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Linda Mannheim

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Words in The Nation, Granta, Sight & Sound, and more. PhD Researcher at the University of Westminster. THIS WAY TO DEPARTURES, stories about leaving the place you're from, was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize.

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Linda Mannheim @lindamannheim.bsky.social · Nov 17

Hi Everyone. Great to see you all here! I write fiction and non-fiction. My most recent book is This Way to Departures, a collection of stories. Some of my non-fiction is in @thenation.com. Here's an interview I did with Kristen Renwick Monroe on who goes fascist.

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Who Goes Fascist? A Political Psychologist Explains.

Kristen Renwick Monroe looks at rescuers, bystanders, and perpetrators to understand why people do unspeakable acts.

www.thenation.com

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

this isn’t funny portlanders only turn into inflatable frogs when their neighbors are being kidnapped by a fascist secret police force

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 3d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 7d

James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:

Or, to put it another way, as long as white Americans take refuge in their whiteness— for so long as they are unable to walk out of this most monstrous of traps-they will allow millions of people to be slaughtered in their name, and will be manipulated into and surrender themselves to what they will think of-and justify—as a racial war. They will never, so long as their whiteness puts so sinister a distance between themselves and their own experience and the experience of others, feel themselves sufficiently human, sufficiently worthwhile, to become responsible for themselves, their leaders, their country, their children, or their fate. They will perish (as we once put it in our black church) in their sins—that is, in their delusions. And this is happening, needless to say, already, all around us.

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Rafi @rafil.bsky.social · 14d

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

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Sara Benincasa @sarajbenincasa.bsky.social · 22d

Turning 45 soon. For my birthday, I want to help raise money for some kids whose parents were kidnapped by ICE here in the Chicagoland area. If the video isn’t of interest, I hope the GoFundMe is: www.gofundme.com/f/show-solid...

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 19d

published today by @versobooks.bsky.social !

www.versobooks.com/products/2862-amateurs

(discount on @blackwells.bsky.social just saying... blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...)

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 19d

“Dubai presents the hard-right vision of utopia: a place stripped of workers’ protections or the right to protest, a place of pure environmental dereliction”

Good piece on the dystopian vision Farage, Tice & Reform are reaching for:

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The populist right wants to remake the UK in the image of Dubai. We should all be careful what they wish for | Jonathan Liew

Politicians and influencers eulogise the emirate as a place of cleanliness, convenience and low crime. The truth is far darker, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

www.theguardian.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21d

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com)

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 26d

Everybody gamely says “Vance hosted Kirk’s podcast” instead of “the regime officially turned the major channel into state-controlled media just as it began its violent crackdown on any opposition or dissident messages.”

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krisis (also, see @CrushingComics!) @krisis.bsky.social · 29d

now there's an obit I can get behind

www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Charles James Kirk, 31, died on Wednesday from a gunshot to the neck at a Utah Valley University campus event just as he was trying to deflect a question about mass shootings by suggesting they were largely a function of gang violence. He died with a net worth of $12 million, which he made by espousing horrific and bigoted views in the name of advancing Christian nationalism. The foundation of his empire was the group he cofounded and led, Turning Point USA, which is a key youth-recruitment arm of the MAGA movement. Kirk was able to launch Turning Point at the age of 18 because he received money from Tea Party member Bill Montgomery, right-wing donor Foster Feiss, and his own father, also a prolific right-wing donor. He was an unrepentant racist, transphobe, homophobe, and misogynist who often wrapped his bigotry in Bible verses because there was no other way to pretend that it was morally correct. He had children, as do many vile people.

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Deborah Cole @deborahcole.bsky.social · Sep 4

Riveted by every twist and turn of this story since it surfaced last month www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Old master painting looted by Nazis recovered a week after being spotted in Argentinian property listing

Portrait of a Lady by the Italian master Giuseppe Ghislandi handed over by daughter of the late Nazi financier Friedrich Kadgien

www.theguardian.com

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · Sep 2

LONDON LAUNCH ANNOUNCEMENT!

23 September, @burleyfisher.bsky.social with Nathalie Olah - tickets here!!!

burleyfisherbooks.com/products/lau...

Launch: Amateurs!: How We Built Internet Culture and Why it Matters by Joanna Walsh w/ Natalie Olah

Tuesday 23rd September 2025 6.30-9pm Amateurs!: How We Built Internet Culture and Why it Matters Since the nineties, platforms have invited users to create in return for connection. From blogs to v...

burleyfisherbooks.com

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · Sep 1

Did a thread. TL/DR give all your money to refugees please and fuck that other lot.

Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · Sep 1

I've done most of my Great North Run training this summer along the North Sea coast. I love the North Sea. I love it (I've always loved it) but it's a monster. (1/?)

Sunrise over the North Sea at Whitley Bay.

The North Sea at South Shields, just before dawn.

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Jon Featonby @jonfeatonby.bsky.social · Sep 1

In the year to June 2025, 92% of refugee family reunion visas were given to women and children. More than half went to children. Two thirds to people from Syria, Afghanistan, Eritrea, Iran and Sudan. It helps integration and provides a safe route. Family reunion should be easier, not harder.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 31

UK to make it harder for refugees to bring family members to country

Home secretary to announce overhaul of family reunion policy in attempt to quell fractious immigration debate Ministers are planning to make it harder for refugees to bring family members to the UK as part of a package of measures that Yvette Cooper will announce on Monday as she looks to get a grip on the fractious debate over irregular migration. The home secretary will tell MPs she plans to make a number of changes to the way asylum cases are treated, including to the family reunion policy, which officials believe is acting as a magnet for people crossing the Channel. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Will Craft @wcraft.bsky.social · Aug 29

The Guardian US is releasing a new tool today, a tracker tallying the arrests, detentions, and deportations since the start of the second Trump admin. We are going to continue to update as the admin releases new data: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

By the numbers: the latest Ice and CBP data on arrests, detentions and deportations in the US

The Guardian US reviewed figures from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection since Trump’s inauguration

www.theguardian.com

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Megan Piontkowski illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · Aug 22

"How to Report ICE" regional zines available for free printable download:

Northern California
Southern California
Colorado
DC Metro Area (DMV)
Durham
Massachusetts
NYC
Philly
Pittsburgh

More to come! Please share!
drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Hand holding small black and white hand lettered zine titled "How to Report ICE and Help Keep Our Neighbors Safe"

hand holding open zine. Pages read: "S Size of group, A Actions/Activity, L Location, U Uniforms/Clothes, T Time/Date, E Equipment

Black and white illustration of a large eye looking down on a melting cube of ice

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · Aug 21

Excellent interview with @cburchett.bsky.social about one of the most absurd developments on the #farright

Interview: On the weaponisation of anti-antisemitism by the far right (Claire Burchett) - Reactionary Politics Research Network

This interview is based on Claire Burchett's thesis 'Everyday victimhood on social media The discussion of Jews and (anti-)antisemitism in the populist radical right online space in France, Germany, and Austria (2017-2023)

reacpol.net

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Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · Aug 21

Show your local Refugee charity some support if you can ✊

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Refugee charities install safe rooms and relocate amid rise in far-right threats

Exclusive: One NGO placed on an online hitlist had to temporarily close its office owing to harassing phone calls

www.theguardian.com

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Linda Mannheim @lindamannheim.bsky.social · Aug 21

Wow -- congratulations! It looks great!

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · Aug 20

Day in, day out, I speak to ordinary people who are organising to welcome the asylum seekers accommodated in their towns.

They befriend, support them, reach out to them as fellow human beings.

That's the Britain I know, the one I see around me & we never get told about on TV.

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Joanna Pocock @joannapocock.bsky.social · Aug 17

A short essay about solo travel as a woman and the power that can come from invisibility.
Thank you to British Vogue for going with this one…

www.vogue.co.uk/article/grey...

#solotravel #women #invisibility #BritishVogue #greyhound #simonedebeauvoir

What I Learned From Taking Two Solo Road Trips Almost 20 Years Apart

Author Joanna Pocock travelled across the US by Greyhound bus by herself in 2006 – and then again 17 years later.

www.vogue.co.uk

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Aug 17

It’s weird to me that people keep starting new Substacks and still don’t know that Substack is extremely bad news

Please get off Substack 😭

www.anildash.com//2024/11/19/...

Don't call it a Substack. - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

www.anildash.com

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Aug 13

Bellingcat has just launched a major new update to our Auto Archiver tool, simplifying the process of archiving online content for individuals or teams.
www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

The Open Source Tool That Has Preserved 150,000 Pieces of Online Evidence - bellingcat

Bellingcat’s Auto Archiver is a tool aimed at preserving online digital content before it can be modified, deleted or taken down

www.bellingcat.com

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Dr. med. Hank Schiffers @leanhealth.bsky.social · Aug 8

UK: What if everyone had masked up? Analysis of app data has the answer:
"Respirators would have dropped the rate of COVID transmission by an estimated factor of 9, compared with 0.6 for surgical masks. A factor of 9 is enough to put SARS-COV-2 into exponential decay!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What if everyone had masked up? Analysis of app data has an answer

Modelling study based on almost 250,000 positive COVID-19 tests in the United Kingdom shows that universal masking could have cut transmission markedly.

www.nature.com

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · Aug 10

One thing’s for sure. At this point none of it is causing any actual useful actions to take place to help Palestine.

Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · Aug 10

My awkward opinion is that Palestine Action shouldn’t have been proscribed and doing so was a draconian mistake, but that the protests valorising them show there is no cause the English middle class can’t make to be about the English middle class.

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