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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I’ve been a journalist for 27 years. I’ve reported major stories about mass surveillance, torture, war, the military-industrial complex, police black sites, etc. But this is the most important story I’ve ever had the horror/honor to work on. For it is a story about the current phase of a genocide.
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The Ghosts of Al-Shifa Hospital
Months into a supposed ceasefire in Gaza, doctors still have to smuggle in basic medical supplies—and treat new casualties of war.
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Listo Entertainment @listo.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Primary them all and block anybody who comes with the “at this crucial juncture the most important thing is that we win.” if they believed that they wouldn’t do this and with friends like them nobody needs enemies
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Megan @megski.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
My Christmas gifts have arrived! My friends know what to expect from me. Thank you @prisonculture.bsky.social for continuing to put out these beautiful notebooks each year.
3 of the same small notebook laying on a table. The text on the notebook reads 
“We are each other’s harvest:
We are each other’s business:
We are each other’s 
Magnitude and bond.”
-Gwendolyn Broooks
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
It's hard to express what it meant to watch Maurice, Natalia, Celeste, and Rhea tell their stories—in their own voices—this morning. The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.
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When the employed are pushed into homelessness
In America we are taught hard work is the key to success. But despite having full-time jobs, many families are locked out of the rental housing market, due to low wages, soaring rents and poor credit,...
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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Want to help feed people during the SNAP shutdown and also enter to win a whole bunch of cool stuff? Donate to any food bank, food pantry, or mutual aid group that distributes food, post a receipt here, and I'll use a random number generator to draw a winner. More details in 🧵:
The book Read This When Things Fall Apart edited by Kelly Hayes, lying on a beige couch, next to a set of zines by Cindy Milstein printed in a rainbow of colors, a bunch of postcards by JK Makes, a card, bookmarks, and jewelry
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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/10/2025
this is absolutely my favorite protest innovation of 2025 "my opponents are violent antifa extremist terrorists" "your opponents are dressed as giant inflatable frogs" solid fuck you to the pepe crowd too
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Can I also say I am so angry today. It's the lives lost, the cities wiped out, the time taken from us. We have been consumed with this level of unspeakable violence for 2 years. To think of all the potential futures taken away... it's unfathomable
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
I wrote this piece about 7th anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi's murder. On the costs of speaking the truth in today's world. And how Jamal's memory still stalks Saudi Arabia--- and the Washington Post. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
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Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out
As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
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Ruwa Romman @ruwaromman.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Now is the time to be brave. Republicans in Georgia have controlled our state for over 20 years leading to underfunded schools, closing hospitals, & low wages stuck at $5.15. I'm running for Governor to change that.
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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
ICE is terrorizing my neighborhood (Pilsen) and so many others in Chicagoland. There have been sightings and abductions everyday. Please support our rapid response efforts: bit.ly/punofundraiser
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PUÑO Fundraiser
Pilsen Defense & Access is launching a fundraiser through the end of Hispanic Heritage month, with 100% of funds raised going to PUÑO! PUÑO (Pilsen Unidos por Nuestro Orgullo) works to protect our...
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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Most generously considered, what is happening with your Ezra Kleins and even your David Frenches of the world is to attempt to broker a compromise between racists and anti-racists, bigots and anti-bigots that might leave things stable for those who prioritize stability over racism or anti-racism.
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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Eat. Sleep. Exercise. Nurture the relationships that sustain you. Protect your health. Find joy. Don't mistake any of these for the resistance itself. Joy isn't resistance, neither is rest. But you need to be whole to resist for a lifetime.
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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
We're going to be in movement for the rest of our lives, there's a world to win & so much between us and freedom. How do we make struggle sustainable? So ask yourself, what is the best use of my skills and resources. Limit yourself to that work, because you can't be everywhere.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Right-wingers are calling for my arrest. You know why? Because they know I’m the only candidate in my race who will actually stand up to ICE and Trump. And they’re right.
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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
“Anti-trans harassment and violence is all the rage. Trans people are afraid to leave the country, let alone leave their houses. The right-wing ecosystem has gladly spent years creating these conditions, while Democrats have by turns avoided saying anything about them at all” 😞 👉🏻 archive.ph/ewBhT
THE CUT

They Want the Shooter to Be Trans
By Lex McMenamin, a writer and editor at Teen Vogue.
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Last year: Austin Peay State University learns prof is Nazi who went to Charlottesville rally. Admin drags heels, pays him $56k severance to leave This week: APSU prof posts screenshot of headline - Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment- & is immediately fired
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
My dear friend Stephanie's 26-year-old son, Jaden, was recently shot and killed in Atlanta. He leaves behind a fiancee and 4-year-old daughter—"his whole world," as Stephanie put it. Stephanie has created a fundraiser to help cover rent and bills as they face the unimaginable. Any amount helps.
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Donate to Support Jaden's Family After Tragic Loss, organized by Stephanie Williams
My name is Stephanie Williams, and I am coming to you brokenhearted. On Sa… Stephanie Williams needs your support for Support Jaden's Family After Tragic Loss
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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
A prayer for the first day of school.
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 31/08/2025
why are libs acting like Newsom is an inevitable Dem nominee? The alternative is a candidate who doesn't hate trans people and the homeless and you have 3 years to figure out literally anyone else.
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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
The Centrists are not poll / focus group driven. They begin with their view of the world and use these tools to claim that this view is correct and unassailable.
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Mari Cohn @maricohn.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social
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The Denver Post @denverpost.com · 25/08/2025
Israel struck southern Gaza’s main hospital with a missile and then fired another as journalists and rescue workers rushed to the scene, killing at least 20 people, local health workers said Monday.
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Israel strikes a Gaza hospital twice, killing at least 20, including journalists and rescuers
Palestinians are bracing for an expected Israeli offensive into Gaza City.
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Abby Sewell @sewella.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @apnews.com. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war. She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza. tinyurl.com/3cn5c9vb
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Multiple journalists killed by Israeli strikes on Gaza hospital
A hospital strike in southern Gaza has killed at least eight people, including four journalists. The attack happened on Monday.
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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Happy birthday, HZ.
Radical Sticky Notes
peach-colored watercolor sticky note: Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world. 

yellow watercolor sticky note: Give people what they need: food, medicine, clean air, pure water, trees and grass, pleasant homes to live in, some hours of work, more hours of leisure. Don't ask who deserves it. Every human being deserves it.
Both quotes by Zinn.
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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
"I won't call this genocide because that delegitimises the state, and I don't want to delegitimise the state" is an automatic admission you cannot be seen as an objective observer over whether it is genocide or not.
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Palmetto State Abortion Fund @psabortionfund.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
We are still assisting our criminalized client with her living expenses while she awaits her court date. You can donate to her here: www.donorbox.org/legal-fees
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Legal Fees & Living Expenses | Palmetto State Abortion Fund (Powered by Donorbox)
We are raising funds to cover the cost of legal fees for a South Carolina woman who is being charged "desecration of human remains" after miscarrying her pregnancy a few weeks ago. ( https://jessica.s...
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
"A video of Anas and Mohammed and their children:"
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
"Anas al-Sharif and his daughter in 2024:"
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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
I feel like I’m leading two parallel lives. In one, I’m fine. I’m leading a comfortable bourgeois life, I’m healthy, I have food and shelter. In the other, I’m watching the worst horrors, I can barely breathe, I’m screaming into the void, and nothing seems to help. Unbearable.
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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Anas Al-Sharif’s last will and testament, written in April: “I entrust you with Palestine—the jewel in the crown of the Muslim world, the heartbeat of every free person... I entrust you with its people, w/its wronged & innocent children who never had the time to dream or live in safety and peace.”
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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Anas Al Sharif spent 17 of his 28 years living under a brutal blockade supported by your tax $. In 2008-09 and 2014, he survived bombings paid for by your tax $. In 2023-2025 he documented a genocide funded by your tax $. He was assassinated today with your tax $.
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mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
The blood of Anas al-Sharif and other slain journalists is on the hands of Western media figures who have justified Israel’s crimes while ignoring, or excusing, the killing and intimidation of Palestinian journalists.
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