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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 2h

I really hope that if NPIC is going to put their brand over Miss Major’s words and legacy, they are also willing to donate 50% of their C-Suite salaries to House of GG.

frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 3h

Lizzie has an upset stomach.
Tonight she wants to “walk it off” — this happened once before and we walked for a couple of hours until the sun rose.

I don’t have that energy but we’ve taken two walks since midnight. I’m hoping we both can get a nap.

Her energy is actually reassuring.

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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 5h

This place really needs drafts.
Also, I delete everything I write so I guess holding onto words for 10 minutes or a month is non-material at this point.

frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 14h

I want to pay my rent so my landlords can pay their mortgage.
I want to buy medicine.
I want the tooth that is taped on my microwave put back into my mouth before I die of sepsis.
I want to keep my dog.
I want to fix the brakes on my car before I kill someone.

This is what my life is like.

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Tami @chronictami.bsky.social · 22h

The shame is overwhelming, but I have to say it. I survived on the streets only by staying with a man who was my abuser and rapist. My current home is my shield. Anything helps to keep that shield up.

Tami @chronictami.bsky.social · 1d

Losing hope that I'll be able to keep my home. Not sure I can raise the full $875 this month for rent. I'm scared of being on the streets again. Last time, I had to rely on an abusive man to protect me. Please help me not go back there. tamilove21 on Cash App, Venmo, and Paypal.

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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 22h

Fight for people.
Fight to keep people with you, in your community.

Stop saving for vacation or retirement or when it gets worse or better. Fight now with everything you have.

Fight for the people you don’t know because it’s the way you come to know each other.

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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 23h

All I want now is a dignified death.

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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 23h

I don’t think there are easy solutions. We don’t want to rip apart organizations or movements. But there needs to be ways to check power on the left.

I was going to say “maybe it is happening” — but I actually know it isn’t. The cycles are repeating exactly when we should be breaking them.

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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 23h

Multiple times I let people say horrible, untrue things about me and I walked away because something bigger was at stake — an organization I cared about, a candidate who had made promises to the community, someone who I believed in.

But in retrospect, those people went on to cause harm.

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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 1d

It’s 3:11 AM and I’m listening to Lizzie breathe. This afternoon I got some relief when she took a nap on precisely the right part of my abdomen — the weight, the heat, her body on mine.

I’m making memories as I play through memories I don’t have the energy to write.

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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 1d

Not being an abolitionist in 2025 is more than a character flaw.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

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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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 1d

As I get sicker, I'm more willing to talk.
I'm not taking what I know to my grave.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 2d

The Trump administration has promoted the anti-vax, anti-science movement which has now produced an epidemic www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

www.nbcnews.com

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Secret Third Thing @gochujung.bsky.social · 1d

I spent time medicking otg yesterday in Broadview, and yes things were absolutely as chaotic and violent as this video depicts, especially stuck in the middle of it as ISP stampeded at protestors with batons raised. At one point, they opened their line just to drag someone away. Terrifying.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 2d

Like, sorry to folks who believe you should never criticize a politician you think does some good sometimes, but if they're in charge of the guys wearing brown shirts clubbing people with giant wooden bats and they're not putting a stop to it, they're doing something wrong.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1d

If your instinct is to reply with something like "that would only create chaos" shut down the internet and read Freire's Pedagogy Of The Oppressed instead

The man or woman who proclaims devotion to the cause of liberation yet is unable to enter into communion with the people, whom he or she continues to regard as totally ignorant, is grievously self-deceived.
The convert who approaches the people but feels alarm at each step they take, each doubt they express, and each suggestion they offer, and attempts to impose his
"status," remains nostalgic towards his origins.
Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 1d

People should listen closer to what local lawmakers are calling for to punish unhoused people. There is a business improvement district in Boston that has their own spin on this working hand-in-hand with the beloved Democratic mayor who is (not surprisingly) endorsed by the police union.

Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 2d

Fun fact about the Salvation Army: they use a form of substance use treatment called work therapy. Oh, and by treatment, I mean they have people who have been convicted of drug charges work for their stores & warehouses in exchange for room, board, around a $1 a week, and minimal actual therapy.

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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 1d

Last night I was in that hazy-pain state and I kept thinking: “where is the night nurse.” I know I just have to breathe through it and hope the pain goes away. And I know how absolutely delusional that sounds.

2025 is such a mess.

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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 1d

I keep trying to remember if there was a time I have felt this sick. About 20 years ago I was in the hospital. I needed to have my gallbladder removed but no one had believed me. It became so infected I needed to be hospitalized for a week to deal with the infection pre-op.

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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 1d

So if you are in the position to shift work and money within your own organizations — get over your issues about money. I know it will be easier to NOT look at me (and many others) when I’m on the streets — but that is not the ethical or just thing to do. Rethink your budgets before it’s too late.

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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 1d

I was thinking abt how economic contexts have changed. I’m someone w 30 years of nonprofit experience willing to work for as low as $10/hour which I’ve done in the last year because the alternative is being unhoused but no one will hire me. My guess is THEY are too embarrassed at their salaries.

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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 2d

As ICE continues to scale up — there are lessons to be learned from people who have been living side-by-side with people who are dangerous. Same with those of us who have survived family and interpersonal violence esp involving military and le.

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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 2d

One of the things we talk about less is how we protecting neighbors from the armed people living in our neighborhoods. One of the reasons queer rural people have been in signal groups for a very long time is that people have been doing this work for a very long time.

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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 2d

I’m ready to move onto the streets of Boston so I can go to the clinic I went to before I was displaced and get healthcare. It seems like the only way to access decent care right now.

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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 2d

Also, honestly can’t imagine vaccine access being so easy. I finally had my first physical scheduled in over 5 years in December and it was cancelled.

Getting the COVID vaccine I need involves chasing it down, calls, showing up, asking to see the label, etc. I miss the field house days.

Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 2d

Last month Trump said he wanted proof that COVID vaccines are effective. Yesterday, during his "semiannual" physical, Trump received a COVID vaccine as well as a flu shot.

That's because vaccines — which Trump's administration have made harder to get — work.