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Ipsita Chatterjea (she/her) @ichatterjea.bsky.social · 25d

Aye, TDPR!

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · Aug 18

I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 5h

This is the way.

“Fuck you, make me.”

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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🎃 🧟 Prof. Dr Beth Singler 👻 🎃 @bvlsingler.bsky.social · 5h

Great new interview with this odd woman who thinks she knows a bit about religion and AI www.brucemccabe.com/futurebites/...

WILL WE WORSHIP A.I.? — WITH BETH SINGLER — Bruce McCabe

Will we worship A.I.? How are religions already adopting A.I.? How could A.I. re-shape the future of religion?  I asked THE global expert on the AI and religion, Beth Singler …

www.brucemccabe.com

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NPR @npr.org · 13h

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Aug 8

we can sneak around town / hunting working folks down / I hear they got a great benefit plan

join ICE boy ain’t it nice / join ICE take my advice

www.tiktok.com/@jessewelles...

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 8h

One continuous scene of two separate run-ins with ICE from an alley in Rogers Park this morning, from three entirely different POVs.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 8h

You can just share my video from me instead of sharing a screen recording of my video from a content farm account that isn’t on the scene btw.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 19h

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 23h

Gazans aren’t asking for privilege just the chance to live with dignity.
To study, to work, to heal, to dream again.
That’s not asking for too much. That’s asking to be human.

help me rebulid our family life here
chuffed.org/project/1389...

Help Jamal’s family leave the war zone and rebuild their life!

Hi my loves! My name is Caroline, and I created this fundraiser to help Jamal support his family as they fight to survive the genocide in Gaza, evacuate to safety, and eventually rebuild their lives f...

chuffed.org

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Hindus For Human Rights @hfhr.bsky.social · 7h

Hindus for Human Rights stands with Indigenous nations whose courage keeps truth alive.

#IndigenousPeoplesDay is not a symbolic gesture—it’s a moral stance. Even as Trump revives Columbus myths, we honor those who never stopped resisting erasure.

The future is Indigenous. 🌎

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

Luttig has it right here: “[T]he Supreme Court has given them no choice but to speak out.”

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 2d

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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🎃👻 John BrooOoooOOOOooOoks 👻🎃 @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 9h

PONTIFA!!

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 12h

"Hundreds of Catholic priests, nuns and lay people led a march from a Catholic church in Maywood to the ICE detention center in Broadview..."

www.fox32chicago.com/news/faith-l...

Faith leaders blocked from sharing Communion with detainees at Broadview ICE center

A large group of Chicago area Catholics marched to the ICE detention center in Broadview Saturday, hoping to share Communion with detainees.

www.fox32chicago.com

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 11h

Heidegger, Pound, Webern, Jung all supported the Nazis.

fascism is a moral error, not an intellectual one. being educated isn't a prophylactic.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 13h

Most of these people are deeply trained, or at least highly educated, in humanities. Knowing isn’t being.

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 19h

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 1d

"[A]ll agencies are working against us."

"We are surrounded by Illinois State Police who are standing on top of the roofs of buildings, and there is no other reason to think that they are up there other than to intimidate us."
#Illinois #USA #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

No troops in Broadview yet, but anti-ICE protestors say state and local police used intimidation tactics in crowd control • The TRiiBE

Several hundred demonstrators gathered in Broadview to continue calling out the federal government for its aggressive immigration enforcement and the treatment of detainees at the facility.

thetriibe.com

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

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

organizingmythoughts.org

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Ipsita Chatterjea (she/her) @ichatterjea.bsky.social · 9h

TW: Violence

Joseph Stuart @jstuart.bsky.social · 9h

Must use APA Style

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22h

Chicago friends! I'm thrilled to be joining Eve L. Ewing this Tuesday night (Oct 14) at the National Public Housing Museum to talk about There Is No Place for Us.

Hosted by Build Coffee & Books + NPHM.

Tickets here:

There Is No Place for Us with Brian Goldstone and Eve L. Ewing - National Public Housing Museum

A conversation with author Brian Goldstone, whose deeply reported new book plunges readers into the lives of families struggling to remain housed in a gentrifying, increasingly unequal city.

nphm.org

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13h

ICE in Chicago detained two people (that we know of) for filming them today, a cyclist and a neighborhood rapid responder. This in addition to tear gassing another neighborhood and brandishing weapons at rapid response—both things that have also already been going on for weeks.

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Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 15h

This could be any of us.

Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 2d

Frank Miranda, a U.S. citizen, says he was abducted by masked plainclothes agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement when he arrived at his Northeast Portland job last Thursday and was kicked to the floor of a van and taken to an ICE detention center.

Milwaukie Man Says ICE Abducted and Held Him for Hours Despite His Proving Citizenship

The case may be the first incidence of a documented Oregonian and U.S. citizen being swept up by ICE in an immigration raid.

www.wweek.com

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Spooky Hispanic pixie dream girl @bocadelperro.bsky.social · 17h

"RIP Killed by the FDA" hits a bit different than it did last year.

Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 19h

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19h

It would be interesting for someone to run for US president on the platform of firing every one hired to work for ICE over the past 4 years. Firing all of them on day 1.

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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 18h

The US Supreme Court is making up facts to further judicial tyranny and thus MAGA tyranny. Nothing about the court is more disturbing.

slate.com/news-and-pol...

Brett Kavanaugh Is Leading the Supreme Court’s Embrace of Alternative Facts

It is striking that many early-stage SCOTUS orders have either reversed or supplanted factual findings of lower courts.

slate.com

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 19h

This administration appears to believe that Black people existing is anti-white discrimination.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 19h

The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has launched investigations against school districts for teaching lessons on systemic racism and hosting empowerment gatherings for students of color.

Five Ways the Department of Education Is Upending Public Schools

The Trump administration has made a rapid succession of hires and decisions at the Department of Education that could spur profound changes in how schools operate and children learn. Here’s what to kn...

www.propublica.org

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 18h

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I really need help with this . I’m gonna go hyperventilate into a bag but this has gone bad quickly

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · Apr 10

Welp it’s gotten real real if you can please help. If you can’t it’s really hard out here so share

gofund.me/a5ee0064

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 22h

Like they are basically admitting they’ve pushed back over fifty years of job gains in 8 months. None of our “Allies” have any response beyond “we hate Trump” and funding whiteness

They don’t even want to go back five years if it doesn’t make them feel good

But sure
“Fighting fascism”

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

It’s the Feds making Portland look like a war zone— not the protesters.

And honestly, these protesters are brilliant. They’re flipping the whole authoritarian cosplay on its ass!

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