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sam rise
@samantharise.bsky.social
gender creative songcatcher, movement hype guy, bookworm, radical imagination enthusiast & abolitionist. Lover and a fighter. Philly: forever jawn acolyte 🙏🏽 Protect Trans Youth, Free Em All, Landback! 🇵🇸
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👋🏽 Actual footage of me turning my back on twitter and the twat who ran it into the ground. Grateful to abandon the broligarchy in the interest of our shared humanity! Love you!
Whenever I see amazing solutions and organizing spring up in reaction to state violence, I wonder what we’d be capable of outside these tired carceral frameworks.

We owe it to ourselves to prioritize a future we deserve— to honor rad legacies that inform it, fight for it, nurture and protect it.
February 5, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Good article on the growing effort to suppress protest movements, and the attacks against those who protect protesters. The Cop City RICO political prosecution is just the beginning if we don't all stand against state repression.
newrepublic.com/article/1908...
The Coming War on Dissent
As critics focus on Trump’s attacks on the media, his administration is preparing a larger assault on the First Amendment.
newrepublic.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:43 AM
meanwhile, the mediocrity of men insulated by privilege in this industry is totally laid bare.

Benson Boone literally has to backflip to keep up with our girls…and he’s doing alright! the Weeknd on the other hand…smdh.
February 3, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Chappell used the red carpet to speak out for trans folks, and her award speech to take on the predatory behavior of labels? Doechii won best Rap Album and dedicated it to Black Girls? Queer femmes once again holding everything down and using their platforms to lift everyone up. Incredible.
February 3, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Woke up with my mind on collective disobedience. How are we going to empower and encourage folks in our communities—especially those who haven’t been as active in resistance practice—now that disruption and interference must be the order of the day? Our relationships are so, so important.
January 30, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Snow is falling in big beautiful flakes tonight and I’m buzzing with thoughts on this book…”Become Ungovernable” by H.L.T. Quan. feeling energized, and reminded how deeply capable we are, how dangerous BIPOC Abolitionist Feminisms have always been to fascism. We were born for this!
January 25, 2025 at 8:21 AM
The Racist Real Estate Networks of the 76ers Arena Developers, from West Philadelphia to Palestine.
The Racist Real Estate Networks of the 76ers Arena Developers, from West Philadelphia to Palestine
Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature…
policefreepenn.medium.com
December 1, 2024 at 8:11 PM
👋🏽 Actual footage of me turning my back on twitter and the twat who ran it into the ground. Grateful to abandon the broligarchy in the interest of our shared humanity! Love you!
November 19, 2024 at 2:47 AM