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Ella Fassler

@ella-writes.bsky.social
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pvd-based organizer & journalist covering anti-capitalist social movements, mutual aid & policing | @truthout.org contributor | stories & thoughts substack.com/@ellafwrites

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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Don't miss this interview with the directors of 'Elements of Mutual Aid' with @ella-writes.bsky.social on @truthout.org and check out the trailer here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMLL...
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The Elements of Mutual Aid: Experiments Toward Liberation – Trailer
YouTube video by The Elements of Mutual Aid
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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A great interview with the co-directors of The Elements of Mutual Aid: "We think that the low to the ground, long-term relational infrastructure is the sharpest part of mutual aid, rather than ideology as a driving force." truthout.org/articles/mut...
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Mutual Aid Isn’t a Handout — It’s a Framework for Resistance
The co-directors of a new docuseries offer their theory of change for transcending capitalism and the state.
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Ella Fassler @ella-writes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I interviewed the co-directors of the new docuseries The Elements of Mutual Aid about the trajectory of the mutual aid landscape in the U.S and their theory of change for transcending capitalism & the state for @truthout.org truthout.org/articles/mut...
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Mutual Aid Isn’t a Handout — It’s a Framework for Resistance
The co-directors of a new docuseries offer their theory of change for transcending capitalism and the state.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 16/08/2026
The co-directors of a new docuseries offer their theory of change for transcending capitalism and the state. buff.ly/SHi3Ip5
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Mutual Aid Isn’t a Handout — It’s a Framework for Resistance
The co-directors of a new docuseries offer their theory of change for transcending capitalism and the state.
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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Love a good prof slam: “It’s bewildering. It seemed weird and laughable,” Davis said of the indictment. “It felt like the length of the indictment was a cover for how thin it actually was. I’m a professor. I’ve seen people pad out papers when they’ve got nothing to say.”
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The professor facing prison in ‘antifa’ case: ‘They want to scare all who oppose ICE’
Erik Davis is accused by the government of a ‘conspiracy’ to obstruct ICE – experts say it’s part of a pattern to criminalize lawful organizing and ruin activists’ lives
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Ella Fassler @ella-writes.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
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Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop · 27/07/2026
Title is accurate, this sounds so fun.
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Being a Luddite Is Fun Again
As tech backlash hits the mainstream, the ‘Summer of Ludd’ proves we don’t need social media to hang out and have a good time.
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Ella Fassler @ella-writes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I covered the expanding local ear acupuncture landscape for the @thepvdeye.bsky.social & explored how the movement has retained a radical ethos of accessibility in an otherwise commercialized healthcare ecosystem pvdeye.org/ear-acupuntu...
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Peer-to-peer and Ear-to-ear: Community Acupuncture Creates Accessible Support for Anxiety and Addiction
On an early July morning, a small group sat around a table at CODAC, Rhode Island’s oldest nonprofit addiction treatment center, with acupuncture needles protruding from their ears. Program administra...
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Ella Fassler @ella-writes.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I wrote about the my nephew's peculiarities and asked some larger questions. what are the conditions that allowed for these unbridled peculiar curiosities to emerge? ellafassler.substack.com/p/on-peculia...
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on peculiarities
an ode to nephew asa kai
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Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop · 02/07/2026
Hell yeah we are
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Asheville bookstore sues SC Corrections for destroying their books
Asheville shop Firestorm Books is suing South Carolina prisons over a policy that destroys books not from approved vendors.
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Ella Fassler @ella-writes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
new on the blog, a little slice of providence life ellafassler.substack.com/p/under-the-...
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under the willow
a very providence afternoon
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DFW Support Committee @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
these are the sentences for 8 of the Prairieland federal trial defendants Judge Mark Pittman: Benjamin Song: 100 years Maricela Rueda: 70 years Elizabeth Soto, Meagan Morris: 50 years Judge Reed O'Connor: Zachary Evetts, Savanna Batten, Autumn Hill: 50 years Daniel "Des" Sanchez Estrada: 30 years
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PM Press @pmpress.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
We are without words. Our thoughts are with the Prairieland Defendants and their loved ones.
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Ella Fassler @ella-writes.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
people in Massachusetts played by the state's rules to get rent control on the ballot in the Novemer by collecting 120K+ signatures (they 'only' needed 79,000) the MA Supreme Judicial Court just told them all to fuck off www.wamc.org/news/2026-06...
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Top Mass. court shuts down rent control ballot question
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has issued a ruling that a question about rent control will be barred from the November ballot.
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 22/06/2026
One of the 15 defendants in Minnesota indicted on "Antifa" charges for allegedly standing up to ICE is simply accused of writing an article we published about the murder of Renee Good. The author describes an ICE agent shooting a pepper ball at his eye, point-blank. You can read the article here:
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Minneapolis Responds to ICE Committing Murder
On January 7, 2026, an ICE agent murdered Renee Good. This is an account from a participant in the protests that broke out on scene of the murder.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Let’s check in on how Jared and Ivanka’s luxury Albanian resort is doing…
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
vouched fundraiser for the Minneapolis defendants chuffed.org/project/1865...
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Legal Defense Fund for MN Anti-ICE Organizers
On the morning of June 16th 2026 fifteen anti-ICE organizers were indicted on federal conspiracy charges in Minnesota, 12 of whom were arrested in aggressive raids across the Twin Cities. This fundrai...
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Truthout @truthout.org · 15/06/2026
Nearly 40 women have joined the hunger strike at Delaney Hall ICE jail in Newark, demanding improved conditions in the facility; the release of female detainees, beginning with those who are under 21 years old; and the firing of a guard who they say has sexually assaulted at least 10 women.
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Dozens of Women Join Hunger and Labor Strike at Delaney Hall ICE Jail
“We are mothers, daughters, sisters. We are women that are being unjustly imprisoned,” the women said in a video.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 08/06/2026
In the face of rising government surveillance and the suppression of left organizing, independent libraries are part of growing efforts to expand non-state alternatives including mutual aid networks, free stores, and free universities.
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As Censorship Expands, Autonomous Libraries Are Springing Up to Fill the Gaps
From California to Illinois to Oregon, flourishing anarchist libraries are spreading knowledge and building community.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 05/06/2026
Even when local police have no formal contracts with ICE, some departments still provide critical help to ICE agents. But in many jurisdictions, 911 call records are subject to public records law—providing watchdogs a tool for tracking ICE activity.
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How State and Local Leaders Are Responding to ICE: Your Questions Answered - Bolts
How are states restricting ICE activity? Can local prosecutors charge federal officers? How can local leaders prepare for ICE deployments? We provide answers about local responses to the immigration crackdown.
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Ella Fassler @ella-writes.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
i've been covering mutual aid groups for quite a while, and was especially impressed with this crew decentralized medical device manufacturing ftw👇 ellafassler.substack.com/p/a-grassroo...
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A Grassroots Group in Tucson Is 3D-Printing Tourniquets to Send to Lebanon
A small non-hierarchical collective in Arizona is using an open-source design to create life-saving tourniquets.
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🇵🇸 Dean Tāne 🇵🇸 @dean-tane.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Repost the Leather Dachshund from Seattle Pride 1991 to be blessed this Pride Month!
A wee Dachshund dog, wearing the finest leather daddy outfit, walking with their owner during a Pride parade in Seattle in 1991.
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Ella Fassler @ella-writes.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
“We need to take control of the ability to create the things that we need, especially the most important things — things that save our lives, things that we need in crises” my latest for @truthout.org truthout.org/articles/a-g...
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A Grassroots Group in Tucson Is 3D-Printing Tourniquets to Send to Lebanon
A small non-hierarchical collective in Arizona is using an open-source design to create life-saving tourniquets.
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Sheridan Stewart @sheridanstewart.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
“‘My political camp is that I don’t want people bleeding out because they don’t have access to equipment that we have the luxury of having access to,’ Barton told Truthout.”
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Second night of Jersey cops attacking protesters who are there supporting hunger strikers inside a sadistic immigrant jail
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Don't miss the latest from @ella-writes.bsky.social. "The effort is notable, though, as grassroots groups are attempting to move toward decentralized medical manufacturing that is less dependent on traditional corporate production chains."
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Ella Fassler @ella-writes.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
“We need to take control of the ability to create the things that we need, especially the most important things — things that save our lives, things that we need in crises” my latest for @truthout.org truthout.org/articles/a-g...
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A Grassroots Group in Tucson Is 3D-Printing Tourniquets to Send to Lebanon
A small non-hierarchical collective in Arizona is using an open-source design to create life-saving tourniquets.
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Ella Fassler @ella-writes.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
now on the blog, how I learned about Mexmûr, a refugee camp of more than 10,000+ kurds in Iraqi-occupied Kurdistan building a new society from the ground up ellafassler.substack.com/p/learning-a...
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learning about Mexmûr
a displaced population of more than 10,000 Kurds in Iraqi-occupied Kurdistan have been building a new society from the ground up since 1998
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Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop · 21/05/2026
Author Daniel Gross argues that challenges to the ruling class will emerge when workers themselves—not union officials—design and refine unions that actually work for them. We'll be hosting @dgorganize.bsky.social alongside local organizers on Monday, June 2nd!
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The Unions We Need Will Be Built by Workers, Not Labor Officials
Organizer Daniel Gross explains how to make sure that union building actually works and is sustained over time.
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Ella Fassler @ella-writes.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
My first ever (speculative) fiction piece is set in a solarpunky democratic confederalist Providence and explores themes of wanderlust, communal obligation, and rootnedness 🌱 ellafassler.substack.com/p/scenes-fro...
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Scenes From a Post-Revolutionary Federal Hill
A walk to the Housing Committee headquarters complicates Billie’s decision to become a shuffler.
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dgorganize (he/him) @dgorganize.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
This is so kind from @ella-writes.bsky.social on how we first met It's really important to learn from those early on the scene—like they were on literally the first day of the first Trump admin. And the same is true in labor organizing. ellafassler.substack.com/p/the-unions...
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The Unions We Need Will Be Built by Workers, Not Labor Officials
Organizer Daniel Gross explains how to make sure that union building actually works and is sustained over time.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
"[S]olidarity unionism was taken down partially from outright murder, kidnapping, imprisonment, deportation, and destruction of materials, records, and literature. ... [W]e need to try to preempt these forms of repression."
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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 02/05/2026
Wonderful interview of @dgorganize.bsky.social on his new book, Unions of Our Own. I especially love the distinction b/t union organizing and union *building.* I'm buying a copy for myself and requesting that my local public library, @qplnyc.bsky.social, get one too. share.google/ucb2DHr48bKP...
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Haymarket Books
Haymarket Books is a radical, independent, nonprofit book publisher based in Chicago.
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California Fast Food Workers Union @cafastfoodunion.org · 30/04/2026
STRIKE: Ahead of May Day, Popeyes workers in Los Angeles are on strike due to life-threatening workplace violence, extreme heat, cockroaches in the kitchen, wage theft, and broken restroom, to the point we’ve been forced to urinate in a closet drain because it is the only place without cameras. 🧵
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Nicky (🦵🏼🔑) Rodriguez is on sub! needs an agent! @artofnickyrdrgz.latinsky.app · 01/05/2026
"it’s actually that co-workers are best positioned to figure out their own successful union models, and they actually have a really unique power to be able to do that well by virtue of being workers." 🙂‍↕️
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Solidarity Union Network (SUN) @sununion.org · 01/05/2026
Unions of Our Own in @truthout.org on International Workers Day by @ella-writes.bsky.social We're honored to be a partner on the free resources available at unionsofourown.org truthout.org/articles/the...
highlighted blue on black text reading: From the book’s website, folks can purchase the book, access ready-to-use tools for free, register for companion trainings, and even get confidential one-on-one support to deal with problems at work.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 01/05/2026
“The decline of the labor movement is no doubt one of the factors that have enabled Trumpism to capture the nation.”
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The Unions We Need Will Be Built by Workers, Not Labor Officials
Organizer Daniel Gross explains how to make sure that union building actually works and is sustained over time.
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Ella Fassler @ella-writes.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
A new book distills decades of labor organizing experience into a step-by-step guide that supports workers in building and sustaining unions that actually work for them! I interviewed the author @dgorganize.bsky.social about it for @truthout.org truthout.org/articles/the...
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The Unions We Need Will Be Built by Workers, Not Labor Officials
Organizer Daniel Gross explains how to make sure that union building actually works and is sustained over time.
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dgorganize (he/him) @dgorganize.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Unions of Our Own is out today and arriving in the hands of courageous workers 🥹 My goal for the book is growing the community of working people who build unions that meet their needs as they define them and that advance their vision of the world. Get yours: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2724-u...
paperback Unions of Our on a wood background. "Unions of Our Own: 8 Building Blocks to Change Work...and the World," by Daniel Gross. The background is a bright-red tint; the title, in white; the subtitle, a shade of yellow. In the middle of the background are a row of blood-red vertically oriented rectangles.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 28/04/2026
In news that absolutely everyone predicted…
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Police Are Using AI Camera Networks to Stalk Women
There have been 14 documented incidents where police officers used automatic license plate readers to stalk romantic interests.
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dgorganize (he/him) @dgorganize.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Let's get more dangerous to oligarchy and grow the community of workers building unions of their own. It starts on Tuesday at 6pm in NYC in conversation with the brilliant Michelle Chen. Pre-order Unions of Our Own today and join the movement: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2724-u...
Beige background flyer, Book Launch & Discussion Unions of Our Own on the top in red. Middle line is Unions of Our Own book image red background, Daniel Gross Unions of Our Own: 8 Building Blocks to Change Work...and the Word. right side profile photos os Michelle Chen and Daniel Gross. Tuesday April 28, 6pm - 7:30pm. CUNY School of Law. Auditorium 2 Court Square West, 2nd Floor, Long Island City, Queens 11101. Bottom line is logos: Labor Coalition, Food Chain Workers Alliance, Haymarket Books, Solidarity Union Network (SUN), Brandworkers Good Jobs Local Food, Laundry Workers Center
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Longtail News @longtail-news.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Feed: "The Providence Eye" By: Ella Fassler on Wednesday, April 15, 2026
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Brett Smiley’s Plan to Veto Rent Stabilization Shows Why Providence Needs Decentralized Governance
Mayor Brett Smiley has said he will veto the Providence Rent Stabilization Act, an ordinance passed by the Providence City Council earlier this month that would cap annual rent increases at four perce...
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Sean Skunk-Cabbage (Chou-Puant) ⚓ @moldybasil.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Oh yeah that's the good stuff
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Philip Eil @phileil.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
New today in @thepvdeye.bsky.social: an interesting piece from @ella-writes.bsky.social.
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Ella Fassler @ella-writes.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
PVD Mayor Brett Smiley is set to veto a rent stabalization bill despite its popularity among voters. In an op-ed for the Providence Eye I argued this is a reminder we live in a highly centralized governing system & proposed democratic confederalism as an alternative pvdeye.org/decentralize...
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Brett Smiley's Plan to Veto Rent Stabilization Shows Why Providence Needs Decentralized Governance - The Providence Eye
Mayor Brett Smiley has said he will veto the Providence Rent Stabilization Act, an ordinance passed by the Providence City Council earlier this month that would cap annual rent increases at four perce...
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Ella Fassler @ella-writes.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The Worker's Assembly "shines a light on the political possibilities of an anti-ICE, anti-war movement organized democratically by rank-and-file workers, and provides an alternative to a movement dictated by the labor and social movement bureaucracies." www.leftvoice.org/no-ice-no-wa...
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"No ICE, No War, No Billionaires": A Second Minneapolis Workers' Assembly Prepares for May Day - Left Voice
On April 4, 200 workers and activists gathered for the second Minneapolis Workers' Assembly to decide the next steps for the movement. Attendees voted to adopt the slogan "No ICE, No War, No Billionai...
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 03/04/2026
“The department's new Drone as a First Responder (DFR) program led to the arrest of a 14-year-old who was speeding on an e-bike…”
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Macomb Co. sheriff's new drone lands arrest by tracking teen cyclist
The equipment had been in use less than 24 hours before it yielded an arrest, the sheriff said.
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I think it's vitally important that everyone know that when baby bear cubs are orphaned and taken to our local wildlife center, they get fed and rehabbed by people masking their scent and wearing costumes like this so they don't get habituated to humans
A person wearing blue surgical gloves plus a bear shaped mask and a long fur coat in order to feed a little tiny baby bear.
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Behind the Hunger Strike: Swift Justice Continues Fight for ‘Prisoners’ Rights’ Kenneth ‘Swift Justice’ Traywick started starving himself November 20, 2025, striking in solidarity with ‘prisoners’ across Alabama and the United States. unicornriot.ninja/2026/behind-...
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Behind the Hunger Strike: Swift Justice Continues Fight for ‘Prisoners’ Rights’ - UNICORN RIOT
Kenneth 'Swift Justice' Traywick started starving himself November 20, 2025, striking in solidarity with 'prisoners' across Alabama and the United States.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 15/03/2026
Experts warn the verdict could set a precedent for prosecuting protest activity as terrorism.
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Jury Convicts 8 in Texas Case Tied to Trump’s War Against “Antifa”
Experts warn the verdict could set a precedent for prosecuting protest activity as terrorism.
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