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1/5 My 2020 interview with Alice Wong is now out and ready to be shared! You can download it here: tinyurl.com/2wke8tk6 (Note that you may not be able to view it online if you’re not signed into Google, but anyone can download it.)

Searching for Savannah: Eight months and no answers since woman’s disappearance • South Dakota Searchlight The family of Savannah Standing Bear has waited eight months for answers about her after she went missing on the Rosebud Reservation.

Savannah Standing Bear’s family and friends have heard plenty of rumors, but not many answers. It’s been eight months since she disappeared from the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota.

The latest from an #MMIP series in collaboration with @ict-news.bsky.social ⬇️
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When Is It Time to Flee? Trans people and their families are facing hard questions and choices as threats to their safety and rights proliferate.

For at least a year, I've been returning to the question, how would you know when it's time to leave the US? For this piece, I asked trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer Americans who, with their families and partners, have recently fled the country, about how they made this decision and how they left.

To everyone who donated, thank you so much for exceeding our GoFundMe goal. Your financial support helped us with urgent expenses like rent and groceries, while your kind words and love kept our spirits high. Thanks to all of you, we're getting back on our feet. We couldn't be more grateful. With love, the laid off Teen Vogue team

gofundme Mya Abraham Support VIBE Staff After Sudden Layoffs At 40% $14,000 raised of 35K

gofundme Louryn Stramp REINSTATE THE FIRED FOUR Support the Fired Four: Alma, Ben, Jake, Jasper At 89% $16,000 raised of 18K

thank you to everyone who contributed to our gofundme ❤️

more fundraisers!

— @condeunion.bsky.social Fired Four were illegally fired for protected action, asking Conde to explain folding Teen Vogue into Vogue
— In Oct, the majority of VIBE Magazine was laid off; they’ve struggled to meet their goal

Dec. 2, 1859: John Brown Executed Abolitionist John Brown was executed by the state of Virginia for leading the infamous Harpers Ferry Raid.

"I believe that to have interfered as I have done — as I have always freely admitted I have done — in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right." -- abolitionist John Brown, executed #tdih 1859

Read about Brown + the other Harpers Ferry Raiders ⬇️
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When jail becomes the mental health treatment plan - AZ Luminaria Arizona’s competency restoration system pushes people with mental illness into jail. Stacey Brooks’ case shows the dangerous consequences.

Nearly 1400 people have been ordered into Pima County’s Restoration to Competency program to see if they can stand trial

That can mean more than a year in jail, waiting. My colleague @jwashing.bsky.social writes about when jail becomes a mental health facility

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Day Without Art | Visual AIDS December 1st is Day With(out) Art, held each year as an international day of action and awareness in response to the AIDS crisis.

remembering the late 1990s/early 2000s observations of a Day Without Art, a Visual AIDS project for World AIDS Day—and on the web, people turning their own personal websites black

Reg: N272BG On Ground: None Alt: 1225 Last Contact: 0:05:00.282992 Trigger: data loss

N272BG Landed near Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States. Apx. flt. time 1 h 34 min.

Image of people crossing a rainbow-colored crosswalk with their shadows in the frame. Below the image text reads: "The United States 
gets an ‘F’ on LGBTQ+ human rights scorecard Trans women and intersex people expressed the greatest levels of fears and discrimination."

The United States scored a 58 — higher than countries like Russia, China and India, but still in failing territory along with them. https://bit.ly/4rsze4u

Other AmericaFest sponsors include Project 2025 architects The Heritage Foundation, multiple anti-LGBTQ hate groups like “Gays Against Groomers,” Moms for Liberty, and the American Family Association, and multiple anti-choice groups like the Foundation to Abolish Abortion, LiveAction, and PreBorn.

A yellow bridge in front of a city background with three banners reading "POST-GAZETTE STRIKERS WILL WIN".

BREAKING: We won!

Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.

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After 404 Media's months-long reporting and pressure from lawmakers, the data broker owned by the U.S.’s major airlines will now shut down a program in which it sold access to hundreds of millions of flight records to the government and let agencies track peoples’ movements without a warrant.

Preserving the data of LGBTQ+ history — Assigned An interview with Dr. Clair Kronk.

"So many queer resources are disappearing from the internet and are only partially preserved or completely lost." Assigned Media speaks with Dr. Clair Kronk about digital queer history preservation.

This article brought to you by @funcrunch.me.dm.ap.brid.gy

Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.

NEW AP INVESTIGATION: With license plate readers and local law enforcement partnerships, Border Patrol is monitoring American drivers and detaining those exhibiting ‘suspicious’ travel patterns in the U.S. interior. w/
@garanceburke.bsky.social. apnews.com/article/immi...

At Barton Springs, Trans Existence Becomes Resistance Following a transphobic incident earlier this year, community members gathered to "protect trans joy."

Previously, a visit to the "Trans Takeover" of Barton Springs: All across the stone slab, LGBTQ+ folks sat in clusters, talking and dipping in and out of the water together. ... Happy people who use every pronoun and none at all.

Books Not Bars 2025 Holiday Campaign BOOKS NOT BARS FOR THE HOLIDAYS Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated. In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the imm...

Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program

This County Was the “Model” for Local Police Carrying Out Immigration Raids. It Ended in Civil Rights Violations. Under Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Maricopa County was one of the first testing grounds for ICE’s 287(g) program, which lets local police enforce immigration laws. Many Arizonans say those abuses parallel what...

Advocates say some tactics used by officers to target Latinos in Trump’s deportation effort draw from Joe Arpaio’s playbook.

“The model was Maricopa County — the very public, very humiliating, demoralizing approach to the raids, and the cruelty.”

With @azluminaria.org

How tribal educators are navigating budget challenges - High Country News Tribal college and university leaders lean on their resiliency and cultural values in the face of federal funding unknowns.

I spoke with three tribal college and university presidents & learned more about they have planned, prepared and hoped to continue educating their communities amidst a year of budget cuts and a government shutdown. My latest for @highcountrynews.org www.hcn.org/articles/how...

Mesa Recall Shows Scapegoating Trans People Remains A Potent Strategy for Far-Right Republicans Despite claims nationally that attacks on transgender people didn’t work in the November elections, a recall in Mesa showed how the tactic remains effective in some places where Turning Point has sway...

National news coverage framed November’s elections as proof that anti-trans messaging wasn't effective this cycle.

@lookoutnews.bsky.social found the opposite in Mesa, where that rhetoric helped power a recall against District 2 Council Member Julie Spilsbury.

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Long prison sentences function as involuntary sterilization of incarcerated people By keeping me imprisoned through the years when I might have become a parent, the prison system reproduces eugenicist logic

Long prison sentences function as involuntary sterilization of incarcerated people. Story via Prism.

How the right uses "gender ideology" to blame trans people for everything MAGA learned from global autocrats the language needed to push fear.

For @motherjones.com's upcoming print issue, I unpacked the insidious phrase driving MAGA's campaign against trans lives: "Gender Ideology"
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SBA representatives will be available in Tempe to help with loan applications following microburst The U.S. Small Business Administration is offering federal disaster loans to Tempe businesses, residents and nonprofits after destructive storms hit the area.

The U.S. Small Business Administration is offering federal disaster loans to Tempe businesses, residents and nonprofits after destructive storms hit the area.

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UPDATE — Here are the at least 10 congressional Democrats, 5 Democratic-aligned organizations, and 6 Democratic Senate candidates calling for Chuck Schumer to resign as leader:

Largest LGBTQ+ Rights Group in US Parts with Arms Manufacturers Following two years of activist pressure, Human Rights Campaign is not sponsored by the weapons manufacturer Northrop Grumman.

NEW for @inkstickmedia.com: I spoke with former Human Rights Campaign employees & activists with @genderlib.com @adalahjustice.bsky.social about the 2-year campaign for America's largest LGBT advocacy group to divest from the arms manufacturer Northrop Grumman. inkstickmedia.com/largest-lgbt...

bringing this statement over from Alice’s Twitter. it appears the below was Alice’s last post before passing. I am heartbroken

Donate to Support VIBE Staff After Sudden Layoffs, organized by Mya Abraham It was announced on October 16, 2025 that VIBE was "joining forces" with Rolling S… Mya Abraham needs your support for Support VIBE Staff After Sudden Layoffs

It was announced on October 16, 2025 that VIBE was "joining forces" with Rolling Stone. As a result, the majority of VIBE employees were laid off. If you have the means to give, this team could use the support! www.gofundme.com/f/support-vi...

“What’s at Stake is Everything”: The Last Columbia Protester in ICE Detention

This week’s episode is an interview with two lawyers who represent Leqaa Kordia, a young Palestinian woman who is in ICE detention for protesting genocide.

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