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Matt Schneider

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anthropology @ ucla // researching climate change, finance, thermal power, sewage, & birds in UK and Japan // he/him

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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
various African countries have been figuring out ways to navigate the 2020s geopolitical landscape with all its the challenges. Being able to orientate towards new green industries, unsurprisingly, helps New essay w/ @70sbachchan.bsky.social @phenomenalworld.bsky.social
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Kate Mackenzie & Tim Sahay | Green Strategy in Africa
On the continent’s industrial development agenda for the twenty-first century
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 14/08/2026
This is fine... "Britain on fire" "Heatwave devastation" "Inferno" "Houses burn and train derails on hottest day" "Rampant wildfires engulf streets of family homes" "Record 2.5m trips to A&E" "Temps hit 38.1C as fifth heatwave peaks" "Britain in meltdown"
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Everything is Gaza
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
US +Israel now in full blown war against Iran's civilian population. "Expect a deliberately created humanitarian catastrophe with food, water & energy shortages, hospitals destroyed...massive internal & external displacement" Also expect Iran to retaliate likewise on Gulf bsky.app/profile/alex...
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
All the people ICE has killed this year: (H/T Qasim Rashid) Alex Pretti Renee Good Keith Porter Heber Sanchaz Dominguez Victor Manuel Diaz Parady La Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres Geraldo Lunas Campos
Picture of all 9 ICE victims of 2026, and their names: Alex Pretti
Renee Good
Keith Porter
Heber Sanchaz Dominguez
Victor Manuel Diaz
Parady La
Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz
Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres
Geraldo Lunas Campos
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Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
My gosh. Alex Pretti was notifying neighbors that Trump and Vance's agents were chasing a family. A mob of agents then tackled him and broke his rib. He thought he was going to die. Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors. And a mob of agents killed him.
The earlier incident started when he stopped his car after observing ICE agents chasing what he described as a family on foot, and began shouting and blowing his whistle, according to a source who asked not to be named out of fear of retribution.

Pretti later told the source that five agents tackled him and one leaned on his back – an encounter that left him with a broken rib. The agents quickly released him at the scene.

“That day, he thought he was going to die,” said the source.
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 27/01/2026
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
"We had one hotel publicly refuse to house ICE, which became a big national news story when DHS went after them. That’s a hotel we were targeting, and it was mostly because of our pressure. We had two more hotels temporarily shut down to avoid housing ICE..." www.laborpolitics.com/p/how-minnea...
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How to Block ICE In Your City
Minneapolis organizer Aru Shiney-Ajay on effective tactics to disrupt ICE—and the need to target corporate collaborators
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la flaneuse 😷 @laflaneuse.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
As we grieve for Alex Pretti and Renee Good in MN, please do not forget Victor Manuel Diaz, who died in ICE custody after being taken from here. And all others who have died in their custody.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Protesters in Los Angeles projected an anti-ICE video onto the Twin Towers, an ICE-linked detention facility where the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department actively collaborates with ICE for deportation screenings.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 25/01/2026
The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Minneapolis friend: "I am safe but I am not okay... the reality is so much worse here at ground zero and so much more violently cruel and morally repugnant than what is being reported via the media just due to the sheer scale of ICE flooding the zone. This is so so so much worse than 2020...
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Abolish ICE is not enough. It's not about training -- Ross who killed Renee Good was a TRAINER. It's not about body cams -- we saw Alex Pretti killed with our own eyes. We have to abolish the idea that violence ever made us safer, before it's too late. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abolishing ICE isn’t enough – it’s time to center people’s humanity | Heba Gowayed and Victor Ray
It’s far from radical to reject a system predicated on violence – despite what thinktanks might claim
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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
We don't need body cams for ICE agents. We need to terminate the entire agency.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
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LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.
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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I cannot get this image out of my head. It is full of violent hate for people who are caring for their community.
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Sigrid Ellis @sigridellis.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Hundreds of people are walking towards the federal paramilitary who *just murdered a guy this morning* with their hands raised. The courage of people who live here is stunning.
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
We owe an incredible debt to the Minnesotans who are on the streets protesting and documenting what is happening.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Too obvious a point even to make, perhaps. But there was no “unrest” in Minneapolis before ICE and CBP showed up. ICE and CBP are the cause of the chaos…and the killings. Get them out of there.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The amount of money that is currently going to fund immigration enforcement in the US is larger than the military budgets of every country in the world other than the US and China. We are witnessing a military assault on American cities by a wildly unpopular governing party.
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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
His name was Alex Pretti, he was 37. He was recording ICE, directing traffic, and helping up someone agents had shoved to the ground. They murdered him for it.
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
If ICE is emboldened to carry out extrajudicial killings of American citizens in broad daylight, imagine what's happening to the tens of thousands of people being held in makeshift detention camps across the US without cameras, attorneys and organizers
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 23/01/2026
I wouldn't be surprised if they start using these lists to put people on the no-fly lists, audits by the IRS, etc. as retribution. Once a government starts making lists of its citizens like this, the abuses will inevitably follow.
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Artie Vierkant @avierkant.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
What all the crowd shots won’t show you is this energy extends to the rest of the metro. There are additional huge gatherings of people all around the cities, ICE watch is visible on so many street corners, walk a few blocks and you’ll pass people clearly in the middle of distro
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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
genuinely stunning image

Thousands of protesters shut down parts of Minneapolis and St. Paul on Friday as hundreds of businesses closed their doors. David Guttenfelder/The New York Times
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 24/01/2026
NEW: I was one of 3 reporters granted access to the convening of 600+ clergy in Minneapolis this week. It was a striking show of solidarity with MN clergy resisting ICE, but heralded something else: the emergence of a vast, faith-based network trained to resist ICE. religionnews.com/2026/01/23/i...
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Inside the effort to organize clergy nationwide to resist ICE
(RNS)— Hundreds of clergy from around the country gathered in Minneapolis to learn from Minnesota faith leaders how to protest against ICE enforcement. Then they took to the streets and helped block t...
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I'm not one for false optimism. But what I witnessed today in Minneapolis was tremendous, both in scale and exuberance. It was a stunning answer to the federal assault on Minnesota, a show of solidarity that gives us something to hold on to during times that are unforgiving.
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“Everybody Showed Up”: Stunning Crowds at Minnesota Day of Strike and Shutdown Against ICE
Extreme cold didn't stop the shutdown on Friday as some 100 faith leaders were arrested, residents stayed home from work, and an estimated 50,000 or more marched through downtown Minneapolis.
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Brandi K. Adams @bkadams.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 05/11/2025
Okay, yes, humanity did not enact the single best possible outcome in response to the single worst problem we have ever faced as a species In no way was it wrong to try, and in no way is it wrong to continue trying to jam a wrench in the greedy fossil fuel economy. Everything is still on the table
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World ‘very likely’ to exceed 1.5C climate goal in next decade: UN
Despite Paris Agreement pledges, countries 'have landed off target' on climate goals multiple times, the UN warns.
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 05/11/2025
Even as attention has turned to other cities, masked men continue to snatch people off the streets of LA. It is a heavy, evil thing to live with.
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 05/11/2025
I really believe that if you tell people the truth and say it with passion and without compromise, they will be receptive. Not everyone, but more than you’d think. It’s the same way I feel about teaching. Don’t act like people are stupid and incurious.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Israel is piling crime on top of crime on top of crime. No wonder it is determined to bring down the entire edifice of international humanitarian law - it's the only hope of protecting itself from consequences. Btw: the allegations are significantly worse than bedbugs.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
important for us in the US to note: even a solidly right wing government can't ignore this.
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Making war crimes great again
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
what Pritzker is doing would be unexceptional if he wasn't the only one with a leadership role consistently doing it! like yes, the bar is low, but barely anyone is clearing it
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 29/09/2025
Kamala Harris’s election memoir shows just how deluded the Democrats still are | Nesrine Malik
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Kamala Harris’s election memoir shows just how deluded the Democrats still are | Nesrine Malik
This unapologetic trawl through a doomed campaign reveals a celebrity-obsessed party high on its own supply. It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so tragic, says columnist Nesrine Malik
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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Braxton 🟥 @braxtonb.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Keep your eye on this. A decade ago, Debt Collective launched a student debt strike. Mainstream media scoffed and laughed. Then billions got canceled. We’re repeating that playbook with back rent debt: strike, shift moral culpability, target bad actors, change consumer protection law for the better.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/08/2025
It is a tribute to our dysfunctional information environment that right-wingers can basically commit 99% of the domestic terrorism, for *decades*, and that simple fact never penetrates to the public. They pay zero political price.
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Japanese American National Museum @jamuseum.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.
Photo of armed customs and border patrol agents and cars on the plaza in front of the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo.
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