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Charlotte Shane @charoshane.bsky.social · Sep 12
Wrote something short about American compassion meantforyou.beehiiv.com/p/regarding-...
Regarding the Cries of the World
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jonseidel.bsky.social
Marimar Martinez, shot 5 times by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Renee Good, Alex Pretti deaths

'I am their voice'

NEW w/ @adrianacardmag.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Marimar Martinez, shot by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Good, Pretti deaths: 'I am their voice'
In a wide-ranging interview with the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ, Martinez discusses her shooting, the federal government’s failed attempt to prosecute her and the role she now sees for herself in a fi...
chicago.suntimes.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...
ICE is afraid of children protesting
“Next time, I’ll be back with a gas mask.”
www.theverge.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
This is one of the most important cases that galvanized Black people in the late 40s through the 1950s. Almost every major Black leader had a comment about it. It is also one of the most successful defense committees that was organized in the 20th century. Almost no one knows about it today.
eji.org Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 1d
On this day in 1948, an all-white jury sentenced a Black woman and two of her teenage sons to death for killing an armed white man in self-defense.
Feb. 3, 1948 | Black Woman and Her Children Sentenced to Die for Defending Themselves
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
calendar.eji.org
February 3, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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crampell.bsky.social
Horrifying. ICE confirms measles outbreak at Dilley family detention center. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dil...
ICE halts "all movement" at Texas detention facility due to measles infections
The measles​ cases at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center were detected Friday, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to CBS News.
www.cbsnews.com
February 2, 2026 at 3:42 AM
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williamcson.bsky.social
“The Guardian once again asked ICE why the request was denied, but did not receive a reply.

ICE has repeatedly claimed Maher is a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘They killed him inside’: man who was son’s caretaker detained by ICE and denied final goodbye
Wael Tarabishi, who has a lifelong muscle disorder, died after Maher, his father and primary caretaker, was detained
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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even-kei.bsky.social
Paper details how police pushed for body cams so that they could protect themselves and control narrative while policing and surveilling more aggressively.

Dems allied w cops to create narrative that this was somehow a corrective for state violence, now every time they kill they get more $$/power
One of the defining principles of Obama-era “criminal justice reforms” in the eyes of the people implementing them was that the administration’s new policies should increase the size and power of the punishment bureaucracy by giving it more resources. A theme uniting the work of most of these reformers was this: with more resources, the punishment bureaucracy could make itself better.150 In the hands of astute politicians and police leaders, body cameras became an easy sell to a public desperate to believe that something was being done. Democratic party political leaders crafted an appealing narrative: body cameras were what they called a “win-win.”151 The cameras provided the public with “accountability” and “transparency,” and police= wanted them because they were “good cops” who had “nothing to hide.”152 The mantra of the Obama administration was that everyone agreed that body cameras were the solution. When making his public pitch for body cameras in the news media, Eric Holder explained that “people on both sides want the same things.”153 Over the last several years, as police killed more people in 2021 than they had killed in 2020, and as police killed even more people in 2022 than they had in 2021, and as police killed even more people in 2023 than in 2022,154 the Democratic Party doubled down on body cameras at critical moments of public scrutiny. Following the Obama administration playbook, Democratic politicians worked closely with police leaders to bolster the narrative that body cameras were a necessary solution to police violence. The increase in killings simply meant that we hadn’t yet spent enough money on body camera contracts. Each new act of police violence became further evidence of the need for “accountability” through video surveillance. Each uncovered police lie became further evidence of the need for “transparency” through video surveillance. All of it was used to further the urgency with which to secure prodigious sums of money...
January 29, 2026 at 4:25 PM
charoshane.bsky.social
sounds like you need a second switchblade
February 2, 2026 at 4:17 PM
charoshane.bsky.social
Some thoughts on Daniel Berrigan, H**ted R*v*lry, ways in which I'm like a teenage Russian boy, very important music, and so on... charlotteshane.com/blog/2026/1/31
Possibilities Are Endless — CS
Bad and middling cultural products can have huge impacts on our lives. I don’t think JJK is a great anime or manga—why are you booing me? I’m right!— yet it cured me of depression and bears much resp...
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February 2, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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riccisergienko.bsky.social
Since it’s Friday… I’m not saying that you should be “afraid” of getting arrested. I’m saying that you should avoid arrest if possible. Things become much more difficult for you when you’re in police custody. This is solid movement advice thats been passed down from generations of rad lawyers. STFU!
pplscitycouncil.bsky.social People’s City Council - Los Angeles @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social · Feb 21
When going out to protest, the goal shouldn’t be to get arrested. Do not run yourself into arrests. Do not just hand yourself over to the state.

Watch and share on instagram: www.instagram.com/reel/DGV_jSt...
January 31, 2026 at 3:09 AM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
The government also sought and was denied a detention hearing as to Jamael Lundy, a state senate candidate. He was to be released as well.
Jamael Lydell Lundy initial appearance form, Government sought and was denied a detention hearing denied.
January 30, 2026 at 9:13 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/25/m... [gift link]
ICE releases Chicago-area mother after seven months. It failed to provide evidence justifying her detention.
While Marina Lopez was in ICE detention for seven months, parishioners in her church stepped up to help care for her family.
www.chicagotribune.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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amandabecker.bsky.social
This is Georgia Fort's website — the independent journalist also arrested today for covering the anti-ICE protest, along with Don Lemon. Donations to her page support her journalism — and I'm sure now her legal defense for doing that journalism.
January 30, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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atrupar.com
Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy
combatcavscout.bsky.social Cav(R), Gentleman Rogue @combatcavscout.bsky.social · 4d
This is from Georgia Fort’s video.

DEA?!? Gotta be a “task force.”
January 30, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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premthakker.bsky.social
NEW: The Israeli military today accepted the Gaza Health Ministry's estimate of 70,000+ killed.

But in 2024, 62 Dems joined 207 Republicans to ban the State Dept. from citing the Ministry's stats.

Now, even Israel accepts them — perhaps because they realize what is feared: the toll is even higher.
List of Dems that supported suppressing the Gaza death toll Allred, Texas Gottheimer, New Jersey Norcross, New Jersey Stevens, Michigan Auchincloss, Massachusetts Harder, California Pallone, New Jersey Strickland, Washington Boyle, Pennsylvania Hoyer, Maryland Panetta, California Suozzi, New York Caraveo, Colorado Jackson, Illinois Pappas, New Hampshire Swalwell, California Cohen, Tennessee Kennedy, New York Perez, Washington Thanedar, Michigan Correa, California Kilmer, Washington Pettersen, Colorado Torres, California Costa, California Craig, Minnesota Landsman, Ohio Ryan, New York Torres, New York Cuellar, Texas Lee, Nevada Schiff, California Trone, Maryland Davis, North Carolina Levin, California Schneider, Illinois Vargas, California Espaillat, New York Lieu, California Scholten, Michigan Veasey, Texas Manning, North Carolina Schrier, Washington Wasserman Schultz, Florida Fletcher, Texas McBath, Georgia Scott, David, Georgia Frankel, Lois, Florida Meng, New York Sherman, California Gallego, Arizona Morelle, New York Slotkin, Michigan Golden, Maine Moskowitz, Florida Soto, Florida Goldman, New York Mrvan, Indiana Spanberger, Virginia Gonzalez, Vicente, Texas Nickel, North Carolina Stanton, Arizona
January 29, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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taylordahlin.com
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
January 27, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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williamcson.bsky.social
The police also kill with impunity on a weekly basis. ICE is benefiting from what’s already an established state violence norm in the USA.
ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10d
This only happened because DOJ let them get away with Renee Good.
January 24, 2026 at 10:11 PM
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stephensemler.bsky.social
Most of this year's ICE budget comes from last year's reconciliation bill. House Democratic leaders discouraged its members from offering amendments eliminating that funding. Didn't want the party to come across as anti-ICE.

www.stephensemler.com/p/ice-budget...
ICE budget set to triple to $30 billion in 2026. Trump request: $11 billion, plus estimated $19 billion from reconciliation bill. The red line chart shows gradual increase in the ICE budget from 2016 to 2025, before skyrocketing to a projected $30 billion in 2026. 2026 estimate based on Trump's budget request and White House documents stating that 25% of reconciliation homeland security funding is for 2026.
January 24, 2026 at 8:55 PM
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polotek.bsky.social
White Americans are learning once again that the *only* thing that has ever made you safe from fascism is being willing to sacrifice non-white people. That is your contract with white supremacy. "Give us someone else so it won't be you."
January 24, 2026 at 8:32 PM
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jasonkirell.bsky.social
Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed.

www.startribune.com/detained-by-...
Detained by ICE, two women became first responders during agent’s seizure
The women say they guided agents through the emergency, later raising concerns about medical protocols, weapons safety and accountability.
www.startribune.com
January 23, 2026 at 11:47 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect.
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January 24, 2026 at 7:18 PM
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whstancil.bsky.social
“ICE > MN” is the clearest, most honest statement of policy we have gotten from this fascist administration about this awful endless occupation. We are the enemy. Their invading army is allowed to do whatever it wants to us. The idea that they’re here to protect us is FICTION
January 24, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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ositanwanevu.com
This random online comment from 2018 remains one of the last half-century's most important works of political commentary. crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual. As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.
January 24, 2026 at 5:42 PM
charoshane.bsky.social
I think a lot of people are refusing to entertain this observation. But I hope they sit with it, intentionally or otherwise. I hope it stays with them long after they're written the angry QT or reply, and that it tugs at them just a little. Because paying attention right now is important.
ositanwanevu.com Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 10d
Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.
whstancil.bsky.social Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 10d
Do you honestly think people in the civil rights movement and other nonviolent movements faced no violence themselves? They practiced nonviolence because it works, because the oppressor wants a shooting war, which is the war it will win
January 24, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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bethsawin.bsky.social
Empires, elites and the economies that prop them up are brittle and brittle isn't favorable heading deeper into climate chaos. I don't think this stage is permanent, much as those benefiting from it all might want to replicate it in space.
January 23, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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rustbeltrebel.bsky.social
I told the young men in my life that I see the choice they have to make today and that I consider it the highest praise that I see them in the young man that was murdered and not in the young men that surrounded him and killed him. I see the choices they’ve made and they’re making good ones.
January 24, 2026 at 9:07 PM