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Charles Keener

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mondoweiss.net/2026/01/powe...

Power & Pushback: Activists push Elbit out of Raleigh

Activists have successfully pushed Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer out of Raleigh, North Carolina.

mondoweiss.net

January 6, 2026 at 8:44 PM

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Charles Keener

@charleskeener.bsky.social

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Atlanta Victory! 61 Charges Dismissed In Cop City RICO Case - PopularResistance.Org

Atlanta, GA – On Tuesday, December 30, after two years of local pressure and national support, a Georgia judge issued an order dismissing RICO charges against 61 activists who protested the constructi...

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January 5, 2026 at 8:54 PM

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD

@nnedi.bsky.social

This sums it up perfectly. It’s not a conversation.

“There is no ethical way to use the major AI image generators. All of them are trained on stolen images, and all of them are built for the purpose of deskilling, disempowering and replacing real human artists.”

March 4, 2024 at 2:20 AM

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Prisonculture

@prisonculture.bsky.social

We're close to $2,500 but far from our goal: gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f...

Black Zine Fair Returns in 2026 — Help Us Bring It to Life

The Black Zine Fair was founded by Mariame Kaba and Neta Bomani in 2023 to address a clear gap: Black publishers and artists have long shaped independent publishing, yet we were still underrepresented...

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December 11, 2025 at 1:11 AM

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Carl Quintanilla

@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

Page One in Cincinnati:

“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”

#ICE

November 25, 2025 at 11:16 AM

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Kim Kelly

@kimkelly.bsky.social

Out here in York, PA where @sbworkersunited.org strikers are BLOCKADING the largest Starbucks distribution center in the country to demand a fair contract!!

November 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)

@iwriteok.bsky.social

just thinking about the first time i met Dr. Goodall. I was at the Dallas Zoo and ran into her out of the blue. I told her I was a huge fan and I'll never forget her response: "I am not Jane Goodall. I'm not even a woman. Please stop shaking my hand."

that's just how Jane was, incredibly humble.

October 2, 2025 at 12:08 AM

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Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️

@aaliyahxx.bsky.social

British police arrest a disabled activist during a pro-Palestine demonstration in front of the largest Israeli weapons and drone manufacturing facility.

July 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM

aleafonthewind999.bsky.social

@aleafonthewind999.bsky.social

@postoctobrist.bsky.social remember...

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June 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb

@nkalamb.bsky.social

Renowned Greek doctor who served in Gaza: "this is a war mainly against children" because, quoting an Israeli MP, “children are their future, so it is doubly important to hit them compared to adults.”

(Translated by Google.)

www.efsyn.gr/politiki/syn...

"They want to erase the future of Gaza"
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Christos Georgalas is a renowned head and neck surgeon, professor at the University of Nicosia and a physician at a large private hospital in Athens. He is one of the few Greek doctors who have volunteered in Gaza in recent months. He was at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza for a month, as part of a mission by the British organization Medical Aid for Palestinians, from April 21, 2025 to May 21, together with a vascular surgeon and a plastic surgeon.

The second thing is my feeling that this is a war mainly against children, which cannot be explained with the well-known argument “there is a large percentage of children in Gaza, so statistically there will be many child victims”. I think that to a large extent it has to do with a targeted attack, an Israeli MP has said that “children are their future, so it is doubly important to hit them compared to adults”. However, I did not imagine that I would be able to see this policy so strongly.

May 30, 2025 at 11:57 AM

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Molly Shah

@mommunism.bsky.social

We were hoping that this letter to @bsky.app could first be shared by a Gazan, but we were too worried that doing so would get their account deleted so we are sharing first.

You can sign on to the letter about the unfair treatment of Gazans on Bluesky here:

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

[CLICK here if you would like your name added to this letter]
النسخة العربية من هذه الرسالة متاحة أدناه.

Open Letter to the Bluesky Team About Their Treatment of Palestinians in Gaza

The signatories of this letter are all members of the Bluesky community, many of us have actively participated on the platform since its inception. We came to Bluesky because it was a breath of fresh air, a place that felt different from many of the other social media platforms. The lack of a central algorithm, the ability to build and use custom feeds, and the lack of penalty for link promotion contributed to an environment that allowed diverse and interesting voices to find their footing and community on Bluesky. While some of the signatories of this letter have had no issues with speaking their mind publicly on Bluesky, unfortunately that is not true for all the signatories because many are Palestinians currently living in Gaza.

These Palestinians are journalists, artists, engineers, teachers, grandmas, entrepreneurs, a man who owned an ice cream shop, a pediatrician who has been featured on CBS Morning News, aid workers, architects, waiters, pharmacists, students–and perhaps most essential to the backbone of Bluesky, posters. All of these people provide unique and interesting voices to the Bluesky community. However, unlike the other signatories of this letter, these Bluesky community members have struggled to keep their accounts on the platform. Most of them have lost multiple accounts and/or have had their accounts labeled as spam. Some cannot even make an account without it immediately being removed from the platform.

Gazans undertake immense efforts to simply be on Bluesky. Sometimes, they walk for miles just to have access to the internet. They scale rooftops where they are exposed to potential military attacks just for the opportunity to get better cell signals–one signatory of this letter tragically lost her brother this way. They use what little money they have to pay …

Gazans have also been aggressively targeted and unfairly reported by bad actors. Many accounts openly encourage the reporting and targeting of any Palestinian. Several groups exist for the express purpose of looking for Palestinian accounts to report.

We believe Bluesky owes Gazans, and the entire community who benefits from their voices, a greater duty of care especially in the context of the horrors they are enduring. We ask Bluesky to implement the following changes:

Provide information on all Bluesky-affiliated websites in Arabic that explains the rules and expectations of the site in clear language.

Investigate the accounts that are mass-reporting Palestinians on Bluesky. The mass reporting of Palestinians on Bluesky is a group effort to render the platform a hostile place for a community based on their ethnicity. As such, it is racism, and should be understood as such. Reports against Palestinians who have broken no community guidelines must be understood as racism, and the accounts that submit those reports should be disregarded in the future.

Many Bluesky users encourage Gazans to tag or reply to them, and this is not always understood as unwelcome behavior. If an account is reported as Spam for tagging or replying to others, treat only reports from the tagged/mentioned account as legitimate, seeing as they were the only ones who received a notification.

Send emails regarding disciplinary action every time it is taken. Gazans do not always get an email explaining what they did wrong, and those that do are required to parse a language they do not speak in order to understand their violation. Have these emails contain an easily visible link to information about their violations in Arabic.

Respond to appeals in a timely fashion, many Gazans simply never hear back from Bluesky after they appeal a decision.

In addition to removing Gazans for alleged spam behavior, Bluesky has also sometimes indicated that they are deleting an account for being a scam or …

End IP bans on any account from Gaza and allow them to make new accounts where they can comply with Bluesky rules and continue to be valued members of the community.

We understand that even if all these changes are made, many Gazans may still violate Bluesky rules in the future, but we hope that Bluesky will abandon their punitive approach to these violations and instead embrace an attitude of education, cooperation and community care– one that works to ensure people in Gaza can participate in a way that keeps their voices heard.

We also call on the Bluesky community to help and support these accounts however they can. We want to continue to build a healthy community with better community members and this cannot be done if Gazans continue to be shunned. We can use this as an opportunity to show how to protect all vulnerable groups in the future.

We hope that Bluesky does not follow the path of other social media platforms and instead forges ahead with a different philosophy. After all, that is the reason so many of its users are there. Bluesky's ethos of "No Caesars” should apply to all members of its community.

[To add your name to the list of signatories, click here.]

May 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM

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Margaret Killjoy

@margaret.bsky.social

it's not every day that you can vote for an anarchist bookstore as the best independent bookstore in a mainstream publication, but it IS the next several days (you can vote for Red Emmas once a day)

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