy black hair in a braid, holding up an red insulated coffee mug with a sticker in trans pride colors (blue, pink, white) that says

You will have to go through me 

Background is the outside of a light blue barn with dark blue trim
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lostcatdog.bsky.social
Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you”

Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”
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meidastouch.com
“A hunger strike at a South Florida immigration detention center state officials have named “Alligator Alcatraz” has entered its tenth day, as detainees protest what they call inhumane and dangerous living conditions.”
'Alligator Alcatraz' detainees on hunger strike for 10th day, protesting conditions
One of the detainees, Pedro Hernández, was hospitalized during the strike but continued to refuse food, he said on Thursday.
www.nbcnews.com
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rk70534.bsky.social
"fadelmatar89

Reuters publishes aerial photos of massive destruction in Gaza City"

وكالة رويترز تنشر صورًا جوية للدمار الهائل في مدينة غزة
www.threads.com/@fadelmatar8...