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Horkos @wylienewmark.bsky.social · 12h

<reading my own posts> “this guy gets it”

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Chicago, Bike Grid Now! @bikegridnow.org · 12h

If you want to help protect your neighbors by patrolling your neighborhood, we've got your back. Send us a message if you'd like to be connected to a patrol group. There are groups in:

-Lincoln Square/Ravenswood
-Albany Park
-Pilsen/Little Village
-Andersonville/Uptown/Edgewater
-Logan Square (1/2)

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 13h

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 14h

So this IL Hospital Association memo describes an incident where ICE detained a US citizen, gave them HEART PROBLEMS, took them to a hospital where the fought with medical personnel, then left when they realized they detained a CITIZEN.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 14h

🚨🚨 @utaustin.bsky.social is working to eliminate its Black studies, Latin studies, and gender studies depts -- utterly reneging on its mission and depriving students of the full educational opportunities they deserve. Please--scholars AND publishers--share & write to UT leaders. #SaveUT

UT Austin wants to eliminate its Black studies, Latino Studies, and gender studies departments. Tell them you won't stand for it.
UT President, Jim Davis, president@utexas.edu
UT Executive Vice President and Provost, William Inboden, provost@utexas.edu
College of Liberal Arts Interim Dean, David Sosa, david_sosa@austin.utexas.edu
#EducationalLiberty #SaveUT

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 12h

JUST IN: Unions seek immediate TRO against shutdown-related RIFs Trump admin began announcing today. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

ShutdownRIFTROFlg101025

www.documentcloud.org

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 12h

Somehow, the fact that my bread molded after 4 days is the fault of ICE and I will not be taking questions or feedback.

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Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · 18d

📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers

We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives.

Details below. Please share.

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Feminist Legal Studies

Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope

Amidst continuing backlash against trans rights, recognition and inclusion, two recent decisions from the UK have substantially impacted not only trans people’s legal status but also legal and social narratives of sex, gender and identity. The narrative that trans inclusion has a chilling effect on the rights of others, particularly women, has been adopted uncritically by both the UK Supreme Court in For Women Scotland and the Office for Students in its finding that the University of Sussex’s trans-inclusion policy had a chilling effect on free speech. These cases highlight a backlash that has been ongoing for some time, and sparks debates and fear of what may lie in the near future for trans people and kin, as well as other gender-variant persons, not only in the UK, but across jurisdictions and in a global perspective. The discourse of the ‘gender critical’ movement is splintering both the feminist and LGBT+ movements globally, with some aligning politically with the Far- and Christian Right against trans rights, adopting their terminology of ‘gender ideology’ and potentially posing a wider threat to sexual and reproductive rights.

While this a difficult situation for trans people, kin and allies, this special issue seeks to emphasise that legal battles – including battles (temporarily) lost – are also an opportunity to seek to reinforce old alliances and to form new ones, to find new legal frontiers and imaginaries, to reinforce the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of legal arguments as well as intergenerational memory of what feminist legal work is, has been and should be about. How, we ask, do these decisions (and those like them globally) reflect and reproduce structures of coloniality, heteronormativity and cisnormativity? What do these decisions add to critiques of legal feminism? What would be construct…

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J-Bo @jbogoblue.bsky.social · 16h

@blockclubchi.bsky.social @wgntv.com @abc7.bsky.social @chicagosmayor.bsky.social @ilattygeneral.bsky.social

ICE arresting WGN employee Debbie Brockman at Lincoln & Foster Ave. 10/10/25.

Shared with permission.

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 13h

But Pagliacci, I am a doctor (of philosophy)!

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 1d

Feels bad, yall.

Alex Ji @alexji.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been asked to advise undergrads on how to get into grad school and this is all I can think about musgrave.substack.com/p/dont-do-a-...

Don't Do a Ph.D. Now

At least in the United States

musgrave.substack.com

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 1d

The arc of my life these last few years is fascinating

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 1d

That was what I was missing; thank you!

Kim D @kimilatad.bsky.social · 1d

The ask was for a permanent injunction, but she only granted a temporary one.

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 1d

I guess we’ll see tomorrow what the “in part” thing means? Because I’m not seeing the daylight.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

Perry: The federal government is "temporarily enjoined from ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois."

That's it. Thanks again for following.

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 1d

This should be the ball game, right?

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 1d

Hamilton: "The president's judgment is unreviewable."

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 1d

This is the second time this week, too!

Toscha @poemless.bsky.social · 1d

Went outside to touch grass and a loud black helicopter was circling over me, nose down.

Toscha @poemless.bsky.social · 1d

Normal day in the neighborhood...

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 1d

My spicy take for this moment-

Too many of you do not understand the concept of infrastructure. How systems are built, how systems are maintained.

You want big bold action but haven't committed to the planning and the boring mundane tasks needed to make said action possible.

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 1d

What’s funny is that this logic is self perpetuating: saying a court has to defer to the president on a determination of rebellion fuels anti-admin sentiments, which further justifies the determination of rebellion.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

Perry: DOJ's definition of rebellion would mean that
"literally all nonviolent protest” could be considered evidence of rebellion. Is that your argument?
Hamilton: The president has determined there is a danger of a rebellion, and you must defer to that finding

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 1d

Might want to follow along with this one.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

Greetings from U.S. District Court Judge April Perry’s courtroom in the Dirksen Federal Courthouse. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is present, waiting for the high stakes hearing to begin. @wttw.bsky.social

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

FULL STORY: As lawyers for the Trump administration defended the president’s unprecedented decision to send National Guard troops to Chicago despite the objections of Gov. Pritzker and Mayor Johnson, officials acknowledged that California troops had also been sent to Illinois. @wttw.bsky.social

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Nick, the Melanated Magician (they/them) @melanatedmagus.blacksky.app · 1d

Put on a sweater for the first time this season and 100% powered up like Thanos.

thanos from avengers : infinity war is holding a glowing glove in his hand .

Alt: thanos from avengers : infinity war is holding a glowing glove in his hand . He just received the mind stone from Vision

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

FULL STORY: As lawyers for the Trump administration defended the president’s unprecedented decision to send National Guard troops to Chicago despite the objections of Gov. Pritzker and Mayor Johnson, officials acknowledged that California troops had also been sent to Illinois. @wttw.bsky.social