@vernalruddock.bsky.social
intersectional liberation or bust
solidarity ftw
solidarity ftw
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A fundraiser for the family of Sam Nordquist, may his memory be a blessing. We can at least give them some small comfort, in this terrible time. www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-hel...
Donate to Out of state living expenses for the family of Sam Nordquist, organized by Kayla Nordquist
Hi, my name is Kayla. I am Sam Nordquist's sister. On Septemb… Kayla Nordquist needs your support for Out of state living expenses for the family of Sam Nordquist
www.gofundme.com
February 16, 2025 at 7:31 AM
A fundraiser for the family of Sam Nordquist, may his memory be a blessing. We can at least give them some small comfort, in this terrible time. www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-hel...
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the rage I felt reading this as the parent of a disabled 14yo
the richest man in the world has decided that your kids don't deserve special education programs
February 17, 2025 at 12:19 AM
the rage I felt reading this as the parent of a disabled 14yo
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Happy #BlackHistoryMonth!
What began as a simple reading list of forthcoming Black transfemme novels blossomed into a full critique of White supremacist publishing, Black literary erasure, and the supplementarity of the Black transfemme body as text 🖤
What began as a simple reading list of forthcoming Black transfemme novels blossomed into a full critique of White supremacist publishing, Black literary erasure, and the supplementarity of the Black transfemme body as text 🖤
Black Transfemme Literary Springtime
2025 is the best year for Black transfeminine fiction ever. So why is nobody talking about it?
thetransfemininereview.com
February 16, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Happy #BlackHistoryMonth!
What began as a simple reading list of forthcoming Black transfemme novels blossomed into a full critique of White supremacist publishing, Black literary erasure, and the supplementarity of the Black transfemme body as text 🖤
What began as a simple reading list of forthcoming Black transfemme novels blossomed into a full critique of White supremacist publishing, Black literary erasure, and the supplementarity of the Black transfemme body as text 🖤
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Ooops, sorry, didn’t mean to drop this. 😏
February 17, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Ooops, sorry, didn’t mean to drop this. 😏
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Strong statement from @govkathyhochul.bsky.social about the brutal killing of Sam Nordquist, a 24-year-old trans man. Five people have been arrested for allegedly torturing and then killing him.
“There must be justice for Sam Nordquist.”
“There must be justice for Sam Nordquist.”
February 17, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Strong statement from @govkathyhochul.bsky.social about the brutal killing of Sam Nordquist, a 24-year-old trans man. Five people have been arrested for allegedly torturing and then killing him.
“There must be justice for Sam Nordquist.”
“There must be justice for Sam Nordquist.”
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And we're back at it tomorrow - join us to demand Governor Hochul stand up to Trump, stand up for New York and remove Mayor Adams from office. 10am - City Hall Park. W/ @maketheroadny.bsky.social @nychange.bsky.social @socialists.nyc (and you!)
February 17, 2025 at 2:12 AM
And we're back at it tomorrow - join us to demand Governor Hochul stand up to Trump, stand up for New York and remove Mayor Adams from office. 10am - City Hall Park. W/ @maketheroadny.bsky.social @nychange.bsky.social @socialists.nyc (and you!)
Women are a set of classes. Racial discrimination is a class issue. Queers, the aging & disabled & all others experiencing hierarchical oppression are classes within a social hierarchy. The working class is not the only class experiencing economic, social, or political oppression. It's not zero-sum.
anyway as i've argued before any class politics worth its name is not going to treat identity as an obstacle to solidarity but as an asset. "we all suffer in different ways under capitalism and the only way to relieve your particular suffering is to help me relieve mine and vice versa."
February 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Women are a set of classes. Racial discrimination is a class issue. Queers, the aging & disabled & all others experiencing hierarchical oppression are classes within a social hierarchy. The working class is not the only class experiencing economic, social, or political oppression. It's not zero-sum.
This fucking garbage. Violence, criminalization and loss of self-determination not to mention massive debt should never be the result of airing your feelings anonymously. Can't believe we pay for this trash. #988 #MentalHealth #SAMHSA
Dramatic Rise in Police Interventions on 988 Callers
Four times as many callers to 988 as previously publicly claimed are getting visited by police or emergency medical services.
www.madinamerica.com
February 6, 2025 at 7:09 AM
This fucking garbage. Violence, criminalization and loss of self-determination not to mention massive debt should never be the result of airing your feelings anonymously. Can't believe we pay for this trash. #988 #MentalHealth #SAMHSA
More #US #IndianRemoval #genocide #IndianBoardingSchools the EXACT same thing Trump's ICE is executing now STILL #JapaneseInternment #PIC
And it's not like the US has a great track record in running safe clean healthy domestic camps in which to concentrate undesirables like for example jails and prisons and juvies and "troubled teen" programs
We wouldn't be here if there wasn't widespread support for caging & torturing people
We wouldn't be here if there wasn't widespread support for caging & torturing people
Concentration camps preceded extermination camps by several years. They began in Germany just as administratively, just as innocuously, as this.
It's important to understand the historical track we are on.
It's important to understand the historical track we are on.
January 31, 2025 at 12:09 PM
More #US #IndianRemoval #genocide #IndianBoardingSchools the EXACT same thing Trump's ICE is executing now STILL #JapaneseInternment #PIC
#NeverForget They learned from #US starting with the internment and #genocide of #Indigenous First Nations, the EXACT same thing Trump's ICE is executing now STILL.
Concentration camps preceded extermination camps by several years. They began in Germany just as administratively, just as innocuously, as this.
It's important to understand the historical track we are on.
It's important to understand the historical track we are on.
Trump: Today I'm also signing an executive order to instruct the departments of defense and homeland security to begin preparing the 30,000 person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay
January 31, 2025 at 12:05 PM
#NeverForget They learned from #US starting with the internment and #genocide of #Indigenous First Nations, the EXACT same thing Trump's ICE is executing now STILL.
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And it's not like the US has a great track record in running safe clean healthy domestic camps in which to concentrate undesirables like for example jails and prisons and juvies and "troubled teen" programs
We wouldn't be here if there wasn't widespread support for caging & torturing people
We wouldn't be here if there wasn't widespread support for caging & torturing people
Concentration camps preceded extermination camps by several years. They began in Germany just as administratively, just as innocuously, as this.
It's important to understand the historical track we are on.
It's important to understand the historical track we are on.
Trump: Today I'm also signing an executive order to instruct the departments of defense and homeland security to begin preparing the 30,000 person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay
January 29, 2025 at 8:45 PM
And it's not like the US has a great track record in running safe clean healthy domestic camps in which to concentrate undesirables like for example jails and prisons and juvies and "troubled teen" programs
We wouldn't be here if there wasn't widespread support for caging & torturing people
We wouldn't be here if there wasn't widespread support for caging & torturing people
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donating to national 501c3s is cool but what if you donated to your local trans support spaces that don’t have the reach to get millions to spend on advertising to get millions more
January 30, 2025 at 2:12 AM
donating to national 501c3s is cool but what if you donated to your local trans support spaces that don’t have the reach to get millions to spend on advertising to get millions more
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Give your money to trans people directly. Flood their Venmos. Top out their fundraising campaigns. If you know someone connected to mutual aid, give them your money and tell them to use it as they see fit. Cover rent and materials for a group that needs you. Put your money where your mouth is.
donating to national 501c3s is cool but what if you donated to your local trans support spaces that don’t have the reach to get millions to spend on advertising to get millions more
January 30, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Give your money to trans people directly. Flood their Venmos. Top out their fundraising campaigns. If you know someone connected to mutual aid, give them your money and tell them to use it as they see fit. Cover rent and materials for a group that needs you. Put your money where your mouth is.
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For @us.theguardian.com, I wrote about how Silicon Valley’s right-wing politics go back to the dotcom mania of the 1990s — and how they’re far more central to the tech industry than we’ve previously thought
www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley
The industry’s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies – celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity – have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
For @us.theguardian.com, I wrote about how Silicon Valley’s right-wing politics go back to the dotcom mania of the 1990s — and how they’re far more central to the tech industry than we’ve previously thought
www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
Fuck this Nazi commenter buuut...he's not wrong about who it's for. This is where they'll take people when planes are denied entry to home countries as we saw last week.
One minute you're pulled over for a broken tail light on your way to work, next thing you're trapped at #Guantanamo for life.
One minute you're pulled over for a broken tail light on your way to work, next thing you're trapped at #Guantanamo for life.
No, it’s a detention center to hold migrants who are living illegally in the United States and cannot be deported to their home countries.
Why are you jumping to such a wild, unfounded comparison?
Why are you jumping to such a wild, unfounded comparison?
January 30, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Fuck this Nazi commenter buuut...he's not wrong about who it's for. This is where they'll take people when planes are denied entry to home countries as we saw last week.
One minute you're pulled over for a broken tail light on your way to work, next thing you're trapped at #Guantanamo for life.
One minute you're pulled over for a broken tail light on your way to work, next thing you're trapped at #Guantanamo for life.
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Why Guantánamo? Courts have ruled people held there have no habeas corpus rights against illegal detention. It’s starting with migrants. Who goes there next?
January 29, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Why Guantánamo? Courts have ruled people held there have no habeas corpus rights against illegal detention. It’s starting with migrants. Who goes there next?
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He doesn't want press or citizens being able to see what they're doing. That's how we found out America was putting kids in cages last time he was president.
Bummer we never seem to be able to leave Gitmo. It's a symbol of America's worst impulses.
Bummer we never seem to be able to leave Gitmo. It's a symbol of America's worst impulses.
January 30, 2025 at 1:18 AM
He doesn't want press or citizens being able to see what they're doing. That's how we found out America was putting kids in cages last time he was president.
Bummer we never seem to be able to leave Gitmo. It's a symbol of America's worst impulses.
Bummer we never seem to be able to leave Gitmo. It's a symbol of America's worst impulses.
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So volunteer human rights and immigration attorneys will have a difficult time seeing detainees. So the press cannot get photos of squalor conditions.
January 30, 2025 at 4:57 AM
So volunteer human rights and immigration attorneys will have a difficult time seeing detainees. So the press cannot get photos of squalor conditions.
Especially terrifying and despicable because this allows them to obfuscate a lot of laws applicable to people held within U.S. borders or even in commonwealths like PR, Guam etc.
Guantanamo Bay is in CUBA: this location has explicitly been used to strip people of rights our laws enshrine.
Guantanamo Bay is in CUBA: this location has explicitly been used to strip people of rights our laws enshrine.
BREAKING: Donald Trump says he's directing the opening of a detention center at Guantanamo Bay to hold up to 30,000 migrants in the U.S. illegally.
Trump directing the opening of Guantanamo Bay detention center to hold migrants in US illegally
President Donald Trump says he’s directing the opening of a detention center at Guantanamo Bay to hold up to 30,000 migrants who are living illegally in the United States.
apnews.com
January 30, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Especially terrifying and despicable because this allows them to obfuscate a lot of laws applicable to people held within U.S. borders or even in commonwealths like PR, Guam etc.
Guantanamo Bay is in CUBA: this location has explicitly been used to strip people of rights our laws enshrine.
Guantanamo Bay is in CUBA: this location has explicitly been used to strip people of rights our laws enshrine.
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@shaygabriel.bsky.social inspired me to send some letters tonight. Took the liberty of altering her google doc w/ICE:
Cut/Paste/Edit/Send:
Subject: Protecting Our Students & Keeping Schools Safe Havens
2 letter templates for local principals & superintendents: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Cut/Paste/Edit/Send:
Subject: Protecting Our Students & Keeping Schools Safe Havens
2 letter templates for local principals & superintendents: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Informal letter
January 30, 2025 Subject: Protecting Our Students and Keeping Schools Safe Havens Dear [Principal], My child, [Name], is a [grade] grader at [School Name], and we have loved our time here. However,...
docs.google.com
January 30, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Hey Mpls friends: this is a really easy way to show up for queer kids and their families right now.
I just sent a version of this to MPS’ superintendent and our full school board.
Dr. Sayles-Adams: mpssup@mpls.k12.mn.us
School board emails (scroll): boardfinder.mpschools.org
I just sent a version of this to MPS’ superintendent and our full school board.
Dr. Sayles-Adams: mpssup@mpls.k12.mn.us
School board emails (scroll): boardfinder.mpschools.org
Here's the letter. Copy and paste, fill in the details, add your flair if you want. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
January 30, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Hey Mpls friends: this is a really easy way to show up for queer kids and their families right now.
I just sent a version of this to MPS’ superintendent and our full school board.
Dr. Sayles-Adams: mpssup@mpls.k12.mn.us
School board emails (scroll): boardfinder.mpschools.org
I just sent a version of this to MPS’ superintendent and our full school board.
Dr. Sayles-Adams: mpssup@mpls.k12.mn.us
School board emails (scroll): boardfinder.mpschools.org
Make sure to celebrate and observe these holidays bigger than you ever have before.
FEBRUARY is still BLACK HISTORY MONTH
MARCH is still WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH
and so on...
Now more than ever, make that mean something. Speak up and share. White silence=Violence. Silence=Death.
FEBRUARY is still BLACK HISTORY MONTH
MARCH is still WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH
and so on...
Now more than ever, make that mean something. Speak up and share. White silence=Violence. Silence=Death.
Intelligence officials are starting to leak to me now too. Here’s a memo Defense Intelligence Agency personnel received instructing them to suspend observances including:
- Holocaust Remembrance Day
- MLK Day
- Juneteenth
- Holocaust Remembrance Day
- MLK Day
- Juneteenth
January 30, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Make sure to celebrate and observe these holidays bigger than you ever have before.
FEBRUARY is still BLACK HISTORY MONTH
MARCH is still WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH
and so on...
Now more than ever, make that mean something. Speak up and share. White silence=Violence. Silence=Death.
FEBRUARY is still BLACK HISTORY MONTH
MARCH is still WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH
and so on...
Now more than ever, make that mean something. Speak up and share. White silence=Violence. Silence=Death.