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power to the ice pick (Liz)

@pluplubasch.bsky.social

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Feminist killjoy and willful subject. Disability justice advocate (Public Health).😷Queer who refuses to assimilate. Name’s Liz. #AuDHD // pronouns she/they

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power to the ice pick (Liz) @pluplubasch.bsky.social · Nov 5

This is the song that gets me through right now. youtu.be/3aFF09jjZwk?...

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Jack O'Lantern Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 4h

Reading Plato's The Symposium. People might be surprised by how much of it is just a drunk guy complaining that Socrates won't fuck him.

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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 5h

The Rev. Jesse L. Douglas Sr. organized the Selma-to-Montgomery marches www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Jesse L. Douglas, Aide to King in Marches From Selma, Is Dead at 90

www.nytimes.com

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power to the ice pick (Liz) @pluplubasch.bsky.social · 5h

It’s not a meme, but I always think of Bill Hicks joke about the waitress asking him, “what you reading for?”

power to the ice pick (Liz) @pluplubasch.bsky.social · 5h

I am DECEASED.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5h

Really would like people to shift their thinking to the point where they see themselves and the people around them as the people who will collectively navigate through this moment.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 7h

Anyone know who is working on countering ICE recruitment of people of color? I'm wondering if there's a current issue campaign focused on this that has also enlisted artists and cultural workers.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

The Sudan Solidarity Collective supports organizations led by Sudanese civilians: including emergency response rooms, mutual aid, labor and farmers’ unions. Please give what you can and/or share.

Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 1d

The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.

Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .

sudansolidarity.com

Home - Sudan Solidarity Collective

Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 6h

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

The omniforce is accountable only to Trump: they ignore state and local guidance, or court decisions. Forget about knowing the identity of the official. Now you may not know which agency he works for, or even if he is an agent of the state.

two men wearing American flag facemasks and tactical gear.
Look at the picture above. One of these is a member of a private militia that supports the President and was involved in an violent effort to overturn the election, the other is an agent of the state. Can you tell the difference?

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power to the ice pick (Liz) @pluplubasch.bsky.social · 6h

CalCare is the true solution. Quit yanking our chain.

power to the ice pick (Liz) @pluplubasch.bsky.social · 1d

www.reuters.com/investigates...

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power to the ice pick (Liz) @pluplubasch.bsky.social · 1d

This is the carceral state. Period.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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power to the ice pick (Liz) @pluplubasch.bsky.social · 1d

I need y’all to understand how little funding public health gets in the first place.

Questiin: amount of funding for public health historically

• Overall growth, with a decline in public health's share: Total national health expenditures have risen dramatically, from $74.1 billion in 1970 to $4.9 trillion in 2023.
However, public health's share of that spending has decreased, falling from a high of 3.18% in 2002 to 2.65% in 2014, and is projected to decline further.
• Federal funding fluctuations: While the federal government allocates billions, funding for specific agencies has often been flat or decreased. For instance, core funding for the CDC between 2011 and 2021 remained between approximately $6.5 and $8 billion before recent increases and subsequent decreases.
• Cuts to dedicated funds: The Prevention and Public Health Fund, established by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), has been subject to significant cuts and redirection of funds to other legislative proposals, despite being intended to be a stable funding source.
• State and local funding decline: Public health funding at the state and local levels has also been cut significantly, with a decline in per capita spending between FY 2008 and FY 2012

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 1d

This is (1) undermining and mocking the despicable claim that the anti-Trump protests are terroristic AND (2) quietly reclaiming frog symbolism from the alt-right. Our amphibian friends deserve better than the notoriety of perpetual Pepe.

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 1d

I love this image.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 1d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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power to the ice pick (Liz) @pluplubasch.bsky.social · 1d

Link.

Spamerooni @spamerooni.bsky.social · 1d

Link

Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 1d

Link.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 2d

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.