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Claire Phillips

@clairephillips.bsky.social

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Author, A Room with a Darker View: Chronicles of My Mother & Schizophrenia; Lecturer: CalArts, SCI-Arc, UC Irvine The Brooklyn Rail, Brooklyn Vol.1, Joyland, Los Angeles Review of Books & more

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Claire Phillips @clairephillips.bsky.social · Mar 25

Looking forward to moderating New Literary Forms for a New Literary Los Angeles at the #AWP2025 this Thursday, March 27th from 9:00am - 10:15am with authors @stephcha.bsky.social #SesshuFoster @circegirl.bsky.social @audreyshipp.bsky.social Concourse Hall 151, Level One LA Convention Center

A red, yellow and brown collage of Los Angeles, a dirigible, power lines and a partially visible man in working clothes. Multiple time lines and histories are connoted by the symbolic images.

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 38m

We’re already at the Anne Frank stage of things. It will get much worse if it can’t be stopped.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 17m

Tens of millions of people have died from Covid.

Every country should have responded with record investments in public health infrastructure.

Instead the US government is putting us all at greater risk of more catastrophes by firing hundreds of top scientists whose job is to prevent outbreaks.

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1h

ICE drag girl out of car & body slam her to ground—then pin her face down & kneel on her neck.

"I'm 15!" she cries out. "I'm not resisting!"

Agents have now asked multiple area housing associations to unlock main doors—so they can go door to door.

Hoffman Estates, Illinois

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Caitlin Rivers @cmyeaton.bsky.social · 1h

I can't get over how the CDC layoffs are coming less than two months after the attempted mass shooting. The agency is being taken apart brick by brick. The public servants there do not deserve this.

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Claire Phillips @clairephillips.bsky.social · 12m

would Beutner be worse?? how??

Claire Phillips @clairephillips.bsky.social · 14m

it can't get worse than Bass IMAO. she even asked Newsom to veto SB79, the desperately needed densification of housing along TRANSIT CORRIDORS.

this generation despises change (no new housing) and she has no real courage.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 58m

Chaser: eff.org/deeplinks/2...

How to File a Privacy Complaint in California

Seeing something sketchy when it comes to your online privacy? Here’s how to file a complaint under California’s consumer data privacy law.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 58m

Shot: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

California Targets Tractor Supply's Tricky Tracking

The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) fined Tractor Supply, the country's self-proclaimed largest "rural lifestyle" retailer, $1,350,000 for apparently ducking its responsibilities to

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 57m

*Today. Polls close at 8pm local time; check this space after.

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 1d

It’s actually Election Day tomorrow… in Louisiana!

I’m watching: the New Orleans sheriff race, and the New Orleans mayor’s race.

Both in my cheat sheet of elections to watch this fall!

boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

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mokushima @mokushima.bsky.social · 54m

'AI' (it isn't AI) is haemorrhaging money, destroying the environment, and a direct assault on reality - sam altman and his other broligarchs are enemies of the species and of the planet

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Schmuck Schumer @schroedinger.bsky.social · 56m

bugs bunny is making a funny face with the words hard no behind him .

ALT: bugs bunny is making a funny face with the words hard no behind him .

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Everything is Public Health @everythingisph.bsky.social · 54m

Techbros are the villains the sci-fi dystopian novels warned us about.

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Ian @itimmi3.bsky.social · 55m

I’d rather lick a cactus

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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 51m

This is such a moment of mixed joy and anxiety for the people of Palestine, but, one clear piece of good news: the genocidal, death-trap, known as the Gaza "Humanitarian" Foundation, is being dismantled and removed from the Gaza Strip, according to @aljazeera.com. Alhamdulliah

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 46m

www.chicagomag.com/news/chicago...

Chicago Is Organizing for All

Everyday Chicagoans are proving to be the first line of defense against the federal incursion into their city.

www.chicagomag.com

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ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 6h

Six out of eight of the largest mass-movement protests in US history have happened since 2017. You wouldn't know this from most media reporting, and you sure af wouldn't know this from the way either major party has reacted.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 3h

I requested email records from the LA Mayor’s office regarding journalist detainments, arrests, and assaults during the two weeks of protests anti-ICE protests in June. Only one email was released and it was from @adamrose.bsky.social. Are we really to believe her office has one email about it?

Email titled: Fwd: URGENT: LAPD holding journalist in jail for up to a week

Sent to the Mayor’s office and LAPD officers

Email says:

Anthony Orendorff is an independent filmmaker currently in LAPD custody in Van Nuys.
I'm in contact with his sister, who informs me that the Public Defender's office says he may be held for up to a week.
However, there is clearly a dispute about the situation. I cannot say with certainty until I find video, and I ask you to seek BWV immediately (today) and act to ensure this is handled appropriately -- including the potential of expedited release this afternoon.
Orendorff was arrested at an active ICE raid at a Costco parking lot in Pacoima yesterday (Thursday, June 19). According to his sister: "LAPD was called to do crowd control and singled him out. There were tons of witnesses who saw what happened. He didn't touch any officer. He was lunged at by one officer in particular and arrested, and charged with battery."
PIO confirms to me that the charge is a misdemeanor PC 243(b) for battery on a police officer.
Unfortunately, LAPD officers have proven themselves extremely unreliable over the past two weeks - and frankly last several years. The description by Orendorff's sister would be consistent with many recent examples of false and misleading statements used to "justify" unlawful detainment and arrest of journalists. As a separate matter, I have reviewed the footage of the incident with ABC News chief national correspondent Matt Gutman including the preceding incident. In the Gutman case, an officer assaulted Gutman by grabbing him from behind and shoving him. Gutman's arm lifted slightly for balance, clearly a natural reflex, but he controlled himself and did not lay hands on the officer.
Subsequently, an unhinged officer screamed at Gutman about "touching" an officer and shoved Gutman for no reason. As video proves, Gutman was the victim of assault by an LAPD officer, and then LAPD attempted to blame the victim.

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 1h

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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No Mods, No Masters @julieofthespirits.bsky.social · 3h

Every English-language article about the Nobel: "Well-deserved win by brave freedom fighter!"
Every Spanish-language article about the Nobel: "Lmao remember the time she asked Netanyahu to invade Venezuela"

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 4h

The mass layoffs of federal workers on Friday night swept up the top two leaders of the federal measles response team, those working on Ebola and dozens of other infectious disease experts
(Gift article)

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

C.D.C. Layoffs Included 2 Top Measles Experts Amid Rising Cases

www.nytimes.com

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Claire Phillips @clairephillips.bsky.social · 27m

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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 13h

The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.

Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .

sudansolidarity.com

Home - Sudan Solidarity Collective

Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 6h

After 35 years at UT Austin, I hardly recognize my university | @austinstatesman.bsky.social

What was once a beacon of access and discovery is now fighting for its soul and mission as political attacks upend norms, rules and rights

www.statesman.com/opinion/colu...

After 35 years at UT Austin, I hardly recognize my university | Opinion

What was once a beacon of access and discovery is now fighting for its soul and mission as political attacks upend norms, rules and rights, Lisa L. Moore writes.

www.statesman.com

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