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Nicole Rizzuto
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I spend a lot of time talking, writing, and teaching about LGBTQ history, identities, and communities. Ask me about Dead Lesbian Syndrome.
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Just became a monthly donor and plan to use a bunch of the articles in my Intro to Women's Studies course next semester.
HAPPY MONDAY, FLYTRAPPERS. Welcome to The Flytrap's 1-year anniversary subscription drive campaign. We are celebrating a whole year of existence, and using this joyous occasion to delight our followers with paywall drops, flash merch sales, and subscription sales.
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This averages out at a violation roughly every four hours, around the clock, continuously since 10 October. At what point do we stop calling it a ceasefire when Israel has just literally not ceased firing
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The news that the owner of the South Shore raid building knew in advance of the raid, proactively identified non-paying units to federal authorities, and permitted/endorsed the raid fits squarely in the category of information that is essentially expected, but still horrifying.
“​​There’s nothing wrong with doing the right thing all the time,” he says.
Missouri Avenue crosses Georgia Avenue NW in a curve. Sixteen traffic lights line the two roads in confusing layers.

Drivers often mistake which light is theirs and start to drive into oncoming traffic, Alan says.

At its center, he's been offering free water for 1,250 days now.
For 1,250 days, Alan has given out free water at a busy Brightwood intersection
He’s built a community that stood up for him when the threat of eviction loomed.
51st.news
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This is important! Markey is running for reelection against a “generational change” Democrat whose position on trans rights is cynical wishy-washiness. It matters that his response hasn’t been to “moderate his position.”
Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) at the Boston No Kings rally today, wore the trans pride flag like a scarf draped over his shoulders and included in his speech. "Because here in Massachusetts, we stand for what is right. We stand with trans people because trans rights are human rights."
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MONUMENTS, an exhibit featuring decommissioned Confederate monuments paired with work by contemporary Black artists, opens in Los Angeles next week.

This is Karon Davis' Descendants (2025), showing her son, Moses, holding a squirming replica Confederate general

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Karoline Leavitt on what she expected for today’s demonstrations: “Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, violent criminals.”

Scott Bessent: “Most unhinged in the Democratic Party”

Mike Johnson: “The pro-Hamas wing, the antifa people.”

NYPD: More than 100,000 protesters; zero arrests.
I know in 20 years we're going to teach Mamdani like he's a singularity, but I am so, so proud of the millennials stepping up to run & lead across the country right now. If you're not following @omarfatehmn.com and his Minneapolis mayoral campaign, you should be.
The stories I have heard from community members about the harm caused by Mayor Frey's approach to encampments, break my heart. Unsheltered homelessness deserves a public health response, learn more about what my approach would be in my interview with Kare 11.
My cat who was raised in a hoarding situation with like 50 other cats also won't do red meat. I wonder if they trained themselves to not like it because it was so fought over and they didn't want to have to fight.
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[through gritted teeth]
Block and move on. Block and move on.
The White House has created an official Bluesky account.

[ @whitehouse-47.bsky.social ]
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Psychiatrists/NPs/therapists who could provide off-the-books, no-fee, Zoom-based care for individuals in crisis in ICE-targeted Chicago communities, please email me: [email protected]. Include whether you can prescribe, speak Spanish (or other languages), and available hours per week/month.
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One of the dumbest ways to go extinct as a species really would be for our leaders to decide they have to mine coal and drill up oil not because we actually need them anymore but because they just refuse to accept that we don't.
"The resource-intensive advertisement tools of AI will increasingly overtax the grid, leaving us to cook alive in sweltering darkness. The AI hype is part of a larger, false narrative justifying fossil fuel expansion. Let’s not get fooled."

Read this.
Flawless.
Vic Mensa, an American rapper born and raised in Chicago, breaks down ICE raids and the politics of division.
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UNRWA has enough food outside #Gaza to supply people there for 3 months, amid desperate need. Our teams stand ready to deliver it.

But despite the #ceasefire, the Israeli Authorities’ block on UNRWA bringing any supplies into Gaza still continues.

Let us get aid into Gaza at the full scale needed.
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At least 12 vendors from the Swap-O-Rama (47th and Ashland) were arrested by masked federal agents, according to community members.

Developing.
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🚨WOW. A unanimous per curiam (meaning no named author) panel of the 7th Circuit, made up of a Bush appointee, an Obama appointee, and a Trump appointee, decline to step in and block a lower court order barring the deployment of the National Guard in Chicago!
#BREAKING The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refuses to undo an order blocking deployment of National Guard troops within Illinois.

"We conclude that the district court's factual findings … were not clearly erroneous, and that the facts do not justify the President's actions in Illinois."
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New resource⚡ How to Clean Up Copaganda

We're pleased to share our new resource for journalists, communicators, and organizers responding to law enforcement disinformation.

Check out this online guide written by IC Abolition Journalism Fellow @lewispants.bsky.social, here: bit.ly/CleanUpCopag...
How to Clean Up Copaganda — Interrupting Criminalization
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Greetings from the Port of Cape Town. I am about to board a boat to visit Robben Island. Do follow this thread if you’d like to come along with me — I’ll be learning about South African history + sharing my thoughts on apartheid & the fight for freedom in SA, Palestine & the USA
This very polite attack on ICE and Noem is still eons more than most democrat reps are doing right now. Thank you, Congresswoman.
What happened today on Chicago’s Southeast Side was shameful. ICE’s behavior demands accountability, and Secretary Noem has shown she’s unfit to lead. Time for her to go.
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"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."

- Miss Major, 2023 💔
So excited about this!
New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues.
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THE
WRONG
PEOPLE
ARE
DYING
The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.