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Amber J Martin, Ph.D.
@lefthemisphere.bsky.social
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Deaf, developmental psychologist, language acquisition and language change. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Protect trans folx 🏳️‍⚧️
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 8h
The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…
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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 1h
"[C]onversion therapy increased 'serious psychological distress [compared to those who received no therapy] (47% vs 34%), depression (65% vs 27%), substance abuse (67% vs 50%), and attempted suicide (58% vs 39%).'"

With "affirmative therapy [..] suicide attempts plummeted to 3%."
#USA #Healthcare
The Unscientific Nonsense of Conversion Therapy — Assigned
Conversion therapy is not only ineffective at its purported goal, but also only serves to amplify psychological distress.
www.assignedmedia.org
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Amber J Martin, Ph.D. @lefthemisphere.bsky.social · 7h
Anyone may join us in our solidarity fast.

docs.google.com/document/u/0...
GAZA SOLIDARITY FAST: A CALL TO ACTION
GAZA SOLIDARITY FAST: A CALL TO ACTION CUNY FSJP calls on you to join teachers, students, and staff at schools and universities in and beyond New York City standing in solidarity with Gaza through a ...
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 11h
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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Amber J Martin, Ph.D. @lefthemisphere.bsky.social · 11h
Free.
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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 12h
A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness compiles Francesca Albanese's damning reports on Israel’s conduct in Palestine since October 2023.

The ebook is free to download. We encourage readers to donate to @unrwa.org to support their critical work: www.plutobooks.com/product/a-mo...
Book cover and promotional image for A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness: Reports on Israel’s Genocide in Palestine by Francesca Albanese, edited by Mandy Turner and Lex Takkenberg. The cover features an illustration of two women in red and black dresses holding a white dove against a red background. Text above reads “READ THE REPORTS FOR YOURSELF.” A yellow circle on the right says “FREE EBOOK – Available on plutobooks.com.
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Amber J Martin, Ph.D. @lefthemisphere.bsky.social · 1d
Help Kholoud and her family survive the worst days of their lives.

gofund.me/7e11b57f9
Donate to Help Ahmed and his family survive in Gaza, organized by AHMED ALJA
I am Ahmed, a Palestinian living in Gaza since 1998 after losing my father in 199… AHMED ALJA needs your support for Help Ahmed and his family survive in Gaza
gofund.me
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Kholoud family @mmkholoud.bsky.social · 10d
Displacement means a tent, transportation, renting a place for the tent, and buying some necessities such as a water barrel. It is difficult. We need your help.
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ISraa 🇵🇸🫒 @esroaa.bsky.social · 2d
@lefthemisphere.bsky.social We’re not numbers on a screen we’re a family holding on in Gaza

My life changed forever due to the war in Gaza. I lost my father, our house, and my only source of income.

No food, no safety, no rest
Your support can bring us hope in this endless night
Please donate
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2d
Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson.

www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...
Judge blocks South Carolina from giving DOJ millions of voters' data Sep. 3, 2025 Judge's house on fire
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Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 3d
UNRWA reporting Israel’s 2 year long war on Gaza:

⭕️ Nearly all of Gaza’s residents have been displaced

⭕️ Nearly 80% of structures damaged or destroyed

⭕️ Over 370 UNRWA workers killed.
The blue and white logo of UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) features a world map enclosed within a circular grid, surrounded by olive branches—an emblem of peace—representing the United Nations. Below the emblem, the acronym “UNRWA” is written in bold blue capital letters on a white background.
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Thomas Long @rayosunlong.bsky.social · 3d
People keep asking “how did the Nazis do it?”

Just look around you.

That’s how.

Who’s actually doing something to stop them?

Nobody.

The people who have any power are just trying to figure out how to approach this in a poll tested manner.

So it’s on us.

Sorry to be blunt. But it’s true.
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Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 4d
Massive escalation at the ICE facility. Federal agents made multiple arrests (at least 4), threw out gas, and shot tons of pepper balls.

Heard one of the people arrested screaming minutes later. Not possible to get a visual.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 5d
According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

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‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building
YouTube video by MSNBC
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 8d
A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough for the first time since 2012.

The infant was less than two months old and was not old enough to receive the pertussis vaccine.

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Mississippi Baby Dies of Whooping Cough Amid Rising Cases
A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough for the first time since 2012. The baby was less than two months old—too young for vaccination.
www.mississippifreepress.org
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IDF Hannibal Brigade @hannibalbrigade.biz · 7d
If you’ve got an extra screen that isn’t doing anything right now, throw on the Sumud flotilla livestream and play it in the background. The more eyes on it the better, even if only passively.
24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA
YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla
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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 8d
They casually threw acid in the pools while the black children were swimming in them and smoked a cigar while they screamed.

They smiled at us and said "yes, you are suffering in this hell hole we forced you to live in, have some plague infested blankets to keep you warm. Wrap your baby in it"
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 8d
THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE

YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS

PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8d
In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?

If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?

Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.
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Shaker Samman @shaker.bsky.social · 8d
this is basically the aim of every AI company
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 8d
This is what the post was since it was deleted.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 9d
Court-watchers confirm this cruel ICE agent has been reinstated.

Last week, in the briefest moment of decency, violently throwing a woman to the floor was “beneath the men and women of ICE.”

This week, it’s back to business as usual. The cruelty, after all, is the point.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 13d
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
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Amber J Martin, Ph.D. @lefthemisphere.bsky.social · 8d
I cannot think of a better time to bring back Reading Rainbow or a better person to host it!
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KSlatteryResist @kslatteryresist.bsky.social · 10d
80-year-old American citizen car wash owner Rafi Shouhed injured when ICE tackled him to the ground twice, held in detention, denied needed medical care, sues ICE for $50 million. Arms injured, ribs broken, has heart condition #DefundICE #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue

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Van Nuys car wash owner raided by ICE speaks out
YouTube video by KTLA 5
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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 9d
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 9d
ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards
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Joanna Schwartz @jcschwartzprof.bsky.social · 10d
Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully
in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10d
79. American citizen.
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