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Mitchell Zimmerman

@mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social
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I’m older than the boomers – and I’ve lived decades of activism, beginning with the civil rights group SNCC, 40 years of pro bono legal advocacy, and commentaries on social justice, war and democracy, from "Dr. Spock on Vietnam" to OtherWords op-eds.

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Mitchell Zimmerman @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
MAGA / TRUMP / VANCE FAMILY POLICY: Right-wingers define America as a white nation, so their only solution to falling fertility rates is persuading or forcing women to have more babies. mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/maga-mothe... #MAGAFamilyPolicy #child-care #immigration #WhiteSupremacy #teens
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Mitchell Zimmerman @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“One in three Americans are under-babied,” says Mehmet Oz. MAGA / TRUMP / VANCE FAMILY POLICY: Right-wingers define America as a white nation, so their only solution to falling fertility rates is persuading or forcing women to have more babies. mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/.../maga...
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Mitchell Zimmerman @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/ice-killings-are-acts-of-terrorism #ICEAgents #StopICE #Terrorism #Immigrants #SecretPolice #ICEMurders #Guerrero #Araujo #DHSLies #AbolishICE #Gestapo
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Mitchell Zimmerman @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
ICE KILLINGS ARE ACTS OF TERRORISM. mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/ice-killin... #ICEAgents #StopICE #Terrorism #Immigrants #SecretPolice #ICEMurders #Guerrero #Araujo #DHSLies #AbolishICE #Gestapo
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Mitchell Zimmerman @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/ice-killin... #ICEAgents #StopICE #Terrorism #Immigrants #SecretPolice #ICEMurders #Guerrero #Araujo #DHSLies #AbolishICE #Gestapo
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Mitchell Zimmerman @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/ice-killin... #ICEAgents #StopICE #Terrorism #Immigrants #SecretPolice #ICEMurders #Guerrero #Araujo #DHSLies #AbolishICE #Gestapo
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ICE Killings Are Acts of Terrorism
ICE’s indiscriminate violence conveys that nonwhite immigrants, lawful or otherwise, have no place in Trump’s America.
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Mitchell Zimmerman @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/at-250-ame... #July4th📷📷 #DeclarationOfIndependence #Multiethnic #Democracy.
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Mitchell Zimmerman @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/at-250-ame... #July4th📷📷 #DeclarationOfIndependence #Multiethnic #Democracy
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Mitchell Zimmerman @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/at-250-ame... #July4th📷📷 #DeclarationOfIndependence #Multiethnic #Democracy
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Mitchell Zimmerman @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
‪Mitchell Zimmerman‬ ‪@mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social‬ · now My Substack on the Right-Wing Justices termination of the Voting Rights Act. mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/maga-supre... #Redistricting #DestroyingDemocracy #Gerrymandering #WhiteSupremacy #MAGAJustices #Racism #Callais #VotingRightsAct
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Mitchell Zimmerman @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
My Substack on voter-proofing the GOP majority -- and the Supreme Court okaying the destruction of Congress as an instrument of American democracy. mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/maga-supre... #Redistricting #DestroyingDemocracy #Gerrymandering #WhiteSupremacy #MAGAJustices #Racism #Callais
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MAGA Supreme Court Okays G.O.P. Overthrow of American Democracy
Disenfranching 40% of a state’s citizens cannot be reconciled with representative democracy
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Mitchell Zimmerman @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/bathroom-t... #trans #transgender #IdahoAntiTransLaw #BathroomLaws #RestroomLaws
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Mitchell Zimmerman @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
My Letter in the New York Times on Trump's openly racist post regarding Obamas. mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/trump-shamel essly-displays-his-authentic #TrumpRacism #Trump #RacistMemes #WhiteNationalism #WhiteSupremacy #Obamas
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Mitchell Zimmerman @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
If Minnesota has become an occupied land, we must all be Minnesotans. My substack: An Army of ICE Agents Has Invaded Minnesota. Will They Succeed in Rendering Law Powerless? mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/an-army-of... #ICEkillers #ICEout #PrettiMurder #DHS
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Mitchell Zimmerman @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
An Army of ICE Agents Has Invaded Minnesota. Will They Succeed in Rendering Law Powerless? mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/an-army-of... #ICEkillers #ICEout #PrettiMurder #DHS #ReneeGood
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Mitchell Zimmerman @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Mitchell Zimmerman @Mitchellodeon "I am a Minnesotan." mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/an-army-of... #ICEkillers #ICEout #PrettiMurder #DHS #ReneeGood
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Mitchell Zimmerman @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
An Army of ICE Agents Has Invaded Minnesota. Will They Succeed in Rendering Law Powerless? mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/an-army-of... #ICEkillers #ICEout #PrettiMurder #DHS #ReneeGood
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An Army of ICE Agents Has Invaded Minnesota. Will They Succeed in Rendering Law Powerless?
Minnesota is an occupied land, abused by lawless thugs. We are all Minnesotans.
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Mitchell Zimmerman @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Some reflections from a 1960s civil rights veteran (me) on MLK, leadership, and lessons for the current moment. mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/dr-king-wo... #MLKDay #DrKing #CivilRightsMovement #Trump #WhiteSupremacy #Fascism
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Dr. King Would Be Standing Beside All Who Are Now Standing Up For Our Democracy
In the mid-1960s, I joined the freedom movement in the South as a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Georgia, Mississippi and Arkansas.
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Mitchell Zimmerman @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
My Substack post will be useful 4 anyone not clear that Renee Good was an executed. Three images prove she wasn't trying to run down ICE agent. mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/when-an-ic... #Good #ICE #ICEKiller #Immigrants #SayHerName #JusticeForRenee #AbolishICE #StateViolence #EndICEForGood
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When an ICE Agent Shot Two Bullets Into Renee Good Through the Driver’s Side Window, He Was Not Engaged in Self-Defense
Kristi Noel’s Preposterous Lies About the Killing Confirm That ICE Encourages Agent Violence
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Mitchell Zimmerman @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
DOES SEC OF WAR TRUMP-HEGSETH WORK FOR YOU? mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/trump-cabi... Cabinet Officials add Trump-Hyphenated to their Names bsky.app/profile/mitc... #Kennedy #KennedyCenter #rename #Cabinet #Hegseth #Noem #Bondi
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Mitchell Zimmerman @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
DOES SEC OF WAR TRUMP-HEGSETH WORK FOR YOU? Cabinet Officials add Trump-Hyphenated to their Names bsky.app/profile/mitc... #Kennedy #KennedyCenter #rename #Cabinet #Hegseth #Noem #Bondi
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Mitchell Zimmerman @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Why Stop with Kennedy Center? Cabinet Officials add Trump-Hyphen to their Names. “Good enough for a battleship, it’s good enough for me,” says Homeland Security chief Kristi Trump-Noem mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/trump-cabi... #Kennedy #KennedyCenter #rename #Cabinet #Hegseth #Noem #Bondi
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Why Stop with the Kennedy Center? Cabinet Officials add Trump-Hyphenated to their Names
“Good enough for a battleship, it’s good enough for me,” says Homeland Security chief Kristi Trump-Noem
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Mitchell Zimmerman @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Why is Biden's responsible for the bad economy a year later? He never left . . . open.substack.com/pub/mitchell.... #TrumpEconomy #Bidensfault #Inflation #Affordability #tariffs #groceryprices
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Trump Reveals Biden Lurks in White House, Raising Grocery Prices
At the end of his address to the nation on the economy, while fact-checkers were taking a break to avoid carpal-tunnel syndrome, President Trump revealed the real cause of the nation’s economic proble...
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Mitchell Zimmerman @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/trump-is-l.... #TrumpLies #Inflation #Immigrants #Illegals #GroceryPrices #Tariffs #GulfOfAmerica #Medicaid #WorstOfTheWorst
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Trump Is Lying About Grocery Prices. What Else?
Why should you trust someone who says things you know from your own experience are false?
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Mitchell Zimmerman @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
My Substack: Trump Is Lying About Grocery Prices. What Else? mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/trump-is-l... #TrumpLies #Inflation #Immigrants #Illegals #GroceryPrices #Tariffs #GulfOfAmerica #Medicaid #WorstOfTheWorst
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Mitchell Zimmerman @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
My Substack: Trump Is Lying About Grocery Prices. What Else? #TrumpLies #Inflation #Immigrants #Illegals #GroceryPrices #Tariffs #GulfOfAmerica #Medicaid #WorstOfTheWorst
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Mitchell Zimmerman @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Trump "insurrection" lies + unleashed ICE + militarization = Chicago raid trashing 4th Amend & individual rights. My Substack post: mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/to-the-fou... #constitution #fascism #militarism #NoKings #ChicagoRaid #MartialLaw #TrumpDictator #ICE
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Mitchell Zimmerman @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
My Substack on 4th Amend.: Trump is aping George III in attacking constitutionall restraints on unreasonable searches & seizures mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/to-the-fou... #constitution #fascism #militarism #NoKings #ChicagoRaid #MartialLaw #TrumpDictator #ICE
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Mitchell Zimmerman @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
My Substack post on Trump's war on freedoms over which we declared independence in 1776--and his effort to erase the 4th Amendment and substitute military rule. mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/to-the-fou... #constitution #fascism #militarism #NoKings #ChicagoRaid #MartialLaw #TrumpDictator #ICE
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To The Fourth Amendment: You Were a Great and Underappreciated Amendment. Now Trump's Made You an Endangered Species
Trump is aping King George III in attacking constitutional restraints on unreasonable searches and seizures
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Mitchell Zimmerman @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
The places you visit on the internet collect information on you. Then they use it to charge personalized, higher prices. Read. Sign petition. action.consumerreports.org/nb-20251002-...
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You shouldn’t be charged more based on who you are
ACTION: Let's ban surveillance pricing!
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Mitchell Zimmerman @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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Mitchell Zimmerman @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
My letter of The New York Times on Israel & Gaza www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/o... #Gaza #EthnicCleansing #Genocide
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Mitchell Zimmerman @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
"A 'leading' Jewish community organization demands we focus on the plight of one wrongly kidnapped Israeli Jew and ignore the deliberate starvation of millions of Palestinians in Gaza." Compelling evidence the famine resulted from Israeli policy. mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/kidnapped-...
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Mitchell Zimmerman @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
My letter in the NYTimes on bombing Iran: "WAR OF CHOICE"? OR "AGGRESSION"? The euphemism “war of choice” is used to obscure the fact that under international law, when one nation attacks another except in self-defense it constitutes the crime of aggression. . . www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/o...
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Mitchell Zimmerman @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Mitchell Zimmerman @Mitchellodeon IMMIGRATION CAN HELP SAVE SOCIAL SECURITY. mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/immigratio... No. workers per retiree is plummeting. #SocialSecurity #Immigration #Deport #Illegals #ProtectSocialSecurity #Undocumented #SaveSocialSecurity
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Immigration Can Help Save Social Security
By welcoming immigrants, we can uphold the promise of America — and help all Americans enjoy security in old age.
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Mitchell Zimmerman @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
SUPREME COURT DEPORTATION CASE: "The dissent is so evasive, so willfully blind to the actual matter at issue, as to make plain the two are happy to watch Trump dismantle the rule of law." mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/a-dissent-... #AbregoGarcia #DueProcess #50501movement #nokings #RuleOfLaw
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A Dissent Worthy of “Truth” Social
In an opinion as self-righteous and senseless as any Trump tweet, Justices Alito and Thomas rail against a Supreme Court decision to pause deporting people to foreign torture prisons
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Mitchell Zimmerman @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
My latest Substack post: mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/a-dissent-.... In the confrontation between a judiciary committed to due process and an executive who claims unrestrained power, Alito & Thomas are eager to abandon constitutional limits." #AbregoGarcia #ElSalvador #Autocracy #DueProcess
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A Dissent Worthy of “Truth” Social
In an opinion as self-righteous and senseless as any Trump tweet, Justices Alito and Thomas rail against a Supreme Court decision to pause deporting people to foreign torture prisons
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Mitchell Zimmerman @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/i-couldnt-... Trump promised other countries would pay for his tariffs, not American consumers: “It’s not going to be a cost to you.” Trump knew these claims were false. And now, finally, he admits it. #tariffs #inflation #TrumpLied #Economy #recession #Liberation
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“I Couldn’t Care Less.” Trump Lied — He Knew All Along He Would Make Inflation Worse.
Funny how soon after November 5 Trump dropped the talk about prices “coming down fast” – and turned to tariff policies calculated to drive up the cost of living
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Mitchell Zimmerman @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
#DOGE #Musk #SocialSecurity #Tariffs
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Mitchell Zimmerman @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
My column concurrently in OtherWords and Substack: mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/federal-jo... otherwords.org/federal-jobs... Is a (supposedly) “bloated” fed workforce the problem? Are we "addicted" to Soc Sec? Actually, the gov is increasingly efficient. #DOGE #Musk #SocialSecurity #Tariffs
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Federal Jobs Don’t Threaten the Economy, But Trump’s Tariffs Do
Trump’s crazy tariffs may trigger a recession. He wants you to blame federal workers instead.
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Mitchell Zimmerman @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
We had a very good, spirited protest against Trump’s predictably dishonest State of the Union address, consisting of about 100 - 150 people at a busy intersection in Mountain View, California last night. . .#Musk #Trump #SocialSecurity #StateOfTheUnion mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/many-small...
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MANY SMALL NEIGHBORHOOD PROTESTS AGAINST TRUMP'S AND MUSK'S HATE-FILLED OUTRAGES ARE A GOOD THING.
Trump is always seeking to normalize lawlessness, violence and hate. Our myriad small demonstrations everywhere can "normalize" protesting against him and standing up for decency.
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Mitchell Zimmerman @mitchellzimmerman.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
In the post below, I take apart the claim Musk’s DOGE project has anything to do with government efficiency, waste or corruption. Will be clarifying for those who think Musk's gone too far, but give some credence to DOGE as a make-gov't-smaller effort. mitchellzimmerman.substack.com/p/i-can-do-m...
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I Can Do MUCH Better Than Elon Musk at Government Cost-Cutting – and Here’s My Plan to Slash Your Grocery Bills by 20% or More!
Reducing government spending is only cost saving if the expense was unnecessary. But how would Elon Musk and his twenty-something software whizzes know?
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