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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 1d

Big win for the repair movement in California: the people pressured Gov. Newsom to sign SB 518 into law, establishing the Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery within the Civil Rights Department.

This is a major step towards real repair in CA and beyond.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Gavin Newsom approves slavery reparations agency

The California governor signed the bill five years after he created a task force to study how racist policies have affected descendants of slaves.

www.politico.com

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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 4h

The MAGA regime announced that it’s planning on occupying New York sometime as part of its larger white supremacist power grab. We can’t let them.

Pledge today to join a citywide school walkout in the name of freedom and equality if the MAGA regime occupies our city: airtable.com/appdkEQROTfE...

The MAGA regime is threatening a military takeover of New York.
it’s time to stand up for freedom & equality.

Students! Pledge to join a citywide school walkout if the regime occupies NYC

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 2d

Repair means respecting and restoring Indigenous sovereignty.

This Indigenous Peoples Day, take action in solidarity with the Tonawanda Seneca Nation to defeat a corporate plot to pollute Native lands for profit.

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ISC State Energy Plan Tool for Get Free - NY Renews

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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 4d

Great example of what it looks like to protect students' freedom to learn and refuse to comply with the regime's white supremacist agenda ⬇️⬇️⬇️

www.nbcnews.com/news/educati...

MIT is first school to reject Trump administration's agenda in exchange for funding benefits

"With respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education,” the Massachusetts Institute of Technology president wrote in a letter.

www.nbcnews.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5d

this really is all just about resentment over obama being given the prize

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

BARTIROMO: On your point about the Nobel Peace Prize, do you think maybe the reason Trump won't get it is because you had to get the application in before Jan. 31, and that was only 11 days into his term?

SCALISE: Look, they can play technicalities. They gave it to Obama for just getting elected.

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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 5d

Governor Gavin Newsom has TWO DAYS to sign four major reparations bills into law.

Use this tool by the Alliance for Reparations, Reconciliation, and Truth to tell Gov. Newsom to sign repair into law and advance real equality!
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ACTION NEEDED ⚡ Urge Governor Gavin Newsom to Sign CA Reparations NOW

California’s reparations package is on Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk. Tell him to sign all four bills into law and move CA from apology to action. Together we can make history. #CAReparationsNow

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6d

This remains the most important piece i’ve written about the goals and ideological principles of the second Trump administration www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 6d

What we fail to repair, we repeat.

The fascist tactics we’re witnessing in Chicago and Portland are not new; they’re old.

Just like our ancestors did before us, it's on us to organize our communities and get our political leaders to refuse to comply with the white supremacist agenda.

I.C.E. is the modern day fugitive slave patrol

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Anthony Vidal Torres @avtorres4.bsky.social · 7d

ICE is the modern day version of the fugitive slave patrol.

The regime is using this force among other pillars to prop up white supremacist hierarchies.

What we fail to repair, we repeat.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11d

Attn Black people, stop scrolling.

This is not a drill: Chicago

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Anthony Vidal Torres @avtorres4.bsky.social · 7d

ICE is the modern day version of the fugitive slave patrol.

The regime is using this force among other pillars to prop up white supremacist hierarchies.

What we fail to repair, we repeat.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11d

Attn Black people, stop scrolling.

This is not a drill: Chicago

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Anthony Vidal Torres @avtorres4.bsky.social · 7d

The persistence of authoritarian divide & conquer politics requires taking fandom organizing seriously.

@nataliegreen.bsky.social @levin.bsky.social & I shared some of the lessons we've learned bringing Andor fans into our movement for freedom from fascism & white supremacy.

"Remember this. Try."

Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 8d

"We saw an opportunity in the final season of 'Andor' and now many more people across races, backgrounds and genders have joined our ranks for truth and reparations — and have already dealt major blows to the MAGA regime’s agenda."

More about Project Fulcrum⬇️
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/why-...

Why fandom organizing is a powerful strategy for movement building

As the Disney/ABC boycott took off, youth activist group Get Free mobilized its “Andor” fan community to amp up the pressure.

wagingnonviolence.org

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 8d

The sort of organizing we're doing here is honestly crucial right now. If your organization wants to learn more about organizing fans, ping me!

Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 8d

"We saw an opportunity in the final season of 'Andor' and now many more people across races, backgrounds and genders have joined our ranks for truth and reparations — and have already dealt major blows to the MAGA regime’s agenda."

More about Project Fulcrum⬇️
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/why-...

Why fandom organizing is a powerful strategy for movement building

As the Disney/ABC boycott took off, youth activist group Get Free mobilized its “Andor” fan community to amp up the pressure.

wagingnonviolence.org

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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 8d

"We saw an opportunity in the final season of 'Andor' and now many more people across races, backgrounds and genders have joined our ranks for truth and reparations — and have already dealt major blows to the MAGA regime’s agenda."

More about Project Fulcrum⬇️
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/why-...

Why fandom organizing is a powerful strategy for movement building

As the Disney/ABC boycott took off, youth activist group Get Free mobilized its “Andor” fan community to amp up the pressure.

wagingnonviolence.org

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23d

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com)

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 16d

When we organize together, we win.

This fight has always been about more than one comedian, it’s about contesting fascist control of media & their white supremacist demands to take away our freedom of speech and silence anyone who doesn't look, live, or love like them from speaking truth to power.

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Movement victory

This fight has always been about more than one comedian, it’s about contesting fascist control of media and their white supremacist demands to take away our freedom of speech and silence anyone who doesn't look, live, or love like them from speaking truth to power.

When we come together across race and place to organize for equality, we can and we will win

Join Project Fulcrum through the link in our bio

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Anthony Vidal Torres @avtorres4.bsky.social · 18d

It’s a 3:3 knockout! People organizing to boycott and protest made it happen.

We did. We can. And we will win freedom for all. @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social @wgaeast.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social

www.cnn.com/2025/09/26/m...

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Anthony Vidal Torres @avtorres4.bsky.social · 18d

Look who caved. Nexstar is next up.

When we organize, we win.

Join friends everywhere @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social

www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/09/...

Sinclair-owned ABC stations will bring 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' back to air Friday

Broadcast station owner Sinclair will begin airing "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" after three days of preempting the program since its return.

www.cnbc.com

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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 18d

Today, members of @50501newyork.bsky.social , @wgaeast.bsky.social, and Get Free’s Project Fulcrum rallied in front of the Nexstar’s corporate office in NYC to demand they free the airwaves, show Jimmy Kimmel, and refuse to comply with future regime attacks on truth and freedom.

Sign that reads: the death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands… we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest - Mon Mothma”

Sign: nexstar - refuse to comply with the MAGA regime/imperial censorship

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Anthony Vidal Torres @avtorres4.bsky.social · 21d

And join with other young likeminded fans on our discord: discord.gg/5ePYDHCEc4

Join the Get Free Discord Server!

We’re building a youth-led movement to repair past harms, remove ongoing barriers to equality, and realize a future where freedom is for all. | 747 members

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Anthony Vidal Torres @avtorres4.bsky.social · 21d

I’ll be there, who will join me??

We have friends everywhere.

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 21d

"More than a million people had canceled Disney streaming subscriptions as of Monday, the Disney source told me, and the company likely knew that trend would only continue the longer they kept Kimmel silenced."

@marisakabas.bsky.social w/ a doozy. 👀

Kimmel reinstatement preempted Disney+ price increase

The Handbasket reported first Monday evening on Bluesky

www.thehandbasket.co

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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 21d

And if you're in NYC this Friday, join our free speech rally outside Nexstar corporate offices NYC at noon to demand they free the airwaves and end their role in MAGA regime-backed censorship.

RSVP: events.boycottdisneyabc.com/events/0fb71...

Free Speech Rally - Nexstar Corporate Offices

Sep 26, 2025, 12:00:00 PM - GMT-4 - Calyon Building, 1301 6th Avenue, New York, NY 10019, United States of America, 1301 6th Avenue (New York) - “The Imperial need for control is so desperate because ...

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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 21d

Star Wars Fans of conscience: join members of 50501 and Get Free’s Project Fulcrum to demand Nexstar and Sinclair free the airwaves, show Jimmy Kimmel, and refuse to comply with future regime attacks on truth and freedom.

RSVP to a rally near you:
friendseverywhere.network

JOIN THE STAR WARS FAN FREE SPEECH RALLIES
OUTSIDE NEXSTAR & SINCLAIR OFFICES
FRIDAY, SEPT 26 AT NOON LOCAL TIME
RSVP & TOOLKIT @ LINK IN BIO

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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 22d

By making Disney/ABC change course on Jimmy Kimmel, we showed that when we unite and act together, we win!

Celebrate this victory, call on Nexstar and Sinclair to follow suit & demand these corporations refuse to comply with future MAGA regime attacks on our freedoms."

Keep up the pressure.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 22d

Breaking: Jimmy Kimmel to return Tuesday.

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