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ICE is terrorizing my neighborhood (Pilsen) and so many others in Chicagoland. There have been sightings and abductions everyday. Please support our rapid response efforts: bit.ly/punofundraiser
PUÑO Fundraiser
Pilsen Defense & Access is launching a fundraiser through the end of Hispanic Heritage month, with 100% of funds raised going to PUÑO! PUÑO (Pilsen Unidos por Nuestro Orgullo) works to protect our...
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September 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
ICE is terrorizing my neighborhood (Pilsen) and so many others in Chicagoland. There have been sightings and abductions everyday. Please support our rapid response efforts: bit.ly/punofundraiser
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The news can be overwhelming (bad), but it's helpful to remember that people everywhere are taking action to resist.
Our "This Month in Criminalization" newsletter by @dreanyc123.bsky.social has the latest info/updates, alongside ways you can join the fight. The latest is out now: bit.ly/IC-TMIC9
Our "This Month in Criminalization" newsletter by @dreanyc123.bsky.social has the latest info/updates, alongside ways you can join the fight. The latest is out now: bit.ly/IC-TMIC9
This Month in Criminalization — Interrupting Criminalization
The September edition of Interrupting Criminalization’s This Month in Criminalization newsletter shares critical information, calls to action, and resources related to the further consolidation of aut...
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September 25, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The news can be overwhelming (bad), but it's helpful to remember that people everywhere are taking action to resist.
Our "This Month in Criminalization" newsletter by @dreanyc123.bsky.social has the latest info/updates, alongside ways you can join the fight. The latest is out now: bit.ly/IC-TMIC9
Our "This Month in Criminalization" newsletter by @dreanyc123.bsky.social has the latest info/updates, alongside ways you can join the fight. The latest is out now: bit.ly/IC-TMIC9
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I want our young people to know that there is a path forward, that a better world is possible. I don't want them to give up, to become cynical. They deserve to be young and full of optimism. They are owed a world that supports and sustains optimism.
September 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I want our young people to know that there is a path forward, that a better world is possible. I don't want them to give up, to become cynical. They deserve to be young and full of optimism. They are owed a world that supports and sustains optimism.
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Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.
September 15, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.
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"He walked 8 km to get there. No shoes. Probably hadn't eaten in days... he set down his bags and he put his hands on my face and he kissed me... he left and the IDF opened up with machine gun fire... There were dead Palestinians. He was one of them."
A five-year-old child.
A five-year-old child.
You can watch this Green Beret describe this experience in his own words to @vanhollen.senate.gov, and for us, and I cried. I’m not sure how you could watch this veteran tell this child’s story and not feel all of the emotions at once.
July 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
"He walked 8 km to get there. No shoes. Probably hadn't eaten in days... he set down his bags and he put his hands on my face and he kissed me... he left and the IDF opened up with machine gun fire... There were dead Palestinians. He was one of them."
A five-year-old child.
A five-year-old child.
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posters of missing persons in Lower Manhattan inevitably conjure 9/11, but instead of terrorist attacks, this time it's our own government gleefully terrorizing immigrants for sport.
@davecolon.bsky.social is in this week's issue with a dispatch from the scene downtown nygroove.nyc/lower-manhat...
@davecolon.bsky.social is in this week's issue with a dispatch from the scene downtown nygroove.nyc/lower-manhat...
In front of a Manhattan ICE office, a fence is covered in photos of vanished immigrants
'In what country do you recall students being black bagged off of a street? Not one person ever says the United States of America.'
nygroove.nyc
July 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
posters of missing persons in Lower Manhattan inevitably conjure 9/11, but instead of terrorist attacks, this time it's our own government gleefully terrorizing immigrants for sport.
@davecolon.bsky.social is in this week's issue with a dispatch from the scene downtown nygroove.nyc/lower-manhat...
@davecolon.bsky.social is in this week's issue with a dispatch from the scene downtown nygroove.nyc/lower-manhat...
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New post on Blind Archive: “To Starve a People: Gaza & the Settler Biopolitics of Health”
TLDR is let your grief & horror become action. Give all the material support you can directly to Gazans.
The genocide depends on despair. Let it find you ungovernable. Loud. Unrelenting.
TLDR is let your grief & horror become action. Give all the material support you can directly to Gazans.
The genocide depends on despair. Let it find you ungovernable. Loud. Unrelenting.
July 29, 2025 at 10:56 PM
New post on Blind Archive: “To Starve a People: Gaza & the Settler Biopolitics of Health”
TLDR is let your grief & horror become action. Give all the material support you can directly to Gazans.
The genocide depends on despair. Let it find you ungovernable. Loud. Unrelenting.
TLDR is let your grief & horror become action. Give all the material support you can directly to Gazans.
The genocide depends on despair. Let it find you ungovernable. Loud. Unrelenting.
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This. The EO—though it doesn't carry the force of the law—calls for even more efforts to criminalize and institutionalize unhoused people, folks with unmet mental health needs, drug users and those deemed to be "vagrants." It aims to render people as disposable, and control, lock up + disappear them
This is all lies, and I don’t know what else I can add: Human beings are being dehumanized as “disorder” to be managed, punished, or disappeared.
Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and
www.whitehouse.gov
July 29, 2025 at 10:09 PM
This. The EO—though it doesn't carry the force of the law—calls for even more efforts to criminalize and institutionalize unhoused people, folks with unmet mental health needs, drug users and those deemed to be "vagrants." It aims to render people as disposable, and control, lock up + disappear them
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An eloquent image:
Setting aside the content under the tarp for a moment, teens were asked to make art expressing what it is like to be a teen, and the end result was a mural wrapped in a tarp by adults.
I bet a lot of teens would find this expressive of their experience.
Setting aside the content under the tarp for a moment, teens were asked to make art expressing what it is like to be a teen, and the end result was a mural wrapped in a tarp by adults.
I bet a lot of teens would find this expressive of their experience.
July 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
An eloquent image:
Setting aside the content under the tarp for a moment, teens were asked to make art expressing what it is like to be a teen, and the end result was a mural wrapped in a tarp by adults.
I bet a lot of teens would find this expressive of their experience.
Setting aside the content under the tarp for a moment, teens were asked to make art expressing what it is like to be a teen, and the end result was a mural wrapped in a tarp by adults.
I bet a lot of teens would find this expressive of their experience.
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"Smalls, the only Black person onboard the boat, was one of 21 members of the group who were detained. Others included 19 civilians, including parliamentarians, medics and engineers, and two journalists."
US labor activist Chris Smalls assaulted by IDF during Gaza aid trip, group says
Freedom Flotilla Coalition says Smalls was ‘choked and kicked’ after aid ship trying to reach Gaza was intercepted
www.theguardian.com
July 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
"Smalls, the only Black person onboard the boat, was one of 21 members of the group who were detained. Others included 19 civilians, including parliamentarians, medics and engineers, and two journalists."
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The Israeli Defense Forces surrounded, beat, and choked American labor leader Chris Smalls, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition announced
Israel Detains, Chokes, and Beats Up Amazon Union Leader Chris Smalls
Meanwhile, there’s not a peep from mainstream media in the U.S.
newrepublic.com
July 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The Israeli Defense Forces surrounded, beat, and choked American labor leader Chris Smalls, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition announced
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"Brandon is proof that each of us can show up for the most vulnerable in our communities. We can do so with what’s within our capacity to offer. We can be the people on the banks."
The Magic of Showing Up
720 Weeks On 79th and Cottage Grove
open.substack.com
July 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"Brandon is proof that each of us can show up for the most vulnerable in our communities. We can do so with what’s within our capacity to offer. We can be the people on the banks."
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This is extremely important. What is described in this thread would constitute massive corruption of the U.S. legal system, aided and abetted by a public university. Journalists must immediately examine the facts here, and so should California legislators and regulators. Shocking.
1/ I represent 5 anti-zionist students and faculty challenging the outrageous claim that the Palestine Solidarity Encampment was a "Jew exclusion zone". UCLA refused to defend. Today they agreed to pay millions instead. I can't overstate how dangerous this is. 🧵
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
UCLA to pay $6.45 million to settle suit by Jewish students over pro-Palestinian protests
UCLA agreed to settle a lawsuit by Jewish students who alleged the university aided a 2024 pro-Palestinian encampment, which the lawsuit alleged illegally discriminated against Jewish people.
www.latimes.com
July 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
This is extremely important. What is described in this thread would constitute massive corruption of the U.S. legal system, aided and abetted by a public university. Journalists must immediately examine the facts here, and so should California legislators and regulators. Shocking.
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the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this
July 29, 2025 at 11:59 PM
the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this
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The first thousand or so did not make it to their first birthday.
This is the Washington Post (yes, that one): names in Arabic and English, and ages, of all 18,500 children killed in Gaza, plus portraits and stories where available: www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names.
Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 30, 2025 at 10:15 AM
The first thousand or so did not make it to their first birthday.
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NEW: While many academics worried about danger to free speech in higher ed during Trump admin's arrests of students for pro-Palestine speech, some liberal arts professors were supporting the groups looking to detain students...sometimes on their own campuses.
www.dropsitenews.com/p/documentin...
www.dropsitenews.com/p/documentin...
The Professors Who Supported the Student Deportation Frenzy
GoFundMe donations, social media posts, and board memberships reveal how a handful of faculty members are backing Zionist doxxing outfits.
www.dropsitenews.com
July 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
NEW: While many academics worried about danger to free speech in higher ed during Trump admin's arrests of students for pro-Palestine speech, some liberal arts professors were supporting the groups looking to detain students...sometimes on their own campuses.
www.dropsitenews.com/p/documentin...
www.dropsitenews.com/p/documentin...
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How have you been impacted by the changes we've seen under the current administration? What would you want to say to those in charge?
I'm launching a new research initiative to collect and share anonymous stories of the human toll. And I'd be very grateful for your help.
tinyurl.com/thehumantoll
I'm launching a new research initiative to collect and share anonymous stories of the human toll. And I'd be very grateful for your help.
tinyurl.com/thehumantoll
![The Human Toll
The US is undergoing rapid social, economic, and policy change.
If you've been impacted, we want to hear your story!
To participate, visit: https://tinyurl.com/thehumantoll
Study sponsored under University of Wisconsin-Madison IRB Protocol #2025-1096. PI: Dr. Jessica Calarco
Participants must be at least 18 years of age and reside in the US
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July 30, 2025 at 10:19 AM
How have you been impacted by the changes we've seen under the current administration? What would you want to say to those in charge?
I'm launching a new research initiative to collect and share anonymous stories of the human toll. And I'd be very grateful for your help.
tinyurl.com/thehumantoll
I'm launching a new research initiative to collect and share anonymous stories of the human toll. And I'd be very grateful for your help.
tinyurl.com/thehumantoll
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One of the first duties of intellectuals… in colonialist countries is unreservedly to support the national aspirations of colonized peoples.
—Frantz Fanon
—Frantz Fanon
July 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
One of the first duties of intellectuals… in colonialist countries is unreservedly to support the national aspirations of colonized peoples.
—Frantz Fanon
—Frantz Fanon
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It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.
July 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.
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I thought that most of the institutions would go along with authoritarianism because they support some fascism. But I didn't think it would be so fast.
We are seven months in, and the speed with which vital civic institutions are capitulating to authoritarian demands we once would have regarded as inconceivable in an established liberal democracy is jawdropping. I hadn't thought I was polyannaish about America, but it's really stunning.
July 26, 2025 at 4:14 AM
I thought that most of the institutions would go along with authoritarianism because they support some fascism. But I didn't think it would be so fast.
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An intentional, avoidable mass starvation event is happening in the context of an ongoing genocide and not only is the US not doing anything to stop it, we are actively enabling it, both materially by continuing to fund and arm Israel and also by silencing protest here. www.bbc.com/news/article...
More than 100 humanitarian groups warn of mass starvation in Gaza
A joint statement says the Israeli government's "siege" has left aid supplies "totally depleted".
www.bbc.com
July 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
An intentional, avoidable mass starvation event is happening in the context of an ongoing genocide and not only is the US not doing anything to stop it, we are actively enabling it, both materially by continuing to fund and arm Israel and also by silencing protest here. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Hirsch, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, is now thinking of leaving the classroom:
“A university that treats criticism of Israel as antisemitic & threatens sanctions for those who disobey is no longer a place of open inquiry … I just don’t see how I can teach about genocide in that environment.”
“A university that treats criticism of Israel as antisemitic & threatens sanctions for those who disobey is no longer a place of open inquiry … I just don’t see how I can teach about genocide in that environment.”
Marianne Hirsch is one of the greatest scholars of memory studies working today, and I have learned so much from her work. Last semester, I assigned her to my students and they learned from her. If she feels she cannot stay at Columbia, that speaks badly of Columbia now. apnews.com/article/colu...
A Columbia genocide scholar says she may leave over university's new definition of antisemitism
Academics around the country are raising alarm about growing efforts to define antisemitism on terms pushed by the Trump administration.
apnews.com
July 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Hirsch, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, is now thinking of leaving the classroom:
“A university that treats criticism of Israel as antisemitic & threatens sanctions for those who disobey is no longer a place of open inquiry … I just don’t see how I can teach about genocide in that environment.”
“A university that treats criticism of Israel as antisemitic & threatens sanctions for those who disobey is no longer a place of open inquiry … I just don’t see how I can teach about genocide in that environment.”
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tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.
Restoring Gold Standard Science
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United
www.whitehouse.gov
May 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.