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Liz Loveland

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Historian & pro genealogist originally trained in anthro & archaeology. M.A. in History of the Family. Some of my research interests—slavery in northern colonies/US, early modern era, women's history, African-American history, genocide. Travel, art history

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Liz Loveland @lizlgenealogy.bsky.social · Aug 12

If you're ever feeling helpless with a few minutes to spare and are decent at reading old handwriting, may I suggest you channel your helpless feelings into indexing a few cards for this project making documents on the victims of Nazi persecution more accessible: arolsen-archives.org/en/participa...

#everynamecounts | Arolsen Archives

#everynamecounts is a crowdsourcing initiative of the Arolsen Archives: In cooperation with hundreds of thousands of volunteers throughout the world, we’re building a digital memorial to the victims o...

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 2h

Rough math: 12.3% of Americans (41.7 mil) are about to lose SNAP. Many food banks produce 3 meals per $1, so a November worth of meals for one costs $30. Round it up to $35 for asst. costs & hygiene products. If 13% of us donate $35 each to food banks, we can get everyone through Nov! #EndHunger 🥙💪

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 3h

"What I need you to know is we are organized.
What I need you to know is that you need to get organized.
What I need you to know is they are coming.
What I need you to know is you can stop them...
This is how it works: We protect each other, period. These are our neighbors, our friends, our family"

What I Need You To Understand, Notes from Chicago in Late October | dansinker.com

dansinker.com

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 3h

"What I need you to understand is that nobody is letting them go quietly. The Feds' every movement is announced by a chorus of whistles, by a parade of cars honking in their wake, neighbors rushing outside to yell to film to witness these kidnappings that are unfolding in front of us."

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 1d

ICE has been cracking down hard across the vast expanse of the greater Chicago area, and I wrote a little bit about what you need to understand about what it’s like here now. Plus, I compiled some resources for locals to get alerts and whistles. dansinker.com/posts/202…

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 4h

I really think that we need to talk more about the fact that Republicans have basically quietly abolished the House of Representatives

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 3h

“I thought to myself that if the opportunity ever came my way to have to get involved in one of these situations, I was certainly going to do what I could to make sure that they weren't openly and flagrantly violating the law or the Constitution… And yet, they just went ahead and did it anyway."

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3h

Per @chicagotribune.com, the pajama-pants-guy is a former county prosecutor.

And he had some things to say. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/c...

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 1d

If you want to help your neighbors who are food insecure and/or losing SNAP benefits, click here, plug in your zip, and DONATE.

www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...

Find Your Local Food Bank | Feeding America

Find the Feeding America member food bank nearest you. Over 200 member food banks can connect you with free food, food pantries, soup kitchens, and mobile pantries in your community.

www.feedingamerica.org

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isaac @sevier.io · 3h

I'm starting to see multiple threads where bluesky folks are trying to raise money for their local food banks because of the shutdown of SNAP starting November 1... can we get a thread going for people to find each other? Drop your link and put your city in front, let's coordinate city by city!

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 6h

This thread links to a lot of great food banks people can give to. Teamwork is our best way to battle mass hunger short-term. bsky.app/profile/adap...

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 2d

Okay, team! The food bank donations have blown past the $500 I have to match donations, but let's see if we can get volunteers to keep it going and match the ones I can't. I'll reply in a moment with the list of donations still waiting for matches, so please reply if you can match one of them!

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Marie Cerda @primalux.thedeadbird.club · 3h

Also:
Just absolute sociopathic humans

Knox said that after immigration attorneys fought for access, officials at the regional office eventually allowed them to enter the building, but as of 2 p.m. were letting those they’d called to the office meet with only one person — forcing them to choose between seeing their relatives or talking to an attorney.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 4h

What's happening in my community (Aurora in the Western Chicago Suburbs - a heavily Latino area) is devastating.

Here's what our local Rapid Response team posted on social media:

10:45 AM - Two U.S. Citizens were kidnapped by ICE after patrolling the area and learning of immigration federal agents present at Allen Elementary School, Aurora, IL. One of the patrollers was pepper sprayed and assaulted by federal agents, and were transported to Rush Copley Hospital, Aurora, IL. They were forced to leave behind their young child, who was in the arms of an officer from Aurora Police Department.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 10h

In spite of the headline, there is the pesky legal matter that neither billionaires or anybody else can “give” money to “pay troops” or anything else. However, a great compromise would be for billionaires to pay more money into the general treasury through “taxes.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

Donor Who Gave $130 Million to Pay Troops Is Reclusive Heir to Mellon Fortune

www.nytimes.com

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 4h

jesus christ man, we can’t ever get used to this and normalize it.

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 4h

A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday morning as his two sons watched, the older boy begging them not to hurt his father and tearfully asking for a chance to speak to him before they left.

As his two sons watch and cry, ‘Pa, te amo,’ federal agents arrest man outside of Naperville apartments

A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday as his two sons cried and begged for him not to be hurt.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 4h

When Anthonhy Burns was kidnapped in Boston in 1854 under the auspices of the Fugitive Slave Act, thousands of ordinary white and Black Bostonians responded with outrage like this and stormed the jail in an unsuccessful attempt to free him.

MAN KIDNAPPED!
EFFING AT
FANEUIL
LL BEWELD
HALL!
THIS FRIDAY EVENG,
May 26th, at 7 o'clock,
To secure justice for A MAY CLAIMED AN A NLAVE by a
VIRGINIA KIDNAPPER!
And NOW
IMPRISONED IN
BONTON COURT HOUSE, In
dellance of the Laws of Musachusetts,
Shall he be plunged Into the Hell of
Fireinia Navery by a Manachsett Judze of Probate !
BONTON, May 26th, 1851.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4h

Note: before all these fortifications were added, this was how close we (and more importantly—attorneys, family, advocates etc) could get to the detention center ~1 month ago.

Now it's a fortress even without the fence across Beach. 24/7 surveillance from local police. Curfew. Free speech pen.

Two militarized ice agents look down from boarded up detention facility to people on sidewalk

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 4h

One of Trump's billionaire buddies just bought Paramount. Now, he wants to buy Warner Bros.

That means one giant company could control almost everything you watch on TV.

Graphic that reads: TRUMP'S BILLIONAIRE BUDDY JUST BOUGHT PARAMOUNT. NOW, HE WANTS TO BUY WARNER BROS. THAT MEANS ONE GIANT COMPANY COULD CONTROL ALMOST EVERYTHING YOU WATCH ON TV: HBO CNN CBS NEWS SHOWTIME TBS COMEDY CENTRAL TNT PARAMOUNT+ TLC HGTV NICKELODEON CARTOON NETWORK ANIMAL PLANET CBS SPORTS ADULT SWIM TEENNICK BOOMERANG COOKING CHANNEL DISCOVERY CHANNEL FOOD NETWORK SCIENCE CHANNEL THE CW NETWORK TRAVEL CHANNEL BET MTV VH1

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Liz Loveland @lizlgenealogy.bsky.social · 4h

My haul from the Boston Book Festival

Stack of books: For the Sun After Long Nights, Motherland, Empty Vessel, Written in the Waters, How to Make a Life, Walking on Fire, Agriculture of Massachusetts 1876-77, and Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 13h

At what point when you’re paying troops with your own private money do they not just become mercenaries

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 1d

This is how it works: We protect each other, period. These are our neighbors, our friends, our family. We do the things we have to do to ensure that as many of us can make it to tomorrow as possible. Not everyone does. I need you to understand that we tried.

dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...

What I Need You To Understand, Notes from Chicago in Late October | dansinker.com

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Ana Ley @la-ley.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday, I went to an ICE check-in with 16-year-old Joel Camas and his lawyer, who expected him to be out in time for school by 8am because he has special immigrant juvenile (SIJ) status. Instead, he was detained.

Here is what happened (free link):

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/n...

A Woman Self-Deported, Hoping to Shield Her Son. He Was Detained Anyway.

www.nytimes.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10h

This is the third death that I'm aware of this year where a person died trying to flee from ICE.

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 1d

A man fleeing ICE agents ran out onto a busy highway and was struck and killed in Virginia, authorities say.

Man was fatally hit by vehicle while fleeing ICE on Virginia highway, officials say

A preliminary investigation indicated that the man was fleeing a pursuit by ICE when he left his car and attempted to cross the interstate, Virginia State Police said.

nbcnews.to

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The Weekend: Primetime @theweekendprime.bsky.social · 7h

In video provided exclusively to MSNBC's The Weekend: Primetime, immigration agents are seen attempting to pull a man out a window of a Chicago home. Agents also jumped a fence into the locked backyard and manhandled people doing work. Hear from the homeowner tonight on The Weekend: Primetime.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

i think i would honestly find this whole discourse more tolerable if people simply said what they were actually saying, which is that they think the Democratic Party is too associated with femininity (and secondarily, with black people) and that they want to correct this

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5h

Congress created Special Immigrant Juvenile Status as a protection against deportation — yet because of procedural quirks, there is a lag/limbo between SIJS and a green card, and a person can have both a removal order AND a SIJS grant. This admin is pushing forward with removal during this lag time.

Ana Ley @la-ley.bsky.social · 1d

A Woman Self-Deported, Hoping to Shield Her Son. He Was Detained Anyway.

www.nytimes.com

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Liz Loveland @lizlgenealogy.bsky.social · 5h

And here I thought we had a revolution to stop being subjected to the policy whims and personal grievances of one man

Screenshot of two notifications:

“Breaking News
11m ago
Donald Trump announces 10% increase in tariffs on Canada, days after ending trade talks with Ottawa

Reuters
38m ago
Ontario premier provokes Trump's ire once again with Reagan ad”

Liz Loveland @lizlgenealogy.bsky.social · 11h

“You don’t raze part of the White House if you’re planning on giving up power.”

–Julia Ioffe answering an audience question at the Boston Book Festival just now.

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