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John Duda @johnduda.bsky.social · 1d

You can’t call the police on fascism.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

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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John Duda @johnduda.bsky.social · 3d

Started in on @alybatt.bsky.social’s “Free Gifts” in anticipation of her event on 10/9 at @redemmas.org w/ @pmbigger.bsky.social. (It’s really good so far!)

The problem with capitalism, in my account, is not just that it destroys nature or unjustly distributes the material harms and benefits of production. Rather, these problems stem from another, second-order problem: that capitalism limits our ability to treat nonhuman nature as something other than a free gift. It constrains our ability, individually and collectively, to make genuine decisions about how to value and relate to the nonhuman world, and to take responsibility for those decisions. Put simply: capitalism limits our freedom.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov owns every arrest and act of violence against protesters this morning. He is aiding and abetting Operation Midway Blitz by allowing state cops to do this. He tells us to film ICE. His cops have shoved me around for filming this morning.

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John Duda @johnduda.bsky.social · 5d

A little obsessed with the archives of the Public Broadcasting Laboratory americanarchive.org/special_coll...

Public Broadcast Laboratory

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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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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14d

"Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday he will join Italy in sending a military warship to protect an international flotilla seeking to deliver aid to Gaza after it was attacked by drones off Greece."

www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Spain's PM says he will send warship to protect Gaza aid flotilla

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday he will join Italy in sending a military warship to protect an international flotilla seeking to deliver aid to Gaza after it was attacked by drones off Greece.

www.reuters.com

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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 16d

Devastated to hear that Bluestockings is closing. They will be missed.

bluestockings.com

Bluestockings Cooperative

Bluestockings Cooperative: Established in 1999, Worker-Owned since 2021. Located at 116 Suffolk Street, New York, NY 10002. One of NYC's only queer, trans, sex-worker run bookstores.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 24d

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Their waists and hands were tied together, forcing them to bend down and lick water to drink. The unscreened bathrooms contained only a single sheet to cover their lower bodies. Sunlight barely penetrated through a fist-sized hole, and they were only allowed access to the small yard for two hours. Detained by US immigration authorities for eight days, the workers and their families expressed shock, describing human rights violations and absurdities they could not have imagined as ordinary Koreans living in 2025.

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John Duda @johnduda.bsky.social · 24d

Great piece from @brentcebul.bsky.social and Michael Glass on the limits of subsidy-driven housing development www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/add...

In the aftermath of the subprime mortgage collapse, the goals of national housing policy have swung from expanding home ownership back to increasing the supply of rental housing. Given the return of this goal, the history of public-private rental housing merits reflection. The midcentury FHA scandals show that loosened regulations and public subsidies—the main planks of today’s abundance agenda—are not enough to deliver sufficient affordable housing. Fred Trump did not just exploit the FHA system; he embodied its core logics of liberalized credit, socialized risk, and privatized profits. Trusting the same class of builders and recycling similar incentive schemes would be a mistake. Because developers, homeowners, and local governments are all deeply invested in maintaining or boosting property values, clearing out regulations and pouring in subsidies risks fuelling the same kind of speculative, profiteering frenzy that defined not only the windfall profits scandal but also the 2008 financial crisis.

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John Duda @johnduda.bsky.social · 28d

birds/roof

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John Duda @johnduda.bsky.social · 29d

Helpful for thinking through this possibility in Baltimore!

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 29d

For my latest, I talked with counter-recruiter Rory Fanning about how we should communicate with National Guard troops deployed in US cities, and how we might counter ICE's current recruiting blitz.

What Do We Say When the Soldiers Come?

"There is no honor in this mission," says counter-recruiter Rory Fanning.

organizingmythoughts.org

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Red Emma’s @redemmas.org · Sep 3

Our schedule for the Baltimore Book Festival is packed with free talks and panels across three different stages on Saturday 9/13 and Sunday 9/14....

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John Duda @johnduda.bsky.social · Aug 30

Built a new massive shelf for @redemmas.org to house our expanding quantities of comics, graphic novels, and manga. So many new bins to dig through now.

A big table and shelf unit covered in comics

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John Duda @johnduda.bsky.social · Aug 29

Any computer program is, no matter how large and complicated, fundamentally just a number. What ChatGPT has shown us is pretty terrifying: there are numbers that are demons.

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · Aug 29

WSJ: ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.... On Aug. 5, Greenwich police discovered that Soelberg killed his mother and himself in the $2.7 million Dutch colonial-style home where they lived together.

A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich

“Erik, you’re not crazy.” ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.

www.wsj.com

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Red Emma’s @redemmas.org · Aug 21

It's almost time for the Baltimore Book Festival!

Here's a peak at our schedule on the 32nd St. Stage just for day 1 of the festival, Saturday 9/13, kicking off with something for the kids: Tourmaline presenting her new book "One Day in June" about Marsha P. Johnson!

withfriends.co/event/266732...

9/13 - Drag Queen Story Hour, presented by Absolutely Dragulous and special guest, Tourmaline by Red Emma's

Get tickets and support Red Emma's by becoming a member

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Red Emma’s @redemmas.org · Aug 7

Fresh off the risograph! Grab some free posters and let ICE know they aren’t welcome here (or anywhere)

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John Duda @johnduda.bsky.social · Jul 31

really can't wait to get my hands on this!

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joe a wilkins @joeonhere.bsky.social · Jul 18

I wrote about how Geoff Lewis, one of OpenAI’s long running investors, has sparked concern among peers who believe he may be facing a public mental health episode brought on by ChatGPT.

futurism.com/openai-inves...

A Prominent OpenAI Investor May Be Suffering an ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis, His Peers Say

Bedrock co-founder Geoff Lewis has posted increasingly troubling content on social media, drawing concern from friends in the industry.

futurism.com

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John Duda @johnduda.bsky.social · Jul 2

"Opportunity Zones tax breaks [are] fundamentally at odds with a principle that’s becoming increasingly central in many historically disinvested communities: that investment should be driven by community priorities, not by the pursuit of tax-free profits for wealthy investors."

John Duda @johnduda.bsky.social · Jul 2

Really helpful summary of the case against Opportunity Zones — about to be made a permanent feature of the tax code — from @oscarthinks.bsky.social: nextcity.org/features/tru...

nextcity.org

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Red Emma’s @redemmas.org · Jun 27

CHILLY GRAY COMMIE SUMMER

✨Grace Hebron✨ @heywritergrace.bsky.social · Jun 27

So grateful for whatever dropped the temps down to low 70s today 🥰

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