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Resharing Samaa's fundraiser as her accounts on the app keep getting deleted... please keep helping her and her family as much as you can 💕💸🍉
Help Baha and his family rebuild their home and meet their d
Lying on my back feeling helpless and powerless, I decided to tell you my story from the beginning.
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November 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Okay, Ezra is confirming that he's hearing D senators are actually plotting to cave to Trump and end the shutdown WITHOUT any extension of the ACA, just a promise of a vote later down the line.

Call your senators, friends, NOW, and tell them NO DEAL without ACA funding!

Find them here: reps.fyi
November 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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I just made my calls to Schumer and Gillibrand. PLEASE call your senators and tell them NO DEAL without ACA funding.

#DidThisToday

Find your senators here: reps.fyi
November 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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I told Schumer and Gillibrand that a "promise" of a vote on ACA funding from Rs is worth NOTHING. You cannot trust them on ANYTHING. No deal without funding the ACA.

If they cut this deal and ACA funding is cut, they will be responsible for the deaths of people who can no longer afford insurance.
November 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
WTAF @captmarkkelly.bsky.social

Do NOT vote yes today. You’d be betraying so many Arizonans who trust you.
CALL ALL OF THEM. SAY PRIMARY.

"Sens. Jacky Rosen (Nev.), Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), Mark Kelly (Ariz.),Jon Ossoff (Ga.), Gary Peters (Mich.) &Dick Durbin (Ill.) were among the Democrats who participated in secretive negotiations to end the shutdown & are considered possible “yes” votes for the deal."
November 9, 2025 at 10:07 PM
US-based folks, here is something you can do today to help the resistance:

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November 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!

Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.

Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!

#MundaneHalloween
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives
November 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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November 1, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Food banks are going to need even more help than usual when 41.7 million Americans lose SNAP on Nov 1 because of the Republican shutdown of the US government. If you can help in any amount, please do. You can find a nearby food bank using www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
October 26, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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NEVER FORGET: In July 2025, the GOP passed the BBB with $75B in additional, multi-year funding to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

BUT the GOP Congress will NOT negotiate to EXTEND ACA Subsidies for 20M+ Americans for $32B. #GOPPriorities
October 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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If you don’t remember the flour massacre this is a story about it- Anwar’s husband was killed while waiting on aid www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
October 23, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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If you're in the Bay and feeling paralyzed in the face of the oncoming ICE raids, here's a link to a stellar mobilization webinar that ran yesterday. It's incredibly grounding, practical & tactical, and will give you the guidance and resources to do what you can, where you can.
Stay Out of the Bay Mobilization Call
YouTube video by We Are California
www.youtube.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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It's a good time to reup this thread.

Our neighbors are going to be in greater need than ever very soon, if they aren't already, in which case they'll be in even greater-greater need.

If you're in a position to donate stuff, some thoughts on best practices for donations:
🧵Today I gathered a bunch of books that I'm finally admitting I won't read + books I've read but know I won't read/reference again; I'll be donating to a community library suggested by a friend who's the ED of a big anti-hunger org/food pantry in the area.

SOME GUIDELINES FOR DONATING ACTUAL STUFF:
October 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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And if you donate, please donate money (if you can) - food banks get a LOT more bang for your buck.

As my friend the ED of a food pantry says: Every $1 you give can provide as many as 3 meals.
And donate/volunteer at food banks now.
Remember, as SNAP is about to end, the standing rule remains firm:

If you see someone stealing diapers or formula no you didn't.
October 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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And donate/volunteer at food banks now.
Remember, as SNAP is about to end, the standing rule remains firm:

If you see someone stealing diapers or formula no you didn't.
October 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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In the event of an encounter with immigration agents in the East Bay, make sure you and your family know your rights. (1/2)
October 23, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Each county in the Bay Area has its own hotline for reporting and verifying ICE activity. In Alameda County, it's ACILEP at (510) 241-4011, in San Francisco, it's Rapid Response at 415-200-1548.

For other counties see immigrants.sf.gov/help/rapid-r...
If you live in San Francisco, today is a good day to familiarize yourself with the San Francisco Rapid Response Network, which has a 24-hour hotline for reporting ICE raids, actually verifies those raid reports, and does attorney activation: sfilen.org/resources/sf...
SFILEN
San Francisco Immigrant Legal & Education Network
sfilen.org
October 23, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Please, please donate to all the food banks in your area, as much as you can. Money helps them the most tbh, but if all else fails, canned and dry goods that are not expired can help, too.
Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
projects.propublica.org
October 23, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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If you plan on going to any protests, please, please, PLEASE implement some personal digital security protocols beforehand and encourage others to do the same.

I recommend these checklists (next few posts in thread):
October 16, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

by @nicolefoy.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
If you plan on going to any protests, please, please, PLEASE implement some personal digital security protocols beforehand and encourage others to do the same.

I recommend these checklists (next few posts in thread):
October 16, 2025 at 11:26 PM