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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 36m

Must be strange to be here while the propagandists in DC do their best to warp reality beyond recognition. 🔥 🔥 🔥 🐸 🐸 🐸

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Aug 27

yup, we rise up to the level of our training, not to the level of our imagined selves.

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 43m

Of course, the too-passionate post results in a meaningful typo. CANNOT repeat enough...

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 46m

Can repeat enough: Chicago is the rehearsal for what's ahead (and yes, is also already underway) in other cities — AND for the campaign of noncooperation & opposition that must be unleashed. We must study & practice & prepare.

I repeat: we love you, Chicago.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1h

I know not everyone is who they thought they would be under a fascist, authoritarian regime. That's okay. But it's time to do more than react and post about it. It's time to get organized—including mapping or creating lines of support and defense in your community.

Mapping Community Defense and Care in Our Neighborhoods

This worksheet can help us prepare for Trump's military interventions at the neighborhood level.

organizingmythoughts.org

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 1d

Our fantastic grassroots education conference is happening on the same day as the October No Kings protests (we selected the date last year). I hope educators will choose us!

Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · Aug 18

18th Annual Northwest Teaching for Social Justice Conference
Saturday, October 18, 2025
Portland, OR
Morning Keynote: Walidah Imarisha
Afternoon Keynote: Jesse Hagopian

nwtsj.org | Northwest Teaching for Social Justice Conference | Northwest Teaching for Social Justice Conference

nwtsj.org

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · Aug 18

18th Annual Northwest Teaching for Social Justice Conference
Saturday, October 18, 2025
Portland, OR
Morning Keynote: Walidah Imarisha
Afternoon Keynote: Jesse Hagopian

nwtsj.org | Northwest Teaching for Social Justice Conference | Northwest Teaching for Social Justice Conference

nwtsj.org

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Aug 18

I'm here to once again say that convenings and gatherings are going to be extremely important for people to organize in the coming years. If that's part of your skill-set, put those skills to use.

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 1h

I am sure inflatable animal costumes are welcome! (though harder to pedal in)

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 1h

And the revocation of the land use permit is a real possibility worth working toward.

UPDATED: ICE Violated Portland Policies with Detention Practices, City Leaders Say

When Portland gave Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) the green light to open a processing and holding facility in the South Waterfront in 2011, the city set conditions for the agency to opera...

www.portlandmercury.com

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 1h

A few addenda:

You do NOT have to ride nude! Many folks are clothed or partially clothed.

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 1h

"They're hoping to draw crowds to inner Portland on Sunday for an Emergency World Naked Bike Ride to protest the ICE facility in South Portland. Specifically, they're getting on bikes in the buff to ask Portland's City Council to revoke the facility's land use approval."

Portland's Emergency World Naked Bike Ride Organizers Confirm Time and Location

Suzette Smith

www.portlandmercury.com

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 1h

I see you found a lovely location for your event! Hope the city is treating you well. 💛

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 1h

I repeat: staying humble isn’t hard when you’re always making mistakes.

(Hot with shame I tell myself, "better than the alternative.")

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Nov 13

another curmudgeonly thread for the many of you who will be entering organizing spaces.

all other things being equal, when confronted with one team of people recruiting you to Be a Thing and another team recruiting you to Do a Thing, please give serious thought to joining the second.

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 18h

DC!

Join @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social for a discussion of his book RECONSIDERING REPARATIONS with Jenice L. View, hosted by @teachingchange.bsky.social

Wednesday, October 22nd at
@busboysandpoets.bsky.social

RSVP to attend: www.teachingforchange.org/reconsiderin...

Reconsidering Reparations: Author Talk with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò - Teaching for Change

Join us on October 22 at 6:30pm at Busboys and Poets (14th & V) to hear from author Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, in conversation with Jenice L. View, on his book, Reconsidering Reparations: Why Climate Justice ...

www.teachingforchange.org

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Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 4d

I'm so looking forward to this conversation on KING OF THE NORTH with the great @sifill.bsky.social with @zinnedproject.bsky.social & @jessehagopian.bsky.social on Monday October 27 at 7:00 EST. All are welcome to tune in: www.zinnedproject.org/news/king-of...

King of the North: Part Two

Historian Jeanne Theoharis returns to discuss her book, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South in conversation with Sherrilyn Ifill. This session is part of the...

www.zinnedproject.org

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 3h

9 out of 10 US students -- roughly 50 million children -- attend public schools.

Despite RW efforts to frame their efforts as for parents ("parents' rights," "choice"), efforts to defund, deform. amd debilitate public schools is a broadscale attack on children and future generations.

Five Ways the Department of Education Is Upending Public Schools

The Trump administration has made a rapid succession of hires and decisions at the Department of Education that could spur profound changes in how schools operate and children learn. Here’s what to kn...

www.propublica.org

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14h

CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.

findmeatherapist.org

Find Me A Therapist

findmeatherapist.org

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 12h

We love you, Chicago! 💔

Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 13h

An extremely rough day for Edgewater in Chicago. ICE activity near schools. People kidnapped while working in yards, standing on hiring corners. So many rapid responders biking, walking, driving, whistles around necks, trying to protect their neighbors, but up against such well-funded forces.

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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 13h

An extremely rough day for Edgewater in Chicago. ICE activity near schools. People kidnapped while working in yards, standing on hiring corners. So many rapid responders biking, walking, driving, whistles around necks, trying to protect their neighbors, but up against such well-funded forces.

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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 1d

Many things are being destroyed & the news of it is a psychological & political onslaught.

So it’s important that you create things.

It can be art, cookies, a community pantry, a garden, a mask bloc. It can be beautiful, practical, silly. Just create & share.

It’ll do your brain & the world good.

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 13h

Reporting from my PDX front porch: not burning

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 2d

Frog and Toad looked into a mirror.

“We look brave,” said Frog.

“Yes, but are we?” asked Toad.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 17h

Ladies and gentlemen, the (pale suggestion of a) weekend.

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