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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 6d

“Fuck them kids.”

That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

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"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

Watson said trucks and military-style vans were used to separate parents from their children. Other neighbors said agents destroyed property to get in the building.

"They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down," said witness Darrell Ballard. "We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 9d

Court-watchers confirm this cruel ICE agent has been reinstated.

Last week, in the briefest moment of decency, violently throwing a woman to the floor was “beneath the men and women of ICE.”

This week, it’s back to business as usual. The cruelty, after all, is the point.

Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 13d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 9d

Mohsen Mahdawi and Mahmoud Khalil outside Columbia’s (locked) gates on the eve of their possible deportation

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 12d

Assata died as an elder, living in freedom, not a captive. That's the beauty.

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Christina Heatherton @cheatherton.bsky.social · Aug 21

Teachers! Order your Fall books through Workshops4Gaza link⤵️. All proceeds go to The Sameer Project.

open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/collections/...

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Christina Heatherton @cheatherton.bsky.social · Aug 21

LA! Come to Little Tokyo this SATURDAY (8/23) at 10am for a National Day of Action against raids and historic erasure.

#NoRaids #NoErasure

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Ana Velasco @anavelasco.bsky.social · Aug 18

Just catching up with this episode, highly recommend it: Stuart Hall, Palestinian geographies, the role of the students at neoliberal universities, and conjunctural analysis of settler colonialism/capitalism

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Hashem Abushama, University of Oxford

@cheatherton.bsky.social, Trinity College

Palestine is the Barricade

In this episode, Christina Heatherton speaks with geographer Hashem Abushama about Stuart Hall, Palestinian geographies, and conjunctural analysis. Watch the episode on YouTube, or listen to it on…

trinitysocialjustice.com

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · Aug 11

Sickening. Every journalist in America should think deeply about the fact that most American politicians are willing to accept and indeed facilitate the murder of our colleagues.

Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · Aug 10

never take freedom of the press or access to news for granted. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · Aug 5

Just caught up with this conversation, and I'm glad I did. It's excellent!

Christina Heatherton @cheatherton.bsky.social · May 2

Incredibly proud of this conversation with Hashem Abushama. We discuss Fanon, Stuart Hall, and Palestine as the barricade against rising fascism in the current conjuncture. Watch or listen to Conjuncture:

YouTube:
youtu.be/QEpCKNUzWHc

Podcast:
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/tri...

Happy May Day!

Conjuncture: Hashem Abushama - Palestine is the Barricade

YouTube video by Trinity Social Justice Institute

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Maximillian Alvarez @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social · Jul 29

🚨 RED ALERT 🚨 Israeli forces imprisoned & beat Chris Smalls, US labor leader, after capturing the @freedomflotilla.bsky.social ship Handala on Saturday.

Every union member, every labor leader who took pictures with Chris, should be speaking out NOW! DEMAND CHRIS BE SAFELY RELEASED & RETURNED HOME

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · Jul 22

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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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · Jul 21

Du Bois on what these assholes were really like

The Southern planter suffered, not simply for his eco- nomic mistakess-the psychological effect of slavery upon him was fatal. The mere fact that a man could be, under the law, the actual master of the mind and body of human beings had to have disastrous effects. It tended to inflate the ego of most planters beyond all reason; they became arrogant, strutting, quarrelsome kinglets; they issued commands; they made laws; they shouted their orders; they expected deference and self-abasement; they were choleric and easily insulted. Their "honor" be- came a vast and awful thing, requiring wide and insist- ent deference. Such of them as were inherently weak and inefficient were all the more easily angered, jealous and resentful; while the few who were superior, physically or mentally, conceived no bounds to their power and per- sonal prestige. As the world had long learned, nothing is so calculated to ruin human nature as absolute power
over human beings.

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Christina Heatherton @cheatherton.bsky.social · Jul 7

“The news media is describing the operation as an ominous crackdown, but National Guard sources tell me that it was a botched laughingstock.”

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · Jul 7

I've obtained a trove of leaked documents about today's federal crackdown on Los Angeles' MacArthur Park. One revelation is its codename: "Operation Excalibur"

Exclusive: Operation Excalibur in Los Angeles “Show of Presence”

Leaks from military's LA deployment reveal Coca Cola vs. Pepsi rivalry, sweaty guardsmen, and abject failure

www.kenklippenstein.com

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Andrew J Douglas @ajdouglas.bsky.social · Jun 24

Morehouse and Spelman AAUP chapters are proud to host the Summer Institute on our campuses in Atlanta this year. First time the meeting will be held at an HBCU. And on the heels of new AAUP-AFT leadership committing REAL RESOURCES to organizing HBCU campus workers. Let’s go!

AAUP @aaup.org · Jun 23

The 2025 Summer Institute presents a crucial opportunity for AAUP & AFT members to learn how to fight back against attacks on higher ed while continuing to advance our shared vision for the future.

Attendance is FREE for AAUP & AFT members!

Join us!

Register Here! ⬇️

www.aaup.org/event/2025-a...

Fight! Win! Building our power in higher ed.
Summer Institute 2025

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · Jun 15

"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives."
-Smedley Butler

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Christina Heatherton @cheatherton.bsky.social · Jun 13

Walter Rodney: “I do not believe that it is remotely possible in this country that the enemies of the people can extinguish and put out the humanity which resides in us. PEOPLES POWER, NO DICTATOR!!"

Andrew J Douglas @ajdouglas.bsky.social · Jun 13

RIP Walter Rodney, assassinated on this day 45 years ago.

Read his final speech, “Sign of the Times,” on “how the ruling class come back time and time again to the notion that they are royalty.” Written for a different context, but chillingly resonant in ours.

www.marxists.org/subject/afri...

Graphic of Walter Rodney with a quote from his final speech: “What I am trying to say is simply this: The revolution is made by ordinary people, not by angels, made by people from all walks of life, and more particularly by the working class who are in the majority. And it is a sign of the times, a sign of the power of revolutionary transformation, when a street force member is developed into a fighting cadre in a political movement.”

Graphic c/o Josh McPhee https://justseeds.org/product/walter-rodney/

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Christina Heatherton @cheatherton.bsky.social · Jun 12

Long live Walter Rodney!

Jordan T. Camp @jordantcamp.bsky.social · Jun 12

On June 13, 1980 radical historian & political theorist Walter Rodney was assassinated. To honor his life & legacy I worked w/ @bostonreview.bsky.social to publish Stuart Hall's previously unpublished 1974 speech in support of Rodney. Rodney and Hall speak to our conjuncture w/ remarkable clarity.

Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · Jun 12

“Today their legacies demonstrate the imperative of organic intellectuals to confront authoritarian nationalism and forge global solidarity.”

@jordantcamp.bsky.social introduces a previously unpublished 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney, who was assassinated 45 years ago tomorrow:

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Christina Heatherton @cheatherton.bsky.social · May 2

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Christina Heatherton @cheatherton.bsky.social · May 2

Incredibly proud of this conversation with Hashem Abushama. We discuss Fanon, Stuart Hall, and Palestine as the barricade against rising fascism in the current conjuncture. Watch or listen to Conjuncture:

YouTube:
youtu.be/QEpCKNUzWHc

Podcast:
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/tri...

Happy May Day!

Conjuncture: Hashem Abushama - Palestine is the Barricade

YouTube video by Trinity Social Justice Institute

youtu.be

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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · Mar 21