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Support Palestinian resistance against Israeli occupation, destruction and confiscation of Palestinian land and property and violation of Palestinian human rights. #freepalestine #freeukraine #freetaiwan
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Below is a link to multiple funds and the stories of families in desperate need of humanity.

Help Gaza:
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Jan. 7 is the deadline to apply for the Chicago Public Library's $4,000 Renaissance Project grants, which support research on Black history. chipublib.email.bibliocommons.com/email/view/6...
The Renaissance Project
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January 2, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Draining the swamp.
Mamdani has only been Mayor for a day & criminals are already fleeing New York
January 2, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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The family of Yolanda Ramirez, a 72-year-old woman who died after a violent arrest by #BrentwoodCA police, has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit and is demanding the full video be released.

Her arrest was nearly 100 days ago. CA law states the video should've been released within 45 days.
Yolanda Ramirez’s family calls for Brentwood police to release incident footage
The family of 72-year-old Yolanda Ramirez is suing the City of Brentwood and several police officers for wrongful death.
www.nbcbayarea.com
January 2, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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Israeli settlers assault Palestinian family as army carries out arrests near Jericho - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-settlers-assault-palestinian-family-army-carries-out-arrests
Israeli settlers assault Palestinian family as army carries out arrests near Jericho
<article data-history-node-id="433364" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-settlers-assault-palestinian-family-army-carries-out-arrests" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-settlers-assault-palestinian-family-army-carries-out-arrests" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli settlers assault Palestinian family as army carries out arrests near Jericho</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="92" data-start="0">Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian residents in the Tel Samadi area of Jiftlik, north of Jericho, on Friday, in another incident of settler violence across the occupied Jordan Valley.</p> <p data-end="673" data-start="321">Eid Brahmeh, director of the Prisoner Club in Jericho and the Jordan Valley, told Wafa that settlers assaulted members of the Kaabneh family, severely beating them before Israeli occupation forces moved into the area. Soldiers then arrested Hassan Salem Kaabneh and Musa Awda Kaabneh, targeting the victims rather than those who carried out the attack.</p> <p data-end="900" data-start="675">Separately, Israeli forces issued demolition notices to residents in Jiftlik, signalling further displacement. Those notified include Amer Muhammad Hassan Jahalin, Bahaa Hassan Muhammad Jahalin and Bassam Mahmoud Ali Masa’id.</p> <p data-end="1139" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="902">The combined use of settler violence, military arrests and home demolitions reflects Israel’s entrenched policy of coercion in the Jordan Valley, aimed at forcing Palestinians from their land and entrenching illegal settlement expansion.</p> </div> </div> </article>
www.middleeasteye.net
January 2, 2026 at 11:09 AM
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🧵 Chris Sims (@/chrisxsims) and @/dannyrebel333 are harassing a Somali American operated daycares in Kent, Washington.

The woman that answered the door told someone to call the police.

The “journalists” appear to have or had an amateur porn career.
January 1, 2026 at 11:53 PM
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Journalists @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social and @stevemellon412.bsky.social urge a new approach to journalism as they accept an Izzy Award for their work documenting East Palestine.
Don’t Forget the People of East Palestine
Journalists Maximillian Alvarez and Steve Mellon urge a new approach to journalism as they accept an Izzy award for their work documenting East Palestine.
inthesetimes.com
January 2, 2026 at 2:05 AM
It feels like a Sunday.
January 1, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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Israeli forces wound two, loot gold shop in Hebron town
<article data-history-node-id="433281" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-wound-two-loot-gold-shop-hebron-town" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-wound-two-loot-gold-shop-hebron-town" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli forces wound two, loot gold shop in Hebron town</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli forces on Wednesday shot and wounded two Palestinians and raided a gold shop in the town of Dhahiriya&nbsp;in the Hebron Governorate of the occupied West Bank, Palestinian media reported.&nbsp;</p> <p>A school student and a young man were wounded, one in the foot and the other in the back, when Israeli soldiers stormed the centre of Dhahiriya, firing live bullets at residents, Wafa news reported.&nbsp;</p> <p>The report said that Israeli forces also stormed a gold shop belonging to the al-Hurub family, detained several Palestinians, and looted money before withdrawing from the area.</p> </div> </div> </article>
www.middleeasteye.net
December 31, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Christmas wins.
December 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Would love to know if anyone else knows someone who was gifted the Trump Against Humanity card game, and did they also have a mental breakdown while playing it?
December 25, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Kremlin envoy Kirill Dmitriev arrived at a Miami golf club for another round of golf club diplomacy with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.
December 20, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Don't forget Gaza now, for it is now under the rubble. Gaza now wants you to keep your eyes on it. Gaza loves you, so love her.
December 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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@corli.thetriibe.com has worked diligently covering the budget season. Read her latest about lessons learned by local organizers who were pushing alders to tax the rich during this budget cycle.

thetriibe.com/2025/12/chic...
Chicago organizers who rallied to tax the rich reflect on lessons learned after city council passes alternate budget • The TRiiBE
"I think trust needs to be built between these alders and their constituents, especially if they want to run again," one organizer said.
thetriibe.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Worth reading this very carefully—not to spread panic, but to understand how civil rights are being threatened in specific ways by the use of new “indicators,” and of course all coming from an agency now run by conspiracy theorists
Revealed: FBI opened domestic terrorism investigations into anti-ICE activity across US
Internal report shared with Guardian shows FBI has launched cases in 23 regions, some linked to Trump memo on thwarting ‘terroristic activities’
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Maria has been accused over the years of fabricating her story that she had gone to the FBI. After finding the document in the trove, I called her. She broke down in tears.

“I’ve waited 30 years. I can’t believe it. They can’t call me a liar anymore.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
December 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Israel Bonds are debt securities issued by the State of Israel; effectively loans to the country that accrue interest.

Illinois Treasurer Michael Frerichs announced the state was renewing a $15M investment in Israel bonds this past February, and purchasing $10M in new bonds this past March.
December 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Like many in our city, the Blade has struggled in Helene's ongoing aftermath. We're a local journalism co-op of working class trans people. It has not been an easy year.

Amid exhaustion, illness, poverty and trauma we've still done important work. Please help us keep doing it.
Donate to Help the Asheville Blade survive Helene's long aftermath, organized by Asheville Blade
Like many groups in our city, the Asheville Blade has faced … Asheville Blade needs your support for Help the Asheville Blade survive Helene's long aftermath
www.gofundme.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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ice's phoenix field office special response team at the tpusa convention
Yes, these are real ICE agents in the TPUSA merch room. Everyone is getting selfies taken with them. This seems fine
December 18, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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This is horrific. RFK Jr’s CDC is funding a study in Guinea-Bissau which would involve deliberately withholding the hepatitis B vaccine from hundreds of newborn infants, putting them at great risk of death. They want to repeat Tuskegee.
CDC awards $1.6 million for hepatitis B vaccine study by controversial Danish researchers
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Like... I'm not voting for a Democrat in 2026 or 2028. The party has done nothing at all to show that they deserve redemption. They helped to create this mess and they're going down with it too.
December 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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THREAD: The FDA has made it difficult to find where medications are made. Today we're changing that with our latest tool.

With Rx Inspector, it’s possible to see your drug’s manufacturing facility and what the FDA found during its inspections.

Here's how you can use it. 1/
December 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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NEW: The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead.

Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.
Where Was My Generic Prescription Drug Made? - Rx Inspector - ProPublica
The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information on your prescription label to locate the factory and see inspection reports.
projects.propublica.org
December 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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The kitchen helping trans New Yorkers celebrate the holidays
The kitchen helping trans New Yorkers celebrate the holidays
Qween Jean’s Black Trans Liberation Kitchen brings chosen family together over a feast.
www.motherjones.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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icymi: cook county is making modern, humane jails for young people
3/ chief judge charles beach announced the addition of a new senior-level role in his office that will oversee the county's youth legal system.

the plan to create a new director of juvenile services, he says, will "modernize and humanize" youth jailing in cook county.
Make It Make Sense: Greg Bovino is back
Plus: city budget negotiations come down to the wire and the chief judge’s plan to ”humanize” Cook County’s youth jail.
chicagoreader.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM