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Amelia @ameliaearhart2.bsky.social · 7h

Fellow writers & journalists w/big hearts, please help DV survivors Chris & Zoe on their journey to a new, safe home: @donnerkay.bsky.social, @anamariecox.bsky.social, @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social, @killermartinis.bsky.social, @sarajbenincasa.bsky.social. THANK YOU. www.gofundme.com/f/moving-to-...

Donate to Moving to Safety After Surviving DV, organized by Chris Voelker

I’m reaching out for help during an incredibly difficult time. After surviving domes… Chris Voelker needs your support for Moving to Safety After Surviving DV

www.gofundme.com

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Amelia @ameliaearhart2.bsky.social · 7h

Asking more wonderful friends to help get the word out, & get Chris & Zoe to safety: @texmexelsa.bsky.social, @justiceputnam.bsky.social, @billinportland.bsky.social, @peregrinekate.bsky.social, @rlmiller.bsky.social, @jenhayden.bsky.social, @davidnir.com. THANK YOU. 🧡🦁🧡🦁🧡🦁🧡

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Amelia @ameliaearhart2.bsky.social · 7h

Asking some of my longtime DK buddies to help Chris by spreading the word. @vickiroush.bsky.social, @danahoule.bsky.social, @jlms-qkw.bsky.social, @lauraclawson.bsky.social, @kailigray.bsky.social, @deniseoliver-velez.bsky.social, @radlein.bsky.social, @adambonin.bsky.social. THANK YOU!!! 🧡🌺🧡🌺🧡🌺🧡

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Amelia @ameliaearhart2.bsky.social · 7h

Chris made the heart shattering choice to rehome 2 of her 3 beloved kitties in order to move. Energetic goofball Kevin (3) & sweetheart Leo (10 y.o. Maine Coon) are now with me, helping me heal from the crushing recent loss of Winston. Please help Chris heal, & travel safely!

Silvery part Siamese, Kevin, as a kitten snuggled in blankets.

Brown tabby Maine Coon Leo, stretching out on a white quilt.

Precious black smoke Maine Coon Winston, stretching out on a maroon bathroom rug. RIP, my beloved baby boy.

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Amelia @ameliaearhart2.bsky.social · 8h

PLEASE read, spread the word, & chip in whatever you can. After surviving domestic violence, Chris must move cross country in 10 DAYS to avoid homelessness. We cannot let Chris & precious 14 y.o. kitty Zoe sleep in the car, esp. since Chris just had major hip surgery! Every bit helps. Thank you. 🧡🧡🧡

bfitzinAR @bfitzinar.bsky.social · 1d

$2125 TO GO & LESS THAN 2 WEEKS TO RAISE IT URGENT!

Chris survived the DV & the court battle. They're relocating from CA to PA. By car. After hip surgery & w/ elderly support cat. ~10 days on the road. Anything does something.

Pls RS/QS & do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2025

gofund.me/ea01f8405

Donate to Moving to Safety After Surviving DV, organized by Chris Voelker

I’m reaching out for help during an incredibly difficult time. After surviving domes… Chris Voelker needs your support for Moving to Safety After Surviving DV

gofund.me

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bfitzinAR @bfitzinar.bsky.social · 15h

Folks, the goal hasn't moved. Chris has a week & a half to vacate & start that long car trip from CA to PA & they've got to have the gas & motel fares (& food) to do it. (If nothing else. The car is not new.) Any combo ppl x $$ = $2125.

Pls RS/QS. Pls do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2025

bfitzinAR @bfitzinar.bsky.social · 1d

$2125 TO GO & LESS THAN 2 WEEKS TO RAISE IT URGENT!

Chris survived the DV & the court battle. They're relocating from CA to PA. By car. After hip surgery & w/ elderly support cat. ~10 days on the road. Anything does something.

Pls RS/QS & do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2025

gofund.me/ea01f8405

Donate to Moving to Safety After Surviving DV, organized by Chris Voelker

I’m reaching out for help during an incredibly difficult time. After surviving domes… Chris Voelker needs your support for Moving to Safety After Surviving DV

gofund.me

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bfitzinAR @bfitzinar.bsky.social · 10h

Rain/snow & sales. That's what makes life good for Aji & Wings. Read the blogpost. Share links. Buy gorgeous Native jewelry Wings creates of silver & stone. (Holidays/holy days coming fast.) Join Aji's Patreon. Send Ko-fi in appreciation of their work. It all helps.

AjiWings @ajijaakwe.bsky.social · 10h

ajijaakwe.blogspot.com/2025/10/no-r...

No rain.

ajijaakwe.blogspot.com

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16h

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

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Amelia @ameliaearhart2.bsky.social · 1d

🧡🧡🧡

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AjiWings @ajijaakwe.bsky.social · 2d

And it's a final short thread @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social with tonight's local urgent needs. There are five listed, and they ALL need a hand:

WingsNDNSilver @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 2d

Now, tonight's local urgent needs.

It's going to be a mix tonight.

First, the one from last night, the IPV survivor who's needing to travel back there, because this town's has been so unsurvivable.

Needs ~$400 for gas/motel.

PayPal addy: [email protected]

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AjiWings @ajijaakwe.bsky.social · 2d

And it's another short thread @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social with tonight's inventory selection, a cuff set with a Skystone that matches the shades of today's featured image:

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WingsNDNSilver @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone living in or traveling to the ABQ area:

If you were thinking of making a Halloween trip to McCall's Pumpkin Patch in Moriarty? Don't.

The owner, Kevin McCall, is a Torrance County Commissioner, and a fascist bringing ICE to their Pumpkin Patch.

Boycott: mccallpumpkinpatch.com

McCall's Farm

mccallpumpkinpatch.com

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bfitzinAR @bfitzinar.bsky.social · 1d

$2125 TO GO & LESS THAN 2 WEEKS TO RAISE IT URGENT!

Chris survived the DV & the court battle. They're relocating from CA to PA. By car. After hip surgery & w/ elderly support cat. ~10 days on the road. Anything does something.

Pls RS/QS & do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2025

gofund.me/ea01f8405

Donate to Moving to Safety After Surviving DV, organized by Chris Voelker

I’m reaching out for help during an incredibly difficult time. After surviving domes… Chris Voelker needs your support for Moving to Safety After Surviving DV

gofund.me

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

Oh SHIT. Two birds with one stone and neither were for immigration. It was to hassle black folk and make a sizzle real about it and to help Wells Fargo out.

Fucking crazy shit.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

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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Amelia @ameliaearhart2.bsky.social · 1d

Also, most states do not allow potential adoptive parents even to post a child’s snapshot on Facebook until the adoption is completely finalized. Julia put these vulnerable children in front of reality TV cameras while social workers were still doing home study visits? Nope. #RHOM

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Amelia @ameliaearhart2.bsky.social · 1d

There is something unbelievably fishy about this adoption. Remember the supposed home visit with the alleged Social Worker, who had tea with Julia while effusively praising her parenting? In front of the cameras! Absolute nonsense. Not how adoption works. #RHOM

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Just as a reminder, Bondi’s origin story in Trump world is that she said she was going to investigate Trump University, Trump sent her a $25K check and the investigation disappeared. She later became Trump’s personal defense lawyer. So yeah, don’t challenge her integrity.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi to Blumenthal: "You lied. How dare you? I'm a career prosecutor. Don't you ever challenge my integrity. Do not question my ability to be fair and impartial."

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AjiWings @ajijaakwe.bsky.social · 2d

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a Monday Photo Meditation for the first full week of October, and for the seasonal shifts that make this the most hauntingly beautiful time of year here: wingssilverwork.com/monday-photo....

wingssilverwork.com

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Amelia @ameliaearhart2.bsky.social · 2d

I lost my beloved support kitty Winston, suddenly & horribly, 2 1/2 months ago. The grief staggered & paralyzed me.
And then Leo & Kevin came to me a week ago. Their parent, Chris, had to make the unimaginable decision to rehome them. Please read, RT, & chip in to help Chris start a new, safe life.

Leo, a floofy 10 year old Maine Coon, who is letting me become his new mom. Showing off his brown mackerel tabby belly on a stripey carpet.

Part Siamese sweet goofball Kevin, who is 3, posing with Halloween decorations wearing golden wings.

Kevin as a microscopic pale, grey kitten poking his head out of a black fabric hole.

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Amelia @ameliaearhart2.bsky.social · 1d

What the ACTUAL fuck?

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

The Supreme Court is poised to overturn 32 state bans on conversion therapy and explicitly legalize the abusive and torturous process.

They don't care how many LGBTQ people this traumatizes and kills.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/p...

Supreme Court to decide if states may ban attempts to ‘convert’ gay and transgender youth | CNN Politics

Matt Salmon remembers getting into a circle with the other teenagers in his group therapy session and shouting obscenities at a gay boy forced to stand in the middle.

www.cnn.com

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d

In the last few weeks we’ve watched ICE:

Pepper spray the Portland frog
Tear gas members of Chicago PD
Zip tie children
Grab Chicagoans from their beds in dead of the night
Open fire on a civilian in her car

Yet they say immigrants are the threat.

Protesters are the threat.

We know better.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder that we still don’t know what happened to the 1,000 immigrants who went missing from Alligator Alcatraz.

Their families and attorneys can’t locate them.

They’ve been disappeared.

People are still being sent to that horrible place without any due process.

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Jack - Oi, Shiny! @oishinythings.bsky.social · 1d

Shiny things, get your shiny things, new up last night!

oishiny.etsy.com

3 labradorite pendants, just listed. And I am shipping to the US again.

(Am exploring my options slowly - I haven't raised prices yet but am likely to need to in the near future.)

#Handmade #ShopIndie

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 2d

I’m just a girl, standing in front of Dan Rather, asking him to go absolutely scorched-earth on Bari Weiss

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