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Dr. Allison Betus (she/her) 🌈 @allisonbetus.bsky.social · 2h

The Silverhounds - The Way of the Wolf

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The Silverhounds - The Way Of The Wolf [re-upload]

YouTube video by The Silverhounds

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Dr. Allison Betus (she/her) 🌈 @allisonbetus.bsky.social · 11h

Folks, if ICE shot a pastor in the head with a pepper ball on camera, what do you think they do to people behind closed doors?

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 18h

Here’s video of the incident

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Dr. Allison Betus (she/her) 🌈 @allisonbetus.bsky.social · 11h

I'm glad I got a PhD

The skills & knowledge & growth & experience I acquired along the way made it worth it in the end

As my fascination with prison documentaries has taught me, there are much worse ways to spend 9 years

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

He was always going to do this. Chicagoans have not rioted, so the administration just lied and said we have. We have not attacked ICE agents, so they just lied and said we did. There was no chaos here, so they created chaotic scenes by attacking people and filmed that shit.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 1d

More often than not, the things people say victims should never do in the name of appeasing a perpetrator are *exactly* the things that will get a victim free.

Because those are the things that subvert the power dynamic. They chip away at a perpetrator’s power.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 1d

One of the things that brings me the greatest despair in authoritarianism is watching people react to state violence the way they react to domestic violence.

By justifying anything and everything the perpetrators does through blaming a victim for failing to be submissive enough.

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Ry Terran @hereticmasked.bsky.social · 12h

Something I've learned from a few bad home situations is that if someone wants to hurt you, they will, and no amount of compliance can ever stop that. But the abuser will use any excuse to justify it and say they were provoked.

Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 1d

One of the fundamental truths we need to acknowledge in this moment is that domestic violence is where fascists learned how to get away with their violence.

“What did you do to provoke him?” is exactly what victims hear when they try to seek help in an abusive relationship.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 17h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Kate Burns @katerqburns.bsky.social · 2d

Ok we are live and raising funds. 100% OF ALL FUNDS RAISED goes directly to stage 4 research. With cancer research being striped by the regime this is a great way to get money into desperately needed research.
You can donate directly through our instagram page www.instagram.com/reclaim_octo...

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Dr. Allison Betus (she/her) 🌈 @allisonbetus.bsky.social · 16h

I think ads for generative AI should be 100% made by that AI

You tell the AI "Make a (medium) ad for yourself that's (time) long" & whatever it makes is your ad. No edits or changes allowed.

Could you ask for more honest advertising?

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 17h

Human beings were meant to luxuriate in one another’s humanity!

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Dr. Allison Betus (she/her) 🌈 @allisonbetus.bsky.social · 17h

I actually unblocked someone recently

I was going to unblock more people but I got distracted & I don't feel like it anymore

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Dr. Allison Betus (she/her) 🌈 @allisonbetus.bsky.social · 17h

I want the bunnies to share their hutch with the bobcat & the bobcat has been very amenable to the idea but the bunnies keep screaming & running away & being rude

They won't sit down for a civil conversation with the bobcat at all

Why are the bunnies being so mean to me & my bobcat pal? 😢

Dr. Allison Betus (she/her) 🌈 @allisonbetus.bsky.social · 17h

You can't peacefully coexist with bigots

Bigots don't want to peacefully coexist

Bigots want to enhance their status & self-esteem by harming others

If they can't openly get their fix, they'll seek sly ways of harming others & play it in the victims' face

This playbook is ancient, folks

Dr. Allison Betus (she/her) 🌈 @allisonbetus.bsky.social · 17h

I like Bluesky & I don't want to migrate to another site but the owners seem to have a pattern of taking minority users for granted.

Unless leadership has a word with itself & corrects course, bigots will keep manufacturing conflict for attention+💰 & Bluesky will eventually become diet Xitter

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Dr. Allison Betus (she/her) 🌈 @allisonbetus.bsky.social · 17h

You can't peacefully coexist with bigots

Bigots don't want to peacefully coexist

Bigots want to enhance their status & self-esteem by harming others

If they can't openly get their fix, they'll seek sly ways of harming others & play it in the victims' face

This playbook is ancient, folks

Dr. Allison Betus (she/her) 🌈 @allisonbetus.bsky.social · 17h

I like Bluesky & I don't want to migrate to another site but the owners seem to have a pattern of taking minority users for granted.

Unless leadership has a word with itself & corrects course, bigots will keep manufacturing conflict for attention+💰 & Bluesky will eventually become diet Xitter

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Dr. Allison Betus (she/her) 🌈 @allisonbetus.bsky.social · 17h

I like Bluesky & I don't want to migrate to another site but the owners seem to have a pattern of taking minority users for granted.

Unless leadership has a word with itself & corrects course, bigots will keep manufacturing conflict for attention+💰 & Bluesky will eventually become diet Xitter

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Dr. Allison Betus (she/her) 🌈 @allisonbetus.bsky.social · 18h

Siouxsie & the Banshees - Rawhead & Bloody Bones

7/31

Rawhead And Bloody Bones

YouTube video by Siouxsie & The Banshees - Topic

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 1d

New from me and @brendannyhan.bsky.social

Why Trump's "Compact for Academic Excellence" is a devil's bargain and should be rejected in all forms

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Trump sent a 'compact' to our universities. They should reject this devil's bargain.

Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would forever be subservient to the whims of the government.

www.msnbc.com

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

*Many more neighbors were affected, but you won't get tallies on those numbers from the media because they don't get free ambulance rides and a PR team to issue statements on their behalf

Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 1d

27 police officers were among those injured by tear gas during a weekend protest, Chicago’s top cop says. blockclubchi.co/4nGOb0m

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clive henry @clivehenry.bsky.social · 1d

researching this area obviously brings dangers & all my fascism researching UON colleagues have had degrees of contact with the enemy, but the current mainstreaming of fash thot & tactics is terrifying. fascists have ZERO INTEREST IN FREE SPEECH, it’s just a pretence and soon abandoned

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

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Zack Ford @zackford.bsky.social · 1d

These Supreme Court oral arguments on conversion therapy are going to be painful. No matter what is said, know that trying to force someone to be what they're not is psychological torture with measurable negative consequences, and anyone trying to defend such efforts is a bigoted monster.

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Dr. Allison Betus (she/her) 🌈 @allisonbetus.bsky.social · 1d

You're not alone

Everyone in every industry is pretty screwed & feeling it

Even loads of successful people need second careers. It's madness. It's totally upside down.

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 1d

It’s really hard to describe to people who are not artists how survival mode does *not* inspire creativity, as the myth would have us believe. It suppresses creativity as you try to limit every possible risk – and the opportunities that come with them.

Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 1d

It turns out building habits and stuff actually requires not being in survival mode, who knew?!
(Yeah yeah I did)

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Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 1d

To be absolutely clear: if ICE or DHS says something happened, it almost certainly didn't happen.

And even if it did, at this point, the burden is on them to produce evidence. Anybody who gives them even the least benefit of the doubt hasn't been paying attention.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Paula Villa Braslavsky @paulita.bsky.social · 1d

"Key take-away: Political communication by mainstream parties plays a central role in the electoral success of the far right. When mainstream parties adopt far-right issues, they help to disseminate far-right ideas and legitimise them."

Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · 1d

New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

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