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Melanie Brazzell @melaniebrazzell.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Social Security spamming us all about their #SlamtheScam day -- y'all, the call is coming from inside the house. Here's screenshots of my official complaint slamming the DOGE scam. You can do the same here: oig.ssa.gov/report/

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Melanie Brazzell @melaniebrazzell.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Dems are co-opting Mamdani's affordability message but gutting its heart, which is power, respect, and dignity for working people. Without that, it's just bread and butter. But we've always fought for bread and roses.

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Melanie Brazzell @melaniebrazzell.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

For all those politicized online alone: critique is not strategy.

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Ben Rosen @benrosen.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained

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Melanie Brazzell @melaniebrazzell.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Watching this family in a standoff with ICE over a delivery worker taking refuge in their house. I’m reminded that our job as organizers - all the education & policy & skills & political home we offer - is for THIS. To help everyday people find the courage and commitment to face fascism and win:

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From the minnesota community on Reddit: ST. PAUL, MN: A sobbing resident calls 911 as federal agents force their way into her home to chase down a DoorDash driver who was just trying to deliver food.

Explore this post and more from the minnesota community

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Melanie Brazzell @melaniebrazzell.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

See you later today!! As the US escalates its attacks in international waters under the cover of a 'war on drugs', we see echoes with the mass killings of drug users by Duterte in the Philippines. What can we learn from Filipinx organizers about resistance?

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Melanie Brazzell @melaniebrazzell.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Thrilled to be cohosting this with @dreanyc123.bsky.social next week! Revisiting our comrades in the Philippines to talk about strategies for resisting criminalization and surviving authoritarianism. Join us on Tuesday at 5 pm PST.

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

I am thrilled--always--when people take to the streets en masse. It demonstrates power, it imposes costs, it is great. But if the past decades have taught us anything--that's not enough to win. To win, you have to organize. You have to build structures of power that last after people go home.

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Melanie Brazzell @melaniebrazzell.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

great news! for those who feared we were doing less to resist Trump in round 2 than in round 1, we've got solid evidence to the contrary. maybe it's the skewed mainstream media coverage (media kissing the ring) that got us thinking that way?

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

why is the president the only person testing the limits of his power? everyone should see what they can get away with. what if zookeepers gave helicopters to gorillas? nobody has tried this

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~LadyB~💙 @ru4real2.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

It doesn't end with the illegal immigrants folks, it's actually just the beginning.

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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Reshare to scare the data bros and popularism acolytes

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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

🎙️We are so excited about this new podcast documenting oral histories of transformative justice! Check out @storiesforpower.bsky.social podcast for a journey across local communities that explores the last 25 years of building community accountability, transformative justice and abolitionist practice

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STOP Podcast Introduction

Welcome to Stories for Power! Creative Interventions and Just Practice Collaborative joined forces to re-launch the StoryTelling & Organizing Project (STOP) project to document and collect histories…

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Melanie Brazzell @melaniebrazzell.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I've been trying to bridge the horizontalist abolition feminism tradition I grew up in with all the powerbuilding I've witnessed in verticalist community & labor & tenant organizing. I'm studying the hybrids in the middle, and if you're curious too, come join this conversation about my research!

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Melanie Brazzell @melaniebrazzell.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

i was also feeling worried after inauguration when the streets (and signal) felt quiet, but my hope that resistance was getting savvier the second time around found some evidence this week in @chenoweth.bsky.social & crew's new article. /1 wagingnonviolence.org/2025/03/resi...

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Resistance is alive and well in the United States

Protests of Trump may not look like the mass marches in 2017, but they're far more numerous and frequent — and also becoming more strategic.

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Melanie Brazzell @melaniebrazzell.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

So excited to co-host this conversation on Wednesday with abolitionist comrades from Argentina! My current favorite slogan from Argentine protests against Milei's authoritarianism, which rhymes with Trump's: "There are only two genders: fascist and antifascist"

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Baselines shifted @tboggia.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Some friends of mine were doing Springo boards, I thought it was a great idea, here is mine.

Springo board, but all the squares are misaligned and the words "keep it together" written in different chaotic fonts are the only thing on every row.

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Melanie Brazzell @melaniebrazzell.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

“It will always remain one of democracy’s best punchlines: that to its mortal enemies, democracy itself provided the very means through which it was annihilated.” - Joseph Goebbels, "The Stupidity of Democracy" from "The Attack. Essays from the Times of Struggle"

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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

if we are all going to be forced to relive 2016, they should at the very least let us see mad max fury road in theaters again

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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

It's rare you get such a clear illustration of whose lives have value in America and whose don't

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Ashok Kumar 🇵🇸 @comrade-kumar.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

18 US Senators vote in support of blocking tank rounds to Israel, with 1 voting present. Y: Heinrich, Hirono, Kaine, King, Markey, Merkley, Ossoff, Sanders, Schatz, Smith, Warren, Welch, Durbin, Van Hollen, Shaheen, Lujan, Warnock, Murphy. P: Baldwin The rest vote to continue arming war criminals

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Melanie Brazzell @melaniebrazzell.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Sharing a new resource I created for Interrupting Criminalization! @dreanyc123.bsky.social @prisonculture.bsky.social 📁 Transformative Justice Knows No Borders: Learning From Community-Based Responses to Harm Around the World ➡️ bit.ly/TJKnowsNoBorders 1/

This is a map of the world with the words "Transformative justice is global" at the top with the subheading "Groups who shared their learnings with us at the conference." Different groups are listed who participated in the conference. In North America: Pace Society, Vision Change Win, Ujimaa Medics, Stick Talk, Just Practice Collaborative, Spring Up Collective, Interrupting Criminalization, A Call for Change Helpline, Dream Defenders, and Creative Interventions. In South America the groups were Reaja ou Sera Morta and Yo No Fui. In Europe they were Cradle Community, Bewegungstiftung, Healing Justice London, and Selflovetribute (somatics practitioner). In the Middle East, there is Febrayer: Network of Independent Arab Media Organizations and the Kurdish women's movement. In India, there is Kranti, Criminal Justice & Police Accountability Project, and Jan Jagran Shakti Sangathan Trade Union. In East Asia, there is Chabujo and ABOLISYON! Collective

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Melanie Brazzell @melaniebrazzell.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

"break generational curses" - that gave me chills - healing justice starts here @darknessrising.bsky.social

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