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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 2h

Stonewall veteran Miss Major Griffin-Gracy moved to hospice care: ‘She is surrounded by love’

Stonewall veteran Miss Major Griffin-Gracy moved to hospice care: 'She is surrounded by love'

Trans campaigner and author Miss Major Griffin-Gracy has been moved to hospice care following her hospitalisation earlier this month.

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 1h

Absolutely not.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 13h

US commentator Van Jones has apologised for making a joke about Palestinian babies killed by Israeli attacks, but he is not alone when it comes to dehumanising comments about Gaza aje.io/33pm5k

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AK Press @akpress.org · 18h

Two years. Our hearts are heavy. #SolidarityWithPalestine

Art by Fuad Alymani from 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘦—the latest issue of @ww3illustrated.bsky.social

Artwork by Fuad Alymani depicts a young child planting a flower against a map of Palestine and a red background.

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 21h

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · Aug 21

Some people are attempting to make their compliance with fascism into something it's certainly not. For @prismreports.org, I wrote about how the promotion of obedience, hiding, and disengagement is taking us backward, despite attempts to make it seem reasonable. prismreports.org/2025/08/21/o...

Another way out: Hiding and obedience won't stop fascism

By being obedient to the point of giving up all self-determination, we’re poised to return to what many before us fought to overturn

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 21h

People are still doing this nonsense! bsky.app/profile/will...

William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · Apr 10

How did so many people attach to this idea that if Black people take to the streets, that's how the state will suspend normative law and deepen overt fascism? The state doesn't need Black people protesting or any alleged excuse for that matter to do what's already happening in plain sight.

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 21h

Keep in mind that many people who initially claimed he wanted protests so he could militarily occupy cities quietly adjusted that narrative without admitting he did what he wanted, regardless. No “excuse” was necessary. Fascists don't need a reason or excuse.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 22h

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 21h

Are you starting to get it? He was always going to hit us. You will not change the math by insisting that people assume some magical form of perfect victimhood that somehow reels in a monster. That's not real. And I am so sick of hearing it.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 21h

He was always going to do this. Chicagoans have not rioted, so the administration just lied and said we have. We have not attacked ICE agents, so they just lied and said we did. There was no chaos here, so they created chaotic scenes by attacking people and filmed that shit.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 22h

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

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tj WATCH INVISIBLE FIGHT GIRL 😷😷😷 @atjscreams.blacksky.app · 1d

"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic was a litmus test people in the U.S. failed miserably, and we’re all still reeling from it. The results revealed to the ruling powers just how much they could get away with."

YES!!!!!!! you cannot leave your community behind and then be confused when you get lost

William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 21d

COVID-19 has revealed that much of the US public is willing to accept mass death and abandonment. We were pushed by propaganda to see many around us as disposable. That helped set the tone for current fascist violations. I wrote about it for @prismreports.org.

prismreports.org/2025/09/16/c...

Another way out: Building resistance when passivity is the norm

The COVID-19 pandemic should have shown us that we’re supposed to be meeting needs, not falling in line behind fascist incursions

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 1d

LIVE NOW!

Join @biidaasamose.bsky.social for a conversation with Uahikea Maile about water as a catalyst for radical transformation, hosted w/ @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social

Stream here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxWl...
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Haymarket Presents: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson on Theory of Water

Join us for the next event in the Haymarket Presents speakers series, as Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is joined by Uahikea Maile for a conversation on decolonial strategies that look to water as a…

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 2d

“Your whole life you've made up so many little word games, when the last day of your life arrives, which phrases are you going to use to oppose birth and death?”– Dahui Zonggao

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 4d

**raiding an emergency room**

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 4d

“ICE detained a sitting elected official while raiding an emergency room. Earlier this afternoon, they deployed tear gas indiscriminately in the middle of a city street.”

Illinois State Police assist feds in Broadview protest, Chicago alderperson cuffed at hospital, rapid responders tear gassed in Logan Square • The TRiiBE

A roundup of ICE activity in the Chicagoland area on Oct. 3.

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · Jun 25

“Resting what U.S. Blackness means on citizenship is a seriously shaky foundation. Even though the formerly enslaved were centered in the initial and ongoing debate over birthright citizenship, we have never been secure in the citizen category.” prismreports.org/2025/06/25/b...

Another way out: What Black America's migrant history tells us now

The complete erasure of Black immigrants is being aided by ICE incursions against disproportionately targeted communities

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · Jun 25

Migration, non-citizen status, and deportation are a big part of Black America's history, going beyond US borders. Still, nativism and xenophobia distort and derail. Let's deepen our understanding of what history tells us. I wrote about this for @prismreports.org.

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Another way out: What Black America's migrant history tells us now

The complete erasure of Black immigrants is being aided by ICE incursions against disproportionately targeted communities

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History is What's Happening @historyiswhat.bsky.social · 6d

Road blocked in Mexico City in solidarity with the global aid flotilla to Gaza.

Manifestantes toman laterales de Periférico Sur y desquician el tráfico en CDMX | Alternativas viales

Las afectaciones se ubican a la altura del Parque Cuicuilco y del Centro Cultural Ollin Yoliztli

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 6d

BREAKING: The Global Sumud Flotilla organisers have declared a state of emergency on board, as they prepare for the expected Israeli interception of their mission to break the blockade of Gaza.

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Your Tiny Journalist Friend. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 7d

From @franciagarciah.bsky.social + me:

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 7d

Rochelle Jordan's new album is brilliant, and I don't throw that word around carelessly when I'm talking about music.

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Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 8d

what kind of orgs or group formations do we each have the capacity to be a part of that centres our values while also upholding them within those group formations? everything we want to see in the world has to be built from the ground up, every day of our lives in a sense.

William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 11d

The empty left-influencer rhetoric instructing people to “join an organization” is deeply misleading. What kind of org and why? The word “organization” isn't inherently left. There are fascist organizations. Don't just say uncritical stuff that doesn't truly help for the sake of saying something.

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Marilyn @stealthbirder.bsky.social · 8d

A great read.

William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 8d

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · Apr 29

Legal forms of resistance and litigation strategies aren't the only ways to fight. Thinking so misrepresents the past and weakens the present. It also reveals a strong naivete about the supposed objectivity of oppressive laws. I wrote about it for @prismreports.org. prismreports.org/2025/04/29/t...

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 8d

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · Apr 29

Legal forms of resistance and litigation strategies aren't the only ways to fight. Thinking so misrepresents the past and weakens the present. It also reveals a strong naivete about the supposed objectivity of oppressive laws. I wrote about it for @prismreports.org. prismreports.org/2025/04/29/t...

Another way out: Doing what’s right isn't all about what’s legal

Overemphasizing what’s legal and illegal is about returning to a normal where the screams were more easily muffled, distant, and ignorable for many

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 8d

Many people struggle to understand the law, and criminalization is often not in their favor. You can emphasize constitutionality and the law, but those things can be voided, amended, or disregarded overnight. If you have principles and values, you must stand on them, not on crumbling foundations.

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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 8d

If you think you're helping by screaming someone doesn't deserve something because they're “not a criminal,” you're absolutely not. The state will deem you and that person both criminals under the established and whatever expanded terms you're upholding by legitimizing criminality as a construct.

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