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"Alice lives!"- Suheir Hammad.
December 14, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Handed out all of our socks, gloves, & hats & most of our handwarmers! Taught some folks about Narcan who took some to have on hand for friends.

We’ll be back out after the new year — help us restock & get high quality waterproof gloves!

C*shApp: $RemoraHouseDC
GB: givebutter.com/remorahouse
December 14, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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NYC residents, please help us to demand that the City Council increase and stabilize public library funding. It takes 30 seconds to send a letter: actionnetwork.org/letters/city... - we also need people to follow up with a phone call to your member.
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
actionnetwork.org
December 15, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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“ICE or migra watch is a practice that grew out of the community defense strategies developed by the Black Panthers in the late 1960s, which inspired cop-watching across the country. It is most visible on the streets, where pairs or teams document law enforcement in their own neighborhoods.”
Inside Chicago’s Neighborhood ICE Resistance
Residents have organized a formidable network to protect immigrant communities from Trump’s brutal deportation program. Their efforts are making a genuine difference.
newrepublic.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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While the Trump admin targets Somali communities in Minnesota with ICE raids, workers rally at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport in the freezing weather to say NO MORE DEPORTATION FLIGHTS. NO MORE RAIDS. workdaymagazine.org/no-more-terr... by Amie Stager
“No More Terrorizing Families”: Minnesota Workers Rally Against ICE Deportation Flights - Workday Magazine
Workers are demanding facilities for rideshare drivers and an end to the airport’s operation of deportation flights.
workdaymagazine.org
December 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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"[P]eople need to make noise ... Otherwise, libraries are just going to continue being cut, because they aren't being viewed as essential."
Libraries are sites of refuge, where curiosity is nurtured, where people find shelter, education, entertainment, job assistance, skill-building programs, and access to resources that would otherwise be out of reach.
In the Fight Against Fascism, Libraries Should Be Defended — Not Defunded
Libraries represent the kind of infrastructure progressive leaders must fortify at all costs, especially in this moment.
truthout.org
December 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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1. It would appear that in recent reporting, the BBC is now using the phrase "biological male who identifies as a woman" when they mean to talk about a transgender woman.

This is an incredibly demeaning way to talk about transgender women in news pieces.

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BBC Now Calling Trans Women 'Biological Males Who Identify As Women'
These stories come in the aftermath of allegations that a small but mighty cabal of “LGBT reporters” had somehow seized control of the BBC and “censored” right-wing views.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Want to honor Alice Wong and her work? Wear a damn mask!
November 15, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.

Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
www.instagram.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM