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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 9d

EVERYONE STOP EVERYTHING Mychal the Librarian is hosting the Reading Rainbow revival!!!

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Reading Rainbow Is Back, With Mychal the Librarian Hosting! - Reactor

The butterfly is back in the sky; can’t wait to fly twice as high.

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Che @chesaysthings.bsky.social · 9d

Listen gen z will try to convince you that 1998 was not five years ago don’t believe the propaganda

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 13d

This is going to destroy people’s psyched

De-BOO-ra Wexler @debrawexler.bsky.social · 13d

Alas:

AI 'deadbots' are persuasive — and researchers say they're primed for monetization

The digital afterlife industry may near $80 billion in a decade, fueled by AI "deadbots." Tech firms see profit. But experts warn of troubling consequences.

www.npr.org

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Che @chesaysthings.bsky.social · 17d

a man is dancing in a bedroom with a sign on the wall that says that 's today

ALT: a man is dancing in a bedroom with a sign on the wall that says that 's today

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Che @chesaysthings.bsky.social · 17d

Do yall remember?

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Wrecked @wrecked9n76e.bsky.social · 22d

Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 22d

"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic was a litmus test."

"It's easier not to care about the world when your society has conditioned you to not even care about yourself and those around you."

"[T]his society has been conditioned to simply watch."
#USA #Gaza #Palestine #Healthcare #Genocide

Another way out: Building resistance when passivity is the norm

The COVID-19 pandemic should have shown us that we’re supposed to be meeting needs, not falling in line behind fascist incursions

prismreports.org

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Che @chesaysthings.bsky.social · 22d

Personal and organizational. The ways that folks safety plan individually can often spill over into how organizations develop safety plans.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23d

I understand why no one believes the police right now

www.fox13memphis.com/education/de...

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Che @chesaysthings.bsky.social · 23d

Thank you!

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 23d

Wherever you are, please attend an ICE Watch training. Then link up with a rapid response network, if you're able to do so. In Chicago, trainings are happening regularly. Once you manage to attend one, you can contact OCAD about getting plugged into a rapid response network.

Volunteer Sign Up - Organized Communities Against Deportations

We are a movement against deportations and the criminalization of our people. Undocumented. Unapologetic. Unafraid. Unidxs.

www.organizedcommunities.org

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Che @chesaysthings.bsky.social · 23d

Fear will try to convince us to isolate, to hoard resources, to avoid community, to build the least threatening campaigns making little impact.

A grounded risk assessment will move us closer to each other, it’ll remind us of that we are millions, it’ll make our work more bold and more brave.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 23d

Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 23d

I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer.

The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial.

Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.

Gov. Greg Abbott pardons Daniel Perry, veteran who killed police brutality protester in 2020

A Travis County jury sentenced Perry to 25 years in prison last year, prompting Abbott to ask the state parole board to review his case.

www.texastribune.org

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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · Sep 2

lol. what prices are up for you?

Prices are “WAY DOWN” in the USA, with virtually no inflation. With the exception of ridiculous, corrupt politician approved “Windmills,” which are killing every State and Country that uses them, Energy prices are falling,“big time.” Gasoline is at many year lows. All of this despite magnificent Tariffs, which are bringing in Trillions of Dollars from Countries that took total advantage of us, for decades, and are making America STRONG and RESPECTED AGAIN!!!

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Che @chesaysthings.bsky.social · 24d

And just like that a new sexual identity is born… officially coming out as a Coleman Domingosexual

Film Updates @thefilmupdates.bsky.social · 24d

Colman Domingo has arrived at the 2025 #Emmys

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Che @chesaysthings.bsky.social · 24d

I mean damn

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Film Updates @thefilmupdates.bsky.social · 24d

Colman Domingo has arrived at the 2025 #Emmys

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Che @chesaysthings.bsky.social · 24d

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a window .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a window .

media.tenor.com

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Che @chesaysthings.bsky.social · 24d

It’s Sunday morning man

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Che @chesaysthings.bsky.social · 24d

Shes multifaceted

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 25d

I am advocating for you to be killed but I am using my inside voice you must debate me this is called democracy

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Che @chesaysthings.bsky.social · 24d

I very much thought you meant that she fixes computers and shit

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Che @chesaysthings.bsky.social · 25d

The meritless stop cop city RICO case is going to get thrown out

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fascismbarometer.bsky.social @fascismbarometer.bsky.social · 27d

Being afraid can make us unable to make long-term decisions, turn inward, and become individualistic—and that is exactly what fascism wants.

One antidote to fear is risk assessment.

Listen to the latest on how to stay safe while continuing to resist.

www.fascismbarometer.org/podcast-epis...

Risk, Bravery & Collective Safety: Che Johnson-Long and Ken Montenegro on Fighting Fascism — The Fascism Barometer | Podcast and Learning Hub hosted by Ejeris Dixon

Ejeris Dixon welcomes abolitionist safety practitioner Che Johnson-Long and technologist-lawyer Ken Montenegro back to The Fascism Barometer for a grounded, practical guide to resisting in a fast-shif...

www.fascismbarometer.org

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