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For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash to stand on one foot on top of St. Paul's, it is still more rash to go home alone with a poet. A poet is Atlantic and lion in one. (Woolf)
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queerness, as a liberatory politics and not just another vague personal label, must involve thinking, speaking, and acting against ICE, against the police, against the carceral + imperial state and its networks across the globe, against the violence of borders. happy pride!

fyi, writer folks, this is my stance as well ⤵️

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Asmaa. Asmaa was a lawyer who had studied international law. She is now struggling to survive with her extended family including her sisters Soso, 6 and Sama, 12. She is engaged and her fiancee lives in Finland and runs her fundraiser.

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NEW — I wrote a guide to the upcoming NYC Democratic mayoral primary for both locals and outsiders to understand wtf is going on, including my recommended ranking order + other helpful resources. Read and share:

Good morning.

Add your name to this, please. We have a chance to block the sale of more weapons to Israel - bombs your tax dollars are paying for. www.blockthebombs.org

Do it, even if your Rep is not supportive. The majority of Americans and 70% of Dems want to stop arming and aiding Israel's war crimes. If politicians can't represent that viewpoint, then they don't represent us.

By his OWN ADMISSION, Matt Miller belongs in the Hague. Does he know what happened to N*zi officers who were "just following orders"?

"In Gaza, there are dozens of 'Napalm Girl' moments each day, and they don’t come filtered through distant photo wires or delayed coverage. They come live." @jehadabusalim.bsky.social in @zeteo.com zeteo.com/p/why-did-bu...

"In Gaza, there are dozens of 'Napalm Girl' moments each day, and they don’t come filtered through distant photo wires or delayed coverage. They come live." @jehadabusalim.bsky.social in @zeteo.com zeteo.com/p/why-did-bu...

"No matter how much charcoal you filter your water through, you will return to dust, in—give or take—threescore and ten. How much of that time will you spend triple-checking labels for dyes and seed oils, and judging other people as unworthy of life if they don’t do the same?"

I have just realized that the stakes are myself I have no other ransom money, nothing to break or barter but my life Diane di Prima

Help Mahmoud get food for his family - give & share pls

Abed has a 9 month old son, Nidal. Give what you can & reshare please

Help Ahmed - give if you can, reshare if you can't

Poems--something! Poems?

"But giving in to the fear of feeling and working to capacity is a luxury only the unintentional can afford, and the unintentional are those who do not wish to guide their own destinies." -- Audre Lorde

CONCENTRATING them. Into CAMPS.

if you feel like you aren't doing enough, just think: you could be the school librarian I heard *gushing* about all the ways she LOVES to use AI, and how HELPFUL it is, and there's this whole BOOK you can read about ALL THE WAYS to use it! reader, the way my stomach TURNED 🤢

Can you help Lama feed her family? gofund.me/9d69d751

Poetry mail! Thank you @rosswhite.com and @casswhit.bsky.social for sending queer & anti-fascist books for me to devour -ahem- review. Diving in with coffee on this gray chilly day ☕️ @bullcitypress.com @jacklegpress.bsky.social

This is no surprise in a country that depends on women’s free labor to make up for its refusal to supply health care for everyone. bsky.app/profile/just...

how. how do we allow this. how do we live our lives knowing this is happening

Paws off endangered wildlife habitat! A new proposal would allow companies to destroy critical habitat for endangered species. But like us, animals need homes to survive. Today is the deadline to comment! Make your voice heard: www.oregonzoo.org/news/take-ac...

Okay the areas where most of the people on Bluesky are (particularly Khan Younis) are being displaced- so I am going to start a master thread here of people who need help with evacuation. I’ll keep adding to it so check the bottom part too:

Happy Birthday to the one and only Han VanderHart! Lucky to be on this planet making poetry at the same time as you. 🌻🌷🌼 @hanvanderhart.bsky.social

Paramount+ what the fuck are you doing running that disgusting "self-deport" ad with Kristi Noem? There is no way you're gonna beam that fascist barbie into my house to spew her racist bullshit. @whatsonpplus.bsky.social

Thinking about this song today. youtu.be/l1PrUU2S_iw?...

Have you Googled NAKBA today?

SUBS CLOSE 11:59pm AND WON'T REOPEN TILL OCTOBER! Get those pieces in you rascals.

Good morning. Gaza is starving. If everything else feels like a distraction, it's because it is.

40 years ago on this date, police dropped a bomb on a West Philadelphia neighborhood

The press asks "is it antisemitism to care about children on the wrong side of a wall" as if it's a legit question.