maria
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“We cannot lose our humanity. It is necessary for us not to lose our solidarity. It is necessary for us to think a little bit with our hearts.” —Lula
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Astonishing to stop and realize that, at any given moment, bands of masked men armed to the teeth are storming churches and daycares, terrorizing entire communities—and that most of the country's political establishment barely blinks.
November 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Astonishing to stop and realize that, at any given moment, bands of masked men armed to the teeth are storming churches and daycares, terrorizing entire communities—and that most of the country's political establishment barely blinks.
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Today there was an attempted ICE raid in Bensonhurst & community members showed up. Even though NYPD collaborated with ICE by trying to disburse the crowd; community members stood their ground & ICE left without kidnapping a single person per the rapid response groups I'm on. We protect us!
November 19, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Today there was an attempted ICE raid in Bensonhurst & community members showed up. Even though NYPD collaborated with ICE by trying to disburse the crowd; community members stood their ground & ICE left without kidnapping a single person per the rapid response groups I'm on. We protect us!
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This is what guys like Yglesias, and everybody else making hay about Kamala supporting transition care in prisons, want to happen everywhere.
EXCLUSIVE: A forced detransition policy had disastrous effects in one Georgia prison, according to the manager of the medical unit there.
The policy is on hold due to a court order requiring prisons to re-start hormone treatments for incarcerated people in GA.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
The policy is on hold due to a court order requiring prisons to re-start hormone treatments for incarcerated people in GA.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
EXCLUSIVE: Forced Detransitions ‘Nearly Toppled’ Medical Unit in Georgia Prison During Care Ban — Assigned
In the midst of a lawsuit, a Georgia prison resumes gender affirming care for trans inmates.
www.assignedmedia.org
November 18, 2025 at 12:10 PM
This is what guys like Yglesias, and everybody else making hay about Kamala supporting transition care in prisons, want to happen everywhere.
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Kelly Hayes’ writing and her Movement Memos Podcast episodes about AI have been immensely useful to me and I recommend them. In this clip from our recent conversation, Kelly talks about how AI is emerging in a context of alienation and dehumanization.
November 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Kelly Hayes’ writing and her Movement Memos Podcast episodes about AI have been immensely useful to me and I recommend them. In this clip from our recent conversation, Kelly talks about how AI is emerging in a context of alienation and dehumanization.
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I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Aya. Before the war Aya was an Arabic language teacher at a kindergarten. She was forced to flee her home and this week in addition to the floods her tent also burned. She has four children Omar, 10, Mohammed, 8, Wasim, 5 and Yasmine, 3 months
November 18, 2025 at 9:51 AM
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Aya. Before the war Aya was an Arabic language teacher at a kindergarten. She was forced to flee her home and this week in addition to the floods her tent also burned. She has four children Omar, 10, Mohammed, 8, Wasim, 5 and Yasmine, 3 months
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If the White House press corps was capable of solidarity there would not have been a second Trump term.
Jesus Christ. This is monstrous. Absolutely sickening. The journalists in that room should walk out en masse.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
If the White House press corps was capable of solidarity there would not have been a second Trump term.
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“We’re not asking the rich nations for a charity here. We are asking them to pay their climate debt.” Says Kumi Naidoo at COP30. “Global South countries are going to move ahead without the dominant polluters. Ideally, we want the U.S. at the table, but they cannot hold us hostage forever.”
As US Skips COP30 in Brazil, the Global South Fights for Climate Financing
Environmentalist and human rights leader Kumi Naidoo speaks about climate justice and violence in Gaza and Sudan.
truthout.org
November 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
“We’re not asking the rich nations for a charity here. We are asking them to pay their climate debt.” Says Kumi Naidoo at COP30. “Global South countries are going to move ahead without the dominant polluters. Ideally, we want the U.S. at the table, but they cannot hold us hostage forever.”
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Support my family 💔 Gaza under fire and death is very near.
Please do evry thing to save us
Donate: 🙏
gofund.me/e64e4380
Please do evry thing to save us
Donate: 🙏
gofund.me/e64e4380
October 12, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Support my family 💔 Gaza under fire and death is very near.
Please do evry thing to save us
Donate: 🙏
gofund.me/e64e4380
Please do evry thing to save us
Donate: 🙏
gofund.me/e64e4380
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@mariatho.bsky.social The cold rain is drowning the place💔, everything around me is soaked and freezing, I have no warm clothes or dry place to sleep The weather is getting worse, and my children’s health is deteriorating… my heart is broken 🙏 Help us quickly before we die from the cold and hunger
November 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
@mariatho.bsky.social The cold rain is drowning the place💔, everything around me is soaked and freezing, I have no warm clothes or dry place to sleep The weather is getting worse, and my children’s health is deteriorating… my heart is broken 🙏 Help us quickly before we die from the cold and hunger
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FYI, if you are a lefty/progressive group looking for a low cost space for holding events, I'm starting to let people use the @crisesnotes.bsky.social office for events. get in touch at crisesnotes[at]gmail[dot]com to inquire. My space is very conveniently located in Chelsea Manhattan.
November 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
FYI, if you are a lefty/progressive group looking for a low cost space for holding events, I'm starting to let people use the @crisesnotes.bsky.social office for events. get in touch at crisesnotes[at]gmail[dot]com to inquire. My space is very conveniently located in Chelsea Manhattan.
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unintentionally revealing that he’s not in or even aware of any networks who are at this moment doing exactly what he claims no one is doing because he’s not doing it
November 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
unintentionally revealing that he’s not in or even aware of any networks who are at this moment doing exactly what he claims no one is doing because he’s not doing it
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Two weeks into a new program that gives New Mexico children free childcare, officials are opening up about the surge that happened day one & how it’s been moving forward. In just a short time, the state said thousands of children are now enrolled in free childcare, & daycares are lining up to join.
www.krqe.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Two weeks into a new program that gives New Mexico children free childcare, officials are opening up about the surge that happened day one & how it’s been moving forward. In just a short time, the state said thousands of children are now enrolled in free childcare, & daycares are lining up to join.
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When I visited her in SF in 2022, I was prepared to be masked, but we were able to sit outside. She served me cookies. I was nervous & said “I don’t want to eat in front of you when you can’t eat, also I am trying to lose weight” & she typed into her speech machine “EAT THE FUCKING COOKIES!!!!” 😂
Alice could not eat food for years.
And yet at Christmas she would bake cookies and mail them to me—such was her desire to provide care for the people she loved.
And yet at Christmas she would bake cookies and mail them to me—such was her desire to provide care for the people she loved.
November 16, 2025 at 5:05 AM
When I visited her in SF in 2022, I was prepared to be masked, but we were able to sit outside. She served me cookies. I was nervous & said “I don’t want to eat in front of you when you can’t eat, also I am trying to lose weight” & she typed into her speech machine “EAT THE FUCKING COOKIES!!!!” 😂
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HOLY SHIT. They found the genes for fibromyalgia - and it's *not* autoimmune, it's the central nervous system. It's very cool to see some progress made on the thing that's ruined my life since late teenage years!
Medical Republic: 'Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint'
'Additionally, certain risk loci overlapped with long covid (BPTF) and ME/CFS (OLFM4, RABGAP1L/GPR52), two poorly characterised disorders, albeit with different lead variants.'
www.medicalrepublic.com.au/fibromyalgia...
'Additionally, certain risk loci overlapped with long covid (BPTF) and ME/CFS (OLFM4, RABGAP1L/GPR52), two poorly characterised disorders, albeit with different lead variants.'
www.medicalrepublic.com.au/fibromyalgia...
Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint - Medical Republic
A massive global study links the chronic pain condition to 26 genes associated with brain signalling, marking a turning point in understanding its biological roots.
www.medicalrepublic.com.au
November 14, 2025 at 4:09 AM
HOLY SHIT. They found the genes for fibromyalgia - and it's *not* autoimmune, it's the central nervous system. It's very cool to see some progress made on the thing that's ruined my life since late teenage years!
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Same Maram, new campaign (because you know how GFM is).
Hosted by me, verified by Molly. Let's reconnect this family with electricity! She used the LAST ounce of power on her phone to ask for help, and risked it getting stolen at an internet cafe to do so. Step up, yall. chuffed.org/project/maram
Hosted by me, verified by Molly. Let's reconnect this family with electricity! She used the LAST ounce of power on her phone to ask for help, and risked it getting stolen at an internet cafe to do so. Step up, yall. chuffed.org/project/maram
I‘m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Maram. Maram was a kindergarten teacher before this and her family had a farm with many greenhouses. The farm was destroyed and she lost her job. Maram is trying to help her large family including 5 siblings and a nephew, Jood who is only 2.
November 16, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Same Maram, new campaign (because you know how GFM is).
Hosted by me, verified by Molly. Let's reconnect this family with electricity! She used the LAST ounce of power on her phone to ask for help, and risked it getting stolen at an internet cafe to do so. Step up, yall. chuffed.org/project/maram
Hosted by me, verified by Molly. Let's reconnect this family with electricity! She used the LAST ounce of power on her phone to ask for help, and risked it getting stolen at an internet cafe to do so. Step up, yall. chuffed.org/project/maram
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One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
November 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
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Losing Alice feels like the ground shifting beneath us—I'm devastated—but to have known & shared even part of this life with her was an honor. She was one of the most fearless, generous & visionary disability activists. It’s impossible to measure how much she shifted the world—I feel it everywhere.
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
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November 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Losing Alice feels like the ground shifting beneath us—I'm devastated—but to have known & shared even part of this life with her was an honor. She was one of the most fearless, generous & visionary disability activists. It’s impossible to measure how much she shifted the world—I feel it everywhere.
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Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.
November 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.
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"As ICE and other federal agencies storm cities across the country in a sweeping immigration crackdown, one seismic policy change has largely flown under the radar: the assault on DACA and the more than 515,000 recipients currently in the program." https://bit.ly/49Kmtvp
Then they came for the Dreamers
Immigrants brought here as children were told they wouldn’t be deported. Now, they’re being targeted anyway.
bit.ly
November 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
"As ICE and other federal agencies storm cities across the country in a sweeping immigration crackdown, one seismic policy change has largely flown under the radar: the assault on DACA and the more than 515,000 recipients currently in the program." https://bit.ly/49Kmtvp
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spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
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seems like the easier solution is to give everyone free healthcare and pay for it by like buying 17 less missiles or taxing 53 dudes 1.8 percent more
November 10, 2025 at 12:38 AM
seems like the easier solution is to give everyone free healthcare and pay for it by like buying 17 less missiles or taxing 53 dudes 1.8 percent more
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Calling the Democrats “cowards” suggests that they're scared to do what's right when they show no fervent interest in being an opposition. They're largely colluders, not cowards. Many want their base to think they're cowards to maintain investment in the idea that they can be pushed to do better.
February 19, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Calling the Democrats “cowards” suggests that they're scared to do what's right when they show no fervent interest in being an opposition. They're largely colluders, not cowards. Many want their base to think they're cowards to maintain investment in the idea that they can be pushed to do better.
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Tonight was a very bad night.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Tonight was a very bad night.
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“A central theme of his campaign was that winning was only the beginning. This is why his team is seemingly making this two month transition process as public facing as possible.”
@premthakker.bsky.social breaks down Mamdani’s plans to make his winning agenda a reality.
🔗 zeteo.com/p/zohran-mam...
@premthakker.bsky.social breaks down Mamdani’s plans to make his winning agenda a reality.
🔗 zeteo.com/p/zohran-mam...
November 9, 2025 at 12:28 AM
“A central theme of his campaign was that winning was only the beginning. This is why his team is seemingly making this two month transition process as public facing as possible.”
@premthakker.bsky.social breaks down Mamdani’s plans to make his winning agenda a reality.
🔗 zeteo.com/p/zohran-mam...
@premthakker.bsky.social breaks down Mamdani’s plans to make his winning agenda a reality.
🔗 zeteo.com/p/zohran-mam...