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David Hochfelder

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The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause.

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David Hochfelder @dphochfelder.bsky.social · Nov 15

Finished up work in May on an NEH grant to inventory urban renewal records from about 90 municipalities around NY State. Inventories are here and freely available to anyone who wants to use them: www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/0q4nu...

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 12h

antifa are literally removing their skins to evade capture

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 12h

The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 11h

There were so many people on the streets of Rogers Park, there were thousands of people w whistles, so ICE started to get off the streets & drive through the alleys.

People responded by moving dumpsters & parking cars in the middle of the alleys.

Daniel Lenski @moxfyre.bsky.social · 12h

Sounds like Chicagoans are NOT JUST protecting each other, but also massively raising the costs, hassle, and stakes for the Trump gestapo.

Keep it up, Chicago 🙌

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The Onion @theonion.com · 17h

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 20h

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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David Hochfelder @dphochfelder.bsky.social · 18h

I'm handling the invoices. I'll need your bank account info, your mother's maiden name, and the name of your HS mascot and/or the make and model of your first car.

David Hochfelder @dphochfelder.bsky.social · 19h

I got paid in Sorosbux for the June event.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 21h

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21h

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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David Hochfelder @dphochfelder.bsky.social · 1d

Trump delay flight

David Hochfelder @dphochfelder.bsky.social · 1d

Straight up grabbing people off the street in Rogers Park.

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 1d

Just about everyone vulnerable has been told to stay inside. There are literally hundreds of trained emergency response people on the streets of the 1.8 sq mile neighborhood. ICE is driving through alleys looking for anyone who’s brown

This is Fugitive Slave Act stuff + foreign occupation

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 2d

Rogers Park

Northernmost lakefront n’hood in Chicago

Home of Loyola U (RIP Sister Jean)

One of few n’hoods w no racial majority. One of the most densely populated places in America, & one of the most racially/ethnicly/religiously/linguistically diverse

An amazing community

And under attack

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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 1d

"To be a Republican in 2025 represents a clear public confession that you either don't know the difference between good and evil and you're so morally empty that you can't be bothered to begin to try, or that you do know the difference, and you prefer evil." Great essay from @juliusgoat.bsky.social

The Crime of Human Virtue

Sometimes it really is as simple as good vs. evil. This is one of those times. Human virtue is our great crime against the fascist project; it's also our great weapon against it.

www.the-reframe.com

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

Giving up? LOL. We're just getting started.

October 18th, Everywhere

#nokings

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

Rep. Jim Himes on Trump blowing up boats in the Caribbean: "The White House has not shared what they believe their legal justification is. They did put out a memo. I will tell you based on what I know now and the reading of that memo, these are illegal killings."

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 1d

My latest: "Numerous studies show that majors in the humanities—typically, in departments of English, history, philosophy, religious studies, classics and languages—lead students to employment and life satisfaction outcomes as positive as those for majors traditionally championed as 'practical.'”

Counterpoint | Minnesota humanities graduates thrive in meaningful careers

"The stereotype of the underemployed history major is simply not true," professor Andrea Kaston Tange writes.

www.startribune.com

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David Hochfelder @dphochfelder.bsky.social · 1d

Also from our underused Substack, Urban Renewal and Modernist Architecture share.google/DUth7lSQqabH...

Urban Renewal and Modernist Architecture

Along with an Update on Our Research Travels

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David Hochfelder @dphochfelder.bsky.social · 1d

Let me know how I can help!

David Hochfelder @dphochfelder.bsky.social · 1d

Sure! Happy to talk about Olean or any other site we worked on.

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sevedge @sevedge.bsky.social · 2d

photo of a Do Not Enter traffic sign on a Chicago street, but someone has altered it to say Do Not -Let ICE- Enter

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 2d

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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Leah 🐸 McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 4d

Here’s how to find a No Kings protest near you:

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 4d

We’re eight days away from No Kings Day, and we have 2,500 protests planned in all 50 states and across the world.

October 18 is going to be the biggest day of nonviolent protest in US history — and we want to see you there. Find your local event: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 3d

No, Speaker Johnson: The No Kings Rally on October 18 is not a “hate America” rally. Quite the contrary. It’s a rally of millions of people who believe in American freedom and are not going to allow you and President Trump to turn us into an authoritarian country.

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Michele Okoh |🖤🩶🤍💜|🔺🐘 @okohlaw.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you, @mit.edu, for taking the lead.

MIT refuses to accept White House terms for funding, other schools still mulling — Reuters

Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth on Friday said she

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