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Andrea Ritchie

@dreanyc123.bsky.social
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Black. Lesbian. Immigrant. Cofounder @interruptcrim.bsky.social Author #InvisibleNoMoreBook & #PracticingNewWorlds Co-author #NoMorePolice & Queer (In)Justice bit.ly/NoMorePolice bit.ly/PracticingNewWorlds InvisibleNoMoreBook.com andreajritchie.com

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Since Monday, around 5,000 people, ⁠mostly teenagers, have been arrested nationwide and dozens injured.” proper lede: police riot against teenagers
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Paris police chief says student protest movement out of control, urges peaceful action
Patrice Faure said the people who launched the movement no longer controlled it.
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Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Starting soon! Join us! We’ll be dedicating tonight’s final session of the Queer (In)Justice book club to Detroit-based Black queer organizer Curtis Renee. Learn more about them & their work & how to share remembrances & support their memorial and legacy: bsky.app/profile/inte...
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In the coming weeks we will share more resources, wisdom, and insights from Curtis. The imprint they left on the world extends far beyond our collective knowing, and their light will continue to be reflected by the countless lives they touched. ❤️‍🩹
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Curtis generously shared their brilliance with One Million Experiments, and as a member of IC's extended community, they collaborated, supported, and skill-shared with organizers across the country who are forever changed and inspired by having been in community and struggle with them.
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you have been touched by Curtis' work or by those of us shaped by it, we invite you to share remembrances and to support their family and community by contributing to the memorial and legacy fund: linktr.ee/honoring.cur...
Celebrate the life of Curtis Renee 1982-2026 Detroit organizer, chef, child, sibling, friend. Sunday October 11, 2026 11am-4pm ET Marygrove College In-person & livestreamed RSVP & more info at: linktr.ee/honoring.curtis.renee
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
IC joins many in grieving the loss of beloved costruggler Curtis Renee, who practiced abolitionist presents and futures with Detroit Safety Team, resisted criminalization and cultivated communities of care with BLM Detroit, supported Black migrants, and embodied Black trans and queer liberation. 🧵
text: In loving memory of Photo: a smiling black person text: IC joins in grieving the immeasurable loss of our beloved costruggler, collaborator, and community member Curtis Renee
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NPR @npr.org · 18/09/2026
The Trump administration has been pursuing a quiet immigration crackdown strategy: limiting access to health care and public services. The American Academy of Pediatrics is sounding the alarm about the impact on children. n.pr/4j86NXt
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Pediatricians raise the alarm on the effect of Trump's immigration crackdown on kids
The Trump administration has been pursuing a quiet immigration crackdown strategy: limiting access to health care and public services. The American Academy of Pediatrics is sounding the alarm about the impact on children.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 18/09/2026
More than 2,200 migrants died or vanished at sea in 2026, despite declining crossings into Europe, says IOM.
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Migrant crossings to Europe by sea drop sharply amid heightened risks: IOM
More than 2,200 migrants died or vanished at sea in 2026, despite declining crossings into Europe, says IOM.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17/09/2026
ICE arrested more than 400 undocumented immigrants in Indiana during a five-day operation in late August and early September, the agency announced this week. Most of the arrests occurred in Indianapolis.
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Hundreds arrested in Indiana during recent five-day ICE crackdown
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement cites cooperation with local law enforcement agencies as it continues stepped-up efforts to detain undocumented immigrants.
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Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Have you read the latest This Month in Criminalization? Information & analysis you need as we head back to school & into fall, federal enforcement surges, mounting repression & targeting of migrants, trans ppl, repro care & Indigenous resistance www.interruptingcriminalization.com/newsletters/...
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This Month in Criminalization: August-September 2026 — Interrupting Criminalization
The August/September 2026 installment of IC’s monthly criminalization roundup includes resources on ways to fortify ourselves and our communities for fall, and action items and information about the m...
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
SONG invites you to learn more about the Down With Data Centers campaign. This is a space for questions & collaboration. Work together to organize a liberated South! Wed Sep 30th 4:30-6 ET/3:30-5 CT/1:30-3 PT Register here 👇🏾
database.southernersonnewground.org
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Kay Whitlock @kwhitlock.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We hope you'll join us!
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW YORK CITY FOLKS: The fight for abortion rights—are you wondering how we got here? Wondering what's next? Join us Oct 3 for a teach-in with the authors of two excellent books on abortion. Register at: bit.ly/ICabortionteachin
Abortion: A Community Teach-In October 3 LES, NYC 11AM - 4PM 10:30 AM registration & continental breakfast Register at: bit.ly/ICabortionteachin
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Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Looking forward to this gathering and set of conversations about how we practice new worlds in the midst of repression and resistance… Wisconsin come through!
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If you're in NYC, you should come to the Abortion teach-in on October 3 so you can be in community with like-minded people and so you can be prepared should the Right criminalize Mifepristone in the coming months. Be ready for the fights ahead.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 15/09/2026
The contrast between the marked disregard for these women and the loud campaigning for more white babies is gross. “ICE recorded 18 miscarriages during the first nine months of the Trump administration, the documents show, but the agency has no data on miscarriages after 3 October 2025.”
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Revealed: ICE lost count of miscarriages, while detaining a record number of pregnant women
ICE says it has no updated information on the number of miscarriages after 3 October 2025. Lawmakers, advocates and immigration attorneys have raised alarms that pregnant detainees are not receiving b...
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Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
And…we have reached the federal agents policing “elections” stage of the coup….
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NYC people, sign up for the Sept 26 session today!! We Are Each Other's Harvest: Strengthening the Relationships that Sustain Our Movements Facilitated by Adaku Utah More info here: bit.ly/communiversity26
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Communiversity — Interrupting Criminalization
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 15/09/2026
“The $2.8 billion package, which would be purchased with U.S. taxpayer dollars, includes 40,000 bombs that weigh 2,000 pounds each, including 20,000 MK-84s and 20,000 BLU-117s, said the official, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss military matters.”
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Trump’s planned sale of controversial bombs to Israel is largest in years
The pending transfer of the 2,000-pound munition, involved in scores of incidents resulting in civilian casualties, sets up a potential litmus test for Democrats.
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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Icon Parking is allowing ICE vehicles in its garage. Demand ICE vans be removed from Independence Plaza. Here’s what you can do right now - Call Mon–Fri, 9–5: • ICON (877) 727-5464 • Vornado (212) 594-7000 x7400 • Stellar Mgmt (212) 406-0030
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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
USA: I am an ethical doctor. That’s why I’m on strike www.startribune.com/coon-rapids-...
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Opinion | I am an ethical doctor. That’s why I’m on strike.
For years, I viewed headlines about nursing strikes with cynicism. But once I began researching the history of nursing unions, I realized how much they have done to push for higher standards of patien...
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14/09/2026
New: Before Renée and Alex, ICE fatally shot Mexican immigrant Silverio Villegas González last fall outside Chicago in suburban Franklin Park. One year later, @domguan.bsky.social spent some time with the group of local women tending to his memorial. His family is still demanding answers:
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Growing Where He Died: Silverio Villegas González, One Year Later
One year on from the killing of Silverio Villegas González, a community of Franklin Park women continue the fight to keep his memory alive–through art, flowers, and “a culture of celebrating life.”
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Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Use The Actual Star to imagine a world beyond courts…and how we might run into (and avoid) different carceral issues. beyondcourts.org/en/imagine/i...
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Imagine Dealing with Harm Outside of Courts: A Workshop Session
In 2021, abolitionist organizers and thinkers gathered to imagine possibilities for exploring, evaluating, and adjudicating harm outside of criminal courts. This is a description of the workshop, the ...
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Alice Miranda Ollstein @alicemiranda.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
BREAKING: EPA is launching a study of water contamination that will, for the first time, test for the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol. Anti-abortion groups consider it a major win that could pave the way for restrictions. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...
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POLITICO Pro: Abortion opponents claim ‘tremendous victory’ as EPA tests water for abortion pills
The new study will test for trace amounts of chemicals, pesticides and drugs — including ones used to induce abortions — in drinking water in multiple cities.
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SN Désirée Cha @sndesireecha.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
please consider taking a break from discourse and actually shifting the material reality of people most harmed by collapse and institutional abandonment. mutual aid saves lives. please just help someone today. all we have is each other. all we are is what we do.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 12/09/2026
Organizers are hard at work to convince officials to roll back an agreement with a private prison operator.
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Louisiana Residents Are Resisting Plans to Build ICE Jail on Contaminated Site
Organizers are hard at work to convince officials to roll back an agreement with a private prison operator.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026
AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...
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Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American Prospect
Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I am grateful to the folks at DRUM for putting together this timeline. If you are under 40, I especially hope that you will take some time this weekend to review it. www.drumnyc.org/9-11-freedom/
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9/11 Freedom - DRUM - Desis Rising Up & Moving
Background Content warning: audio testimony depicting graphic police violence. Below you will find a timeline that delves into some of how DRUM members, organizers, and volunteers organized in the con...
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Truthout @truthout.org · 11/09/2026
Generations of Muslim children have grown up in the world that the war on terror has created — a world in which endless war has been normalized, torture justified, and with both the state and the media painting a target on the backs on entire Muslim populations across the globe.
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25 Years Later, We Still Live in the World the War on Terror Made
The war on terror was not inevitable, nor was the extraordinary violence carried out in its name necessary.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 11/09/2026
I got to ask some repro health and law experts to help make sense of what's going on with legal challenges to mifepristone—and what's next (non-spoiler: more attempts to expand abortions bans across the country)
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The Accelerating Project to Extend Abortion Bans to All 50 States
In a legal challenge to abortion access at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Department of Justice and Louisiana are on opposite sides. But they want the same thing.
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 11/09/2026
Even if your local police department isn't getting bankrolled by ICE, there are many ways they are likely quietly fueling the agency's campaign. Here's how you can find out and what you can do to push back:
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How is your local government collaborating with ICE? Here’s how to find out — and push back
From the deputization of local police to holding people on behalf of ICE, here are some ways your county might be working with federal agents ...
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 11/09/2026
ICE gave police in one PA county more than $1.5 million to carry out its deportation agenda and inflict harm on their own communities. A horrifying misuse of taxpayer dollars that's happening across the country.
inquirer.com
In Pa. coal country, local police join with ICE to bring arrests, fear | Will Bunch
Schuylkill County is the new face of Trump’s mass deportation, as local cops, lured by federal cash, bust scores of migrants.
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Federal enforcement & occupations are expected to expand and intensify leading up to midterm elections. Please check out our Block & Build, But Make it Abolitionist tool for analysis & strategic frameworks to guide your organizing against rising authoritarianism & fascism: bit.ly/blockbuildic
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
By a cop, BTW.
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
NYC! Are you curious about how the rightwing successfully overturned Roe v. Wade? Are you wondering how organizers and advocates are thinking about what comes next? Join us Oct 3 for a teach-in with the authors of two excellent books on abortion. Register at: bit.ly/ICabortionteachin
Abortion: A Community Teach-In October 3 LES, NYC 11AM - 4PM 10:30 AM registration & continental breakfast Register at: bit.ly/ICabortionteachin
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Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Overwhelmed? We organized our IC resources into handy dandy curricula on criminalization, abolition journalism, transformative justice, and labor & abolition, complete with assignments for each semester, just in time for back to school season! www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...
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Interrupting Criminalization Curriculum — Interrupting Criminalization
As we mobilize to stop ongoing genocides in Gaza, the West Bank, the Sudan and beyond, as well as corporate and state-sponsored violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and navigate increasingly ...
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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
More from upEND Movement's new campaign highlighting the connections between abortion bans and family policing.
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BanmarNJ @banmarnj.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Brazilian Woman Detained 15 Months by ICE Deported to Liberia Under US Third-Country Deal Paola Santos, 21, spent 15 months in ICE detention across five states before a 16-hour restrained flight landed her in Liberia under a US third-country deportation deal.
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Brazilian Woman Detained 15 Months by ICE Deported to Liberia Under US Third-Country Deal
Paola Santos, 21, spent 15 months in ICE detention across five states before a 16-hour restrained flight landed her in Liberia under a US third-country...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
DHS is stealing Haitians money while they deport them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/w...
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Haitians Deported From U.S. Are Left Broke and Stranded (Gift Article)
Hundreds have been deported to Haiti in recent weeks, and some say they have been left with no money, no protection from gangs and no place to go.
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Gaza buries the remains of 100 Palestinians, including 62 children - www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-bur…
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Gaza buries the remains of 100 Palestinians, including 62 children
The victims recovered from the rubble include 55 members of the Malaka family
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Ms. Magazine @msmagazine.com · 04/09/2026
The state’s new law trusts patients and doctors—not politicians, police or prosecutors—to make deeply personal decisions throughout pregnancy.
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Massachusetts Decriminalized Later Abortion, No Health Emergency Required
Massachusetts law no longer imposes a gestational-age limit on abortion, meaning women can get abortions throughout any point in pregnanct.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar @repilhan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Trump's oil blockade has exponentially worsened the human rights crisis in Cuba. The Cuban people are facing frequent blackouts. They lack access to basic needs like food and medicine. We must break the blockade and ensure human rights for the people of Cuba.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 05/09/2026
my latest: Massachusetts is one of the safest states for trans people—but multiple hospitals preemptively ended youth trans care over Trump admin threats to cut fed funding. on Wed, trans activists took their HRT at a govt office and refused to leave without a commitment to fight those hospitals.
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Even in safe-haven Massachusetts, trans care is at risk. Young people are fighting to protect it
Activists are calling on the state attorney general to take action against hospitals that have ended gender-affirming care programs after Trump retook office
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St. John Barned-Smith @stjbs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
ICE hasn’t paid for detainee medical care since October. Advocates call it the ‘death policy’ — my latest, w/ @kolyncheang.bsky.social. Spend some time with it www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
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ICE hasn’t paid for detainee medical care since October. Advocates call it the ‘death policy’
ICE owes millions in unpaid bills to hospitals and, in some cases, detainees themselves have been directly billed for care, records show.
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Check out our latest newsletter! In addition to actions you can take, it contains a list of ways to continue to fortify & expand community defense, rapid response, & mutual aid networks—as well as other ecosystems of resistance! ➡️ bit.ly/TMIC926
Fortifying for Fall
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Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This feels important -courage can’t always wait for a day you feel great. It’s required in the worst of times & those feel…shitty. So how do we fortify ourselves and each other to keep fighting through those times, which are coming at us faster every day? organizingmythoughts.org/the-understo...
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The Understory Toolkit
Creating spaces of reflection, belonging, and collective care
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Trump's ICE thugs are abducting victims of domestic violence, children & nursing mothers & empowering abusers to hold the threat of #ICELawlessness over the heads of their victims. People are now fearful about reporting crimes and serving as witnesses. Trump's policies make us all far less safe!
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Protesters in Danbury are demanding ICE get out and to shut down operations. The Danbury community is not backing down. 62 fathers, sons, brothers, mothers, daughters, sisters taken in four days. Goons tasing neighbors, breaking windows, arresting parents in front of their children.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
For years, people have asked @tanuja.bsky.social and me how we built and sustained Understory, our spiritual and emotional support group for activists. So we made a toolkit to help others build spaces of their own.
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The Understory Toolkit
Creating spaces of reflection, belonging, and collective care
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