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Saum Haas she/her
@nsomniasaum.bsky.social
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Independent scholar. Anticaste savarna. Abolitionist. Lives with horses, swords, overwhelming rage, and a traumatic brain injury.

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The only reason we have to “protect trans people” is because we (cis people) maintain a violent system that makes them unsafe.
graphic with blue, pink, and white horizontal stripes. reads: Transgender Awareness Week of November 13 - November 19 Day of Remembrance, November 20
November 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Let us be a sheltering canopy for those who have watered our roots.
Photo description: POV looking up at tree canopy. A larger maple with green leaves and smaller maple with autumn yellow leaves. Bright blue sky can be seen through the leaves.
November 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Screenshot description Post by: Martha Figueroa Coach Abed Update: Coach Abeds family remains together and are hopeful that the illegal seige of Palestines access to the Mediterranean ends soon. In the meantime, they are experiencing some difficulties breathing as the air quality is very poor due to the daily bombs. They are currently seeking support for the following and I promised to pass it along: - under garments ($180) - tomatoes ($45) - bag of flour ($600, but $100 has already been collected)
September 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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I’ve been learning Arabic, and I’m on the section for food.

While I sound out
Falafel
Tabbouleh
Kebab

I think of my friends in Gaza.

I think about how long it has been - and how long it will be - before they, and their children, will eat any of these things.

Please, help if you can.
Screenshot from language learning app, showing a cartoon Black person with a yellow hair scarf, yellow shirt, and blue pants. There is a speech bubble with some Arabic words. Above that it says: Translate this sentence Translation below in English: I must eat
September 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Please enjoy this picture of a Spicebush swallowtail / green-clouded butterfly, Papilio troilus, on Eastern Purple coneflower, Echinacea purpurea, and share this post because my friend needs a kidney.

kidney4naomi.info
Photo description: a black butterfly with blue-green markings and white spots along its wings, perched on a purple-pink flower. Background is blurry grass and yellow flowers.
September 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Truth coming from the well, armed with her whip to chastise humanity.

“La Vérité sortant du puits armée de son martinet pour châtier l'humanité,”
Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1896.
Image description: a European oil painting in a realistic style. A pale-skinned, nude woman climbs out of a stone well in the corner of a courtyard, her mouth open in a wail. She is looking directly at the viewer. In one hand she holds a scourge (whip). Background shows some greenery on a stone wall, and a pulley system with a rope and bucket.
September 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Satisfying. Got rid of some invasive Cirsium vulgare, Bull/Spear Thistle. This thing was as tall as me.

#PlantNative
#NativeHabitatRestoration
#ProtectEcoSystems
#ThisIsStolenLand
Photo description: a cart overflowing with a prickly plant with some half-open purple-pink flowers, in an asphalt driveway.
August 6, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Periodic reminder that the only reason we have to “protect trans people” is because we (cis people) built and maintain a system of centrifugal force that violently flings people to the margins.

Scroll for some ways to support trans people.
Photo description: selfie of a brown skinned woman with messy black hair in a braid, holding up an red insulated coffee mug with a sticker in trans pride colors (blue, pink, white) that says You will have to go through me Background is the outside of a light blue barn with dark blue trim
August 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Ten seconds of respite. Sending cooling rain to all who need it.
July 31, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Chances are, I will never shut up.
#FreePalestine
Image description: A brightly colored (1980s inspired) image of a dolphin leaping out of water, with rainbow and hearts. Text reads: One day I’ll shutup but not today because Free Palestine
July 31, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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How are you taking care of yourself? I’ve been listening to music and drawing for an hour or so before bed. It’s helping me stay away from socials & news so I have a better chance of sleep.
An abstract drawing, in bright colors, of interwoven patterns
July 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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“I myself am heaven and hell.”
-Omar Khayyam

Here at the bottom of the pasture, we have a mix of swamp milkweed
(Asclepias incarnata) and other native plants, being overrun by invasive bittersweet (Celastrus orbiculatus).
Photo description: vines and other plants growing around electric fencing. Background is a sunny, sloping pasture and line of trees Photo description: swamp milkweed, tall plants with green seed pods at the top, growing amid grass Photo description: close up of Oriental bittersweet, dense vines with woody stems
July 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Screenshot from weather app, white text on blue background 92 degrees Real Feel 107 [degrees Fahrenheit]
July 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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I live in Massachusetts. As I cool down the horses, I’m thinking of my fellow humans with no shelter, no (clean) water, no air conditioning. Climate change is a killer. Privilege insulates me.
July 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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My greatest struggle is to transform the hatred in, and of, my own mind and body and heart. Love starts at home.

Image via @atypical-poltical.bsky.social

#FreePalestine #ResistFascism
white writing in Arabic with English translation, on black background إلى من لم تاييأس To those who haven’t given up الحب مقاومة Love is resistance
July 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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In my front yard native plant meadow in Massachusetts.

Great Golden Digger Wasp, Sphex ichneumoneus
& Two-spotted Bumble Bee, Bombus bimaculatus
on Butterfly weed, Asclepias tuberosa.

Please ignore the lurking Big Leaf Lupine, Lupinus polyphyllus. I fucked up.

#NativePlants #ThisIsStolenLand
Close up of Butterfly Weed: bright orange flowers made up of many tiny clusters. On the right side is a wasp, on the left is a bumblebee. Some green plants are in the background.
July 12, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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My mom got me a new bow for my birthday!! Looking forward to trying it on horseback.

Sound ON for a satisfying thunk
July 12, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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“Horse teeth hold historical clues about military power and trade in Western Africa.”

Innovative research by Elyse Venerable, a Black woman undergrad.

news.ucsc.edu/2025/06/hors...
A colorized historic photo of Oyo Empire leaders and horses.
June 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Sending fierce hugs to my trans siblings. I’m so sorry. I’m with you.

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Purple text on blue, pink, and white background: “We don’t fight because we think we’re going to win; we fight because it’s how we hold on to what makes us human”
June 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Brown text on red background: Do you want to give $80 Billion to ICE? Don’t tell me. Tell your senators.
June 18, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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May we be haunted.

A young poet, Parnia Abbasi, and her family were killed in Tehran by an Israeli bomb.
The Extinguished Star Parnia Abbasi tr. Ghazal Mosadeq I wept for the both for you and for me you blow at the stars, my tears in your world the freedom of light in mine The chase of shadows you and I will come to an end somewhere the most beautiful poem in the world falls quiet you begin somewhere to cry the murmur of life but I will end I burn I'll be that extinguished star In your sky like smoke Parnia Abbasi, an Iranian women, holding a large bouquet of flowers and looking down at them
June 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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My heart is heavy. Sending love to my home state of Minnesota.

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map of Minnesota in black, on a white background. A red heart marks the Minneapolis/St Paul metro area
June 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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She eats emperors too.

Image credit @ oneradlatina (Instagram)
Black and white drawing of a silhouetted woman with six arms. She wears a crown and a halo. Her leaf-patterned garment is long and full. A butterfly is next to her and in one hand she holds a globe. Around her are plants and ruined ancient buildings in Greek and Roman styles. Text reads: My Mother Eats Empires
June 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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This passed the House by ONE vote. We can stop it in the Senate. Please let Republican Senators know how you feel.

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Image description: white text on black background: 'Hidden' provision in Trump's big bill could disarm US Supreme Court
June 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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This garbage passed the House by ONE vote. Please, contact Republican senators and tell them how you feel

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Description: dark blue text on pink & blue background: ‘Big Beautiful Bill will ban federally funded gender-affirming care for trans people
May 31, 2025 at 4:38 PM