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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 9h

We had Angela Davis speak at my university a couple of years back. One of the many insightful things she said - protest in the way that aligns with your passion. If that’s poetry do poetry or music etc. Because then you will be able to sustain it. If naked bike rides are your passion, 100% do that.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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Megan Piontkowski illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 2d

Spanish "How to Report ICE" zines now available:

#Chicago
#Florida
#LosAngeles
#Marin County, CA
#Massachusetts
#NewYork
#Philadelphia
#Portland
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#SanFrancisco
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Zines en Español - Google Drive

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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 10h

Good evening #BookSky Well, #BannedBooksWeek may be wrapping up but the fight for the right to read continues. Here's a quick thread of things you can do all year to help...

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 1d

Like, there is some dude getting ready for a hinge date who spent his week zip-tying children

Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 1d

There is a 0% chance there is a conspiracy but it is a damn odd coincidence that we are seeing this surge in Dramione novels at the exact moment when 1000s of white dudes are kidnapping people or protecting kidnappers or just generally doing Nazi shit while also demanding for affection from women

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 1d

it would probably be sorta hard for just anyone to do it *this well* because it requires you to actually be normal about trans people, but still it feels important to state for the record that WE ARE NOT HARD TO STAND UP FOR AND ANY OF THEM COULD DO IT.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 1d

There is a 0% chance there is a conspiracy but it is a damn odd coincidence that we are seeing this surge in Dramione novels at the exact moment when 1000s of white dudes are kidnapping people or protecting kidnappers or just generally doing Nazi shit while also demanding for affection from women

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, obviously one is me, but I'm really digging it!

Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 1d

We just need you to know that a number of people besides booksellers here have bought Schattenfroh. That number is 1, but it's still a number of people. portersquarebooks.com/book/9781646...

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 1d

I know, I know but it will always be shocking to me how much of the media let a party that frequently says "Hollywood elites" & uses Sorosn as a boogeyman leverage any kind of claim to fight antisemitism

Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 2d

They make up lies about paid agitators doing violence, and attach them to the name of a prominent Jewish person. This is antisemitism, and it infects every part of the GOP.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.

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Find Me A Therapist

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 2d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2d

you guys if you only listen to me once this year: this is the book

LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 2d

NEW 📗!

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements (@ravineangel.bsky.social)

In which a trans woman discovers porn of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil

"The year's great work of literary horror."
—Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable.bsky.social)

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements — Debut trans horror — LittlePuss Press

"The best book I've read in years." —Gretchen Felker-Martin

www.littlepuss.net

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2d

If the Dems bail out a guy who is firing furloughed workers while he has his ballroom built on the taxpayers dollar and is sending 20B to Argentina and constructing an air base for Qatar in Idaho during the shutdown

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Alan Mygatt-Tauber @amtappeals.bsky.social · 2d

This is why there can be no deals. Make the GOP pass their own bill. Or get resignations in exchange for votes. (And make sure the resignations come first!)

Congresswoman Gwen Moore @repgwenmoore.bsky.social · 2d

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

The fact that they are still doing the "Soros-paid protestors" bit is just an incredible testimony to the durability of certain tropes to negate the popular will, regardless of the lack of evidence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 2d

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d

If your best option is a 70 or 80 something who has been in office for a long time, you are failing to cultivate longevity for your party

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone is peeling, seeding, chopping, & freezing the last of their cucumbers to use as ingredients in homemade juices this winter, right? Cause a lot of beet/apple etc juice recipes have cucumbers & you don't want to be out!

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 2d

It's gonna be tough. Now the entire debate shifts from presenting a positive vision to unseat Collins to all sorts of "electability" stuff and generational conflict & such

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Amitha Jagannath Knight @amitha.bsky.social · 2d

MIT course 7 alum. Despite having MIT alum family members and in laws, I have not donated to MIT in a long time for various reasons but esp after their treatment of student protestors, but I might reconsider at this moment when we need them to continue to stand up to this admin's war on science.

Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 2d

Some good news! Ideally this will inspire the others to reject the bogus contract as well. If you're in the MIT community, let 'em know they did the right thing.

MIT becomes first school to reject proposed ‘compact’ with Trump administration - The Boston Globe

MIT president Sally Kornbluth said the university’s practices already “meet or exceed” the federal government’s list of demands.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 2d

"mansion boy" is an astounding thing for a guy worth $10 million to say

Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 2d

[Me, a poor, on the subway, glowering jealously at all those fat cat, fancy pants rich people on the public bus]

Andrew Cuomo tweet:

@ZohranKMamdani's "plan" provides no relief for working families who take the subway, and unnecessary benefits to wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus and can afford the fare.

I focus on working families, while @ZohranKMamdani the mansion boy focuses on helping the rich.

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 2d

I would feel a lot differently about this if Mills had declared 3-6 months ago bc I think she'll crush Collins. But to wait until after a younger, overtly left-leaning candidate has started gaining traction is frustrating. THIS is the "infighting" that's actually hurting the Democrats

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Does this generation of politicians not know they’re allowed to retire?

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

(AP) — Maine’s two-term Democratic Gov. Janet Mills will run for the U.S. Senate seat held by veteran Republican Sen. Susan Collins next year, according to two people familiar ..

@apnews.com #MEgov
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 2d

Some good news! Ideally this will inspire the others to reject the bogus contract as well. If you're in the MIT community, let 'em know they did the right thing.

MIT becomes first school to reject proposed ‘compact’ with Trump administration - The Boston Globe

MIT president Sally Kornbluth said the university’s practices already “meet or exceed” the federal government’s list of demands.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 2d

Right!?!?! I was just thinking, "What did you say to your editor before you turned this in?"

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 4d

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

COWARDS!!!!!!!!!!!

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 4d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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