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Auntie I
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Afro-Indigenous Auntie and elder-in-training telling the hard truths most don't want to but need to hear. 🙏🏽🕊️🌈✊🏽🦋💙
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An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago
October 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Tomorrow is my birthday and I am raising funds for @evlovesnyc.bsky.social. If you are inclined to celebrate with me, I would be so happy if you would contribute any amount to their work: evloves.networkforgood.com/projects/224...
Please donate now!
Every dollar you give translates directly into meals for food-insecure New Yorkers. Every Sunday, our group of friends gathers to cook more than 2,300 hot meals to share with food-insecure neighbors t...
evloves.networkforgood.com
October 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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October 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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📣 MUTUAL AID NEEDED 🚨Typhoon Halong in Western Alaska has devastated communities across the Y-K Delta - flooding homes, displacing families, and cutting off access to clean water, power, and medical care. If you're able to support, please do so 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
It may no longer be Indigenous Peoples' Day but this is when and where your support truly matters. We have several Native communities devastated by flooding, families have literally lost everything.

Link to community fundraiser for people impacted by this storm: alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...
October 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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For those of you keeping score, 18-22 year-old students calling for an end to slaughter in Gaza are so racist they need to be expelled or deported, but 24-35 year-olds celebrating Hitler, rape, and, um, racism are just kids being kids so chill.

Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.
JD Vance brushes off racist texts by adults in Republican group chat as ‘what kids do’
Vice-president downplays messages such as ‘I love Hitler’ in chat by 24 to 35-year-olds to ‘stupid jokes’
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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I think the certainty is always our downfall. No one actually knows what will "work." No one. You try lots of different things and then you see what can be built on.
October 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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I see protest discourse is hitting the feed again ahead of No Kings—idk man, go, don’t go,

…but if you do go make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing and if you don’t go, make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing
October 16, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.
Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids
Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.
abcnews.go.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
October 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Horrific. This is Amerikkka.
A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD
He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.
www.houstonchronicle.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Today, we denounce the lie of “discovery”: a legacy built on genocide, land theft, and extraction.
🪶We root ourselves in Indigenous sovereignty & the first fights for land, water, and life.
🌱 We fight for repair, balance, and liberation led by Indigenous wisdom and struggle. #IndigenousPeoplesDay
October 13, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."
They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.
Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.
organizingmythoughts.org
October 13, 2025 at 1:20 AM
15 calls to action on Indigenous People's Day

mailchi.mp/culturalsurv...
15 Calls to Action on Indigenous Peoples Day!
mailchi.mp
October 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Israeli settlers continue to wage war on Palestinians in the West Bank and elsewhere. They are breaking into people's homes, stealing their stuff, trashing their homes and sometimes kidnapping and killing people. This is happening NOW. People should know this.
October 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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You can, in fact, just do stuff. No permission needed. Have an idea? Execute it.
October 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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What gives you courage? Please immerse yourself in that right now.
October 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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lol gentle reminder that DEI is not illegal. Supporting marginalized groups is not illegal. Anyone reneging on support is making a CHOICE to do so.
October 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.
My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."
October 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.
Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books
A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.
www.pilsencommunitybooks.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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October 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.
Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury
Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.
bit.ly
October 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Boycott, Divest, Sanction: A ceasefire today will not stop Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, only meaningful accountability will.

Our work is not done!

Read more: loom.ly/TsJOHwo
Boycott, Divest, Sanction: A ceasefire today will not stop Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, only meaningful accountability will.
Our work is not done! The BDS movement calls on our millions of supporters worldwide to escalate pressure to end Israel’s genocide and its decades-old regime of settler-colonialism, apartheid, and ill...
loom.ly
October 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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October 7, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.
The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.
October 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM