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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 5d

"Over the weekend of September 27–28, 11 unhoused people were detained in Logan Square."

"[S]ocial invisibility and isolation already faced by people experiencing homelessness make their disappearances harder to track."
#Illinois #USA #Housing #Incarceration #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Make It Make Sense: ICE targets Chicago’s homeless community

Plus: state and local leaders crack down on anti-ICE protesters and advocates ask the chief judge to keep ICE out of county courthouses.

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SN Désirée Cha @sndesireecha.bsky.social · 1d

27. Saleh Al-Jafarawi. Journalist. Bright light. He should still be alive. All Palestinians have the right to live beyond age 27, to thrive. Tonight, I grieve him and all of the journalists killed in the ongoing genocide. There are no words. Saleh, this world failed you.

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Saleh Al-Jafarawi has been murdered in Al-Sabra neighborhood in Gaza #gaza #shorts

YouTube video by Wear The Peace

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 6h

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Iced Out - PopularResistance.Org

An Indigenous nation of fewer than 1,000 people in South Florida, the Miccosukee Tribe doesn’t often get involved in local politics. But then private contractors showed up to an abandoned airport and ...

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The Onion @theonion.com · 8h

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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SN Désirée Cha @sndesireecha.bsky.social · 9h

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A Father Cares for His Ill Son | Caregiving

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K. W. Knight @kwknight.bsky.social · Aug 13

Here is the link for Désirée's GoFundMe.

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K. W. Knight @kwknight.bsky.social · Aug 13

We're facing the incarceration of homeless people in many cities. Even absent that, it's horribly dangerous, it's exhausting, and it's harder to get back into housing once it's happened. Please help out Désirée before she too is out there. 💙💙💙

SN Désirée Cha @sndesireecha.bsky.social · Aug 10

I don't think people understand how executive function taxing it is to be homeless.

To be homeless is to be a hunted animal.

SN Désirée Cha @sndesireecha.bsky.social · Aug 8

“The impact of constantly trying to control the fight, flight or freeze that poverty evokes is way under-discussed.”

—Gabrielle Peters, 10 May 2025
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SN Désirée Cha @sndesireecha.bsky.social · 1d

“It's been 20 years since then, but the worst part was the feeling of nowhereness. You don't belong anywhere. I remember when I finally got a room rented and laid down in a bed that was mine to lie down in it was better than eating when you were starving.”

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SN Désirée Cha @sndesireecha.bsky.social · 7d

we are homeless and fundraising for survival and certificate of citizenship.

please share. please help.
gofund.me/deec2a49d

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SN Désirée Cha @sndesireecha.bsky.social · 25d

We’ll be on the streets on 9/28.

In the meantime, please help a dog and her human by boosting our fundraiser and helping us prepare for being unsheltered homeless. Thank you.

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Living-in-car wishlist: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

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SN Désirée Cha @sndesireecha.bsky.social · 11h

still here.

An East Asian woman with long black hair is seated, wearing black glasses, a black KN-95 mask, and wearing all black. She looks directly at the camera.

A small white and black dog sits on a tile floor beneath a couch edge and a coffee table and looks back at her human. The dog has a cute underbite and big satellite ears.

SN Désirée Cha @sndesireecha.bsky.social · 1d

“It's been 20 years since then, but the worst part was the feeling of nowhereness. You don't belong anywhere. I remember when I finally got a room rented and laid down in a bed that was mine to lie down in it was better than eating when you were starving.”

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SN Désirée Cha @sndesireecha.bsky.social · Aug 25

still have no idea where to go if / when car is legally drivable, insured, mechanically looked over.

the rage and terror i feel at the institutional abandonment of poor people and those most vulnerable is often overwhelming. people watch and do nothing while others die. it is not a good world.

SN Désirée Cha @sndesireecha.bsky.social · Aug 24

it really does feel like i don't deserve to be alive if i can't afford housing or even a used car to live in.

it feels terrifying, bleak, and familiar.

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🌸Bibi🌸♿ (formerly bibicosplays) @bibiblossoms.bsky.social · Aug 27

An ESA dog and her human need your help with a living-in-car wishlist. Any donations will help as they prepare for unsheltered car homelessness in 6 days.

Please boost and share. It means a lot. Thank you for considering.

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Donate to Help First Gen Immigrant Get Documents, Survive Homelessness, organized by Sam Dylan Finch

Dear community, The story of what my friend has endured i… Sam Dylan Finch needs your support for Help First Gen Immigrant Get Documents, Survive Homelessness

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SN Désirée Cha @sndesireecha.bsky.social · Sep 2

i really need a strong hug from a friend.

i really need to be around people who care about me.
i need in-person time hanging out with a friend/s.

i cannot access any of those things.
i am tired of tech-mediated human interactions.
8 months of isolation.

it is killing me.

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SN Désirée Cha @sndesireecha.bsky.social · Aug 12

"It’s incredibly frustrating if not insane and ultimately dangerous for intercountry adopted people ... when they cannot get basic documents to prove they are lawfully in the United States."

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SN Désirée Cha @sndesireecha.bsky.social · Aug 29

“Capitalism has too many folks convinced they're inherently better or worthy / more entitled to joy and pleasure because their circumstances allow them to rent an apartment or secure a mortgage. Homelessness is where their left leaning begins to look rightish.”

—Dana White, 3 July 2020

Dana White at ItsDanaWhite tweet reads:

“Capitalism has too many folks convinced they're inherently better or worthy / more entitled to joy and pleasure because their circumstances allow them to rent an apartment or secure a mortgage [or they live in their parents’ home or live in a home bought by their parents]. Homelessness is where their left leaning begins to look rightish.”

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SN Désirée Cha @sndesireecha.bsky.social · Aug 15

"I've said think before, but everyone one says that family is precious and irreplaceable unless you happen to be adopted and then people tell you that family is entirely interchangeable and replaceable and that you should be grateful for this."

—Dr. Lisa Munro

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💖💄 Aoife ♿💖 @aoiferocksitout.bsky.social · 15d

Please share everywhere!
Please help our friend @sndesireecha.bsky.social and her ESA survive!
Housing should be recognized as a human right but it is not!
Please help keep our community member alive!
If you can't help, please share!
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SN Désirée Cha @sndesireecha.bsky.social · 16d

We’ll be homeless on the streets tomorrow.

Please help a dog and her human by boosting our fundraiser and helping us prepare for being and when we become unsheltered homeless. Thank you.

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SN Désirée Cha @sndesireecha.bsky.social · 16d

We’ll be homeless on the streets tomorrow.

Please help a dog and her human by boosting our fundraiser and helping us prepare for being and when we become unsheltered homeless. Thank you.

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gofund.me/79b8c1580

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 1d

"There are not millions of deaths. It happens millions of times that someone dies."
- Etel Adnan, Sitt Marie Rose

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SN Désirée Cha @sndesireecha.bsky.social · 1d

This world is too cruel.

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Armed militias kill Palestinian journalist Saleh Al-Jafarawi in Gaza

YouTube video by Middle East Eye

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SN Désirée Cha @sndesireecha.bsky.social · 1d

27. Saleh Al-Jafarawi. Journalist. Bright light. He should still be alive. All Palestinians have the right to live beyond age 27, to thrive. Tonight, I grieve him and all of the journalists killed in the ongoing genocide. There are no words. Saleh, this world failed you.

youtube.com/shorts/FTfBJ...

Saleh Al-Jafarawi has been murdered in Al-Sabra neighborhood in Gaza #gaza #shorts

YouTube video by Wear The Peace

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SN Désirée Cha @sndesireecha.bsky.social · 1d

Saleh Al-Jafarawi

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Keidra @kdc.bsky.social · 4d

Going to the library in the summer and spending all day there

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 4d

10. What is your favorite childhood memory?

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