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Marisa Kabas broke the biggest story of Trump’s second term last night, beating NYT and WaPo to the scoop. If you’re wondering whether independent media has what it takes to hold Trump to account, the answer is yes.
“There’s still this idea that news is only ‘real’ once it’s confirmed by big corporate outlets. After all, could one woman with absolutely zero institutional backing in leggings and a sweatshirt in her NYC apartment really be the one to break such an important story? Now we know the answer is yes.”
Breaking: The Handbasket is first to report catastrophic OMB funding memo
Posted on Bluesky earlier this evening, other major outlets have since confirmed.
www.thehandbasket.co
January 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Pretty amazing that nonprofit Watch Duty -- which says it has 150 volunteers working around the clock to track wildfires -- has become the most trusted source of information on LA fires. Operated by retired/volunteer firefighters, dispatchers, and reporters. Real people.

www.watchduty.org
Watch Duty - Wildfire Maps & Alerts
Watch Duty, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, alerts you of nearby wildfires and firefighting efforts in real-time.
www.watchduty.org
January 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Galen Buckwalter, 68, shared with me his harrowing tale of being forced to flee the Eaton fire alone on his wheelchair through dark streets and fierce winds, dodging debris as fire neared his home.

“In emergencies, disabled people are the last to get services…We have no system. You’re on your own”
Fleeing the LA fires alone on a wheelchair: ‘I had to take my chances’
An evacuation order when the Eaton fire threatened Galen Buckwalter’s Sierra Madre home triggered a nightmare odyssey through chaotic streets
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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It's hard to imagine a more brutal illustration of climate injustice and a failed society than indentured teenage slaves being used to protect the homes of wealthy Americans.
These teenagers and young men — 95% of whom are Black, Latinx, or Filipino — earn between $2.20 and $4 per hour, plus an additional $1 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires, according to the DJJ. ⤵️
In California, Incarcerated Teenagers Help Fight Wildfires
"You’re put in danger every time you’re on the fire line.”
www.teenvogue.com
January 9, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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We're almost 90% to the goal for @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social's Dreams on a Pillow - a game about Palestine, made by a Palestinian, literally risking his life under violent apartheid to make this game and tell this suppressed story.

8 days left. Please help him out.

launchgood.com/1948
Dreams on a Pillow - a videogame experience about the 1948 Nakba, based on a true story | LaunchGood
A pseudo-3D stealth adventure game about a land full of people being made into a people without land
launchgood.com
January 6, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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I finally got a library card after 10+ years of not having one! So I can finally check out ebooks to my kindle and audible.

Get a library card!! Read!! Do it!! 📚
January 6, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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i would be unstoppable if not for the tired sleepys
#OCsky #digitalart #cuteart

{ #strawbunnycakeart }
December 19, 2024 at 12:45 AM
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May the two of them be reunited in death. May Allah rest his broken soul. May these genocidal Zionists, those who arm them, those who protect them, and those who support them face true justice.
December 17, 2024 at 3:45 AM
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Really grim. He murdered a man for being homeless, and got away with it because the man was homeless. We should be clear about this and the fascist implications here.
A judge has dismissed the manslaughter charge against Daniel Penny, who is accused of choking Jordan Neely to death on a NYC subway train
Judge dismisses manslaughter charge against Daniel Penny in subway chokehold trial
The jury said it was unable to come to a unanimous decision on the charge of manslaughter.
gothamist.com
December 6, 2024 at 9:51 PM
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Your support helps me commission more writers reporting justly on Palestine, especially those sending us testimonies during the genocide in Gaza. If you have used our work in anyway, please donate or share 💟🇵🇸
You read testimonies from Gaza. You explored our daily summaries during the genocide. You reposted our coverage & cited our scholarship. Our knowledge production has been crucial for your work in the movement for Palestine. Help us maintain it, donate: tinyurl.com/Donate2IPS
December 3, 2024 at 8:54 PM
name a video game you have 100+ hours of gameplay in. 🎮

#blackskygamers
December 2, 2024 at 4:40 AM
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Every #WorldAIDSDay, I honor Bob Finney, the ACLU Southern California photographer and next door neighbor who planted the seeds of my love of photography. He was there when I was born, and I miss him still.

I dedicated my latest #BlackStudies article to him.

read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
The Cosmos Is a Black Aesthetic
This essay begins with the premise that Evelynn Hammonds’s highly cited “Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality” provides a reading strategy that has largely been ignored by subsequ...
read.dukeupress.edu
December 1, 2024 at 3:40 PM
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To all of you who has supported @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social's Dreams of a Pillow already: thank you so so so much for being a part of this ever-improbable dream of a Palestinian developer making a Palestinian game about Palestinian stories.

Read up, signal boost, support at launchgood.com/1948
November 30, 2024 at 5:17 AM
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I want to make a personal appeal for the beautiful new game of Palestinian gamedev @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social. As nobody will fund a game about the 1948 Nakba, Rasheed is crowdfunding via launchgood.com/1948. I've been doing production advice on the game pro bono, and it deserves to exist.
An appeal for Dreams on a Pillow
YouTube video by Rami Ismail
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2024 at 2:01 PM
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books are a lifeline for incarcerated people. join me in donating to a program with a crucial and direct impact.
November 27, 2024 at 3:43 AM
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I have a lot of complex feelings watching myself struggle to make coherent sense of how I feel amidst an industry that has dehumanized my people while the Palestinian genocide shows the results of that dehumanisation. A beautiful documentary by @hippolyte.bsky.social.

youtu.be/g7488to6Jpc?...
The blood on our Controllers - The Complicity of the Game Industry in the Palestinian Genocide
YouTube video by Hippolyte 🪐
youtu.be
November 26, 2024 at 12:22 AM