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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 6d

Re-watched "Battleship Potemkin" for tomorrow's class. The Odesa staircase sequence in these United States in 2025: it’s about the use of the military to suppress a peaceful urban protest, isn’t it?

Frame from Sergei Eisenstein’s “Battleship Potemkin” with Russian troops shooting at civilians in Odesa.

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randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 6d

Trump wanted to STEAL A SWORD from the Eisenhower library and present it to the king of the country we fought for independence from - as our former colonial overlords would say, what a fucking servile twat

Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 6d

BREAKING: sources say NARA has forced out Dr. Todd Arrington, the federal director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, after he declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a sword from the library for a gift to King Charles

lastcampaign.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

EXCLUSIVE: NARA Ousts Eisenhower Library Director Over Proposed Trump Gift to King Charles

The director, a historian and Army veteran, declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a priceless artifact from the library's permanent collection

lastcampaign.substack.com

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 6d

BREAKING: sources say NARA has forced out Dr. Todd Arrington, the federal director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, after he declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a sword from the library for a gift to King Charles

lastcampaign.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

EXCLUSIVE: NARA Ousts Eisenhower Library Director Over Proposed Trump Gift to King Charles

The director, a historian and Army veteran, declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a priceless artifact from the library's permanent collection

lastcampaign.substack.com

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randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 9d

a key part of concentration camps throughout history has been the use of extra legal and quasi legal spaces - sometimes explicitly so as in Guantanamo, sometimes more of a gray area like this where people are moved into new jurisdictions where families, lawyers, etc are hard or impossible to find

Gabrielle LaMarr LeMee @lamarrlemee.bsky.social · 9d

New story: ICE is moving detainees faster and more frequently. “It’s about efficiency for ICE on their end, but with a total disregard for the people that they’re detaining and ripping apart from their loved ones” - Ghandehari of Detention Watch Network www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

How ICE detainees are moved miles away from families and attorneys

ICE relies on a vast network of detention facilities to house immigrants across the country, sometimes transferring people up to 15 times before deportation.

www.latimes.com

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randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 7d

Mark doesn't blow his own trumpet much but I have no such qualms - he literally wrote the book on Antifa and you should definitely buy several copies as stocking stuffers this year:

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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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randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 7d

they draw the line when it might affect their stock investments

George Pearkes @peark.es · 7d

Oh hell yes

*SUPREME COURT REFUSES TO LET TRUMP IMMEDIATELY OUST FED'S COOK

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randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 7d

I checked first thing when I woke up! Bc I live here I'm esp watching one Polish guy in particular. I really do think this one is already getting more attention than the last.

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randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 7d

Trump and his allies can now influence content on Google search, Youtube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, and X. This is a pretty fucking big deal.

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randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 7d

insanely scary development

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randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 7d

sure, my last two posts were about it

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randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 7d

if the White House is already successfully stifling Google search terms just 9 months in, US journalists are going to have to start using VPNs - and other tools - just to research their stories

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 7d

This is true. In AI mode no reponses to question "Does Trump show signs of dementia" but long analysis if you ask "Does Biden show signs of dementia"

So whole AI thing is now Orwell-level of corruption and monopoly abuse just three years into its public explosive introduction.

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 7d

The federal government raiding an entire government complex, detaining anyone they can get their hands out, using chainsaws to cut through doors. This was once the stuff of paranoid fantasies.

No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 7d

this is not something that happens in a democracy

Nero Wolfe @nero-wolfe.bsky.social · 7d

The raid in South Shore last night feels like an escalation, especially in light of today’s “enemies within” speech. ICE is now breaking down/chainsawing through doors of private homes at night. Did they even have a warrant?

abc7chicago.com/amp/post/ice...

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 7d

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

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randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 7d

yes, but in this particular case, the kerfuffle is not minor

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randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 7d

US federal government has been shutdown, starting today.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 7d

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

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randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 8d

no shade but can we phase out "joy" and "care" for 2026? there's a real weirdness and inauthenticity about the way those two words, both great in and of themselves, are sprinkled like too many croutons into so many left-coded word salads

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 8d

Another edition

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randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 8d

🥰

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randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 8d

rare exception I keep thinking about is HIV treatment, prevention, cure, etc - to this day, there is a cabal of activists who will stand up and stop at nothing to get laws passed, costs lowered, etc, and I think about how most of us don't have a cause like this we regularly step for - not like that

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randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 9d

a key part of concentration camps throughout history has been the use of extra legal and quasi legal spaces - sometimes explicitly so as in Guantanamo, sometimes more of a gray area like this where people are moved into new jurisdictions where families, lawyers, etc are hard or impossible to find

Gabrielle LaMarr LeMee @lamarrlemee.bsky.social · 9d

New story: ICE is moving detainees faster and more frequently. “It’s about efficiency for ICE on their end, but with a total disregard for the people that they’re detaining and ripping apart from their loved ones” - Ghandehari of Detention Watch Network www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

How ICE detainees are moved miles away from families and attorneys

ICE relies on a vast network of detention facilities to house immigrants across the country, sometimes transferring people up to 15 times before deportation.

www.latimes.com

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 9d

Can’t even laugh at this. The idea of these meatheads skulking around my beautiful, glittering jewel box of a city, looking to tackle every non-white person they see, makes me sick to my stomach. This is the real domestic terrorism.

Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 9d

ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 9d

🚨This is a big deal: suburban chicago police launch an investigation into an ICE attack on local CBS news journalists.

Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 9d

Broadview Police have opened an investigation into an attack from federal agents on a CBS crew at Broadview, per BPD Chief Mills.

The following statement can be attributed to Broadview Police Chief Thomas Mills:

“The Village of Broadview Police Department has launched a criminal investigation into an allegedly unprovoked attack on a CBS Chicago TV news reporter’s vehicle on Sunday by a chemical munition fired from the direction of U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement detention facility. The victim declined medical attention. The Broadview Police Department expects the full cooperation of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security into our criminal investigation.”

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