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Co-sign x 100 👇🏻❤️🏳️‍⚧️
esqueer.net Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 9h
HAPPY FUCKING NEW YEARS

TRANS LIBERATION

DEFEND TRANS LIVES
Alt text: A person takes a playful selfie in a dimly lit bar, sticking out their tongue and flashing a peace sign. They have short curly hair with one side shaved and a septum piercing. Behind them, a neon sign reads “Henrietta Hudson NYC,” with visible signs saying “Trans Liberation” and “Defend Trans Lives,” and shelves of bottles glowing under pink and purple lights.
January 1, 2026 at 7:03 AM
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democracynow.org
Humanitarian aid workers are calling out Israel's decision to suspend dozens of aid groups' operating licenses in Gaza and the West Bank over alleged ties to Hamas. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/31/gaza
December 31, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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fisherdanar.bsky.social
The folks at The Guardian are really getting climate coverage right (while so many other outlets are flailing).

A great final read about our warming world and its effects in the US on the last day of 2025:

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How the climate crisis showed up in Americans’ lives this year: ‘The shift has been swift and stark’
Guardian US readers share how global heating and biodiversity loss affected their lives in ways that don’t always make the headlines
www.theguardian.com
December 31, 2025 at 5:13 PM
loughnot.bsky.social
❤️❤️❤️
Happy new year!
calvin-and-hobbes.bsky.social Calvin and Hobbes @calvin-and-hobbes.bsky.social · 1d
On December 31, 1995, Bill Watterson published the final 'Calvin & Hobbes' comic strip. #CalvinandHobbes
December 31, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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jamellebouie.net
December 31, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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lataco.bsky.social
ICE Returns to Santa Maria for Fourth Day in a Row; At Least 40 Taken
December 31, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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abradacabla.bsky.social
“Buy our home security package named after someone who was utterly destroyed by a back door break-in he didn’t see coming because he was focused solely on the front door.”
December 29, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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jamellebouie.net
for the longest time on twitter my bio was “the real racist” as a joke about this dynamic.
chadstanton.blacksky.app Doghouse Reilly @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5d
And that’s part of the problem a lot of people assume Black thinkers are simply acting out of revenge and hatred against white people rather than examining and exploring the dynamics within their communities and larger context.
December 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
loughnot.bsky.social
I think a big part of the political problem in the US is that we never had accountability for our n@2!5 and we memory-holed them so that people don’t understand many supporters of the modern GOP are the heirs of these racist monsters. 1/2
December 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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jlray.bsky.social
unironically a good idea
December 27, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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50501movement.bsky.social
(Hot Take TM) Providing mutual aid as part of campaign work is a good thing that candidates should do more.
katmabu.bsky.social Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 5d
🧵 Our mutual aid hub has been a HUGE draw for our immense volunteer base, many of whom have never wanted to be involved politics before now.

This model isn’t just about the immediate impacts: It’s about showing our values, building a community, and reaching voters — without selling our soul!
whstancil.bsky.social Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 5d
Turning campaigns into mutual aid hubs isn’t good for campaigns or mutual aid! Your campaign manager should be entirely too busy to schlep around 5600 tampons!
December 27, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
When the 18th-century writer Samuel Johnson asked why “we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes,” he was identifying no mere contradiction, but liberty as it was imagined by men who owned other human beings as property. Slaveholders such as John Calhoun saw slavery as inseparable from their own freedom, and they worried that the false doctrine of abolitionism would eliminate that freedom away. “Already it has taken possession of the pulpit, of the schools, and, to a considerable extent, of the press; those great instruments by which the mind of the rising generation will be formed,” Calhoun said. (It seems the “woke mind virus” was telling lies about the great and benevolent institution of American slavery as far back as two centuries ago.) Defending slavery, however, required invasive uses of power, such as banning antislavery literature and returning escaped Black people to bondage. Many white Americans in the 19th century began to understand that the “Slave Power” curtailed their freedoms as well. And this is what many people forget: Systems of domination rarely spread their blessings widely. The Redemption-era revocation of Black freedoms didn’t result in prosperity for white people writ large, but a Gilded Age in which the upper classes gained unfathomable wealth and economic crises left millions destitute. The nation may have held on to white supremacy, but it also got low wages, a threadbare welfare state, and a society dominated by the rich. Everyone else was too divided by race and class to challenge them.
December 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
The body cam footage from Beker’s arrest has been released.

“Hey, this is Officer Hingiss with the Whitefish Police Department. Just out with a male that only speaks Spanish, wondering if you want to check him?”

flatheadbeacon.com/2025/12/19/c...
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Apr 25
NEW — I wrote about Beker Rengifo, a Montana resident from Venezuela who was taken by ICE on Thursday after a routine traffic stop, and how local law enforcement is working with the feds to ensnare people with legal status.
ICE abducts Montana resident with legal humanitarian status
Beker Rengifo is the latest victim of Trump's reckless and illegal war on migrants.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 21, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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resistlist.bsky.social
The people have created an alert system - using horns and whistles - to protect communities during ICE raids— and it’s working ❤️‍🔥
motherjones.com Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12d
When Customs and Border Protection and Commander Gregory Bovino move into town, so does Whistlemania.

Activists create and distribute thousands of 3D-printed whistles, and their piercing cries are used to signal that immigration agents are nearby.
The horns and whistles work
What it's like to watch community activists stand up to a Border Patrol raid.
www.motherjones.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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benpatrickwill.bsky.social
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Powerful
December 18, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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chadloder.bsky.social
Boris Gurman and Sofia Gurman. 💔 They died Al Kiddush Hashem. May their memory be a blessing and a shield.
Couple in dashcam footage who tried to fight off Bondi shooter identified as Boris and Sofia Gurman
Dashcam footage shows the moment Boris Gurman tackles shooter Sajid Akram and wrests a gun from him
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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muellershewrote.com
Nothing more than perceived wealth that doesn’t exist for the purposes of taxes, but magically does for the purposes of leverage. Meanwhile, the rest of us pay real taxes on low wages and can’t leverage shit. The game is rigged. Tax the rich.
forbes.com Forbes @forbes.com · 16d
The world’s richest person just hit another major milestone thanks to the soaring valuation of his rocket maker SpaceX.

Full story: www.forbes.com/sites/mattdu... (Photo: Kevin Winter via Getty Images)
December 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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anysusan.bsky.social
Bad news for Venezuela. And once again, Marisa called it months ago.
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16d
NEW — Trump has signed an executive order "designating illicit fentanyl and its core precursor chemical as weapons of mass destruction (WMD)." www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

As a reminder, The Handbasket had the scoop that this was coming back in MARCH:
Trump to declare 'illicit' fentanyl 'Weapon of Mass Destruction,' per draft EO
A copy of the draft was obtained and reviewed by The Handbasket.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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tylerhuckabee.bsky.social
this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
December 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
loughnot.bsky.social
This is some great Torah.
theradr.bsky.social Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 16d
History rhymes HARD sometimes.

What an ancient rebellion--

and a medieval midrash featuring ancient surveillance & a desperate bride named Hannah bat Mattisyahu, a heroine kindling revolt--

can teach us about not only igniting,

but winning, against the moral evils in our midst today:
Moral Kindling
how the Maccabees -and we- ignite in the face of tyranny
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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esqueer.net
When Charlie Kirk was shot, he did a full oval office address. When it's college kids on campus it's "things can happen." What a sociopath.
Trump sits at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, speaking toward the camera, with U.S. flags and framed family photos behind him. An ABC News lower-third reads, “PRESIDENT TRUMP RELEASES VIDEO STATEMENT AFTER FATAL SHOOTING OF CHARLIE KIRK ON UTAH COLLEGE CAMPUS,” with an ABC News logo in the top right and “Donald J. Trump / TruthSocial” credit in the bottom right.
December 14, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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ocasio-cortez.house.gov
I am horrified by the attack on a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, Australia. My thoughts are with the victims and our Jewish communities in NYC mourning. As antisemitism rises across the world, we have a moral obligation to stamp it out everywhere it exists.
December 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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cwebbonline.com
There hasn’t been enough appreciation for how thoroughly BENNIE THOMPSON humiliated FBI official GLASHEEN after he tried to sell the lie that ANTIFA is the top domestic terror threat.

The claim collapsed because it’s a cover.

Check my latest…
open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...
December 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
The attack at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney today was a vile act of antisemitic terror. I mourn those who were murdered and will be keeping their families, the Jewish community, and the Chabad movement in my prayers. May the memories of all those killed be a blessing. While we are still waiting for all the facts to emerge, what we already know is devastating. At least 11 dead, including Rabbi Eli Schlanger, who held deep ties to Crown Heights. At least 29 injured. Another Jewish community plunged into mourning and loss, a holiday of light so painfully reduced to a day of darkness. This attack is merely the latest, most horrifying iteration in a growing pattern of violence targeted at Jewish people across the world. Too many no longer feel safe to be themselves, to express their faith publicly, to worship in their synagogues without armed security stationed outside. What happened at Bondi is what many Jewish people fear will happen in their communities too. On Bondi Beach today, as men with long guns targeted innocents, another man ran towards the gunfire and disarmed a shooter. Tonight, as Jewish New Yorkers light menorahs and usher in a first night of Hanukkah clouded by grief, let us look to his example and confront hatred with the urgency and action it demands. When I am Mayor, I will work every day to keep Jewish New Yorkers safe—on our streets, our subways, at shul, in every moment of every day. Let this be a purpose shared by every New Yorker, and let us banish this horrific violence to the past.
December 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM