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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12h

We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?

section of text from South Side Weekly's coverage, which says: "The building was purchased by Wisconsin-based investor Trinity Flood in January 2020, according to Cook County records. On October 1, the day after the raid, a judge reviewed an emergency motion from Wells Fargo seeking to appoint Matthew Tarshis of Frontline Real Estate Partners as the property’s receiver.

Flood purchased three multifamily properties in South Shore in 2020. The neighborhood, which had the highest number of eviction filings in Chicago from 2015-2019 according to the Law Center for Better Housing, has seen a rise in outside real estate investors since the 2017 announcement of the Obama Presidential Center’s construction in the neighboring Jackson Park.

Wells Fargo Bank foreclosed on the building in mid-2024, bringing a $27 million lawsuit against Flood for missed loan payments. In late 2024, the City began closing its largest migrant shelters and, through state funding assistance distributed via Catholic Charities and moving support from New Life Church, relocated many families to buildings such as this one."

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12h

Good rundown of the current situation on Bsky (written before Rudy's update that Blacksky is going to make Link available to its users)

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Banning controversy reveals Bluesky’s federation isn’t there yet

Bluesky’s protocol is so complicated that not even the biggest alternative network has figured out how to become independent

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 12h

Congratulations to the brilliant @hahrie.bsky.social on her richly deserved @macfound.org Fellowship! Her research exemplifies social science that matters--work that is both rigorous and urgently needed for this moment.

Hahrie Han @hahrie.bsky.social · 12h

Totally, completely flabbergasted. #MacFellow

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Johns Hopkins political scientist Hahrie Han receives MacArthur genius grant

Han, who studies political organizing and collective action and who has led the university's SNF Agora Institute since 2019, among 22 individuals to receive coveted MacArthur Foundation recognition

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11h

I think about this a lot -- I read her memoir and it really hit home for me that she quietly was the person who wrote all of her hit songs and people simply assume it was some dude who is smarter than her when she's the brains behind the operation

Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 11h

People say they wanna talk singer songwriters and then don’t bring up Mariah Carey and i think that says something about our society

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 1d

“We don’t have to approach and criticize this album as art, because it isn’t art. The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content.”

WHEW.

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 18h

Racism + ableism= “compassion fatigue”. You hate to see suffering but instead of alleviating it, you see it as something to cage and hide because white supremacy has made broken your sense of responsibility and empathy.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d

Reading about Democrats who agree with Trump's plan to forcibly commit homeless people

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The STEVE-il of Frankenstein @snark.bsky.social · 1d

Socialize the risk, privatize the profit.

Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 1d

"The fire department in Jerome Township, Ohio has grown increasingly annoyed at two Amazon data centers...Since the first site was approved by local officials in 2021, first responders have answered a combined 84 emergencies...on top of regular safety inspections" #AI futurism.com/future-socie...

First Responders Are Being Overwhelmed by Data Center Fires

First responders in a small Ohio town have answered 84 emergencies between two Amazon data centers, all on the taxpayer's dime.

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clyde bruckman's ghost's final repost says free link @ultralaser.bsky.social · 23h

fucked up that this is all just landlords swatting their own buildings to get rid of all the working class residents so they can raise the rent or sell to a developer who'll flip them into high end condos or w/e

like it's a real estate scam! it's a fucking land grab! a fire for the insurance money!

I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a lot in here that deserves a pull quote, but this is the most egregious. I need people to recognize the gravity of the situation here in Chicago;

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"The ones that are getting out are coming home to no home," Watson said.
According to her, after the raid occurred, building management stole or threw out residents belongings, including visas and important documents.

ICIRR is still trying to determine the identities of all the people detained in the raid. Castro said that the organization usually can do that by following up with family members or loved ones. "In this instance, there was nobody left to work with," she said. The only detainee name they're sure of is that of a person who passed their Venezuelan passport to a neighbor as they were being taken away.

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

As you can see in this screenshot, not only are AJ Link's post and profile still available elsewhere, he is still posting (though seemingly less happily) freedom of speech unimpeded
This app Red Dwarf by @whey.party skips the bookstore and goes straight to the author. blacksky.community doesn't 5/11

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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 1d

Obligatory share of Octavia Butler's ever-timely writing: commongood.cc/reader/a-few...

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Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 20h

I'm not a quoter of scripture, but this seemed appropriate for the horror that has been unleashed because of the gutting of USAID.

“Whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me.” -Jesus

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Gemma Bird @gemmabird.bsky.social · 23h

Pleased to share our new article in which we critically engage with the role that the “categories of migration” play in determining who does and does not “belong” in Europe and how they are changing.

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 1d

#OpenAccess from the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics -

Who is Disposable? The Making and Re-Making of the “Bad” Migrant at Europe’s Borders - https://cup.org/473YrJ8

- @gemmabird.bsky.social & @davideschmid.bsky.social

#FirstView #JREP10

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

Last week, new WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal quietly carried out another purge of staffers, cutting editors and major names like Marc Fisher and David Hoffman, among others.

Meanwhile, he welcomed three conservatives to the section.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

Post Traumatic Disorder

Adam O’Neal says he’s bringing “intellectual diversity” to The Washington Post’s opinion pages—but the moves he’s making behind the scenes tell a different story.

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Jay Ulfelder @jayulfelder.bsky.social · 19h

We're all in this together. How you arrive at your commitment to equality and equity and autonomy isn't really the point. When you elevate certain beliefs and practices as worthy of special protection, you implicitly reinforce status quo hierarchies that also prioritize those ideas and practices.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19h

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · 18h

OK but 50 years of British cultural theory has produced small libraries about why the one (Thatchers "colorblindness") is intricately linked to the other (open white supremacy). There ain't no Black in the Union Jack is not just a catchy book title.

Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 19h

A reminder of how Mrs Thatcher's Conservative party in 1983, an era featuring much more widespread racial prejudice in the public, approached the issue of race and national identity:

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 19h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 18h

8 Oct 2025 -- AZ Judge strikes down state policy requiring trans people to get surgery before they can update their legal ID changed to their correct sex. Reps passed a law banning such changes this year but it was vetoed by Dem Gov. Katie Hobbs. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Judge ends Arizona's "irrational" policy requiring surgery for updating gender markers - LGBTQ Nation

The requirement forced trans people into unnecessary surgeries or risked outing themselves in potentially dangerous situations.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 22h

doomscroll break

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3d

The attack on the synagogue in Manchester and the attack on the mosque in Sussex are completely horrifying. Violence anywhere is terrible of course but it takes a certain tenor when it’s clear that people are being targeted because of their identity.

and criminalizing protest won’t fix it. like ??

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3d

Critical race theory's analysis of the law basically said that all the liberal pretense has racism built-in and at the end of the day, the law protects and sustains racism and the constitutional law wasn't really there to get in the way

Too bad people didn't bother to learn what CRT actually was

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 3d

Live. Keep living. Keep living life. birdersofpalestine.com/pages/donati...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3d

"Why is antagonizing the existing bluesky userbase harmful to bluesky inc's goals?

It feels odd to even have to answer this question"
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Jay Graber Confuses the Gas and Brake Pedals

As your new Head of Comms I advise you to please stop posting this shit.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 3d

"Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement."

bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 3d

“Deloitte was forced to investigate the report after University of Sydney academic Dr Christopher Rudge highlighted multiple errors in the document.”

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Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report

Deloitte will issue a partial refund to the government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a report littered with errors.

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