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Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 4h

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Anna Magnani wearing all black, smoking a cigarette, shooting the most withering glance ever shot. You’re now fully withered

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 19h

they don’t want you to know how they treat prisoners because it will grieve you to know it, which is natural and human, and because of your normal human reaction you will want the system changed. It’s important to them that your natural aversion to how the system works not be engaged.

The News & Observer @newsobserver.com · 19h

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

NC nonprofit still pushing for Durham County sheriff to release jail policies

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 1d

I made a vinyl sticker bonus question for my #Dante midterm. Everyone got it right and now there are 70 stickers floating around campus marking our community 👹👹🥹

An oval-shaped vinyl sticker with a dark purple background and two cartoon labubu characters. The left monster is red with lavender face and hands. His bunny ears droop forward, he stands pigeon-toed, and his face is crumpled with fright. At right, a pale gray monster with a ghostly white face extends a reassuring hand to the fearful one. He wears a laurel crown and carries a golden book in his other hand. Since designing the sticker I have learned that labubus have 9 teeth, so these monsters with 6 and 8 teeth are technically lafufus. Who are they??

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

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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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

This is great. The absurdity of this moment captured. Make it go viral.

Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 2d

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 2d

The Italian edition of my first novel, translated by the wonderful Chiara Buffa, is available later this week, 10/10/25, from NN Editore in Milan. And this cover makes my old teen witch heart glad.

www.nneditore.it/libro/979125...

An illustration of a fox dressed in the ribcage of a human, the eyes white with death or transfiguration, surrounded by red and blue-green leaves. The image has a large San serif bold N superimposed, with the image clear inside the letter and faintly colored by a rust orange fade otherwise, the trademark of the house, NN Editore.

The text in white reads ALEXANDER CHEE
Edimburgo
NNE

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d

Some advertising you just can't buy

MAGA Congresswoman: Bad Bunnys super bowl halftime show a demonic sexual performance

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Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 2d

“What am I supposed to do with the leftovers??”

Madonna Filippa (Decameron 6.7) walking so Nicole could run

Manuscript illustration of a long-haired woman arguing in court that as long as she has satisfied her husband’s sexual needs, and the feeble chump sitting in the hot seat testifies that indeed she has, she has every right to do what she pleases with her surplus of sexual capacity. The woman is hot and many people have gathered to see if she’ll get away with adultery. Boccaccio’s Decameron 6.7, BnF Ms. It. 63, f. 202r.

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Hausu M.D. 🎥👺📼🍉🖤 @suspiraserhead.bsky.social · 3d

The funniest thing about this is how legit terrified ICE looks.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 4d

wizard frog is insane

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Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 3d

This sem co-op shareholder supports the union 😎

Chicago Reader @chicagoreader.com · 3d

In this week's Make it Make Sense, Five anti-ICE protesters face federal charges, Seminary Co-op union workers turn up the heat on management amid their first contract negotiations, and Adler Planetarium workers take their union drive public. https://bit.ly/48aPEqU

Make It Make Sense: Five anti-ICE protesters face federal charges

Plus: Seminary Co-op union workers turn up the heat as they negotiate a first contract and Adler Planetarium workers launch a union.

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Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 4d

This is not the most pressing UNC problem but I am once again obliged to share the state of things in a humanities building. Can we get some Belichik bathrooms over in Dey Hall

Grenade-ass rusty water heater rigged under a the sink in a Carolina blue bathroom. The aura of world class medieval scholars lingers improbably in the air

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Congresswoman Valerie Foushee @foushee.house.gov · 5d

I am outraged by the news of ICE raids in Chicago that indiscriminately targeted people of color, including unnecessary harm to American citizens and children.

These inhumane and unlawful attacks on our communities are abhorrent and cannot be tolerated.

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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.

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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.

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Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 6d

I can’t shake the anger and dismay. Naked children dragged away from parents?? in uhauls??? Around the corner from a friend’s old house. Down the block from my parks&rec tennis matches. Helicopters I would have heard from my old apt. HANDS OFF OUR NEIGHBORS
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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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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 6d

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory.

They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.

But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.

RIP, Jamal.

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Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out

As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.

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Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 7d

Jane Goodall woven into our family lore ❤️

A tiny photo album open to two very similar compositions. Left: a baby sitting on a couch next to a plush orangutan bigger than himself. The baby meets the gaze of the plushie with wonder. At right, Jane Goodall sits with her back to the wall next to a female gorilla. Goodall turns to look at her face and they seem to be in peaceful conversation.

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social · 11d

University of California Berkeley, Assistant Professor of Italian Renaissance Literature:

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University of California Berkeley, Assistant Professor of Italian Renaissance Literature | MEMOs

Assistant Professor -- Italian Renaissance Literature -- Department of Italian Studies

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Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 9d

Lauren Berlant’s intro to Cruel Optimism (Duke, 2011) is in the neighborhood 😕

cal sense of the present affectively as immanence, emanation, atmosphere, or emergence. Perturbation is Deleuze's word for disturbances in the atmosphere that constitute situations whose shape can only be forged by continuous reaction and transversal movement, releasing subjects from the norma-tivity of intuition and making them available for alternative ordinaries.® The situation is therefore a genre of social time and practice in which a relation of persons and worlds is sensed to be changing but the rules for habitation and the genres of storytelling about it are unstable, in chaos. Chapter 5,
"Nearly Utopian, Nearly Normal," argues that the precarious public sphere has generated a new popular variation, the "situation tragedy." In the situation comedy, the subject whose world is not too destabilized by a "situation" that arises performs a slapstick maladjustment that turns out absurdly and laughably, without destroying very much. In the situation tragedy, the subject's world is fragile beyond repair, one gesture away from losing all access to sustaining its fantasies: the situation threatens utter, abject unraveling.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 9d

Sharing. Because we need to know. Also because “John Brown Gun Club”.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 9d

A victim of the shooting at the ICE facility is UNCONSCIOUS, in critical care, may not survive, his wife is about to give birth, and ICE IS KEEPING HIM SHACKLED TO HIS HOSPITAL BED:

I just unlocked a new level of rage.

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'I want his name to be known': Wife of immigrant injured at ICE facility shooting speaks out

Stephany Gauffeny says she wants the world to know that her husband, Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez, is more than "just an immigrant or a detainee, or a criminal."

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Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 9d

I brought my kid a labubu from Chicago last week and he didn’t know what it was. Then we saw the South Park episode and now he’s strutting around school with it like a little lord

Everything is terrible but Chicago is great, South Park is great, labubus are great

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Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social · 10d

The cinematography!

WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 10d

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10d

If you read nothing else today, I pray that you will read every word of this necessary, powerful, and much-needed piece by @nhannahjones.bsky.social.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...

What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 11d

betrayed by admin pumping school (often public) $ into grifter bubble corporate welfare, disgusted by colleagues shamelessly cheating - BUT buoyed by the students, who still want to learn, with their own big brains

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11d

We have allowed the lazy, grifting Silicon Valley charlatans into the front door, & in doing so, we have learned just how many of our own colleagues & administrators simply are not interested in the actual business of education. It's incredibly demoralizing.

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 11d

Thanks so much for your reporting on this, Ben. I just got an email from my campus's IT office triumphantly advertising free student access to four different AI models -- at the same time as we have a hiring freeze, caps on grad enrollment, and a 7% budget cut -- and wanted to scream.

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