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Why fandom organizing is a powerful strategy for movement building As the Disney/ABC boycott took off, youth activist group Get Free mobilized its “Andor” fan community to amp up the pressure.

As the Disney/ABC boycott took off, youth activist group Get Free mobilized its “Star Wars” fan community, showing the potential of cultural organizing.

For Rama, my partner in dreams. I write because she cannot. During the genocide, writing has become an ultimate form of resistance, ensuring the histories of Gaza and our people live on forever

“Every story is an opportunity to revive Rama’s dream of writing & keep her alive between the lines.”

During the genocide, writing has become an ultimate form of resistance, allowing Eman Ghassan Abu Zayed to tell the stories of Gaza, ensuring their histories live on forever.

ICE Targets Unaccompanied Immigrant Children, Offering Payment for Deportation ICE confirmed its plan to pay unaccompanied immigrant children in exchange for their agreement to be deported.

BREAKING: We've obtained a government memo revealing the start of a new ICE operation that targets unaccompanied immigrant children 14 years or older, pressuring them to take $2,500 if they agree to be deported.
💻@theintercept.com

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YouTube video by KTM aka GUANTE "Look On My Despair, Ye Mighty, and Work!" by Guante & Big Cats

"it's a marathon, not a sprint / it's 92 degrees in October, in Minnesota / they cancelled that marathon yesterday..."

Sharing partly because it is again too hot out, and partly because it's Bandcamp Friday, the best day to support underground music: guanteandbigcats.bandcamp.com/album/all-dr...

I wish yall truly knew how deeply trifiling Jacob Frey and the Frey administration are. I try to share as much as I can, but there is SO much more. Stuff you have to hold back to protect innocent people who work for the city. They build it that way to weigh everybody down in it.

“It’s a scary moment, but it’s also a moment that bears no equivocation. At this point you are either on the side of protecting our neighbors and protecting our community, or you’re on the side of this administration. There is no neutral ground in this moment. There’s no center left. You’re either resisting or you’re complicit.” - Eman Abdelhadi

@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social: "You’re either on the side that is singing and showing up and holding other people, or you’re on the side of the helicopters and the gas canisters and the guns." truthout.org/audio/holdin...

We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.

A bench showing a highlited sign that reads OMAR, DEWAYNE & JAZZ, rank all 3 for mayor in front of the store front windows of Moon Palace Books, which is the signage on the building

Psst, ask the booksellers for the signs, they're behind the desk.

Event graphic for "Fighting Copaganda Under Authoritarianism: How to Advance Narratives That Undermine Authoritarianism & Increase Solidarity," taking place place on October 15, 3-4 PM ET, virtual, with Andrea J. Ritchie, Lewis Raven Wallace, and Dean Spade. The event information is in black text on a background of a collage of a thick red pain mark, tape, cutouts of a hand writing, an eye with electricity coming out of it, and a crossed-out mouth, as well as yellow and black scribbles.

🗓️ Oct. 15 at 3-4 PM ET online: Please join us for a discussion of how to advance narratives that undermine authoritarianism and increase solidarity, featuring @dreanyc123.bsky.social, @lewispants.bsky.social, and @deanspade.bsky.social!

Register: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/events/all/f...

A Reagan-appointed judge just wrote a blistering anti-Trump decision Federal judge William G. Young attacked the president's crackdown on civil liberties as un-American.

In a blistering decision, a Reagan-appointed judge says the Trump administration has trampled First Amendment rights by targeting students protesting Israel's actions in Gaza.

Court-watchers confirm this cruel ICE agent has been reinstated.

Last week, in the briefest moment of decency, violently throwing a woman to the floor was “beneath the men and women of ICE.”

This week, it’s back to business as usual. The cruelty, after all, is the point.

'I want his name to be known': Wife of immigrant injured at ICE facility shooting speaks out Stephany Gauffeny says she wants the world to know that her husband, Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez, is more than "just an immigrant or a detainee, or a criminal."

A victim of the shooting at the ICE facility is UNCONSCIOUS, in critical care, may not survive, his wife is about to give birth, and ICE IS KEEPING HIM SHACKLED TO HIS HOSPITAL BED:

I just unlocked a new level of rage.

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If you haven't watched the DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS short film and if you don't weep when you watch it, well. I feel sorry for you. youtu.be/gLSzEYVDads?...

Election 2025 Minneapolis: Resources for Those Just Tuning In Now A few links and resources related to the 2025 Minneapolis mayoral race, city council races, and other races.

Pulled together some MPLS election 2025 resources for friends who aren't super tuned into local politics: endorsements, voter guides, etc. Thumbnail is the "rank all 3" sign via @mplsforthemany.com.

Those friends maybe aren't on bsky, but feel free to share this on FB or LinkedIn(??) or whatever:

This is handled and I’m grateful to everyone who kicked in. I could not tolerate this local musician being penalized for doing something brave and beautiful—not when they helped make music that kept us strong while ICE fired less lethals and drove cars into us.

A person in a gas mask plays guitar at a chaotic protest scene.

This activist's guitar was destroyed by ICE today. ICE fired multiple rounds of rubber bullets at us, and the guitar was struck. I am trying to raise $800 to help replace their instrument, which they rely on for gigs. I bet someone out here can straight up cover the cost. DM me.

“Because we love our neighbors, we shall not be moved”

So glad we could meet up for this! The collective joy in the theater was deeply needed and felt. 💜

screen shot of BTS Jimin after a music show performance of Like Crazy, responding to fans asking to see his moon tattoo. he's wearing a bedazzled denim jacket and jeans with a white mesh sleeveless shirt, holding the jacket open on his left while covering his nipple with his other hand. clip from - [MPD직캠] 지민 직캠 8K 'Like Crazy' (Jimin FanCam) | @MCOUNTDOWN_2023.3.30

oh how far we've come since the "no, but my nipple!" days

Neville: still available!

That's a good idea! I hope he can just veg out at home. I'm currently on my third rewatch of The Glory!

glad I scheduled our covid and flu shots on a friday this year because it really wiped us both out.

Not a single one of @ilhanmn.bsky.social’s white colleagues in Minnesota’s congressional delegation joined her in voting against this.

(Rep. Omar is the only Minnesota congressperson who is not white.)

Poked around on that page and found this - including a map of where to find free/low-cost vaccines for kids or adults in Minnesota: www.health.state.mn.us/people/immun...

Photojournalism by the Tribune's @staceywescott.bsky.social

Black and white image of the 90s computer game "Shufflepuck Cafe"

the mental image that comes to mind when I picture the AI that tells enemies in video games how to react to player inputs

I actually had to explain to someone recently that the AI that tells enemies in video games how to react to player inputs is NOT genAI and has existed for literal decades. they genuinely had no idea there was a difference. this shit has poisoned the well so bad.

they could describe everything with one single word 😜

Last reminder for tonight's (9/18/25) virtual workshop: we'll be sharing tools and tactics for making our work... not necessarily "better," but more *memorable*, weirder, stickier.

Not just for poets! In this moment, this topic could be relevant to comms folks, narrative strategists, zinesters, etc

please do not use these tools. please do not do this to people.