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Les Wexner was revealed in some of the Epstein files.
Why do we care about this billionaire specifically? I mean. There's a lot of names, you can't expect us to remember them all, right?
Well... This guy was in charge of helping Epstein recruit teen models.
He also owns brands like Pink, Bath and Body Works, Victoria's Secret. Brands which are criticized for pushing women to look younger and pushing younger looks on women.
He also owns Abercrombie and much of the early 00's mall culture, brands which were criticized for pushing much older looks onto teens.
He also gave Limited Too to Epstein, another brand that's been criticized for pushing older looks onto teen girls in the early 00s.
It's just... creepy. Looking at Epstein... his connections... and what they owned. Because some of their brands are responsible for pushing teens into dressing far older than they had any right to be dressing with ultra low rise jeans, thongs, crop tops, glitter, and perfumes with words like "sexy" in the name.
Then they're also responsible for pushing women into hiding any signs of aging with the removing all of their body hair and the ultra flat stomachs, models that look younger and younger.
It's... fucking creepy as shit. In a way... all millennials were unwittingly groomed by these people with this shit. With this marketing that pushed us into dressing in a way that would be appealing to these pedos. I might actually vomit.
Since the Supreme Court intends to overturn Roe v Wade
It would be a real shame if someone were to just remind you that even people that don't do drugs often keep Narcam on hand in case they witness someone else that needs it.
Would also be a real shame if I stated that and just...
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Oops... I sneezed and my finger slipped... where did all of these links come from? Weird...
(PlanC and AidAccess seems to be the most popular. The Brigid Alliance provides funds to travel and any other funds you need.)
Would also be a REAL SHAME if this went viral, giving access to uterus healthcare.
Elevated Access is a group of volunteer pilots that offers to fly people in America for free to a state where they can legally get the gender affirming or reproductive care they need.
(This is just transportation to states where gender affirming care and reproductive care isn't illegal and you'll have to find other resources to actually get help paying for said treatment.)
We connect passengers to volunteer pilots for travel at no cost to access the healthcare they need.
As a disabled person, I'm so sick of seeing these anti-abortion laws coming through. Because they keep blocking disabled people with a uterus from getting the medication they need because it could count as an abortificiant (is that the word?).
A decision on the lawsuit could come as early as this week.
Anyways. I'm not going to remove this pinned post until abortion is made legal country wide again.
I'm only going to keep it updated with birth control options.
The FDA on Thursday approved Opill, the first over-the-counter daily birth control pill.
The FDA’s decision to approve Opill, the country’s first over-the-counter birth control pill, was quickly cheered by reproductive-rights advocates who believe it will dramatically expand access to birth control.
In a world built on survival and comfort, the will to fight is trapped before it can even awaken.
Article shared from The Resistance Archives on Subsatck!
In the heart of empire, where wealth and power have been built on centuries of conquest and extraction, the idea of revolution feels strangely hollow. Liberation is talked about often - in classrooms, in books, across social media - but the material struggle behind those words has faded. Those who suffer most under capitalism are trapped in survival, forced to navigate a system that leaves them little time or space to organize. Those with enough comfort to study revolution, to imagine something different, often find themselves unwilling to risk what they have. Comfort turns into a quiet form of captivity.
Meanwhile, in places like Palestine or Kashmir, where loss is not a distant fear but a daily reality, struggle and revolution are not a choice. They are survival. They are faith. They are life itself.
Support your local bookstore and say fuck you to Amazon!
Free Research & Library Databases:
Digital Public Library of America
Project Gutenberg
Queer Liberation Library — Uses Libby via your library membership!
The Anarchist Library - Manifestos!
Libby & Hoopla — Uses your library membership~
Librivox — Free public domain audiobooks!
Indie Bookstore Databases:
Indie Bookstore Finder
The Independent Bookseller
Midwest Indie Bookstore Association
Libro.fm — Audiobook purchases that support your indie bookstore of choice!
Indie Author Sellers:
Indie Release Radar — This is a curated list of indie releases for each month. Many of the links do lead to Amazon, so just save the info and search for them elsewhere if you can!
Barnes & Noble Indie List — Same as above: Search here, find ‘em for sale elsewhere!
Bookshop.org — Indie authors can sell their books here directly as well!
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Indie Author Collective
BookSirens — Sign up to receive ARCs in exchange for your review!
Secondhand Books Online:
Better World Books — Owned by the non-profit, Better World Libraries & affiliated with the Internet Archive!
World of Books — Certified B Corp
Abe Books — Multiple languages and countries of origin supported!
Thriftbooks
Paperback Swap
Get some Zines Too:
Zine-O-Matic — Subscription for a curated pack of zines monthly
Decolonization Coven — Printable zine packs & a free library!
Microcosm Publishing
And if you’re interested in Banned Books:
American Library Association List
**We are planning on updating this list over time, or maybe even making subsequent yearly lists so check back or suggest some options to us in the comments.
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An Initiative That's Wiping Out Millions in Medical Debt
Undue Medical Debt is being added to our Archive for its incredible work toward wiping out millions in medical debt for Americans. You can donate $10 today to relieve an average of $1,000 for someone in need!
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Add your favorite foraging spots to their community-driven map!
Their Mission, from their website:
“Falling Fruit is a celebration of the overlooked culinary bounty of our city streets. By quantifying this resource on an interactive map, we hope to facilitate intimate connections between people, food, and the natural organisms growing in our neighborhoods. Not just a free lunch! Foraging in the 21st century is an opportunity for urban exploration, to fight the scourge of stained sidewalks, and to reconnect with the botanical origins of food.
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APPROPEDIA – A wiki for sustainability and community action!
This wiki has some incredible information about so many different topics! Working toward self sufficiency and supporting your local communities are great priorities for 2025!
The image above is just a snippet of how many topics are actually covered on this Wiki — We strongly recommend taking screenshots or downloading versions of their pages for your own home archives.
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Learning from The Youth-Led Resistance in WWII Nazi Germany
The White Rose (German: Weiße Rose) was a non-violent, intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany which was led by five students and one professor at the University of Munich: Willi Graf, Kurt Huber, Christoph Probst, Alexander Schmorell, Hans Scholl and Sophie Scholl. The group conducted an anonymous leaflet and graffiti campaign that called for active opposition to the Nazi regime. Their activities started in Munich on 27 June 1942; they ended with the arrest of the core group by the Gestapo on 18 February 1943.
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Frustrated Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers fled a Minnesota neighborhood after residents alerted each other by triggering car a
Basically, people are using their key fobs to set off their car alarms when they see ICE.
This is effective for several reasons:
Obviously, it alerts everyone that something is wrong. Given ICE has been terrorizing Minnesota, people are likely to immediately know it is ICE. This gives people time to flee or barricade themselves in their homes.
ICE loses the element of surprise.
If one person hears a car alarm go off, they can trigger their own alarm, alerting even more people, but also making it really annoying for ICE. Annoying sounds petty, but it can be effective. Have you ever been in a building when a super loud fire alarm went off? It's very hard to concentrate. You can't hear much else. You just want to leave. ICE experiences this when a whole street if car alarms go off. Which means they make mistakes.
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