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Mary Cygan @marycygan.bsky.social · 5h

Averaged across all of NY? How does this make sense? If votes were evenly distributed this way gerrymandering wouldn't be an issue.

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Mary Cygan @marycygan.bsky.social · 6h

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Dr Rebecca Hall I’m Spartacus! @wakerevolt.bsky.social · Sep 9

It is also in my last book:
This whole summer I’ve been ruminating on the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 how has your summer been?

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Mary Cygan @marycygan.bsky.social · 6h

1851
www.loc.gov/resource/rbp...

Sepia toned poster with date April 24, 1851 and the words,

CAUTION!!

COLORED PEOPLE OF BOSTON, ONE & ALL, You are hereby respectfully CAUTIONED and advised, to avoid conversing with the Watchmen and Police Officers of Boston, For since the recent ORDER OF THE MAYOR & ALDERMEN, they are empowered to act as KIDNAPPERS AND Slave Catchers, And they have already been actually employed in KIDNAPPING, CATCHING, AND KEEPING SLAVES. Therefore, if you value your LIBERTY, and the Welfare of the Fugitives among you, Shun them in every possible manner, as so many HOUNDS on the track of the most unfortunate of your race.

Keep a Sharp Look Out for KIDNAPPERS, and have TOP EYE open.

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Mary Cygan @marycygan.bsky.social · 6h

So glad you were there at that exact moment. Blink and the light is gone and you'd never know those mountains are alive.

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Mary Cygan @marycygan.bsky.social · 1d

Flashbacks to people being impressed by Fetterman campaigning in a patched Carhartt hoodie.

Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like @emmavigeland.bsky.social (whose political insights I admire, and who did a really thorough interview w me when The Viral Underclass came out) and others are reinforcing the idea of "working class" as "rough white man," and reinforcing that not being racist, homophobic etc is elite...

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Mary Cygan @marycygan.bsky.social · 2d

And hardly anybody at ESPN can say Iga Swiątek's name even though she is the #2 ranked women's tennis player in the world.

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Mary Cygan @marycygan.bsky.social · 2d

Don't get me started on what passes for "Kościuszko" bridge! But agreed, Cuomo purposely refusing to pronounce Mamdani is different and worse.

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Mary Cygan @marycygan.bsky.social · 4d

Does this also apply to the Illinois State Police? Asking for @katmabu

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Mary Cygan @marycygan.bsky.social · 4d

Of course the question is "win what?" but the condescension! My sign had DSA's Boycott Avelo campaign logo with a QR code and people stopped to ask me about it. It felt like two hours well spent.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d

I realize that all the "we are going to win" inspiration posting codes as aesthetically liberal (being left is being unimpressed) and invites the responses you'd guess from a certain genre of more radical than thou poster but still surprised at the particular condescension strategies people go for

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 4d

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Mary Cygan @marycygan.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you @rozhki.bsky.social for seeing my posts!

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Mary Cygan @marycygan.bsky.social · 4d

@ctdsa.org

Mary Cygan @marycygan.bsky.social · 4d

Woman (yours truly) with salt and pepper hair wearing a maroon half-zip sweater and black pants holding a sign with these words printed in black bold-face calibri font on white paper and pasted on yellow poster board, "They blame immigrants so you won't blame billionaires." She is surrounded by other protestors whose signs are partly visible.

Woman (yours truly) with salt and pepper hair wearing a maroon half-zip sweater and black pants holding the reverse of the sign in the previous photo. The sign is black poster board with these words in black block lettering on white paper, "Boycott Avelo, No Flights for Deportation" and another piece of white paper with a drawing of an Avelo plane and the QR code for the DSA Boycott Avelo campaign.

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Mary Cygan @marycygan.bsky.social · 4d

@ctdsa.org

Mary Cygan @marycygan.bsky.social · 5d

The Stamford Advocate missed about 10K protestors today. @indivisiblestam.bsky.social
@indivisiblenorwalk.bsky.social
www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article...

"Nearly 80 miles away,in Stamford, several protestors gathered outside the local courthouse in solidarity against the Trump administration."

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Mary Cygan @marycygan.bsky.social · 4d

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Mary Cygan @marycygan.bsky.social · 4d

Scene with three protestors holding hand made signs. A woman in black leggings and a No Kings graphic tee is holding a white poster board with red and blue hand-colored lettering saying, "History has it's eyes on you, No Kings." A tall man with a grey buzz cut wearing an olive polo shirt and dark gray pants is holding a white poster board with a photo of Trump and the words "If you want to stop criminals and rapists from entering the country stop electing them as president." A woman in a black long-sleeve sweater topped by a yellow vest and a navy jacket tied around her waist is holding a sign with photos of Putin and Trump that says, "to defend America against all enemies foreign and domestic."

A smiling 20-something male in a black and gray Nike baseball cap and a black tee-shirt is holding a piece of cardboard approximately 11" x 17" hand stenciled with the words "NO ONE IS ILLEGAL."

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Mary Cygan @marycygan.bsky.social · 4d

Stamford protestors were determined to reclaim the flag today. US flags were everywhere.

Scene on Tresser Blvd with protestors waving US flags and three others holding signs. One sign on large white posterboard with black handlettering reads, "When Injustice becomes law resistance becomes duty." Ahother on white poster board with multi-colored hand lettering says, "Fuck Trump, Capitalism, Fascism, ICE." The thrid is a cartoon image of Trump in a black and white striped convict uniform and red tie with the word, "Justice for all."

Male protestor with a grey beard wearing an Aussie outback hat and yellow and grey striped shirt over a yellow tee-shirt holding an aluminum pole approximagely 8 feet high with a right-angle brace to hold a banner rigid in a breeze. Painted in red, orange and black on a canvas banner are the words "No Kings Since 1776." The baluminum pole is topped with a rainbow flag and the end of the right-angled brace is topped with a US flag.

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Mary Cygan @marycygan.bsky.social · 4d

Maybe they meant "several thousand"? The Advocate and its reporters are only on Xitter. I kept my account just for this purpose and posted a query there. We should push Hearst media to use Bluesky.

Mary Cygan @marycygan.bsky.social · 4d

Small crowd of protestors on Tresser Blvd in Stamford, CT, facing east, away from the camera. Two persons are holding the top of a single large US flag at shoulder height. Nearly everybody else in the shot is also holding in their hands a smaller US flag on a stick

A petite senior citizen with a determined expression wearing a white baseball cap and a dark red long sleeve tee-shirt with a white puffy jacket tied around her waist is holding a white poster with bold black hand-lettering that says, "FIGHT BACK." She is surrounded by other protestors. One is holding a black poster with bold white hand lettering that says, "Nazis are Dorks."

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Mary Cygan @marycygan.bsky.social · 5d

Protestors in Stamford, CT Oct. 18, 2025. Square photo shows a woman in a black sleeveless top and black jeans holding a sign saying " It's We the People NOT We the Rich People." She is flanked by two protesters in red plaid shirts holding US flags.

A woman in a red sweatshirt and black jeans and a young girl in a black tee-shirt and purple leggings together holding up a giant poster hand-lettered in white on black background that says, "Are we profiting from the concentration camps or just being polite while our neighbor does?"

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Mary Cygan @marycygan.bsky.social · 5d

Woman in black coat and black tights holds a long flag pole topped with a large US flag and a a large red poster depicting the head of the Statue of Liberty and the words No Kings. The distinctive Stamford cylinder apartment buildings on Tresser and Washington are in the background.

People lined along Tresser Blvd in Stamford -- about a dozen in focus -- holding signs protesting the Trump administration.

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Mary Cygan @marycygan.bsky.social · 5d

The Stamford Advocate missed about 10K protestors today. @indivisiblestam.bsky.social
@indivisiblenorwalk.bsky.social
www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article...

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 6d

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

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Mary Cygan @marycygan.bsky.social · 6d

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NO KINGS Stamford · No Kings

**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...

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Mary Cygan @marycygan.bsky.social · 14d

Hoping more people find, download and share this zine with guidelines for helpful reporting. drive.google.com/drive/folder...

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Mary Cygan @marycygan.bsky.social · 15d

As of Sept. 21, 2025:
71.5% of current detainees have no criminal convictions
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Pie chart from TRACReports at Syracuse University showing the 71.5% of current immigrant detainees have no criminal convictions. Also a line graph showing the change in the total numbers of immigrants detained by ICE and CBP between May 2019 an Sept 2025. The total held on Sept. 21 was 56,762.

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