Joanna Ware
@joware.bsky.social
Jewish Liberation Fund Executive Director. (Views my own.) Educate, agitate, organize, repeat. Philanthropy rabble rouser. | CA-raised queer Jewish (mixed Ashkenazi/Sephardi) femme. RT =/= endorsement.
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AOC: I was watching earlier today on TV, someone was saying, “Why are AOC and Bernie going to Idaho?”
I’ll give you one simple answer: It’s because you matter
I’ll give you one simple answer: It’s because you matter
April 15, 2025 at 12:36 AM
AOC: I was watching earlier today on TV, someone was saying, “Why are AOC and Bernie going to Idaho?”
I’ll give you one simple answer: It’s because you matter
I’ll give you one simple answer: It’s because you matter
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I've been clear: if President Bukele doesn't want to meet here in D.C., then I intend to go to El Salvador this week to check on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's condition and discuss his release.
Kilmar was illegally ABDUCTED and deported by the Trump Admin. He must be brought home NOW.
Kilmar was illegally ABDUCTED and deported by the Trump Admin. He must be brought home NOW.
If Bukele doesn't want to meet in D.C., I'll go to El Salvador to check on Kilmar Abrego Garcia
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
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April 15, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I've been clear: if President Bukele doesn't want to meet here in D.C., then I intend to go to El Salvador this week to check on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's condition and discuss his release.
Kilmar was illegally ABDUCTED and deported by the Trump Admin. He must be brought home NOW.
Kilmar was illegally ABDUCTED and deported by the Trump Admin. He must be brought home NOW.
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Tom Homan claims this made Boston safer. Making immigrants fearful to leave their houses is the opposite of safety. These are our neighbors, our community members, our workers, our friends. And they are being terrorized by people with hearts full of hate.
Hate makes no one safer. 6/
Hate makes no one safer. 6/
March 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Tom Homan claims this made Boston safer. Making immigrants fearful to leave their houses is the opposite of safety. These are our neighbors, our community members, our workers, our friends. And they are being terrorized by people with hearts full of hate.
Hate makes no one safer. 6/
Hate makes no one safer. 6/
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Many electeds have contentious town halls.
But when you lead like @pressley.house.gov, you get standing ovations.
But when you lead like @pressley.house.gov, you get standing ovations.
March 22, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Many electeds have contentious town halls.
But when you lead like @pressley.house.gov, you get standing ovations.
But when you lead like @pressley.house.gov, you get standing ovations.
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NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more.
The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law.
No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.
The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law.
No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.
March 11, 2025 at 4:17 PM
NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more.
The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law.
No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.
The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law.
No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.
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Not for nothing,
First, realize just how psychologically difficult but worthwhile speaking up can be.
How to Speak Up When It Matters
When you notice something ethically questionable, encounter offensive speech, or disagree with consensus opinion, speaking up can be hard to do. Most people tend to not act, and then rationalize…
buff.ly
March 6, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Not for nothing,
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I know this is absurd, but the propaganda works in because of the absurdity rather than in spite of it.
While this quote is about antisemitism, it readily applies to most forms of bigotry.
While this quote is about antisemitism, it readily applies to most forms of bigotry.
March 6, 2025 at 4:36 AM
I know this is absurd, but the propaganda works in because of the absurdity rather than in spite of it.
While this quote is about antisemitism, it readily applies to most forms of bigotry.
While this quote is about antisemitism, it readily applies to most forms of bigotry.
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FUCK YEAH
thank you to everyone who called and wrote your reps on this! it WORKS
if your rep voted no, please contact them again and THANK THEM FOR DEFENDING TRANS PEOPLE so they keep doing it!
this is a really big win. 🩷😭
thank you to everyone who called and wrote your reps on this! it WORKS
if your rep voted no, please contact them again and THANK THEM FOR DEFENDING TRANS PEOPLE so they keep doing it!
this is a really big win. 🩷😭
The final vote: 51-45, with 4 people absent.
CLOTURE FAILS, A CONGRESSIONAL SPORTS BAN WILL NOT HAPPEN.
Democrats hold firm, not a single dem voted for cloture.
MAJOR victory for everyone who called in today and this week in support of trans people.
CLOTURE FAILS, A CONGRESSIONAL SPORTS BAN WILL NOT HAPPEN.
Democrats hold firm, not a single dem voted for cloture.
MAJOR victory for everyone who called in today and this week in support of trans people.
March 4, 2025 at 12:15 AM
FUCK YEAH
thank you to everyone who called and wrote your reps on this! it WORKS
if your rep voted no, please contact them again and THANK THEM FOR DEFENDING TRANS PEOPLE so they keep doing it!
this is a really big win. 🩷😭
thank you to everyone who called and wrote your reps on this! it WORKS
if your rep voted no, please contact them again and THANK THEM FOR DEFENDING TRANS PEOPLE so they keep doing it!
this is a really big win. 🩷😭
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This is, quite literally, what Trump got impeached for the first time
(he illegally paused money for Ukraine and extorted Zelenskyy, trying to get him to conduct a sham investigation into Biden)
(he illegally paused money for Ukraine and extorted Zelenskyy, trying to get him to conduct a sham investigation into Biden)
BREAKING:
WASHINGTON (AP) - Trump orders pausing of US military aid for Ukraine after Oval Office blowup, pressuring Zelenskyy on Russia talks.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Trump orders pausing of US military aid for Ukraine after Oval Office blowup, pressuring Zelenskyy on Russia talks.
March 4, 2025 at 12:59 AM
This is, quite literally, what Trump got impeached for the first time
(he illegally paused money for Ukraine and extorted Zelenskyy, trying to get him to conduct a sham investigation into Biden)
(he illegally paused money for Ukraine and extorted Zelenskyy, trying to get him to conduct a sham investigation into Biden)
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I actually think the dems should attend the SOTU, wait till the 2nd sentence, and then walk out en masse, that'll do it, there'll be no address, he'll just have a meltdown on national Tv
March 3, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I actually think the dems should attend the SOTU, wait till the 2nd sentence, and then walk out en masse, that'll do it, there'll be no address, he'll just have a meltdown on national Tv
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I think you are likely to have some good org support on this platform. Hope to see you more! Valuable panel. Solidarity DOES feel like being accompanied through the uncertainty. ❤️🔥
February 28, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I think you are likely to have some good org support on this platform. Hope to see you more! Valuable panel. Solidarity DOES feel like being accompanied through the uncertainty. ❤️🔥
So energized being at the BU Conference on the Jewish Left, surrounded by beloveds, comrades, & teachers. To follow along at home, register & watch the livestream. RN Simone Zimmerman is bringing us into her story of wrestling w/ Zionism w/profound empathy & vulnerability. www.bu.edu/cura/recent-...
2025 Conference on the Jewish Left | Institute on Culture, Religion & World Affairs: CURA
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February 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
So energized being at the BU Conference on the Jewish Left, surrounded by beloveds, comrades, & teachers. To follow along at home, register & watch the livestream. RN Simone Zimmerman is bringing us into her story of wrestling w/ Zionism w/profound empathy & vulnerability. www.bu.edu/cura/recent-...
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After publishing this story, which features a picture of the protest at Children's National in DC, I have been informed that moments ago, Childrens National in DC has resumed transgender care.
The hospital protests worked! Keep doing them!
The hospital protests worked! Keep doing them!
February 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
After publishing this story, which features a picture of the protest at Children's National in DC, I have been informed that moments ago, Childrens National in DC has resumed transgender care.
The hospital protests worked! Keep doing them!
The hospital protests worked! Keep doing them!
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Dear Democratic Party: why are you not screaming this from every rooftop? Why are you not holding press conferences with these poor fired people - putting a face on what the richest man is destroying?
“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”
Yesterday many thousands of federal employees were terminated. This is a Reddit thread for federal employees that got laid off.
February 16, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Dear Democratic Party: why are you not screaming this from every rooftop? Why are you not holding press conferences with these poor fired people - putting a face on what the richest man is destroying?
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A message to Jewish Americans, especially our leaders, please join us in this appeal to Vice President Vance:
Until you condemn the many connections to neo-Nazis in your new administration, please stay off of the sacred ground upon which our parents and grandparents were slaughtered.
Until you condemn the many connections to neo-Nazis in your new administration, please stay off of the sacred ground upon which our parents and grandparents were slaughtered.
February 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
A message to Jewish Americans, especially our leaders, please join us in this appeal to Vice President Vance:
Until you condemn the many connections to neo-Nazis in your new administration, please stay off of the sacred ground upon which our parents and grandparents were slaughtered.
Until you condemn the many connections to neo-Nazis in your new administration, please stay off of the sacred ground upon which our parents and grandparents were slaughtered.
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Really looking forward to the 2nd Annual Conference on the Jewish Left, especially my chance to talk with @joware.bsky.social and @audrey-sasson.bsky.social!
Feb 28th. In person and online.
Register here: www.bu.edu/cura/the-jew...
Feb 28th. In person and online.
Register here: www.bu.edu/cura/the-jew...
February 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Really looking forward to the 2nd Annual Conference on the Jewish Left, especially my chance to talk with @joware.bsky.social and @audrey-sasson.bsky.social!
Feb 28th. In person and online.
Register here: www.bu.edu/cura/the-jew...
Feb 28th. In person and online.
Register here: www.bu.edu/cura/the-jew...
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haven't had a chance to read Trümp's latest executive order, but pretty sure it ignores every point I make in this comprehensive essay: "Trans People and Sports: Everything You Need to Know"
on Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/trans-peop...
& Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/trans-people...
on Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/trans-peop...
& Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/trans-people...
Trans People and Sports: Everything You Need to Know
I have been writing about transgender people and issues for over twenty years now.
juliaserano.substack.com
February 5, 2025 at 10:25 PM
haven't had a chance to read Trümp's latest executive order, but pretty sure it ignores every point I make in this comprehensive essay: "Trans People and Sports: Everything You Need to Know"
on Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/trans-peop...
& Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/trans-people...
on Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/trans-peop...
& Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/trans-people...
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Popular or not Dems cannot bend on the need for trans people to be treated with basic humanity and respect. If we give up that because the right made trans people unpopular, we give up everything. They’ll dice us group by group like a salami. We die on this hill or we die alone in a ditch
February 5, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Popular or not Dems cannot bend on the need for trans people to be treated with basic humanity and respect. If we give up that because the right made trans people unpopular, we give up everything. They’ll dice us group by group like a salami. We die on this hill or we die alone in a ditch
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Absolutely devastating what just happened in DC. Praying for all those affected in the plane-crash. 🫶
This just goes to show why we cannot defund the FAA.
This just goes to show why we cannot defund the FAA.
January 30, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Absolutely devastating what just happened in DC. Praying for all those affected in the plane-crash. 🫶
This just goes to show why we cannot defund the FAA.
This just goes to show why we cannot defund the FAA.
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Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked."
She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.
She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.
January 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked."
She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.
She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.
Reminder for all cisgender people who strive to be trans allies:
Trans people cannot take our solidarity, support, allyship for granted. Millions of cis people have demonstrated they are willing to accept the scapegoating & dehumanization of trans people. We are all suspect until proven otherwise.
Trans people cannot take our solidarity, support, allyship for granted. Millions of cis people have demonstrated they are willing to accept the scapegoating & dehumanization of trans people. We are all suspect until proven otherwise.
January 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Reminder for all cisgender people who strive to be trans allies:
Trans people cannot take our solidarity, support, allyship for granted. Millions of cis people have demonstrated they are willing to accept the scapegoating & dehumanization of trans people. We are all suspect until proven otherwise.
Trans people cannot take our solidarity, support, allyship for granted. Millions of cis people have demonstrated they are willing to accept the scapegoating & dehumanization of trans people. We are all suspect until proven otherwise.
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Elon literally just incorporated a company called The United States of America in Texas. He wants to privatize the US and be the CEO dictator of the world. It sounds insane to even suggest but it's clear what he's moving towards.
January 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Elon literally just incorporated a company called The United States of America in Texas. He wants to privatize the US and be the CEO dictator of the world. It sounds insane to even suggest but it's clear what he's moving towards.