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🇲🇽🕷️rustbelt rebel🕷️🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
As the queer kid my parents went no contact with I can tell you I’ve never once not one single time ever seen an essay to parents about why cutting contact off with your lgbtq child isn’t the answer. Not even to say ‘putting a child on the streets is dangerous for them.’
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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I got tired of waiting for the journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social to cover this (it IS summer), but this is to say that ALL the staff members in Women & Gender Studies here were laid off last week, on the top of the cutting of 5 lecturer positions in the program last year.+
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Oftentimes Jack 🇮🇪🤝🇵🇸 @pepsffk.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Raghad has had trouble with her Gofundme which meant she was reviving no help, thanks to Casey of Gaza Verified she'll be able to get donation through this new link, with an option for Paypal and a credit or debit card. Mention her name when donating. tiny.cc/raghad
A digital flyer with a light blue and white watercolor background and decorative floral illustrations in the top-left and bottom-right corners. A QR code is featured in the bottom-left. The text reads: "Support Raghad and Her family. For months Raghad has been unable to receive donations, thanks to Casey  she’ll be able to receive them again. She is trying to support herself and her family and can’t do that without your help. Find her on Gaza Verified. Help her please."
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Oftentimes Jack 🇮🇪🤝🇵🇸 @pepsffk.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I keep asking why I'm here. It's because maybe I can help. Maybe you can too. No one should be left hungry, we push back again that by caring. We change the world by actions of care not discourse. Act. tiny.cc/nasrah tiny.cc/nasrapp
Fundraising poster asking for help for Nasra, a widow who lost her husband in an airstrike, seeking donations for her children's safety, education, and future; shows three photos of Nasra with her children and a QR code for donations.
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River @riverbirchtree.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The way this racist app silences Palestinians takes legit effort. They don’t just ban IPs from Gaza. They also scan for & ban ppl like Joy who manage to leave and continue to bravely tell their stories from abroad. But white people? It takes being virtually a celebrity (@mommunism) to get booted.
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River @riverbirchtree.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Please help us reunite sisters Nour and Joy in Italy this September ❤️ chuffed.org/project/1949... #gaza #scholarship #futuredoctor #highered #palestine #education
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Oftentimes Jack Mutual Aid Bot @oftentimeshaiku.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
We must be the creators of hope. Hope is an action too. I can share! I can donate! I can help! tiny.cc/Eslamfam @pepsffk.bsky.social #fundsky #MutualAidRequest
A digital flyer with a light blue background and soft watercolor-style blue and green floral patterns. On the left are four vertical photo frames displaying a woman and children in modest clothing, pictured in what appear to be cramped or temporary living conditions. On the right, a donation appeal is printed in dark blue text, with a QR code located at the bottom right. The text reads Help Eslam and Her Boys. I place this plea before you—not for pity, but for a glimmer of hope. Your donation will provide Yahya, Mohammad, and Islam with the chance to survive: to secure food, medicine, a more stable shelter, and one day, perhaps, a return to their education. Please, be our lifeline in this dark time.
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 17/08/2026
Today, the most stagnant fund I host is: • Student Hamza: chuffed.org/project/1644... • Last support: August 10 • Hamza is a student who needs support with ongoing medical care. Make it weekly/monthly so support isn't just once a month.
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Support Hamza with Medical Bills
Jane Shi on behalf on Hamza:
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Designer Hasan @designer4hasand.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
We only have 2days left, and just £80 remains to cover the school fees.🥹 Your support means more than just paying school fees—it gives our children hope, stability, and the chance to keep learning and dreaming. 📚 Please help us reach the finish line in thier education.❤️🙏
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Donate to Help Hasan & Duaa Rebuild Their Lives., organized by Natalie taffal
Deep within the alleys of Gaza, a life story full of pain and challenges unfolde… Natalie taffal needs your support for Help Hasan & Duaa Rebuild Their Lives.
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River @riverbirchtree.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Please help us reunite sisters Nour and Joy in Italy this September ❤️ chuffed.org/project/1949... #gaza #scholarship #futuredoctor #highered #palestine #education
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River @riverbirchtree.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
$2,500 down / $11,500 to go - we can do this! Thank you all for your support for this young woman’s dream ❤️🇵🇸 #gaza #palestine #scholarship #futuredoctor #gazastudents #gaza40 @gazashare.bsky.social @amplifypalestine.bsky.social @pscupdates.bsky.social
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River @riverbirchtree.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
$2,500 down / $11,500 to go - we can do this! Thank you all for your support for this young woman’s dream ❤️🇵🇸 #gaza #palestine #scholarship #futuredoctor #gazastudents #gaza40 @gazashare.bsky.social @amplifypalestine.bsky.social @pscupdates.bsky.social
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Oftentimes Jack 🇮🇪🤝🇵🇸 @pepsffk.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
You can't help everyone but that doesn't mean we can't help anyone. There's always something you can do just have to be willing to try. tinyurl.com/for-maha
Heading in bright pink writing help Maha and her kids survive! On a soft grey background with ink pen drawing of flowers. For single mum Maha the struggle to live continues based and continued displacement, famine and destruction. She has no one to help her secure urgent food, shelter and winter items for her family. That’s where you come in. Be her hope.
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River @riverbirchtree.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
See Joy's note here on substack: substack.com/@joy1698265/... #gaza #palestine #highered #studyabroad #futuredoctor #scholarships
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Joy In Gaza (@joy1698265)
OK GUYS, very top urgent‼️‼️‼️ Dear friends and supporters, My name is Joy. I am a Palestinian writer and poet from Gaza, and a survivor of the genocide. During the war while still in Gaza, I was ...
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River @riverbirchtree.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Hey all. Last year, you helped Joy from #Gaza (acct deleted; b$ky r@cism) evacuate and study in Italy. We now have the chance to help Joy’s 18yo sister Nour join her & study to become a doctor. Please donate and share! @pepsffk.bsky.social @klompusjack.myatproto.social chuffed.org/project/1949...
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Help Nour Evacuate Gaza and Continue Her Education
My name is Caitlin, and I'm the coordinator of a group of 12 volunteers in 5 countries who worked together last year to help Joy (Farah), a 23-year-old Palestinian writer and English literature studen...
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Oftentimes Jack Mutual Aid Bot @oftentimeshaiku.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
When things are at their worst is when we should be coming together, not running away. tiny.cc/sandsila @pepsffk.bsky.social #fundsky #MutualAidRequest
A light blue floral-themed fundraising infographic featuring a column of four photos on the left displaying a woman wearing a hijab and an infant The text on the right reads Help Shimma and Sila Help support a young Palestinian mother and her child your donations help provide daily essentials like water food milk and diapers for Sila Every euro is a candle that lights up and a hope that illuminates my child’s life A QR code is positioned in the bottom right corner for potential donors
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Oftentimes Jack 🇮🇪🤝🇵🇸 @pepsffk.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Can't do enough, but match my five at least ❤️
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Oftentimes Jack 🇮🇪🤝🇵🇸 @pepsffk.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Numerous Palestinian families are terrified in tents right now, there's screams of women and children, but we don't know what's happening. Get some fucking urgency and keep it.
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River @riverbirchtree.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Hey all. Last year, you helped Joy from #Gaza (acct deleted; b$ky r@cism) evacuate and study in Italy. We now have the chance to help Joy’s 18yo sister Nour join her & study to become a doctor. Please donate and share! @pepsffk.bsky.social @klompusjack.myatproto.social chuffed.org/project/1949...
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Help Nour Evacuate Gaza and Continue Her Education
My name is Caitlin, and I'm the coordinator of a group of 12 volunteers in 5 countries who worked together last year to help Joy (Farah), a 23-year-old Palestinian writer and English literature studen...
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River @riverbirchtree.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Artist Eslam, whose account here was deleted, is looking for someone to manage a bsky account for her. Is anyone able to take this on? Please share with anyone supporting Palestinian accounts. @pepsffk.bsky.social @klompusjack.myatproto.social @mommunism.bsky.social
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River @riverbirchtree.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
I stand with Eslam — her account @soma-eslam.bsky.social was unfairly suspended. Please email moderation@blueskyweb.xyz and ask Bluesky to restore it. Every message counts — let’s help her get her voice and community back.
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Oftentimes Jack 🇮🇪🤝🇵🇸 @pepsffk.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
You knew Eslam The Artist when she had an account, that broke no rules but was suspended, taking away access to her friends, she's so young and responsible for her family trapped in Palestine. She has sacrificed her wellbeing to fight, you can help ease that burden. Donate. Share. shorturl.at/1XJ3D
A trio of photos of Eslam, the first of her before, young and fresh faced wearing a keffiyeh wrapped around her head. The second a much less healthy Eslam, with skin issues and wearing a plain headscarf. The last a before Eslam hugging a fluffy cat. Happy.A selfie of Eslam and one of her siblings, smiling happily,
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Statement from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker
This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.
We must now start calling this what it is: Trump's Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state's military troops.
I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation.
The brave men and women who serve in our national guards must not be used as political props. This is a moment where every American must speak up and help stop this madness.
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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
U.S. Border Patrol agent assaults man on Kedzie Ave in Chicago
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
ICE GOONS tear gas crowd of community members near the Broadview, IL ICE Facility near Chicago
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 02/10/2025
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Pritzker calls for Trump's removal from office under 25th Amendment
Gov. JB Pritzker for the first time is calling for President Donald Trump to be removed from office under the 25th Amendment, after the president said cities like Chicago should be used as “training g...
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
"how could people look at Trump and think he is a good businessman because he played one on TV?" idk maybe the same reason we evidently associate being hot with virtue
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Friends of Klompus @klompusjack.myatproto.social · 04/10/2025
Please support Lubna and her family ❤️🙏 They have been a member of this community for a long time now (despite having accounts removed by bluesky)
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Oftentimes Jack 🇮🇪🤝🇵🇸 @pepsffk.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Giving up on people because you don't want to do anything to help is a really awful way to be, but also they will come for us too you idiots. "we are each other’s harvest: we are each other’s business: we are each other’s magnitude and bond."
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
This is how ICE drove by protesters yesterday. A row of state police separated protesters and ICE vehicles.
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Your fave's fave @actually.roiskinda.cool · 04/10/2025
The thing I respect about Greta Thunberg is that she understands most people in the Western world don’t give a shit about atrocities until someone white is affected. So she’s doing what needs to be done to keep up the pressure. If more white folks followed that example, we’d all be fine.
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rat comrade 🍝🐀 @aro-rat.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
donations for Layla have slowed down, please share and donate if you can chuffed.org/project/layl...
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Help Layla Rebuild her life and Continue her Education
My name is Layla, and I am a 4th year  student in dent@l school from Gaza. My journey has been one of resilience, hope, and determination, even in the face of unimaginable challenges. My family and I ...
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
“Fuck them kids.” That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other. abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
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"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

Watson said trucks and military-style vans were used to separate parents from their children. Other neighbors said agents destroyed property to get in the building.

"They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down," said witness Darrell Ballard. "We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."
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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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