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Lisa Haver

@lisamhaver.bsky.social
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Retired Phila Teacher, union member, fighting against corporate ed reform with @APPSphilly, knitter, cat lover, pedestrian

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
The good news is that ICE's stealth plan to get 23 concentration camps up and running before anyone noticed is melting somewhat under the light of public exposure and outrage The bad news... www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley...
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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 19/02/2026
Parents and students say the school is being penalized for things the district has the power and money to fix. Twelve separate requests have been submitted to fix the roof.
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Stetson Middle School was neglected for decades, district officials admit. Now, they’re trying to close the school.
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Lisa Haver @lisamhaver.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
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Stetson Middle School was neglected for decades, district officials admit. Now, they’re trying to close the school.
Parents and students say the school is being penalized for things the district has the power and money to fix. Twelve separate requests have been submitted to fix the roof.
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Lisa Haver @lisamhaver.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
@willbunch.bsky.social: We won’t get anything resembling democracy until we clear that widespread debris, and that means sending a bunch of these liars to prison, because they are the real criminals. www.inquirer.com/opinion/gove...
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The lying is out of control. People need to go to prison. | Will Bunch
The outrageous lies of the Trump regime, from ICE shootings to a commerce secretary's Epstein falsehoods, must be punished.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I said this yesterday and I'll say it again. The Trump regime is running a squalid, disease-ridden and deadly concentration camp at Fort Bliss called Camp East Montana. Is it any wonder they don't want drones observing what happens there?
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Lisa Haver @lisamhaver.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
The banality of evil is shocking. An ex-Big Lots warehouse for cheap consumer junk is bought by ICE to ship as many as 7,500 handcuffed human beings, as the Trump regime builds a U.S. gulag archipelago The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
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From Big Lots to warehousing humans: ICE plan sparks fear in Schuylkill County | Will Bunch
A massive warehouse in Tremont. Pa. that once moved cheap goods will now detain migrants in an $119 million ICE deal.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
The problem of ICE/CBP reform is we have a monster rampaging through our democracy and are trying to restrict *which* cities it can pillage and *how many* civilians it can eat. The problem isn’t the restrictions on the monster; the problem is the monster. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/six-ways-t...
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Six Ways to Reform ICE and CBP
And why congressional "reform" isn't actually the real problem....
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Lisa Haver @lisamhaver.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-... @willbunch.bsky.social
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From Big Lots to warehousing humans: ICE plan sparks fear in Schuylkill County | Will Bunch
A massive warehouse in Tremont. Pa. that once moved cheap goods will now detain migrants in an $119 million ICE deal.
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Lynda Rubin @lynda-rubin.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
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Board Members Silent on Facilities Plan, School Closings
Board of Education Action Meeting: January 29, 2026 by Lisa Haver Board Member Crystal Cubbage the only Board Member visible and present during public testimony of APPS Member Kristin Luebbert. (Ph…
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Lisa Haver @lisamhaver.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
@willbunch.bsky.social: It’s hard to call this proposed ICE operation anything else besides an ethnic cleansing on U.S. soil. www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
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A not-‘toned down’ Trump regime prepares for ethnic cleansing in Ohio
A plan for immigration raids this week on thousands of Haitians in Springfield, Ohio shows that nothing has changed.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
SHUT IT THE FUCK DOWN THEN!!!!
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
My newsletter is up. I explained how boycotting the World Cup is the easiest international sanction that can be taken against the U.S. And why the Times thinks it’s dunking on Alex Pretti when they’re really enhancing the charges against his executioners.
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Want to Support the Fight Against Fascism? Boycott Trump’s World Cup
In this week‘s Elie v. U.S., The Nation’s Justice correspondent urges soccer lovers to stay away from the US this summer, takes on the attacks on Alex Pretti, and warns of a dangerous new anti-voting ...
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Lisa Haver @lisamhaver.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
www.inquirer.com/opinion/cbs-... @willbunch.bsky.social
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CBS, Post blind themselves when America needs eyes on the ground |Will Bunch
Two iconic U.S. newsrooms slash reporting and stress opinion writing even as Minnesota proves the need for factual journalism.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Even if Kristi Noem were fired, it wouldn't end her criminal culpability.
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Lisa Haver @lisamhaver.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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District Facilities Plan Goes Against Wishes of the Public – Philadelphia Hall Monitor
District staff present facilities data at July meeting at Bluford Elementary. (Photo: Lisa Haver) Last Thursday, the Trump administration removed from Independence National Historical Park an exhibit ...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Bondi’s letter represents a major assault on Minnesota’s sovereignty, demanding that it forfeit its ability to make and enforce its own laws and maintain its voter rolls without oversight from the executive branch, which does not have authority over elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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AG Bondi demands access to Minnesota voter rolls after fatal Border Patrol shooting
Her demand came as Minneapolis was reeling from a second fatal shooting by a federal agent this month.
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Lisa Haver @lisamhaver.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
@willbunch.bsky.social: www.inquirer.com/opinion/minn...
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Alex Pretti’s ICE murder is beyond politics. This is about good vs. evil | Will Bunch
Trump's inhumane immigration raids and two ICE murders has triggered an American yearning for a return to morality.
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Lisa Haver @lisamhaver.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Support local journalism
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Lisa Haver @lisamhaver.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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‘Stand up, fight back, and resist’: Activist who helped shape President’s House rallies new fight after the site was dismantled
Michael Coard, an attorney and founding member of Avenging the Ancestors Coalition (ATAC), pledged to restore the slavery memorial at the President's House site.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’ Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials
Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas
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The Philadelphia Hall Monitor @hallmonitorwppm.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Cooperative purchasing could help cut SEPTA's operating costs. Lance Haver wants to know why they aren't doing it:
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
“I sometimes wonder why journalists are so nice to the people who want to destroy them.” My free Stop the Presses newsletter.
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Fascists are at war with journalism. Why aren’t journalists at war with fascism?
Mainstream media seem willing to drop their duty in order to pick up profits
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Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
So disappointed the state union of education workers in Minnesota hasn't stepped up to support the action in the state's largest cities, being built by both its locals. Have I missed the statement and resources from @educationmn.bsky.social? educationminnesota.org/about-us/who...
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Education Minnesota - Who we are
Education Minnesota is the leading advocate for public education in Minnesota. Our 80,000 members work in pre-K-12 schools and higher education institutions statewide.
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Lisa Haver @lisamhaver.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
@willbunch.bsky.social: The lack of appetite for utterly dismantling the DHS regime — despite its culture of violence and disrespect for law-abiding refugees — reminds too many voters of the cowardice that branded the Dems as losers in the first place. www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
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Yo, Dems: You can’t ‘reform’ fascism | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, America’s appalling betrayal of the Hmong.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care 🧵
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ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment
ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
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Lisa Haver @lisamhaver.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
@gwensnyder.bsky.social : www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
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Trump’s message to politically active mothers: Stay home, or your children will suffer the consequences | Opinion
But where the regime has sought to instill fear, they have instead inspired righteous fury. After all, hope is a mother.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I would like to think the Mad King proclaiming “I will continue to illegally raise taxes on the American people until the NATO alliance collapses” would be the type of statement to cause Congress to act, but I’m not sure there’s any red line the GOP Congress has anymore.
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John Abernathy @john-abernathy.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Demand that the Philadelphia Parking Authority (PPA) cut its ties to ICE
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Lisa Haver @lisamhaver.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
@willbunch.bsky.social : Millions of everyday Americans are both feeling that urgency and dismayed that the institutions that they thought would oppose autocracy — Congress, the media, the Supreme Court — aren’t standing with them. www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
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From Spotify to Avelo, economic pressure is melting ICE — but we can do more | Will Bunch
The success of boycotting corporations supporting immigration raids is an economic roadmap for stopping Trump's abuses
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Lisa Haver @lisamhaver.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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Six Prosecutors Quit Over Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow
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Lisa Haver @lisamhaver.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
somebody has to stop him
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Lisa Haver @lisamhaver.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
@willbunch.bsky.social: The world must choose between the morality of one man’s damaged soul and those ancient hierarchies, or that of the millions who are risking bodily harm and even death out in the streets. There is no longer any middle ground. www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
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Trump now a tyrant restrained only by ‘my own morality.’ We stop him with our own. | Will Bunch
After a monumental week that changed America, Trump believes there is no limit on his powers. We can prove him wrong.
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Portia @portianoir.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Rest in power to Keith Porter who was murdered by an ICE agent in Los Angeles. It’s terrible that his name is just now being circulated, but now that it is, continue to say his name.
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Advocates want legal action after man shot and killed by off-duty ICE agent in Northridge
Advocates argue that the off-duty ICE agent wasn't trained for the situation and should have called police and waited for them to arrive.
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Lisa Haver @lisamhaver.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
.@willbunch.bsky.social: Authoritarian governments only thrive in their own manufactured reality, gaslighting the masses that their hard-working brown-skinned neighbor is a rapist, or that an uninjured federal agent is instead in the ER. www.inquirer.com/opinion/minn...
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Minneapolis ICE murder is Trump’s Waterloo in America’s war for the truth | Will Bunch
After federal agents' senseless killing of Renee Good, will Americans believe a rogue government or their own eyes?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Treading on brown people. Racial profiling is all they do.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/01/2026
it is the policy of this government to treat democratic-led states as conquered territories and the people therein as something like hostiles or even enemy combatants
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Lisa Haver @lisamhaver.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
time to get up and get going but honestly shopping and eating seem banal when your country is collapsing
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The Philadelphia Hall Monitor @hallmonitorwppm.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Tonight, we'll discuss the United States' actions in Venezuela and what it means for everyday Americans. Plus, tune in for an overview of upcoming government and politics events in 2026. Tune in on WPPM 106.5, Xfinity 66, FiOS 29, or stream on YouTube! bit.ly/hallmonitoryt
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Lisa Haver @lisamhaver.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
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Parents and teachers want smaller classes and no school closures. Here’s what else they said in Philly’s facilities planning survey.
The survey, officials said was necessary before moving forward with a school-closing list. Themes from the responses will be tough for the cash-strapped School District of Philadelphia to balance.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Are we clear that this physically and cognitively declining 79-year-old man, who’s devoted his life to crime and amassing wealth any way he can, is excited about exploiting our military for his personal pleasure? If he can steal Venezuela’s oil, it only empowers him to keep going.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
We should send more presidents to prison. In the five years since January 6th, two other democracies both faced their own version of insurrectionists attempting to overturn elections. Both countries handled it better — and more definitively — than we did. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/five-ways-...
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Five Ways To Remember January 6th
Too many people saw January 6th as the final aggrieved death throes of Trumpism. We can now understand it was the start of something much darker.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
The U.S. is a rogue state which should be sanctioned and condemned by the international community for our flagrant violations of international law and the peace of the world. We won't be, because imperialists tend to stick together. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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The US Is a Rogue State That Deserves to Be Sanctioned
Where is the international outrage over the US assault on Venezuela and kidnapping of Maduro?
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Lisa Haver @lisamhaver.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
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Eva Schloss, 96, stepsister of Anne Frank and Holocaust educator
Britain's King Charles praised Ms. Schloss' work.
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