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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 7h

Anyhow, have you seen Rama Duwaji's illustrated ceramics? They are so moving! www.ramaduwaji.com/ceramics

Illustrated white ceramic dish, blue ink background. Three women—maybe two adults and a child?—lie together in bed, with a cat on top of the blanket. Two women stare fondly at each other; the child sleeps.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 7h

Per NYPost's scoop, some of the ways Mamdani's wife has "quietly steered" his campaign are weighing in on his logo design, being "a major source of support for him in private" and once posting on Instagram, "Couldn't possibly be prouder."

A. Marmot 🌱 @aminus.bsky.social · 8h

[the NY Post scrambling to make a last-ditch scandal:]

"umm, uhhh, his aloof wife Rama Duwaji secretly ran the campaign"

garbage from the NY Post showing pictures of Rama Duwaji and her husband Zohran Mamdani, caption "How Zohran Mamdani’s aloof wife, Rama Duwaji, quietly steered his campaign from behind the scenes"

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

This is also how they’ll cover him if he wins. Mamdani - all democrats who actually want to govern and fix things - need to understand the NYT politics team as a partisan force arrayed against them.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

I genuinely wonder if anyone on the NYT editorial team looks at the Mamdani coverage in total and thinks "yeah, we got this one right"
The story on the eve of the election is basically reporters asking the public "is Mamdani experienced enough?"

No actual news.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/n...

Even for Some Mamdani Supporters, His Thin Résumé Is Cause for Concern

www.nytimes.com

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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨Wow‼️In these times of uncertainty we need more Romeo’s in the world. He paid for people to eat for an hour and over 200 people were fed. This is the humanity and community we need right now. Bravo, Romeo‼️🔥💥🔥

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Tony Plunkett @tblankets.bsky.social · 1d

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Jason Martens @martens742.bsky.social · 5d

Don’t agree with this. The need for local in depth reporting is greater than ever. Access to local radio is a loss, but in the grand scheme of things, having up to the moment reporting isn’t news.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5d

www.vera.org/news/what-do...

What Do Alternatives to Incarceration Actually Look Like?

Research shows that incarceration is often harmful and counterproductive. Some alternatives to incarceration can help prevent harm while keeping…

www.vera.org

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Jason Martens @martens742.bsky.social · 6d

Can you share? Thanks!

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Jason Martens @martens742.bsky.social · 6d

@alfredtwu.com did you get the Alameda county ICE zine link?

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 6d

“Chicago is the future.“

@joseolivarez.bsky.social for @chicagomag.com

when we win
the masked agents raid our neighborhoods.
what do they cover up? (yesterday) is their promise
& their charge. on 75th and South Shore they ram down
our doors using (yesterday). they toss canisters
of (yesterday) into our children’s lullabies. why?
my people,
we carry (today) & (tomorrow) in twin holsters. we
plant (today) & (tomorrow) in our gardens. every day
there are more sprouts. let it be known: Chicago
will never cower. (yesterday) already died. (yesterday)
is dying. (yesterday) will die again. there is no future
in (yesterday). the agents in our neighborhoods hide
their faces because they are losing. because they lost.
when we win,
there will be whistles from the gulls
circling Lake Michigan. let them sing it:
Chicago is a city of (today) & (tomorrow).
Chicago is the future.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 7d

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 6d

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

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Dan Golding @dangolding.com · 7d

As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have

‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head

Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30

www.theguardian.com

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 6d

Over the past 20 years, there is not a single major US newspaper that consistently told the truth about:

* The rise of US fascism
* The relationship between police racism and innocent Black folk

US News frames the world from the view of the violent minority, but expects the majority to subscribe.

Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 7d

A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Jason Martens @martens742.bsky.social · 7d

Ok, I guess it wasn’t clear to me from the context.

Jason Martens @martens742.bsky.social · 7d

That framing of the issues is poor, but I think abolition is the solution.

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Jason Martens @martens742.bsky.social · 7d

The solution.

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Jason Martens @martens742.bsky.social · 7d

Interesting about the bag. I have had some trouble internationally, but most places I was able to get a hand check still.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 7d

This is amazing. And it’s truly the stuff of nightmares.

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Jason Martens @martens742.bsky.social · 7d

I hear that the checked bag xray scanners are much stronger than the security line scanner, so you could try to keep it with you. There are also lead lined pouches you can get. This person says it takes a lot, but I feel like I’ve seen degradation after only a few. 🤷‍♂️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNEm...

ISO 3200 film x-rayed by security 19 times and other musings about traveling with film

YouTube video by BryHong

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Sep 24

i made a helpful reference

$top right: a fractured black rectangle where one half is labeled "autism is bad" and the other side is labeled "FACT CHECK: autistic people are productive members of society". top left: WRONG -negating their frame reinforces it -starts with what it isn't instead of what it is - your argument is shaped like their argument bottom right: large image of Kirby, a pink blob inhaling and the "autism is bad" fragment, labeled THEY'RE DOING EUGENICS bottom left: RIGHT - you eat their frame -starts with what's actually happening -contains and explains what they're doing -your argument is shaped like kirby$

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JK✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 8d

#MakeAThing

Watercolor doodle of a butterfly standing up on two legs like a human and smoking a cigarette. It says, make shitty art if you want to, who's going to stop you?

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 9d

"What are you going to do, shoot me? I would die for this shit."

Until congress responds with the rage, fear, and courage of this man, they are letting me down and they are letting you down.

Blasphemous Jones @blasphemousjones.bsky.social · 13d

"Man goes scorched earth on ICE agents kidnapping people in his hometown."

Source:
old.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 10d

That's no ballroom

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10d

A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.

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Loren Johnson @lorenjohnson.bsky.social · 10d

The level of community organizing that's happening right now is WILD. Get involved.

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