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A variety of LGBTQ+ flag pins on a table.

Celebrating the work of our trans and queer contributors today and every day! Check out a few pieces from our archive we hope stay with you beyond the blog. buff.ly/554vznz

When I talk about how not only is it a beautiful thing to be warned about potential violence and how to keep yourself safe- but that all people should *expect* clear and detailed expectations of actions- this is what that looks like.

Look at academia giving me a little hope

A good reason to try to avoid getting Covid!

Wear a mask when you're indoors or in a crowd to save yourself and others this sort of pain (not to mention Long Covid)

Check out the replies for bail and relief funds for L.A.

Yes, please!!💥🌺

Elon Musk’s AI data centers polluting Black communities so that his Nazi followers can ask his chatbot questions is a perfect distillation of why AI is fascist technology

RIP Virginia Giuffre
Thank you for your courage ❤️

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Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993

I’m not going to tell people how to feel about protests… at least not today.

Instead, I’ll recommend Sarah Schulman’s book about ACT UP. It’s not just a history of the organization; she also talks strategy in a very practical way, especially regard coalitions.

Brian Eno 2h. On the Arrest of Young People at a Quaker Meeting House Last night, six young people were arrested by police during a peaceful gathering at a Quaker Meeting House. They had assembled to talk, reflect, and organise around two issues of overwhelming moral gravity: the climate emergency, and the continuing destruction in Gaza. That the police chose to forcibly enter a Quaker space-a site known throughout history for its deep commitment to peace and nonviolence—is both alarming and telling. These young people were not disrupting the peace. They were enacting it. We live in a time where the greatest threats to our future go unchallenged by those in power, while those who speak out are increasingly met with suspicion, hostility, and force. When the state begins to treat moral concern as criminal intent, we should all be paying close attention. The people arrested last night were not extremists. They were citizens who care-young people who see the interconnected crises of climate collapse and human suffering and refuse to turn away. They gathered not in violent defiance, but in peaceful conscience. I stand with them. I believe their voices are not only valid, but vital. If the institutions meant to protect us cannot bear to hear these voices, then it is not the protesters who are disrupting order—it is the silence of those who look away. - Brian Eno

Worth sharing with alt text. Brian Eno's response to the Quaker arrests.

"Hands Off USPS" Teach-In!ClockGoogle DocsGoogle ScholarGoogle DriveGoogle DocsEmail A decentralized grassroots event that creates an opportunity to (1) build community and (2) provide participants with resources to take action on behalf of USPS.

📣National P.O. Soapbox Day, Sat 5/3

Host a #HandsOffUSPS teach-in & take action to #SaveThePostOffice

💌 WE provide Toolkit & Teach-In Materials (coming this week!)
💌 YOU arrange location or online platform to host your own community teach-in.

Stay tuned! More info SOON.

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Post-Viral Epidemiology (LONG COVID) Part 1 with Dr. Wes Ely — alie ward What is Long Covid? Is it real? What does it feel like? Do you have it? And how do you cure it? With fatigue and brain fog, you don’t want to spend hours scrolling through conflicting opinions. So we’...

Finally: LONG COVID. Post-Viral Epidemiology is up.

-symptoms
-why it happens
-who believes in it
-why it sucks so bad
-what you can do

Dr. Wes Ely is THE guy when it comes to Long Covid. Spread this around to anyone it might help -- which is everyone.

www.alieward.com/ologies/post...

Screenshot of court document in which a judge denied the Trump administration's motion to dismiss Mahmoud Khalil's lawsuit, ordering his case to be transferred to New Jersey, and not Louisiana, per the Trump admin's wishes. The judge also reaffirmed a previous ruling blocking the deportation of Khalil.

New — Judge has DENIED the Trump administration's motion to dismiss Mahmoud Khalil's lawsuit, orders his case to be transferred to New Jersey, and not Louisiana, per the Trump admin's wishes.

The judge also reaffirmed a previous ruling blocking the deportation of Khalil.

oh look y'all… a way to contact Schumer despite the fact he's doing his slimy, wiggly best to dodge the american people:

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these are schumer's chief of staff and legislative director… two of the most critical staff positions:

Microplastics Are Messing with Photosynthesis in Plants Microplastics can cut a plant’s ability to photosynthesize by up to 12 percent, new research shows

A good part of my job is to read extremely concerning studies in order to compose cross-sectional view of What's At Stake and work out ways to engage stakeholders

This is, without hyperbole, the most concerning thing I have read in a long time www.scientificamerican.com/article/micr...

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

For decades, a doctor refused to charge patients who couldn't pay. When he couldn't pay, his patients came to his aid. When Dr. Michael Zollicoffer was diagnosed with two types of cancer, his patients started a crowdfunding campaign that raised more than $100,000.

A doctor has been serving one of Baltimore’s poorest neighborhoods for decades — and if his patients can’t pay, that’s OK with him.

So when he was diagnosed with cancer, his community rallied to raise $100,000 for his treatments.

$75 million was awarded to plant trees in places that badly need them. In anti-DEI push, that's over The U.S. Forest Service has terminated $75 million awarded to the Arbor Day Foundation to help disadvantaged communities plant trees.

"tree equity" is the kind of thing that columnists like to make fun of when why it works is actually instantly apparent to anyone who's ever walked down a street in the summer apnews.com/article/tree...

Happy Twin Peaks Day to all who celebrate! Also happy birthday to me

Former Intelligence Officer Claims KGB Recruited Trump Alnur Mussayev alleged Trump was given the codename “Krasnov”.

(📢) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: The Daily Beast publishes a sourced allegation that Trump has been a Russian spy since 1987 and then—possibly under some form of threat—deletes it. But in an act of unusual heroism, it left it up long enough for Wayback Machine to capture it text.

Here it is (please share):

arosenfield2016 15h Boycotts. I've worked corporate retail for twenty years. It's literally my job to know how and why consumers spend. ONE DAY WON'T MEAN SHIT. Stop buying EVERYTHING except essentials. Until further notice. If you're serious about making companies pay attention, long term action is the only way. 1/4 524 arosenfield2016 15h Delete all of your retail apps. Unsubscribe from all emails. Go to the actual site and leave site reviews telling them exactly what you're doing and why. Every company tracks NPS scores, consumer sentiment, to direct future plans. Email customer service. Daily. 2/ 7 arosenfield2016 15h Fill your carts and abandon them. But don't fill with crazy high ticket ones. Fill with what you would normally purchase. High ticket items they'll ignore as flukes/bots. People whose shopping data they already have, who fill and abandon, they'll pay more attention to. 3/ 7 arosenfield2016 15h Not everyone can boycott places like Walmart, I know, I grew up in a super rural area. Research brands they carry that are the lesser of all evils if nothing else and buy those. The big brands will lose market share. They HATE to lose market share. They'll scramble to figure out why and where it's going. 4/ 3 arosenfield2016 15h Seeing the impact will take time. Its earnings call season for most retailers who ended their fiscal years on 1/31. We won't see their Q1 2025 results until May. HOLD THE LINE.

I know this is tiny so check the alt text. Y’all gotta leave me alone about a one day boycott—it’s got to start with one day and hold.
Retailers won’t notice one day. They have several bad days a month.

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Displaced Black Families GoFund Me Directory

Sharing this spreadsheet again of Black families in Altadena who need our help; Altadena is a historically Black community and there are real fears that this is what permanently displaces people who have lived in the area for 30 or 40 years. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

fiction subs at @atticusreview.bsky.social close at the end of the weekend, folks! if you're waiting for a sign, consider this it ✨

The Imitator Fiction by Meiko Ko.

"I was just a lounge man with nothing to my name, but he liked my voice. It had distance, no distinct qualities, watery, he said, in fact, and malleable."

~Enter the world voice-work~ with this piece from @meikoko.bsky.social in Issue 6 of @atticusreview.bsky.social 🎙️

Camila and Me Flash fiction by Isabelle Ness.

"The more they drink, the closer they get until they are brushing our shoulders and whispering in our ears. Until they are bestowing compliments like shiny gold stickers."

Stay warm with this flash about intimacies~ by Isabelle Ness in @atticusreview.bsky.social
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