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Dom Evans @domevans.electricmarshmallow.com · Nov 14

So… I'm kind of doing a thing!

DETAILS FORTHCOMING…

gritty pink/red text reads: "SPACE PIRATES"

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Abeer's family in Gaza 2🍉 @ab3er9910.bsky.social · 14h

@vinewood-og.bsky.social
@domevans.electricmarshmallow.com
My friends, we are living through very difficult times. Any support or help—even small—could save a life 🙏"
Plz don@te

Abeer's family in Gaza 2🍉 @ab3er9910.bsky.social · 15h

My friends💔
I am abeer.
Even with the ceasefire, our situation remains extremely difficult
We have lost everything ,our homes, jobs,dreams

My little children still desperately need your help 💔

We urgently need 300$

✅✅Verified By Molly Shah

gofund.me/8d60ae51

Dom Evans @domevans.electricmarshmallow.com · 2h

Things I can't do because I'm on a Medicaid program offering homecare.
Note: Medicaid is the only provider offering these services so I have no choice.

-Get married
-Have a job making more than $22,000/yr
–leave my state with my home care workers aka go on vacations

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Dom Evans @domevans.electricmarshmallow.com · 21h

THISSSSSSSSSSSSS.

Corey @givememorelegs.bsky.social · 21h

Yep! There's lots of ways for our experiences to be.
Which is why cis people should avoid just tokenizing the narratives that confirm their pre-conceived ideas of what our lives should look like.

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bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · 22h

Smithsonian concurs. Inspectors at Ellis Island were themselves immigrants who spoke multiple languages.
www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...

Did Ellis Island Officials Really Change the Names of Immigrants?

On the 125th anniversary of the famous portal to the U.S., history shows inspectors were not the ones changing people's names

www.smithsonianmag.com

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bettybarcode @bettybarcode.bsky.social · 23h

100% correct.
Immigrants Americanized their names on their own, for various reasons, including discrimination.

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Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social · 1d

Why is this such a harmful myth?

Because it not only does it characterize whiteness as aspirational, but it creates this idea that Italians, Irish, whoever, were "good" and were then rewarded with whiteness. Or that Americans learned to become more tolerant — which, clearly they did not.

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Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social · 1d

Does not fucking matter, because it was never systemic. It was never the law. It did not cause the same type of generational harm as the actual systemic racism that actual non-white people have experienced.

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Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social · 1d

Were there people who did not think we were white? Sure! Many of them were, in fact, Northern Italians. There were people who thought we were part Black & others who thought Mediterranean was it's own thing. There still are, in fact, people who think we are not white. Go to 4chan, they're there!

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Dom Evans @domevans.electricmarshmallow.com · 21h

My entire last name starts with a different letter then the one that everybody uses to say my last name!

Some of my family members don't know how to pronounce our name correctly.

Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social · 1d

Why does this matter?

Because people changed their names in order to deter discrimination. This went on for a good long while. I literally only learned some of my relatives actual first names a few years ago, while I was doing genealogy shit.

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Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social · 1d

Now, more than ever, it's important to understand why so many the myths we tell ourselves about immigration are actually very harmful.

First of all, your great-great-grandparents names *were not changed* at Ellis Island. No one there had the authority to do that.

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Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 1d

Publishers should be invested in promoting the books they publish.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Dom Evans @domevans.electricmarshmallow.com · 21h

This is not my experience as a trans person, which is why you shouldn't assume our experiences are all the same. I think I was supposed to be born male but I was treated like a female for so long that I have a unique perspective that I don't think other people understand.

All experiences are valid.

Corey @givememorelegs.bsky.social · 22h

I'm a man, I've always been a guy, I don't know what it's like to be a woman or a girl.

I do know what it's like to be treated by others as if I were a woman or a girl.

They are different knowledges.
Over all I'm a pretty typical guy.

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Vincent is a pen name bro 🍉 @v-e-tirado.com · 1d

i'm not gonna lie, every time a genuine and influential figure dies (Miss Major, Jane Goodall, etc), it feels like the world got a little darker even though I know it's not possible for those same people to live forever. still, im glad to have lived in the same time as them

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

The propaganda effort at CBS News has begun in full force.

There's this absurd hit piece saying his election would cause a large exodus at the NYPD.

A paused CBS News video features a close-up of a bearded man in a suit speaking outdoors. Video controls are visible over the image. The headline below reads about NYPD officers worrying about someone becoming the NYC mayor. The CBS News channel name and subscriber button appear at the bottom.

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Witch’s Black Kat Marchán 🐈‍⬛🧙🏼 @zkat.tech · 1d

So let me rephrase this further: you think not having paperwork should be effectively a death sentence, since everyone is bound to need healthcare at some point?

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Witch’s Black Kat Marchán 🐈‍⬛🧙🏼 @zkat.tech · 1d

But I mean let’s just lay it on the table here: you’re not talking about that 20-something nerd from Norway or even Canada who messed up and overstayed.

You’re specifically talking about Mexicans, Central/South Americans, Asians, and Africans who have fled here to escape danger, right?

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Witch’s Black Kat Marchán 🐈‍⬛🧙🏼 @zkat.tech · 1d

Let me rephrase this for you: you think people who don’t have immediate access to paperwork and have a medical emergency should die?

You think people should suffer, lose limbs, lose their children, _just_ because of the state of their paperwork?

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Dom Evans @domevans.electricmarshmallow.com · 21h

And this is part of why they don't want trans people to have passports. And why some of us are still struggling to get a passport.

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untilwemeetagain.bsky.social @untilwemeetagain.bsky.social · 23h

It means that I think everyone deserves health care. And that doesn't mean checking their papers or bank account first. It's pretty damned simple.

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Dom Evans @domevans.electricmarshmallow.com · 21h

Some of us disabled folks on Medicaid can't get married. Can't have a job. We are stuck on Medicaid and that's it. And disabled is something you could become tomorrow so tomorrow that could be your reality.

Dom Evans @domevans.electricmarshmallow.com · 21h

I hope you never end up disabled to where you can only have Medicaid. Because that's the thing that happens in this country and let me tell you you would think everybody needed free healthcare if you actually had to live on the system against your will like some of us do.

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Dom Evans @domevans.electricmarshmallow.com · 21h

Because rich people are hoarding wealth. We have the money to offer healthcare for everyone who comes to this country. We just choose not to.

Dom Evans @domevans.electricmarshmallow.com · 21h

I honestly wonder what's wrong with people that don't believe everyone deserves access to healthcare. Like what is broken in you that you don't see other people as human beings?

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volleylove.bsky.social @volleylove.bsky.social · 23h

Yes. The world should ensure that all humans have healthcare. It should be quality healthcare even.

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Ohio Todd @lettucewrangler.bsky.social · 23h

Yes.
Do you want diseases to get out of hand and cause a global pandemic?
Why do you think USAID was doing all this preventative work against Ebola and malaria? It's not only moral, it's also cost effective.

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