Geena Hardy (geeenawrites.com)

A stack of text books ‘Long COVID and Society: International Perspectives’ edited by Deborah Lupton

You can read the first 14 chapters of this new textbook about Long COVID at this link, courtesy of @dalupton.bsky.social

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

This is an ongoing need.

@prisonculture.bsky.social knows I track copaganda costumes, and this year there were just...none! No navy seals, no army rangers, no paw patrol cops, no marines. Hopefully a signal that some tides are turning.

Also, kids loved the KPDH light sticks so much I gave my email to parents who want one

I am asking people to get activated re: your local public libraries. There are sooooo many ways for you to take action: www.librariesforthepeople.org

Independent outlets like @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @thetriibe.com, @unraveledpress.com and @blockclubchi.bsky.social are doing a TERRIFIC job reporting on what's currently happening in Chicago. Folks should support and follow them.

A witch making s'mores in pumpkin patch surrounded by ghost cats phasing through the pumpkins. The setting is night time and there's fire lighting the scene.

S'mores 🤍

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

#ICYMI: Among the citizens detained by immigration agents are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

Four children were held for weeks with their undocumented mother and without access to the family’s attorney until a congresswoman intervened.

By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

Bay Area Protesters Try to Block Base Entrance Before Immigration Operation

"More than 200 protesters demonstrated and tried to block the entrance to Coast Guard Island in Alameda, Calif., on Thursday morning." - People are in motion everywhere...

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...

City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries! In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...

@nycplan.org is fighting for INCREASED & STABLE funding for NYC Public Libraries, will you join us?

It takes 2 minutes to send a letter to your City Council Member: actionnetwork.org/letters/city...?

EU countries have a legal and moral duty to end their complicity in Israel’s genocide and apartheid against Palestinians — and to arrest war criminals. No exceptions, no excuses. Anything less is criminal complicity, and history won't forgive it.

Between this, Taylor Swift dog-whistling through her merch and Hank Green concern trolling Black and Brown folks pointing it out, I feel like I'm going mad understanding how little of a deal breaker white supremacist symbolism and the people who fuck about with it is for white folks. Jesus wept.

The United States military and "law enforcement" are where Nazi and Nazi-adjacent white men thrive the most. It's not exactly surprising to me that neoliberals and even some leftists will pal around with people who can't even own up to their proclivity for the symbolism. "Resembles a Nazi tat" GFOH.

Islamophobia in the US is a bigotry that is fully normalized and mostly unchallenged.

“We haven't been given any evidence of whether these boats that have been bombed are actually carrying drugs.”

They BEGGING people to stay on there for at least the free version of it to the point you can skip songs AND choose which ones you play. They desperate

The cover of Baltimore Beat. It is a photo of a Black woman wearing a chartreuse headwrap and matching shirt and pants. She is seated among wax figures at The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum.

Issue 71 of Baltimore Beat is live! Our cover is a photograph of Joanne Martin, co-founder of The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. It was taken by Faith Spicer.

⭕️ Mohammed Nazzal, Political Bureau member of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas: “Whoever bets on erasing Hamas – not just from power but from existence – is delusional. Their calculations are wrong. They speak from wishful thinking, not from reality. The reality is that Hamas is part of the Palestinian political landscape, and no one can remove it – not by force or otherwise. I say this not out of arrogance, but as a fact proven after two full years of genocidal war waged by the Zionist enemy, backed by major Western powers – foremost among them the United States. Without that backing, Israel wouldn’t exist on the map today. So let me be clear: any political power must engage with Hamas as the representative of the Palestinian resistance regarding Gaza’s future, the West Bank’s future, and the future of the Palestinian cause itself. If they follow Netanyahu’s path, they too will fail.

There can be no future for Gaza without Hamas’s presence in the political scene – and I emphasize, in the political scene, not necessarily in governance.”

⭕️ Mohammed Nazzal, Political Bureau member of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas:

“Whoever bets on erasing Hamas – not just from power but from existence – is delusional. Their calculations are wrong.
They speak from wishful thinking, not from reality.

The reality is that Hamas is part of...

Don't lie. It's just so so ridiculous. I saw earlier that he talked to a friend of his about the tattoo 10 years ago and explained the meaning - he knew what it was.

YouTube video by PIX11 News ICE agents clash with large crowd in Lower Manhattan: ‘Shame’

Anthony DiLorenzo: PIX-11 was tipped about ICE raid. NYers react:

"People just stopped in their tracks. People were going to school. People were coming home from work or just commuting. And stopped to scream at these ICE agents. Pulled out their phones started recording and telling them to leave."

There's no reason for non-US citizens to come to study in the U.S. at this time. This is especially true for college-aged young people. Why would you take that risk? It's unnecessary.

If you're already here, you do what you need to do and then you head for the exits.

I really feel like Americans are underestimating just how embedded Nazis are within this country...

50+: Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino. ~130: Agents also can arrest U.S. citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. ~20: Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

When the Supreme Court recently allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned because agents will “promptly let the individual go.”

For these Americans, that wasn’t true: https://propub.li/47aawMD

Tawanda Jones, a Black woman with wavy dark hair, sits in a chair being interviewed by a film crew.

Trailer | "The Beat Goes On: The Story of Baltimore Beat" baltimorebeat.com/trailer-the-...

A white woman wrote a book recently about how the left is “weaponizing empathy” against Christians to gain political points and I thought I had seen and heard it all til I saw how popular a belief it is

Photo of the east side of San Francisco City Hall taken from Civic Center Plaza. Photo by Bernard Spragg. NZ from Christchurch, New Zealand, made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Join the RALLY FOR THE INTERNET ARCHIVE & celebrate our shared digital history. Supervisor Chan will introduce a proclamation to declare Oct 22 as “Internet Archive Day” in SF.

📅 Tues, Oct 21
🕛 11:30 AM
📍 Steps of SF City Hall
ℹ️ blog.archive.org/event/rally-...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

People need reflection. I regret not having more time with you. Your undeniable beauty and talent were not of this world, and a presence not of this world needs protection in a world that covets light and the anointing of God. You sir, moved us, stirred us, inspired and even intimidated others to action with your genius. Thank you for being a beacon of light to a generation and beyond who had no remembrance of the legacy that preceded us. Thank you for charting the course and for making space during a time when no similar space really existed.

You imaged a unity of strength and sensitivity in Black manhood to a generation that only saw itself as having to be one or the other. It is my earnest prayer that you are in peace, far away from selfishness, fear and/or controlling interests. Far from possessiveness, far from greed, far from manipulation, far from exploitation, far from intentionally designed chaos and that you Brother are in peace, in bliss and in eternal light and fulfillment with our Father in heaven. I Love you and I miss you. May God grant peace and shelter to your family, true friends and genuine appreciators, Brother, King.

A photo of Lauryn Hill and D’Angelo, wearing black

Lauryn Hill just shared a moving tribute to the late D’Angelo:

A comrade reached out to offer her herbalist skills to support people in Chicago who are fighting against ICE. I love that she did that because this is a way she can contribute. All of us can do something.

EVLovesNYC - Non Profit Helping New Yorkers in Need EVLovesNYC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit providing food & resources in NYC. Over 340,000 Meals provided & working with 75+ partner organizations.

My birthday is Sunday and for as long as I can remember I have used that occasion to raise needed funds for a project, organization or person. This year is no different. I have a goal of raising $5000 by 10/20 for EvLovesNYC @evlovesnyc.bsky.social - If you can & want to, please support this project