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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 3h

OK seeing this guy with his Vader helmet off is like knowing Pedro Pascal is being hidden inside the Mandalorian

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 13h

Portland's famous Unipiper was spotted at the Portland ICE protest where he played his bagpipes in front of Santa, Mr. Potato Head, Garfield and more -- all while surrounded by bubbles.

More on how the tone of Portland's protests has shifted: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 17h

Father Larry speaking like an exorcist

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 17h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 17h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 17h

Doesn’t matter! It doesn’t transmit on. It doesn’t behave like HIV. This is a wildly irresponsible comparison— unscientific, poorly reasoned, irresponsibly circulated. bsky.app/profile/m00p...

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 18h

SARS 2 is a respiratory virus. It’s not comparable to a retrovirus. The history and epidemiology of HIV and SARS 2 exist on wildly different timescales in the human body

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 18h

HIV can take 10-15 years to kill someone. It stays in your body forever. It’s a retrovirus! SARS-CoV-2 can kill you in 10 days. Or your body can clear it in 14. It does not stay in your body like a retrovirus. You’re making a nonsense comparison about things that aren’t comparable!

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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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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 18h

This is not true or helpful. They are very different viruses. The timelines of the two are simply not comparable in the way you are framing them.

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 18h

Then call your God damn brownshirts off of LGBTQ Illinois residents who are trying to stop ICE

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 22h

On National Coming Out Day, know that I will always be an ally to you — no matter where you are on your journey.

I know that times may be scary, but you are seen, safe, supported, and loved here in Illinois.

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 18h

One of the sweetest themes ever composed for cinema youtu.be/xWorzJkMjfo?...

Nino Rota - Kay

YouTube video by SoundtrackChannel

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 19h

Happening tomorrow in Soweto. I will be there covering it.

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 20h

Osama Abu Rabee:

“Director of Al-Shifa Medical Complex:

•The health situation in the Gaza Strip is completely collapsed, esp after the occupation destroyed the hospitals in Gaza City.

•We’ve contacted intl orgs and informed them of our needs, but have not received anything since the war stopped.”

Screenshot of Osama Abu Rabee’s x post:
Director of Al-Shifa Medical Complex:

•The health situation in the Gaza Strip is completely collapsed, especially after the occupation destroyed the hospitals in Gaza City.

•We have contacted international organizations and informed them of our needs, but we have not received anything since the war stopped.

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 20h

WHAT the FUCK is Israel doing playing a world cup qualifying game tonight????! Russia was banned in 2022…and Israel has killed God knows how many Palestinian players!! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

‘Palestinian Pelé’ killed in Israeli attack in southern Gaza

Palestine Football Association says Suleiman al-Obeid, 41, died during attack on people waiting for humanitarian aid

www.theguardian.com

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 21h

What does she know of Baltimore? At all?

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Lisa Snowden @lisasnowden.bsky.social · 1d

For a short time, nonprofit news was a way for some newsroom leaders with marginalized identities to establish a lane for themselves and thrive. Now, mainstream folks are jumping off the sinking ship of for profit news and co-opting a culture created by those same marginalized trailblazers

Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 1d

Baltimore is 60 percent Black. It’s also a city with a deep bench of journalistic talent and a deep history of high quality journalism outlets. Doesn’t the Banner’s audience deserve more than a white lady carpetbagger? Or are journalism jobs merely the purview of a mobile white elite?

Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 16d

Baltimore Banner names Audrey Cooper, experienced newsroom executive, to top editing job

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Charm City Art Spice @rahnealexander.com · 1d

this

and also, given the recent cancellation of On the Record, it's time to ask again

how many news outlets in Baltimore are gainfully employing a trans editor? writer? on-air personality?

we had one

Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 1d

Baltimore is 60 percent Black. It’s also a city with a deep bench of journalistic talent and a deep history of high quality journalism outlets. Doesn’t the Banner’s audience deserve more than a white lady carpetbagger? Or are journalism jobs merely the purview of a mobile white elite?

Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 16d

Baltimore Banner names Audrey Cooper, experienced newsroom executive, to top editing job

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 21h

So I’m at a book signing for THE Haidir Eid (co-founder of BDS and PACBI, organizer of The Great March of Return) in South Africa, and three people came up to me telling me they know me from @democracynow.org and one told me they love and teach THE VIRAL UNDERCLASS 🤯

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 22h

Got to ask Eid a question about the relationship between armed resistance and peaceful protest and BOY did I get an answer. Will transcribe it and share.

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 22h

Lots of work still going

- a push to stop selling coal to Israel
- a call for churches join BDS
- a call to stop a Japanese company which manufactures in SA to stop working w Elbit systems

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 23h

Wanner had two books confiscated by Israel she never got back.

One of them was…

….wait for it…

The Diary of Ann Frank

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 23h

Eid talks about meeting Jimmy Carter and notes that American presidents can only be reflective that they might have been wrong after they leave office.

“Not if you’re Obama!” Wanner quips 😭

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 23h

Eid: “Was it coincidental that South African apartheid began in 1948 and Israel began in 1948?…Israel is only one form of oppression we experience in Palestine.”

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 23h

She was heartbroken bc they never made it to Gaza. “We thought if we could get there, we could maintain some connection of humanity.”

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 23h

SA is still selling coal to Israel, despite SA’s official stance against Israel

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 23h

Zukiswa Wanner: “What most people don’t know is 33,000 people applied to be in that flotilla. That’s how outraged the people of the world are.”

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