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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 23h

People are spontaneously posting up near any laborers or street vendors they spot. Just saw a rapid responder guarding a man working on a building exterior. Many things are terrible today but lord, this stuff matters.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.

People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.

Know your rights flyer in Spanish on street pole

Alderperson Maria Hadden on street corner

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 20h

I won't use any organizing energy opposing the criminalization of feds, but I really think people should be focusing on restorative initiatives for victims / communities first. We already saw the results of Jan 6 prosecutions---they're already back on the streets.

Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 20h

While I think ICE agents should face criminal charges for their kidnapping of immigrants, they should face long, and perhaps lifetime, prison sentences for anything like this involving kids. An ICE agent willing to do this is not someone who should be out among society even after Dems retake power.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 21h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

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nicholatorbett.bsky.social @nicholatorbett.bsky.social · 1d

This is liturgy right here.

Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 1d

The priest on the right is holding a monstrance. It’s used to display a piece of communion bread — which Catholics believe becomes the literal body of Christ when it’s consecrated — for worship.

A monstrance is normally only used in *very* solemn ceremonies.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2d

Outside of the Broadview ICE facility, a state trooper tells the delegation attempting to have communion with detainees that ICE has denied their request.

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nicholatorbett.bsky.social @nicholatorbett.bsky.social · 2d

They say "bad theology kills." For National Coming Out Day, I wanted to offer some theology that doesn't. (Grateful to Grace, Riot, and the Sisterly retreat for the prompting to write this.)

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A Dyke Theology

Because apparently I have one

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nicholatorbett.bsky.social @nicholatorbett.bsky.social · 10d

This. Right. Here.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 13d

I also have no nostalgia for the road to fascism, which is a trap I think a lot of liberal and progressive folks are falling into—romanticizing the conditions that preceded this moment of acceleration. The path that led to this mess is not the way out.

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 11d

🇹🇷🇵🇸 #BREAKING | Following the Global Sumud Flotilla interceptions, More than 45 Turkish civilian ships are heading directly toward Gaza.

This comes as a response to Israel intercepting the Global Sumud Flotilla convoy.

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Conn Ruszkowski @highlander95.bsky.social · 11d

Take heart. The fight is not over. ONE Flotilla vessel ALMOST reached the shores of Gaza, but it’s more profound than that: it’s the closest any aid vessel has got in *18 YEARS*!!!

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 17d

“You died.
I cried.
And kept on getting up.
A little slower.
And a lot more deadly.”

Rest in Power and Thank You

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nicholatorbett.bsky.social @nicholatorbett.bsky.social · 16d

Beautiful and so helpful--thank you

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nicholatorbett.bsky.social @nicholatorbett.bsky.social · 16d

They. Will. Never. Win.

Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 17d

They pepper sprayed us after this. We washed our faces and are back to singing we shall overcome. They’ll never win.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 17d

At the Broadview ICE facility, an ICE agent tried to run dozens of protesters over with an SUV as we walked on a public crosswalk.

He kept driving for about a full football field until ICE barraged us with pepper balls.

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nicholatorbett.bsky.social @nicholatorbett.bsky.social · 16d

If you're feeling discouraged, read this. Resistance is happening, and it is beautiful.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 16d

As ICE continues to terrorize Chicagoland, protesters gathered this morning outside the Broadview detention center—throwing stuffed animals at DHS agents, playing music through tear gas assaults, and putting their bodies on the line to stop ICE vehicles. My latest.

Fighting for Our Stolen Neighbors: ICE, Tear Gas and a Guitar Blown Open

"Being out here to demand what is right is the only way to stay human," says Jessica Darrow.

organizingmythoughts.org

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 16d

As ICE continues to terrorize Chicagoland, protesters gathered this morning outside the Broadview detention center—throwing stuffed animals at DHS agents, playing music through tear gas assaults, and putting their bodies on the line to stop ICE vehicles. My latest.

Fighting for Our Stolen Neighbors: ICE, Tear Gas and a Guitar Blown Open

"Being out here to demand what is right is the only way to stay human," says Jessica Darrow.

organizingmythoughts.org

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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 24d

Media crackdowns are a core part of the fascist playbook. As more repression looms, @neginowl.bsky.social & I write,
those of us in media need to ground ourselves in our own power, seeking creative ways to raise our voices and rooting ourselves in our solidarities.

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Jimmy Kimmel’s Suspension Is Shocking, But the Worst Could Be Yet to Come

The ouster of comedian Jimmy Kimmel signals a broader crackdown on media. Let’s double down, not back off in response.

truthout.org

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Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · Sep 12

If we are going to have any chance of preserving healthcare for trans people, reproductive care or frankly any kinds of care the regime wants to eliminate providers & institutions are going to have to band together to vigorously fight civil subpoenas & vague threats of criminalization at every turn

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nicholatorbett.bsky.social @nicholatorbett.bsky.social · Sep 12

"I wish that man was not killed. 'Killing’s some wack shit.' But, more than that, I wish that man considered a public and private love for the most vulnerable parts of himself and his nation before he died. I wish the same for all of us."
--Kiese Laymon on FB

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Julia Gelatt @juliagelatt.bsky.social · Sep 11

Wapo article does a good job covering two realities: How deeply watching a parents‘ immigration arrest affects kids, and how DC residents are organizing “walking buses” and neighborhood lookouts to help kids with immigrant parents get safely to school. wapo.st/3VNYZ08

They watched ICE detain their dad. Now D.C. neighbors escort them to school.

Immigrant neighborhoods across the District have organized “walking school buses” to shuttle kids to classes during President Donald Trump’s federalization of D.C. police.

wapo.st

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nicholatorbett.bsky.social @nicholatorbett.bsky.social · Sep 11

I second this recommendation. Thanks, Jonathan.

Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · Sep 11

While it's true that the "love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you" has been entirely sanitized to the point of context collapse, @melissaf-b.bsky.social wrote a great book that recontextualizes it and I do recommend "How to Have an Enemy: Righteous Anger and the Work of Peace."

nicholatorbett.bsky.social @nicholatorbett.bsky.social · Sep 11

"I know these days seem hard, but we will change the tide." In case you need this song as much as I did today:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqCm...

JNR WILLIAMS - Keep Your Head Child (Demo)

YouTube video by JNRWILLIAMSVEVO

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nicholatorbett.bsky.social @nicholatorbett.bsky.social · Sep 11

Until the trans woman murdered down the block, the kid dead of gender dysphoria, the ICE detainee dead in custody, the auntie dead for lack of healthcare, and EVERY PERSON DEAD IN GAZA are all universally grieved, I am unlikely to shed a tear for Charlie Kirk. All are victims of political violence.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · Sep 9

hi, cis folks!

if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now.

the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE.

we need you to call senators: reps.fyi

more info & script downthread.🧵

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · Sep 8

NEWS: House Appropriations Committee Republicans released their spending bill for Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies. The legislation would prohibit taxpayer dollars for any type of gender-affirming care for transgender people. This would include programs like Medicaid

SEC. 243. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce Executive Order 13988, entitled ‘‘Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation’’, published by the Executive Office of the President on January 25, 2021 (86 Fed. Reg. 7023).

SEC. 244. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used for any social, psychological, behavioral,or medical intervention performed for the purposes of in16 tentionally changing the body of an individual (including
by disrupting the body’s development, inhibiting its natural functions, or modifying its appearance) to no longer correspond to the individual’s biological sex.

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · Sep 9

Also support the @atlsolfund.bsky.social.

If you want to learn more about the original RICO charges that people were facing opposing the construction of a $90+ million militarized cop training site, we have an annotated indictment available here: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · Sep 9

The longtime fear-mongering about crime in major cities is, of course, copaganda and is being used as a pretext for occupation. It has more to do with criminalizing and controlling specific populations i.e. Black, brown, unhoused, and poor people, and not others.

PBS News @pbsnews.org · Sep 9

The vast majority of Americans, 81%, see crime as a “major problem” in large cities, according to recent polling from the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Statistics show overall crime is down across the nation, with some cities reporting 30-year lows. https://to.pbs.org/4gc4aAt

Republicans eager for Trump to expand use of military on U.S. soil

As Trump has stepped up his use of military force, fellow Republicans in Congress have done little but cheer him on.

www.pbs.org

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stop cop cities everywhere @micahh.bsky.social · Sep 9

enormous development in the Cop City RICO case today: the Judge indicated he would be dismissing *at least* the RICO and Arson counts of the indictment, which would eliminate 56 out of 61 people from the indictment.

Official answer tomorrow, and it will certainly be appealed.

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Jess 💛🤍💜🖤 @gardenjess.bsky.social · Sep 9

If you don't have ideas, this articles has a whole bunch of ideas of how to get creative.

Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · Aug 5

“Our duty to care endures even & especially when the law threatens our ability to provide it. In this moment health workers face a choice We can go along or we can join those before us who took risks to protect those in need”
must read by BDNH doc @eric-reinhart.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...

It’s Time for Health Workers to Defy the Law—Again

When the government obstructs care, caregivers must go underground.

www.thenation.com

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · Sep 8

This is such a terrible and anti-democratic idea. The mayor of NYC should not need the support of the NYPD. There are pragmatic reasons why the mayor needs to have a working relationship with the police, but the NYPD doesn't get a veto over what voters want. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/n...

Mr. Mamdani must find common ground with the police to avoid the tensions that plagued Mr. de Blasio, said Mitchell Moss, a professor of urban policy at New York University.

Mr. de Blasio tried to bring changes to the department, but he angered the rank and file. He defended a staffer who had ridiculed the police on social media and gave a speech describing how he had warned his biracial son that he could have problems with the police. The tension culminated in a painfully public protest in 2015 by officers who turned their backs on Mr. de Blasio at a police funeral.

“You can’t be mayor of New York without having the support of the Police Department,” Professor Moss said. “De Blasio never recovered from the loss of respect police gave him.”

Mr. de Blasio balanced calls for reform with his choice for commissioner: William Bratton, a well-established leader whose experience running the department in the 1990s comforted many police unions.

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