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we met unionizing and now we have matching tattoos and keys to each others apartments

one of my dear friends moved two blocks away from me and we have never lived in the same city before and it has been so fucking nice

Writing to incarcerated people is an act of radical care, a refusal of disposability, and an abolitionist politic in practice.

The Border Patrol op in Evanston made many headlines on Friday (as it should have), but please note that none of this is new. Feds have been devastating the west burbs for nearly two months now. These communities do not have equivalent wealth and media infrastructure; a lot doesn't break through.

the more i read about aphantasia, the more i’m like …. oh no wonder like every single mental health thing most especially emdr was impossible, i cannot VISUALIZE things

bless my friend who looked at my butt today and said “i hope that everyday you look at your ass and recognize that it is a divine treasure.”

Protesters have formed a protective wall. Taking the street for real.

you can hone instinct. fear is engrained, it holds all of our biases and trauma. it’s useful but it’s not a place to make organizing decisions from or really any decisions that will impact other people.

i think generally the best thing i have learned from working with people inside prison is respond to your instincts, not your fears. and that those are distinctly different things.

the only piece of organizing advice i have as someone who has done formal and informal organizing since i was a teenager is: if you make organizing a part of your life, a small thing at first and then bigger, when the big things come you won’t be knocked over. you can reroute a little if you want.

rapid response is really perfect for the ptsd addled baby boy (me). my therapist told me i need to work on “feeling my feelings” and im like nah i will cry hysterically and then put it away to churn out some micro moments of hope and resistance

remove nice bc it doesn’t matter. every kid is nice. all kids deserve the world. all people deserve the world.

i was such a nice kid and seeing other nice kids being brutalized and broken by ICE is killing me, it’s unbearable, i cannot handle it.

wish anything in my life made me cry as much as “thinking about my old therapist and how much i miss him but that the grief i feel is not about him but is in fact about the amount of neglect and abuse i endured as a young person”

wake up to helicopter circling the neighborhood, roll over, listen for whistles, check signal, check signal, check signal, get queasy, take meds, check signal, all the while a helicopter still circling.

i am blessed to have friends throughout the state/i am struggling to have friends throughout the state who are immediately impacted and targeted by ICE raids

New screenprint from Justseeds artist Melanie Cervantes in three vivid colorways. "A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots."-Marcus Garvey

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ive only worked remotely in my job but i’ve been working in person for three months and in person my job is professional “give speeches“ and “work the room” and online it’s like “meet with a specific person with a specific goal and drop data” help

the scooters are hackable/untraceable w like tinfoil and something else and that’s the trick right there

this bitch made me shriek at the top of my little lungs w a lyric i had never heard before

i love bruce springsteen so much

I saw something that I almost reacted to and instead I drank some water...

anyway i know the reason i feel emotions 28 days after the inciting event is ”surviving intense early life trauma“ but also it’s fucking ass and i hate it

the correct use case for the scooters is migra watch

who knew that ice circling my neighborhood for weeks would impact my mental health!

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The more people who see it and donate, the sooner I can continue lifesaving neurosurgical care travels

2025, 2026 at least with lots of tests, surgeries, treatments on the table

Medicare, Medicaid cuts will make this even harder now 😢

Lots of lovely folks want to cook for neighbors, fill community fridges during SNAP shutdown but are intimidated. A mutual aid group in Flatbush, Brooklyn has been feeding 80+ people every single week for a year and a half or so now. Nobody is born knowing how to cook for 80, so here's our guide!

i found out in php that most everyone around me could conjure up a pleasant memory or space in their brain and i yelled essentially “i’m sorry if i could do that shit i would never be anxious or depressed again.”

this is part of why i want to try ketamine therapy so badly. i have few visual memories and the vast majority of them are traumatic.

Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound Research has linked the ability to visualize to a bewildering variety of human traits—how we experience trauma, hold grudges, and, above all, remember our lives.

this is me (very weak sense of imagery, recall memories in single snapshots, cannot conjure image in my brain). didn’t know it was atypical until a few months ago (probably bc im autistic and don’t know the difference between a turn of phrase and a statement)

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