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Dani (she/they) @artsandlabor.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
We don’t want guardrails on ICE, we want ICE abolished.
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Dani @whatsdanimaking.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
🍉✨💚 One last push for our raffle raising money for 14 families displaced in the Gaza Strip. 🍉✨💚 We want to send at least $100 to each family and we are only $400 short of our goal. Entries are just $5. Follow the instructions at tinyurl.com/chi4gazaraffle to enter
Photo of a red basket filled with watermelon themed gifts including a crocheted beanie, hand made notebooks, prints, stickers, and pins. Above the photo black and red text on a bright green background reads “enter our raffle for an opportunity to win this amazing basket of goofs from local Chicago artists! Only $5! Help us by spreading the word. Tinyurl.com/chi4gazaraffle”
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Dani @whatsdanimaking.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Uday’s family had to leave their apartment because they weren’t able to pay the rent. After already losing so much, they are back on the streets and desperately need money for a tent. Anything you can give makes a difference. Tinyurl.com/udayfund
Photo of Uday, a 19 year old Palestinian boy and Kemal, a 5 year old Palestinian boy on a dark green background. Text reads “Winter has arrived in Gaza. The cold, rainy seasons means 19 year old Uday must source the clothes his family of seven needs to keep warm. Uday’s little brother, Kemal, recently started school. In addition to clothes, Uday hopes to get him school supplies. As always, they also needs funds for food, water, medicine, and shelter. Your donation helps a family who has already endured so much survive another winter.” There is a QR code and link to the family’s fundraiser: https://www.tinyurl.com/udayfund
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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The government is saying that violence rules. That snatching foreign leaders and territories, and shooting US citizens in their cars at point blank range, is justified. That resistance is not only futile, it is dangerous. They can say these things. But they cannot force us to believe them.
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Dani @whatsdanimaking.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
There’s still time to enter the raffle for a watermelon gift basket supporting several families displaced in the Gaza Strip. Entries are $5 each. Follow the instructions at www.tinyurl.com/chi4gazaraffle to enter ❤️🍉🇵🇸
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Dani (she/they) @artsandlabor.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Anyone know of any coat drives going on in the Chicago area?
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Dani @whatsdanimaking.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
I’m part of group in Chicago supporting several families in Gaza and we’re raffling off a watermelon gift basket! Inside you’ll find a bunch of goodies including a certificate for a custom pet portrait! 🎟️ tinyurl.com/chi4gazaraffle to enter The drawing and winner will be determined in January!
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Dani (she/they) @artsandlabor.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Do I know anyone in Chicago who can foster an adorable baby meat head for a few weeks?
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Dani (she/they) @artsandlabor.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Even thrift stores are wildly expensive now 😩
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Dani (she/they) @artsandlabor.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
I’ve joined a group of folks in Chicago who are also helping support Palestinian families. If you donate to this link the money helps not only Uday, but several other families sheltering in the Gaza Strip: tinyurl.com/chi4gaza
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Dani @whatsdanimaking.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Last day to enter! Contribute any amount to Uday’s family & share your receipt in the comments (or DM for my email if you’d like more privacy) for a chance to win a custom pet portrait. Holidays are coming up & this would be a really sweet gift! www.tinyurl.com/udayfund
Illustrated white dog with black mask and ears with a light blue/green bandana on a pink background Illustrated white curly haired dog with a green bandana on a light blue/green background with some daisies Grumpy looking gray cat with yellow eyes on a lavender background, blue and pink flowers in the foreground. The name London is hand lettered at the top.
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Dani @whatsdanimaking.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Uday’s family urgently needs $700 for rent. Donate any amount this week for a chance to win a custom pet portrait. Share a screen shot of your donation receipt in the comments or if you prefer more privacy DM for my email address. www.tinyurl.com/udayfund
An illustrated grumpy looking darn gray cat with yellow eyes on a purple background with flowers in the foreground. A happy looking small dog with white curly fur on a mint background with daisies
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Dani (she/they) @artsandlabor.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Uday’s family needs to collect $700 for rent due tomorrow. Any amount you can give helps! chuffed.org/project/uday...
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Dani @whatsdanimaking.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
A federal judge says he will order the release of over 600 people who have been detained by ice on bond. If it’s within your means consider donating to the Midwest Immigration Bond Fund. We will need to raise a lot of money to get everyone home. www.mibfc.org
Screen shot of a Chicago tribune headline that reads “Federal judge says he’ll order released of hundreds of ‘Operation Midway Blitz’ arrestees on bond”. Below the headline is a picture of three ice agents in full tactical gear.
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Dani (she/they) @artsandlabor.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Now also feels like a good time to mention that during WWII women spies would put codes in their knitting (which is essentially a binary system, knit, purl) and cross stitch morse code onto things.
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Dani (she/they) @artsandlabor.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
We can’t stop fighting, but this morning I’m basking in the knowledge that two out of the three largest cities in the US have socialist mayors. As Kelly says here “we can win.”
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Dani (she/they) @artsandlabor.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Pritzker’s statements are a performance for liberals who aren’t on the ground trying to disrupt ICE. His latest stunt asking DHS to pause immigration raids bc it’s Halloween is laughable. Anyone who has interacted with ICE knows that traumatizing people, kids included, is their whole fucking deal.
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Dani (she/they) @artsandlabor.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Eman’s youngest child is injured and she needs money for rent so they aren’t thrown into the streets. Any amount you can give helps. If you can’t donate at this time but are able to help spread the word, that’s also very helpful! gofund.me/40d19bc3f
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Donate to Help Eman's Family Afford Food in Gaza, organized by Alison Fletcher
I am Alison Morgan, a US Citizen using this campaign is to raise money for Eman… Alison Fletcher needs your support for Help Eman's Family Afford Food in Gaza
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...
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Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike
It was an audacious proposal, given that the U.S. has never held a true, nationwide general strike.
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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison. Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....
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Dani @whatsdanimaking.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
TODAY 10/12 2pm-5pm @ the Logan Square Comfort Station. We’re having a fundraiser for 7 families in Gaza. There will be live music, and vendors selling all kinds of cool stuff including crochet, ceramics, jewelry, prints, pins, and stickers. It’s gonna be a gorgeous day, come say hi!
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Dani @whatsdanimaking.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Cats Not Cops will be available as an 8x10 print or a 3” sticker at the Cultural Art Fest for Gaza, this Sunday 10/12 2pm-5pm @ the Logan Square comfort station. We are raising money for 7 families displaced in the Gaza Strip who need money for food, clothes, medicine, and tents before winter 🩷🖤💚
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Dani @whatsdanimaking.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
This Sunday, Chicago! Come out to help us raise money for 7 families inside the Gaza Strip. I will be there selling pins, stickers, prints, hand painted and sewn notebooks, bracelets and more. My reach here is very small so please help me get the word out, especially if you’re in Chicago ❤️
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 04/10/2025
Happening now: at Kedzie and 40th, where Border Patrol agents just opened fire on rapid response this afternoon. A woman CFD says they found after the incident is reported in fair condition. A growing number of outraged neighbors have gathered across from ICE/CBP agents who have closed Kedzie.
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes' office has released video of federal agents handcuffing her at Humboldt Park Health, as she asked them to present a judicial warrant for another arrest.
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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
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Dani (she/they) @artsandlabor.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
I’ve been sucked into medieval youtube and currently listening to a podcast about medieval dancing plagues. First, there was more than one! Second, they’re probs not from ergot poisoning. Third, I think we’ve reached time in history where we should absolutely bring those back.
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Dani @whatsdanimaking.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
I’ll be selling pins, notebooks, stickers, prints, and more Sunday, October 12th at the Logan Square Comfort Station to raise money for 7 families in Gaza 🍉 There will be a bunch of other super cool vendors. Check out the thread to see who all will be there 👇🏼
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Dani @whatsdanimaking.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I will be selling these one of a kind, screen printed, hand bound notebooks 🐍✨ (along with lots of other hand made items) at the Cultural Fest for Gaza at the Logan Square Comfort Station on 10/12 2pm-5pm. The fest is raising $ for 7 families in Gaza. Hope to see you there! #logansquare #artfest
A stack of 4 handmade notebooks with a screen printed python on the front in various colors including black, purple and green.A photo showing of the hand sewn spines of the notebooks. Thread color includes green, lime green, orange, and neon pink. On the front of each notebook is a screen printed snake
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Dani (she/they) @artsandlabor.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Come see me in Logan Square on 10/12!
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Dani @whatsdanimaking.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
✨10/12 at the Logan Square Comfort Station!✨I will be selling prints, stickers, pins, notebooks & more at the Cultural Art Fest for Gaza on behalf of Uday’s & six other families. There will be food, live music, and art vendors. Hope to see you there! Follow @chifest4gaza on instagram for more info.
Water color style art of four red poppies on a light yellow and white background with a fishnet border like that of a kuffiyeh. Black text reads “Cultural Art Fest for Gaza. Help us raise funds for seven families inside the Gaza Strip. Sunday October 12th 2:00-5:00pm. Logan Square Comfort Station 2579 N Milwaukee Ave.
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Dani (she/they) @artsandlabor.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Uday & his family are living on the streets in Gaza City where the iof is continuing a ground invasion. They need to get out now but do not have the $ for transportation or a tent. If you have anything you can spare, please help them out. The situation is desperate. www.tinyurl.com/udayfund
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13/09/2025
New, w/ @mulchy.bsky.social & @djbyrnes1.bsky.social: ICE shot & killed an immigrant in the Chicago suburbs yesterday. Then they immediately gave a misleading account of events. Chicago erupted in chaos and a father who lived here for decades is dead. This is what really happened:
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What happened to Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez
Immigration agents shot and killed an unarmed 38-year-old father outside Chicago on Friday—and their initial narrative of events was quickly disproven by videos captured by witnesses.
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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Happening now: the City of Chicago and the Park District are moving in heavy equipment to remove unhoused people and their encampments at Legion Park.
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Dani @whatsdanimaking.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
I know you are seeing an overwhelming number of asks and the need in Gaza is overwhelming. But it’s countless donations some big, some just a few dollars, that have helped Uday and his family survive the last 23 months of hell. chuffed.org/project/uday...
A photo of a 19 year old young man, Uday, who has light brown skin and short black hair, wearing a bright blue shirt and standing in front of the remains of a building in Gaza. Black text on a pink background reads “Help a family of seven stay alive in Gaza.
My friend Oday is the eldest of five siblings. His family have lost their home and income due to the violent occupation and genocide in Gaza. They are currently sheltered in a place where the occupation forces are advancing and there is constant bombing. They are in danger every day.
Your money will help Oday's family pay for travel costs to evacuate South, a tent to live in, and food. All these things are extremely expensive due to scarce supplies coming into Gaza, and huge commision costs.
Scan to donate: [QR code here that links to https://chuffed.org/project/udayfund]
Thank you for choosing to make a difference.”
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Happening now: demonstrators have gathered in Chicago's city hall ahead of today's city council meeting. They're here to support Mayor Brandon Johnson's veto last month of a city ordinance that would have given the police the ability to impose a snap 30-minute curfew on minors.
Demonstrators hold signs calling for youth programs ans jobs and deriding a police "slush fund."Demonstrators hold signs calling for youth programs ans jobs and deriding a police "slush fund."
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Dani (she/they) @artsandlabor.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Maybe it’s the onslaught of state repression and fascistic overreach but I haven’t been feeling all that creative lately, so it was nice to be reminded of past work I’ve made that I’m still proud of.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 25/06/2025
Socialism is nothing more than the idea that it's not okay for my fellow human beings to suffer if other human beings are hoarding resources. If you think it's bad for people to die of poverty whilst I collect more money than I can ever spend, congratulations, you're a socialist too!
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
If you have a copy of Let This Radicalize You, pls note that there is an appendix in the back that talks about what to do if the police or any agent of the state shows up at your door. A trusted movement attorney wrote this section. Nothing will keep us 100% safe, but pls be aware of best practices.
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Oranyan @eldervault.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I just hate that every few years massive peaceful protests break out and without fail the protesters start getting beaten gassed and shot while every media outlet and politician from both sides of the isle say shit like "oh peaceful protests are fine but THIS ONE just went too far".
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Dani (she/they) @artsandlabor.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Every day Uday and Hamza message me asking why people don’t seem to care anymore, and I try to assure them that people do care, there is just so much need. If you can give anything at all, I promise it makes a difference, even if it’s just letting a scared teenager know they aren’t forgotten ❤️‍🩹
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 30/05/2025
READ: Israel plans to occupy 75% of Gaza and use aid to force Palestinians into concentration camps.
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Israel says it will soon occupy 75% of Gaza, and it’s using control over aid to do it
Israel plans on concentrating Palestinians into isolated camps within Gaza after it takes over 75% of the territory, luring Palestinians into those zones by using aid as bait.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Our very fate lies in how we, as a civilization, meet this moment. Palestine matters because we have stated over and over and over again that all human beings matter. And if the West really believes this, it has done a horrendous job of demonstrating that so far. Kenn Orphan
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artsworld.bsky.social @artsworld.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Frederick Banting, Charles Best, and James Collip, the co-discoverers of insulin, sold the patent to the University of Toronto for $1 so that it was affordable and available for everyone.Banting, in particular, felt it was unethical for a doctor to profit from a discovery that could save lives.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/05/2025
These are VERY rough estimates, but here's life expectancy after diagnosis of type-I diabetes over the past 150 years. It was Banting and Best's discovery of how to isolate insulin in 1921 — not some fucking cooking class — that gave people including my daughter a new lease on life.
Plot of life expectancy after Type 1 diabetes diagnosis, 1850-2025. 

After the discovery of insulin in 1921, life expectancies go gradually from zero to seventy years.
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Dani (she/they) @artsandlabor.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
If you can spare anything, my friend Uday (Odai) in Gaza is desperate. His family has no food. Adults have been going without for days, and now there is nothing for the kids either  tinyurl.com/udayfund
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Dani (she/they) @artsandlabor.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Yana was diagnosed with FHS this week so we’re all having a bit of a tough time.
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