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Christy Tending @christytending.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

This week is going to break me. You need jail support. You need on-call attorneys. You need bail. You need to make sure all of those things remain off-site until after arrests. No one cares whether you’re breaking the law or planning to break the law or any of it. Stay ready.

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Christy Tending @christytending.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Some of y'all still think that cops keep you safe, and you should knock it off. It is literally not their job to keep you safe.

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Christy Tending @christytending.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Hating AI is not ableist. I’m disabled. I can still write my own essays. Jesus Christ.

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Christy Tending @christytending.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Parenting in this hellscape is a very special flavor of surreal.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 09/06/2025

WHAT KIND OF POWER? U N I O N P O W E R

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GONZO the Ca'at @gonzo.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Timeline cleanse feat. Thompres slappers and strentches

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

A full Tejano band in a big truck rolled into the Olvera St, the lead singer has a Fuck ICE shirt on, and this protest is now a dance party

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Christy Tending @christytending.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I just made a new thing! Have a look, get yourself some skills and knowledge so you can be safer in the streets. Resource Guide for Confronting Fascism: open.substack.com/pub/christyt...

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Resource Guide for Confronting Fascism

Updated June 9, 2025

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Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open! @lit-namjooning.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Happy Monday! We're open for subs until July 3. Send us your tiny beauties! Time's a-wastin'! literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/submit #namjooning #namjooningbutliterary

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Christy Tending @christytending.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

No human being is illegal on stolen land. Not in LA. Not in Palestine. Not anywhere.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

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Christy Tending @christytending.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

ISRAELI FORCES HAVE KIDNAPPED THE GAZA FREEDOM FLOTILLA ACTIVISTS

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Christy Tending @christytending.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Hey, take your clothes off on the porch and wash the tear gas off before you go hug your babies. ❤️

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Christy Tending @christytending.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Quick tips if you’re protesting: Wear a mask & cover your tattoos. Dress in nondescript clothing. Use Signal — better yet, don’t take your phone. Tell folks where you’re going/when you’ll be back. Take some cash & your id. Don’t wear jewelry or contacts; wear glasses. I love you, stay safe.

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Christy Tending @christytending.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Hey, look! The American Chemical Society has this handy guide to tear gas, pepper spray, etc. As someone who got a C in chemistry in high school, this was pretty useful: cen.acs.org/policy/chemi....

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Tear gas and pepper spray: What protesters need to know

Experts discuss the use and chemistry of the riot-control agents and how to neutralize their effects

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Reuters: U.S. APPEALS COURT MAINTAINS BLOCK ON TRUMP DISMANTLING OF EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

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Christy Tending @christytending.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Girls will be like “I needed this” and it's just collective liberation and a decarbonized future.

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Christy Tending @christytending.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Feeding children should not be political. Not when it's Palestinian children, not when it's kids in schools. Not anywhere, not ever. If you think there is any child who deserves to be hungry, you are morally bankrupt.

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Christy Tending @christytending.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Greta *is* still talking about climate change. Because climate and colonialism and capitalism are inextricable. Her climate activism has just become less palatable to some people.

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Christy Tending @christytending.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Just fyi, if you’re a lit mag defending AI, I will be blocking you. And if you use disability justice to defend the use of AI, I will wish it were possible to block you twice.

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trampset @trampset.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Some good news in a shitty world: starting with the April issue, trampset is raising writer rates from $25 to $30 per accepted piece. You still got to have PayPal for a trampset payment, but an increase nonetheless!

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Christy Tending @christytending.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I do not want kinder, gentler fascism. I do not want a more compassionate fossil fuel industry. I want to burn these systems to the ground and dance on their still-smoldering ashes. And I don’t think they’re going to give me a permit for that. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/christyt...

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Why You Might *Not* Want to Get a Permit

(On divesting myself of asking for approval.)

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Ok, Baltimore, time to find an indoor home for Mr. Rogers! He's been living in our guest room and wandering around the house for two weeks now, and he's had all his shots and has been treated for parasites. He has immaculate manners, no spraying, and just wants lots of scritches and playtime.

a tabby cat smiling while getting his head scritched

a tabby cat looking boldly into a bright new future with you

a tabby cat lying on his side looking at you, hoping you will throw the yellow ball he has been playing with

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I've written 26 articles that touch on disability this year so far at @motherjones.com (and have over 10 articles in the pipeline). If you want to support my work, you can donate to my publication. secure.motherjones.com/flex/mj/key/...

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Support Nonprofit Journalism - Donate to Mother Jones

Help Mother Jones' reporters dig deep with a tax-deductible donation.

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Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Really proud to have been making Stanchion Magazine for 5 years now. Also really proud of Issue 18 feat. writing & visual art by 25 contributors from around the world. Please consider pre-ordering a copy today. You'll have it in hand in late April. 🖤🤍 www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

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Christy Tending @christytending.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Have you tried reading the room? (And no, I hadn’t, okay?!)

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Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Brand new @melissacuisine.bsky.social! www.stanchionzine.com/post/dinner-...

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Christy Tending @christytending.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

From todays substack: Art is for the people. When the institutions fail to defend themselves, art will still exist for the people. Artists will still collaborate and coordinate and mutually support each other. 🪡

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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

“The stars of dust in each droplet on my child’s face form a map. Each solar system points the way …” @christytending.bsky.social in @whaleroadreview.bsky.social www.whaleroadreview.com/tending/

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Whale Road Review @whaleroadreview.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

“Tomorrow will bring a different mess,” writes Maria Koors in “The Optimist’s Almanac.” As I’ve prepared this Spring 2025 issue, I’ve been thinking about the messes that continue to pile up, both personal and shared. www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-38-spr...

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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

These are testaments to a love found between the scarred & still fighting, a record of those determined to find joy. In toothache, Ozzy Welch’s own experience taps into an experience of mental illness & abuse that is too often shared by those who come up trans.

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cover: a photographic closeup of a white person"s skin

the cover sits in a white circle surrounded by the title repeated over and over in all caps black on white

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Eve Ettinger @eveettinger.com · 14/03/2025

Hearing a lot of "Durbin's office isn't letting me get thru" so: CoS: pat_souders [at] durbin [dot] senate [dot] gov Deputy CoS: katrina_potts [at] durbin [dot] senate [dot] gov Director of Comms: emily_hampsten [at] durbin [dot] senate [dot] gov

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Eve Ettinger @eveettinger.com · 14/03/2025

UPDATED LIST. Whitehouse is also a no on cloture. Let's get talking to: Schatsz Hirono Durbin Peters Klobuchar Cortez Masto Rosen Hassan Shaheen Cantwell and King in addition to the NY sens who are already hearing it every which way. IF YOUR SENATOR IS STILL NOT A NO ON CLOTURE, CALL.

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Christy Tending @christytending.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

@autofocusbooks.bsky.social is one of my favorite small presses, and I am over the moon that I am included in this upcoming anthology among so many incredible writers. "Dream come true" doesn't quite cover it.

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Paul Rousseau @paulwrites7.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

The great @autofocusbooks.bsky.social has a new anthology coming out this summer—and my piece “About Accidental Firearm Discharge On Campus” made the cut! So damn thrilled to be involved with this in any way. I love me a Greatest Hits (list of contributors goes crazy, too!)🔥

Cover for If I Can Be Honest—selected prose from the four years of Autofocus Lit (2020-2024) edited by Michael Wheaton. Light cream backdrop with a faint red-orange phoenix.

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

love that there's a new Autofocus anthology, love that I get to lead it off, love that I'm in the "Friends" section, love that I'm in this with so many friends!!! preorder now if you're crazy or sexy or cool or all of the above autofocusbooks.com/store/p/if-i...

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Christy Tending @christytending.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

From today's substack: "It's easy to be a pessimist. The problem with pessimism is that it is a convenient off-ramp away from action and solidarity." On why I'm an optimist, and why antifascism in this moment requires militant optimism and a refusal to give into despair.

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Letitia Trent @letitiatrent.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Damn I'm feeling this short piece by @christytending.bsky.social a little too much.

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Christy Tending @christytending.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Thrilled to be able to share that my piece was first place in Birdcoat Quarterly’s 2024 Editor’s Prize in the Essay. It is the most personal thing I’ve ever written, and I am indescribably proud of this piece. ❤️🖤 www.birdcoatquarterly.com/post/christy...

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christy tending / 1st place editors' choice prize in essays

My mother has died, and I am standing at the glass doors counting birds in her backyard.

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Christy Tending @christytending.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

One way fascism asserts itself is by deregulating our sense of normalcy. Fascists will move the goalposts so many times, all the while gaslighting us into believing that all of this is normal. So, how do we keep ourselves grounded when "normal" keeps changing?:

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Agency @anarchistagency.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

"We remember Aaron Bushnell, the US Air Force member who died last year in an act of protest outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C....Bushnell said he could not be “complicit in genocide” while the United States continued to support Israel’s war on Gaza" anarchistagency.com/remembering-...

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Democracy Now!, "Remembering Aaron Bushnell: How He Inspired People in the Military to Question U.S. Empire"

Source: Democracy Now! We remember Aaron Bushnell, the U.S. Air Force member who died last year in an act of protest outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. On a live-streamed video, Bushne...

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I want to hear from people about tariffs impact people's ability to get their meds + medical devices for @motherjones.com. My signal is @juliametraux.49 and my email is jmetraux@motherjones.com. I am Mother Jones' disability reporter.

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Christy Tending @christytending.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

If we drop the idea of "unprecedented," the question becomes: what can we learn from the strategies and movements that came before us to fight fascism? Because people have *always* organized in the face of oligarchy and authoritarianism. on Substack: christytending.substack.com/p/this-has-a...

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This has a precedent.

We have been here before. Which is actually the good news.

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Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

God damn. Read this new piece of flash from @crankypacifist.bsky.social. www.stanchionzine.com/post/the-eas...

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 01/03/2025

Nominations are now open for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction—and anyone can nominate work for this $25,000 prize! We hope you'll nominate books you love that meet this year's criteria:

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Ursula K. Le Guin — Nominate a Book for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction

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Christy Tending @christytending.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Action Alert to protect trans kids!

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