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mitch (he/him) @drmitchpdx.bsky.social · 5h

they hate us because of our freedoms.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 14h

"Antifa-led hellfire"

www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

PORTLAND: Fake News Ignores Antifa Violence, Residents’ Pleas for Help

For years, an Antifa-led hellfire has turned Portland into a wasteland of firebombs, beatings, and brazen attacks on federal officers and property —

www.whitehouse.gov

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Alex Han @alexhan.bsky.social · 9h

A sad day, Kent was a tireless champion for workers everywhere.

United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 9h

UFW mourns the passing of our brother Kent Wong. Please watch Kent speak in beautiful short video connecting his time with UFW to his view of the importance of solidary across labor and race and cultural backgrounds.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODkU...

Kent Wong on Solidarity: action

YouTube video by W.K. Kellogg Foundation

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LittleSis @mapthepower.bsky.social · 17h

Join @acrecampaigns.bsky.social October 22nd for their webinar The Billionaire Power Grab and How To Fight Back
www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...

The Billionaire Power Grab and How To Fight Back · May Day Strong

Billionaires are taking control of our government and coming after our jobs, families, communities, and essential services at an alarming rate. That is why organized people across the country are comi...

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 19h

sign and share and join AAUP actionnetwork.org/petitions/tr...

Trump Higher Ed Compact 2025

We stand for education—for science, for students and for freedom—and against this backward, anti-American policy. We call on university leaders, faculty, staff and students to unite in rejecting the T...

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Alex Han @alexhan.bsky.social · 1d

Are they trolling us

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H Kapp-Klote @hkappklote.bsky.social · 1d

But I just want to say that the right has not WON, they're not a monolith, and they're are DESPERATELY spinning this escalation into civil war because they know how unpopular it is

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 1d

Since October 7, 2023, Gaza’s children & families have proven to be the most vulnerable.

In this 2024 piece, sociologist and new mother @hebagowayed.bsky.social wrote about the unbearable loss of Palestinian children—and the power of parental love as resistance.

On Parenthood and Genocide

A new mother and scholar of forced displacement writes about Israel's mass murder of Palestinian children in Gaza.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

Drop Site confirmed this morning that our journalist Alex Colston has been released from Israeli detention. Alex has been imprisoned since Thursday as one of 462 participants in the Global Sumud Flotilla, which Alex was covering for Drop Site. He was among 131 deported to Jordan today.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 2d

Ellison's CBS brought on the two editors that got NYT to publish Tom Cotton's 2020 op-ed calling for soldiers to shoot protesters in the streets. Hard to find a clearer editorial throughline than "anyone protesting murder by the state should be killed for it."

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Alex Han @alexhan.bsky.social · 2d

Meanwhile at the White House...

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson:

"Private establishments can partner with us to make it clear that private property is private property and ICE cannot enter establishments without a valid warrant ... If Congress will not check this administration, then Chicago will."

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 2d

HAPPENING NOW — This morning, Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order establishing “ICE-free zones.”

“That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as grounds for these raids,” Johnson said to applause.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/mayo...

Mayor Brandon Johnson signs executive order establishing ‘ICE-free zones’ • The TRiiBE

Johnson is calling for a full investigation into “all of the brutality” that federal agents have conducted this past week.

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 2d

As federal agents kill and use extreme force in Chicago, their budget surges.

What we’re seeing is the 13th largest army in the world unleashing violence in Chicago, writes @sarahlazare.bsky.social and @lindsaykosh.bsky.social

inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...

The 13th Largest Army in World Is Unleashing Violence in Chicago

As federal agents kill and use extreme force in Chicago, their budget surges.

inthesetimes.com

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 3d

Oh look, more Strike Captains!

Workers in Portland, OR letting Starbucks know they are ready to do whatever it takes to secure that first contract!

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 4d

per reddit this is the 'ten car' incident -- weird!

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 4d

Fed. judge grants TRO blocking Trump from deploying National Guard troops to Portland.

Holds that, at this stage, Plaintiffs appear likely to succeed on their ultra vires and Tenth Amendment claims.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 4d

Make of this what you will but over on twitter major MAGA accounts want Chicago PD they say didn't help ICE "rounded up" and are doxing CPD commanders. I note this not to suggest sympathy for CPD but to point to a fault line.

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H Kapp-Klote @hkappklote.bsky.social · 5d

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Alex Han @alexhan.bsky.social · 5d

What is the Cook County Sheriff's department doing at the Broadview ICE facility?

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 7d

Let's annotate:
1. Who did it? Clearly assigns blame.
2. Why did the culprits do it? Motive.
3. What must be done in response?

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7d

Overnight, Trump and Republicans in Congress shut down the federal government.

They shut it down because they’re determined to strip healthcare from millions of Americans, to enrich the billionaires they serve, to continue the assault on our rights.

We must fight back.

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Alex Han @alexhan.bsky.social · 7d

My president.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 8d

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.

Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.

We have been sent here to fight for people.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8d

AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance

However, they are weaker than they look…

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Mike McCarthy @itsmccarthy.bsky.social · 9d

Excellent reporting from at @inthesetimes.com that draws from some of my work. The labor movement still hasn’t got its head around the way the institutions of capitalism have changed between the 1930s and today. If the workplace needed democracy then, today pooled assets do as well.

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Michael McLean @mclean.bsky.social · 10d

“Earlier today ICE agents chase after a man in downtown Chicago after he made verbal comments but no physical or threatening contact. The man was able to get away.” - Christopher Sweat

The maga patronage chuds can’t catch #bikechi

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Alex Han @alexhan.bsky.social · 12d

The new TEDx talks are getting pretty weird

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 12d

Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered hundreds of generals to travel on short notice from around the world to hear him make a short speech on military standards and the “warrior ethos.”

New details emerge on Hegseth’s unusual mass gathering of top brass

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has summoned hundreds of generals for what is expected to be a short lecture on the “warrior ethos.” But top brass is bracing for possible firings or demotions.

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Alex Han @alexhan.bsky.social · 12d

Gonna award medals for My Lai and Abu Ghraib next

Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 12d

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

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