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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class

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Pulitzer Center Global Reporting Fellow. Fund for Investigative Journalism Fellow. Traveling the world writing on Palestine, HIV/AIDS & LGBTQ life. Author of THE VIRAL UNDERCLASS (Celadon/Macmillan). Finishing THE OVERSEER CLASS (Amistad/HarperCollins)

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · Jun 17

New from me and Afeef Nessouli in @theintercept: we report from inside the Yarmouk refugee camp, where Palestinian refugees see little hope in the new Syria theintercept.com/2025/06/17/p...

Palestinian Refugees in Syria See Little Hope — Even After Assad

“Even if they rebuild all of Syria, Yarmouk will remain destroyed,” said one Palestinian refugee.

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 1d

It is imperative that you do not depend on the police to help you or take our side during clashes with the fascist Federals.

Police see a protest and know that they hate every person in that protest. It doesn't matter what it's for or who you are - they know their job is to smash you.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 3h

Good morning

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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 7h

Shout out to the Naked Bikeride who today ran hundreds of naked people directly through the line of federal officers and effectively blocked them from assaulting demonstrators. Being naked on a bike goes on the list of effective tactics if you get at least 500 of them and the city loves you.

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 15h

Spice for traif

Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 15h

Could be. I mostly heard it applied to time spent in US tours in Vietnam

Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 15h

Not the most important point here, but a Black Hawk copper is “named for a Native American leader of the 19th century,” so the slippage between domestic and foreign war is impossible to stop when you deny America’s history that developed its war machine for settler colonial conquest

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Kamala Harris: "Here in Chicago I'm told the helicopters that were descending on an American city were Black Hawks. Do you know what Black Hawks were designed to do? War. So I think everyone can draw their conclusions just based on the facts."

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 15h

Goodnight, sweet Saleh. To quote Hossam, by God, you fulfilled your duty as a journalist—and now you may rest.

Saleh’s death was part of the genocide, his needless killing part of 75 years of death US-UK-Israel have waged against Palestine

Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 18h

Among most famous surviving Palestinian journalists in Gaza, Saleh al-Jafrawi has been killed in Gaza City.

Israeli occupation media claims he was killed by members of Dogmosh clan, other sources that he was killed by them on orders from Israel which threatened him.
www.instagram.com/p/DPt6XngjYij/

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 16h

I didn’t want to believe it was true. Say his name: Saleh Al-Jafarawi. He had the most beautiful smile. He was not among the 270+ journalists killed prior to the latest ceasefire. He was ebullient that the bombing stopped. And now he’s been killed.

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 17h

Another reason for hate turned at light hearted protest: they want you on your couch, having your brain being turned into soup while you are comatose watching THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF BUMBLEFUCK or HARRY POTTER XXV. They resent a rabbit or a frog going “we make our own entertainment here!”

Kaia Sand @mkaiasand.bsky.social · 18h

Really sweet resistance scene outside ICE in Portland of coffee, donuts and morning.

Person in bunny costume carries donuts outside ICE in Portland

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 18h

the only pair of white tube socks I own were a gift, passed out to a bunch of us staying overnight at Zuccotti Park, unprepared in a downpour, ahead of a promised raid

Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 18h

Some of the hate directed at light hearted protest is confusion. The US mind doesn’t know what to do w activity which isn’t for profit-commerce. Can’t compute how someone’s radical act of care in the face evil may be sharing coffee w others fighting the good fight (like church or AA coffee hr)

Kaia Sand @mkaiasand.bsky.social · 18h

Really sweet resistance scene outside ICE in Portland of coffee, donuts and morning.

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 18h

If you get hit in the head you’re fucked regardless

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 18h

No. If you’re getting hit in the face you’re fucked regardless. Fortunately very few ppl are shot in the face. Sadly hoards are gassed. And the gas spreads far beyond sites of acute action bsky.app/profile/thin...

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 18h

No, if you’re getting hit in the face with bullets you’re in trouble quite regardless

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 18h

Ppl like to be creative. To use their creativity for some kind of good. The US mind can’t compute doing it absent a market motive!! bsky.app/profile/pixe...

SeasonalPun @pixelfish.bsky.social · 18h

Fan art and fan fic too!

95% of the pre-influencer internet culture!

People just made stuff and then shared it.

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 18h

Pro tip to reporters and protesters: always have swim goggles in your pockets or bags. They’re small, $10 and if tear gas is used, slip them on & no matter how much you cough, you’ll still be able to SEE without burning eyes.

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 18h

15 years of reporting on activism, church, Burning Man, Occupy, BLM has taught me ppl REALLY like to give things away. This imperative almost always is co copter as commerce but folks will find almost any opportunity to give food away in pop up community when they can. This, too, is radical!

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 18h

Kaia Sand @mkaiasand.bsky.social · 18h

Really sweet resistance scene outside ICE in Portland of coffee, donuts and morning.

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 18h

“You’re Ethiopian? They say the bride here is the Queen Sheba of America.”

A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 19h

When Zohran wins he should appoint Eric Adams city clerk so that he's responsible for administering all the weddings.

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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 19h

When Zohran wins he should appoint Eric Adams city clerk so that he's responsible for administering all the weddings.

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 19h

Ricardo's 2006 poster shown here is about the AIDS crisis in Africa, where activists also fought against stigmatization in order to put people's needs first. Get it here: www.rlmartstudio.com/product/how-...

Vertical poster with a cream watercolor background that looks like parchment. Thin hand-written lettering in red, black and green surrounds an illustration shaped like the continent of Africa, depicting a parent in traditional apparel feeding a baby (the parent faces the viewer, with their right arm making up the western part of the continent baby cradled in the center, and parent's dress the southern half). Large text at top: "How to heal a continent of HIV/AIDS." Around the illustration and at bottom: Speak openly - fund mass education - devote global resources - guarantee universal access to condoms - achieve universal access to medicines - support economic renewal - remove the suffocating deb - provide compassionate support to those affected - Put people first!

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 19h

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 20h

Never forget TP S2:15

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 1d

OK seeing this guy with his Vader helmet off is like knowing Pedro Pascal is being hidden inside the Mandalorian

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Portland's famous Unipiper was spotted at the Portland ICE protest where he played his bagpipes in front of Santa, Mr. Potato Head, Garfield and more -- all while surrounded by bubbles.

More on how the tone of Portland's protests has shifted: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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