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ElizabethRDale

@elizabethrdale.bsky.social
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Writer, carceral history & disability; retired prof. My latest book: chicago1919.domains.uflib.ufl.edu/f…

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2h
Holy shit.
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ElizabethRDale @elizabethrdale.bsky.social · 1h
He’s “responding” to the discussion of precedent and reliance in Casey (around page 855 and after).
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 1h
Today, 1 in 5 formerly incarcerated people is experiencing food insecurity. That's about 1 million people nationwide. We should be making it easier for vulnerable people to access healthy food, not harder.
Graph showing that formerly incarcerated people are 2x as likely (19.5%) to experience food insecurity as the general population (10.4%)
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Daniel Schultz @dandadad.bsky.social · 2h
Adding a couple of thoughts about this convo, which really was very good. With Talarico, Hamilton and others, do Dems suddenly "get" religion? Do they need to, in order to win the midterms or create a new moral politics? No, I don't think so.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3h
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 3h
ICE took two more people from my local courthouse today. The wife of one of the guys who was taken showed up shortly after. She just had surgery. She was worried about paying rent and feeding her kids. This is happening *every day* in Massachusetts. Lives are being destroyed every single day.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 3h
With the help of Republican officials, ICE has quietly arrested hundreds of people in Florida per day. Watch the latest dispatch from journalist Amanda Moore (@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social) out of southwest Florida:
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 6h
Since July 27, brave people have been occupying an ancient cottonwood tree to block the construction of Trump's border wall, which is destroying the region's ecology. This morning, Border Patrol raided the camp, arresting a number of people and killing the tree. Background: crimethinc.com/lochiel
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The Border is an Open Wound
A report from the tree occupation in Lochiel, Arizona that is halting the construction of the border wall.
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ElizabethRDale @elizabethrdale.bsky.social · 3h
Public buses and trains help more. Some disabled people can’t drive or bike.
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Ernest Luckman @ernieluckman.bsky.social · 4h
Every so often some politician says the quiet part out loud. That criminalizing drugs lets you do all kinds of other civil rights violations.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Another person has died in Trump's concentration camps. 47-year-old Julian Curo-Churata was from Peru. He died on Sept. 29 after he was imprisoned for three months in Richwood Correctional Center in Louisiana. That camp is run by LaSalle Corrections. There's no cause of death listed.
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Illegal alien from Peru passes away in ICE custody in Louisiana
ICE is committed to ensuring that all those in custody reside in safe, secure and humane environments.
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 10h
Because of federal rules, children covered by Medicaid won't be able to access vaccines that are no longer recommended by the federal government, even as children with private insurance will.
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RFK Jr’s Relentless Anti-Vax Push Will Disproportionately Hurt Children on Medicaid
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has already demonstrated his Department of Health and...
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 8h
As a longtime Chicago journalist I want to say that if you fail to put Hastert's serial CHILD SEX ABUSE in the headlines about his death, you are doing it wrong. So far, this is the only headline I've seen that has been crystal clear about what the Illinois pol did to kids. Credit @reuters.com.
Dennis Hastert, former US House speaker and admitted child molester, dies at 84
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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 5h
If you’re arresting a Jewish 94-year-old human rights lawyer for peacefully protesting, you’re on the wrong side of history. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10...
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‘I’m rather proud’: Barrister, 94, arrested for supporting Palestine Action
Margaret Owen OBE, a celebrated human rights lawyer and friend of Ed Miliband’s late mother, talks to Al Jazeera.
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 5h
Yeah, this is a big time impeachment abuse of power.
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Daniel Schultz @dandadad.bsky.social · 6h
Let's do this again: Great conversation with @aselrod.bsky.social about the future of the GOP, and how Christianity plays into it. One thing about why some cons. Christians are turned off by ICE goon squads: hospitality to the stranger is one of the most explicit commandments in scripture. 1/2
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 7h
Good to see reporters calling what's happening in San Francisco what it really is: Surveillance maximalism. The leadership of the city sees no problem they can't solve by defunding resources that prevent crime and pouring all their money, plus all the money offered by billionaires, into policing.
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‘Surveillance maximalism’: SFPD uses camera technology Israelis used to track Palestinians
BriefCam uses AI to analyzes hours of video inside the Real Time Investigative Center. Critics say the technology is just as invasive as facial recognition.
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Jacob E. Peters @archijake.bsky.social · 18h
This is why Chicago is the true second city. The same trick can be done to make Chicago more populous than LA with a similar land area.
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 7h
happening now- Florida prices starting to rise to $4.19
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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 7h
Kav also saying the Court's precedents are backed up by the "equal sovereignty principle." You know, the thing they made up in Shelby County to gut the Voting Rights Act. So it's a weapon to be used against Acts of Congress that states don't like...and state law suits that industry doesn't like.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 8h
if you’re wondering why we have to hear from and about this guy constantly it helps to remember that his brother Ari is the chairman of WME which is the merged version of William Morris and Endeavor. It’s the largest media group in the country. One of its clients is the NFL. It owns WWE.
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ElizabethRDale @elizabethrdale.bsky.social · 8h
Actually reliance by women was part of the argument by the three centrist judges in Casey.
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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 8h
Fall 💖🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁🍂
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10h
He isn’t old. He isn’t out of touch. He isn’t confused. He is choosing who will rule. Men — even those who love men — are citizens and everyone else isn’t. Thats it.
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 8h
"Getting rid" of sexual abuse in carceral settings means "getting rid" of the carceral state.
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Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · 8h
I am once again asking for one of our intrepid Chicago designers to get "SHUT THE FUCK UP, RAHM" merch on the market ASAP
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 9h
There is no way to reduce deportations without a substantial defunding of law enforcement in rural areas, who have long operated like a baronial class unto themselves.
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ElizabethRDale @elizabethrdale.bsky.social · 10h
Presumably Alioto’s logic protects birth control?
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 12h
I know some folks won't read a Substack, so here's her same coverage at The Addison Independent: www.addisonindependent.com/2026/10/01/t...
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Terror in the Backyard: ICE’s shadow surges in Vermont
Liza Cochran, author of Brave Little Voices, delves deep into the Aug. 8 ICE raid of Mary Richards’s home in Cornwall.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 12h
I thought there would be a national revulsion over the death of Pierre Damas Bel. But at this point, it takes whiteness to make America care. And for that reason, despite everything else, I'm glad "Jack" decided to speak up.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19h
If Democrats think winning back congress this year and the presidency in 2028 is enough, they are sorely mistaken. We'll be right back where we're at in 2032 with an even more fascist and white supremacist Republican party. It's not enough to win power.
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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 13h
Cruel and unusual punishment of a child.
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Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A lot of talk today on how university Presidents so re-upping this thread about how the President of Mexico’s UNAM responded to some local students getting beaten by cops on his campus.
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 15h
More than 11,000 Washington state residents are losing access to healthcare and food benefits today due to changes under the federal law known as H.R. 1, also known as the One Big Beautiful Act. www.kiro7.com/news/local/1...
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11,000+ Washington residents lose healthcare, food benefits
“All the things that we’ve worked so hard on, their blood pressure, their diabetes management, it just goes out the window because they’re trying to save everything.” Lawal said, “So now, they’re usin...
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 21h
We murdered four more people in a boat today
U.S. southern Command: On October 4, under the direction of #SOUTHCOM, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal, kinetic strike on a go-fast vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean. Confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel's active involvement in narco-trafficking. The operation killed four narco-terrorists. @DeptofWar
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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 16h
Perhaps my most small-c conservative belief is that Michael Harrington was right about how consumer identity replacing religious identity is a catastrophe for democracy in the West
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 16h
www.reddit.com/r/BlueskySke...
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 15h
Land of free www.reddit.com/r/ICE_Watch/...
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 16h
The government is silent about it because governments do not care about disabled lives. They see us as drains on the system. “Useless eaters”. High cost health users. Anything other than people who are deserving of love and care. Most people will end up disabled at some point. Fight for us.
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 15h
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Friends Journal @friendsjournal.org · 23h
We hope everyone has had a wonderful World Quaker Day! Take some time to contemplate this year's theme, "Let Peace Be Among Us," in silent worship and discernment. How can we foster peace within our communities, and among our neighbors, in the year ahead?
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Since this summer, ICE has been arresting asylum applicants at airports. Many came legally, then applied for asylum. They have been here for years just stuck in a massive line, working and paying taxes while they wait. No prior admin would have arrested them. Their “overstay” is due to DHS delay.
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Beverly Tweetmaker @bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Reminder: this is Palestine Fest. It's not a political event. These folks were just trying to enjoy a beautiful fall day. Some asshole is planning his life around stopping strangers from celebrating because apparently he doesn't have anything to celebrate. It's sad and pathetic.
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ElizabethRDale @elizabethrdale.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I also know folks already this fall who had very severe cases of flu (like spend days in the hospital levels of severe).
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Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Correct (he also controls global wireless and most of near-space...also, most of the US commercial and military space-launch capacity...among other things)
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
my best friend worked at University of Mississippi at the time when nearly the entire faculty and student body was demanding the Confederate statue at the entrance be taken down but it wasn’t, because apparently the answer to Mike’s question is “a handful of very rich football families”
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@dhookstead

Did we cancel D-Day because of a little rough weather? No. Play the damn game.

Readers added context

D-Day was delayed by a day because of the weather
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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The legends of Bread & Puppet are in Minneapolis at Powderhorn tonight. www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
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B&P in Minneapolis, MN Fall 2026: The Upside Down World Circus
The Bread & Puppet Circus returns to Minneapolis, MN! Join us for The Upside Down Circus!“Is it or is it not? Am I asleep or am I awake? Am I a cockroach or…
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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County, Down by the green river where paradise lay? Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking, Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.
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