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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 26m

I will continue to raise funds for my dear friend Tasneem in Gaza. The situation on the ground is dire and the civilians are homeless and hungry, without means of work. We're their voice and means of survival.

Please give to Tasneem so she can feed her children. And find and help others. ❤️🙏

Donate to Help Tasneem and her Kids, organized by Louise Mooney

Hi, My name is Louise, I am based in Ireland and I have been helping my friend Tasneem, wh… Louise Mooney needs your support for Help Tasneem and her Kids

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 1h

inverted color image of a person with long hair putting on a headstrap respirator that reads “RADICAL COVID ZERO
EXTREMISTS
want your
DICK
to keep working”

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 1h

as someone who's had to run a fundraiser for a heart surgery before, that shit is no joke; please share

Brady Hartel @ashuraou.bsky.social · 7h

Some people asked me if there was a way to donate to me directly. While I am extremely uncomfortable about this, a lot of close friends convinced me I should set something up, so I set up a ko-fi for those that expressed this. Please do not feel obligated. ko-fi.com/ashuraou

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 1h

Everyone knows that Meta is basically single-handedly behind the "do age verification in the app store" push, right?

Government mandated online age verification is dangerous, doesn't work, and poses a massive threat to human rights and free expression no matter where/how it's done. Full stop.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1h

Average Republican's office: youtube.com/shorts/dhSsr...

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Lubna 🇵🇸 @l23ubna.bsky.social · 2h

Dear friends
Each day we try to hold on to hope and rebuild what the war has taken from us.
Your kindness has carried us through the darkest times, and we still need your support to move toward safety and stability.
Please donate and share the campaign every action makes a real difference 🙏❤️

Help Mohammad and Lubna evacuate to safety!

Hi my loves! My name is Caroline, and I’ve created this fundraiser to help my dear friends Mohammad and Lubna, who are currently living in unthinkable conditions in Gaza.

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Glenn White @justicar.xyz · 1h

Only have one donated for so far...as anyone who's gotten one of my curated tea boxes before can tell you...it's much more tea than you expect, and it's assembled just for YOU.

It's from my personal collection, so there are some exceptionally rare and excellent teas that will be included.

Glenn White @justicar.xyz · 6d

I'm doing it again.

Donate $100 to CMN Hospitals through my Extra Life page, and I'll curate the best tea box you ever saw just for you! AND you'll get ten chances to win a cool prize like a gaming console and more in the Cascadian Gamers Extra Life for Kids SuperMegaRaffle(tm)!

bit.ly/CGELGlenn25

Extra Life | Change Kids' Health, Change the Future

I'm raising funds with #EXTRALIFE for kids treated at my Children's Miracle Network Hospitals! I need your help to reach my fundraising goal. Please donate today to change kids' health.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 48m

Remote work was a game changer for people with disabilities.

It’s a life saving accommodation that can allow people to remain in the workforce who otherwise wouldn’t be able to.

Discontinuing it is another example of just how ableist our culture is.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1h

This is deeply, deeply fucked up on SO MANY levels I don’t even know where to begin.

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 5h

2. Rolling Stone is owned by a large media conglomerate, which is ending remote work across its brands.

My home is Portland, Oregon, ~1,000 miles from the nearest office, so this marks the end of the line for me at RS.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2h

When the Nazi group chat ruins your talking points

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Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social · 3h

Anyone from the AI world who thinks ‘agentic AI will replace journalists’ should read this piece. Anyone who thinks ‘public service journalism is dead’ should read this piece (or revise their understanding of ‘public service’)

Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 3h

Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go."

The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 2h

Sooooooo we’re all pretty sure these comments were surfaced by the Dem establishment right?

New York Magazine @nymag.com · 4h

Newly surfaced internet comments made by Graham Platner — he once identified as a Communist, and railed against police — present the Maine senate candidate with his first real test.

Graham Platner’s Honeymoon Is Over

Newly surfaced internet comments made by Graham Platner — he once identified as a Communist, and railed against police — present the Maine senate candidate with his first real test.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3h

This is one of the significant fault lines between the Left(s) and the Right. On the Left(s) [in general], we believe that everyone deserves public goods and to live in dignity. Period.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

Q: “Most hospitals + people who will lose insurance are in rural areas. If Trump & Republicans are so intent on sticking it to their own voters, why not let them?”

@aoc.bsky.social : “That’s the difference between us & Trump. I don’t care if you voted for me, I want you to have health care.”

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TV's Adam, whispering into a teacup, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 5h

but under no circumstances should we expect any common-sense mitigation practices beyond annual boosters for a vaccine the government is openly discouraging/preventing people from getting

wouldn’t want to seem ✨unreasonable✨

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 10h

Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation

Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e

Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 2h

“When you have a disability people can’t see, you don’t get the same level of empathy. It feels like the world has moved on.”

It’s shameful how society is gaslighting people who are experiencing chronic illness and ignoring an ongoing public health crisis.

Long Covid Is Real -- And It's Changing an Entire Generation

Long Covid is affecting hundreds of thousands of kids in America, and many doctors and schools refuse to recognize their illness.

www.rollingstone.com

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John Dupuis @dupuisj.bsky.social · 19h

Hear me out on this one, but maybe this really means that we're not "post-pandemic"

Post-Pandemic COVID-19 linked with high numbers of workforce absences and exits

ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

Post-Pandemic COVID-19 linked with high numbers of workforce absences and exits

Well after the United States government declared the pandemic emergency over, COVID-19 continued to cause about the same number of monthly work absences

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20h

LA folks, get on this.

Mikki Halpin @mikkipedia.bsky.social · 1d

Upcoming Courtwatch LA training for immigration courts--an important role in community defense. Court watchers, like cop watchers, show that the community is actively participating in its own safety, and in holding the justice system accountable.

bit.ly/imm-training-116

A flyer with text on it:
CourtWatch LOS ANGELES
Thu. Nov. 6th | 6:00 p.m.
GET TRAINED
TO COURTWATCH
IN IMMIGRATION COURTS
REGISTER
bit.ly/imm-training-116

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Dr Chris Jordan-Clark @chrisjordanclark.bsky.social · 22h

This! Deciding that YOU can take the risk of other people getting sick is NOT morally neutral. It’s individualistic and egocentric.
The “collective good” requires all of us to take care of each other. Governments have ditched us. We only have each other.
#WearAMask

chadzia dax 🔞😷🖖🏻 @m00psy.bsky.social · 2d

it’s also so ridiculous.

pretend getting other people sick is morally irrelevant, a completely neutral act.

would YOU still want to risk getting a bunch of new, energy-limiting chronic illnesses? most of which have no cures, and which no one is going to meaningfully help you survive having?

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Scaredy Kat (she/they) @doggamn.bsky.social · 19h

Some of you are so mean and I think you should work on that

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onion person @junlper.beer · 22h

a big aspect of rightwing politics is being an adult who intentionally bullys children

Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 1d

A group of far right assholes have showed up to protest at David Douglas high school after students allegedly pushed back at a formation of a turning point chapter. School is out & they are outnumbered by predominantly Black & Brown students roasting the fuck out of them.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 1d

All I can add to the “we reject universal masking” discourse is that it’s not about masks. You aren’t rejecting universal masking, which never happened; you’re rejecting having to think about wearing a mask, and maybe feeling badly about thinking about masks. Can’t help you there.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 1d

If you gave up masking long ago, you can start anytime. “But none of my friends do.” Think back: did some of your friends “just disappear” in 2021 and stop planning hang outs with you?

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 22h

"the republicans have always been racist" yes, that is correct. they have not always felt empowered to be openly Nazi in their public life, and worked to install a Nazi president for life. These things are worse, and require an urgent response rather than an above-it-all dismissal.

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 21h

"“COVID dead-enders”? what’s more dead-end than promoting repeated mass infection of a virus that weakens the immune system & invades the body’s every organ?"

this. no one wants All This to be over more than the people engaging in the behaviors that prevent the thing from continuing.

Kevin Ball @stairway-to-kevin.bsky.social · 1d

asserted with the arrogance unique to overconfident white-ass reply guys who’ve *no* clue of the science. also is there a greater misnomer than “COVID dead-enders”? what’s more dead-end than promoting repeated mass infection of a virus that weakens the immune system & invades the body’s every organ?

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Nicola Woods 😷🍁🥞 @haecnicola.bsky.social · 21h

Oct 15 Rana update:

❌ from Rana today so idk her status but last I heard from her the sitch was still v bad & chaotic in 🇵🇸

She’s trying to raise money for a phone so she can take her high school exams in under a week

$1009/$2000 📱

gofund.me/f33094165

@mommunism.bsky.social

#SaveRana

Donate to Help Rana’s family escape G4za and get care, organized by Cardinal Alfonso

Note from fundraiser organizer: This is Cardinal, I am organizing this … Cardinal Alfonso needs your support for Help Rana’s family escape G4za and get care

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 21h

For sashabarkov on tumblr, a male American Kestrel! Here he is, scouring the field of dead sunflowers for mice feeding on the fallen seeds. Thanks for the #Waymakers donation!

The 2025 Waymakers Challenge ended Sept. 30 - check back next year if you missed your chance to donate! 🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt

Illustration of a male American Kestrel perched on the dead stalk of a sunflower, golden and dry. He fans his rufous tail as he sits alert and watchful, head extended, as if looking for prey. He has a blue-gray brow with a dark reddish crown, white cheeks with black vertical bars, and lightly spotted orange and cream belly. Behind him is blue sky and the blurred remains of more dried sunflowers.

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