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Gillian Leichtling

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026
i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected
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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
this is a really thoughtful -- and thought-provoking -- commentary, and you should read it #bcpoli www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm...
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Comment: The real cost of displacement and recriminalization
Across Victoria, we are witnessing repeated sweeps of encampments and public spaces.
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...
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I found a second vote.gov — and it's registered to the White House
There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead.
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Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
that antisemitism is a bellwether & accelerant of fascist politics. These people are dropping Zionism to become better & more consistent fascists. Any sustained ‘bottom-up’ ‘popular front’ coalition with them is incoherent & a political dead end for the Left
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Gillian Leichtling @gillianleichtling.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
How www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Israeli forces fire teargas at schoolchildren holding West Bank sit-in
Incident took place on first day back at school in small village, as settlers blocked pupils’ access
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Hope Smiley-McDonald @hopesmileymcd.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Despite OR’s partial drug decrim law, PWUD under comm supervision were heavily policed (stops, searches, & jailed) & had higher ODs compared to peers @alexkral.bsky.social @barrotlambdin.bsky.social @estherchung.bsky.social @gillianleichtling.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Community supervision during Oregon’s partial decriminalization Measure 110: Criminal legal system involvement, overdose, and naloxone access
In 2020, the U.S. state of Oregon passed Measure 110 (M110), which aimed to address substance use disorder as a public health issue and reduce dispari…
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
In what could be the “largest rent strike in the US in the last 100 years," a coalition of tenant + labor unions representing over 25K workers are threatening a mass rent strike in the face of the ongoing occupation by ICE. www.commondreams.org/news/minneso...
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Twin Cities Unions Planning ‘Largest US Rent Strike in 100+ Years’ as ICE Occupation Drives Eviction Crisis | Common Dreams
"Tenants in Minnesota are in a crisis," said Minneapolis City Council Member Aisha Chughtai. "The federal invasion forced many of our neighbors to stay home and devastated our local economy."
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 13/02/2026
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.”

A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees.

The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Organizers have collected 14 lotion bottles, two deodorant bottles, and one AA Battery that detainees have thrown over the fences with notes attached to them. The full story: lataco.com/captive-loti... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Over the weekend, the White House and the Department of Homeland Security shared posts with a song, "We'll Have Our Home Again." I dug into the group that performed and popularized it. Its cofounder said his goal was to create "the seed of an eventual government." www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...
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DHS, White House shared white nationalist song in ICE recruitment posts
Multiple accounts run by DHS share references to “We’ll have our home again” song, popularized by a white nationalist group, with a link to join ICE.
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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Decided in this moment to reread some Galeano. First page: “The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.”
Yellow book cover: Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano.
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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Palestinians in Gaza are freezing to death in these storms, while Israel blocks any supplies that might save their lives. Over 3000 tents were destroyed yesterday. I miss Hani every day. Please don’t let his family freeze.
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Along with our online guide, we also have a new How to Clean Up Copaganda poster, which sums up key ways media makers can cut through authoritarian and pro-police propaganda by getting to root causes, avoiding sensationalizing, and refusing to repeat cop lies. Check it out and order prints here:
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How To Clean Up Copaganda Poster — Interrupting Criminalization
Size 12x18” museum-quality poster made on thick matte paper. This poster, modeled after workplace safety posters that give advice on how to clean up vomit and other hazards, sums up ten key ways journ...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/09/2025
Sen. Warnock called Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program “the real waste, fraud, and abuse.” “This report shows that Pathways is incredibly effective at barring working people from health coverage and making corporate consultants richer.”
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Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Program Spent Twice as Much on Administrative Costs as on Health Care, GAO Says
Republican lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027. A new report shows the program has spent at lea...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
CNN: “At least 47 killed in Gaza City on Saturday, 6 children… footage showed a row of dead children shrouded in floral blankets… Video from after the attack showed numerous children wandering dazed, covered in blood and dust…” www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/m...
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
RFK Jr. and his toady Jay Bhattacharya have just dismantled the Advisory Committee to the NIH Director, an outside group of advisors who provide guidance on a range of topics. They will be likely be replaced with another layer of toadies. Toadies all the way down.
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NIH director is replacing his top outside advisory board
Some worry new members of the long-running Advisory Committee to the Director will mirror agency chief Jay Bhattacharya’s views
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Gillian Leichtling @gillianleichtling.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
‘I heard them take their last breath’: survivor recounts Gaza paramedic killings
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Laila Lalami @lailalalami.com · 01/04/2025
“'We’re digging them out in their uniforms, with their gloves on. They were here to save lives. Instead, they ended up in a mass grave,'Whittall said. 'These ambulances have been buried in the sand. There’s a UN vehicle here, buried in the sand. An Israeli forces bulldozer has buried them.'"
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
“the body of one of the dead had been found with his hands tied”
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Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN
Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian office
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+972 Magazine @972mag.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
A war that destroys hospitals and does not allow for the establishment of a suitable alternative is a war against a civilian population, one that is now plagued by disease and starvation. www.972mag.com/health-syste... @mekons.bsky.social
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Democrats never pass up a crisis in which they can try to get more expensive surveillance to local cops, and New York Times never passes up a chance to quote them without providing context about the enormous social costs, ineffectiveness, and widespread waste and abuse it brings.
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