S.O.S.

S.O.S.

@sameoldstory.bsky.social

Newsletter coming soon! Independent reporter, florist, steward of the land. Mission: To rage and love against a dying world. “I have to write. There’s nothing familiar left to me but the writing. God is Change. I hate God. I have to write.” ~Olamina

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A brief guide to safer gatherings for the ongoing #COVID pandemic from the People's CDC. COVID & #longcovid are #trans issues, #disability issues, gender, racial and socioeconomic issues. Wanna be an ally? Align your words with your actions. 😷

C*VID completely erased my prior immunity to measles, pneumococcus and streptococcus, and diphtheria. Who knows what else it erased that we don't have tests or vaccines for.

Hey, you! Yes, YOU! I need you to know something. The kind of community, mutual aid & support networking we all dream of to defy and survive this capitalist death cult hellscape *is possible.* IT IS! And it's happening all around us, right now. 🧵

🧵 We might only notice glimmers, little glimpses of what could be. But, like the flow of ecosystems, we can't always see it when we're too zoomed in. Every glimpse is proof, every glimmer a crack in the false image of totality.

Us white people often imagine rolling over and dying when shit hits the fan. There's no point in living to be dead. We have to see beyond ourselves -- turn ourselves over to love and rage. Fight for the Earth, & each other. For those who came before and those who will come after. 🧵

It's not about us anymore. My body doesn't just belong to me; I owe it to everyone who ever made me and everyone I've ever made. This is what keeps my embers burning.

When your "mutual aid" fundraising group doesn't want to require masking at your markets anymore so that they can get more money from antimaskers, but are "uncomfortable" with hearing a disabled organizer saying it feels wrong to throw disabled people under the bus to make money. 🥴

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I've learned that the average person sees themselves as a fantasized ideal self, completely dissociated from understanding the self they enact through their behavior. 🧵

Touch that trauma jacket and some people just disintegrate, unable to cope with the thought that they aren't who they imagine themselves to be and have to put in hard, uncomfortable work to actually achieve it. They want the idea, the vibe, the intention, to be enough.

Ok but like any other neurodiverse folk out there hear entire song compositions in repetitive multitonal environmental sounds like a squeaky swingset or the washing machine??? Cuz I'm sitting here vibing so hard with my mind-music to the undertones of the spin cycle 🤣🎧🎚️🎛️🎼🎵🎶

✨V&ginal Health Tip 4 the Apocalypse✨ I've dealt w recurrent BV for years. Antibiotics caused yeast infections, the antifungals caused BV. So I got off the slash-and-burn roller coaster. What *has* worked? Medical-grade Boric Acid. Grab some sz 0 veg capsules, slap in ~600mg, and ✨pop that p#$$y✨

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Ahead of time, you first have to turn on full encryption on your devices, it’s not that cumbersome—a good guide here:

freedom.pressThe 2026 journalist’s digital security checklistOur digital security training team's checklist to help journalists secure their digital life.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social

If you see federal agents pulling into your driveway, reporters, power down your electronic devices ASAP. That's the advice from @runasand.bsky.social, via @columjournreview.bsky.social www.cjr.org/news/hannah-...

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Officials in Tennessee aren't just banning books, they're now demanding information on who checked out contested (largely LGBTQ+) books, including names, addresses, and "household composition." A librarian who was given the directive has come forward asking for whistleblower protections.

advocate.comTennessee whistleblower says library board chair sought private data as part of state's book purgeA First Amendment expert told The Advocate that there are "huge" legal implications stemming from the situation.

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"...the audience tends to retreat into skepticism and the belief that truth is unknowable as a result of political actors employing a firehose of falsehoods. Hence, if truth cannot be determined, reasoned debate is pointless."

Profolus@profolus.com

The RAND Corporation first coined the term “firehose of falsehoods” in 2016 to describe a technique it observed in Russian propaganda under Vladimir Putin. Donald Trump is also another known user of this propaganda technique.

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Rest in peace, Miss Major. We will carry the bricks forward.

ACLU@aclu.org

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78. Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

Technofascist social media CEOs are rich because they exploit culty behavior, misinformation, poor education & outrage generation. They're dismantling education because critical thinking skills threaten their power.

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Replying to @alexhanna.bsky.social

Students today are being robbed of the joy of writing unhinged college essays and finding it 10 years later and thinking it actually slaps

The 'US' is a pretty big country. They can't suppress everyone who dissents. It will spread them too thin and the country's already fragile economy will crumble. The risks are real, but/and their performance of unnecessary, unreasonable force reveals a fatal insecurity. Let that stoke your flame

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So I’m supposed to look my students in the eye this semester and tell them that hard work, diligence, even adherence to basic journalistic principles is the right way in this field

jon ben-menachem@jbenmenachem.com

Lord save us: "Paramount is on the verge of acquiring Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and tossing her the keys to CBS News. The deal is on the 1-yard line, I’m told."

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middleeasteye.netSumud aid flotilla sets sail for Gaza again after delay due to storm <article data-history-node-id="427957" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/sumud-aid-flotilla-sets-sail-gaza-again-after-delay-due-storm" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/sumud-aid-flotilla-sets-sail-gaza-again-after-delay-due-storm" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Sumud aid flotilla sets sail for Gaza again after delay&nbsp;due to storm</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Global Sumud Flotilla of dozens of boats has set sail for Gaza, departing Barcelona port on Monday evening after stormy weather forced the group to return to port, Reuters has reported.&nbsp;</p> <p>Activists chanted 'Free Palestine' slogans and blew horns as they left the port.&nbsp;</p> <p>The flotilla of several dozen boats aims to deliver food and humanitarian supplies to the enclave.&nbsp;</p> <p>Israeli-imposed blockade on Gaza has caused at least 339 deaths due to starvation. This includes 124 children. Famine has been officially declared in Gaza by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), the UN-backed global hunger monitor.&nbsp;</p> <p>Pro-Palestinian activists, including climate campaigner Greta Thunberg and Game of Thrones actor Liam Cunningham, are on the Sumud flotilla. Sumud is the Arabic term for "resilience".&nbsp;</p> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="The first vessel " of a civilian carrying pro-palestinian activists and humanitarian aid aiming to break the israeli blockade gaza leaves barcelona port on september after being forced return due bad gene data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="105e997d-e438-4872-99c0-b4e3b4173dc4" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/gaza%20flotilla.jpg" width="1024" height="576" alt="The first vessel " of a civilian carrying pro-palestinian activists and humanitarian aid aiming to break the israeli blockade gaza leaves barcelona port on september after being forced return due bad gene typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>The first vessel "Sirius" of a civilian flotilla, carrying pro-Palestinian activists and humanitarian aid and aiming to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza, leaves the Barcelona port on 1 September 2025, after being forced to return due to bad weather.&nbsp;Lluis GENE / AFP2</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>

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Replying to @taylorlorenz.bsky.social

The fact that hundreds of people are RTing me calling me insane or radicalized for… fighting back against Heritage Foundation tech policy that is being used to censor LGBTQ people, repro justice activists, and Palestinian rights advocates shows how deeply ignorant most leftists are on this issue.

techdirt.comHeritage Foundation Says That Of Course GOP Will Use KOSA To Censor LGBTQ ContentWe’ve talked a lot about KOSA, the “Kids Online Safety Act” that has massive bipartisan support in Congress. The latest version was introduced with 26 Senators as sponsors or co-sponsors. We’ve exp…

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Replying to @focusedoninfinity.bsky.social

We have a chance to refuse the oligarchs, false prophets, overlords, Imperials, technocrats, and theocratic monsters who have spent centuries if not more running this planet and the lives of those who live upon it into the fucking ground. & not only do we have a chance, we have a DUTY to the future.

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Robert E. Lee killed more U.S. troops in battle than Adolph Hitler and Osama bin Laden combined

Greg Jaffe@gregjaffe.bsky.social

The Pentagon is restoring a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee, which includes a slave guiding the Confederate general’s horse in the background, to the West Point library three years after a congressionally mandated commission ordered it removed, officials said. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...