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
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.
Yesterday in Chicago ICE abducted a preschool teacher.
November 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Yesterday in Chicago ICE abducted a preschool teacher.
wow, that was an abrupt tone shift in mayoral election coverage, NYT
November 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
wow, that was an abrupt tone shift in mayoral election coverage, NYT
Reposted by Kathleen Belew
Reminder they one or the the iron rules of fascist politics is that their electoral wins are ordained by god but their opponents winning is an attack and a sign of massive conspiracies to keep the “true winners” from office.
Fascism only sees itself as legitimate and everything else is illegitimate
Fascism only sees itself as legitimate and everything else is illegitimate
November 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Reminder they one or the the iron rules of fascist politics is that their electoral wins are ordained by god but their opponents winning is an attack and a sign of massive conspiracies to keep the “true winners” from office.
Fascism only sees itself as legitimate and everything else is illegitimate
Fascism only sees itself as legitimate and everything else is illegitimate
So here's something hopeful: I have canvassed a billion times for political campaigns. Usually you get doors slammed in your face, get yelled at. When you phone bank, most of what happens is no answer or immediately people hang up. (1)
November 3, 2025 at 5:08 PM
So here's something hopeful: I have canvassed a billion times for political campaigns. Usually you get doors slammed in your face, get yelled at. When you phone bank, most of what happens is no answer or immediately people hang up. (1)
Reposted by Kathleen Belew
BREAKING: Federal judge rules that the Trump administration likely illegally suspended SNAP benefits, ruling that at least reduced distribution is required to go forward under law using the $6 billion reserve fund.
Judge gives the Trump admin until Monday to respond as to whether it will act.
Judge gives the Trump admin until Monday to respond as to whether it will act.
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DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS ET AL.,
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE ET AL.,
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Civil Action No. 1:25-cv-13165-IT
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
October 31, 2025
TALWANI, D.J.
Pending before the court is Plaintiffs' Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order [Doc.
No. 3] seeking to enjoin, on an emergency basis, Defendants' November 1, 2025 suspension of benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ("SNAP"). For the reasons stated
below, Plaintiffs have standing to bring this action and are likely to succeed on their claim that
Defendants' suspension of SNAP benefits is unlawful. Where that suspension of benefits rested
on an erroneous construction of the relevant statutory provisions, the court will allow Defendants
to consider whether they will authorize at least reduced SNAP benefits for November, and report
back to the court no later than Monday, November 3, 2025.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreiczapq36myqhzcrdp4jfodg5rkso7nuvlta4e5b5r4l5upce7b3le@jpeg)
![As both parties acknowledge, Congress has not yet appropriated any new funds for SNAP
benefits for Fiscal Year 2026, which began on October 1, 2025. Pls.' Mem. 6 [Doc. No. 4];
Defs.' Opp'n 7 [Doc. No. 18]. But Congress took steps to protect against the deprivation of
SNAP assistance. In the 2024 Consolidated Appropriations Act, Pub. L. No. 118-42, § 6, 138
Stat. 25, 93-94, Congress separately appropriated $6 billion to the SNAP program "to remain available through September 30, 2026" and "be placed in reserve for use only in such amounts and at such times as may become necessary to carry out program operations." See also Pub. L.
No. 119-4, § 1101(a), 139 Stat. 9, 10 (2025). As Plaintiffs point out, given the mandatory nature
of SNAP benefits under 7 U.S.C. § 2014(a) and the appropriation of these funds to be available
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Case 1:25-cv-13165-IT
Document 26 Filed 10/31/25
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through this current fiscal year, the government is obligated to use this contingent reserve
account to fund SNAP "as may become necessary to carry out program operations." 138 Stat. at
93-94; Pls.' Mem. 11 [Doc. No. 4].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreiac7aa6icx44x5xjkilpwj7il5oriyttttnrslzrhkwvw6b32cbnm@jpeg)
October 31, 2025 at 5:59 PM
BREAKING: Federal judge rules that the Trump administration likely illegally suspended SNAP benefits, ruling that at least reduced distribution is required to go forward under law using the $6 billion reserve fund.
Judge gives the Trump admin until Monday to respond as to whether it will act.
Judge gives the Trump admin until Monday to respond as to whether it will act.
12 and 15
ICE agents detained Fernando Jaramillo-Solano and his two children, 12 and 15, while on their way to school Monday. ICE has not disclosed where the children are being held.
Father detained by ICE in Durango will be transferred to Texas, pending immigration proceedings
ICE agents detained Fernando Jaramillo-Solano and his two children, 12 and 15, while on their way to school Monday
coloradosun.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:12 PM
12 and 15
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/30/f... They are targeting children and religious holidays. They are staging ICE raids in cemeteries. There is nothing about this that has anything to do with law and order. This is lawlessness and desecration.
Feds Won't Pause Immigration Blitz During Halloween, Día De Los Muertos, Homeland Security Boss Says
During a news conference Thusday, Gov. JB Pritzker also slammed federal agents' targeting of people without criminal records and using tear gas on neighborhood streets.
blockclubchicago.org
October 30, 2025 at 6:35 PM
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/30/f... They are targeting children and religious holidays. They are staging ICE raids in cemeteries. There is nothing about this that has anything to do with law and order. This is lawlessness and desecration.
They have tear gassed a parade of trick or treating children. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/26/f...
Feds Tear Gas Northwest Side Street, Disrupting Halloween Parade For Kids
Two neighbors, including a 70-year-old man, were arrested after allegedly interfering in the arrest of another man by immigration agents, neighbors said. Agents also threw a woman, 67, to the ground.
blockclubchicago.org
October 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
They have tear gassed a parade of trick or treating children. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/26/f...
Reposted by Kathleen Belew
Whatever comes out the other side of this, whether we are able to restore faith, rebuild community, establish true equality, deliver justice, embrace transformative solidarity, rededicate ourselves and our country to an ever stronger common good--all I know is, it will have started in Chicago.
October 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Whatever comes out the other side of this, whether we are able to restore faith, rebuild community, establish true equality, deliver justice, embrace transformative solidarity, rededicate ourselves and our country to an ever stronger common good--all I know is, it will have started in Chicago.