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sashaspark.bsky.social @sashaspark.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

what does it mean to accept that a certain class of people will always try to scapegoat you if you do political work ?

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Mask Oakland @maskoakland.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

slides 5-8 of 8 on our wildfire smoke advice, especially on very high aqi, and taking action in your community

Exposed to smoke?
Reduce Future Exposure, Fight Inflammation

- the more active you are, the more air you breathe in, the more smoke you breathe in, reduce activity
- expect mental and emotional consequences as smoke moves through your body and brain, not just physical pain and headaches and difficulty breathing.
-Reduce increased exposure through masking and air purifiers, changing your clothes, and showering
- Get to cleaner indoor air if you can, or if possible travel (sometimes a short drive visible on air quality apps, like as of this post 2 hours west of the catastrophic levels in Chicago is clean air. Sometimes even 10 minutes of driving can get you somewhere better)
- Hydrate, while you can’t fully flush out smoke, you can give your body the best chance overall to mitigate the damage
- Ibuprofen and other anti-inflammatory remedies can help with pain but don’t reduce your exposure
- This is survivable. It is sad on a personal, community and global level, but you can survive this.

@maskoakland 5 of 8

The Air Quality Index Scale (AQI) is NOT linear, but rather a calculated semi-linear figure. AQI 600 is ~7x worse than 150, not 4 times worse. https://www.airnow.gov/aqi/aqi-calculator/ shows that 25 AQI, well within healthy range, has 4 parts of PM 2.5. At AQI 150, the concentration is 55.4 parts of PM 2.5, Thats around 13 times worse, despite only 6x higher of a number. Parts of the country have passed 600 AQI, at 672 for example, there are over 400 parts of PM 2.5 per cubic meter. That’s 100 times higher concentration despite numerically being around 26 times higher than 25. That’s 100 times higher concentration despite numerically being around 26 times higher. That’s about 7.5x worse than AQI 150 versus a 4.5x higher number. @maskoakland 6 of 8, July 2026

Want to help others stuck in this wildfire smoke?

The learning curve on smoke is high, you’ll see many people being exposed and potentially unaware. You will not be able to help everyone.

From our street distribution experience, people will take masks and wear them if you offer them and show them the air quality levels on your phone, or just point out the sky condition is from toxic wildfire smoke.

Doing distribution increases your exposure. In the past we did long outdoor volunteer shifts that felt heroic and rewarding but the catharsis is not worth the damage to your lungs. Do short shifts, involve more people, take breaks, and remember your car is not a clean air space, just slightly better than outside.

Tell people about what you are doing, ask for help. Be prepared for slow days and the occasional viral moment where you burst at the seams. Get more masks if you can, but get info out there too. And people on the street always need more food and water, especially when affluent pedestrian traffic decreases. Use venmo/cashapp or donation links to pool funds.

Work with local groups that you know regularly reach vulnerable people (seniors, homeless, disabled folks) and get them info, masks, and purifiers. Spread the word about groups you trust doing good work.

Be careful. This problem is not going away. We need your passion and interest for the long haul.

@maskoakland 7 of 8

What is Mask Oakland doing about the NE wildfires? Not currently engaged in on the ground distribution or supply procurement.

Not sure yet. We are making this post sharing info. We are not currently maintaining an inventory or standing funds to buy large amounts of N95s.

Donate locally, which right now is not us. We strongly suggest you find and support groups in local affected communities.

You can follow us to support our long-term efforts to improve community response to wildfires. We are a queer, trans, disabled-led tiny org that believes in the power of necessity of community-driven disaster response.

For frequent posts: Dr. Lucky Tran in NYC is the East Coast person we see posting most consistently. Tell us if your group is doing distribution work or you know one that is.

@maskoakland 8 of 8, July 2026

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sashaspark.bsky.social @sashaspark.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

if you have face masks to spare, please give them out to the folks working or living outside. the air is so bad today & people eagerly took the ones we handed out

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 13/06/2026

#OtD 13 Jun 2010 match stewards at the World Cup in South Africa walked out on strike over being underpaid by almost 90%. Police attacked them with tear gas, rubber bullets, and percussion grenades stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8494...

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LA Street Care & Mutual Aid @lastreetcare.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

fascism enacted first on the unhoused will also happen to you

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sashaspark.bsky.social @sashaspark.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

busted eye busted eye, busted apple of my eye

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sashaspark.bsky.social @sashaspark.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

liberals act like its a lost cause instead of moving themselves & their resources towards a defense of our unhoused. acquiescence & helplnessness.

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sashaspark.bsky.social @sashaspark.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

come join us irl at pobox collective this sunday ! www.instagram.com/p/DYPTbfwEYi9/

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sashaspark.bsky.social @sashaspark.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

happy mothers day to all the daughters that raised themselves :)

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sashaspark.bsky.social @sashaspark.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

another example of the russian is better than the english ! happy may day

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sashaspark.bsky.social @sashaspark.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I just saw one of the neighbors biking around in my grandmas house dress, the nicest thing I did for myself was bringing grandmas clothes to my weekly distro.

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sashaspark.bsky.social @sashaspark.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

i never have to go to a pesach seder ever again, i think this is what absolute freedom feels like

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sashaspark.bsky.social @sashaspark.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

may you find strength in the land & also work towards its liberation, may we succeed in our struggles towards de-colonisation!

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LA Street Care & Mutual Aid @lastreetcare.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

The struggles of unhoused and undocumented people are more interconnected than you know. An estimated 10% of unhoused Angelenos are undocumented. While ICE kidnaps people off our streets every day, city officials continue to sweep encampments and enforce anti-camping laws.

UNDOCUMENTED OR UNHOUSED
No one should be criminalized!
THE STATE IS TARGETING PEOPLE FOR THEIR IMMIGRATION STATUS AND HOUSING STATUS.

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sashaspark.bsky.social @sashaspark.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

TIL winnetka has their own power plant www.villageofwinnetka.org/176/Water-El...

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LA Street Care & Mutual Aid @lastreetcare.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

On March 24 and 25, 2021, Councilmember Mitch O'Farrell ordered the militarized eviction of the community that made Echo Park Lake their home for 18 months. O'Farrell is gone, but the eviction's violent legacy of criminalization and displacement continues in his former district and beyond.

Photo of a banner at the echo park lake encampment that says:
We refuse to be swept into dark corners

Caption: 5 years after the eviction at echo park lake
a legacy of ongoing violence and displacement

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sashaspark.bsky.social @sashaspark.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

socialist ceo of chicago park district carlos ramirez rosa evicted unhoused neighbors from legion park today with about 30 cops, unlike last time, parks employees did not even leave their cars. just like last time, the city displaced people using heavy machinery in the midst of a housing crisis

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making art @marigoldmagic.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

FOIA Friday tidbit: i submitted a FOIA on October 2, today marks a 3 month delay chicago park district delays Carlos Ramirez Rosa's emails from eviction day at Legion Park + under Illinois FOIA they can no longer claim unduly burdensome so what's the hold up, what is carlos hiding

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sashaspark.bsky.social @sashaspark.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

i should not watch the man in the high castle before going to sleep if we plan to watch parks enact eviction violence against people living in tents in the morning but somehow it feels appropriate

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sashaspark.bsky.social @sashaspark.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

socialist ceo carlos ramirez rosa is straight up lying, there was no housing offered to people evicted from legion park last september www.youtube.com/live/zK15DqJ...

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Chicago Park District March 2026 Board of Commissioners Monthly Meeting

YouTube video by Chicago Park District

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sashaspark.bsky.social @sashaspark.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

www.youtube.com/live/zK15DqJ... notable that 'restore gompers' a group of fascist white women who would like to see parks banish essentially poor men make their complaint for real housing to Parks & not to the city. never seen them attend a city council hearing to demand new housing

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Chicago Park District March 2026 Board of Commissioners Monthly Meeting

YouTube video by Chicago Park District

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sashaspark.bsky.social @sashaspark.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

i do not know where to put all the war making craziness!

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sashaspark.bsky.social @sashaspark.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

the most absurd way to spend my beloved intl working women's day was going to national public housing museum in chicago

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sashaspark.bsky.social @sashaspark.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

The Mayor's office continues to try to co-opt mutual aid groups in Chicago

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sashaspark.bsky.social @sashaspark.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

what will you do when there are no more elections?

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sashaspark.bsky.social @sashaspark.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

i am so disheartened by how apolitical, reactionary & liberal mutual aid group politics are in chicago

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sashaspark.bsky.social @sashaspark.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

this new moon is like insane energy

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sashaspark.bsky.social @sashaspark.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

meanwhile brandon johnson has increased restrictions against unhoused people

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 05/02/2026

related, the FOIA Bakery is currently suing the city for refusing to release public records documenting the city's approach to unhoused Chicagoans. specifically, metadata: a list of files.

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sashaspark.bsky.social @sashaspark.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

in other news carlos ramirez rosa has increased policing of unhoused neighbors in public parks, and we anticipate another cold snap with neighbors who would like a reprieve from their tents, you could drop some coin here if you've got it! opencollective.com/rogers-park-...

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Hotel for Neighbors - Open Collective

Let's get our unhoused neighbors out of the freezing cold this week!

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sashaspark.bsky.social @sashaspark.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

chicago was pretty bad at defense, people focused on the spectacular, and thats not how a lot of kidnappings were happening

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sashaspark.bsky.social @sashaspark.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

all these yokels debating whistles yes or no in some kind of Grand Theory on the socials, tell me you haven't talked to people irl, shown up to figure out irl defense for people if you think you know theres a best strategy & it not being contigent on neighborhood & trust & actual direction

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sashaspark.bsky.social @sashaspark.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

im tired! time to do different things

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sashaspark.bsky.social @sashaspark.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

the soviet cartoons really worked on me ... your labour is your power. why would you give that up and be helpless?

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

this crystallizes why, despite truly heroic solidarity and activism, i can’t quite get in the “we’re going to win” mindset right now. the harm is so active and there’s so much violence we don’t even know about. people are being turned into ghosts.

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sashaspark.bsky.social @sashaspark.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

this is the progressiveism of @carlosrosa.bsky.social www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/media/41231/... rights language served alongside an expansion of policing, surveillance policy over unhoused people

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sashaspark.bsky.social @sashaspark.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

if you live in chicago, there are park district drop sites for pine trees but also you can go get pine mulch because CPkD grinds up the trees. fill up bags/boxes of it, leave some in your car & your home & enjoy the smell for weeks, its magic.

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sashaspark.bsky.social @sashaspark.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

the incredible thing about the new year is you just get to try again-- be more loving, receive more love, be more kind, receive more kindness, be more brave, more humbled and in awe of everyone , including yourself, who is trying relentlessly to exist in the world and with relationship others

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sashaspark.bsky.social @sashaspark.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

brandon johnson's administration & the people he hand picked for various sister agencies are at war with unhoused chicagoans

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sashaspark.bsky.social @sashaspark.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

on the other hand its hard when you think you have a connection with someone that's timeless, diaspora kids and all that jazz but they don't feel the same

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sashaspark.bsky.social @sashaspark.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

I remembered today I stopped dating someone bc he had a peanut allergy and was active in an IPO.

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sashaspark.bsky.social @sashaspark.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

in our year of the lord 2025 why would you be proud of brandon johnson positively noticing you ? how much is your head up your own ass

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sashaspark.bsky.social @sashaspark.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

i think its easier to punch down on socials when you dont produce anything with your political work, but by all means lets rename salt trucks 'Abolish ICE' with the mayor's approval LOL. that definitely stops CPD / city of Chicago from coordinating with ICE & other feds

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sashaspark.bsky.social @sashaspark.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Buy TENTS & SLEEPING BAGS for CHICAGO northside neighbors. We (Food Not Bombs Rogers Park) get 40+ people every week at our Touhy Park distro, and constant requests for cold weather supplies. www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/... or if you want to drop off used items, reach out!

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Check out my list on Amazon

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