Robin
@robinv.bsky.social
Covid cautious, open border advocate, dog and cat lover, justice and peace , abolish police , against genocide
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I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Mohammed. Mohammed is 25 years old and before this worked in a market and a house goods store. At the beginning of the war his house was bombed and he lost 22 members of his family who were sheltering there. He is trying to save the survivors.
November 27, 2025 at 10:31 AM
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Mohammed. Mohammed is 25 years old and before this worked in a market and a house goods store. At the beginning of the war his house was bombed and he lost 22 members of his family who were sheltering there. He is trying to save the survivors.
Buddha and Dharma nap on the bed
November 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Buddha and Dharma nap on the bed
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Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
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There was a significant volcanic eruption in the Afar region of Ethiopia near the Erta Ale volcano today. METEOSAT-IODC weather satellite picked up imagery of the ash cloud moving east over the Red Sea and Yemen.
November 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
There was a significant volcanic eruption in the Afar region of Ethiopia near the Erta Ale volcano today. METEOSAT-IODC weather satellite picked up imagery of the ash cloud moving east over the Red Sea and Yemen.
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"Of the 15 largest individual tort claims paid out by the city in Fiscal Year 2024, 13 involved civil-rights claims tied to [DOC] and the NYPD ... The single biggest payout was $171.52 million for a DOC settlement stemming from the city's failure to promptly release people who had posted bail."
"Terrence told jail officials again and again that he'd been raped — five times."
"He filed reports, flagged officers and in two instances, pointed to video that seemed to back him up."
"Now, New York City is paying the 32-year-old $4 million to settle."
#NewYork #USA #Incarceration #Courts
"He filed reports, flagged officers and in two instances, pointed to video that seemed to back him up."
"Now, New York City is paying the 32-year-old $4 million to settle."
#NewYork #USA #Incarceration #Courts
City Pays $4M to Rikers Detainee After His Five Rape Claims Were Ignored
Despite multiple reports, surveillance footage and pleas for help, the Department of Correction brushed aside the allegations but has since settled lawsuits.
www.thecity.nyc
November 23, 2025 at 3:12 AM
"Of the 15 largest individual tort claims paid out by the city in Fiscal Year 2024, 13 involved civil-rights claims tied to [DOC] and the NYPD ... The single biggest payout was $171.52 million for a DOC settlement stemming from the city's failure to promptly release people who had posted bail."
mondoweiss.net/2025/11/the-...
This is so crazy, flouting every international law and the IN charter itself The genociders get rewarded and Palestinians are punished just for being born in a land wanted by others
This is so crazy, flouting every international law and the IN charter itself The genociders get rewarded and Palestinians are punished just for being born in a land wanted by others
The UN Embraces Colonialism: Unpacking the Security Council’s mandate for the U.S. colonial administration of Gaza
The Security Council’s backing of the Trump plan for Gaza ignores international law, punishes the Palestinians, and rewards those responsible for genocide.
mondoweiss.net
November 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
mondoweiss.net/2025/11/the-...
This is so crazy, flouting every international law and the IN charter itself The genociders get rewarded and Palestinians are punished just for being born in a land wanted by others
This is so crazy, flouting every international law and the IN charter itself The genociders get rewarded and Palestinians are punished just for being born in a land wanted by others
Our carceral state. It needs to stop
Most of us have no idea how bad it is inside ICE detention centers because they have kept it hidden. Then a truth teller shows up and says it plain.
The conditions are filthy. The treatment is inhumane. The abuse is Systematic and routine.
The conditions are filthy. The treatment is inhumane. The abuse is Systematic and routine.
November 19, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Our carceral state. It needs to stop
Buddha surveys paradise
November 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Buddha surveys paradise
It’s been hard to know what’s happening in DC too
ICE has been raiding my neighborhood and surrounding ones for the last couple of weeks now. They commandeered my local church (against the pastor's will) for a staging site and raided supermarkets, parks, Goodwills, bus stops, you name it.
The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.
The national media's been silent. So has @mayor.lacity.gov.
Engagement on our updates re: ICE kidnappings/fed siege of Los Angeles is significantly lower on Bluesky compared to Twitter. Do ppl on here not care about LA anymore? Are feeds being taken over by liberal commentators? What's going on?
Community members on the ground can't do it all. We need help.
Community members on the ground can't do it all. We need help.
November 19, 2025 at 1:42 AM
It’s been hard to know what’s happening in DC too
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Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks:
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
November 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks:
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
Something applicable across the country and I’m afraid hard to get across to people is to stop believing that the police are going to help. It’s really important to understand that the police are not your friend and will not protect the community
The federal blitz moved to Charlotte, but the trauma and damage in Chicago are still with us—and DHS says 1,000 agents will hit our streets in March. I wrote about what this moment demands of us: care, clarity, and preparation.
What Now, Chicago? Regrouping After Midway Blitz
Let’s make this a winter of fortification, of learning, and bonding together like the winter snow that federal agents are so afraid of.
organizingmythoughts.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Something applicable across the country and I’m afraid hard to get across to people is to stop believing that the police are going to help. It’s really important to understand that the police are not your friend and will not protect the community
Um.. this is kind of scary. I don’t think it’s normal to grow up wanting to hunt people
"top border patrol official was so inspired by hunting magazines that he vowed to hunt immigrants" is really...something.
oh ok
November 17, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Um.. this is kind of scary. I don’t think it’s normal to grow up wanting to hunt people
A wonderful tribute.
"Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend"
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend
Though we were in frequent conversation for a decade, I only got to meet my friend Alice Wong in person just once. And when I did, I was a bundle of nerves—and that was before she cussed me out wi…
lithub.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:27 PM
A wonderful tribute.
Help if you can
615 of the estimated 3,000+ detained immigrants who were kidnapped in Chicagoland during Midway Blitz are expected to be eligible for bond this week. The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund shows up for people in detention who need bond, but it costs, at minimum, $1,500 per person. Pls help them.
A Midwest Bond Fund Is Helping Detained Chicago Immigrants Return To Their Families
The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund launched in 2020 to provide bond assistance to people navigating the complex immigration legal system. That mission has become more difficult under the second Trump a...
blockclubchicago.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Help if you can
I didn’t know this was happening till I saw this article but I used to drive on BW parkway every morning and I can’t imagine the chaos a disruption this is causing. Leave these hard working people alone!
NEW—US Park Police w/ DHS officers near DC are increasingly pulling over Black and brown men, leaving their work vans on the side of the parkway + immediately calling a local towing company to take them. Families who just lost their breadwinner are stuck with the bill.
@melbuer.bsky.social reports:
@melbuer.bsky.social reports:
Families of DC-area immigrant drivers snatched by feds stuck with tow bill
Elected officials and activists note work vehicles removed lightning fast, resulting in hundreds in fees.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I didn’t know this was happening till I saw this article but I used to drive on BW parkway every morning and I can’t imagine the chaos a disruption this is causing. Leave these hard working people alone!
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💔 Alice Wong’s last words: “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”
We can never thank Alice enough for fighting all the good fights and especially all the hard fights. We all learned so much from your brilliance, your courage, and your indefatigable leadership. We will never forget you.
We can never thank Alice enough for fighting all the good fights and especially all the hard fights. We all learned so much from your brilliance, your courage, and your indefatigable leadership. We will never forget you.
November 15, 2025 at 6:53 PM
💔 Alice Wong’s last words: “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”
We can never thank Alice enough for fighting all the good fights and especially all the hard fights. We all learned so much from your brilliance, your courage, and your indefatigable leadership. We will never forget you.
We can never thank Alice enough for fighting all the good fights and especially all the hard fights. We all learned so much from your brilliance, your courage, and your indefatigable leadership. We will never forget you.
The insanity of targeting anyone that advocates for Palestinian life..
Richard Falk "was detained and interrogated for several hours along with his wife, legal scholar Hilal Elver, as the pair entered Canada for a conference focused on [Canada's] complicity with Israel's genocide in Gaza."
#Canada #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Education #Transportation #Policing #Genocide
#Canada #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Education #Transportation #Policing #Genocide
'National Security Threat'? 95-Year-Old Human Rights Scholar Richard Falk Interrogated for Hours by Canada
"Clearly, the international repression of the Palestinian cause knows no bounds."
www.commondreams.org
November 16, 2025 at 1:01 AM
The insanity of targeting anyone that advocates for Palestinian life..
An inspiration, I didn’t know her personally but what she wrote that I read was courageous and her fights to help Gaza and disability advocacy…
Alice Wong's obituary in the WaPo.
Last year, she wrote, "I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, and full of love."
All of those things, surely.
www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
Last year, she wrote, "I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, and full of love."
All of those things, surely.
www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
Alice Wong, disability rights advocate and wordsmith, dies at 51
Alice Wong, a transformational leader for disability rights and justice, who founded the Disability Visibility project to magnify disabled culture, died Nov. 14.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:58 AM
An inspiration, I didn’t know her personally but what she wrote that I read was courageous and her fights to help Gaza and disability advocacy…
Israel is a monstrous state
This year's West Bank olive harvest will produce at most 10,000 tons of olives, less than a tenth of the decade's average, as severe drought combines with settler violence to prevent farmers from reaching their groves
@nirhasson.bsky.social
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
@nirhasson.bsky.social
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Drought and settler violence make 2025 West Bank olive harvest worst in living memory
This Year's Olive Harvest Will Not Exceed 10,000 Tons – Less Than a Tenth of the Average Over the Past Decade, According to the Palestinian Olive Council's Estimate. Unlike in Israel, Palestinian Oliv...
www.haaretz.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Israel is a monstrous state
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If you're a professor at Texas A&M, you'll need to receive written authorization from the university president before discussing this incident on campus.
November 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
If you're a professor at Texas A&M, you'll need to receive written authorization from the university president before discussing this incident on campus.
A great resource
web.archive.org/web/20241122...
Alice Wong's Teen Vogue articles were archived before their removal, for anyone looking.
Alice Wong's Teen Vogue articles were archived before their removal, for anyone looking.
Disability Visibility - Latest
Get the latest on Disability Visibility from Teen Vogue. Find articles, slideshows and more.
web.archive.org
November 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
A great resource
Help if you can, sharing helps as well
I usually share a new Palestinian account every day but today I am going to do a thread of people I’ve already verified impacted by the recent flooding in Gaza. If you can help any of these families- many who lost everything again- please do. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/14/m...
Heavy rainfall floods the camps of displaced Palestinians in Gaza | CNN
Displaced Palestinians in Gaza woke up Friday morning to inches of water flooding their tents, after heavy rainfall overnight left their shelters and belongings soaked with no way to dry them out.
edition.cnn.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Help if you can, sharing helps as well
Dharma, hanging out with me in the backyard
November 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Dharma, hanging out with me in the backyard