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Hey Craftivists 🧶 especially those in the Northeast:
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A Brief History of Halloween Isn’t Fun Anymore

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Why Zohran Mamdani’s Policies Upset Me - a Washington Post article by Lex Luthor, Emperor Palpatine and Sauron
Bumping this 🧵 for my people, the extremely online Friday night crowd who loves to support mutual aid 🫶🏻
I know many of us want to help our friends and neighbors in need, especially since so many in government have abandoned their responsibility to the people they're sworn to serve.

I invite you to give to Project Hajra in this time of great need.

tinyurl.com/project-hajra-collaborators
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I’m thinking through a bunch of thoughts on the collapse and rebuild of our healthcare system and this will be long but stick with me (1/?)
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“Free, free, free, but you the taxpayer are going to pay for it”

Yes. That is what I am doing now. Inefficiently. I’m pulling that money out of my pocket and paying for it. I would much prefer the money I pay to New York’s government to be spent on it instead.
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That’s the kind of kneejerk dismissive advice that makes me violent. Telling people to just grow their own food is tantamount to telling them to eat cake.
On Threads, the usual suspects are telling ppl about to lose SNAP benefits to just start a garden. As a gardener, I had to laugh. You need at LEAST an acre of land to feed a family of 4. Start-up costs are enormous. But yes, subsistence farming on the balcony of your rental apartment is the answer
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Looking at both how Democrats reacted to Gillibrand calling Mamdani a jihadist and how Starmer reacted to Trump calling Sadiq Khan a terrorist has basically confirmed to me that none of the Anglo center left thinks Islamophobia is bad
Semicolons, serial commas, and em dashes are the holy trinity of punctuation. Folks who splice commas and hyphenate for pauses blaspheme at their peril.
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I read that the only way we will get through the loss of SNAP is through community support. People are sending me WishLists for food and other needs. Feel free to send me your own and I will share them.

THIS IS THE THREAD WHERE I WILL SHARE REQUESTS.

Please repost.

#MutualAid
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I am increasingly concerned that we do not have a clear eyed understanding of how bad things are about to become with SNAP (and WIC?) benefits disappearing in 8 days. Our neighbors who rely on SNAP are food insecure *with* it. Without it, we are heading into a true crisis.
Yes yes yes!

Appreciate you always, Laura ❤️‍🔥
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Two things can be true at the same time: neither charities nor mutual aid groups have the capacity to completely replace SNAP benefits for November, *and* we should still do as much as we can to feed people and save lives.
Project Hajra also offers crisis funds to members in times of need. This is one of those times.

As SNAP is cut around the country, families
experiencing the trauma of state violence through direct threats and actions are now faced with institutional neglect.

Please give what you are able.
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Project Hajra members work to build a world in which all our needs are met and where we treat each other with care instead of punishment.

"We feed and house and heal each other. We learn together."

Your donations of any amount toward this justice-building vision are welcome.
Donate to Project Hajra - Allied Media Projects
Thank you for becoming a Project Hajra collaborator! Along with collective effort, your contribution will help us build the just world we all deserve. One-time…Read more
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Project Hajra provides peer-led support, by and for Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian (AMEMSA) survivors of state and interpersonal violence. Their work grows from survivor-led gender justice programs, offering community-based alternatives to mainstream crisis response.
I know many of us want to help our friends and neighbors in need, especially since so many in government have abandoned their responsibility to the people they're sworn to serve.

I invite you to give to Project Hajra in this time of great need.

tinyurl.com/project-hajra-collaborators
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many people are saying
We have always been what we are now.
SCOTUS just allowed Alabama's execution of Anthony Boyd:
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Justice Sotomayor wrote this vivid dissent blasting AL for using the method of nitrogen gas.

@laurengill.bsky.social's reporting from an AL execution shows you why: boltsmag.org/alabama-nitr...
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Because this is the appropriate energy. I will dismantle everything he does...
I don't care about the East wing demolition. I do wonder if there will ever be an opposition party politician who will say if you put me in power I will demolish whatever he creates.
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We can define gentrifiers as the people literally moving into the neighborhood, or we can attend to root causes and define gentrifiers as the market-makers driving up housing prices by fighting organizers' attempts to make housing a human right. One way scapegoats; the other names our real enemies.
Adams called Mamdani's base of support "gentrifiers" and said a heckler who supported Mamdani had the "energy of a gentrifier."

"This is the nasty attitude of many of Zohran’s supporters,” Adams said. “What she needs to do is shut up and let us finish.”

www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/23/a...
Mayor Adams Endorses Cuomo, Who He Once Called a ‘Snake and a Liar’
Outgoing mayor backs Cuomo, mocks Mamdani as “king of the gentrifiers.”
www.thecity.nyc
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NEW: The Empower+ program, an energy affordability program, is set to lose more than half its funding by 2027.

Climate advocates wearing Halloween costumes and carrying buckets of candy pressed Hochul's administration to shore up funding.
Climate Advocates ‘Haunt’ State Meeting, Demanding Energy Efficiency…
Governor Kathy Hochul has yet to indicate whether, or how, New York might plug a funding hole for Empower+, a key energy affordability program.
nysfocus.com