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We are offering one time payments to disabled folks in the South who will not receive their SNAP benefits this month. If you need help, please find more information and details at ndsdj.org/snaphelp.
If you’d like to donate to the fund, go to ndsdj.org/snapdonate
We take care of each other ❤️
If you’d like to donate to the fund, go to ndsdj.org/snapdonate
We take care of each other ❤️
Please donate if you can to help feed folks!
If you're in the south and hungry, please apply for assistance.
Everyone deserves food. 💜
If you're in the south and hungry, please apply for assistance.
Everyone deserves food. 💜
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Capitalism is fundamentally incompatible with democracy. It inevitably results in unconscionable concentration of capital that buys elections with their ill gotten gains.
December 16, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Capitalism is fundamentally incompatible with democracy. It inevitably results in unconscionable concentration of capital that buys elections with their ill gotten gains.
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Izolde is a dear member of our local Trans Nerd Meet Up community. She comes to the meetups regularly. Because of (gestures at state of the world) she's been out of work for months.
I'm sorry to ask again, but if you can spare a few bucks I'd be seriously grateful.
I'm sorry to ask again, but if you can spare a few bucks I'd be seriously grateful.
rent fundraiser for this month, b/c it's mid-december and i'm still unemployed and at this point that is not changing before year end. i will bring in *some* amount of money this month but atm i'm assuming it's not gonna be a ton.
ko-fi.com/iafishman/go...
#helpsky #transcrowdfund
ko-fi.com/iafishman/go...
#helpsky #transcrowdfund
Support Izolde Fishman
Support Izolde Fishman
ko-fi.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Izolde is a dear member of our local Trans Nerd Meet Up community. She comes to the meetups regularly. Because of (gestures at state of the world) she's been out of work for months.
I'm sorry to ask again, but if you can spare a few bucks I'd be seriously grateful.
I'm sorry to ask again, but if you can spare a few bucks I'd be seriously grateful.
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Please take a minute to contact your representatives against these bills! Dems can't be trusted to do the right thing without immense grassroots pressure.
Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that bans gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18, and threatens any medical professional providing this care to youth with 10 years in prison.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
Protect Trans Care Now
As wave after wave of extreme measures to criminalize and strip trans people of rights and safety continue, tell Congress to act.
action.aclu.org
December 16, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Please take a minute to contact your representatives against these bills! Dems can't be trusted to do the right thing without immense grassroots pressure.
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My latest book—CORRIDORS OF CONTAGION: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration—is 40% off till Jan 2nd
Our Holiday Sale is here early this year! ALL Haymarket Books are 40% Off through Friday, January 2nd!
Happy Holidays! 40% OFF ALL Haymarket Books
Our Holiday Sale is here early this year! ALL Haymarket Books are 40% Off through Friday, January 2nd!
For one-stop shopping, check out our eleven curated gift bundles: each includes 5 books for $5...
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December 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
My latest book—CORRIDORS OF CONTAGION: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration—is 40% off till Jan 2nd
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Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that bans gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18, and threatens any medical professional providing this care to youth with 10 years in prison.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
Protect Trans Care Now
As wave after wave of extreme measures to criminalize and strip trans people of rights and safety continue, tell Congress to act.
action.aclu.org
December 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that bans gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18, and threatens any medical professional providing this care to youth with 10 years in prison.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
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there’s so much love in this thread. go scroll for a few minutes if you’re having a rough day
this was a weekend of unrelenting horrors, but if you had a small nice thing happen I would like to hear about it
maybe you read a great book or saw a cute dog walking down the street or your soup turned out really good? please share
maybe you read a great book or saw a cute dog walking down the street or your soup turned out really good? please share
December 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
there’s so much love in this thread. go scroll for a few minutes if you’re having a rough day
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Yeah this is not someone with an iron grip on the narrative
White House chief of staff Susie Wiles may have given up the game, admitting that the Trump administration’s strike on alleged “drug boats” in the Caribbean Sea is an effort to bring about regime change in Venezuela, rather than a war on drug trafficking. trib.al/FiPWBBX
Trump Chief of Staff Admits Real Reason Behind “Drug Boat” Strikes
Susie Wiles gave an explanation that contradicts the administration’s public talking points.
trib.al
December 16, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Yeah this is not someone with an iron grip on the narrative
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Writers gotta start getting it in their contracts that generative AI won’t be used at any stage in any part of the process, this is one of the things agents are allegedly supposed to exist for
Big name authors who have clout with publishers absolutely must lead the way on this
Big name authors who have clout with publishers absolutely must lead the way on this
This is not getting on the case of those Tor authors who had it foisted on them unknowingly (though I am definitely against whoever made that decision).
But when you run your own newsletter, you know exactly what you're doing when you prompt the slop machine for custom gunk matching your article.
But when you run your own newsletter, you know exactly what you're doing when you prompt the slop machine for custom gunk matching your article.
December 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Writers gotta start getting it in their contracts that generative AI won’t be used at any stage in any part of the process, this is one of the things agents are allegedly supposed to exist for
Big name authors who have clout with publishers absolutely must lead the way on this
Big name authors who have clout with publishers absolutely must lead the way on this
Cosigned, as a very progressive person who attends my liberal Conservative shul in part because I wouldn't be the only nonbinary person there, and because my rabbi actively engages in queer activism.
PSA: please stop calling right-wing Jews “Conservative Jews,” that term actually refers to a Jewish denomination whose members in fact tend to be very politically liberal
December 16, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Cosigned, as a very progressive person who attends my liberal Conservative shul in part because I wouldn't be the only nonbinary person there, and because my rabbi actively engages in queer activism.
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"Muslims shouldn't have to disarm a gunman in order for people to say, 'Well actually, Muslims, they're good people.'"
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social and @premthakker.bsky.social discuss the Muslim man who stopped a mass shooting in Australia.
Watch the full conversation:
zeteo.com/p/good-musli...
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social and @premthakker.bsky.social discuss the Muslim man who stopped a mass shooting in Australia.
Watch the full conversation:
zeteo.com/p/good-musli...
December 15, 2025 at 9:03 PM
"Muslims shouldn't have to disarm a gunman in order for people to say, 'Well actually, Muslims, they're good people.'"
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social and @premthakker.bsky.social discuss the Muslim man who stopped a mass shooting in Australia.
Watch the full conversation:
zeteo.com/p/good-musli...
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social and @premthakker.bsky.social discuss the Muslim man who stopped a mass shooting in Australia.
Watch the full conversation:
zeteo.com/p/good-musli...
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this is worth reading even if you don’t think it will be
December 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
this is worth reading even if you don’t think it will be
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John Oliver really was not kidding about the overwhelming rebellious power of just saying “Fuck you, make me.”
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
John Oliver really was not kidding about the overwhelming rebellious power of just saying “Fuck you, make me.”
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One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.
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I particularly hope every executive at The Home Depot reads this excellent @gregsargent.bsky.social piece about Stephen Miller's terrifying project to transform the United States. Why Home Depot...? (cont) newrepublic.com/article/2041... /1
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
newrepublic.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I particularly hope every executive at The Home Depot reads this excellent @gregsargent.bsky.social piece about Stephen Miller's terrifying project to transform the United States. Why Home Depot...? (cont) newrepublic.com/article/2041... /1
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Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.
December 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
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Our safety is tied together. Our liberation is tied together. May we lead with love. May that love be a light. May our faith in one another help us fight for justice for all.
Salaam. Shanti. Shalom. Peace.
Salaam. Shanti. Shalom. Peace.
December 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Our safety is tied together. Our liberation is tied together. May we lead with love. May that love be a light. May our faith in one another help us fight for justice for all.
Salaam. Shanti. Shalom. Peace.
Salaam. Shanti. Shalom. Peace.
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Hey it seems like ten million years since Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina but unsurprisingly, folks there are still struggling. That especially includes marginalized southerners like the ones here, so lend a hand if you can.
Like many in our city, the Blade has struggled in Helene's ongoing aftermath. We're a local journalism co-op of working class trans people. It has not been an easy year.
Amid exhaustion, illness, poverty and trauma we've still done important work. Please help us keep doing it.
Amid exhaustion, illness, poverty and trauma we've still done important work. Please help us keep doing it.
Donate to Help the Asheville Blade survive Helene's long aftermath, organized by Asheville Blade
Like many groups in our city, the Asheville Blade has faced … Asheville Blade needs your support for Help the Asheville Blade survive Helene's long aftermath
www.gofundme.com
December 14, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Hey it seems like ten million years since Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina but unsurprisingly, folks there are still struggling. That especially includes marginalized southerners like the ones here, so lend a hand if you can.
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You guys really need to develop the capacity of simultaneously holding the truth that the colonialist occupation and genocide of Palestine is unacceptable AND violent antisemitism is real
Both are true
Both are true
December 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
You guys really need to develop the capacity of simultaneously holding the truth that the colonialist occupation and genocide of Palestine is unacceptable AND violent antisemitism is real
Both are true
Both are true
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I’ve gotten a few replies like this today and I just want to point out
1. None of them have come from Palestinians
2. Violent antisemitism predates the existence of a Zionist movement, which began in Europe in an colonialist environment
3. These comments themselves conflate Judaism with Zionism
1. None of them have come from Palestinians
2. Violent antisemitism predates the existence of a Zionist movement, which began in Europe in an colonialist environment
3. These comments themselves conflate Judaism with Zionism
Tragically, Israel has done its best to ruin these Jewish symbols for everyone and brought danger to all Jews by constantly conflating the IDF’s barbarism with the Jewish people. That is unforgivable.
December 14, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I’ve gotten a few replies like this today and I just want to point out
1. None of them have come from Palestinians
2. Violent antisemitism predates the existence of a Zionist movement, which began in Europe in an colonialist environment
3. These comments themselves conflate Judaism with Zionism
1. None of them have come from Palestinians
2. Violent antisemitism predates the existence of a Zionist movement, which began in Europe in an colonialist environment
3. These comments themselves conflate Judaism with Zionism
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Terrorist attacks on people gathering to celebrate feel like an extra twist of the knife. With the Hanukah attack in Australia, it was families, including kids, getting together on a beach for a happy event.
And antisemitic incidents in Australia have risen this year, making it even more concerning.
And antisemitic incidents in Australia have risen this year, making it even more concerning.
December 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Terrorist attacks on people gathering to celebrate feel like an extra twist of the knife. With the Hanukah attack in Australia, it was families, including kids, getting together on a beach for a happy event.
And antisemitic incidents in Australia have risen this year, making it even more concerning.
And antisemitic incidents in Australia have risen this year, making it even more concerning.
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Again: punishingly high taxes on billionaires is a frontline defense of democracy.
The richest man on the planet has a pinned tweet that's just straight up white nationalism. I can't say I miss Twitter!
December 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Again: punishingly high taxes on billionaires is a frontline defense of democracy.
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If you blame Israel for this hate crime on a community in Australia, I will block you. If you’ve decided that all Jews & Jewish events worldwide are legitimate targets for killing in the name of anti-zionism, then you just hate Jews & I’m done with you.
Happy Hanukkah friends 🙃
Happy Hanukkah friends 🙃
December 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
If you blame Israel for this hate crime on a community in Australia, I will block you. If you’ve decided that all Jews & Jewish events worldwide are legitimate targets for killing in the name of anti-zionism, then you just hate Jews & I’m done with you.
Happy Hanukkah friends 🙃
Happy Hanukkah friends 🙃
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Someone shot up a Hanukkah celebration in Australia. It seems like we get a new attack every #Jewish holiday now.
Gentiles, please notice what’s happening. This is not a MAGA trick, antisemitism is getting worse, & getting more violent.
Gentiles, please notice what’s happening. This is not a MAGA trick, antisemitism is getting worse, & getting more violent.
December 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Someone shot up a Hanukkah celebration in Australia. It seems like we get a new attack every #Jewish holiday now.
Gentiles, please notice what’s happening. This is not a MAGA trick, antisemitism is getting worse, & getting more violent.
Gentiles, please notice what’s happening. This is not a MAGA trick, antisemitism is getting worse, & getting more violent.
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As we prepare for the festival of lights we ask you to consider your spelling style guide
December 14, 2025 at 7:11 AM
As we prepare for the festival of lights we ask you to consider your spelling style guide