Tara Houska
@zhaabowekwe.bsky.social
ojibwe. mama bear. land defender. founder @giniwcollective. co-founder @notyourmascots. words @nytimes @vogue @cnn. zhaabo@gmail.com
Haven’t seen them dance like this in years. I’m not saying it’s Mamdani but dang. Hope ✨
November 6, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Haven’t seen them dance like this in years. I’m not saying it’s Mamdani but dang. Hope ✨
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Until now, Social Security disability benefits got easier to qualify for as a person reached 50+. A new Trump plan would end that.
Under the plan, millions, particularly in red states, could find it more difficult to qualify for disability benefits in the future.
➡️ More: propub.li/4oeO7VO
Under the plan, millions, particularly in red states, could find it more difficult to qualify for disability benefits in the future.
➡️ More: propub.li/4oeO7VO
November 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Until now, Social Security disability benefits got easier to qualify for as a person reached 50+. A new Trump plan would end that.
Under the plan, millions, particularly in red states, could find it more difficult to qualify for disability benefits in the future.
➡️ More: propub.li/4oeO7VO
Under the plan, millions, particularly in red states, could find it more difficult to qualify for disability benefits in the future.
➡️ More: propub.li/4oeO7VO
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For any unfamiliar with the quality of journalism at Teen Vogue, it's well known for hard-hitting stories on "politically sensitive" topics including climate.
Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.
Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.
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.
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 8:25 PM
For any unfamiliar with the quality of journalism at Teen Vogue, it's well known for hard-hitting stories on "politically sensitive" topics including climate.
Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.
Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.
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I am so upset.
Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/
Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/
To be asked to write about racism only to be racially aggressed in the editing process is a new level unlocked I have to say.
November 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I am so upset.
Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/
Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/
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It’s truly scary how few mainstream publications are willing to publish working class voices and perspectives (let alone leftist ones), and every one we lose is yet another blow to the fragile hope for a better world
November 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
It’s truly scary how few mainstream publications are willing to publish working class voices and perspectives (let alone leftist ones), and every one we lose is yet another blow to the fragile hope for a better world
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Tonight, in Chicago, North Side rapid responders and community members held a vigil. At least ten people were abducted by ICE in Rogers Park alone today. We uplifted the message RESIST ICE in lights. We spoke out, sang together, grieved, and reaffirmed our commitment to defending our neighbors.
November 4, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Tonight, in Chicago, North Side rapid responders and community members held a vigil. At least ten people were abducted by ICE in Rogers Park alone today. We uplifted the message RESIST ICE in lights. We spoke out, sang together, grieved, and reaffirmed our commitment to defending our neighbors.
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Rio de Janeiro Mourns After 121 People Killed in Unprecedented Police Operation
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October 28, 2025, will be remembered as one of the saddest episodes in recent Brazilian history, especially for residents of the state of Rio de Janeiro. At least 121 people were killed in one of the ...
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November 4, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Rio de Janeiro Mourns After 121 People Killed in Unprecedented Police Operation
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thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
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Brett Kavanaugh's behavior during today's second oral arguments has been incredibly obnoxious and rude. He is so eager to kill a service member's lawsuit against a negligent government contractor that he keeps interrupting other justices, raising his voice, and getting emotional. Weird and erratic.
November 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Brett Kavanaugh's behavior during today's second oral arguments has been incredibly obnoxious and rude. He is so eager to kill a service member's lawsuit against a negligent government contractor that he keeps interrupting other justices, raising his voice, and getting emotional. Weird and erratic.
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“In Israel, Leaking Evidence of Rape Is a Bigger Scandal Than Raping a Palestinian”
According to Israel and its supporters, the scandal is not the vile sexual assault depicted in a leaked video last year – it’s that someone released the tape, writes Minnah Arshad for Zeteo:
According to Israel and its supporters, the scandal is not the vile sexual assault depicted in a leaked video last year – it’s that someone released the tape, writes Minnah Arshad for Zeteo:
In Israel, Leaking Evidence of Rape Is a Bigger Scandal Than Raping a Palestinian
According to Israel and its supporters, the scandal is not the vile assault depicted in a leaked video last year – it’s that someone released the tape.
zeteo.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:35 AM
“In Israel, Leaking Evidence of Rape Is a Bigger Scandal Than Raping a Palestinian”
According to Israel and its supporters, the scandal is not the vile sexual assault depicted in a leaked video last year – it’s that someone released the tape, writes Minnah Arshad for Zeteo:
According to Israel and its supporters, the scandal is not the vile sexual assault depicted in a leaked video last year – it’s that someone released the tape, writes Minnah Arshad for Zeteo:
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A few days after the presidential election one year ago, we went to Fordham Road in the Bronx.
It was a little different last week.
It was a little different last week.
November 3, 2025 at 10:40 PM
A few days after the presidential election one year ago, we went to Fordham Road in the Bronx.
It was a little different last week.
It was a little different last week.
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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.
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
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.
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.
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
November 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.
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A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.
September 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.
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Recent reporting alleges that civilian men are impersonating ICE agents to kidnap and sexually assault immigrant women, with cases in North Carolina and New York.
Unmasking ICE agents is important, but it’s a Band-Aid on a broader, systemic crisis. Read @kylietcheung.bsky.social's full Op-Ed ⤵️
Unmasking ICE agents is important, but it’s a Band-Aid on a broader, systemic crisis. Read @kylietcheung.bsky.social's full Op-Ed ⤵️
How ICE Raids Are Making It Easier for Civilian Men to Assault Immigrant Women
"This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies," argues Kylie Cheung.
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September 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Recent reporting alleges that civilian men are impersonating ICE agents to kidnap and sexually assault immigrant women, with cases in North Carolina and New York.
Unmasking ICE agents is important, but it’s a Band-Aid on a broader, systemic crisis. Read @kylietcheung.bsky.social's full Op-Ed ⤵️
Unmasking ICE agents is important, but it’s a Band-Aid on a broader, systemic crisis. Read @kylietcheung.bsky.social's full Op-Ed ⤵️
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Sickening behavior by this agent. The fact that Mayor Adams has rolled out the red carpet for ICE is a stain on our city.
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
September 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Sickening behavior by this agent. The fact that Mayor Adams has rolled out the red carpet for ICE is a stain on our city.
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If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.
September 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.
The real numbers will come out, the dust will settle and the world will see the true horror of what has been enabled by the West. The blood will never come off. It still flows, this moment.
All of those lives, all of those families, an entire civilization spanning countless generations.
All of those lives, all of those families, an entire civilization spanning countless generations.
September 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The real numbers will come out, the dust will settle and the world will see the true horror of what has been enabled by the West. The blood will never come off. It still flows, this moment.
All of those lives, all of those families, an entire civilization spanning countless generations.
All of those lives, all of those families, an entire civilization spanning countless generations.
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"About 52% of the patients that I’m operating on are [gunshot wounds], and the other half are explosive injuries."
“Single Shots to the Head”: U.S. Veteran, Volunteer Surgeon Sees “Extermination of a People” in Gaza
As Israel continues its full-fledged military ground invasion of Gaza City, Democracy Now! speaks with Kathleen Gallagher, a U.S. military veteran and general surgeon currently volunteering in Gaza, who describes the scene on the ground from Nasser Hosp...
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September 21, 2025 at 2:01 AM
"About 52% of the patients that I’m operating on are [gunshot wounds], and the other half are explosive injuries."
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CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball
Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.
Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.
September 20, 2025 at 2:22 AM
CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball
Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.
Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.
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Andrew Cuomo going on Fox News to accuse Zohran Mamdani of caring about “woke issues” and talk about how much he’s scared of the subway seems like a pretty clear sign that he has abandoned the Democratic Party.
August 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Andrew Cuomo going on Fox News to accuse Zohran Mamdani of caring about “woke issues” and talk about how much he’s scared of the subway seems like a pretty clear sign that he has abandoned the Democratic Party.
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Republicans: disappear people off the streets and rendition them to El Salvador, crash the economy, build concentration camp in the Everglades, declare martial law in DC, eliminate cancer and vaccine research, align with Russia, disenfranchise Black people, tank in the polls
Political pundits:
Political pundits:
August 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Republicans: disappear people off the streets and rendition them to El Salvador, crash the economy, build concentration camp in the Everglades, declare martial law in DC, eliminate cancer and vaccine research, align with Russia, disenfranchise Black people, tank in the polls
Political pundits:
Political pundits:
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Support your public library. Defend your public library. Slay the enemies of your public library.
August 19, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Support your public library. Defend your public library. Slay the enemies of your public library.
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Giniw Collective is Farm Family of the Year!
Food is a core part of our energy and focus — food is revolutionary. Lessons and relationships in mutuality, in care, in community.
Miigwech to all of the hands, hoofs, and hearts who have helped over the years ❤️
#GrumblesGarden #FoodNotBombs
Food is a core part of our energy and focus — food is revolutionary. Lessons and relationships in mutuality, in care, in community.
Miigwech to all of the hands, hoofs, and hearts who have helped over the years ❤️
#GrumblesGarden #FoodNotBombs
August 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Giniw Collective is Farm Family of the Year!
Food is a core part of our energy and focus — food is revolutionary. Lessons and relationships in mutuality, in care, in community.
Miigwech to all of the hands, hoofs, and hearts who have helped over the years ❤️
#GrumblesGarden #FoodNotBombs
Food is a core part of our energy and focus — food is revolutionary. Lessons and relationships in mutuality, in care, in community.
Miigwech to all of the hands, hoofs, and hearts who have helped over the years ❤️
#GrumblesGarden #FoodNotBombs