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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 3d

I'm not going to name any names here but I'm finding myself increasingly left cold by apolitical self-involved music written and performed by billionaires

(And I say this as someone who used to enjoy such music, but it just seems to hit different now as we're in the midst of our country collapsing)

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Shay Stewart-Bouley @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social · 4d

Which is ridiculous. I'm glad that they are, and it's clear where our media is as a whole

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Shay Stewart-Bouley @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social · 4d

What's happening in Chicago will eventually be in more places. That's a 24/7 story or is the real truth that because it happened to Black folks, you feel bad, but you think you are safe.

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 4d

The Vice President of the United States used his social media page to tell Joy Reid, a private citizen with no connection to the government, that she should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her.

Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.

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Shay Stewart-Bouley @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social · 4d

I mentioned that what happened in Chicago isn't getting enough attention.

People reply with links to the articles they have seen, including People magazine.

Did we not just spend weeks being inundated with pieces about the dead podcaster. We need that level of energy. Non-stop, flood the zone.

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Shay Stewart-Bouley @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social · 5d

It's rough. My brother is over in Hyde Park, and he works out west.

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Shay Stewart-Bouley @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social · 5d

If a dead podcaster and Jimmy Kimmel could get back to back coverage. An apartment building in the 3rd largest city in America that was attacked by federal agents is worthy of equal attention, if not more.

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Shay Stewart-Bouley @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social · 5d

I've been a wreck all week. Between a personal family matter and Chicago, it has been rough. We lived on South Shore when I was a kid, first place I remember.

Then, I bounced around the NW side as a young adult. I worked for years in Logan Square. Watching home be attacked is hard.

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Shay Stewart-Bouley @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social · 5d

These frozen water folks are everywhere. Including in very white states like Maine.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 5d

Logan Square neighborhood, Chicago. Man wearing a balaclava in a white, unmarked vehicle, pulls the pin on a tear gas canister and tosses it in the road.

"Just trying to grab some lunch and these fucking losers showed up. FUCK ICE!"
source: www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...

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Shay Stewart-Bouley @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social · 5d

I have several of their dresses. They can be dressed up or down, and they have pockets. Can't recommend enough.

Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 6d

At the Zuri store to pick up a new dress and spotted this one called "Geared Up" in the window, which I think would be perfect for engineers, scientists, professors, and any aspiring Miss Frizzle. www.shopzuri.com/products/gea...

Zuri store window in NYC with a dress featuring different sized gears.

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So_Sophs🏳️‍🌈🎀⛰️🥾 @thatssosophs.bsky.social · 5d

This all should be bigger than George Floyd’s murder. 28 million people should be in the streets by now like we were then.

If anyone’s waiting for an invitation to mass protest, this is it.

Stop waiting for no kings day next weekend and get out there now.

Shay Stewart-Bouley @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social · 6d

What happened in Chicago isn't getting nearly enough attention.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Shay Stewart-Bouley @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social · 6d

What happened in Chicago isn't getting nearly enough attention.

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Shay Stewart-Bouley @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social · 6d

My latest on the blog.

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Military-style raid in Chicago clearly targets Black people | Shay Stewart-Bouley

Sweet home, Chicago. For years now, I have described myself as a Chicagoan exiled in Maine. Don’t get me wrong, Maine has become my home and there is much I love about it—but Chicago will always be ho...

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Shay Stewart-Bouley @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social · 7d

I was born and raised in Chicago and lived there for the first 30 years of my life. I still have family there, and watching these jackboots terrorize folks is hard. Knowing we are all at risk of having our communities invaded.

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 7d

ice in chicago today:

six people taken from albany park. at least five people taken from cicero. four people taken from bronzeville.

confirmed activity in joliet, bensenville, melrose park, elgin, woodridge, and algonquin. who knows how many people taken.

Kidnappings across Chicago’s Northwest Side, Bronzeville, Cicero and suburbs; DHS confirms 37 arrests in South Shore apartments raid • The TRiiBE

A day after federal officers swarmed an apartment building in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood, agents returned to the South and West sides on Wednesday

thetriibe.com

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Shay Stewart-Bouley @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social · 7d

One of my latest on Substack

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We dodged a few bullets, but not all of them—the Hegseth-Trump address to officers

The thing is, what Hegseth kept hammering home was the need for maximum brutality, lethality, ruthlessness, demoralization, hunting and killing. He really emphasized the war aspect. Not just being for...

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Ms. Wong @mauiwong.bsky.social · 11d

Re-upping this piece from @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social

Ms. Wong @mauiwong.bsky.social · 11d

A lot of you out there (mostly white people) ... are used to the system at least nominally working to your benefit.

But we all need you to get your heads out of the sand and realize no one is coming to save us, least of all the system that is largely controlled by the right wing right now.

Please stop saying that...! He can and he will

It’s frustrating for me—as one of those voices who warned everyone in 2016 that Donny Drumpf stood a good chance of being elected despite so many of you laughing—to see so many people still in absolut...

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Written by Uju ✍🏽 @writtenbyuju.bsky.social · 12d

“No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that knowledge will help set you free.” - Assata Shakur 🥀

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Shay Stewart-Bouley @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social · 12d

My latest on Substack

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The next step toward a one-party state? 47’s latest official order

So, again, if you are using the term antifa or even fully spelling it out as anti-fascist now, you are apparently an enemy of the state.

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Shay Stewart-Bouley @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social · 14d

It's intentional erasure, IMO.

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Shay Stewart-Bouley @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social · 14d

Escalator-gate, all because it never occurred to him to back up and walk to the next one over that was working.

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Shay Stewart-Bouley @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social · 15d

Not at all. We are seeing more of Vance these days. They are playing a long game.

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Shay Stewart-Bouley @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social · 15d

He's not the brains of this operation. He can't even maintain a straight thought for 7 minutes, but Stephen Miller can.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

We shall see if one of the most unpopular presidents in American history who is presiding over an economy he’s trying to wreck and the poisoning of our diplomatic relations can consolidate a dictatorship. I’m pretty skeptical he has the juice, especially in his decayed state.

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