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🇲🇽 rustbelt rebel 🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 1h

This is where imprisoned people will probably start coming into play. The entire situation is a fucking mess, just like everything else. Only now there’s tariffs on imports and there’s no domestic food.

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 3h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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magdoolen @magdoleen.bsky.social · 4h

My daughter is carrying a medical report diagnosing her condition for medical tests. She has severe inflammation inside the abdomen. Do you want me to carry her shroud? I cannot afford the treatments. 😭😭
@mommunism.bsky.social
gofund.me/597f7ca3

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🇲🇽 rustbelt rebel 🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 5h

IS THAT A RACCOON DO WE HAVE RACCOONS FOR JUSTICE???

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 12h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 15h

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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Rep. Dave Min @congressmin.bsky.social · 1d

It's been two weeks since Adelita Grijalva was elected and Mike Johnson has still refused to seat her, unlike in past cases where he swore in new members within 24 hours.

There cannot be one set of rules for Rs and another for Ds.

Also, release the damn Epstein files already.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 1d

there is no need to take tactical social movement advice from former fbi agents posting on social media

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14h

Your periodic reminder that you have the right to find out why your health insurer denied your claim.

We built a tool to help you do it: projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim

You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

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Amano Jack @amano-jack.bsky.social · 23h

Just in case someone missed this detail:
Wells Fargo used the ICE orks to clear out a building of lawful residents to make a buck

Again, a military terror purge was carried out with naked children in handcuffs for the benefit of Wells Fargo execs

A corrupt corp that will bleat at any reciprocity

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 15h

What we’re seeing now is not people “[beginning] to view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army”—the federal agents are becoming an occupying army, and the violence is theirs. The violence is already here.

Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 15h

Chilling insight by @barbarafwalter.com: "Once citizens view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this… They’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns."

via www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Screenshot from a NYT article by Thomas Edsall, quoting Barbara Walter of UC-San Diego: "The quickest way to piss people off is to send soldiers into their neighborhoods especially when there’s no reason for them to be there. It’s inherently provocative, and Trump and his team understand this. Research by the political scientist Robert Pape shows that the single most powerful predictor of suicide terrorism is the presence of foreign troops on local soil. People hate, hate, hate that. They hate the humiliation, the powerlessness, the feeling of being occupied.

"Once citizens begin to view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this. In fact, that’s the point. They are not trying to restore order; they’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns. In the end, violence serves their ultimate end: They want to create the illusion of disorder so they can tighten control and stay in power indefinitely."

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🇲🇽 rustbelt rebel 🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 15h

Important reporting. Also, the recording of the chase and snatch- white supremacist pornography. Masturbating to the violence, encouraging masturbation to the violence.

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 15h

“I’m just trying to find any clues, ideas, see where they took him, why they took him. And what’s the whole purpose for this?”

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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 16h

I think more people should be aware of how much cool stuff Link does in real life. He’s not just a poster.

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 1d

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack

Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link

We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.

thinkingautismguide.com

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Mary @mfbrodie.bsky.social · 1d

Under the Desk News issued a video about the connection between real estate management companies and these "immigration" raids (The Chicago raid wasn't about immigration. Something far more sinister drove it.).

I decided to look up what's happening with propery management companies.

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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 3d

It’s all connected. Follow the money‼️

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🇲🇽 rustbelt rebel 🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 16h

I hate grackles almost as much as I hate starlings and I still think this is a fucking *gorgeous* shot!!!

Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 1d

Common grackle presents a gorgeous profile
#birds 🌿

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🇲🇽 rustbelt rebel 🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 16h

I am fucking gutted almost on a daily basis that we simply are not prepared to collectively act as a feminist movement.

AND. I still want that fucking movement.

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🇲🇽 rustbelt rebel 🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 16h

There’s nothing I feel more sure of right now than this world NEEDS feminisms. Yes small f plural feminisms. We need a movement that understands how desperately white supremacy needs strict borders around gender and sexuality. The world needs feminisms that grows power comes from collective action.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 20h

Hi, I'm a trans Californian who reported on the CA bills. This headline is misleading at best. You haven't noted that he has until the 12th to sign the other bills, leaving that out is irresponsible and fearmongers.

People can and should still pressure him on those bills.

bsky.app/profile/mady...

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 20h

He hasn't signed the other bills yet, but he still has days to do so
This headline is misleading for not mentioning that.

The gender education veto is bad, but far from the most important trans rights bill on his desk.

There's still time to contact Newsom for the rest!

www.gov.ca.gov/contact/

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🇲🇽 rustbelt rebel 🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 16h

None of this pundits seem to understand they’re the pundits. It’s THEIR job to convince the conservative evangelical in the church parking lot, lol.

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🇲🇽 rustbelt rebel 🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 16h

The reason is always *always* pushed that ‘the progressives’ or the ‘intersectional feminists’ or the Bernie bros or just fucking anybody under the sun except THEM and their commitment to Ezra Strategy.

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🇲🇽 rustbelt rebel 🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 16h

The most often stated goal of feminist blogging era was get HRC elected and then that shifted into pouring money into Harris campaign to get her elected. Feminist bloggers couldnt even get their candidates elected.

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🇲🇽 rustbelt rebel 🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 17h

Where would we be right now if we had a movement invested media/digital justice created media system that couldnt be bought or destroyed by corporate sponsors? Or if everybody knew how to block digital surveillance systems?

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🇲🇽 rustbelt rebel 🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 17h

I mean- at that time, Ezra Feminists even said we didn’t need explicitly feminist press. Their media analysis was If I Can get on Fox News I’d way rather do that than go to some media justice conference.

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🇲🇽 rustbelt rebel 🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 17h

That should act as our forever warning, our instruction, what we need to learn from. We’ve already seen what happens with Ezra Kline ideology. The consequences of mass ‘doing it the right way’ is white supremacist fascism that we now have to negotiate even as the Ezra Professionals don’t.

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🇲🇽 rustbelt rebel 🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 17h

And that the students that protest those militia leaders as the problems.

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🇲🇽 rustbelt rebel 🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 17h

Those spaces. So it’s not hopeless. But it is tragic.

And make no mistake about it. Feminist blogging world wanted exactly what Ezra Klein wants. They want polite debate and saw minutemen militia leaders as ‘doing it right’ when they spoke at top universities-

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🇲🇽 rustbelt rebel 🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 17h

We can still do these things explicitly as feminists and as part of a feminist movement! The moment isn’t over and out of necessity comes justice (or whatever the saying is lol).

And I know many many people, like myself, are working in other spaces and fighting to bring feminist analysis into-

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