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Gwen Adora ☀️ @gwenadora.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Additional reading by the wonderful @noelleperdue.bsky.social. noelleperdue.substack.com/p/are-you-18...
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Are you 18 or over? Are you my mother? Are you my sexy surveillance state?
*sydney sweeney voice* my retina scans are blue
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Emily @ewheeelz.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Up late… thinking bout the massage therapist who got away…
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a kermit the frog is looking out of a window in the rain .
ALT: a kermit the frog is looking out of a window in the rain .
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Sheryl Cole, one of the Texas Democrats who broke quorum:
While on my morning walk in the Mueller neighborhood, my DPS escort, who was forced upon me to track my every movement, threatened to arrest me. He lost me on the trail, got angry about it, and made a scene in front of my constituents on the trail. #txlege 

1/3While a little shaken up from the incident, I remain undeterred by this intimidation tactic by House Republicans to have a 24/7 state police presence to intimidate me and my colleagues.

2/3This is also why I stand with my colleague @NicoleCollier95, who has refused to go along with this charade and is still on the House floor 24 hours later.

We will not be intimidated by this, and history will remember this.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier is suing over "illegal confinement" after Republicans locked her in the state Capitol for refusing police surveillance
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Texas Democrat Sues After Republicans Lock Her In State Capitol
Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier was told she was not free to leave the building after refusing to sign a permission slip requiring a 24-hour police escort.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 19/08/2025
Amanda Trebach, a member of Unión del Barrio and an ICU nurse, was monitoring ICE operations in the Los Angeles area when she was targeted and arrested herself. Video of the scene shows masked agents in plainclothes forcing her to the ground and briefly kneeling on her head.
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LA Immigrant Rights Activist Recounts Violent Arrest by Masked Federal Agents
“The way that we’re going to win … is through solidarity for all people,” said Amanda Trebach.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 12/08/2025
A shocking investigation, published in August 2024, revealed a well-funded, right-wing campaign to criminalize homelessness across the country. It’s a cruel and counterproductive effort, and looking at where we are today, it’s working. 1/10
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Inside the Right’s War on the Homeless
How one Trumpist tech mogul pushed a crackdown on the unhoused all the way to the Supreme Court.
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Emily @ewheeelz.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Ideal scenario: You are close with a couple who are friends with you (also a couple) and live in the city. You and your partner live in a lovely home in a more rural, idyllic setting. Every month, you do a weekend house swap with your city friends - they get a country vacay, you get city fun! 👌🏻
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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
“People dare to be comfortable with uncertainty if they are in solidarity with each other… There is almost no limit to what we can do for the sake of each other.” Rest in power, Joanna Macy💔 truthout.org/articles/lea...
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Learning to See in the Dark Amid Catastrophe: An Interview With Deep Ecologist Joanna Macy
Theorist Joanna Macy discusses the necessity of perceiving the full reality of the current ecological situation, difficult as that may be.
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Prism @prismreports.org · 16/07/2025
For 30+ days, ICE has invaded communities & snatched people—immigrants & citizens alike—throughout LA. As the city remains under siege, disability & immigrant rights advocates reshape outreach to protect disabled immigrants, ‪@andreagtrrz.bsky.social‬ reports. prismreports.org/2025/07/14/l...
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The Los Angeles raids make Deaf immigrants more vulnerable
Both disability rights and immigrant rights advocates are limited in the help they can offer disabled communities
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Mikayel Meyerrrz @retrosquirrel.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
How do they manage to ruin EVERY day? Every single day I find out about something new that pisses me off
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Craig Gilmore @craiggilmore.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
A great help in working out how best to stop them in your county is this great collection, The Jail is Everywhere: Fighting the New Geography of Mass Incarceration:: www.versobooks.com/products/303...
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The Jail is Everywhere
Nearly every county and major city in the United States has a jail, the short-term detention center controlled by local sheriffs that funnels people into prisons and long-term incarceration. Jails are...
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
What they're going to do to immigrants is horrendous enough, but this should be understood more broadly. They've just built a police state that is larger than most country's militaries. The DOJ said de-naturalization is its priority. ICE doesn't need warrants. This is Trump's secret police force.
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georgia! @georgiarising.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
need the universe to strike this entire administration down in the most cartoonishly evil ways
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 03/07/2025
Heard a fellow journalist wonder aloud this week why lefty religious leaders aren’t associated with politics like the right. I cover protests from all sides, but I am also the only reporter or one of the only reporters at these lefty events — even when they’re big! religionnews.com/2025/06/10/f...
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Faith leaders, lawmakers argue GOP bill benefits the ultra-wealthy by hurting the poor
WASHINGTON (RNS) — ‘May your will be done, and may this bill be killed,’ said the Rev. Teresa Hord Owens, general minister and president of the Disciples of Christ.
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Emily @ewheeelz.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 02/07/2025
I wrote about the day the president attended the opening of an American concentration camp:
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The Grand Opening of an American Concentration Camp
The Republicans are proudly calling it “Alligator Alcatraz.” Let’s call it what it is.
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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Sharing this for no special reason: In July 1933, a New York Times reporter toured Dachau and saw the entire camp "except possibly the disciplinary cells." According to the reporter, "it was an almost idyllic picture of a rest camp," though the inmates were "gloomy" (h/t @monospace.com)
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TIMES WRITER VISITS REICH PRISON CAMP; Taken Through Entire Place at Dachau in Bavaria Except Possibly Disciplinary Cells. 2,000 INMATES GLOOMY Incautious Word Has Landed Many There -- Machine Guns an...
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Emily @ewheeelz.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
GET 👏🏻 THIS 👏🏻 SHIT 👏🏻 OUTTA CHICAGO 👏🏻 ISTG!!!!!!!!
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El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
Laura Loomer‘s tweet: Alligator lives matter. The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now.
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Emily @ewheeelz.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
HYFR
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Emily @ewheeelz.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
me looking at all the pride events going on and thinking about the energy it would take to rally and actually Go Out
most depleted, exhausted, close-to-death sketch of a dude. Wrinkled, looking down to the right, the figure is devoid of hope or hutzpah
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
We are posting this placard at all of our offices and asking our union contract farms to post as well. We encourage our friends to put up similar placards at their business as immigration agents do not have the right to go on private property without permission.
A placard with the following text 

NO ICE ACCESS IN THIS OFFICE

PRIVATE PROPERTY - ENTRY RESTRICTED BY LAW

NOTICE TO ALL LAW ENFORCEMENT & IMMIGRATION AGENTS:

This is a private workplace. You are not permitted to enter non-public areas of this office (including offices, break rooms, storage areas, and staff-only areas) without a valid judicial warrant signed by a federal judge or magistrate

An ICE administrative warrant (Form I-200 or 1-205) does not authorize entry into private areas of this office.

You may not question emplovees or search the premises without proper legal authorify.

All employees and visitors have the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney.

IF YOU ATTEMPT TO ENTER THIS OFFICE WITHOUT A VALID JUDICIAL WARRANT, YOU WILL BE ASKED TO LEAVE.

IF YOU PRESENT A JUDICIAL WARRANT, PLEASE NOTIFY MANAGEMENT AND LEGAL COUNSEL IMMEDIATELY BEFORE PROCEEDING.

IF YOU ENTER, YOU ARE TRESPASSING, AND WE WILL SEEK LEGAL RECOURSE.

This policy is in compliance with:

U.S. Constitution, Fourth Amendment

California Government Code $ 7285.1

California Labor Code $ 1019.2

Immigrant Worker Protection Act (AB 450)
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Emily @ewheeelz.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I’m heading full tilt towards a mental breakdown! haha!!!!! I love it here!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Emily @ewheeelz.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
WELP !
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Emily @ewheeelz.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
do you know how fucked up it is that cooling/warming centers close on weekends/national holidays?!?!? we need to pass actual legislation around protecting our communities during climate crises because I promise you the heat waves will only get worse
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Raed Mansour @raedmansour.com · 19/06/2025
Extreme heat is the number one weather related cause of death. It's a silent killer for older adults, in certain diseases, socially isolated without AC, and more. Help Chicago save lives and develop heat policies and programs by taking this survey: northwestern.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Starr Banks @heystarrbanks.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Paid past due bill and paid $240 to get my car from the tow! Support would be so appreciated Venmo and Cashapp: HeyStarrBanks Also got gigs this weekend you can come and kii down at! 🏳️‍⚧️⭐️
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Emily @ewheeelz.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
I really hate that being off my phone and disconnected from 24hr news made me so much more regulated and grounded and not at a baseline code red level anxiety ugh
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Emily @ewheeelz.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
I cannot* fucking believe that masked militia men are kidnapping people, separating families, assaulting bystanders, refusing to show ID, locking out congresspeople, “arresting” US citizens, and deporting community members and more than half the country is just like “well, what can you do!” *can 😞
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Truthout @truthout.org · 18/06/2025
While many mayors of major U.S. cities claim to oppose ICE — and have even implemented formal “sanctuary city” policies — local police often act as a “force multiplier” for ICE, even when they aren’t directly involved in detaining migrants. Co-published with @economichardship.bsky.social
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Local Police Departments Are Enabling ICE’s Deportation Machine
Even in cities where police decline to work with ICE, local law enforcement still bolster the deportation machine.
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😸 Hugo the pink cat 😸 @hugothepinkcat.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
CLARIFICATION : The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline. They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY So spread this around They can be texted. They can be called.
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Silky Shah @silkys13.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
After a decade of successfully fighting against a large detention center in the Midwest, ICE has started detaining immigrants at North Lake in Michigan, a 1800-bed former privately operated federal prison that shuttered under Biden in 2022. www.interlochenpublicradio.org/2025-06-17/b...
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Baldwin's ICE detention center accepts first detainees
North Lake Correctional Facility, near Baldwin, accepted its first immigration detainees Monday, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Prism @prismreports.org · 17/06/2025
Whether in scrubs or hard hats, immigrant workers are sent the same message: Stay quiet, don’t organize, don’t resist, Susan Naranjo writes. ICE tried to make an example out of David Huerta. Now is the time for unions to stand up for immigrant workers. prismreports.org/2025/06/16/d...
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ICE tried to make an example out of labor leader David Huerta
Amid the immigration protests in Los Angeles, we must remember Huerta’s longstanding message: Immigrant justice is worker justice
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Emily @ewheeelz.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I can’t describe how useless all my little attempts to help people feel in the face of fascism. As soon as we complete materials, trainings, and support systems around what is happening, everything changes. What we actually need to be doing is [redacted] [redacted] [redacted]
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 11/06/2025
If you were assaulted by CPD downtown tonight or witnessed brutality and would like to report anonymously, you can message us on Signal at unraveled.66
Signal qr code
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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
The airlines also sold our data to ICE. Jesus.
The documents reveal for the first time in detail why at least one part of DHS purchased such information, and comes after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detailed its own purchase of the data. The documents also show for the first time that the data broker, called the Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), tells government agencies not to mention where it sourced the flight data from.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 10/06/2025
Some of history’s worst atrocities can be attributed to certain people trying to control other people’s movements, whether by capturing them, enslaving and transporting them, or warehousing them in besieged regions while blocking the borders of anyplace to which they might want to flee.
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A New Form of Global Apartheid Aims to Control Other People’s Movements
Forcing people to move or prohibiting their mobility are two sides of the same colonial or neocolonial coin.
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jill (she/her) @jillmwebb.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
i wrote about how therapists are hearing more deportation concerns during sessions. one mental healthcare worker in philly told me a patient shared that their child hides every time they hear sirens because they think it's an ICE raid:
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/06/2025
Tear gas can cause long-term health consequences by making people more susceptible to contracting respiratory illnesses, including COVID. The chemical agent can also hurt people inside their homes if it seeps into residential neighborhoods. What you need to know (published 2020):
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Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On
In the middle of a respiratory pandemic, law enforcement agencies have used tear gas in especially dangerous ways. The chemical agent also seeps into homes, contaminates food, furniture, skin and…
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Prism @prismreports.org · 09/06/2025
ICE raids in Los Angeles are a declaration of war, & Angelenos are primed for battle, @tinavasquez.bsky.social writes in an op-ed. Immigration & Customs Enforcement sent the city a message when its agents showed up in full force, & that message was responded to in kind by the people of LA.
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ICE raids in Los Angeles are a declaration of war
ICE sent the city a message when its agents showed up in full force, and that message was responded to in kind by the people of Los Angeles
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spooki•girl•cassiopeia @sadgirlcassi.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
for no reason, an excerpt from "let this radicalize you"…
"Violence" in Social Movements • 111
They Will Call You Violent
If your tactics disrupt the order of things under capitalism, you may well be accused of violence, because "violence" is an elastic term often deployed to vilify people who threaten the status quo. Conditions that the state characterizes as "peaceful" are, in reality, quite violent.
Even as people experience the violence of poverty, the torture of im-prisonment, the brutality of policing, the denial of health care, and many other violent functions of this system, we are told we are experiencing peace, so long as everyone is cooperating. When state actors refer to "peace," they are really talking about order. And when they refer to "peaceful protest," they are talking about cooperative protest that obediently stays within the lines drawn by the state. The more uncooperative you are, the more you will be accused of aggression and violence. It is therefore imperative that the state not be the arbiter of what violence means among people seeking justice.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 09/06/2025
Another world is possible if we fight for it.
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FREE Ebooks: Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about border and poli...
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Emily @ewheeelz.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.” Doechii at the #BETAwards
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