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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

one thing perhaps worth emphasizing is that under federal law an escaped enslaved person was a criminal. an "illegal," you might say.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 10h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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kb (she/her) @duchessofhazard.bsky.social · 12h

This is where we end up when we approach representation without an actual power analysis.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12h

This shit about “Bari Weiss is a feminist girlboss” is actually the logical conclusion of allowing DEI to be a substitute for actual structural change to end white supremacy and patriarchy

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12h

The faux feminism at work here is exactly the kind of shit that @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social was writing about when he wrote Elite Capture, the essay and book!

www.bostonreview.net/articles/olu...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 3d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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kb (she/her) @duchessofhazard.bsky.social · 3d

Great resource! I'm excited to share this with some of my therapy clients, and use it personally with my own friends/fam.

ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 3d

here it is! my CareFax 1.2 update, with a link to a template I made on Canva so you make your own edits, fill it in digitally, or just print copies to try it out with your people IRL.

I would love your feedback and to hear about your experiences if you try it out!

template: bit.ly/3KAAul4

carerax
In a world that profits from our exhaustion and isolation, taking care of each other is a radical act. CareFax is a body-centered friendship tool that helps us emember how to live differently-to build webs of care strong enough to hold us through grief, burnout, and transformation.
CareFax is a starting place for conversations about mutual aid, community care, nd tenderness, designed to help your people show up for you (and you for them) in ways that resist the myth of self-sufficiency.
Because we can't do this all on our own. While corporations and self-help grifters try and sell us the idea that the right thing will cure us or make us happy, what we actually need is each other. start your own carerax:
Gather your friends, family, or community members and fill out your CareFax forms-either together over tea, or on your own time. You can print them and keep them in a binder, or make a digital folder that you can update as your life shifts. You can even keep your own CareFax filled out to share with folks as your relationships grow and blossom.
Over time, your CareFax can become more than a set of forms, but a practice of collective tenderness and interdependence. miigwech, ashley fairbanks find me at ziibiing.com or as ziibing on all socials

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4d

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 4d

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 5d

Cops lie. Cops lie. Cops lie.

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 6d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 6d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
trib.al/9Sxu9IN

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AkiBread| Retro Stoner Catgirl @akibread.bsky.social · 6d

Doomers want you to believe we can’t win this but we will.

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 6d

HAPPENING NOW — This morning, Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order establishing “ICE-free zones.”

“That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as grounds for these raids,” Johnson said to applause.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/mayo...

Mayor Brandon Johnson signs executive order establishing ‘ICE-free zones’ • The TRiiBE

Johnson is calling for a full investigation into “all of the brutality” that federal agents have conducted this past week.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 9d

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows

The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

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kb (she/her) @duchessofhazard.bsky.social · 8d

fuuuuuuck

Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 8d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 10d

Legacy media as we’ve known it is dead and what remains is either in active rebellion against the regime or running its PR. Know the difference and choose wisely.

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 10d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 10d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10d

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats.

Version of original on left, updated on right:

Thank you for your email. There is a temporary shutdown of the U.S. government due to a lapse in appropriations. I will respond to your message as soon as possible after the temporary shutdown ends. Please visit ED.gov for the latest information on the
Department's operational status.
Thank you.

Thank you for contacting me. On September 19, 2025, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5371, a clean continuing resolution. Unfortunately, Democrat Senators are blocking passage of H.R. 5371 in the Senate which has led to a lapse in appropriations. Due to the lapse in appropriations I am currently in furlough status. I will respond to emails once government functions resume.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12d

The GOP controls the whole Federal government. They have to fund it. If they don't, it's their fault. [see how easy that is].

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kb (she/her) @duchessofhazard.bsky.social · 12d

I just shared my thoughts via the "website feedback" option on hud.gov. This is appalling.

kb (she/her) @duchessofhazard.bsky.social · 12d

LOVE this easy to understand comm strategy. Don't engage in useless back and forth, instead, reset the frame entirely!

Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 18d

i made a helpful reference

$top right: a fractured black rectangle where one half is labeled "autism is bad" and the other side is labeled "FACT CHECK: autistic people are productive members of society". top left: WRONG -negating their frame reinforces it -starts with what it isn't instead of what it is - your argument is shaped like their argument bottom right: large image of Kirby, a pink blob inhaling and the "autism is bad" fragment, labeled THEY'RE DOING EUGENICS bottom left: RIGHT - you eat their frame -starts with what's actually happening -contains and explains what they're doing -your argument is shaped like kirby$

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kb (she/her) @duchessofhazard.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you!

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kb (she/her) @duchessofhazard.bsky.social · 12d

Can you point me towards more info (here or via DM)? I've been looking for local ICE watch and response, and haven't had a lot of luck

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kb (she/her) @duchessofhazard.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks for the rec! I remember way back when this site was "Brain Pickings." Such a great resource!

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aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 14d

One of the worst mayors of all time—who slashed school and library budgets, raised the rent 4 times for 2 million tenants, engaged in cartoon-level corruption at every turn, and happily posed for photos with Netanyahu—has been vanquished by NYC-DSA and a socialist movement.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14d

BREAKING: Mayor Eric Adams is dropping out of New York City's mayoral race. nypost.com/2025/09/28/u...

Exclusive | Eric Adams drops out of NYC mayoral race amid increasing pressure: ‘I know I cannot continue my campaign’

Adams — who repeatedly vowed to stay in the race despite being in a distant fourth place in the polls — dropping out now gives Cuomo a boost against his socialist rival.

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 14d

After Cuomo resigned in 2021, some commentators pointed out that while national media had lionized him, local political reporters had his number from the start. I think the same was true of Eric Adams.

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kb (she/her) @duchessofhazard.bsky.social · 14d

IME, purposefully shaming others mostly backfires and leads to ppl doubling down, but the capacity to experience and reflect on valid shame is an incredible opportunity to learn. I think the more we reduce "toxic shame," the more other, grounded experiences of shame can become useful 3/

kb (she/her) @duchessofhazard.bsky.social · 14d

On the community level, "productive shame" is when there is a consequence for harmful behavior outside of a shared value system. e.g. letting kidsknow when they are bullying someone (w/o labeling them a bully). It stops the behavior and hopefully sparks self-reflection w/o a permanent label 2/

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kb (she/her) @duchessofhazard.bsky.social · 14d

It is a tricky distinction! I think that individual "productive shame" is at best the awareness of when my behaviors and values are out of alignment. As in, sometimes I feel ashamed because I am not being the person I want to be, and it can be fuel for my development (if I can tolerate it) 1/

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