Kathleen Belew
@kathleenbelew.bsky.social
Historian of the white power movement, gun violence, the apocalypse. Coloradan. kathleenbelew.com Book coming soon! Home, at the End of the World (Random House) Posts reflect my own views only.
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THREAD- 🛡️ COMMUNITY PROTECTION TOOLKIT 🛡️
🚨ATTENTION CHARLOTTE AREA
How to Organize ICE & CBP Resistance in Your Neighborhood
This toolkit is based on what has worked in Chicago as communities organize to keep their neighbors safe and informed. (reposting, H/T original author!) (1)
🚨ATTENTION CHARLOTTE AREA
How to Organize ICE & CBP Resistance in Your Neighborhood
This toolkit is based on what has worked in Chicago as communities organize to keep their neighbors safe and informed. (reposting, H/T original author!) (1)
Reposted by Kathleen Belew
"'They all were scared, crying... they were pointing with the guns not to move,' he said.
He said all four are U.S. citizens..."
www.kare11.com/article/news...
He said all four are U.S. citizens..."
www.kare11.com/article/news...
Ring camera captures Burnsville ICE raid that leaves 7-year-old without parents, according to family
ICE agents detained four people from a Burnsville home, according to family members, including a 7-year-old's parents and the husband of a pregnant woman.
www.kare11.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
"'They all were scared, crying... they were pointing with the guns not to move,' he said.
He said all four are U.S. citizens..."
www.kare11.com/article/news...
He said all four are U.S. citizens..."
www.kare11.com/article/news...
I used to do a thing on the other app where you describe a person you're holiday shopping for and I tell you a really good book they would like (usually history but other ones too). Y'all want to do that this year? Comment if so. 🎄
December 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I used to do a thing on the other app where you describe a person you're holiday shopping for and I tell you a really good book they would like (usually history but other ones too). Y'all want to do that this year? Comment if so. 🎄
the end of the world is truly such a bummer
I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary.
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
Important notice: AI-generated archival references
www.icrc.org
December 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
the end of the world is truly such a bummer
Reposted by Kathleen Belew
Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary.
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
Important notice: AI-generated archival references
www.icrc.org
December 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
Reposted by Kathleen Belew
Our students are raising money to keep their magazines going after the University of Alabama suspended them for foregrounding the voices of women and African Americans.
If you've got the means, please support them.
givebutter.com/F0LNOA
If you've got the means, please support them.
givebutter.com/F0LNOA
Keep the Free Press Alive at the University of Alabama
By Media Alumni Seeking to Highlight Equity and Diversity
givebutter.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Our students are raising money to keep their magazines going after the University of Alabama suspended them for foregrounding the voices of women and African Americans.
If you've got the means, please support them.
givebutter.com/F0LNOA
If you've got the means, please support them.
givebutter.com/F0LNOA
Pay librarians, teachers, and archivists
Reading Rooms at the British Library are closed *all week* because so many of its workers refuse to work for pitiful wages in a contemptuously authoritarian and obliviously managed environment.
We need leaders who get it and are big enough to sort it out!
It’s a mess and a disgrace.
Lift it up!!
We need leaders who get it and are big enough to sort it out!
It’s a mess and a disgrace.
Lift it up!!
December 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Pay librarians, teachers, and archivists
Reposted by Kathleen Belew
Reading Rooms at the British Library are closed *all week* because so many of its workers refuse to work for pitiful wages in a contemptuously authoritarian and obliviously managed environment.
We need leaders who get it and are big enough to sort it out!
It’s a mess and a disgrace.
Lift it up!!
We need leaders who get it and are big enough to sort it out!
It’s a mess and a disgrace.
Lift it up!!
December 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Reading Rooms at the British Library are closed *all week* because so many of its workers refuse to work for pitiful wages in a contemptuously authoritarian and obliviously managed environment.
We need leaders who get it and are big enough to sort it out!
It’s a mess and a disgrace.
Lift it up!!
We need leaders who get it and are big enough to sort it out!
It’s a mess and a disgrace.
Lift it up!!
historians everywhere to elon: this is not how any of this works
Elon logic:
The majority of people who voted to pass the Violence against Women Act were men, so really, it’s men who should be proud they ended violence against women
The majority of people who voted for the Civil Rights Act were white, so while people should get the credit for ending segregation
The majority of people who voted to pass the Violence against Women Act were men, so really, it’s men who should be proud they ended violence against women
The majority of people who voted for the Civil Rights Act were white, so while people should get the credit for ending segregation
December 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
historians everywhere to elon: this is not how any of this works
nobody wants you to come to Chicago, Kristi Noem
December 5, 2025 at 6:56 PM
nobody wants you to come to Chicago, Kristi Noem
Reposted by Kathleen Belew
Remember how @kathleenbelew.bsky.social wrote an entire book about how the white power movement in America mobilized after the Vietnam war ended? Well guess what: we’re in the midst of coping with a very similar phenomenon in the aftermath of the GWOT. newrepublic.com/post/203784/...
Alleged D.C. Shooter Begged CIA for Help as He Tried to Find Work
The National Guard shooting suspect felt abandoned by the CIA after working together for so long, his fellow unit member said.
newrepublic.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Remember how @kathleenbelew.bsky.social wrote an entire book about how the white power movement in America mobilized after the Vietnam war ended? Well guess what: we’re in the midst of coping with a very similar phenomenon in the aftermath of the GWOT. newrepublic.com/post/203784/...
"Patino said he spent the next four days in Broadview under fluorescent lights that were never turned off. He was crammed into a holding cell with between 60 and 100 prisoners, forced to share three toilets out in the open and a limited number of chairs."
evanstonroundtable.com/2025/11/19/n...
evanstonroundtable.com/2025/11/19/n...
Evanston resident recounts ICE custody ordeal - Evanston RoundTable
Jose Patino, a Mexican immigrant in Evanston, was detained by ICE without charges. His story highlights the struggles of undocumented immigrants.
evanstonroundtable.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:29 PM
"Patino said he spent the next four days in Broadview under fluorescent lights that were never turned off. He was crammed into a holding cell with between 60 and 100 prisoners, forced to share three toilets out in the open and a limited number of chairs."
evanstonroundtable.com/2025/11/19/n...
evanstonroundtable.com/2025/11/19/n...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/19/4... 400 people to be released Friday because there wasn't cause to justify their detention by ICE/border patrol in Chicago
400 Arrested By ICE In Chicago To Be Released Friday, But Feds' 'Risk' List Remains Murky
A judge denied the Department of Homeland Security's bid to delay releases, saying ICE failed to justify detentions or show it would win on appeal. Questions remain around how risk is calculated by th...
blockclubchicago.org
November 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/19/4... 400 people to be released Friday because there wasn't cause to justify their detention by ICE/border patrol in Chicago
Reposted by Kathleen Belew
It’s why we’ve launched OJO Obrero (ojonc.org), knowing these operations profile people on their way to work.
And as of tonight, over 300 people have already joined our Safe to Work, Safe to School Community Patrols: Las Brigadas Cuidando el Camino.
And as of tonight, over 300 people have already joined our Safe to Work, Safe to School Community Patrols: Las Brigadas Cuidando el Camino.
November 16, 2025 at 3:45 AM
It’s why we’ve launched OJO Obrero (ojonc.org), knowing these operations profile people on their way to work.
And as of tonight, over 300 people have already joined our Safe to Work, Safe to School Community Patrols: Las Brigadas Cuidando el Camino.
And as of tonight, over 300 people have already joined our Safe to Work, Safe to School Community Patrols: Las Brigadas Cuidando el Camino.
Reposted by Kathleen Belew
Attention, historians of Watergate! I'm getting flashbacks from the months of back and forth, reversals and blunders over release of White House records. What stage are we at with the Epstein Files? Drip, drip, drip, as we used to say. @kevinmkruse.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Attention, historians of Watergate! I'm getting flashbacks from the months of back and forth, reversals and blunders over release of White House records. What stage are we at with the Epstein Files? Drip, drip, drip, as we used to say. @kevinmkruse.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social
Reposted by Kathleen Belew
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
ORGANIZED COMMUNITIES STAY ORGANIZED. ICE has slowed down in Chicago, and Bovino seems to have fled the snow, so what are people doing? Making whistle kits to send to Charlotte.
THREAD- 🛡️ COMMUNITY PROTECTION TOOLKIT 🛡️
🚨ATTENTION CHARLOTTE AREA
How to Organize ICE & CBP Resistance in Your Neighborhood
This toolkit is based on what has worked in Chicago as communities organize to keep their neighbors safe and informed. (reposting, H/T original author!) (1)
🚨ATTENTION CHARLOTTE AREA
How to Organize ICE & CBP Resistance in Your Neighborhood
This toolkit is based on what has worked in Chicago as communities organize to keep their neighbors safe and informed. (reposting, H/T original author!) (1)
November 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
ORGANIZED COMMUNITIES STAY ORGANIZED. ICE has slowed down in Chicago, and Bovino seems to have fled the snow, so what are people doing? Making whistle kits to send to Charlotte.
THREAD- 🛡️ COMMUNITY PROTECTION TOOLKIT 🛡️
🚨ATTENTION CHARLOTTE AREA
How to Organize ICE & CBP Resistance in Your Neighborhood
This toolkit is based on what has worked in Chicago as communities organize to keep their neighbors safe and informed. (reposting, H/T original author!) (1)
🚨ATTENTION CHARLOTTE AREA
How to Organize ICE & CBP Resistance in Your Neighborhood
This toolkit is based on what has worked in Chicago as communities organize to keep their neighbors safe and informed. (reposting, H/T original author!) (1)
November 17, 2025 at 8:52 PM
THREAD- 🛡️ COMMUNITY PROTECTION TOOLKIT 🛡️
🚨ATTENTION CHARLOTTE AREA
How to Organize ICE & CBP Resistance in Your Neighborhood
This toolkit is based on what has worked in Chicago as communities organize to keep their neighbors safe and informed. (reposting, H/T original author!) (1)
🚨ATTENTION CHARLOTTE AREA
How to Organize ICE & CBP Resistance in Your Neighborhood
This toolkit is based on what has worked in Chicago as communities organize to keep their neighbors safe and informed. (reposting, H/T original author!) (1)
Reposted by Kathleen Belew
In this piece, I tackle three building blocks of the misleading “realignment” narrative: The idea that U.S. society moved right in accordance with the broader outlines of Trumpism’s vision; that Trump is the tribune of the working class; that he is building a stable multiracial coalition.
November 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
In this piece, I tackle three building blocks of the misleading “realignment” narrative: The idea that U.S. society moved right in accordance with the broader outlines of Trumpism’s vision; that Trump is the tribune of the working class; that he is building a stable multiracial coalition.
writing help: in a video game, what is the term for the place where all the bad stuff comes from? Spawn point?
November 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
writing help: in a video game, what is the term for the place where all the bad stuff comes from? Spawn point?
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/09/f... They pepper-sprayed a one-year-old yesterday
Feds Pepper-Spray 1-Year-Old In Cicero, Use Tear Gas On Little Village Neighbors
Federal agents were shot at, according to the Department of Homeland Security, while legal observers said agents created a "dangerous and unsafe environment."
blockclubchicago.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/09/f... They pepper-sprayed a one-year-old yesterday
Reposted by Kathleen Belew
“Sweet. My fifteen mins of fame. Lmao.”
This is what Border Patrol agent Charles Exum allegedly texted after shooting a woman in Chicago.
This is what Border Patrol agent Charles Exum allegedly texted after shooting a woman in Chicago.
A Border Patrol agent bragged about shooting someone, texts show
"Sweet. My fifteen mins of fame. Lmao."
www.motherjones.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
“Sweet. My fifteen mins of fame. Lmao.”
This is what Border Patrol agent Charles Exum allegedly texted after shooting a woman in Chicago.
This is what Border Patrol agent Charles Exum allegedly texted after shooting a woman in Chicago.
This is the facility where masked thugs put our neighbors, friends, and community members after they snatch them off the street. Please note that they are doing this to long-term residents, too. This is not targeted at criminals. They are grabbing tamale vendors, landscapers, preschool teachers.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
This is the facility where masked thugs put our neighbors, friends, and community members after they snatch them off the street. Please note that they are doing this to long-term residents, too. This is not targeted at criminals. They are grabbing tamale vendors, landscapers, preschool teachers.
wgntv.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
If ICE agents come onto my campus, or the campus of K-12 schools, I want the school to use active shooter protocols: lock them out, hide the kids and staff, and call the police to inform them of armed gunmen on campus.
November 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
If ICE agents come onto my campus, or the campus of K-12 schools, I want the school to use active shooter protocols: lock them out, hide the kids and staff, and call the police to inform them of armed gunmen on campus.