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@cactus-ghoul.bsky.social
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short for alexander he/him or they/them settler PhD candidate researching Indigenous literature, embodiment, and resistance to medical colonialism writer, painter, etc sashaweiss.wordpress.com

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Ethel, a Micro Press @the-ethelzine.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Sewing Dan Sicoli’s SLAG ALLEY and sasha weiss’ blue raspberries @cactus-ghoul.bsky.social
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Ethel, a Micro Press @the-ethelzine.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
sasha weiss’ BLUE RASPBERRIES is now available for pre-order. www.ethelzine.com/shop/blue-ra... @cactus-ghoul.bsky.social
t4t in this cconomy
amtrak cutting path through discased countryside infestation of
faschy
people
with skin
like mine
who'd kill us before they'd let us kiss
in peace
masked/masc-ed of people
acting
& staring past reflections
like it's all okay again
parents assumed i believe
the same: i, too am fraseding
the sky, dark olive-blue turned to ink before its time
by
quiet
summer
monsoon
sudden golden lightning forking the sky stabbing the wet desert my snake's tongue my sharp fangs
the look in your eyes when we're finally
alone
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plutø 🤍 @girlfrompluto.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Not a single major news outlet has covered this story. There is such a blatant, obvious attempt to suppress any and all news that deals with the actual facts about transgender life and experience. As the government rolls back our rights on an unprecedented scale, we have been left out to dry.
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sasha 🍉 @cactus-ghoul.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
if cumming is the little death, is dying the big cum?
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
My weekly must-reads list and my thoughts on witnessing care and courage amid clouds of tear gas Friday night. "Almost 550 people across Chicagoland have been arrested by ICE during Operation Midway Blitz. It is a campaign of terror focused on a city that our president feels profound contempt for."
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Must-Reads and Some Thoughts on Care and Courage Amid Clouds of Tear Gas
We can embody our refusal and fiercely declare that our love and empathy will not be destroyed.
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MythicalDragoness 🇨🇦 @mythicaldragoness.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
🇺🇸☠️Air pollution from oil & gas is linked to 91,000 premature deaths and hundreds of thousands of health issues across the US each year; Black, Asian, Indigenous & Hispanic groups consistently among the most affected. #USA #FossilFuels #Pollution #Health time.com/7311655/us-o...
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91,000 Premature Deaths Each Year Linked to US Air Pollution
Air pollution from oil and gas production and use in the U.S. has an enormous health toll. A new study tallies the cost.
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Angry Tarot @angrytarot.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Mississippi doesn't have age verification for marriage but they do for the internet. You can't make this shit up folks.
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fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
in my medium-ugly graphic era. at 10:32 on a tuesday, here are our @sundresspub.bsky.social Best of the net nominees read 'em all: fifthwheelpress.com/nominations
best of the net, 2025 fwp nominees

poetry
sterling-elizabeth arcadia
Sarah Klein
Sia Moon
James Parker
von reyes
Karen Zheng

fiction
[sarah] Cavar
Erica Rivera

visual art
Sadee Bee
BEE LB

nonfiction
Ariana Rahman
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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 20/08/2025
Automated license plate readers "are seemingly popping up everywhere—including 650 new cameras in Illinois cities since 2023." Flock "collects 20 billion license plate scans per month." "[W]e don't really have privacy or rights anymore.” #Illinois #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Policing #Genocide
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Eyes on the heartland
A vast network of new license plate cameras has exploded across Illinois in recent years—paid for by state grants to fight retail crime. With the federal government clamoring for more information on…
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People’s City Council - Los Angeles @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
BREAKING: death of anti-ICE protester in Los Angeles @lapublicpress.bsky.social is reporting Skid Row resident Adrienne Villa was found dead in her jail cell while in LASD custody at the courthouse, hours after pleading not guilty to over a dozen charges of alleged assault/battery on a cop.
One woman among those charged died in custody while detained at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, shortly after she attended a hearing on June 17 during which she pleaded not guilty to 14 charges, 10 of which carried enhancements under California’s Three Strikes Law for prior felony convictions. During that hearing, she was remanded to custody and had bail set at $1.33 million. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Lieutenant Daniel Vizcarra told LA Public Press that she was found hanging in a cell lockup, later that day. The coroner pronounced her dead just before 4 a.m. the next morning, on June 18, 2025. 

screenshot of arrest record from 6/12/25 

arrested at 725 by LAPD central division & taken to LAPD jailarrest record from 6/13/25

arrested at 516 am by CHP & brought to LAPD 77th street
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Climate Change Is Not A Joke, Except to Chump and RepubliKKKans........
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Effie Seiberg is a spooky Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
This is huge. For years there's been a misconception that it's psychological and all in your head. We can already show changes in blood vessels, muscle tissue, etc. Now we see the genes that show ME/CFS disposition are NOT the same as the genes that show disposition for depression/anxiety/etc.
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I know a lot of you have already heard or read about BDS Movement's call against Microsoft, and felt weird and bad about it all, but decided to move forward as normal because of some degree of ambiguity. "What service is Microsoft providing?" Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.
According to three Unit 8200 sources, the cloud-based storage platform has facilitated the preparation of deadly airstrikes and has shaped military operations in Gaza and the West Bank.

Thanks to the control it exerts over Palestinian telecommunications infrastructure, Israel has long intercepted phone calls in the occupied territories. But the indiscriminate new system allows intelligence officers to play back the content of cellular calls made by Palestinians, capturing the conversations of a much larger pool of ordinary civilians.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 06/08/2025
I wish as many people wanted to actually click on Teen Vogue stories as like a post about our work being good and important, because this post is almost at 20k likes and that would be pretty good traffic!
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?
Email from the "PUBLIC RECORDS OFFICE" to Kate Starbird asking for all emails from Jan 1 2021 through July 30 2025 with any of the following keywords:
"diversity and inclusion"
"DEIA"
"DEI"
"Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging"
"DEIB"
"gender identity"
"racial preference"
"ESG"
"organizational equity"
"intersectionality"
"anti-racism"
"critical race theory"
"LGBTQ+"
"transgender"
"cisgender"
"gender ideology"
"white privilege"
"privilege walk"
"cultural humility"
"equity audit"
"restorative justice"
"racial equity"
"implicit bias"
"microaggressions"
"inclusive pedagogy"
"identity-based oppression"
"systems of oppression"
"queer"
"non-binary"
"sexuality"
“Trump”
“fascist”
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sasha 🍉 @cactus-ghoul.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
thrilled to be published in archer! essay on gastroparesis and escaping emotionally abusive relationships archermagazine.com.au/2025/08/gast...
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Gastroparesis and emotional abuse: How chronic illness helped me heal - Archer Magazine
Gastroparesis doesn’t define me. If anything, it’s freeing .I’m learning to refuse the pressure to perform norms that don’t fit me.
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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
This is a fascist takeover of the school. The owners and operators of Brown obviously decided that becoming an academy for the new elite of the fascist movement is their best path towards continued profitability. So it's up to all of us to make them regret it like nothing else in their lives.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 30/07/2025
I really want to meet the sapphics4satan behind my all-time favorite meme, which I wish was clearable for my book lol ⚛️ 🏳️‍🌈
hot gay sex tip #4206669
you don't always have to be a TOP or a BOTTOM
down
strange
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arks
b
bottom
charm
top
there's actually four other types of quarks! :)
@sapphics4satan
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Washington coast: La Push 11:35 PM Neah Bay 11:40 PM Long Beach 11:45 PM Moclips 11:50 PM Westport 11:55 PM Port Angeles 12:20 AM Port Townsend 12:45 AM Bellingham 1:10 AM Tacoma 2:00 AM
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wes(is no longer)injapan @wesinjapan.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Take this shit seriously. An American died on 3.11 because he went down to check out the beach. Don't go out like that.
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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Many of the places under a tsunami warning or watch are *only* served by public broadcasting. Thanks to Congressional Repubs, including AK's Sullivan & Begich, the stations that disseminate warnings could run out of money to operate w/in a few months. Because who needs tsunami warnings, amirite?
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California Faculty Association @cfaunited.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Israel Detains, Chokes, and Beats Up Amazon Union Leader Chris Smalls newrepublic.com/post/198550/... via @newrepublic.com
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Israel Detains, Chokes, and Beats Up Amazon Union Leader Chris Smalls
Meanwhile, there’s not a peep from mainstream media in the U.S.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Filled with disabled rage that pre-existing health conditions are seemed as a reason to somewhat diminish malnutrition.
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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
As society never gets tired of telling us, when disabled people die or are killed, it’s always less tragic than the deaths of others. Our lives are held to be unfortunate accidents, and many feel relief at our endings.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
*INSTITUTIONALIZATION IS WORSE THEN JAIL* Disabled, mentally ill, and homeless people thrown into institutions don’t get phone calls, lawyers, or trails. THEY ARE DISAPPEARED with no time limits or advocate for as long as the state pleases. You know it’s bad when prisoners have more protections.
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 25/07/2025
Children in Gaza have begun to die of severe malnutrition in increasing numbers as Israel continues to starve the people of Gaza. Infants are the most severely affected, as hunger devours their bodies until they reach "a point of no return." mondoweiss.net/2025/07/when...
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When the bodies of starving children in Gaza reach a ‘point of no return’
Children in Gaza have begun to die of severe malnutrition in increasing numbers as Israel continues to starve the people of Gaza. Infants are the most severely affected, as hunger devours their…
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David R. Slayton (He/Him) @drslayton.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The Duck Duck Go browser provides an option to remove AI images in image search results. Run a search. Then set the filter to off. It will remember this selection for future searches:
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sasha 🍉 @cactus-ghoul.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
my best friend died and everything feels like a nightmare with no way out. them being gone doesn't make sense so my brain just doesn't work. i can't move. can't breathe. i feel like i failed them. our last conversation was so stupid snd one sided. i hope they know wherev they are that i love them
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BAMF (Bloomington Alternative Media Fest) @bamfzinefest.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Soon!
BAMF (Bloomington Alternative Media Fest) December 6 @ Harmony School

Celebrating zines & Weirdo media & raising $$ for Bloomington Anarchist Black Cross.

Tabler registration open 9/1-10/15
@bamfzinefest
bamfzinefest.wordpress.com
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Rick V. @itsmerickv.com · 23/07/2025
I realized I never posted this flier for a reading on Saturday!
ZINE READING!

ADAM GNADE: Very punk author of Your Friends Will Carry You Home

DARYL GUSSIN: Bleak humor filled stories. Traveling from L.A. with his new book The $22 cheesecake.

ABBY HETHERINGTON: Poetry, Singer of C.O.I.

JAMES NORMAN: Vagabond traveling poet. Road Stories galore.

AGATHA THRASH: Zinester. Sad stories and funny observations

ALEX SWARTZENTRUBER: AKA Bev. Poet and humorist.

ANNA BOHMAN: Poet and editor of Working Title Mag

Sat. July 26th 6:pm $5-$10 PWYC | Gold Dust Vintage & Vinyl (216 N. Rogers St.) All Ages! Don't Be a jerk!
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sasha 🍉 @cactus-ghoul.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
www.ipm.org/news/2025-07... i plan all trips to visit family around cancer screenings because IN isn't safe. not many people can afford to travel, or for that matter, afford cancer care. what are they supposed to do, die? fuck the IN government.
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Indiana cancer center needs state support. Lawmakers established fund but didn't contribute money
Indiana's only comprehensive cancer center could lose its National Cancer Institute designation if the state doesn't invest in cancer research. A new state law establishes a cancer research fund — but...
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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Morale is a terrain of struggle transgender sex is class war Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
this tracks with skrmetti and y'all wonder why we've been telling you that trans and repro liberation are the exact same thing. bodily autonomy is the underlying right being mulched across the board.
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ThommyLA @thommyla.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
A man and a Trump shirt stands below a sign with an arrow pointing down to him labeled Nazi
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Craig Gilmore @craiggilmore.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Trump's detention plans depend on ICE leasing (or buying) cages from states or counties. We need to monkeywrench those processes and destroy those cages -- or as @silkys13.bsky.social puts it, "Unbuild Walls" www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2213-u...
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Unbuild Walls
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
***Graduate students studying migration and/or ethnic history*** Apply to the Pozzetta Dissertation Award! IEHS invites submissions for two awards of $3,500 each (up from $1,000) to help graduate students with their dissertations. More information is available here: iehs.org/awards/georg...
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George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award
Visit the post for more.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
One thing you can do Right Now is be extremely vocal when you have librarians stocking inclusive collections. Call and tell them how happy you are, show up to board meetings. Bc the other side is *always* complaining and doing it in an organized way. also you can donate to Lavonnia Moore here:
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Donate to Help LaVonnia Moore Seek Justice and Equality, organized by Lavonnia Moore
Seeking help for legal fees and life. My name is LaVonnia Moore. For … Lavonnia Moore needs your support for Help LaVonnia Moore Seek Justice and Equality
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 05/07/2025
BREAKING: At least 56 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since dawn, sources at Gaza hospitals have told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/n6phyh
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Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Damn, it looks just like the photos of the disappeared that were put up by relatives in the South American dictatorships
Small selection of black and white photos of the faces of the disappeared of the Pinochet dictatorship, now at its Museum of Memory and Human Rights
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
The AMA has spent significantly more money funding Republican politicians over the past 35 yrs than Democrats, including >46% of their federal campaign contributions in the 2023-2024 election cycle when Project 2025 Medicaid & social service cuts were on the line: www.opensecrets.org/political-ac...
A graph showing AMA (AMPAC) funding to federal political candidates by election year from 1990-2024. There is significantly more red than blue.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Italy court sends 11 executives at a chemical plant to jail terms of up to 17 years for polluting water, a total of more than 141 years. Puts UK to shame. UK buries corporate crimes - water, Post Office, Grenfell, infected blood, bank frauds. Govts/Regulators serve corporations, not people.
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Italy chemical plant execs jailed for pollution
An Italian court on Thursday sentenced executives at a chemical plant to jail terms of up to 17 years for polluting water used by hundreds of thousands of people with PFAS, or "forever chemicals".
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Anthony Verna @vernalaw.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
INDIANA JONES AND THE COURSES THAT ARE NO LONGER TAUGHT AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY
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Truthout @truthout.org · 03/07/2025
As Congress steamrolls toward passing historic Medicaid cuts of about $1 trillion over 10 years, red-state governors are saying little publicly about what it does to health care — even as they face reductions that will punch multibillion-dollar holes in their states’ budgets.
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Republican Governors Quiet Amid Plans to Slash Medicaid Spending in Their States
They’re saying little publicly in the face of cuts that will punch multibillion-dollar holes in their states’ budgets.
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James Queally @jqwritesstuff.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
An L.A. activist who handed out protective masks to protesters during anti-ICE demonstrations last month has been indicted on federal counts of conspiracy and aiding civil unrest. My latest: www.latimes.com/california/s...
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L.A. activist indicted after handing out face shields to anti-ICE protesters
Alejandro Orellana, 29, faces charges of conspiracy and aiding civil disorder after he handed out face shields to people protesting against immigration raids in L.A. last month.
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