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ID: A pond with a duck trailing ducklings on the water & a fox on the shore. Surrounding the lake is a forest of evergreen trees and a snowy landscape. The words are in white with black borders. Transcript: Azine's Story Azine travels the world to meet people dear to her. That is her reason for living, as she doesnt know how much time she has left. This goes for everyone, especially with how the world is today. Goes extra for her because of heart-lung disease from birth + a series of embolisms in 2016. Embolisms are kept at bay by medication, due to having had more than one. Dystonia and seizures, were made worse by Lyme disease (tick bite 2009). MCAS, probably from birth, is made a lot worse by environmental toxins. She takes 4 antihistamines including compounded ketotifen (expensive) in very high doses to keep her skin from peeling off & to keep limited food down. "I dont have access to health insurance, even though that is mandatory where I was born.Because people with Lyme and ME/CFS are routinely denied healthcare, persecuted, and jailed in psychiatric hospitals. That is why I became a traveler/refugee. That is why my mom, who still lives there, is deep in debt. Because there was never gov. support or funding for me, not even welfare." I've done all I can out of my own resources. We need your help. Please, boost & share her story, & if you can afford to, donate any amount* you can spare to her mom's PayPal: MadeleineWedemeijer@gmail.com *Literally $1 helps. Fundraisers with more activity, regardless of the size of the donations, are more successful overall as it motivates people to pitch in. And if you include an encouraging message in the memo line, you'll help to lift the severely flagging spirits of all those involved.

Azine's informal free housing arrangement is about to end abruptly. We don't know when; it could be at any time. We need to raise money to get her into an Airbnb as quickly as we can manage.

We don't have the resources for long-term solutions, so I'm just keeping her alive as long as I can.

Teen Vogue kept the kids in the know and now the powers that be are saying no? Something don't smell right.

I heard Cuomo got last-minute endorsements from ingrown toenails, guys who turn right from the left-hand turn lane, and Lyme disease

Also mold, pollen, dust, dander, smoke, and more

if there was a rich person with the will, you could build the most incredible news organization that has ever existed just from the wreckage of this year alone.

If you're a chronically ill person on SNAP who hasn't been able to get specialty foods from food banks, please HMU for a potential @motherjones.com article.

Email: jmetraux@motherjones.com
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Andrew Cuomo has been endorsed by Andy's boyfriend Nate from Devil Wears Prada

Across Chicago more and more people are being given direct evidence every day that the Chicago Police Department does not serve or protect this city's residents. That's not what they're for or what they do.

ON THE LITERAL EVE OF A DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST MAYOR BEING ELECTED, ANNA WINTOUR KILLS PROGRESSIVE AND PROFITABLE TEEN VOGUE POLITICS DESK WHICH HAD JUST INTERVIEWED HIM

*That’s* the headline.

(Unfortunately there’s hardly any news outlet left to run it 😭)

Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

‘Solidarity is always the way forward’ In a Q&A with Prism, abolitionist organizer Kelly Hayes discusses her new anthology “Read This When Things Fall Apart,” featuring encouraging letters from movement leaders, writers, and activists

I was interviewed for a piece in @prismreports.org about Read This When Things Fall Apart.

The correct unit of municipal budget analysis is not dollars but "Cost of Policing (CoP) days/hours"

You take total money spent on cops over the year (including OT and settlements) and divide by 365 to get one CoP day

Aggressively rainbow christmas lighting situation across the street this year, and I am pretty down for 3 months of this.

Pronoun pins are such a special thing to create and I'm really interested in the potential fluidity and change around them. That's why I also created these temperature sensitive, mood ring style, pronoun pins that vary colour (but not pronouns) throughout the day canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4376...

The military activity in the Caribbean hits a bit different in this context.

A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control

New awareness campaign

At the very least. Consequences, like the rest of us have. That or admit they don't protect us, and act accordingly by removing our funds from them. It's not much of a simplification, for this is pretty black and white. Did he order them to protect us?

I'm a support worker for a disabled person, & I work for Illinois, not a private agency. If I hadn't taken a two hour training by November 1st of this year, my pay would have been withheld, because I didn't follow my employment rules. If I don't protect her, I get prosecuted. I want that. Standards.

Dragged out the F word to create a lot of buzz and distract everyone from the violence he is allowing.

Is he refusing to control them, or does he have no control? Idk. Neither are good scenarios for us or him.

deranged that we even need to think this way, but we need some sort of system where anyone who feels afraid to go to the polls can request a buddy to go with them

It’s always the right time to reskeet this (embroidery and words from @prisonculture.bsky.social, framed and photographed by @ladyofsardines.bsky.social)

the other thing i would like to point out as someone who has lived in poverty for a decent chunk of my life: sometimes the "junk food" is actually the cheapest and most cost-effective option available. if you get a store-brand frozen pizza for $5; that's $2.50 a meal if you're feeding two

study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1

A classic lion witch and the wardrobe meme. The lion stands beside a red and gold tent in a grassy clearing. In the first frame, he looks forward with calm authority, and the text reads: “Do not cite the deep magic to me, Witch.” In the second frame, he gazes solemnly downward, the text continuing: “I was there when it was written.” The scene conveys ancient wisdom and quiet power.

mfers out here debating dislikes and educating me about reddit

My middle finger is going to be the death of me.

If you're worried that your kids are gonna grow up and move away and never talk to you again, know that they will always reach out to you when they need the login for one of the streaming services they can't afford.

the Techbro Cycle:

1) build a website or social media app

2) expect to be universally adored by the users

3) say something awful and face repercussions

4) immediately crash out and try to post through it

5) commit to ending Western Civilization

10 plants in various hydroponic jars on a very brightly lit shelf inside. Many pepper plants, some basil, and a sungold tomato I couldn't say goodbye to. They are in varying shapes of health, but very green with some fruiting.

Just petting the plants bc I'm in such a foul mood. This is the shelf of audacious hope and small trust in my skills.

These are the exact questions I have. For weeks ISP has been in charge around the Broadview ICE site. There’s no question about it. And I really don’t like seeing Pritzker taking a victory lap in the press about resisting tyranny when his Illinois cops are doing this & helping ICE on the daily 👎🏻