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https://linktr.ee/WalkingInAustin PLEASE no mass-tags, no more donation $$ Settler w/Collaborator Goals #IndigenousSovereignty #FreePalestine #LandBack #BlackLivesMatter #LGBTQIA2S+Rights #Equity #CantBeRacistToWhite

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WalkingInAustin @walkinginaustin.bsky.social · 22d

You owe no one access to your trauma or any of your stories. Ever.

Friends and allies should have no expectation of access to your trauma. They will wait and follow your lead.

Anyone demanding it is neither a friend nor an ally.

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WalkingInAustin @walkinginaustin.bsky.social · 1m

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Help Mohammed and Heba @mohammedandheba68.bsky.social · 6m

@indrapramitdas.bsky.social
Please share Jamal's suffering and tag a number of people so they can see the post and participate.

Help Mohammed and Heba @mohammedandheba68.bsky.social · 13h

🆘💉 SOS 💉🆘
😥💊Please, my voice may not reach everyone 💔💉
But with your small contribution or by spreading this appeal, we can save a life.
We need 200 euros for Diabetes treatment. Even a dot (⚫) from you can support us.💉🔁

gofund.me/616ecf447

@mommunism.bsky.social ♥️🙏

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Designer Hasan @designer4hasand.bsky.social · 4h

Kind hearts,
Please, we urgently need your help to complete the rent amount — we still have £345 left. 🙏
Every bit brings us closer to keeping a safe roof over our children’s heads. ️🧡

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WalkingInAustin @walkinginaustin.bsky.social · 3m

We must keep helping. It will be a long time before there's even a semblance of normaly, as everything is destroyed.

Keep Sharing Motaz' posts. Keep liking. Keep donating whatever you can.

M.O.T.A.Z @motaz-aarchitect.bsky.social · 1h

If U still care about us in Gaza… we’re not okay😭

After the war, I stand before piles of rubble💔
Without Home or Shelter
Without Work or Ifncome

I need Ur donations to be able to do anything🙏🏻
To start again
To feed my family
Pls don’t leave us alone
🔗 gofund.me/efe770f4c

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 1d

"On August 8, masked men in tactical gear surrounded the Van Nuys Community Job Center, and pointed weapons at my coworkers and me."

"ICE has raided our day labor sites at least 14 times since June."

"Refuse to let kidnapping become normal."
#California #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

ICE Is Targeting Day Labor Centers in LA That Hold Contracts With the City

Elected leaders are failing to protect immigrant workers. We must build community power, as only we can keep us safe.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 45m

BREAKING: Prominent Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi has been killed by gunmen in Gaza City’s al-Sabra neighbourhood, making him one of more than 270 journalists killed since Israel’s war began in 2023.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/p49p9n

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1h

Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today

www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-a...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 40m

www.audacy.com/kywnewsradio...

Philadelphia on track to record the lowest number of homicides in 20 years

Overall crime in Philadelphia has been steadily declining. In 2021, the city hit a record number of homicide victims: 562. Now, it is on track to hit the lowest in 20 years.

www.audacy.com

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 2h

NGL, with Link banned, our reach for the giving circle has dropped. Translation: less support for six families & a displacement camp in Gaza.

So let’s turn this around. This is still a survival fund—not even a rebuilding fund! They’re hungry & homeless.

5 hours left 🚨 545/1000 for six families.

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

chuffed.org

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · Jun 18

4 panel comic

First two panels are entitled “Journalist Visits Twitter”

Panel 1: Journalist is skipping happily through Twitter. Behind them, two people shout “Black people suck!” And “gay people suck”

Panel 2: Journalist continues to skip. Two more people shout “trans people suck” and “immigrants suck!”

The second two panels are titled “Journalist Visits Bluesky”

Panel 3: Journalist skips into bluesky and someone immediately shouts “YOU suck”

Panel 4: Journalist is crouched on the floor, absolutely devastated. In the foreground is a piece of paper that reads “Today, I went to hell”

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WalkingInAustin @walkinginaustin.bsky.social · 1h

@ilaymedia.comcould use our help. And we're helpers, right? There is so much need in Gaza and sharing is free, as is following, liking, giving words of support. Don

Please keep sharing. Donate whatever you can, whenever you can. gofund.me/e5d540f7a

Donate to Help Hanaa and her family to evacuate from Gaza, organized by Aimee M

Hello ❤️ My name is Aimee, I live in Berlin. Given its geographical locatio… Aimee M needs your support for Help Hanaa and her family to evacuate from Gaza

gofund.me

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 2h

Duaa reached out to me today because she is really struggling ❤️ chuffed.org/project/duaa

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Debbie Iron Bow @ironbow.bsky.social · 3h

For everyone over these years who helped, WE LOVE YOU AND THANK YOU!!! And going forward, please help Indigenous people though payyourent.ca who ensure many are cared for across our lands. Love to everyone 💕🪶

payyourent.ca

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 3h

Please share! We’re attempting something bold, and we need YOU ❤️‍🔥

Every day of October, this is our goal: food, shelter, winter clothes for SIX families. They’re not even in the stage of rebuilding yet—they need to survive the week. Still.

8 hours left 🚨 498/1000

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

chuffed.org

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bfitzinAR @bfitzinar.bsky.social · 6h

October 12th. #HelpFolksLive2025 thread. Something's *always* due & food is *always* needed. Things only get better with community action. *Now* is when folks need food, water, shelter, meds. *Now* is when we/the community needs to be there for each other. There's no one else. Just us.

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 5h

for active military or if you know someone in the military:

“The Orders Project is a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may not be legal.”
www.nimj.org/top.html#/

Orders Project

The Orders Project is a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may....

www.nimj.org

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 11h

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Raghad. Raghad is 22 years old and was finishing her studies to be a nurse. She wanted to go into nursing because her mother had a stroke that made her lose movement in her arms and legs. They are now displaced with her 10 siblings.

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 3h

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 3h

The Palestinian journalist Saleh Al-Jaafarawi was killed by outlawed gangs in Gaza City.

A young man stands amid the rubble of destroyed buildings, giving a peace sign with his right hand. He wears a black T-shirt, grey trousers, and a crossbody bag. His expression is calm, with faint dust on his clothes. The ruins and twisted concrete behind him reflect the devastation of Gaza City.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 3h

Kamal is trying to get his family back to the North so they can all be together but his sister cannot walk

kiom-sh2.bsky.social @kiom-sh2.bsky.social · 5h

My family wants to come home tomorrow. My sister's leg was seriously injured in August, so they cannot walk back. A kind soul offered to match up to $500 in donations for transport. Can you help me take advantage of his offer?

chuffed.org/project/kamalsfamily

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Photo from my father, taken outside my family's tent in the south.

A small cart waits in the sand outside a tent, on a sunny day.

One of my sister's medical admission papers describing the explosive leg injury she suffered in August.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 3h

Please donate or share

Baby Hassan🕊️ @ranaa32.bsky.social · 6h

Please dont stop supporting me The war is over,but my pain isnt Im still trying to revive mychild body again.Iwant him tobe treated abroad.Iwant him to grow.Iwant to see him walk.Iwant his weak body to grow and play like anychild Please dont forget me.Donate generously and share🥺🙏
gofund.me/b18154d6

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 3h

Please donate or share

Abo jameel2 @engmohamedabojamel.bsky.social · 6h

Don’t stop your support
The war has ended, but I’m still living in its ashes.
Without work, without food, I fight to survive with my tears.
Please… don’t let me fade away after surviving it all
Will you bail us out for $250 for food and blankets?
Im verified
@mommunism.bsky.social
shorturl.at/hcCSb

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WalkingInAustin @walkinginaustin.bsky.social · 3h

Sakher's fund has an urgent update: Urgent Update
My father is seriously ill.
His condition is getting worse every day.
He suffers from chronic illnesses and heart disease — and he desperately needs surgery and urgent medical care.
But we have nothing… not even enough for food..."

Oftentimes Jack 🎃 @pepsffk.bsky.social · 1d

Bluesky has disabled Sakher's DMs, I seem to be able to send to him, but he likely can't start a conversation, hopefully he can reply to mine. So, if you can drop him a message so he maybe can stay in contact. Keep sharing.

It's Sakher 🍉 @sakher23.bsky.social · 1d

My name is Sakher, and this is my new account — after my old one was suddenly taken down.
For the past 4 days, I’ve been silent… not because I wanted to, but because I lost my only voice — the place where I used to speak to the world.
More talk in the comments….
GFM : gofund.me/f116bf44

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