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Claudia Stellar, PhD

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Scholar of Race, Policing & Nat’l Security I 📕: Blackness & the US Nat’l Security Paradigm I💡Authoritarianism, Counterintelligence, Political Repression I Northwestern PhD I NASM I Sassy 💁🏻‍♀️I http://claudiagarciarojas.com

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Claudia Stellar, PhD @claudiastellar.bsky.social · Nov 14

Two years ago, I wrote a brief piece for @truthout.bsky.social, arguing that we should view #SCOTUS as a national defense agency that has consistently worked to enshrine and defend white nationalism since its inception—a trend likely to intensify under Trump.

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The Supreme Court Won’t Save Us — It Was Founded to Defend White Supremacy

Since its inception, the court has operated to enshrine whiteness as the normative baseline in constitutional law.

truthout.org

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 14h

Okay i know there's people here who actually track this stuff, so- it really feels like I'm seeing waaaay more left/liberal conspiracy theories now than during T's first term?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 16h

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 13h

Seeing pictures of an abandoned tamale cart in Pilsen where ICE took a tamale street vendor. Those photos of left behind carts are so haunting. Community members disappeared. Not just vendors but people who have long standing relationships with the community and people.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.

It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.

Thank you for your consideration.

"Help us leave safely" on FreeFunder

Click here to support "Help us leave safely" by Dara on FreeFunder!

www.freefunder.com

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Claudia Stellar, PhD @claudiastellar.bsky.social · Nov 14

The Supreme Court Won’t Save Us — It Was Founded to Defend White Supremacy

Since its inception, the court has operated to enshrine whiteness as the normative baseline in constitutional law.

truthout.org

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 10d

I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 2d

White righties: this Super Bowl halftime pick is terrible. They should get someone conservative and hip, like this 96 year old cop I know who has a bluegrass band called Burning Crosses

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Claudia Stellar, PhD @claudiastellar.bsky.social · 5d

As seen on the streets of Evanston. Thank you to those in this community keeping watch.

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Jen Fifield @jenafifield.bsky.social · 4d

Hi everyone! 👋 I'm officially up and running at
@propublica.org covering election and voting issues, and expanding my sourcing nationally. Spread the word.

Reach out, say hi, introduce yourself, send tips:
[email protected]
Cell: 480-476-0108
Signal: jenafifield.01

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 5d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6d

Led by Rabbi Ben, people have now taken the street and are starting a march away from the detention center into the streets of Broadview.

Immediately after this, most of the march changes their mind and turns back, say they don't want to be led away from ICE.

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Claudia Stellar, PhD @claudiastellar.bsky.social · 5d

As seen on the streets of Evanston. Thank you to those in this community keeping watch.

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Claudia Stellar, PhD @claudiastellar.bsky.social · 6d

100% agree.

Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 6d

I‘ve come to disagree with the idea that ‘law enforcement‘/police have been militarized (and that it’s the fundamental problem).

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6d

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 7d

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

www.wired.com

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 8d

We’ve never had a shutdown under a competitive authoritarian regime before. This matters because the rules of the game have changed. If congressional leaders act as if the old rules apply, they will lose. The executive seeks to consolidate power and does not negotiate in good faith.

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 9d

I don't know how university leaders expect to sustain their institutions *even as class-reproduction machines* if they sell out to a dictator and crush their own core workers. Like, you have to put oil in the engine. You have to put gasoline in the car.

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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 9d

Maroc : manifestations autorisées pour la première fois dans plusieurs villes, certaines émaillées de violences

Le pays fait face à une vague inédite de mobilisation d’une partie de la jeunesse, à l’appel du collectif GenZ 212, sur fond de tensions et de revendications sociales croissantes.

www.lemonde.fr

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Claudia Stellar, PhD @claudiastellar.bsky.social · Sep 1

"Whatever our government is willing to do to Palestinians, they’re willing to do to you, they just can’t do it yet.”

US Army veteran Greg J Stoker on why he’s sailing to Gaza with the 'Global Sumud Flotilla'.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 9d

For folks asking why we keep seeing FBI/ATF at these operations: they're needed at larger raids (see also, mass arrest situation like we saw Saturday). ICE/CBP doesn't have capacity or training to process large amounts of evidence, write affidavits.

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David N. Thomas @dnthomas01.bsky.social · 9d

A delight at this time of year is the huge variety of apples on sale in 🇫🇮……was not expecting an intense red flesh when cutting into this one

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 9d

Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9d

File this under “essential function.” 🤡

#Shutdown
abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

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