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Liv ⚧️ @ghostgirlmusic.bsky.social · 1d

Our landlord knocked on our door yesterday and told us we had five days until they take us to court. We need URGENT help with getting our goal met! We’re only at 2/800 so far; every bit of support helps us get out of this situation!! #MutualAid

Liv ⚧️ @ghostgirlmusic.bsky.social · 2d

🚨EMERGENCY🚨 Salem and I are two days late on rent and still need about $800 to cover it and additional late fees. We don’t have any other options except to ask people to boost this post; every dollar helps two disabled trans lesbians get out of a hard situation!! #MutualAid #TransCrowdfund

$gothkidkin
pp: salemdanielle33@gmail.com
Zelle: salemkentish33@gmail.com

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 1d

Can you please help Lubna and Nasser? Whatever you can do is so huge

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debruma @debruma.bsky.social · 1d

#ratober

Eine hellbrauweiße Ratte schaut rechts niedlich aus einem Karton. Vor dem Karton flunscht gemütlich eine graue Ratte auf einem flauschigen Handtuch. Cozy Ratten

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🌒 merc 🎭 @oceanlandworld.bsky.social · 1d

gofund.me/14042c160 hey all! please share this & donate if you can. one of my closest friends & their family are in danger of losing their home. their mom lost her job for BS reasons and it's been a huge ordeal for them. many of you know how hard it is being in a disabled family, pls help if you can

Donate to Help Ms. Kim and disabled daughters facing eviction, organized by Mariah Gerstner

Hello, thank you for reading and helping us. Please share, it coul… Mariah Gerstner needs your support for Help Ms. Kim and disabled daughters facing eviction

gofund.me

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Cool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social · 2d

New It Could Happen Here

Mia talks with Unraveled’s Raven about ICE’s horrific raids in Chicago from a traffic stop murder to helicopter apartment raids.

@miawong.bsky.social @unraveledpress.com

www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

this feels like forty years ago but it was 2023

www.newsweek.com/nancy-pelosi...

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Drastic Actions @drasticactions.dev · 4d

The actual post is still available in the repo. Normally, when a post is deleted, it's removed outright with no way to get it back. pdsls.dev/at://did:plc...

It doesn't appear in the timeline feed or the post thread API. They may be actively blocking it in the most stupid way possible, lol.

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Lilly ⭐️ @mothcub.bsky.social · 4d

Behold: my thing.

A drawing of a cute little hamster held in the palm of someone's hand. Text reads: "My beautiful cute perfect tiny angel :-)"

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Little Tunny 🐌🤝🧂 @littletunny.bsky.social · 5d

I sure hope so. heres some more nice ratz for your rats lover!

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 5d

Please, if you can support Lubna and Nasser it would mean the world to me. She is one of the kindest people I've ever interacted with and I hope you can help her

Donate to Help Nasser to evacuate Gaza for urgent medical treatment, organized by Lubna Alajrami

Dear compassionate friends, My name is Lubna Alajrami, an… Lubna Alajrami needs your support for Help Nasser to evacuate Gaza for urgent medical treatment

www.gofundme.com

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 6d

People keep replying to the articles about the ICE-spotting app removals with other tech solutions, when the article includes comment from a long running immigration support group who says use a hotline. Funny disconnect between online and people on the ground www.404media.co/google-calls...

Brandon Lee, communications lead at Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, told 404 Media some of the organization’s teams have used Red Dot and similar apps as a way of taking tips. But the organization recommends people call its hotline to report ICE activity. That hotline has been around since 2011, Lee said. “The thing that takes time is the infrastructure of trust and training that goes into follow-up, confirmation, and legal and community support for impacted families, which we in Illinois have been building up over time,” he added.
“But I will say that at the end of the day it's important for all people of conscience to use their skills to shine some light on ICE's operations, given the agency's lack of transparency and overall lack of accountability,” he said, referring to ICE-spotting apps.

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John Breen’s Body @acab.dad · 6d

Stop trying to make an app for everything and just go talk to your neighbors

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 6d

People keep replying to the articles about the ICE-spotting app removals with other tech solutions, when the article includes comment from a long running immigration support group who says use a hotline. Funny disconnect between online and people on the ground www.404media.co/google-calls...

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Bluesky mods aid genocide by banning Palestinians @pastures.myatproto.social · 6d

I will start posting a screenshot of each of these as a monument to the hateful legacy of this site in the midst of a genocide, wherein you will see "Post deleted" at some point where a person of dignity in a true hell on earth simply asked for a chance to live and eat.

Help Motaz please.

MOTAZ-FAMILY
@motaz-architect.bsky.social
PLEASE STOP FOR A MOMENT * I'm Motaz from Gaza & this's my new account
after the old one was deleted I fight daily to protect my family & provide
food for my daughter But everything is expensive & life here is truly
exhausting PLS SHARE & DONATE 2.
@ gofund.me/46b39131a
@@mommunism.bsky.social

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 6d

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 6d

Got my COVID booster today! Don't let the 'guidelines' lie to you, the vaccines are not limited to 65+ or immunocompromised people. Go get your shot, and help reduce spread for those vulnerable folks.

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 9d

hey! i'm trans/nb pulp author & poet & poster lottie L aka frog K. after paying rent i am broke, i am about $500 short of usual this month & already behind. halp

cash.app/$asimplefrog (FK // EI)
ko-fi.com/frogk (paypal redir)
any donations welcome/rbs welcome

ty!

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❤️Berry🌺 @lesbiangarfield.bsky.social · 7d

All of Digital Hell us on comicfury! If you like vtuber drama, gay women in their 30s who suck and ROMANCE.. maybe digital hell is for you! 🙂
digitalhell.thecomicseries.com

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 7d

Once again: Hegseth is the exact type of guy The Art of War was written for, which means he will never read it

Stella Sacco
@antlervel.vet
It's really funny that The Art of War is treated as this like alpha male book when it's clearly meant to be read by ancient Chinese failsons because it's all "please don't forget you have to feed your troops" and "if someone asks if you're going to attack them consider lying about it"

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Jana H-S (they/she) @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social · 29d

to be very blunt. if we reach the point that the murder rate overtakes the suicide rate, maybe some things change. but, for now. they are killing us in our own heads, first and foremost. the defense for that is community. connection. art isn't the only way to build that. but it's the one I'm good at

Jana H-S (they/she) @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social · 29d

promoting this to its own Post. when I say things like "I'm going to keep being weird until they kill me" that is (I think obviously) more aspirational than anything else. but it is the result of a strategic decision that this is where my efforts and abilities are best spent from now until It's Over

Jana H-S (they/she) @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social · 29d

yeah don't get me wrong. it's possible I get there too, and I see why people make that decision. I guess, atm, my probable time horizon for "All Of This Is Over Anyway" is closer than the horizon for such a severe shift in priorities. this is how I'm fighting. and I don't intend to stop fighting yet

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 8d

They have deleted Sahars account again. As a result she received no support yday. Please help. Please.

Donate to Urgent Aid for Sahar’s Family – Food, Shelter & Medicine, organized by Mahmoud Shehada

Hi world , it’s Sahar Please read this as if I'm a member … Mahmoud Shehada needs your support for Urgent Aid for Sahar’s Family – Food, Shelter & Medicine

tinyurl.com

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Melinda Magpie 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 Free Link, free Palestine @melindamagpie.bsky.social · 8d

Miss Major, one of the mothers of the trans liberation movement, has been in the hospital for 10 days with sepsis and a blood clot. She has looked out for us for generations, now it’s time to look out for her. Donate if you can: fundly.com/missmajor

An older Black femme, laying in a hospital bed. She's smiling and holding a pink, lavender and yellow dragon stuffie.

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Chrisonwheels @chrisonwheels.bsky.social · 8d

I can't live my life without a decent wheelchair.

I had a £1200 grant from the NHS towards mine. I had to find the rest of the £6500 I needed for something made to measure.
That was 6 years ago, my 5 year review is a long way off.
Please sign and share.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Petition: Launch an independent review of NHS wheelchair services

I’m calling on the Government to launch a full, independent review of NHS wheelchair services. We feel too many disabled people may be be let down by delays, poor assessments, unsuitable equipment, an...

petition.parliament.uk

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Anthony Hurd @anthonyhurd.bsky.social · 10d

Dancing thru grief - 30x40” acrylic on canvas. Available.

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Lorelei Lee @loreleilee.bsky.social · 12d

People hate the disabled because we demonstrate the fact that people need people. All of you are interdependent on each other, and we make you face that. You're terrified of us for making clear that you cannot survive alone. You want us out of sight so you can keep pretending

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