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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

@blklibrarygirl.bsky.social
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7th/Newest book: Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings (June 24). Substack: honoreejeffers

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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
DHS is using explosives on people’s homes??? “Bovino has often used the phrase “turn and burn” to describe Border Patrol operations, a reference to actions like smashing windshields, using explosives to blow down the doors of homes and engaging in car chases.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...
Bovino has often used the phrase “turn and burn” to describe Border Patrol operations, a reference to actions like smashing windshields, using explosives to blow down the doors of homes and engaging in car chases.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I continue to believe that the fastest way to get Stephen Miller fired is to convince Trump that Miller's ICE operations are what cost him the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I'm gonna add to this that the Dems had ZERO to do with the Bovino firing. It was the tireless work of the good people of MSP standing strong, filming and writing the news with their first hand accounts. The press tried to both sides it. They WANTED to. But the citizens of Minnesota ended this guy
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Sarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
“I’ve read stories of folks rounded up who were seeking asylum with no order to leave the country, no criminal record, and consistently check in with authorities. Literally no reason to be rounded up. Surely we aren’t helping do that?” I have some bad news for this Palantir employee.
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Sarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Having spent some time recently in an ICU -- these are just the most extraordinary people. Staggeringly committed. Thank you for your service.
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Lord Piss @lordpiss.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
more democrats should be pointing out that "illegal immigration" is not even a crime
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LA Star @lastar.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE: Renee Good: $1,499,580 Alex Pretti: $1,289,249 Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423 Parady La: $45,848 Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991 Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640 Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538 Geraldo Lunas: $2,260 Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935
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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Let me get off here before I lose my Black southern lady training & completely get out of character.
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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I know these White folks saying “you don’t know what it feels like to have your community terrorized” are not talking to ME. I’m from Georgia & Alabama. My mama remembered a lynching in 1943 a couple counties over from her. There’s a book about it: Fire in the Canebrake. Y’all need to quit.
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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I know you’re not talking to anybody but other White folks. I know you are not talking to Black & Indigenous folks. I know that.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 26/01/2026
What, is he fled?
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
"I will have my vengence, in this life or the next" --Kristi Noem's puppy.
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Sandra 🗽is abolish ICE! @gobuxgal.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Everyone still think athletes will avoid DHS (ICE, CBP etc) racial profiling? #WorldCup ⚽️
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Giants star Jung Hoo Lee detained by CBP
The South Korean was traveling to California on Wednesday to take part in a Giants FanFest tour stop in San Ramon.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
A major newspaper publishing guide to help people identify the munitions their government is using against them is a real "Late Republic America" timepeice that future historians will comment on.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Until Miller’s gone these are just gestural purges to sanitize and consolidate his reign of terror.
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Javachik @handle.invalid · 27/01/2026
Even removing Miller is just the beginning.
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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I don’t want to be the skunk at the garden party. I truly hope things will calm down in Minneapolis, but remember that White supremacist brutality doesn’t admit defeat easily: They are already in other cities.
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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Keep your powder dry.
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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 27/01/2026
I am trying so hard not to yell at people but every day is a sojourn through reminders that they were fine as long as it wasn't them
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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
White folks online saying “how can I explain this to my children?” What do you think Black folks have been explaining to their children—for centuries? Do you know how y’all sound?
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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Do y’all even see Black folks? Or do you just like our music & the latest TikTok dances? Jesus Christ.
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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Nearly every Black person online is trying to keep from flipping tables over the incredulity of White folks over what police forces can do—over White folks saying “this is just like the Nazis” when Nazis used southern Jim Crow as their model. I am infuriated. Where the **** have y’all been?
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kristinekenyon.bsky.social @kristinekenyon.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Demand the name of the shooter.
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How can you tell we have an unaccountable secret police force that answers only to Trump?
This person has still not been identified.
In a real police force, that piece of information is released in the very first incident report.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
"DHS has suspended Gregory Bovino’s access to his social media accounts effective immediately," CNN reports
Wow. Per @priscialva, DHS has suspended Gregory Bovino’s access to his social media accounts effective immediately. He spent yesterday responding to people who were criticizing him and raising questions about his unverified claims about Pretti.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Pope Leo’s top U.S. ally — Cardinal Joseph Tobin — calls on Congress to defund ICE.
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Download PDF Reading List from Association of Black Women Historians ABWH - via Prof. Stephanie Y. Evans #History #CiteASisterSunday #BlackSky #Blackademics 🌱 abwh.org/booklist
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Association of Black Women Historians
Black Women Making History
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
It's no coincidence that on the same day we learned there are *4,000* ICE and CBP agents in Minneapolis rather than the 3,000 we were told, Trump tells Walz he might be willing to reduce the 4,000 slightly. He's giving up nothing. And Bovino getting moved out of state is just an "optics" decision.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Understand this: There are Trump regime concentration camps in America, where innocent people are being killed and tortured and sexually abused—not to mention caged indefinitely—and that includes men, women, and children. These Nazi-style camps are on military bases to keep their activities secret.
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Immigrants Detained at Fort Bliss in Texas Report Abuse and Inhumane Conditions
Detained people at largest immigration detention facility in the country report accounts of physical and sexual abuse.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I was thinking today about how the Feds organizing out at fort snelling, a place of horror historically, a place separated from the city, made it easier to stay united and focused outward on the occupying enemy.
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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
ICE is changing tactics in Maine: "Now, the volunteers in Maine say federal agents have started showing up at their homes and intimidating them or threatening arrest. Some of them, masked and wearing tactical gear, have issued stark warnings not to follow them." www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
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ICE watchers in Maine say they were threatened by federal agents
Community members have been monitoring the activity of immigration agents in Greater Portland.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/01/2026
A Republican attorney in Minneapolis who gave legal counsel to the ICE agent who shot and killed Renée Good dropped out of the Minnesota governor’s race today, because “national Republicans have made it nearly impossible for a Republican to win a statewide election in Minnesota.”
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Lawyer for Jonathan Ross quits Minnesota's governor race and denounced ICE
Chris Madel said that national republicans have made it "nearly impossible" to win a statewide election.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 27/01/2026
’Tis thought, my lord, that you took bribes
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
It would be unwise to explain the extrajudicial killings by ICE as the result of untrained or rogue agents. This is a massive, heavily armed paramilitary type force loyal to the president, which is carying out the regime's stated policies.
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
As a VA nurse, Alex Pretti was a member of AFGE. This union also reps Border Patrol, and may have repped Pretti's killer. I talked to VA workers who are furious and want Border Patrol out of AFGE. "For a union member to kill another is a fundamental betrayal of what a union is supposed to be.”
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Alex Pretti’s Killer May Be Part of His Union
Border Patrol agents belong to the same federal workers union as VA nurses, a situation some of Pretti’s colleagues are determined to change.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Running list of athletes who have spoken out or taken action amid the Trump-Vance administration spending billions of US tax dollars on masked agents who have racially profiled, beaten, and kidnapped thousands of people — and murdered Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti:
Tyrese Haliburton (Indiana Pacers, NBA)	Kike Hernandez (Los Angeles Dodgers, MLB)	Dwight McGlothern Jr. (Minnesota Vikings, NFL)
Breanna Stewart (New York Liberty, WNBA)	Quinn Meinerz, (Denver Broncos, NFL)	Brody King (AEW – Professional Wrestling)
Karl-Anthony Towns (New York Knicks, NBA)	Liam McNeeley (Charlotte Hornets, NBA)	Adam Page (AEW – Professional Wrestling)
Napheesa Collier (Minnesota Lynx, WNBA)	Doc Rivers (Milwaukee Bucks – Head Coach, NBA)	Guerschon Yabusele (New York Knicks, NBA)
Cheryl Reeve (Minnesota Lynx – Head Coach, WNBA)	Isaiah Thomas (Former Boston Celtics, NBA; current Salt Lake City Stars, NBA G League)	Kelly Pannek (Minnesota Frost, PWHL)
Paige Bueckers (Dallas Wings, WNBA)	A’ja Wilson (Las Vegas Aces, WNBA)	Taylor Heise (Minnesota Frost, PWHL)
Steve Kerr (Golden State Warriors – Head Coach, NBA)	Spencer Strider (Atlanta Braves, MLB)	National Basketball Players Association
Natisha Hiedeman (Minnesota Lynx, WNBA)	DiJonai Carrington (Minnesota Lynx, WNBA)	Unrivaled Basketball League
Brianna Turner (Indiana Fever, WNBA)	De’Aaron Fox (San Antonio Spurs, NBA)	Womens National Basketball Players Association
Stephen Curry (Golden State Warriors, NBA)	Ryan Clark (Former Pittsburgh Steelers, NFL)	National Women's Soccer League Players Association
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
While glad to see Bovino humbled, I really don’t have any higher opinion of Homan—a cruel, cold, corrupt, calculating bureaucrat who’s devoted more of his career to mass deportation than almost anyone. He’s the architect of child separation.
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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
"We've never been a 'show your papers' country." *stares in African American history* #Blackademics #EduSky
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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 27/01/2026
“Long before ‘CRT’ became the favored rhetorical weapon used to silence objective critiques […] Derrick Bell was telling a quieter, sharper story: progress arrives, recedes, and leaves a bill someone else must pay.” Read the full story at www.kolumnmagazine.com/2026/01/26/d...
cover photo: a black and white portrait of derrick bell wearing a suit. the title “derrick bell: the prophet of racial realism” appears on the lower left corner of the photo.
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Jennifer 🦋 (She/Her) @jenspinsvinyl.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
You are so welcome! I felt so seen when reading your book! I wish you so much success and I can’t wait to read more of your work!
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
and which of course we all know is false, as the loved ones of Breonna Taylor will remind you
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Be The Change @mallorybytes.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
they are running concentration camps, I am being told it's gonna get so much worse because the entire chain of command is raving psychopaths
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 26/01/2026
Dems are gonna miss last week when they could've grabbed for "abolish ice" sorry now it is "imprison ice" keep up
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404 Media @404media.co · 25/01/2026
And what is happening inside ICE detention centers? 404 Media also learned that the federal government claimed that the day after it was sued for allegedly abusing detainees at an ICE detention center, a “system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility.
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ICE Says Critical Evidence In Abuse Case Was Lost In 'System Crash' a Day After It Was Sued
The government also said "we don't have resources" to retain all footage and that plaintiffs could supply "endless hard drives that we could save things to."
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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I’ve been physically exhausted & didn’t know why. Today, the wave of crushing despair hit & I realized the last time I felt this way was in the days following my mama’s passing. This is grief. I can’t watch the news for a while, so I’m immersing myself in Toni Morrison’s new book of lectures.
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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Not only is authoritarianism not new, it is still in our living memory. Southern racial apartheid is more recent than the Nazis, and more relevant to understanding our current politics. As American politics have nationalized, the South anchors one of the two parties and exported its politics 5/x
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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
These amendments were efforts to end Southern authoritarianism and had some initial success under Reconstruction, but were subsequently abandoned after Hayes made a deal with the devil to end Reconstruction in 1876. The result was Jim Crow, which lasted until the 1960s! 4/x
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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The end result of this compromise was the Constitutional failure in 1860--the Civil War. After the Civil War, which killed more Americans than all other wars combined, the Constitution needed to be remade. This effort culminated in the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments. 3/x
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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The South has been an authoritarian enclave for most of American history. Madison and Hamilton, despite very different ideological outlooks knew that 1.) slavery could stop the constitution from being ratified, and 2.) the "compromise" over slavery made the Constitution unstable. 2/x
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