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The Future belongs to the Youth

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Solarpunk is political but not an ideology; you're gonna need to do reading alongside the praxis. Communist, white, he/him. Think Global, Act Local.

Original Post: Keith Porter was tragically taken from us by an off-duty ice agent, and his family is seeking justice during this difficult time. Every donation can help support their fight for truth and accountability. Please consider clicking the link below to contribute or share it with others who might want to help. Thank you for your support! https://gofund.me/530afb61e

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We're a second-gen, regenerative farm in St Lawrence County, New York. For 23 years, the farm was managed by my parents, but in 2023, management was transferred to me - 113.5 acres, 20 cows, three greenhouses, two gardens, nine pigs, 17 sheep and 36 chickens. As the last living family members, my father and I've been working the farm together, trying to scale down and rest more, for the past three years. Due to the sheer size of the undertaking, along with my father's disabilities, I made the management decision to welcome two friends ( @theartistrans ) I hope will someday become equal partners here. 

However, their welcome to the farm has coincided with a total shitshow. Shortly after their arrival, I was struck by a milk truck and landed in the hospital with a broken ankle, concussion, and a totaled car. Our already faulty stove took a nosedive, and then the electricity in our house went out. We are now without heat, running water, electricity, or a way to prepare food; we are all crammed into my father's house and tensions are running high. 

We have both long and short-term goals. I am committed to this farm no matter what. I'm not moving to Canada or selling off chunks of land. I - we - want to improve the infrastructure, protect the endangered species here and create social sanctuary for the greater queer community. We are also in a time of major transitions, and so must address basic needs and immediate concerns. 

Immediate Concerns:

Our house's primary electric line needs to be replaced. It's over 60 years old; a necessary upgrade to a safe system. We then need to either repair or replace the old gas cooking stove. We need to be able to stabilize the farm, which includes both human and animal care. This means grain costs, hay costs, household bills, taxes, and seed costs.

Meeting this goal will enable us to continue running the farm, protect the land and its native species, create a greater sanctuary for the queer community, and ensure our own safety and warmth. Please dm me or @theartistrans for proof or further information. My totaled car can be seen below.

Today, foul-smelling pus leaked from my baby Qais’s wound because I cannot afford medicine, I will not forgive being ignored without even a share.

His pain worsens daily, and treatment is unreachable; please donate to buy medicine, stop infection, and save child.

Please don’t scroll past us in this critical moment; even a small share or donation could ease suffering and give Qais another chance.

Every night I clean Qais’s wound with tears instead of medicine. Please help me protect my child—your donation can stop this pain today.

Every minute without help widens Qais’s bleeding wound. I am a mother screaming into silence—please donate now, share his story, and be the reason my baby survives today against all odds

My hands shake as I beg strangers to save my child. Qais is fading while donations stay silent. Please donate now—one act of mercy today can stop this suffering and keep my baby alive.

You must remember that the main priority of democratic party politicians is "Never lose their job", if the amerimaidan happens, they could lose their job, if America becomes a presidential right-wing dictatorship, they get to keep their cushy symbolic jobs. Be safe out there but when they try to demobilize people, claim demonstrations will just raise tensions, keep that in mind.

Haven't seen anyone talking about it here, but vocal transfeminist and writer Tara Knight has been sent a threat from the fbi insisting that she stop speaking about "radical gender ideology" and get rid of the past 3 years of her work.

A black trans woman is getting personally threatened by the fbi for being a transfeminist. What the fuck. Hopefully this gets more reach than my usual posts so that people who are able to can support her.

Here’s her latest post about it.

[Transcript: So as you all have likely heard I was forwarded a letter from the FBI informing me that my work and my platform and everything I’ve built over the past three years has to go, um, for propagating what they are calling ‘radical gender ideology’. Um, this comes from Trump Executive order, um basically saying I’m a propagandist for domestic… september eleventh… thing. Um, I would… I— I’ll just say, point blank, short period. I have no intentions of stopping anything. Maybe to my detriment but I’ve never been the smartest one. That’s— all I’m gonna say on this.]

Just as I was writing that transcript she posted this—

[Transcript: So I was told and informed that it’s probably in my best interest to tell all of you where you can find me in the event that I get deleted because having a platform is probably the only thing that will keep… everything okay, if you will. So I will provide the links and ads to my TikTok, my Substack, my Bluesky, the like. You’ll be able to find me there in the event… y’know. Y’know.]

TikTok: @ bundleof.styx

Bluesky: @ bundleofstyxx.bsky.social

Substack: @ bundleofstyxx

^ just putting this here along with the transcripts, please support her if you can

These reports confirm and acknowledge the extent of the atrocities committed by this treacherous Zionist army, which kills children, the elderly, and women X

The Israeli occupation is killing us with utter brutality, savagery, and brazenness, without anyone holding them accountable. We are trying to stay alive amidst this death, destruction, and bombing. Why doesn't anyone arrest Netanyahu? Why doesn't anyone stop Israel?

Please don't just read and ignore this. Please help us and donate to us. What you are reading now is all true; it happened and is happening in real life and is being applied to us. Please don't let us die. Please donate to us. Please.

Rest in Peace to Renee Good. ICE shooting an innocent 37 year old mother attempting to protect her neighbors is not an accident or an act of self defense, it is an act of terror designed to dissuade other people from stepping in, documenting ICE violence and reminding immigrants of their rights. Her son is now an orphan and the president of the United States is calling her a ‘professional agitator’ on social media.

The head of ICE is calling her a violent terrorist and claimed her attempt to back her car away was actually an effort to murder the ICE officers present.

There’s a reason that the Right have all rallied so quickly behind this narrative: it’s happened before, with ICE’s approval.

Renee is the ninth person to have been shot by ICE since last September; and in all of those shootings the victim was in a vehicle and the agents claimed that the vehicle was “a threat”/trying to “run them down.” One other shooting, that of Silverio Villegas Gonzalez, was also lethal.

This is pretty clearly a sanctioned tactic being used by ICE repeatedly with an eye towards using the vehicle-as-weapon excuse later.

If a man is drowning, you have to help him.

Irina Sendler said, "My parents taught me that if a man is drowning, it doesn’t matter what his religion or nationality is. You have to help him."

When the Nazis began to trap the Jewish quarter in Warsaw,

Irina sneaked into the neighborhood with official papers, saying she was there to check for diseases. But her real goal was to save the babies from death.

She carried a medical box and carefully hid some babies inside it. Often, she used potato carts to hide other children and move them outside the trapped area, or covered them with blankets to keep them hidden from the guards.

She had a well-trained dog that barked loudly whenever the guards came near, to distract them and cover the babies’ cries and screams.

Irina wrote their real names on small pieces of tissue, put them inside bottles, and buried the bottles under an apple tree at a friend’s house. She believed that one day, someone would find those bottles.

The Nazis caught her and tortured her,

breaking her legs and feet, but she never told them about any child. She kept their secrets safe.

Her friends bribed the guards and got her released.

During the war, she saved about 2,500 children.

When asked why she risked everything, she simply answered,

"I couldn’t leave them."

Whoever saves one life, saves the whole world.

And sometimes you can’t save one life, sometimes it doesn’t work, sometimes there’s no way out for anyone, but … try anyway. Because it matters anyway.

And maybe no one will ever know. But maybe someday, more than a hundred years later, some stranger will cry into her coffee because of what you died trying.

The story doesn’t end here: In truth, people usually don’t regret what they did, but they regret more what they didn’t do.

So today, I want to share why this story hurts so close to home. My four children and I live in a small tent that is no bigger than 4 by 3 meters. Water was seeping from underneath, and we wake up with our mattresses wet. My children’s coughs and illnesses do not stop all night, especially my baby, Amir. Things got worse when a tick bit a three-month-old baby in our camp, causing him deformities and poisoning.

My wife and I take turns staying awake to guard the children. We only sleep for two hours at a time, switching shifts throughout the night. The destruction around us has made our tent and its surroundings full of snakes, rats, and other pests. Every night, we hear their sounds and movements.

This situation is very exhausting for us and our children. We are trying to rent a house, but we are stuck and really need your support and donations. If you are able to help us leave this tent and reach a safer place, it would mean everything to us. Any support, even small, can help change our children’s nights into something safer.

Please, share and donate if you can, help the Alanqar family get somewhere safer to stay!

None of us can save everyone, but one of us can save one person, or at least help them. Please don't stop trying. Do what you can for this family.

You are living through the same thing every bystander during the holocaust did. Are you going to stand by as children are killed, or will you do something about it? Will you help this family of 6 escape?

I never imagined that protecting my children would mean staying awake all night, listening for rats and snakes outside our tent. Thank you to everyone who is helping us feel less alone.

People don’t usually regret the things they did. They regret the times they stayed silent and did nothing. If we can help even a little and choose not to… that stays with you.

These are four children who need safety. Let’s not look away.

not a fan of the idea that white supremacists or american nationalists will be swayed against ICE by renee good’s murder cuz she was a white woman. i don’t know why leftists and liberals think white supremacists generally care about the wellbeing of white women lol. white women are either viewed as cattle to be herded, property, tolerable only when they uphold white male supremacists and their own relative subjugation, or an accelerant of social decay for opposing white male supremacy. this will change nothing for that group.

she has been firmly placed into the “social decay” category in less than 24 hours

Laura Loomer needs to die

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Our youth and family nonprofit theatre is doing the musical Annie with a cast and crew of about 100, mostly children. Yesterday we had a two-show day with limited time for kids to rest and eat in between.

A parent offered to set up catering to be delivered for anyone who didn’t want to or couldn’t leave the site, and asked that anybody who was interested contribute a small amount to the cost. A few parents started asking if they could pay for other families who might not be able to contribute, and put in extra.

The whole cast was fed. There was food left over. Very few families left to get food or brought food from home because there was an abundance. Kids got seconds. Kids got seconds of dessert.

It’s been said a million times, but people balk at the idea of socialism and taxation and “paying for freeloaders” because we’re devoid of community and isolated. Nobody feared “paying for freeloaders” because those freeloaders aren’t faceless, they’re kids who go on playdates with your own children, or families who offered your child a ride when your car broke down. If we could think about other people as members of our community instead of faceless, we would be more generous and sharing almost instantly.

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If you see the quote "I refuse to share my body with a man who wouldn't defend it politically" or any variation of it floating around the internet — it was Kat Blaque who originally said it and she would really appreciate it if people gave her proper credit for it but it's gone viral on a lot of different platforms and most of the people sharing it don't know it's from her or choose not to credit her on purpose.

Like I just know terfs are going to be parroting it pretending it wasn't said by a black trans woman about herself & her life.

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