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Micki McGee

@mickimcgee.bsky.social
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Sociologist. Cultural critic. Professor. Interests: makeover culture, digital scholarship, disability studies. Opinions expressed are my own. Workplace: Fordham University. Web: www.selfhelpinc.com

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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I think letting SNAP recipients have hot rotisserie chicken is good, actually.
Norman Rockwell painting on man standing up during town hallHere are the 35 House members (23R, 12D) who voted against allowing SNAP (food stamp) benefits to cover the purchase of 'hot rotisserie chicken'

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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
O5.01.2026 May Day, NYC Rise and Resist joined tens of thousands of activists, and union members at the New York City May Day march down Broadway.
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
#NoKings NYC made History today 💙🍎
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Holy smokes San Fran! #NoKings Spotted on www.instagram.com/jennalynnking
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Micki McGee @mickimcgee.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
100K+ New Yorkers gathered yesterday across more than 25 blocks—Central Park to Penn Station—to say no to the lawlessness of the current U.S. government. No kings. No wars by fiat. No detention w/o due process. No masked agents. No cuts to healthcare. That's my short list. What's yours? #NoKings3
100K+ New Yorkers gathered yesterday across 25 blocks— Central Park to Penn Station—saying no to the lawlessness of the current U.S. government. No kings. No wars by fiat. No detention w/o due process. No masked agents. No cuts to healthcare. That's my short list. What's yours? #NoKings3 #NYC

Shot from a high elevation, this photo shows New York City's Times Square lit with multi-story billboards, and Broadway and 7th Avenue northward to Central Park filled with New Yorkers standing together against the lawlessness of the current U.S. government.100K+ New Yorkers gathered yesterday across 25 blocks— Central Park to Penn Station—saying no to the lawlessness of the current U.S. government. No kings. No wars by fiat. No detention w/o due process. No masked agents. No cuts to healthcare. That's my short list. What's yours? #NoKings3 #NYC

Shot from a high elevation, this photo shows New York City's Times Square lit with multi-story billboards, and Broadway and 7th Avenue northward to Central Park filled with New Yorkers standing together against the lawlessness of the current U.S. government.100K+ New Yorkers gathered yesterday across 25 blocks— Central Park to Penn Station—saying no to the lawlessness of the current U.S. government. No kings. No wars by fiat. No detention w/o due process. No masked agents. No cuts to healthcare. That's my short list. What's yours? #NoKings3 #NYC

Shot from a high elevation, this photo shows New York City's Times Square lit with multi-story billboards, and Broadway and 7th Avenue northward to Central Park filled with New Yorkers standing together against the lawlessness of the current U.S. government.
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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
NO KINGS NYC 03.28.2026 We have the power and are claiming it together. No Wars! No ICE! No Kings! 🎥IG: vuralelibol
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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
INDEPENDENT Feb 17, 2026 "Flashmob protesters block New York’s 5th Avenue in front of Trump Tower on Presidents' Day. The profanity-packed action was one of numerous demonstrations held across the country, from New England to California’s Coachella Valley". 🎥 Sing Out Louise
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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The volume & geographic distribution of protest nationwide during year 1 of Trump's second term was extraordinary.
Map showing tens of thousands of protests across the US between Trump's inauguration last year and January 31, 2026.
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Indivisible Brooklyn @bkindivisible.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Thank God @senschumer is saying that no Dems will vote for the DHS funding bill! We need him to hold the line & keep fighting against ICE terror — there’s plenty more he can do. Join us in the snow ❄️ at noon tmw (but please prioritize your safety — stay home if that’s what feels right for you 💙)
Graphic: Hold the line, Chuck! Keep fighting against ICE terrors Sun 1/25 12pm across from 9PPW
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New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) @thenyic.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
📣 ‼️We demand an end to ICE’s reign of terror and an end to murdering our community members. ICE out of Minnesota, ICE out of New York, ICE OUT OF EVERYWHERE! ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 🚫🧊 @chiosse.bsky.social @lsarsour.bsky.social @heyitsmurad.bsky.social @maketheroadny.bsky.social
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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
January 24, 2026 Emergency protest, after ICE murdered a 2nd person in Minneapolis today. Thousands march through downtown Manhattan in solidarity with the people of Minneapolis. "Shout it loud, make it clear, immigrants are welcome here"!
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 17/01/2026
I've finally put my "Find Your Organizing Home in NYC" zine online in readable form with clickable links - check it out and GET HOOKED UP and ORGANIZED, friends! gregpak.net/2026/01/17/f...
FIND YOUR ORGANIZING HOME IN NYC Image features a photo of buttons reading "Fight Fascism," "¡Manos fuera NYC!" and "Working Families Party"
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 23/01/2026
A “no work, no school, no shopping” blackout day of protest was kicked off by community leaders, faith leaders and labor unions on Friday in protest against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) surge in the state.
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Economic blackout in Minnesota to protest against ICE: ‘No work, no school, no shopping’
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Torr (I moved to Threads) @torrleonard.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Standing in solidarity with Minneapolis, thousands of New Yorker's joined a nationwide day of solidarity, protesting companies like Amazon and Palantir for enabling ICE's operations @handsoffnyc.bsky.social @targetmajoritynyc.bsky.social @bkindivisible.bsky.social @indivisiblequeens.bsky.social
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Micki McGee @mickimcgee.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Hundreds of people from Rise and Resist held a vigil on the steps of the NYPL on the anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Donald Trump has engaged in a steady campaign to rewrite what happened that day and continues to say the election was rigged. 📸 @grahammacindoe.bsky.social
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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
January 8, 2025 The second night of anti I.C.E. protests in the streets of downtown New York City, calling for justice for Renee Good, an end to ICE raids, and impeachment, and removal of Kristi Noem. 🎥 @recluseastrid.bsky.social
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lesdwellers.bsky.social @lesdwellers.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
New era for NYC? REBNY and lobbyists walked in like, “We’ll take it from here.” Same bosses, same hustle. #EugeneDebs #FDR #ZorhanMamdani
Eugene Debs, FDR fighting backZorhan Mamdani talked socialism and then staffed a socialist circus.NYC power brokers win big with Zorhan Mamdani. Time will tell, but if past is prologue, they’ll loot City Hall.The other NRA—the wage-blocking, safety-dodging National Restaurant Association—just hit the jackpot with Zorhan Mamdani. Their NYC arm, the Hospitality Alliance, has the keys to City Hall… again
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Micki McGee @mickimcgee.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Also, NYC!
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Micki McGee @mickimcgee.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
“No fear, no hate, no 🧊🧊🧊 in our streets.” Also, #NoKings!
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Micki McGee @mickimcgee.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Beautiful day in NYC! #NoKings #NKings
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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
. 📣 NO KINGS IS BACK! 📍 Times Square (the red steps) 📆 October 18th ⏰ 11am We stand together for different reasons: ICE, Gaza, cuts to services, Due Process, + more. We need your help to make this big, and to make our voices heard. Volunteer with us. Stand with us. Join us. See you in the streets
No Kings, NYC October 18, 11am, West 47th St and Broadway, NYC NokingsNYC.com
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
It’s reported that Disney has lost $3.87 billion in revenue since they cancelled Jimmy Kimmel This is a form of resistance Vote with your dollar and send a strong message that you won’t tolerate Trump and the FCC silencing comedians and dissenting voices in the media Cancel theme park visits too!
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Micki McGee @mickimcgee.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Spotted today outside the #Disney building in Hudson Square NYC . . . Bring back Jimmy #Kimmel. #FreedomOfSpeech
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/08/2025
Kelly: "I had another situation here with a kid who was on his little league trip in a baseball tournament. Border Patrol pulls over the vehicle, identifies the brown kid, he winds up in lockup for a week...this isn't what the American people wanted and I don't think it's consistent with our values"
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NPR @npr.org · 10/08/2025
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth reposted the video profiling Christian Nationalist Pastor Doug Wilson, who opposes same-sex marriage.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reposts video of pastors saying women shouldn't vote
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth reposted the video profiling Christian Nationalist Pastor Doug Wilson, who opposes same-sex marriage.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 10/08/2025
In 2009, Peter Thiel wrote that the 1920s were "the last decade in American history during which one could be genuinely optimistic about politics." Why? Because of "the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women." 👉 www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/p...
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The Education of a Libertarian
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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
. Aug 9, 2025 NYC, NY The people of New York say: WE DEMAND @governor.ny.gov SAY NO TO TRUMPS PIPELINES! Trump wants Hochul to let him run toxic gas pipelines throughout New York that will POLUTE our BEACHES, RIVERS, and DRINKING WATER
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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
. August 8 2025 NYC, NY Mass arrests outside the ICE building at 26 Federal Plaza as anti-ICE protesters blocked the street during a demonstration demanding access to detainees. Among the demonstrators were faith leaders, who said they were denied entry into the facility. 🎥 FREEDOMNEWS TV
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Micki McGee @mickimcgee.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
We are the power. June 14, 2025. NYC. #no-kings
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Micki McGee @mickimcgee.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Today: drizzly, with a lot of democracy. Thousands of New Yorkers out and about to send one Flag Day message. . . no kings. Full stop.
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Informed Citizens @johnrwilder.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Yikes
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 01/06/2025
People around the world are starving now because of Musk’s cuts. They are dying of disease because of Musk’s cuts. They are being born with diseases they will carry with them for the rest of their lives because of Musk’s cuts. trib.al/6aed8Io
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Elon Musk’s Reign of Terror Is Only Just Beginning
His “departure” from the government is anything but.
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Micki McGee @mickimcgee.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Kudos to Congressmember Maxwell Frost. Truth. @maxwellfrost.bsky.social
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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
UnitedHealth secretly pressured nurses to change patients' records to include DNRs (Do Not Resuscitate) without their consent, so those patients would die instead of being saved with medical interventions that could cost UnitedHealth money. This is murder. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Cost-cutting tactics

The secret bonuses were just one of many maneuvers UnitedHealth devised to track and cut expenses in its nursing home initiative.

Internal emails show, for example, that UnitedHealth supervisors gave their teams “budgets” showing how many hospital admissions they had “left” to use up on nursing home patients.

The company also monitored nursing homes that had smaller numbers of patients with “do not resuscitate” – or DNR – and “do not intubate” orders in their files. Without such orders, patients are in line for certain life-saving treatments that might lead to costly hospital stays.

Two current and three former UnitedHealth nurse practitioners told the Guardian that UnitedHealth managers pressed nurse practitioners to persuade Medicare Advantage members to change their “code status” to DNR even when patients had clearly expressed a desire that all available treatments be used to keep them alive.
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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 22/05/2025
One of my constituents, Caroline, came into my office. She looked at me in the eyes and said without Medicaid, I will die. This is the fight of our time. - @mcbride.house.gov
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Micki McGee @mickimcgee.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
News on the Republican Death Bill (aka the One Big Billionaire Boondoggle): If stealing healthcare & food assistance from disabled folks, elders & the working poor wasn’t enough, now they're coming for Medicare. 1/n chopwoodcarrywaterdailyactions.substack.com/p/chop-wood-...
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Chop Wood, Carry Water 5/21
Wednesday mini-edition--Medicare emergency!
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Micki McGee @mickimcgee.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Happy May Day from New York City! #mayday #nyc #beltane
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NPR @npr.org · 24/04/2025
Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.
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Colleague of Harvard scientist held by ICE warns that foreign scientists are scared
Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.
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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The Trump Administration would have you believe that Andry José Hernández Romero—a gay makeup artist—is a hardened MS-13 operative who deserves to be disappeared into a Salvadoran torture chamber for the rest of his life.

The allegation is so absurd it would be laughable—if the consequences for Andry weren’t so tragic and terrifying.
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Micki McGee @mickimcgee.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Word on the street: Bring Kilmor home now.
A New Yorker says it loud: a man in a baseball cap, orangish-red sunglasses, his face painted with stars and stripes, and an American flag worn like a cape, holds a sign that says "Bring Kilmar Home, Now!" while he spreads his message like a modern-day Paul Revere. The name is standing in front of the Louis Vuitton flagship store, which is dressed up like a giant overpriced piece of luggage. April 19, 2025. #no-kings
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Micki McGee @mickimcgee.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Tens of thousands of New Yorkers showed up for democracy and the rule of law on a sunny Saturday in New York City. April 19, 2025.
Tens of thousands of New Yorkers gathered at 5th and 42nd Street, outside the New York Public Library Building, to stand up for democracy. This photo was shot from several stories above street level and shows people packing the blocks on Fifth Avenue from 40th Street to 42nd Street and around the corner to Sixth Avenue. The day was bright and sunny.
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PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Emergency Announcement youtu.be/U1kPW5MGxQQ
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Emergency Announcement
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Micki McGee @mickimcgee.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Here's a little love from New Zealand to America, to the tune of Hey There, Delilah. Folks all around the world are rooting for us. We can do this. youtu.be/0bkfsbajLaE?si
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Hey, Sane America - from the rest of the world (Hey there, Delilah parody for these times)
YouTube video by Shirley Șerban
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Micki McGee @mickimcgee.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
ICYMI: 🧊🧊🧊 director shares his vision for the agency: “like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings.” michiganadvance.com/2025/04/09/i...
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ICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system: ‘Prime, but with human beings’ • Michigan Advance
The leader of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that his dream for the agency is squads of trucks rounding up immigrants for deportation the same way that Amazon trucks crisscross American citi...
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Micki McGee @mickimcgee.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
.@laurieb63.bsky.social loved seeing our friends from Chagrin, Ohio on .@maddow.msnbc.com thanks to your footage!
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Micki McGee @mickimcgee.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
And my favorite diptych. #handsoff New York.
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Micki McGee @mickimcgee.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
And bringing up the rear: eat the ollies. #handsoff New York City.
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