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Claudia Stellar, PhD

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Scholar of Race, Policing & Nat’l Security I 📕: Blackness & the US Nat’l Security Paradigm I💡Authoritarianism, Counterintelligence, Political Repression I Northwestern PhD I NASM I Sassy 💁🏻‍♀️I http://claudiagarciarojas.com

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Claudia Stellar, PhD @claudiastellar.bsky.social · Nov 14

Two years ago, I wrote a brief piece for @truthout.bsky.social, arguing that we should view #SCOTUS as a national defense agency that has consistently worked to enshrine and defend white nationalism since its inception—a trend likely to intensify under Trump.

truthout.org/articles/the...

The Supreme Court Won’t Save Us — It Was Founded to Defend White Supremacy

Since its inception, the court has operated to enshrine whiteness as the normative baseline in constitutional law.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 8d

I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 12h

White righties: this Super Bowl halftime pick is terrible. They should get someone conservative and hip, like this 96 year old cop I know who has a bluegrass band called Burning Crosses

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Claudia Stellar, PhD @claudiastellar.bsky.social · 3d

As seen on the streets of Evanston. Thank you to those in this community keeping watch.

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Jen Fifield @jenafifield.bsky.social · 2d

Hi everyone! 👋 I'm officially up and running at
@propublica.org covering election and voting issues, and expanding my sourcing nationally. Spread the word.

Reach out, say hi, introduce yourself, send tips:
[email protected]
Cell: 480-476-0108
Signal: jenafifield.01

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4d

Led by Rabbi Ben, people have now taken the street and are starting a march away from the detention center into the streets of Broadview.

Immediately after this, most of the march changes their mind and turns back, say they don't want to be led away from ICE.

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Claudia Stellar, PhD @claudiastellar.bsky.social · 3d

As seen on the streets of Evanston. Thank you to those in this community keeping watch.

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Claudia Stellar, PhD @claudiastellar.bsky.social · 4d

100% agree.

Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 4d

I‘ve come to disagree with the idea that ‘law enforcement‘/police have been militarized (and that it’s the fundamental problem).

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

www.wired.com

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 6d

We’ve never had a shutdown under a competitive authoritarian regime before. This matters because the rules of the game have changed. If congressional leaders act as if the old rules apply, they will lose. The executive seeks to consolidate power and does not negotiate in good faith.

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 7d

I don't know how university leaders expect to sustain their institutions *even as class-reproduction machines* if they sell out to a dictator and crush their own core workers. Like, you have to put oil in the engine. You have to put gasoline in the car.

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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 7d

Maroc : manifestations autorisées pour la première fois dans plusieurs villes, certaines émaillées de violences

Le pays fait face à une vague inédite de mobilisation d’une partie de la jeunesse, à l’appel du collectif GenZ 212, sur fond de tensions et de revendications sociales croissantes.

www.lemonde.fr

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Claudia Stellar, PhD @claudiastellar.bsky.social · Sep 1

"Whatever our government is willing to do to Palestinians, they’re willing to do to you, they just can’t do it yet.”

US Army veteran Greg J Stoker on why he’s sailing to Gaza with the 'Global Sumud Flotilla'.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 7d

For folks asking why we keep seeing FBI/ATF at these operations: they're needed at larger raids (see also, mass arrest situation like we saw Saturday). ICE/CBP doesn't have capacity or training to process large amounts of evidence, write affidavits.

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David N. Thomas @dnthomas01.bsky.social · 7d

A delight at this time of year is the huge variety of apples on sale in 🇫🇮……was not expecting an intense red flesh when cutting into this one

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 7d

Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d

File this under “essential function.” 🤡

#Shutdown
abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 7d

ICE in Chicagoland today:

CBP agents were seemingly everywhere, with arrests across several neighborhoods and the suburbs. Exact numbers are unknown.

Neighbors in Garfield Park witnessed feds choking a Black man in the street, and Border Patrol snatched people at retail strips and traffic stops.

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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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 7d

Entire families taken from their beds in the middle of the night.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 8d

What's happening with ICE in Chicagoland today:

Federal agents continue terrorizing Back of the Yards, Broadview mayor and police chief held a presser, and neighbors in South Shore late night were startled awake by a raid on an apartment with stun grenades.

Feds in moving vans raid South Shore apartment overnight; Broadview officials condemn ICE assaults • The TRiiBE

Here's a roundup of federal agent sightings for Sept. 30

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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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Claudia Stellar, PhD @claudiastellar.bsky.social · 10d

Assata Shakur

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