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TransLash Media @translash.org · 20h

We honor the legacy of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a fierce protector of our collective freedom. Our hearts are with her loved ones and all who carry her vision forward.

"We will honor Miss Major forever." - @imarajones.bsky.social

An illustration of Miss Major surrounded by candles with blue background and a famous quote of hers written in gold. The quote reads“I don’t need their permission to exist; I exist in spite of them. I want you to train and teach and love on and create families within my community and gender non-conforming people, so that we can understand that we have a culture, we have a history, we have a reason to be here. We have a purpose. We’re entitled to be loved, and seek happiness, and share that with the people that we care about.” -Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

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Alex H. Nagler @nagler.bsky.social · 20h

This sentiment, the "we do not demobilize" is what this campaign needs to preach from here on out. Getting the work done is going to require EFFORT. Taking the campaign's infrastructure and applying it to advocacy and political pressure will be crucial - mobilization is the right word.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 20h

"After we win in November, we do not demobilize. The rich and corporate interests who tried to buy this election with the millions they stole from our pockets will want to see us fail.

We won’t let them." - Chi Ossé

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Mary Holzman-Tweed @mareht.bsky.social · 1d

"Fascism is a moral error, not an intellectual one" needs to be shouted from the rooftops. I have 3/4 of a philosophy degree from a wildly strange, now defunct school (Shimer College, do not get me started) and holy shit, the things I heard there...

Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 1d

Heidegger, Pound, Webern, Jung all supported the Nazis.

fascism is a moral error, not an intellectual one. being educated isn't a prophylactic.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

Most of these people are deeply trained, or at least highly educated, in humanities. Knowing isn’t being.

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Matthew Kressel @matthewkressel.net · 2d

A spooky fun night was had this October 8th, with guests Leanna Renee Hieber & Shveta Thakrar. Mercurio D. Rivera subbed for Ellen. Here are Mercurio and Matt’s photos from the event.

@leannareneehieber.bsky.social @shvetathakrar.com @mercuriodrivera.bsky.social @datlow.bsky.social

Leanna Renee Hieber & Shveta Thakrar at the KGB Bar, holding up their books, illuminated by candlelight.

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 2d

There’s a ruby crowned kinglet in the garden & its tiny needlesong voice is doing small embroideries on my heart

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 2d

@shingai-be-like.bsky.social wins the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Novelette for WE WHO WILL NOT DIE
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2025 Winner Outstanding Novelette: WE WHO WILL NOT DIE by Shingai Njeri Kagunda

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Charlotte Strawbridge @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social · 3d

In crimson, orange and bronze, autumn had arrived.
Fox had spent a rather enjoyable morning searching for the perfect collection of leaves.
She'd finally found it.
With a joyful soul and playful heart, she jumped.
In one fine leap, she pounced to catch her shadow.

#Autumn

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Mary Holzman-Tweed @mareht.bsky.social · 2d

Sydette has been going through some really hard times, and at the same time working harder than hell to hold others, to analyze and disperse critical information, and otherwise just be an overall amazing human being. Everything helps, and take a look at @unbreaking.org.

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · Apr 10

Welp it’s gotten real real if you can please help. If you can’t it’s really hard out here so share

gofund.me/a5ee0064

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

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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🪱𝔼𝕟𝕠𝕔𝕙🪱 @oddoblivion.bsky.social · 3d

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Michael W. Twitty @koshersoul.bsky.social · 3d

Hi everyone! #RecipesfromtheAmericanSouth is here. Please support by spreading the word! www.phaidon.com/en-us/produc...

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 3d

The problem with “virtue signaling” as a rhetorical framework was always that it pressed you not toward deeper and more sincere acts of virtue, but away from goodness as a goal at all.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

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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ever-turning 🥀 @asmilingmoon.bsky.social · 3d

forever, you will lose yourself. forever, you will find yourself again. you are ariadne, you are the maze, you are following a red thread back to yourself.

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Mary Holzman-Tweed @mareht.bsky.social · 4d

This does SO MUCH. 1. People are suffering. People are having trouble staying sober, trouble staying ALIVE, trouble getting out of bed. If this gives them a spark of joy, that is a generous gift. 2. It's fabulous narrative driving. 3. Opsec! Can't see a face, that's a little bit of safety.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 4d

This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses

so yes, this does do something actually

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This literally does nothing. You are not beating fascism by dressing up in inflatable suits and dancing

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Portland is leading the way. This is how you (non violently) beat Fascism. Humor and ridicule are key.

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Mary Holzman-Tweed @mareht.bsky.social · 4d

I still get a big smile when I think about the last line!

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 4d

What middle and upper class cis het white people need to understand is that they only have as many rights as the most vulnerable do. You have only the rights trans people and immigrants do.

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 4d

Do you really have any rights if they are openly saying they will just make up reasons to detain you?

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 6d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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Mary Holzman-Tweed @mareht.bsky.social · 4d

Ma'am, have you seen what is going on in the world? I'm with Sherman, falling into a hole and just staying there feels like the right choice for a bit.

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 4d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 4d

I need the reaper to clock in and get to work

soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 5d

there’s something so beautifully American about our democracy’s last line of defense being coronary artery disease

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Evening House Books @eveninghouse.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you to @leannareneehieber.bsky.social for the INCREDIBLE event and book signing tonight. Leanna is a force of nature, making dark history come alive through a passionate understanding and appreciation of the gothic tradition. Thank you Leanna & thank you to everyone who took part tonight ❤️

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Mary Holzman-Tweed @mareht.bsky.social · 4d

@juliajoyce.bsky.social, was it you who told me about it? You're the cause of about 60% of my TBR...

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Mary Holzman-Tweed @mareht.bsky.social · 4d

#booksky I need your help. Someone a while ago told me about a novel coming out inspired by the heist from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum - the weirdest, honestly funniest, and still unsolved art heist ever. I can't recall the title/author. I NEED this book! Help?

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Mary Holzman-Tweed @mareht.bsky.social · 5d

Consideration? In *this* economy?!

Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 5d

Reader, prepare yourself: there is every chance the girl will not pause to consider.

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 5d

"It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses." - Charles de Lint

Photograph: Lottie, a young brown spaniel, on a path through the green and rust and golden magic of the Devon hills.

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Mary Holzman-Tweed @mareht.bsky.social · 5d

Houston.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 6d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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