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Michael Gould-Wartofsky

@mgouldwartofsky.bsky.social
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Writer. Educator. Knowledge worker. Scholar of social movements. Lecturer in Sociology. Author of The Occupiers (Oxford 2015), Resistant Cities (forthcoming 2028). Nothing human is alien to me. thecriticalrealist.com

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Michael Gould-Wartofsky @mgouldwartofsky.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Supplement The Occupiers with the following radical reads, all of which come with my highest recommendation for those looking to learn more about the movement (continued). #occupywallstreet
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Michael Gould-Wartofsky @mgouldwartofsky.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Supplement The Occupiers with the following radical reads, all of which come with my highest recommendation for those looking to learn more about the movement. #occupywallstreet
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Michael Gould-Wartofsky @mgouldwartofsky.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Supplement The Occupiers with the following radical reads, all of which come with my highest recommendation for those looking to learn more about the movement. #occupywallstreet
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Michael Gould-Wartofsky @mgouldwartofsky.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
15 years ago, Occupy Wall Street erupted onto the stage of history. I wrote a book about it, titled The Occupiers, following the movement from inception to eviction and beyond. A decade later, The Occupiers is still in print. You can find it here. global.oup.com/academic/pro... #occupywallstreet
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Green and Red Podcast @podcastgreenred.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
~NEW EPISODE~ How Occupy Gave us Hope and Solidarity 🎙️: apple.co/4xGwUsw In our latest, we talk w/ @mgouldwartofsky.bsky.social, an OWS participant & scholar, about the conditions that led to the encampment at Zucotti Park & the lasting influence it's had on American politics.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 16/09/2026
“The rank-and-file pushed their leadership because this was a thing that made sense to them.” Ahead of Occupy Wall Street’s 15th anniversary tomorrow, revisit @mgouldwartofsky.bsky.social’s 2015 account of how labor linked arms with Occupy.
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The Untold Story of When Labor Linked Arms With Occupy Wall Street
Investigative reporting about corporate malfeasance and government wrongdoing, analysis of national and world affairs, and cultural criticism that matters.
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Michael Gould-Wartofsky @mgouldwartofsky.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Support the Resistant Cities project — and the production of work that is wholly human, free of AI, and independent of corporate interests. www.gofundme.com/f/resistant-...
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Donate to Resistant Cities: Writing Residency Fundraiser, organized by Michael Gould-Wartofsky
This is a crowdfunding campaign to raise the resources for a tw… Michael Gould-Wartofsky needs your support for Resistant Cities: Writing Residency Fundraiser
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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. 

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
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Artie Vierkant @avierkant.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
It seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 24/01/2026
This is who ICE murdered. A VA nurse who dedicated his life to helping critically ill veterans.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 24/01/2026
Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 08/01/2026
My heart is so heavy right now. It shouldn't take another murder to get people to wake up. The stacks of Black and brown bodies weren't enough to convince you?
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...
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Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
they’re abducting our neighbors and putting them in concentration camps and they’ll shoot you in the fucking face if you don’t cheer them on while they’re doing it.
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Michael Gould-Wartofsky @mgouldwartofsky.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
ICE just executed a woman, likely an ICE Watcher, in cold blood. Like the murder of George Floyd, this is an act of war and the whole world is watching.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times." Bovino was there. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Emily Heller lives near 33rd and Portland and said she woke up to a commotion outside her home. She said she saw a car blocking traffic on Portland Avenue that appeared to be part of a protest against federal law enforcement operations.

Heller said she heard ICE agents telling the driver, a woman, to “get out of here.”

“She was trying to turn around, and the ICE agent was in front of her car, and he pulled out a gun and put it right in — like, his midriff was on her bumper — and he reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times,” Heller said.

Heller said it appeared the woman then accelerated and traveled about 100 feet before striking a utility pole and some other vehicles. She could be seen slumped over inside her car.
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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
The death toll is now 80? I know the pandemic made life cheap amid mass death, but 80 dead is staggering
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
12+ hours later we finally get an estimate of how many Venezuelans were killed
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Michael Gould-Wartofsky @mgouldwartofsky.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
We are in a new age of Christian nationalism — one powered by American militarism, propelled by anti-Muslim revanchism, and turbo-charged by anti-Black racism.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
part of me wants to write something reflecting on this deranged year and another part thinks living through it once was enough
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
“Like Prime, but with human beings.”
“We need to get better at treating this like a business,” ICE acting director Todd M. Lyons said at a border security conference in April, according to the Arizona Mirror. The administration’s goal, he said, was to deport immigrants as efficiently as Amazon moves packages: “Like Prime, but with human beings.”
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
News stories about the concentration camps we run in foreign countries have to be smuggled to a third country in order to be seen.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
WATCH: Here's the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" last night
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 22/12/2025
The entire american "free speech" panic was about elites being criticized, which is why anyone who ever took it seriously should be ignored forever
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/12/2025
Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
FOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years. It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.
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Abby Chava Stein @abbystein.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Heroic bystander, Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim man who put his own life on the line, and saved so many Jews. True safety in solidarity in action
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Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Kiel, Germany, 1931
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Michael Gould-Wartofsky @mgouldwartofsky.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
We are fully in Nuremberg territory.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
This post by the world’s richest and most divorced man on the site he bought to promote his far right extremism is ripped straight from the Klan messaging of the 1870s or the 1915 film Birth of a Nation that inspired the Klan’s rebirth as a PR stunt/Ponzi scheme/terrorist organization in the 1920s.
Elon Musk
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Declaration of Memes
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We need to save America then the entire West.
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We are witnessing the greatest act of cuckoldry in human history
An entire civilisation willingly giving away its land, women, & children because the alternative is to being called a racist 17 12K
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
SOUTHCOM tweeted an image of a soldier wearing the White Supremacist Jerusalem Cross on his helmet. Hegseth has it as a tattoo.
Southern Spear promotional image with images of soldiers and a larger picture of a man with a Jerusalem Cross on his helmet
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Sadism is the lifeblood of MAGA, and US government agencies are sanctioning this as an operating principle on a daily basis:
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 06/12/2025
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings. “It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale. This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading: www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
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Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
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Michael Gould-Wartofsky @mgouldwartofsky.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Have you taken action in “opposition to law and immigration enforcement,” or “ in favor of open borders”? Have you expressed “radical gender ideology”? “Anti-Americanism”? “Anti-capitalism”? “Anti-Christianity”? If you answered yes to any of these things, you just might be on the list.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
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Your wish is our command, Andrew. Just sunk another narco boat.
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Every new attack aimed at Pete Hegseth makes me want another narco drug boat blown up and sent to the bottom of the ocean. x.com/SenSchumer/sta...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/12/2025
This is an ethnic cleansing campaign
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Michael Gould-Wartofsky @mgouldwartofsky.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
And now, for his next number, President Trump, “candidate of peace,” will deliver on his campaign promises by launching another forever war with “non-state armed combatants” across the sovereign territories of Venezuela and Colombia. What could possibly go wrong? www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
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Donald Trump threatens expanding military strikes to more countries
The president floated Colombia as a possible target, saying potential strikes wouldn't be limited to "just Venezuela."
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
The first strike was also murder. You can’t just up and kill civilians on the high seas and then claim you were at war with them.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing. This is who MAGA is now.
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
ICE was blocked and impeded by people all the way to the Lincoln Tunnel
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 29/11/2025
Federal immigration enforcement officials called off a planned raid on Canal Street today shortly before it was slated to begin. New Yorkers who heard about the raid showed up at the garage where the feds had gathered, and as federal agents tried to leave, the NYPD cleared the way for them.
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Michael Gould-Wartofsky @mgouldwartofsky.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
How to say ethnic cleansing without saying ethnic cleansing.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Elon Musk, the guy who did two Nazi salutes in public and has previously described himself as a “free speech absolutist,” thinks it should be a crime to “falsely” call someone a Nazi or a fascist.
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Falsely labeling non-violent people as "fascist" or
"Nazi" should be treated as incitement to murder
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The left labeled Charlie Kirk fascist, and he got shot.
The left labeled the National Guard deployments fascist....
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two National Guard members have been shot in Washington, D.C., and their condition isn't known, AP source says.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 26/11/2025
A Gen Z-led advocacy group announced a boycott campaign targeting major corporations “that enable, profit from, or directly collaborate with ICE.” Beyond the Ballot launched “Not With My Dollars: ICE Out of My Wallet” just days before Black Friday kicks off.
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Boycott Campaign Targets Companies Tied to ICE Ahead of Black Friday
The Not With My Dollars campaign takes aim at Amazon, Whole Foods, Dell, Microsoft, Home Depot, Spotify, and Target.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
when its definitely not a hostage situation
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
While ICE abductions, often in broad daylight, have provoked fear and outrage, the escalation is also unleashing a less visible form of economic treachery on Chicago’s immigrant working class: wage theft, lost income, work speedups, and economic slumps that spread through neighborhoods. My latest.
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Visible and Invisible: How ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago’s Working Class
Fear, panic, hiding for days—this is the experience of families under assault by the Trump Administration
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