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Jamila Hammami
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Organizer, writer, scholar, resistance archivist, and strategist defending dissent and fighting deportations | I show up. 🇵🇸

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Join us in welcoming Chris Smalls home!

🚨 CHANGE IN ITINERARY
📍 JFK International Airport, Terminal 8
🕓 9 AM EDT

Let’s ensure Chris comes home to love, care, & the strength of community! We’re all in this together, united in the struggle for Palestinian liberation!

#FreePalestine #FreeChrisSmalls
An image of Chris Smalls in the background, with the text that reads: “UPDATED WELCOME ACTION FOR CHRIS SMALLS Let's show up in force to welcome our comrade home! JFK International Airport 08/01 • 9:00AM • Terminal 8 Bring flags, signs, kuffiyehs & loud love! No one arrives alone. Let them feel the strength of our community - let's keep fighting for Palestine!”
July 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Join us in welcoming Chris Smalls home!

🚨 CHANGE IN ITINERARY
📍 JFK International Airport, Terminal 8
🕓 9 AM EDT

Let’s ensure Chris comes home to love, care, & the strength of community! We’re all in this together, united in the struggle for Palestinian liberation!

#FreePalestine #FreeChrisSmalls
An image of Chris Smalls in the background, with the text that reads: “UPDATED WELCOME ACTION FOR CHRIS SMALLS Let's show up in force to welcome our comrade home! JFK International Airport 08/01 • 9:00AM • Terminal 8 Bring flags, signs, kuffiyehs & loud love! No one arrives alone. Let them feel the strength of our community - let's keep fighting for Palestine!”
July 31, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Unsurprising. Booker or any New Jersey or US politicians did nothing to support Chris Smalls’ release from Givon Prison/Isr*el. The same goes for the U.S. Embassy—no one came to visit Chris or the other Americans. But Chris is out and safe now. We will soon have details on how to provide support.
A photo of Chris Smalls post-release from Givon Prison and Isr*el with Anas from Amman, a member of the Freedom Flotilla team—he was part of the 2010 Mavi Marmara Flotilla and their land team in Italy.
July 31, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Chris Smalls is out of Givon Prison & Isr*el! He is with Anas, a member of the Freedom Flotilla team. Chris is also with Suzanne Adely of the U.S. NLG. Chris is safe, taking a hot shower, and leaving tonight to return to NYC! Details coming on how to support Chris!
#FreeChrisSmalls #FreePalestine
A photo of Chris Smalls post-release from Givon Prison and Isr*el with Anas from Amman, a member of the Freedom Flotilla team—he was part of the 2010 Mavi Marmara Flotilla and their land team in Italy.
July 31, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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After months of rain this season, we are finally getting some heat in my region. My garden really needs it! While I’m surprised it took until July, and I worried I’d never harvest anything—it’s all good! I’m thrilled to harvest this season's first vegetables this morning. ¡Baby radishes, Presente! 🫜
A black wire basket with four radishes from Jamila’s garden.
July 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Here is a fantastic video of one of my adorable pit bull rescues! Bourdain is a pretty stout and fierce dude. But man, does he love to go into Roly-Poly Mode and enjoy the summer grass! ♥️
July 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Happy International Non-Binary People’s Day and Non-Binary Acceptance Week! And nah, I don’t feel like explaining a damned thing. But transphobic haters, be gone!
Image of a tweet by EK @ElliottKozuch that reads: “Happy non-binary awareness week to everyone who "technically" falls under this category but more accurately ‘isn't in the mood to explain.’ 5:11 PM • 7/12/22 • Twitter Web App”
July 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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The weather cleared up at the end of the day, so I fertilized all my garden beds and flowers and sowed some milkweed seeds. And man, I’m whoopin my own ass in this garden, y’all. My back! 😭 Today, I did spot this Alfred Sisley rose starting to bloom! I can’t wait to watch it change colors.
Pink Alfred Sisley painter’s rose beginning to bloom before it changes colors.
June 21, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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This post by @jairofunez.bsky.social is searing & necessary. It lays bare what many of us who come from movements & then worked to navigate movement & academic spaces have long known—the university is not a site of liberation but a site of colonial capture & part & parcel of the carceral regime. 1/7
A quote from Jairo Fúnez-Flores’ substack, “As he [Dylan Rodriguez] rightfully points out, there is no guarantee that a so-called radical academic who comes from a historically excluded, colonized, and negatively racialized community will engage in revolutionary praxis alongside struggles for liberation. The reality is that one of the greatest threats to liberation movements comes from those who publish on these very movements and who pretend to care about liberation when all they truly care about is advancing their careers. The reformist attitude and thus the liberal counterinsurgency to which academics contribute should not be downplayed or ignored.”
June 20, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Exactly! And he’s such a special little guy! Look at my sweetie pittie baby with his big soft tummy on his morning walk today! That person was clearly a total dork!
June 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Free them all.

#NoBordersNoNations #FreeThemAll #Deportation
May 2, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Happy May Day, Comrades. Palestine is and has always been a labor and workers' issue! 🇵🇸🤝🏽

Stay safe out there, and do not forget cops👏🏽are👏🏽not👏🏽workers!👏🏽Cops👏🏽do👏🏽not👏🏽belong👏🏽in👏🏽the👏🏽labor👏🏽movement!👏🏽

Remember who your enemy is and who it is not. Workers of the World, unite! ✊🏽
Palestine May Day poster that reads: الأول من ايار عيد العمال العالمي سواعد شعينا تعانق السماء May Ist International Worker's Day Breaking the Chains of Occupation
May 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Literally no one:
The U.S. government combating antisemitism around the globe:
NYT Article screenshot about books pulled and kept at the U.S. Naval Academy that reads, “Two copies of ‘Mein Kampf’ by Adolf Hitler are still on the shelves. Gone is ‘Memorializing the Holocaust,’ Janet Jacobs’s 2010 examination of how female victims of the Holocaust have been portrayed and remembered.”
April 12, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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🚨 #StandwithHelyeh! 🚨

Yale suspended & banned Dr. Doutaghi from campus after false & racist allegations about her in an Al-generated article surfaced on an anonymous website. Now, Yale Law is targeting her for her Palestinian solidarity.

‼️ Demand Yale reinstate Dr. Doutaghi: bit.ly/ReinstateDou...
Image of Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi, followed by the text: “CALL TO ACTION bit.ly/ReinstateDoutaghi Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi is an internationally recognized and published scholar of international law, political economy, and armed conflict and the Deputy Director of the Law and Political Economy Project at Yale Law School. Based on unsubstantiated allegations, Yale has banned her from campus- a blatant attack on freedom of speech and academic freedom.” Logo in the bottom right corner for RIGHT TO REJECT ZIONISM.
March 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Trump is doing everything he can to defund public education and quell dissent. He knows how powerful student movements are at disrupting the status quo and impacting long-term change.

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“Trump's big warning on protests Trump took to his own social media site Truth Social to share quite a chilling statement, where he warned that students caught taking part in these protests would be expelled or arrested, while also mentioning that "agitators will be permanently sent back to the country from which they came". "All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests," he wrote on his Truth Social platform. "Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS!" he added.”
March 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Mohanad’s response is comedy gold. But JD, “…And my handshakes are not gooey”! 😭💀
Threads post by “mohanad.elshieky * 9h ‘Ok weird. Anyway, check my bio for dates.’” [Image of a Tweet] “JD Vance @JDVance Our immigration policies is why we have people like "Libyan" comedian Mohanad Elshieky touring around our country and I have heard in some states even making jokes about me. No Mohanad, I do not smile when I see an amber alert and no I never gave anyone chlamydia through eye contact only and my hand shakes are not gooey. It breaks my heart to see that he is headlining the city winery in Boston, Atlanta, Nashville, St. Louis and Pittsburgh, if you are a fool, attend one of his shows. He is even coming to DC and Philly? gross.”
March 2, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Happy Twin Peaks Day! On February 24, 1989, Dale Cooper entered the town of Twin Peaks. I’m sure all of my friends are tired of me calling them “Party People” since David’s passing. But the real Twin Peaks and David Lynch fans know. Rest in Peace, David.
#OTD #TwinPeaksDay #RIPDavidLynch
David Lynch saying on the David Letterman Show, “People Who Like Twin Peaks Are Party People”
February 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Bourdain yesterday! He is my sweet cheese (-Laszlo), and my best little guy. He thinks he’s a lap dog. A 100 Ibs lapdog. 🙃♥️
Brown pit bull with a white chest and paws waiting for his snack while watching his parent work.
February 22, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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We can all use a bit of joy. So, here’s my sweet shadow, Bourdain, today while I worked on audio editing and research.

#TimelineCleanse #PitbullsOfBsky #DogsOfBsky #Dogs
Brown pitbull with a white chest and paws.
February 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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A fundraising text message from the Democrats tonight? Are you kidding? And right after we watched the Dems refuse to intervene at USAID today. Why are they like this?! I cannot.
Text message that reads, “Obama - "We have to mobilize. FORCEFULLY!" So we are fighting to FLIP the House Majority, TODAY >> https://winblue- text.com/fJIfTw Win Blue USA Stop to End”
February 4, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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These fascists are going to try to tell you that what you saw Elon do, you didn’t see. They’ll argue it was not a Sieg Heil, which he did twice. Elon has an office in the White House, and the man did it knowing he was being watched. They’re going to gaslight us. Don’t believe them and don’t forget.
Images of Elon Musk giving the Sieg Heil “Nazi salute” from different angles.
January 20, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Rest in Power, Refaat.
Tweet by Refaat in Gaza @itranslate123: I am sorry but I will keep reminding the world that I was the first to tweet that Israel used mass Hannibal Directives killing some of its own captured soldiers. This was 710 at noon. Hem! Hem! Refaat in Gaza @itranslate123 • 10/7/23 BREAKING: Israeli warplanes target and kill some of their own Israeli captured soldiers as they are transported into Gaza.
December 7, 2024 at 4:57 AM
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🚨 NOW: “The Nuseirat refugee camp in Central Gaza is under intense Israeli attacks.”

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November 28, 2024 at 7:49 PM
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Everything about AOC has always been so incredibly disingenuous. She does not care about the working class, Palestine, or dissenters fighting for an end to the Gazan genocide or a free Palestine. She’s not a leftist; she’s a liberal careerist who took advantage of the left to get into her position.
Screen shot of electronic intifadas article that reads” THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA AOC votes to back Israel lobby's bogus "anti-Semitism" definition Tamara Nassar and Ali Abunimah The Electronic Intifada 21 November 2024 Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez votes for bill embracing IHRA anti-Semitism definition.”
November 24, 2024 at 12:44 AM
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Today, the bully breed brothers keep me company as I knit scarves for family gifts for the holidays. But they’re ready for the snow, so we can play and hike in it. I am, too. Bring the snow!

#BullyBreeds #Pitbulls #DogsOfBluesky
Two bully breeds play fighting in the snow in jackets.
November 23, 2024 at 7:42 PM