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Annia Zombiezadlo 🧟‍♀️ @anniaciezadlo.com · 1m

and not a moment too soon!

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Some folks who preordered are starting to receive their copies of Read This When Things Fall Apart! ❤️

The book is supposed to be published on November 4, but I am so happy some folks are getting it early. It's needed now.

Nicoletta Penguin @nicoguin.bsky.social · 1d

My pre-ordered copy arrived today. Thank you for this gem of a book.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Some folks who preordered are starting to receive their copies of Read This When Things Fall Apart! ❤️

The book is supposed to be published on November 4, but I am so happy some folks are getting it early. It's needed now.

Nicoletta Penguin @nicoguin.bsky.social · 1d

My pre-ordered copy arrived today. Thank you for this gem of a book.

The cover of pre-ordered and delivered before publication date Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis edited by Kelly Hayes.

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Annia Zombiezadlo 🧟‍♀️ @anniaciezadlo.com · 1d

Does this remind you. of anything.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19h

CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it.

Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 1d

redo w/correct link. pls share again!

‼️‼️‼️Sameer Project urgently needs our action. Can we do a $75/mattress-for-babies fundraiser today?

The situation:

From Sameer Project on on X: “The pediatric department at Nasser Hospital requested our help!!
Support: chuffed.org/project/1368...

Screenshot of video of babies who arrived at Nasser Hospital in need of urgent care. Go to Sameer Project on c to view

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NPR @npr.org · 2d

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

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Annia Zombiezadlo 🧟‍♀️ @anniaciezadlo.com · 1d

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Annia Zombiezadlo 🧟‍♀️ @anniaciezadlo.com · 1d

Does this remind you. of anything.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 3d

As a federal immigration crackdown ramps up in the Chicago area, a few dozen people gathered on Thursday afternoon in downtown Aurora to protest immigration enforcement activity in the area.

Protestors gather outside Aurora City Hall Thursday to decry federal immigration crackdown

A few dozen people gathered on Thursday afternoon outside City Hall in downtown Aurora to protest federal immigration enforcement activity in the area.

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 2d

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

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TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 2d

This story has been picked up by multiple news outlets, including the Chicago Tribune and the Fox-owned station in the city.

You know which Chicago outlet doesn't appear to have a story about this on its website?

Brockman's employer, @wgntv.com

WGN's owner? Nexstar

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 1d

Unacceptable! This must and can be reversed! Fight it!

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 1d

Wow print edition major sucks for that difference. I guess truth is subjective to the print editor.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 1d

"Depends on who you ask" framing is one of the most grating tics in modern political journalism. Objective reality exists and your job is to describe it.

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Annia Zombiezadlo 🧟‍♀️ @anniaciezadlo.com · 1d

Not Joe Biden’s finest hour www.cnn.com/2019/04/25/p...

Joe Biden and Anita Hill finally spoke. She says he doesn’t understand the damage he caused. | CNN Politics

Former Vice President Joe Biden had a conversation with Anita Hill in which he shared “his regret for what she endured” during the 1991 hearings for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, his campaign...

www.cnn.com

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Ⓐnarchohoodism @161bklyn.bsky.social · 1d

Sadly Sudan's community kitchens didn't win the Nobel Peace Prize in the end but, they have definitely won our hearts. As has world kitchen in Gaza and their medical teams and the Sudanese Red Crescent society. Not some politician asking dictators for help or a racist shitbag president.

Atrocity Alert No. 451: Sudan, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Central Sahel - Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect

Atrocity Alert is a weekly publication by the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect highlighting situations where populations are at risk of, or are enduring, mass atrocity crimes. AT LEAST ...

www.globalr2p.org

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Greythean🏴🚩 @thegreytheanvoid.bsky.social · 1d

Law enforcement and counter-protestors don’t need to be provoked. They will commit violence for any reason they feel like. The REAL question is how we defend ourselves: margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/without-th...

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Annia Zombiezadlo 🧟‍♀️ @anniaciezadlo.com · 1d

Exactly! I’ve hated these ads forever. But sadly I think that snideness makes them effective with a certain kind of audience

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 5d

I’ve been circling a cursed thought for a while and it’s time to let it out: These guys are Disney Adults for fascism.

the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 6d

LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH

Kash Patel in his own merch looking fucking embarrassing as hell lmao

he’s so fucking ugly

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 9d

Every legal story now is either

Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach

or

In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

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Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 1d

Also how much the possibility space is being opened up. I think a lot of Reagan-era shibboleths are getting torched in public as we speak, and I think one that will be torched in the next few years is the government-is-the-problem bullshit the GOP likes to spout.

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