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Sarah Opatz
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Events Assistant @ Blue House Books 📚 Creator/Editor of Kenozia- local Kenosha Art Zine 🖌️ My personal art Ko-Fi page= https://ko-fi.com/distinctivemediums 🖤 Kenozia Zine Ko-Fi page= https://ko-fi.com/kenozia 🎨
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Had to control my fangirling last night as I got to meet @caitlinstarling.com !!! If you love horror or weird girl fiction - you have to get all of her books. 🙌

She was at BHB for the release of “The Graceview Patient” (which we do have signed copies of btw and can ship them to you 😉)
Such a great event last night with @blairbraverman.bsky.social and @patzmiller.bsky.social - highly recommend Blair’s children picture book debut and all of Pat’s children picture books. Great themes to teach young ones. Such aspirational women. Happy to have met you both!

#booksky💙📚
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This isn’t a focus in the Discourse because the loudest voices with the biggest platforms are people who have never worried about their next meal. I’ve needed SNAP; I’ve used SNAP; I’ve lost it when it mattered. This is going to be a wave of mass starvation beyond living memory in this country.
I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
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I'm tired. We're all tired. This isn't hard to understand. You can't inflate prices of basic necessities like food and housing to ridiculous highs while keeping wages at poverty levels, then act surprised when luxury goods/services and large purchases become unattainable or payments unaffordable.
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Yes, AIPAC. I do support human rights. Thanks for noticing!
Vote for me (or anyone from BHB, or your own local indie bookstore) for the James Patterson Holiday Bookstore Bonus Program.

Link in post and so is the info to include in the submission.

Ends October 31st! 🙏🏼

#booksky💙📚 #indiebookstore
Don't forget, the James Patterson Holiday Bookstore Bonus Program is open for nominations through October 31, 2025!
This program gives booksellers the opportunity to win $500 for their hard work and dedication!

form.jotform.com/252106819334...

#indiebookstore
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No, kidnappings have also not stopped at NYC's immigration court or in L.A. & D.C.

Corporate media apparatus will continue treating this all as disparate events rather than a national emergency

Children will go to bed without their parents tonight. Let's keep talking about that stupid video.
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you'd think nine months in reality would have set in but i still can't believe people fucking voted for this
Issue two of Kenozia was sent to the printers. Hoping they arrive by Friday. This twofer ended up being 56 pages… it’s gonna be thick. Can’t wait to send it out to everyone!
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Even if you don’t have funds to spare, share because you never know who will see your repost. Even if you have just a little to spare, do it because every bit helps, you get into a habit, and you may convince someone else to give.

No need to tip - if you have extra add it to your donation
19 hours left, please share ❤️‍🔥 Maybe you’re fatiguing of these hourly posts, but what are a few posts, a clicked share, in contrast with being able to help six families & a camp survive death every day?

Fight against this slow genocide. Food & shelter. Last check, we’re at 39/1000
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
chuffed.org
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Another good time to remind people that “tear gas” is a term of copaganda that police, the military, and its manufacturers use to obscure that it is a dangerous chemical weapon internationally banned for use even in warfare.
We have merch!! I’m so excited 😁 Plus, a portion of the profits will go to a nonprofit every quarter. Hoping to raise funds for some great causes this year.

Support our local zine and buy some fun merch 😎 #Kenozia #zine

theletteringmachine.com/kenozia/shop...
Kenozia
theletteringmachine.com
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BREAKING: Israeli war planes continue to launch raids on Gaza City as Palestinians celebrate the ceasefire announcement, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent on the ground.

🔴 LIVE update: aje.io/xqppys
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Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world
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Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
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I and many others have said it over and over: local police need to start arresting ICE agents when they break the law. They are NOT above the law.
We covered this on today's @dailybeanspod.com. Extremely dangerous and these ICE agents should be charged with felonies.
PAY ATTENTION: ICE is filing fake 911 calls in Chicago, weaponizing emergency services to provoke local police.

Ordinary citizens would be charged with a felony. ICE calls it strategy.
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a galactic mic drop from Jane
Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.
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I have a full day today, but I woke up early to put this edition of my newsletter together because I need you all to have this rundown of what we've been up against this week in Chicago as the federal assault on our city continues. To ignore these developments would be a damning mistake for us all.
Must-Reads and the War on Chicago
"Chicagoans will not be a conquered people."
organizingmythoughts.org
I like to shop at Disturbia!