Laura

One of my favorite things about Bluesky (or at least my little corner of it) is that people are always sharing resources for taking action. So here's a pinned thread collecting those resources, some made by me and some made by others.

The real unfair competition women are being forced into with men is having women's sports constantly separated off as a distinct event which is made to compete commercially with much better funded and socially and institutionally enfranchised men's sporting events & found inadequate by that standard

Fascism can be defeated it has been defeated before and it will be defeated again we will unmake their creations with our own hands and burn them to ash in the wind Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Netanyahu is not the problem. If he’s out of power, Israel will still oppress Palestinians. They don’t magically go back to some good-guy “self defense” situation. That’s always been a myth

“'It’s very surreal to see a project like this underway,' Loring said. 'Being able to restore those lands back to our stewardship is a very moving thing.'" tribalbusinessnews.com/real-estate/...

This is so cool!! "Over 18 months, up to 40 participants across the DC, Maryland, and Virginia region will receive $500 in monthly guaranteed income, while working in small teams to launch cooperative businesses." belovedcommunityincubator.org/blog/announc...

"By shifting from isolated ownership to shared infrastructure, LoTs help communities become more affordable, economically vibrant, sustainable, connected, and resilient—often with lower start-up costs than many traditional community development practices." www.shareable.net/the-library-...

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26. Blanket/ 09. Flowerbed 🐻🌼for Peachtober Initially I was gonna do this one for flowerbed only, but I got too busy and I forgot to post it. As it fits for blanket too, here we are 😁 it was really fun to work on this! ❤️

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

"By shifting from isolated ownership to shared infrastructure, LoTs help communities become more affordable, economically vibrant, sustainable, connected, and resilient—often with lower start-up costs than many traditional community development practices." www.shareable.net/the-library-...

It's not available for preorder yet, as it doesn't come out until 2028, but it's on my list of forthcoming books to keep an eye out for. 🇵🇸❤️

Just read Homosexual Intifada: A Queer Palestinian Anthology, edited by George Abraham and Hannah Moushabeck. It's a powerful collection of essays, poetry, art, and stories by queer and trans Palestinians around the world. 🇵🇸❤️🏳️‍🌈

This is so cool!! "Over 18 months, up to 40 participants across the DC, Maryland, and Virginia region will receive $500 in monthly guaranteed income, while working in small teams to launch cooperative businesses." belovedcommunityincubator.org/blog/announc...

“'It’s very surreal to see a project like this underway,' Loring said. 'Being able to restore those lands back to our stewardship is a very moving thing.'" tribalbusinessnews.com/real-estate/...

Most of our presidents were rapists or abusers of some sort. We should probably sit with that in a more meaningful way than we do.

I think people are misinterpreting the Erika Hilton reducing the work week in Brazil to 5 days story because I think a lot of the story here is about why the PT didn't do this in any of the SEVENTEEN YEARS they were in one form or another in power until Erika Hilton, Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

It's not available for preorder yet, as it doesn't come out until 2028, but it's on my list of forthcoming books to keep an eye out for. 🇵🇸❤️

Speaking of Hannah Moushabeck's work, I'm really looking forward to her forthcoming children's book, When Palestine Is Free, which imagines a future where Palestinians can be free and safe in their homeland: www.instagram.com/p/DVTEW7Lk-0_/

So I'm not saying these books were the main reason I grew up to be a leftist, but they definitely didn't hurt.

Ever since I read Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs as a kid, I've had a lifelong dream that one day school (or work) would be canceled due to Giant Pancake.

Art by @monicatrinidad.bsky.social: justseeds.org/product/we-m...

Today's small act of planting radical seeds: put extra copies of two recent books I loved, by @sheerspite.bsky.social and @simkern.bsky.social, in a little free library! 🔥

The PDF version of this zine is FREE. I'm also getting The Heart is a Muscle: 19 Embodiments of Antifascist Grief and Ritual As Resistance: 18 Stories of Defending the Sacred! Dream beyond electoral politics.

100% all of this: "We need ways of being and acting in the world that do not rely on the benevolence of a ruler who leaves office in four years, or on institutions so powerful and centralized that we cannot exert leverage upon them."

Boston-area folks, if you want to join groups that support and protect unhoused people, here are a few: Material Aid and Advocacy Program www.maapma.org Warm Up Boston warmupboston.org

Elections always narrow the public imagination so much, even among many leftists. I highly recommend @cbmilstein.bsky.social's collab zine, Our Dreams Don't Fit in Ballot Boxes, for examples of helping people break free from a narrow focus on electoral politics and dare to dream bigger.

This is why it's so important to listen to organizers on the ground in any given place before jumping to conclusions about what's happening there. That said, it's not always easy to find voices from movements in other countries, especially now that we've effectively lost Twitter/X,

you do have the ability to block someone from your heart and mind in addition to your social media accounts this is why i never consider either will whats his face or matt whatever the fuck who are they i don’t know i pay them no mind

dawg these politicians gotta stop talking about the students, who they never support real convenient for US Dems to frame the election as a "student victory against authoritarianism" while ignoring what they did to their own student protest movement in 2024

Yes!! I highly recommend the free documentary Elements of Mutual Aid for anyone who wants to learn from mutual aid groups all around North America: theelementsofmutualaid.com

Bluesky has four kinds of users.

Excuse me (And here is where I would drop a gif of 'Werewolf Bar Mitzvah' if Bsky had any)