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Auntie I

@auntie88.bsky.social
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Afro-Indigenous Auntie and elder-in-training telling the hard truths most don't want to but need to hear. 🙏🏽🕊️🌈✊🏽🦋💙

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
An astonishingly large crowd! Chicago
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
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Taproot Earth @taprootearth.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
📣 MUTUAL AID NEEDED 🚨Typhoon Halong in Western Alaska has devastated communities across the Y-K Delta - flooding homes, displacing families, and cutting off access to clean water, power, and medical care. If you're able to support, please do so 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
I see protest discourse is hitting the feed again ahead of No Kings—idk man, go, don’t go, …but if you do go make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing and if you don’t go, make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
To be clear: LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government. The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency. This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.
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Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids
Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."
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Auntie I @auntie88.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Horrific. This is Amerikkka.
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Taproot Earth @taprootearth.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Today, we denounce the lie of “discovery”: a legacy built on genocide, land theft, and extraction. 🪶We root ourselves in Indigenous sovereignty & the first fights for land, water, and life. 🌱 We fight for repair, balance, and liberation led by Indigenous wisdom and struggle. #IndigenousPeoplesDay
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."
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They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.
Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.
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Auntie I @auntie88.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
15 calls to action on Indigenous People's Day mailchi.mp/culturalsurv...
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15 Calls to Action on Indigenous Peoples Day!
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
What gives you courage? Please immerse yourself in that right now.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 11/10/2025
lol gentle reminder that DEI is not illegal. Supporting marginalized groups is not illegal. Anyone reneging on support is making a CHOICE to do so.
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Auntie I @auntie88.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
www.codepink.org/nobel_peace_...
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When Maria Corina Machado Wins the Nobel Peace Prize, “Peace” Has Lost Its Meaning.
When Maria Corina Machado Wins the Nobel Peace Prize, “Peace” Has Lost Its Meaning. By: Michelle Ellner
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.
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Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books
A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.
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𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐤𝐨 & 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧 @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 09/10/2025
They put up chainlink fences underneath the biggest bridges
They pose in Christmas cards with guns as big as all their children
They say that Jesus is the way but then they gave him a white face
So they don't have to pray to someone they deem lesser than them
The South will not rise again
Til it's paid for every sin
Strange fruit, hard bargain
Till the roots, Southern Gotham
I'm the one who still loves your ghost
I reanimate your bones
With my belief
And I'm the one who still loves your ghost
I reanimate your bones
Cause I'm a true believer
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 09/10/2025
Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.
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Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury
Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.
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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Boycott, Divest, Sanction: A ceasefire today will not stop Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, only meaningful accountability will. Our work is not done! Read more: loom.ly/TsJOHwo
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Boycott, Divest, Sanction: A ceasefire today will not stop Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, only meaningful accountability will.
Our work is not done! The BDS movement calls on our millions of supporters worldwide to escalate pressure to end Israel’s genocide and its decades-old regime of settler-colonialism, apartheid, and ill...
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Nikki .⋆*☆.•🦋 @bleudawn7.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
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Auntie I @auntie88.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Living real-time the maxim that 'healing is non-linear'
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 06/10/2025
Hundreds of thousands of people across several European cities have marched in support of Palestinians and an aid flotilla's attempt to reach Gaza.
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Hundreds of thousands march across Europe in support of Palestinians
Hundreds of thousands of people across several European cities have marched in support of Palestinians and an aid flotilla's attempt to reach Gaza.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Stop lying. Your state cops attacked protesters alongside ICE yesterday. I was there. I and others were violently attacked by ICE agents. Your state cops acted in concert with them during the attack.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 03/10/2025
Update: The Committee to Protect Journalists says Mario Guevara was deported from the United States early Friday. www.democracynow.org/2025/10/3/ma...
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Prominent Atlanta Journalist Deported After Covering Anti-Trump Protest
UPDATE: Mario Guevara was deported from the United States early on October 3, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. The Spanish-language journalist Mario Guevara may be deported to El Sal...
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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
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ACLU @aclu.org · 02/10/2025
BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
None of us should feel exempt or invulnerable, because if they can do this to our neighbors, they can come for us, too. That said, those of us who are not presently among those being targeted should not focus on our own fear and vulnerability. We should support those in the immediate path of harm.
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Auntie I @auntie88.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
"...what happens when mindfulness culture meets political emergency: confusion, equivocation, retreat into individual practice. Coates is describing lynching, and Klein responds with a meditation about his own mortality. That’s not wisdom. That’s avoidance with a spiritual veneer."
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Ezra Klein Just Showed Us Everything Wrong With Secularized Meditation
There’s a moment in Ezra Klein’s recent interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates that’s been bugging me.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2025
Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
🗓️This Sunday, Sept. 28 at 4-6 PM ET: If you’re engaged in activism and organizing and are looking for a space where you can reflect individually and with others, and to connect with each other, join our co-founder @prisonculture.bsky.social for this month’s Another World Is Possible Drop In Space:
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Another World Is Possible Activist Drop In Space: September — Interrupting Criminalization
An informal accountability group or space for people who are and/or who want to take consistent community action and want to reflect with others, hosted by IC co-founder Mariame Kaba. (All times in ES...
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Shalesha @shalesha.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
“This isn’t the America I know” Black People:
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...
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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
In my experience, courage is usually the product of love and/or solidarity. When we are deeply invested in each other, we are more likely to take risks that we wouldn't take out of mere principle, or for the sake of people we feel disconnected from. Our alienation mass produces cowardice.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
For everyone saying political violence has no place in this country… Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year. And America shrugged and moved on.
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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 09/09/2025
"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
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Auntie I @auntie88.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Or working as designed? 💁🏽‍♀️
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
No one *expects* anything he says to be true. This is one of fascism's objectives—to make the truth irrelevant. His lies spin up a violent storyline that people either willingly inhabit or are trapped by. It's fiction with real-world consequences.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
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Dr. Manhattan @thenewthinker.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
the west claimed to be the world leader for human rights all while pillaging, butchering and enslaving African people.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 05/09/2025
Musk’s Wealth 2012: $2 billion 2025: $436.3 billion Bezos’ Wealth 2012: $18.4 billion 2025: $244.2 billion Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2012: $17.5 billion 2025: $257.8 billion Federal Minimum Wage 2012: $7.25 2025: $7.25 It’s not the start of an oligarchy. — We’re in the thick of it.
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
None of this violence would be possible without endless funding, support and collaboration from the US government, using our tax dollars. We will not let up until this ENDS. jvpaction.org/blockthebombs
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Tell Congress: Support the Block the bombs act. | JVP Action
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