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Capitalists Are Absurd @sanefacade.blacksky.app · 8h

I had flashbacks when I saw this. Lmao.

Capitalists Are Absurd @sanefacade.blacksky.app · 13h

This was something that was solidified for me in/after 2020 protests against police brutality: both of these parties (and our entire economy) are deeply invested in both the prison and military industrial complexes, and those investments inevitably lead to what we're seeing now.

Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 14h

In a fight between Pritzker and and police, who is going to win? This is what happens when both parties allowed law enforcement to become one of the most powerful political actors in the country -- a taxpayer-funded political movement that wants to kill people.

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arthur @h4ppyc4ndy.bsky.social · 1d

indigenous trans man + partner and cat need help w/ room and bills as they wait on first paycheck

$119 storage today!
$348.53 room tomorrow!
$40 phone 11th
$167.58 car 12th

CA: cash.app/$foxkidk
VM: venmo.com/u/foxkid
KO-FI: ko-fi.com/hellionpup

#mutualaid #mutualaidrequest #helpsky #BIPOCMA

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🧡 [ BAMBII ]🔻🏴🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ildeenach.bsky.social · Jul 28

I really need a laptop. I would be so happy if somebody could buy me the one I want. throne.com/bambii_bbb
Please support me in the way I always support community.

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𝖓𝖎𝖍𝖎𝖑𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖌𝖋 @nihilistgf.bsky.social · 4d

good morning. I'm kinda in a bad spot with bills atm and it's stressing me tf out. if you can help me out I'd really appreciate it. goal is $300.

cash app: $desbandit161

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Support des

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Capitalists Are Absurd @sanefacade.blacksky.app · 13h

music.apple.com/us/song/f-k-...

F**k the Police by J Dilla on Apple Music

Song · 2001 · Duration 2:33

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Capitalists Are Absurd @sanefacade.blacksky.app · 13h

We're in a duopoly where the only party that could potentially TRY to stop any of this...is falling for the okey-doke and ain't doing shit to help.

a man is making a funny face with the words that ain 't it written below him

Alt: A man shaking his head and saying "This ain't it"

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Lilith Is Giant🐻⚧️ @mothervoid.bsky.social · 14h

if someone tips me today I’ll show you why I gasped at the sight with a bong hit tail wag video (have I posted a hypermotion tail bong hit video yet? I don’t think so!!! Tip me!!) 🐻🩷

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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 14h

"He and his co-organizers knew that many...white people...would not be sympathetic to their cause, but they viewed their efforts...as a challenge: an opportunity to sharpen their organizing skills...“We had...conversations with folks you would assume would be...anti-immigrant,” Wane told us." 👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾

Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · Aug 26

I started reading this earlier at the doctor's office, but then got home, & other priorities took precedence. Given how demoralized I feel, I am returning to it and hoping that posting quotes that resonate as I go may help me with finishing it. Channeling my past self, who read 450+ books in 2017! 🥹

A book cover is seen.

Against a background of stars, folx with held hands raised in solidarity are seen.

Text, as follows:

LET THIS RADICALIZE YOU: ORGANIZING AND THE REVOLUTION OF RECIPROCAL CARE
KELLY HAYES & MARIAME KABA

THIS IS A PROPHETIC WORK.
- NAOMI KLEIN

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 14h

They’re just gonna do a little lite slavery.

In addition, the new rule allows farm employers to charge H-2A workers for their housing, which was not allowed before. "It's a way for employers to continue to house workers and also charge them, and bring down effective wages," said Marcos Lopez of the Labor and Community Center at the University of California, Davis.

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Sean Padilla says #ProtectJhordin @seanpadilla.blacksky.app · 14h

This is something that White people could look up and find out for themselves instead of popping up in random Black people’s mentions to argue about it

dapurplesharpie @sharpiepls.com · 16h

non-black users using the blacksky.app handle is a bannable offense

BUT non-black users are welcome to join the blacksky SERVERS (not the blacksky feed) under either "myatproto.social" or "cryptoanarchy.network" handles

source: docs.blacksky.community/migrating-to...

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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 14h

Fat brown queer disabled immigrant woman, sociologist, educator, & equity practitioner, who offers services here: www.equitableforall.com

I can be emailed at [email protected] regarding paid work for workshop facilitation, writing coaching, tutoring, etc.! If you see this, please share! 🙏🏽

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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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The Sex Work Historian ☂️ @sexworkhistorian.bsky.social · 15h

(2/2) Yeah, no. You cannot advocate for women's equality and the betterment of their lives if you exclude ENTIRE GROUPS OF PEOPLE. Patriarchy does much the same. And if patriarchy does this, then how are you "fighting" it? Short answer: you're not. Don't be the patriarchy's puppet.

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The Sex Work Historian ☂️ @sexworkhistorian.bsky.social · 15h

(1/2) Something important needs to be reiterated for #WomensHistoryMonth (Canada): trans women are women. Sex workers are women. Trans sex workers are women. Much (primarily cis and white) feminist thought excludes sex workers and trans women/femme persons from its movement.

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MashedBex ✨ @bexmashaba.bsky.social · 17h

thank you so much to everyone who has contributed and to everyone who has made an effort to share!

i'm staying put for another month ❤️🙏🏽

thank you ❤️

MashedBex ✨ @bexmashaba.bsky.social · 6d

it's 4 am and the landlord is already asking for the rent that was due yesterday. i received $96 towards this yesterday- thank you very much ❤️

please help me if you can.

i can't lose this too.

please

paypal.me/thelongestroad
ko-fi.com/rebekamash

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 15h

Asking billionaires for permission to steal their money would “kill” my retirement plans.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Xodanix3 @xodanix3.bsky.social · 9d

Gofundme is up! Help our fam cover remaining expenses after recent loss of our family member.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-cover...
💸💞 #HelpSky

Donate to Help Cover Expenses for Ophelia Juan's Family, organized by Danielle Miller

Hello friends and loved ones of Ophelia Juan and family. ❤️ Today we (D… Danielle Miller needs your support for Help Cover Expenses for Ophelia Juan's Family

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Xodanix3 @xodanix3.bsky.social · 1d

We were able to get the first $400 amount immediately due covered on our own yesterday, but we will still need help with other bills that have accumulated. As well as upcoming bills while Dez applies for disability assistance. Everything is getting transfered to his name but he's not able to work.

Xodanix3 @xodanix3.bsky.social · 9d

Gofundme is up! Help our fam cover remaining expenses after recent loss of our family member.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-cover...
💸💞 #HelpSky

Donate to Help Cover Expenses for Ophelia Juan's Family, organized by Danielle Miller

Hello friends and loved ones of Ophelia Juan and family. ❤️ Today we (D… Danielle Miller needs your support for Help Cover Expenses for Ophelia Juan's Family

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Read More bell hooks @walaal.blacksky.app · 1d

if u are against armed resistance to this, u want genocide to continue!

"Read this 2,700 times

In the last 24 months, Israel’s unrelenting attack on Gaza has resulted in the erasure of 2,700 families from the entire registry.

two thousand and seven hundred families obliterated."

Mariam Barghouti

@MariamBarghouti

Read this 2,700 times.

In the last 24 months, Israel’s unrelenting attack on Gaza has resulted in the erasure of 2,700 families from the entire registry.

two thousand and seven hundred families obliterated.

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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 1d

"We will sometimes have to accompany people along messy transformational journeys. And...no matter how far we have come, we are...on our own messy journeys, and our...transformations will continue...To expand the practice of our politics..., we have...to organize outside...our comfort zones." 👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾

Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · Aug 26

I started reading this earlier at the doctor's office, but then got home, & other priorities took precedence. Given how demoralized I feel, I am returning to it and hoping that posting quotes that resonate as I go may help me with finishing it. Channeling my past self, who read 450+ books in 2017! 🥹

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 1d

Literally they've shot two people in Chicago alone, we're all unbelievably fortunate the woman they shot last fucking weekend survived

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 1d

I know there's a lot to keep up with but someone has ALREADY been killed by ICE in Chicago, its not a theoretical question, and folks are dying in ICE detention and being disappeared constantly, when you say "someone's gonna get killed" youre actually washing the blood from their hands 😘✌️

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♿🏳️‍⚧️ Wylder needs HELP @wylder.bsky.social · 4d

Health took a dive yesterday afternoon (probably night before tbh).

Send healing energy, good wishes and, if m able, funds?

I need to continue the abscess treatment plan ASAP. Still only had the 1 root canal.
PayPal.me/MousePounder
Venmo.com/u/MousePounders
Cash.app/$WishMage
linktr.ee/wylder

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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 5d

This is the "again" your friends, family and neighbors voted for. The implications of this, when asked, they shrugged about and swore "that could never happen here". They're not reliable or credible narrators of this moment, if they ever were.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6d

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.

Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.

That’s not making America great again.

South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'

A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.

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Tsi'ya•Ꮵꮿ @ironriverotter.bsky.social · 5d

this for sure about him being a Black man in education... in a state with a huge openly white supremacist population.
with Turning Point taking over and designing educational programs.... idk we need to prepare to protect educators of Color

Cracked Lemonade @crackedlemonade.bsky.social · 5d

A now-former school superintendent who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents has been charged by federal prosecutors in Iowa with one count of being an "illegal alien in possession of firearms," according to court records.

Former Des Moines superintendent who was detained by ICE federally charged

Former Des Moines Public School Superintendent Ian Andre Roberts was charged by complaint on Wednesday, according to the case docket.

abcnews.go.com

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