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Tracy Baim

@tracybaim.bsky.social

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lgbtq+ \ journalist \ advocate \ chicago lesbian \ feminist\ she\her 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🦄 Windy City Times cofounder 1985 \ author Skeets my own.

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Tracy Baim @tracybaim.bsky.social · May 3

Just out. Liberating Healthcare: 50 Years of Resistance, Resilience, and Healing at Howard Brown Health, is the longest of my 14 books, and perhaps the most difficult birth. #booksky

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 7h

Question:

Why is Tish James being prosecuted in the Eastern District of Virginia, instead of in NY?

Answer:

You know why.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 9h

“Very, very unfair and even worse than Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl. Your favorite president was snubbed for someone who’s not even American.” www.reuters.com/world/venezu...

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 19h

Just bone chilling. And when the imprisonment of critics is combined with his offer to enrich and immunize his loyalists, this is how democracies die fast.

But it's still our choice. Don't let him silence you.

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

I donated some copies of Let This Radicalize You for distribution at an ICE watch training for folks who want to join school patrols in a nearby neighborhood. Not everyone got a copy, because 120 people showed up for that training tonight. I am endlessly proud of Chicago.

A display of copies of Let This Radicalize You on a table in front of a sign that reads: "Let This Radicalize You offers stories, strategy and heart for the kind of collective care and resistance we're building together today. It helps us move from reacting to organizing. Showing how ordinary people protect each other, build power, and keep hope alive. Take a copy. Read it. Stay connected."

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 21h

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 19h

"...including while she was praying with her eyes closed and hands lifted, wearing a clerical collar and stole."

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 23h

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Tracy Baim @tracybaim.bsky.social · 15h

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Beverly Glenn-Copeland Announces "Deeply Personal" Joint Album With Wife

“A collaborative effort born from the love story my sweetheart Elizabeth and I have been writing together for a lifetime.”

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 17h

You know what fascism looks like? Attorney General Letitia James getting criminally indicted on literal trumped-up charges by the criminal who she fought to hold accountable for the actual crimes he committed and is now using the full power of the US govt to seek vengeance.

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Legal Defense Fund @legaldefensefund.bsky.social · 20h

The political prosecution of Attorney General James is yet another example of a truly disturbing pattern within this administration to attack and punish Black public servants, especially Black women!

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Tracy Baim @tracybaim.bsky.social · 16h

League of Women Voters of Oak Park-River Forest panel on local journalism, Oak Park Public Library. Great colleagues: April Alonso from Cicero Independiente; Amethyst Davis from Harvey World Herald; Max Reinsdorf from Growing Community Media; moderator Judith Crown, co-prez of the League chapter.

Tracy Baim @tracybaim.bsky.social · 21h

Kate Sosin was right in 2019 and just as relevant and right in 2025 and beyond. @shoeleatherkate.bsky.social

Readying for SCOTIS LGBTQ arguments tomorrow. To be clear, they don’t get to rule on our humanity. They’re ruling on their own. From 2019.

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Esther Be Good! @estherbgood.bsky.social · 22h

Oklahoma Gov Kevin Stitt, Chair of the National Governors Association, criticized Texas Gov Abbott for deploying TX Nat’l Guard members to Chicago, “mark[ing] the 1st time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections."

Deep red gov rips TX for sending troops to Chicago: 'Oklahomans would lose their mind'

A deep red state governor slammed Texas for sending National Guard troops to Chicago, saying "Oklahomans would lose their mind" if Illinois were to do the same to his state. Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt,...

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CynDee 🏳️‍🌈 🇮🇱🇺🇦 ally 💙 @cyndeeees.bsky.social · 23h

BREAKING: A federal judge found ICE violated a consent decree prohibiting ICE from arresting people without warrants or probable cause in Illinois and five other states. The court extended the decree until February 2, 2026, giving a tool to fight against ICE’s abuses of warrantless arrests.

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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago and Portland showing us how it’s DONE!!

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

A man was just abducted by ICE on Clark and Lunt, feet away from our campaign office.

Now our community is showing up and patrolling for ICE. Join us by getting involved in Protect RP: www.facebook.com/share/1DQqPQ...

Redirecting...

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 1d

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Shapiro: I filed that amicus brief last night to make it very clear that the Pennsylvania National Guard is under my command.

The way the President has chosen to deploy the Guard in other states—and, in at least one case, deploy the Guard from one state into another—is extremely dangerous.

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Nancy @plaintanjane.bsky.social · 23h

October 9, 2025

“Against that backdrop, the order from U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis confirms journalists’ right to report and the public’s right to protest under the First Amendment.”

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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 1d

VICTORY: Today, together with our partners, we won an emergency order stopping federal agents from using violent force against protestors in Illinois. Federal ICE/DHS agents are now blocked from using tactics like tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse lawful assembly. protdem.org/474KWsA

Court Halts Unlawful Suppression of Speech by ICE

DHS ordered to stop violating First Amendment rights of press, clergy, and protesters in Illinois

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Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social · 1d

Hundreds of people arrested by ICE agents around Chicago over the past few months could be released, according to a new fed. ruling.

|https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/08/100s-could-be-freed-from-ice-custody-after-ruling-that-warrantless-arrests-violated-consent-decree/

Hundreds Could Be Freed From ICE Custody After Warrantless Arrest Ruling

Immigration attorneys said they have already identified more than 200 arrests that potentially violate the consent decree. However, they said those 200 arrests are likely "just the tip of the iceberg....

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

Remember all of the ghouls who denied this was happening and did everything they could to make the problem worse from JK Rowling to Wes Streeting. The NHS who did a stitch up report to hide the growing number of suicides from trans youth on the waitlists. They should never be forgiven.

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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 1d

The First Amendment contains the most cherished and fundamental rights of our democracy — it is vital that we defend it. In her ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Sara L. Ellis affirmed that the government cannot use violence as a means to silence dissent. ⬇️

Whatever lawlessness is occurring is not occurring by peaceful protestors. That the actions taken by some federal agents at this point and on this record clearly violate the Constitution. Individuals are allowed to protest. They are allowed to speak. That is guaranteed by the First Amendment.
judge sara l. ellis
us district court, northern district of illinois

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

This is truly horrifying.

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach…with Antifa."

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 1d

Remember this post? The Wall Street Journal just confirmed it was meant to be a DM to Pam Bondi.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...

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