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Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...
This! My brother was well into medical school by the time I convinced him that he benefitted from taxes. I'm like, "Do you drive on the roads? Would you like a fire department?" It was maddening. (He's MUCH better now.)
Bidrangeas ✨💕 #WIP
Things Democratic Senators could do that would be useful:
- Withdraw unanimous consent from all Senate business until constitutional rule was restored
- Refuse to vote for any legislation until constitutional rule was restored
- Boycott as a caucus until constitutional rule was restored
"I was challenged by my own constituents to do something different; I was challenged by my own constituents to do *something*; I was challenged by my own constituents to take risks..."
Words spoken by Cory Booker, but the credit is to *unelected everyone*. CB will get the credit but YOU DID THIS.
Rectangular card filled with small squares and rectangles and a few circles. Evokes a cityscape. Rainbow watercolors fan outward from the center. Words: C’mon! Grab your coat! Put on your shoes! We’re building a new world together.
Comrade card for 3/23/2025.
Amen.
I'm skeptical about "blackout" days as a form of protest, but it doesn't hurt me to plan to spend nothing tomorrow.
I’ve been asked by the Emanet family to set up a GoFundMe to help cover legal fees and support income while Jersey Kebab remains closed. During the morning hours of Tuesday, February 25, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) warrantlessly picked up members of the Emanet family, Celal and Emine Emanet, from Jersey Kebab, located at 150 Haddon Avenue, Haddon Township, NJ 08108. The Emanet family has an open case with United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and has been waiting since 2016 for a decision on their case. USCIS has not decided whether to approve or deny their green card application for the past 9 years. While waiting for their case to be decided upon, Celal and Emine Emanet were left without a status. They are contributing members of society and taxpayers with a five-year valid business license. Celal and Emine own and operate Jersey Kebab, a beloved Mediterranean restaurant across from the Haddon Township Municipality and Police building. The husband-and-wife pair own and manage the restaurant together, a hub for the community, and regularly feed underprivileged
members of the community - the sign on the door stating, “Free to anyone with a disability, homeless, or simply cannot afford it.” The couple start prep work together at 9 am and close up shop at 8:30 pm. At the end of the night, Celal and Emine come back home where they live with their four children (Muhammed, Zeynep, Hamza, Hale), daughter-in-law (Hale), two grandchildren (Ali and Omer), and two cats (Oreo and Almond). Muhammed (25), the manager at Jersey Kebab, who attended Rutgers-Camden, is a husband and father to two children. Zeynep (23) is a Swarthmore College graduate and works at a local civil rights nonprofit organization. Their younger son, Hamza (15), and younger daughter, Hale (13), cannot imagine life without mom and dad together. While Celal has been released from custody with an ankle monitor, Emine has been placed into the Elizabeth Detention Center in Elizabeth, New Jersey, awaiting her bond trial. This situation is especially devastating for their 15-year-old son, Hamza, who has autism. Deporting Emine would cause Hamza immense distress, as he only speaks limited Turkish and relies on the specialized services available to him
here in New Jersey. Uprooting him from this support system would have severe consequences for his well-being. Emine is not a flight risk - she is a mother, community member, and neighbor. Neither Celal nor Emine have criminal records or prior orders of removal by an immigration judge. She needs to be released on bond so she can return home. Until she is released, the restaurant, which is their main source of income, is closed. So please help out any way you can.
A sign in the restaurant window of a Kebab restaurant reads “To Anybody with a Disability or Homeless or Simply Cannot Afford”
Someone called ICE on this sweet family who was running a Kebab restaurant. They have had a case open with with USCIS since 2016.
They would feed the homeless, people with disabilities, and people who just couldn’t afford to pay them.
There is a GFM to offer support for legal fees and lost income.
I really appreciate this unterrible social media platform, but I'm wondering if we can get an unterrible app to go with it?
My understanding is that written Korean is also a phonetic language, with a comparable number of letters to English, so it's not too hard to learn the alphabet. (You know, in your free time.)
Journalists should report the truth the way this judge laid it out.
As a person with lots of other privileges, this is the scariest thing I've heard for *me personally* so far.
Thank you for a post that is about A Horror, but not The Horrors.
Teacher friend's principal told them "now is not the time to be a hero" re: ICE coming for children. Um, yes, it fucking well is.
Happy Valentine's Day!
Love is an action and a practice and need not be romantic.
Love fiercely, love humbly, love truthfully, love deeply. We all we got.
The queers know how to protest. We have practice.
Poster reading "Your heart is a weapon the size of your fist. Keep fighting, keep loving"
Happy Valentine's Day
There it is. Thank you for helping this make sense to me.
I feel like English is a mean prank we're pulling on everyone else.
Almost all of our baby stuff (crib, bassinet, clothes, bouncers, books, etc.) is from Buy Nothing. It's been so helpful.
You can hardly blame them, but it makes for a really harrowing doomscroll.
Wow, way to apply diet culture to reading.
Data entry that for some reason was in a big warehouse, no AC, in the summer in Williamsburg, VA. Data entry sucks enough in a comfy office.
I need Bluesky (or at least my feed) to diversify. Can it be partially the horrors, but also some other stuff? Pop Culture, recipes, etc.? Probably I'm just not following the right accounts.
Trying to decide if you meant the original Scooby-Doo gang, or the Scooby gang from Buffy, but realized that it doesn't matter. Either one works.
I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons