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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · Sep 1

For over a year now I’ve worked so hard and tried everything I could to avoid this. But I couldn’t save enough, so here we are.

I made a Gofundme. Depending on the outcome I will either hire an expensive immigration lawyer and give it one more try, or pack up and use the money to start over.

Donate to Help FT Stay Here...Or Start over, organized by F Theory

Short version first: I’m an undocumented freelancer/gig worker with no health insu… F Theory needs your support for Help FT Stay Here...Or Start over

www.gofundme.com

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 36m

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 10m

The notion that universities should aspire to ideological neutrality and plurality is more recent historically than the atomic bomb.

FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 16m

When I was 15 I decided I was going to be friends with my favorite band and then I made it happen and honestly the rest of my life has been a coda to that adventure.

Collection of AAA passes to Einstürzende Neubauten tours going back a couple of decades

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1h

Dystopia now comes with a Halloween costume.

Ring puts a fun twist on the surveillance state with security camera Halloween costumes.

Amazon now sells its new $200 4K Outdoor Cam Pro with your choice of one of five free Halloween camera costumes, or you can 3D print your own. Sticking a camouflaged camera behind your bowl could be a...

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 3h

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3h

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 3h

I think as many people as possible should go to that rally

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

The Speaker of the House is telling the Fox News audience that a peaceful demonstration by Americans on the National Mall will actually be a gathering of organizations the administration has designated as violent terrorists.

Seems bad?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 3h

I think people who do politics in NYC should know how garbage gets off the island of Manhattan.

Do you ever think about that? And if that system breaks down, how many days before Manhattan streets are just overwhelmed with trash to the point that ambulances can’t get through?

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 3h

I think this book should be required reading for anyone doing politics or organizing in NYC, and folks in other cities need comparable info.

Knowing how the city *actually operates* really rewires your understanding of what’s possible and what’s necessary on a gritty micro level, beyond ideals.

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 3h

I’ve recommended this book many times over the years and now again: The Works by Kate Ascher.

It’s a book for all ages about how NYC actually operates, what the city’s guts look like, full of amazing details and full-color cutaways/section drawings.

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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 5h

ICE isn't supposed to detain pregnant women except in extenuating circumstances, but our reporting found that the Trump administration appears to be detaining pregnant women at alarming rates in deplorable conditions.

Read my latest for @theintercept.com

theintercept.com/2025/10/10/i...

The Trump Administration Is Hiding How Many Pregnant People Are in ICE Detention

The evidence indicates ICE is detaining pregnant women at alarming rates, in rapidly deteriorating conditions.

theintercept.com

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 4h

When you’re translating Nietzsche and you find an English solution that captures all three meanings of the German pun, that’s a little miracle.

FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 5h

The funny thing is, regular people in the US are never surprised by the shit at the top. When I tell regular people I taught at an Ivy and it fucking SUCKED they’re like “Yep checks out!”

Only when I say that to people who actually have access to elite institutions do they clutch their pearls.

FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 5h

I’m not great at math but it seems to me that if scholars stop coming to your universities once the money spigot stops flowing then the only thing drawing them to your universities in the first place was money and not the quality of research or education?

Much to ponder 🤔

FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 5h

And US academia deserves 100% of it frankly

Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 6h

It might be hard to convey to people outside economics just how seismic this is. The Trump effect has most certainly arrived to US academia.

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 9h

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6h

Happening now: we're at the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago.

CCSO + Broadview police are telling protesters + press they can't stand on the west side of 25th Street for any reason.

We asked what the precise public safety issue is. They just said they're anticipating cars coming through.

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 6h

I just don’t think the white philosopher who has tenure at Yale is in more danger than the folks organizing against ICE in Chicago. I just don’t think that.

FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 7h

I think people should make the best decisions for themselves and their families but also think it’s extremely telling that the first people to publicly flee the US have all been academics.

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 7h

Omg you’re right next to Aimee Mann!!

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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 16h

It’s actually pretty bad for your mental health to know stuff

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 1d

If you're watching the situation in Chicago from afar & want to help, on the off chance you have spare $$, you can give to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund, which posts "bond for individuals held in the custody of ICE w ties to IL, IN, KY & WI who cannot afford to pay"
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow

How to Help MIBFC — Midwest Immigration Bond Fund

www.mibfc.org

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 9 Oct 1945 the UK Labour govt defended its jailing of 226 Spanish Civil War and anti-Nazi resistance fighters, describing them as "members of an enemy paramilitary organisation". Some killed themselves, others were deported to Spain for execution stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1094...

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 16h

This is great news.

This incident is a grim preview of what’s coming.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 18h

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 17h

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 20h

As y'all have probably heard, there has been a lot of ICE activity on the North Side of Chicago today. At least four people were kidnapped by ICE in the Rogers Park neighborhood. Folks mobilized throughout the day to do ICE Watch and Rapid Response work.

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Pablo Manríquez @pabloreports.bsky.social · 17h

American citizens don't even get free health care. You gotta be one stupid asshole to think undocumented folk do.

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