Abeer Y. Hoque
@olivewitch.bsky.social
writer, photographer, editor, teacher, traveling fool
author of Olive Witch, a memoir
Free Palestine
author of Olive Witch, a memoir
Free Palestine
Reposted by Abeer Y. Hoque
I'm still boycotting Target for letting down its Black business brands. I've not shopped there since the spring. It costs me more money and time to find alternatives, but it's possible, plus I've found some cute local mom and pop shops to patronize!
Target said it doesn’t think holiday sales will be enough to turn around a tough year.
Target Predicting Week Holiday Sales As Consumer Angst Weighs On Season
Target said it doesn’t think holiday sales will be enough to turn around a tough year.
www.forbes.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I'm still boycotting Target for letting down its Black business brands. I've not shopped there since the spring. It costs me more money and time to find alternatives, but it's possible, plus I've found some cute local mom and pop shops to patronize!
Reposted by Abeer Y. Hoque
Feels like every time you report on the feds announcing these kinds of charges you must immediately list all the similar ones they just drop after lying about defendants for months
Federal prosecutors dismiss charges against woman shot by Border Patrol agent in Chicago
Federal prosecutors have moved to dismiss charges they brought against a woman shot by a Border Patrol agent last month amid a federal immigration crackdown in the Chicago area.
apnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Feels like every time you report on the feds announcing these kinds of charges you must immediately list all the similar ones they just drop after lying about defendants for months
Reposted by Abeer Y. Hoque
Whistles are one of the most accessible tools in resisting ICE.
Here’s how to use them:
Here’s how to use them:
November 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Whistles are one of the most accessible tools in resisting ICE.
Here’s how to use them:
Here’s how to use them:
a casino in Queens. ugh.
Our first op-ed dropped today! NYC doesn't need casinos!
Gift Link:
www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/19/o...
Gift Link:
www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/19/o...
Our great city is not for sale, even for a casino
In recent months, progressive Democratic leaders like the incoming mayor, Zohran Mamdani, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have proclaimed, “New York City is not for sale,” claiming to fight the o…
www.nydailynews.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:48 PM
a casino in Queens. ugh.
Univision & Telemundo are broadcasting Trump’s deportation messaging straight into our homes 😵💫 This is intimidation. This is fear. And they’re doing it to the very people who built their audience. 😡 We’re not staying quiet. ➡️ Tell them to pull the ads NOW 🗣️ #ApagaElOdio
app.sosha.ai/s/xDiRg2Jk
app.sosha.ai/s/xDiRg2Jk
We must defend our right to feel safe!
app.sosha.ai
November 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Univision & Telemundo are broadcasting Trump’s deportation messaging straight into our homes 😵💫 This is intimidation. This is fear. And they’re doing it to the very people who built their audience. 😡 We’re not staying quiet. ➡️ Tell them to pull the ads NOW 🗣️ #ApagaElOdio
app.sosha.ai/s/xDiRg2Jk
app.sosha.ai/s/xDiRg2Jk
Reposted by Abeer Y. Hoque
Just wow Virginia. You go girl.
Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.
November 5, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Just wow Virginia. You go girl.
Reposted by Abeer Y. Hoque
BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.
Follow AP for live updates.
Follow AP for live updates.
Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power
One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.
bit.ly
November 5, 2025 at 3:33 AM
BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.
Follow AP for live updates.
Follow AP for live updates.
Reposted by Abeer Y. Hoque
Dick Cheney is survived by his wife, two daughters, and about a dozen terrorist groups that were either created or emboldened by his wars.
November 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Dick Cheney is survived by his wife, two daughters, and about a dozen terrorist groups that were either created or emboldened by his wars.
THE NAME IS MAMDANI
November 5, 2025 at 6:49 AM
THE NAME IS MAMDANI
Reposted by Abeer Y. Hoque
Garbage plan from USDA rolling all bad beef policies they can into one:
— expand public lands grazing
— weaken ESA protections for wolves, coyotes, bears
— increase US beef production & demand
— push beef in Dietary Guidelines (influencing school food programs etc)
www.usda.gov/sites/defaul...
— expand public lands grazing
— weaken ESA protections for wolves, coyotes, bears
— increase US beef production & demand
— push beef in Dietary Guidelines (influencing school food programs etc)
www.usda.gov/sites/defaul...
October 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Garbage plan from USDA rolling all bad beef policies they can into one:
— expand public lands grazing
— weaken ESA protections for wolves, coyotes, bears
— increase US beef production & demand
— push beef in Dietary Guidelines (influencing school food programs etc)
www.usda.gov/sites/defaul...
— expand public lands grazing
— weaken ESA protections for wolves, coyotes, bears
— increase US beef production & demand
— push beef in Dietary Guidelines (influencing school food programs etc)
www.usda.gov/sites/defaul...
Mike Johnson refuses to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva — because her vote could force the House to release the Epstein Files. The GOP is doing everything they can to keep Trump's Epstein cover-up going.
October 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Mike Johnson refuses to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva — because her vote could force the House to release the Epstein Files. The GOP is doing everything they can to keep Trump's Epstein cover-up going.
Reposted by Abeer Y. Hoque
“They’re going to kill me here,” Neri Alvarado thought.
Alvarado was allegedly targeted by the Trump administration because of his tattoo of an autism awareness ribbon. Now, free from El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison, Alvarado wants the world to know what they lived through.
Alvarado was allegedly targeted by the Trump administration because of his tattoo of an autism awareness ribbon. Now, free from El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison, Alvarado wants the world to know what they lived through.
August 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
“They’re going to kill me here,” Neri Alvarado thought.
Alvarado was allegedly targeted by the Trump administration because of his tattoo of an autism awareness ribbon. Now, free from El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison, Alvarado wants the world to know what they lived through.
Alvarado was allegedly targeted by the Trump administration because of his tattoo of an autism awareness ribbon. Now, free from El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison, Alvarado wants the world to know what they lived through.
Reposted by Abeer Y. Hoque
"Share the longest period of time you’ve ever wept. Then, as a group, seat yourselves in order from shortest cry to longest cry."
Faculty Meeting Icebreakers
Write down the most common intrusive thought that keeps you up at night, but don’t include your name. Then choose a table leader to read each thoug...
buff.ly
August 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
"Share the longest period of time you’ve ever wept. Then, as a group, seat yourselves in order from shortest cry to longest cry."
Reposted by Abeer Y. Hoque
There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation. Which is why it makes my head explode when people surrender in advance verbally, which they do all the time about politics.
On Not Surrendering in Advance, or During, or At Any Point Thereafter
There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation in that context. Words have power. They not ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
August 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation. Which is why it makes my head explode when people surrender in advance verbally, which they do all the time about politics.
Reposted by Abeer Y. Hoque
How Karuk ceremonial leader Ron Reed used Western science to take down the Klamath dams #cawater mavensnotebook.com/2025/08/26/n...
NOTEBOOK FEATURE: How Karuk ceremonial leader Ron Reed used Western science to take down the Klamath dams
by Robin Meadows The Karuk people have lived in the thickly forested mountains along the Klamath River in Northern California for so long that they simply say since time immemorial. Chinook salmon wer...
mavensnotebook.com
August 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
How Karuk ceremonial leader Ron Reed used Western science to take down the Klamath dams #cawater mavensnotebook.com/2025/08/26/n...
Reposted by Abeer Y. Hoque
FROM KONSYSE: Mississippi has declared a public health emergency after infant mortality surged to the highest level in more than a decade. Black infants are dying at nearly triple the rate of white infants.
Mississippi Declares Public Health Emergency Due to Rising Infant Deaths — Konsyse
Mississippi is placed under a public health emergency by the State Department of Health
www.konsyse.com
August 26, 2025 at 3:25 AM
FROM KONSYSE: Mississippi has declared a public health emergency after infant mortality surged to the highest level in more than a decade. Black infants are dying at nearly triple the rate of white infants.
Reposted by Abeer Y. Hoque
⛔️⛔️⛔️⛔️Again and again and again, I’m being reached out my people asking if the following account is my Bluesky. Not it is not. It is a scam asking people for money.
Please do not interact with them.
Please all of you do me a favor and share this.
Please do not interact with them.
Please all of you do me a favor and share this.
August 26, 2025 at 12:14 AM
⛔️⛔️⛔️⛔️Again and again and again, I’m being reached out my people asking if the following account is my Bluesky. Not it is not. It is a scam asking people for money.
Please do not interact with them.
Please all of you do me a favor and share this.
Please do not interact with them.
Please all of you do me a favor and share this.
Reposted by Abeer Y. Hoque
www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
Postal services in Japan and Switzerland are the latest to pause shipments to the United States this week, days before an exemption for certain import taxes is about to expire.
Postal services in Japan and Switzerland are the latest to pause shipments to the United States this week, days before an exemption for certain import taxes is about to expire.
More postal services pause shipments to U.S. with 'de minimis' loophole set to expire
The crackdown on small-dollar imports has left businesses and consumers scrambling.
www.nbcnews.com
August 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
Postal services in Japan and Switzerland are the latest to pause shipments to the United States this week, days before an exemption for certain import taxes is about to expire.
Postal services in Japan and Switzerland are the latest to pause shipments to the United States this week, days before an exemption for certain import taxes is about to expire.
Reposted by Abeer Y. Hoque
Reposted by Abeer Y. Hoque
Breaking news: Kilmar Abrego García was detained by ICE on Monday after arriving at the agency’s Baltimore field office as part of a required check-in after his release pending trial on human smuggling charges, his attorney said.
Kilmar Abrego García detained by ICE days after release from custody
Kilmar Abrego García was detained by ICE after arriving at the agency’s Baltimore field office as part of a required check-in after his release pending trial on human smuggling charges, his attorney s...
wapo.st
August 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Breaking news: Kilmar Abrego García was detained by ICE on Monday after arriving at the agency’s Baltimore field office as part of a required check-in after his release pending trial on human smuggling charges, his attorney said.
Reposted by Abeer Y. Hoque
“President Trump has no authority to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook.
His attempt to fire her, based solely on a referral letter, lacks any factual or legal basis. We will be filing a lawsuit challenging this illegal action,” said Abbe Lowell, Lisa Cook’s attorney
His attempt to fire her, based solely on a referral letter, lacks any factual or legal basis. We will be filing a lawsuit challenging this illegal action,” said Abbe Lowell, Lisa Cook’s attorney
August 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
“President Trump has no authority to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook.
His attempt to fire her, based solely on a referral letter, lacks any factual or legal basis. We will be filing a lawsuit challenging this illegal action,” said Abbe Lowell, Lisa Cook’s attorney
His attempt to fire her, based solely on a referral letter, lacks any factual or legal basis. We will be filing a lawsuit challenging this illegal action,” said Abbe Lowell, Lisa Cook’s attorney
Reposted by Abeer Y. Hoque
My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.
August 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.
Reposted by Abeer Y. Hoque
Kyiv.
I stood under these clouds earlier today
and thought
you need to see this.
I stood under these clouds earlier today
and thought
you need to see this.
August 26, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Kyiv.
I stood under these clouds earlier today
and thought
you need to see this.
I stood under these clouds earlier today
and thought
you need to see this.