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As Gloria Steinem once reminded us, the moment of maximum danger and abusive relationship is when you decide to leave. Because that’s usually when your abuser decides to kill you rather than let you leave and live.

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Federal Judge William Sessions, ordering immediate release of Tufts grad student Rumeysa Ozturk: “THERE IS NO EVIDENCE.” reason.com/2025/05/09/j...

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I will vote for any Democrat who promises to prosecute any ice agent who detains or arrests anyone illegally.

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Ashkenazi Jewish? Feel an affinity for Bundist culture? Learn your mameloshn!

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This new Texas law copies anti-Jewish legislation in pre-war Nazi Germany. That legislation consisted of a series of restrictive laws passed in 1933, then the Nuremberg Laws of 1935. This is not an exaggeration.

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This is America.

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Bike return night is the best. We get to hear about the adventures our members get up to with their free cargo bike loans. Two members returned bikes tonight & both used the bikes multiple times a day every day this week. The 2 members added a combined 174 miles to the bikes. 🚲 ❤️

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The unending siren song of the fascist is to promise to violently end the revolution of the oppressed that never occurred.

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new gender neutral greeting just dropped

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Quite an exchange just now between Sen. Merkley and FBI Director Kash Patel over whether due process applies to people targeted by the Alien Enemies Act.

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World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...

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IJLB member Zach wrote about one of the 3 pillars of Bundism: Yiddishkeit

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92 years ago today, the Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld Institute for Sexuality, where the first study of trans people was conducted, and burned all of its contents. Fitting that today is also the day SCOTUS greenlights the project of the eradication of trans people from society in the US.

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1/ The US government has ordered the Swedish city of Stockholm to end its diversity, inclusivity and equality (DEI) programmes within 10 days. The city authorities say the demand is "bizarre" and they won't be complying. ⬇️

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"I’ve been interested in this idea of kindness without hope. What I saw working in fast food growing up in Hartford County was that people are kind even when they know it won’t matter. Where does that come from?" www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/m...

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Editorial cartoon by Saint Paulite @andy-singer.bsky.social

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Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha on Winning a Pulitzer: I Can't Celebrate While Gaza Is Starving

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I haven’t shared this in a while but this is a great time to follow Black press and journalists for politics, culture, community, local news and more. go.bsky.app/QvS5FNb

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EXCLUSIVE: A police officer questioned the legality of arresting peaceful student protesters without probable cause at a pro-Palestine demonstration at the University of Texas at Austin, audio from body camera footage provided to Rolling Stone shows.

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Smelling like a God! It's been well established in the meantime that Ancient Greek and Roman #sculptures were colorful painted - now a new study revealed that some apparently were also #perfumed: 🏺 phys.org/news/2025-03...

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Today, we remember and mourn the lives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit people. This is not just a crisis of violence—it is a crisis of health equity, justice, and accountability.

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should the handbasket do a podcast? is that something people want?

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In an absolutely devastating ruling, the Supreme Court has allowed the transgender military ban to go into effect. This is shocking - the ban explicitly called transgender people dishonorable for being transgender. It is as clear as day soaked in animus. www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke...

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Whoever does charity and justice is regarded as if they filled the whole world with kindness. —Talmud Bavli, Sukkah 49b

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װער האָט נישט ליב קײן ברױט? װער האָט נישט ליב קײן פֿרײַהײט?

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JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...

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"It is deeply ironic to see a Democratic governor who pretends to oppose the Trump administration trying to ban masks, while masked ICE agents abduct students." --yours truly prismreports.org/2025/05/05/n...

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new for @starledger.bsky.social, health reporter Jackie Roman and I spent a couple of months speaking with former and current inmates about what they called unsafe and “dirty” water quality at #NewJersey prisons. Activists, including @cleanwaternj.bsky.social, are calling for an investigation

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All charges against pro-Palestinian student protesters in Michigan have been dismissed today 🍉

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URGENT: NEA GRANT TERMINATED WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT Late Friday night we received a chilling email stating that our NEA grant has been terminated. Today we learned that the jobs of the Literary Arts program officers we have been working with have been eliminated.

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I would like my federal tax dollars to pay for libraries, museums, and food for hungry people, please. No thanks on the deportation flights and man-made mass death.

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May Day is not officially acknowledged in the U.S. because of what historians say is an ongoing resistance to unity among the working class. This resistance is prompting protesters to take action on Thursday, regardless.

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Today! ✊

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Happy Beltaine and May Day ! Illustration of May Day costumes 1830, from costumes of the lower orders (yes really). #Beltaine #mayday

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Beltaine, also known as May Day (1st May), marks the beginning of summer in pagan & Gaelic calendars. It's marked with Maypole dancing, bonfires, fertility rituals (👀) & by making posies & leaving them at the doors of those you love. Merry May Day 🌿-some May posies my daughters made 8 years ago:

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People across Asia kicked off May Day celebrations with big marches and protests, many of which focused on U.S.

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i will say again that given the trajectory of the white house so far, strident opposition a la 2017 would have absolutely been the most prudent and effective decision and the absence of that opposition in the first two months made things demonstrably worse.

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Kathy Hochul is doubling down on her efforts to send the National Guard into the subways, allocating $45 million in next year's budget. Literally zero people I've spoken to in law enforcement, local government, or national security think this is a good idea.

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Happy May Day! Whether you’re going to march today for workers rights, immigrants rights, or just like workers and immigrants, come join us.

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INCREDIBLE NEWS!!! Last night I joined @balint.house.gov and an amazing group of Dem legislators to demand Mohsen's release and stand with all those who are unjustly and unconstitutionally detained. Truly amazing to see him free, and humbling to witness his courage in the face of Trump's attacks.

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HELL YEAH! Courage is contagious, y'all. Keep it coming.

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"Not only does 'love your fellow as yourself' apply to Jewish people, but to all mankind. We should love all nations and include all peoples in this universal principle, 'the stranger and native son' alike, all who inhabit the earth." —Rav Pinchas Eliyahu Horowitz of Vilna

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Israel has released Rashid Al-Sarfandi, a Palestinian from Jericho, after 16 months in detention. His before-and-after photos reflect the conditions inside Israeli camps, where detainees face extreme food deprivation.

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With USAID shuttered, Palestine’s most vulnerable lose a lifeline - https://www.972mag.com/usaid-cuts-palestinian-ngos-adwar/

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Right wing editor Charles R Kesler refers to the “New McCarthyism,” which he champions, as a “Cold Civil War,” a portmanteau that combines modern anti-communism w Confederate Lost Cause nostalgia: fascism w American characteristics, I suppose

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Look at this video: a huge crowd of Vermonters swaying alongside Mohsen right after he was freed, singing "We Shall Overcome" Signs reading "Hands off our students" & "free speech" are peppered in between large Palestine flags

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