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Bertrand Lobjois @mexiqueancien.bsky.social · 8h

Comparto con ustedes este video, comparto con ustedes la transmisión de la conferencia del doctor Miguel Pastrana acerca de #Tenochtitlan, origen y destino.

#mitos #peregrinacion #codex

Sociedad y cultura en los primeros años de Tenochtitlan

YouTube video by elcolegionacionalmx

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 8h

So the question that occurred to me just now is—when we look at people like Lucy Hicks Anderson or Mary Jones in the 1800s, what did “trans representation” look like to them? Even “pop culture” was a different thing then, but what were the images of transness circulating that shaped them?

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 8h

there’s truth to that, but it’s true less often than we think. I’m obsessed with a quote from Samuel Delany where he clearly cites how the things he had read in the SIXTIES shaped how he articulated his coming out. It might not be “positive rep” but it was THERE.

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 8h

Rewatching Disclosure before we discuss “representation” as a potential method for trans changemaking. I had a new thought in my ongoing mental debate about whether we “need” representation. Young people often think yes, but I hear elders say “we had no representation and still ended up trans.”

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 13h

Apparently today is international Lesbian Day? Happy extra birthday to every single lesbian out there!!!

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 13h

But on here it’s somehow gotten mixed up in this convo about whether you think AI is a person, as if the sides are “thinks AI is a person therefore you shouldn’t slur it” and “thinks AI is NOT a person so it’s okay to slur it.” To me AI is not a person but “funny” slurs are signs of deeper issues

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 13h

I dunno, to me the issue is more of “why are you so eager to be able to say a dehumanizing slur, and why are all the examples of new slurs word for word copied from actual antiblack and xenophobic bigotry.” I’m also just confused tbh bc tumblr did clanker discourse like a month ago much better

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 13h

Sameeeee

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The IMEU @theimeu.bsky.social · 1d

As Israel continues its genocide in Gaza, it has escalated its brutal violence in the Palestinian West Bank, launching nearly 7,500 raids since the start of 2025.

Israel’s campaign of military and settler violence in the West Bank is ethnic cleansing.

What’s happened in the West Bank since October 2023?

Amid the genocide in Gaza, conditions have also been desperate for the region’s largest population of Palestinians

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Truthout @truthout.org · 1d

In Gaza, another humanitarian crisis has emerged: the soaring displacement expenses — or, as many people in Gaza bitterly describe it, “The fees you pay to become homeless in the south.” Tents cost $1,000 and securing a patch of land to pitch it on can be almost as costly.

Israel’s “Safe Zones” in Gaza Offer No Safety. Many Can’t Afford to Flee Anyway.

Displacement costs, which many call “the fees you pay to become homeless in the south,” have reached nearly $5,000.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 1d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21h

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.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 22h

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 13h

Real estate and agriculture are two systems that I’m always like “I don’t really understand how this works at all but it sure does seem evil”

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18h

We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?

section of text from South Side Weekly's coverage, which says: "The building was purchased by Wisconsin-based investor Trinity Flood in January 2020, according to Cook County records. On October 1, the day after the raid, a judge reviewed an emergency motion from Wells Fargo seeking to appoint Matthew Tarshis of Frontline Real Estate Partners as the property’s receiver.

Flood purchased three multifamily properties in South Shore in 2020. The neighborhood, which had the highest number of eviction filings in Chicago from 2015-2019 according to the Law Center for Better Housing, has seen a rise in outside real estate investors since the 2017 announcement of the Obama Presidential Center’s construction in the neighboring Jackson Park.

Wells Fargo Bank foreclosed on the building in mid-2024, bringing a $27 million lawsuit against Flood for missed loan payments. In late 2024, the City began closing its largest migrant shelters and, through state funding assistance distributed via Catholic Charities and moving support from New Life Church, relocated many families to buildings such as this one."

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 22h

Three SCOTUS cases saw movement this week targeting LGBTQ+ people: A conversation therapy case, a shadow-docket case on trans passports, and a sports ban that will determine equal protection for trans people.

Writer S. Baum details all of them in our latest.

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Three Supreme Court Cases Targeting LGBTQ+ People See Movement This Week

From sports to passports, these cases may determine the vitality of trans rights in the U.S. for generations to come.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 21h

"We're going to do whatever it takes to keep her safe."

How families are fighting to survive Trump's war on transgender kids

"We're going to do whatever it takes to keep her safe"

How families are fighting to survive Trump's war on transgender kids

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 16h

"One of the most insidious things about prison is that it tries to mute us. It can’t take our voices away, but it can make it harder for them to be heard...Amplifying our voices is empowering and powerful. And you can help by joining any number of advocacy efforts."

Lewis Raven Wallace @lewispants.bsky.social · 22h

Talking to folx in prison reminds me that people have been living with extreme authoritarian conditions, including censorship and denial of trans health care, prior to this moment. Let's listen when they tell us how to get through it and what they need. #solidarity truthout.org/articles/bei...

Being Trans Behind Bars in Florida Was Already Hard. Under Trump, It’s Worse.

Trans people in prison are at the front lines of the increased targeting that trans people are facing under Trump.

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Katie Prout @katieprout.bsky.social · 19h

At least 6 unhoused Chicagoans have been abducted by federal agents since September: 2 have been released, while the status of the remaining 4 is unknown. But the Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness is investigating reports of an additional 19 people disappeared.

chicagoreader.com/news/make-it...

Make It Make Sense: ICE targets Chicago’s homeless community

Plus: state and local leaders crack down on anti-ICE protesters and advocates ask the chief judge to keep ICE out of county courthouses.

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 16h

It's pretty fucking clear from the more mainstream local news reports that they are banking on publicizing arrests of people who they can describe as the most uncontroversially heinous criminals imaginable to convince people on the fence about ICE and to make anti-ICE protests seem unreasonable.

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 16h

Madison had its first verified report of ICE arrests last week. I just looked through a selection of local news reports, which focus heavily on one specific man who had numerous criminal charges (though no convictions), plus vague mentions of "6 others with criminal charges" who were also arrested.

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 16h

Please read this entire article, if you haven't already done so.

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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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Dr. Michelle I. Turner @chaco-arch.bsky.social · 1d

“The Hopi were approved for a $25 million grant to install solar panels and battery storage for around 600 homes through a program called Solar for All.
But in August, the Trump administration terminated the Solar for All program, calling it wasteful.” www.npr.org/2025/10/07/n...

A tribe in Arizona planned to connect 600 homes to electricity. Then the funding was cut

The Hopi Tribe received a multimillion-dollar federal grant to install solar panels and battery storage systems for hundreds of homes. But the Trump administration has canceled the funding.

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 1d

CATS ARE IN MY HOME

A white cat on a plush gray couch, with a brown cat in a hammock behind him. In the background are windows onto a busy street, a folding screen with a large plant, and a cat tower

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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 1d

My colleague Jack Bouchard's book Terra Nova is out today! It's about early 16th-century mariners and the seasonal fishery around present-day Newfoundland, and its place within the Atlantic World. I cannot wait to read it

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Terra Nova

A bottom-up story of the fishworkers, whalers, First Nations, merchantwomen, oceans, and animals who together made a new colonial world in the early Atlantic...

yalebooks.yale.edu

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 1d

looking through my substack drafts rn wondering what exactly was going through my mind when I created a post that consists entirely of Ojibwe and Dakota village paintings

I think there was some kind of comparative goal but...for what purpose....

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