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Jackie Goldman (they/them)🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌹 @jackiegoldman.bsky.social · 3d

I'm 5'0 and proud of it

Jackie Goldman (they/them)🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌹 @jackiegoldman.bsky.social · 3d

I PRd my 5k and got to chat with one of the people I saw on the train. The correct link is here, the event is 200k short of raising 2 million: getinvolved.unrwausa.org/fundraiser/6...

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Jackie Goldman (they/them)🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌹 @jackiegoldman.bsky.social · 3d

getinvolved.unrwausa.org/fundraiser/6...

2025 NYC Gaza 5K

getinvolved.unrwausa.org

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Jackie Goldman (they/them)🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌹 @jackiegoldman.bsky.social · 3d

It's so cool to be on a subway at 730am and see a handful of people all heading to the UNRWA fundraiser 5k. There is still time donate. Palestine still needs our money and our solidarity: getinvolved.unrwausa.org/fundraiser/6...

getinvolved.unrwausa.org

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Philip Eil @phileil.bsky.social · 7d

Good reporting from the ProJo's Kathy Gregg:

"Six Rhode Island lawmakers took an expense-paid trip to Israel in September, following a trip there earlier this year by Lt. Gov. Sabina Matos that has now drawn some flak."

These RI lawmakers took an expenses-paid trip to Israel during the Gaza offensive

Six Rhode Island lawmakers were invited by Israel to attend the "50 States, One Israel" trip, with expenses paid by the Israeli government.

www.providencejournal.com

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Philip Eil @phileil.bsky.social · 7d

Kathy's piece mentions @jackiegoldman.bsky.social's recent op-ed criticizing Matos's trip. A quote: "it strikes me as hypocritical for Lt. Governor Matos to talk about food deserts in Rhode Island while supporting a political regime that is imposing famine conditions on millions of people."

Lt. Gov. Matos' stance on Israel, hunger in RI a contradiction | Opinion

The writer lauds Lt. Gov. Sabina Matos and her campaign against food deserts in Rhode Island, but is disappointed by her visit to Israel, which has blocked humanitarian aid to Palestinians.

www.providencejournal.com

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Sam Bell @samuelwbell.bsky.social · 10d

Great op-ed by @jackiegoldman.bsky.social. While I support @sabinamatos.bsky.social’s work on hunger and food deserts, her Israel views have long been problematic. With the famine in Gaza, backing up the Netanyahu regime in yet another trip to Israel is especially irresponsible. t.co/mv4OFjzEZJ

https://www.providencejournal.com/story/opinion/columns/2025/10/04/lt-gov-matos-stance-on-israel-hunger-in-ri-a-contradiction-opinion/86168337007/

t.co

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 14d

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Jackie Goldman (they/them)🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌹 @jackiegoldman.bsky.social · 14d

G'mar chatima tova, may you have a safe and meaningful fast and may you be inscribed in the Book of Life. May this Yom Kippur give you the spiritual grounding you need for the many fights for liberation ahead. If you.need a place to celebrate Yom Kippur, I'm helping lead these services:

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Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · 15d

Some #PVDlocal/#RIlocal neighborly actions for you. Sometimes with a fundraiser, I think, "Am I glad people are doing this thing? Yes. Could *I* do it? No? Then let me kick in." neighborlyactions.substack.com/p/neighborly...

Neighborly Actions to Hold Up Our Heads

Close your Microsoft account for Palestine, dance your pants off to help shelter youth, and put some teeth in a ban on police-ICE cooperation.

neighborlyactions.substack.com

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Jackie Goldman (they/them)🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌹 @jackiegoldman.bsky.social · 15d

Yom Kippur/sweeping authoritarianism anxiety had me up early today and I logged on to work at 5:40. But at least my coworker is comforting.

A black cat named Frisbee is sitting on a blanket on the poster's lap.

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Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · 16d

Let's testify for our neighbors who can't safely do so. The proposed changes to the current ordinance are here: council.providenceri.gov/wp-content/u...

council.providenceri.gov

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Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · 16d

#PVDlocal: The Mayor's promises that PPD won't cooperate with ICE have proved empty. On 10/6, City Council's holding a hearing that could lead to a prohibition on police-ICE cooperation, as well as some protections for schools & courts. Get your testimony ready. 10/6, 5:30pm, City Hall, 3rd floor

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Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · 16d

As per uzh, watching someone's kid so that person can go, giving someone a ride, delivering someone's testimony for them are all legit forms of community participation

Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · 16d

#PVDlocal: The Mayor's promises that PPD won't cooperate with ICE have proved empty. On 10/6, City Council's holding a hearing that could lead to a prohibition on police-ICE cooperation, as well as some protections for schools & courts. Get your testimony ready. 10/6, 5:30pm, City Hall, 3rd floor

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16d

"We are asking the Department of War to deploy to our cities" should be a statement that ends any Governor's political career.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16d

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry: "Tonight, we're sending the Department of War a request to send the National Guard, asking them to deploy the National Guard here in Louisiana into our cities like New Orleans and Baton Rogue and others."

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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 15d

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 18d

Happening now: at the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago, Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino and other CBP/ICE agents emerge to patrol Beach Street and escort a vehicle out.

They ordered people out of the street, walked to the end of it and then back to the fence.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 18d

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18d

Jesus Christ, how are you so unbelievably bad at this?

A deeply unpopular president is recklessly destroying our government, wrecking our democracy, covering up pedophilia and now threatening to use military force against our own citizens but you're tsk-tsking about protecting healthcare?

Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 18d

The Trump administration’s threat to deploy troops in Portland is unlawful.

Here’s a thought.

Focus on protecting the healthcare of the American people.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20d

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets.

• Joy Reid
• Don Lemon
• Melissa Harris-Perry
• Tiffany Cross
• Jemele Hill
• Marc Lamont Hill
• Karen Attiah
• Amber Ruffin

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 27d

Every time I feel like I know a lot about the rise of fascism in Germany, I learn something new.

Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 27d

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?"

Turns out, mom was right.

Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime

Feb. 4, 1939

February 4, 1939, Page 1

BERLIN, Feb. 3.—Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels today ended the professional careers of five "Aryan" actors and cabaret announcers by expelling them from the Reich's Chamber of Culture on the grounds that “in their public appearances they displayed a lack of any positive attitude toward National Socialism and therewith caused grave annoyance in public and especially to party comrades.” The five include perhaps the best known German stage comedians who survived previous Chamber of Culture purges and still dared to indulge in political witticisms—namely, Werner Finck, Peter Sachse and “The Three Rulands,” represented by Helmuth Buth, Wilhelm Meissner and Manfred Dlugi. Their expulsion means that they are henceforth forbidden to appear before the public in Germany.

Besides motivating this action in an official communiqué, Dr. Goebbels also publishes a long article in the Voelkischer Beobachter in which he denounces them as “brazen, impertinent, arrogant and tactless" and generally imitators and successors to Jews. Simultaneously he denounces the "society rabble that followed them with thundering applause—parasitic scum, inhabiting our luxury streets, that seems to have only the task of proving with how little brains people can get along and even acquire money and prominence."

As regards the details of the "crimes" of which the five are accused, Dr. Goebbels mentions that they made political witticisms about the colonial problem, the Four-Year Plan and Chancellor Hitler's monumental building program and one of them even raised the question of whether there was any humor left in Germany today.

What amused the public most, however, and presumably roiled the National Socialist authorities most—although Dr. Goebbels does not mention it—is that they deftly, but unmistakably, caricatured some gestures, poses and physical characteristics of Nat…

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 27d

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative.

The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

Map of Regional Public Health Coalitions

Northeast Public Health Collaborative (Blue)

West Coast Health Alliance (Yellow)

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Jackie Goldman (they/them)🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌹 @jackiegoldman.bsky.social · 27d

I think we're already there, it's just going to get worse and we can't stop fighting back

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Tiara Mack @mackdistrict6.bsky.social · 27d

The goal is to keep us silent.

Make talking about slavery taboo, so it can be repeated.

Make condemning hate speech an attack on their idol.

Make people afraid to speak, even rich powerful white men, and you control what gets covered.

Democracy dies in darkness.

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Jackie Goldman (they/them)🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌹 @jackiegoldman.bsky.social · 27d

This is my yearly reminder to check what holidays are happening before booking meetings/events. There are those of us who are not Christian who shouldn't have to choose between religious obligations and our jobs

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