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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 5h

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 1h

Y’all i’am survivor whose story is still unfolding.
An inner voice that insists on existing.
Unbound, I belong to no one.
I write to remember, to resist, to stay alive.
I am Palestinian from Gaza. rebuilding from the ashes, still carrying my family through words.
After genocide any help appreciated.

Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · Sep 6

We are in urgent need of protection and a safe place to live. We’re raising support to help us escape danger and rebuild our lives in safety. Every contribution, no matter how small, brings us one step closer to security and hope. 💛
kindly give :
#BringRuaaHome #SafetyForRuaa #HumanitarianAid

Project Bring Ruaa and Her Family to Safety

I'm helping my friend, Ruaa Naji, raise funds to help her family survive.

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Olive 🍉 @limbischessystem.bsky.social · 13m

🆘

„I have a family depending on me daily
I have a little daughter who depends on me
to provide for her needs
I had a job & income
I had a safe home
Now I have lost everything
I rely on you to feed my family
Pls don't leave me to face all of this alone“

gofund.me/acc047fe5
✅ @mommunism.bsky.social

A photo of Motaz, sitting admist ruins.
The photo is taken while displacement and famine in Gaza, Palestine.

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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 14m

“There’s something about him that makes people want to help him.”

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“Being right in and of itself is meaningless,” Mamdani told me. “We have to 𝘸𝘪𝘯. And we have to deliver.”

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Mahmood Mamdani: “to be a minority is also to see the truth of the place amidst the promise of it.”

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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 14m

"the fact that so many national Democratic figures have refrained from embracing Mamdani speaks to a moment of real reckoning for the party. Mamdani has galvanized the exact voters who turned away from Democrats in 2024: working-class people of color, young people and first-generation Americans."

f the new york times @fnyt.bsky.social · 43m

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani
f the nyt
gift link

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 43m

Legendary trans activist, Miss Major, dies at 78

Thank you to @funcrunch.me.dm.ap.brid.gy for writing this obituary.

Rest in Power, Miss Major — Assigned

Honoring a lifetime of Black trans activism.

www.assignedmedia.org

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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 1h

Oct 15 & 16: Defeating the Far Right Online @socialmovetech.bsky.social

Free for activists + most orgs

English + French, with captioning in 39 other languages: Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, German, Portuguese, Spanish + more

community.socialmovementtechnologies.org/courses/defe...

Defeating the Far Right Online to Win the World We Need - Free for small groups - Social Movement Technologies Global Community

Free for small groups with budgets under $500K and activists. 2 hr live session | Training held twice to meet all global time zone needs: The far right’s influence online is growing, but there are ef...

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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 5h

Reupping

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3d

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 6d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 8h

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Jantar @jantarbooks.bsky.social · Jun 20

The final cover for 'The Grandmother' by Božena Němcová being launched on 30 October.

Now available for pre-order direct from the publisher

www.JantarPublishing.com

@thebookseller.com @wwborders.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social @dauntbooks.bsky.social @lrb.co.uk @thetls.bsky.social

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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 8h

@ianwilloughby.bsky.social talks with Susan Reynolds, whose new translation of one of the most important books in Czech literature — The Grandmother (Babička) by Božena Němcová, first published in 1855 — will be launched by UK-based @jantarbooks.bsky.social Oct 30.

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The Grandmother translator Susan Reynolds on bringing Czech classic to English-speaking readers

A new translation of a key work of Czech literature, The Grandmother (Babička) by Božena Němcová, will be launched this month. It’s the work of Englishwoman Susan Reynolds,

english.radio.cz

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18h

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 9h

I will no doubt soon be subscribing to more! @51st.news, for instance, is probably next on my list

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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 9h

I have paid subscriptions to the following independent journalism outlets, some also worker-owned:

@truthout.org
@democracynow.org
@inthesetimes.com
@hellgatenyc.com
@thecity.nyc
@documentedny.bsky.social
@newrepublic.com
@denikreferendum.cz
@denikalarm.bsky.social

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 23h

The man who now owns this magazine was interviewed by the NYT recently.

He “did not have a negative word to say about Trump or his policies. ‘I fully support the president. I think he’s doing a great job.”

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 8d

once again encouraging you all to support independent, worker owned, billionaire free News media when and how you are able

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 8d

Installing someone like Bari Weiss as the head of a major news organization isn’t even about profit or longevity. In effect it’s about continuing to shrink the traditional news industry smaller and smaller and weaker and weaker and less and less journalism based until it ceases to exist

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 8d

support worker-owned media and leftist independent journalism while you still can

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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 19h

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Inside real estate fight that led to South Shore immigration raid

City of Chicago inspected the troubled 130-unit apartment complex two weeks before massive federal operation on Chicago’s South Side.

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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 19h

Lengthy and thorough, including many previously unreported facts, from agents separating people arrested by race to the real estate fight that led up to the raid.

Heartbreaking, infuriating, fascist as all get-out. People want to live in peace, free of danger. Instead we get this.

South Side Weekly @southsideweekly.bsky.social · 8d

NEW: In the weeks leading up to a massive ICE raid at a South Shore apartment building, neighbors saw drones surveilling the area, and teachers at a nearby school regularly saw agents in the neighborhood.

✍️ Jose Abonce for the Weekly and Maira Khwaja for @invisible.institute

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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The Onion @theonion.com · 23h

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Oct 18

If you still need to share a link to a tweet, but don't want to send people to Musk's cesspool - replace "x" with "xcancel" in the tweet link.

For example x.com/dril/status/...

becomes xcancel.com/dril/status/...

People will still see the tweet, but without going to Twitter.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6d

For people getting ready to fill out their NYC ballots, we have a bunch of ballot initiatives again. Hard to know how to vote on these. I received this from the City Council: www.whatsonmyballot.nyc - I'll be looking to local groups to figure out how to vote on these.

Your Neighborhood Is On The Ballot

www.whatsonmyballot.nyc

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THE CITY @thecity.nyc · 8d

New Yorkers won't just be electing a new mayor come November. Six measures that could ultimately amend the state’s constitution and revise the city charter will also be on the ballot.

Learn more about them here: www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/06/b...

Your Guide to NYC’s Ballot Questions for 2025

Voters will weigh in on housing reforms, a change to election years and an Olympic Sports Complex in upstate New York.

www.thecity.nyc

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SURJ NYC @surjnyc.bsky.social · 23h

What motivates SURJ NYC members to canvass for Zohran Mamdani?
“[It’s] good to connect with a pocket of NYC I don't know and work toward keeping the city workable
for the people who live here.” - SURJ NYC canvasser
Show up for Zohran: canvasses every Saturday!
Link: www.mobilize.us/surj/event/8...

Showing Up for Zohran: Canvass with SURJ NYC! · Showing Up for Racial Justice

Join SURJ NYC to speak with white working class voters the Zohran campaign is not reaching! The Mamdani campaign is running an incredible canvassing operation, but there are parts of the city it is n...

www.mobilize.us

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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 23h

➡️ Wed, Oct 15, 9:30am-5pm | NYU Migration Network: Detention & Deportation Conference: from the historical roots of detention to the latest enforcement technologies to on-the-ground organizing in NYC today. Free!

Registration link and details on panels and speakers here:
cic.nyu.edu/events/nyu-m...

NYU Migration Network: Detention and Deportation Conference | Center on International Cooperation

Full-day conference exploring detention and deportation from multiple angles hosted by New York University and partners.

cic.nyu.edu

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