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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3d

Some folks who preordered are starting to receive their copies of Read This When Things Fall Apart! ❤️

The book is supposed to be published on November 4, but I am so happy some folks are getting it early. It's needed now.

Nicoletta Penguin @nicoguin.bsky.social · 4d

My pre-ordered copy arrived today. Thank you for this gem of a book.

The cover of pre-ordered and delivered before publication date Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis edited by Kelly Hayes.

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#PettyPendergrass @ashoncrawley.bsky.social · 5d

it’s terrible

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#PettyPendergrass @ashoncrawley.bsky.social · 8d

the AI church services where the people can’t even discern that it’s AI make me especially angry…..

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 9d

"Trump is normalizing attacks on blue cities because he intends to overpower hubs of ... resistance. He plans to hold onto power — and expand it — by any means necessary, legal constraints and elections be damned."

Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 9d

Trump "is waging war on our city for welcoming those he wishes to expel."

"DHS is terrorizing our communities and staging violent spectacles to produce fascist propaganda."

"To ignore what's happening in Chicagoland would be a damning mistake."
#Illinois #Oregon #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Trump Is Releasing the Full Force of Federal Police on Chicago

Trump is normalizing attacks on blue cities because he intends to overpower hubs of democratic resistance.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8d

I’m. So. Tired.

I don’t just want you to pay attention to Chicago because I want you to understand our plight. I want you to see how hard people are fighting and know wtf you’re made of. We’re not just fighting for this place. This is for all of us.

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 13d

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Global academic freedom group warns Trump is dismantling US higher education

Report from Scholars at Risk counts some 40 attacks against academic freedom in the US in the first half of 2025

www.theguardian.com

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 27d

This guy's fans don't want to be soldiers. They want to be posters. They want to troll. They want to harass professors. They are not looking for a more challenging existence.

Alex Koppelman @alexkoppelman.bsky.social · 27d

Exclusive from @nbcnews.com: Pentagon leaders are considering a recruiting campaign centered around Charlie Kirk. Possible slogans discussed include "Charlie has awakened a generation of warriors" and there's talk of using TPUSA chapters as recruitment centers. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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realjohnbrown.bsky.social @realjohnbrown.bsky.social · Sep 10

“After being in DC for two days, it is remarkable how much this issue is tying Democrats in knots. Because I talked to several staffers who said, ‘You know, it was actually really nice to go into Union Station and see the markets full again, to see people in there, the homeless people out.‘“

Democratic Strategist Admits ‘Super Progressive’ Staffers Actually Love Trump’s DC Crackdown: ‘Man, It’s Been Great!’

Dan Turrentine admitted that many progressive staffers who live in D.C. are privately supportive of Donald Trump's crackdown on crime in the nation's capital.

www.mediaite.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Sep 10

I want to once again reiterate what I said earlier. The reason the vast majority of Democratic and so-called centrist elites have acquiesced over and over again is that they are COMPLICIT. Because they actually know that direct confrontation is how you defeat fascists and choose not to do it.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Sep 10

Certainly looks like we scared the President away from Chicago. Fighting like hell works.

“They are a progressive city, and they don’t want the president’s help. That’s on them. It’s horrific that they don’t want President Trump’s help.”

“Chicago should be begging Donald Trump for help to keep Chicago safe,” Bondi added. “Yet, they aren’t so we’re going to go into a city who wants us there.”

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#PettyPendergrass @ashoncrawley.bsky.social · Sep 11

i’m blocking you for this lolol

#PettyPendergrass @ashoncrawley.bsky.social · Aug 31

❤️❤️❤️

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Aug 31

“We want the practice of hope to produce otherwise possibility, a break from the known and knowable world (or worlds).” - @ashoncrawley.bsky.social

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Aug 31

If you're already tying yourself to someone like Gavin Newsom, then what must you ignore in order to potentially vote for him for any office.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Aug 24

once again, i'll suggest that perhaps the reason the broad public thinks democrats are weak is that when confronted with situations that demands that democrats loudly and proactively stand up for their values, democrats shirk from the fight

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · Aug 24

Snoop hangs with the homophobes at MAGA now. He's dead to us.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · Aug 24

Snoop Dogg says he’s 'scared to go to the movies now' because of a lesbian couple being depicted in 'Lightyear'

"We're watching it ... my grandson is like, 'Papa Snoop, how'd she have a baby with a woman?' ... I didn't come here for this shit"

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J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · Aug 24

I wish this would come to the Bay. Every city deserves a Mayor that loves the city and wants people to experience all it has to offer. The other side thinks your city is shit. It’s a total no brainer.

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · Aug 24

#ZcavengerHunt location #1. Literally thousands of people lined up around Union Square. #CuomoCouldNever

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · Aug 20

During the 1970s, an arson wave ravaged poor communities across the US. Some lost 80% of their housing. Residents were blamed.

In reality, landlords—paid by insurers and enabled by the state—drove this arson-for-profit epidemic.

  I reviewed @benchansfield.bsky.social's revelatory BORN IN FLAMES:

When the Bronx Burned, Tenants Died and Landlords Got Rich

www.nytimes.com

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#PettyPendergrass @ashoncrawley.bsky.social · Aug 20

TWO****** years ago. my god. i cannot add. and time is a fiction in my head. this was 2023!

#PettyPendergrass @ashoncrawley.bsky.social · Aug 19

three years ago, HOMEGOING opened. still blown away that it happened. still grateful.

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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · Aug 19

“Guys, we can skip the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment. Trump doesn’t like them.”

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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · Aug 19

The best part of white supremacy is assuming Black folks are just going to stop talking about racial oppressions because they order it. The Smithsonian is important but the lessons didn’t start there. Way to undermine your own institutions though.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Aug 19

THIS.

Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · Aug 19

The best part of white supremacy is assuming Black folks are just going to stop talking about racial oppressions because they order it. The Smithsonian is important but the lessons didn’t start there. Way to undermine your own institutions though.

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#PettyPendergrass @ashoncrawley.bsky.social · Aug 19

three years ago, HOMEGOING opened. still blown away that it happened. still grateful.

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · Aug 17

Clearing encampments and throwing people in jail does NOTHING to actually get Americans off the streets.

Homelessness is not a personal failure, it’s a policy failure. Congress must pass my Housing Not Handcuffs Act with @frost.house.gov.

nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

A New Study Proves Criminalizing Homelessness Doesn’t Reduce Homelessness

"The deterrence logic doesn’t hold": A recent analysis finds that encampments bans and other local ordinances aimed at unhoused populations don't actually lead to decreased homelessness.

nextcity.org

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · Aug 13

My latest piece reprinted in @truthout.org. "We must assess who is most imperiled by Trump’s actions and edicts, orient ourselves in opposition to those attacks, and decide how we will oppose them. Then, we must act."

As Trump Turns DC Into a Fascist Laboratory, We Must Mount Our Own Defenses

Facing militaristic consolidation in US cities, it is up to all of us to define the politics of opposition.

truthout.org

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Aug 11

Where are the big names that proclaim themselves as brave, bold, as telling things as they are? The network figureheads, the Washington mainstays? Israeli forces have killed some 245 journalists in the past 22 months. Journalists who were also people, just like anyone else, and who had to become bigger than life, in order to justify themselves to viewers thousands of miles away. People who had been forced every single day to report on the devastation of their own land, their own families. People who would cover an airstrike that killed their children and, by sheer necessity, continue to report on the next strike, in the pursuit of convincing the world to act, of the hope of tomorrow being different.

How many murdered Palestinian journalists will it take for the mainstream press’s cowardly fever to break?

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