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Film Screen showing artwork for Wicked: For Good

Second time! Let's gooooo! Thanks, Dan!

Post See new posts Conversation Drop Site @DropSiteNews 🚨 Update — Mohammed Zaher Ibrahim (16), the Palestinian-American child detained in Israeli torture camp: A judge was reportedly preparing to give him two years in prison, but his family replaced his lawyer, who requested a delay to negotiate a deal. The lawyer meets the prosecutor Thursday; the next hearing is Dec 15. (via Jasper Nathaniel) Mohammed has been jailed since February on stone-throwing charges.

@infinite_jaz Judge was reportedly planning to sentence Mohammed to two years. His family brought in a new lawyer, who requested the delay to negotiate a deal instead of accepting that absurd punishment. The lawyer meets the prosecutor Thursday, with the next hearing Dec 15. U.S. pressure is critical now. Links below. Quote jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz · 4h Hearing delayed until mid-December. x.com/infinite_jaz/s…

asper nathaniel @infinite_jaz Hearing delayed until mid-December. Quote jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz · 13h Mohammed will be back in court in just a few hours. x.com/infinite_jaz/s…

Mohammed will be back in court in just a few hours.

🚨 Update — Mohammed Zaher Ibrahim (16), the Palestinian-American child detained in Israeli torture camp:

A judge was reportedly preparing to give him two years in prison, but his family replaced his lawyer, who requested a delay to negotiate a deal. The lawyer meets the prosecutor Thursday; the...

Federal agents kidnapped a baby during an operation at the Cypress Park Home Depot this morning. Feds took the baby away while they were abducting the father. Fuck these monsters.

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Three facts:

1. Early voting in NYC 2025 is 5X what it was in 2021

2. Polymarket has Mamdani with a 96% chance of winning

3. Former NYC Mayor DeBlasio with an epic W T-shirt and vote

Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.

McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.

Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.

See the problem?

The media, local elected officials, & pigs of all kinds gaslit the public about the feds use of the lots in June. Do not allow them to do it again. Feds used the Dodger Stadium lot to stage this morning, at least 12 cars & 20 agents were seen.

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Netflix, please stop doing such short theatrical runs of your films! Frankenstein deserves to be seen on the largest screens possible!

Large IMAX screen with the Frankenstein quad poster.

I'm so excited to see Frankenstein at the AMC Lincoln Square IMAX! 😍 #FYC

Brooklyn friends:
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The Trump admin’s USDA issued new guidance stating it will not use existing funds to cover SNAP benefits if the government shutdown extends beyond October 31. This move effectively threatens to withhold billions of dollars in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) contingency funding

ACLU reporting that “several of the 6 women detained at South Louisiana ICE Center in Basile, LA, & Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, GA were pregnant & have miscarried while in custody.”

0 outrage from MAGAs about these fetuses. They were never about life. They are only about control of women.

LOTS of reasons to Boycott Hpme Depot

For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary. Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from). The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe. Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky.

Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat? This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight: * Waste of public resources on military theatrics. * Fraud in the name of “public safety.” * Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect. Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation.

Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here. When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness. Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy.

A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control. Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard. Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

Pic of Plestia Alaqad overlaid with text from interview: Plestia Alaqad: I can't believe that it's almost — [she pauses] no, it's not almost, it's actually two years. Okay, I can't believe that it's been two years of this ongoing genocide. When I was reporting in Gaza for 45 days, these 45 days felt like 45 years. And now it's 200 days feeling like 200 years for the people who are actually still on the ground facing bombing, displacement and starvation, which is being used as a method by Israel. Israel is literally ethnically cleansing people in Gaza, and we're watching a genocide unfold live on TV.

23-year-old journalist Plestia Alaqad, like many Gazans, lost her home in the first days after October 7. unable to reenter her homeland, stuck watching the horror continue, she’s publishing her diaries from reporting on the ground.

full interview @teenvogue.com www.teenvogue.com/story/plesti...

The New York War Crimes newspaper with the headline "Two Years of Genocide. Who will Rise For Gaza?" In front of the arch at Washington Square Park

From yesterday's rally/march 🇵🇸

30 boats from the Global Sumud Flotilla remain steadfast, just 46 nautical miles from Gaza, despite relentless hostility from the Israeli navy. The Israeli navy has intercepted 13 boats from the Global Sumud Flotilla so far.

Mass shootings in the US, per Gun Violence Archive:

2015: 332
2016: 383
2017: 347
2018: 335
2019: 414
2020: 611
2021: 689
2022: 644
2023: 659
2024: 503

So far in 2025...324 mass shootings in just 272 days.

We do not have to keep living like this.

Oregon is home no military take over of our communities

No military takeover of Oregon

Trump has declared war on Oregon! Protect Oregon by going to www.protect-oregon.com/no-military-...

BREAKING: At least 82 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks throughout Gaza since dawn, medical sources have told Al Jazeera.

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BREAKING: The UN General Assembly has voted to allow Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to address the annual gathering of world leaders next week via video after the US said it would not give him a visa to travel to New York.

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This:

Hulu Subscription Cancellation email.

I figured it out! Had to remove the Add-on in my Manage Add-Ons section. Phew!

But fr, does anyone know how to cancel Hulu if its paid for my a third party? T Mobile sends me to Hulu's website and Hulu says to go to T Mobile...