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Dr Mir

@shabana.bsky.social

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Associate professor 🧿 Author, 'Muslim American Women on Campus' Evanston * In the belly of the beast Views are always mine only Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Free Kashmir 🍁

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Dr Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 4h

WHY IS ICE OPERATING IN EVANSTON? You're busy trying to get higher office and they are free to abduct our neighbors?? Act like the mayor or resign!

Daniel Biss @danielbiss.bsky.social · 2d

Donald Trump is after absolute control. The President of our nation is deploying troops against his own residents. That isn’t leadership or democracy. It’s authoritarianism, plain and simple.

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Jes @jwolfe73.bsky.social · 7h

Northside ICRR update. 11:23am

ICIRR Eyes on ICE Update: This morning, Rapid Response Teams verified the presence of federal agents at multiple locations on the north side of Chicago including Rogers Park, West Ridge North Park, Edgewater, Uptown, Lakeview and in Evanston, IL. Multiple people have been detained. This is an ongoing operation.

Please be vigilant & aware of potential immigration enforcement in these areas. You have the right to film police activity, the right to remain silent, the right to speak to an attorney, and the right to refuse to sign anything.

ICIRR hotline: 855-435-7693
KYR card: bit.ly/ICIRRCards

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4h

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

No ice in sidewalk chalk

Rapid responder posing with whistle

Alderperson Maria Hadden on street corner

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 5h

If you don’t see the link between ICE and the IDF, you haven’t been paying attention. We are being asked to accept a world where whole communities are made disposable and marked for disappearance. If we accept that for anyone, no one is safe anywhere.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 10h

Extremely funny that people think this is now a Pritzker hate account when all we've been doing is documenting the same police violence we've been documenting well before this ICE surge

Sorry for disrupting your worldview. Welcome to what cops are!!!

Dr Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 5h

Romany River, October (oil on canvas).

Dr Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 5h

Lingley's Field (1967, oil on canvas).

Dr Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 5h

Thatched Barn and Sunflower (1958, oil on canvas).

Dr Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 5h

Chestwood Meadows (oil on canvas).

Dr Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 5h

Self Portrait (1963, oil, ink, crayon & pencil on paper).

Dr Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 5h

Moon and Round Pool (1960, oil on canvas).

Dr Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 5h

Cedar Wood (oil on canvas).

Dr Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 5h

John Scorror O'Connor (British, 1913–2004). Pond on Tollesbury Marshes (1961, oil on canvas). 🧵

Dr Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 16h

so sick of dudes who are obsessed with dicks

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

Dr Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 16h

In Chicago, after many unseasonably warm autumnal days, the temperature has dropped at last. Sunshine has become precious and intermittent again. I dread these days. The dark cold days put my heart to death.

Dr Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 16h

Today I saw the vilest, most disgusting replies from Western and Israeli Zionists to Palestinians in Gaza describing their conditions. A series of hateful, murderous replies to a photo of a sleeping newborn in Gaza.

When a ceasefire comes into play, the lust for blood makes Zionists furious.

Dr Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 16h

Evanston Ward 5 here! ✋

Dr Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 17h

Just sounds like a clear leftist position to me, not waffling and pandering to centrists.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

People who act confused by Hamas' desire to free Barghoti are bizarre to me, Hamas wants him out even though he isn't Hamas affiliated because they believe he is one of the few, or maybe even the only, individuals who can unite the whole of Palestinian factions under the PLO

Dr Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 17h

This is torture of a young girl.

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE drag girl out of car & body slam her to ground—then pin her face down & kneel on her neck.

"I'm 15!" she cries out. "I'm not resisting!"

Agents have now asked multiple area housing associations to unlock main doors—so they can go door to door.

Hoffman Estates, Illinois

Dr Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 18h

Lionel Bulmer (British, 1919-1992). Curtained Interior (oil on board).

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 21h

Eric Ravilious
Chalk Paths, 1935
Watercolor on paper
15 × 22 in

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

Live rn from a tiktok user at Broadview, Pritzker still has the Illinois state police out in force protecting 🧊 and brutalizing protesters there

A line of riot gear police with clubs advances on protesters in a “designated free-speech area” near Broadview, Illinois ice facility

Police aggressively clash with protesters, dragging one to the ground

Police clashing with protesters

Line of police before they started attacking protesters. Footage is from TikTok live of Amanda protests.

Dr Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 1d

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.