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Common Notions Press @commonnotions.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

New #Project2052 story alert! "The Fall of Carceral Psychiatry" reminds us that there is no revolution without mad and disabled folks. Meet Gregory Barbie, a mad and blind man from rural Idaho as he recounts his time in a locked psych ward and the eventual fall of carceral psychiatry.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I love the work that Chicago Community Jail Support does. They are scrappy and they are committed and they always need more volunteers. chicago-community-jail-support.webnode.page - Sign up to help them.

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Chicago Community Jail Support

Chicago Community Jail Support is a daily, on the ground, grassroots mutual aid project run completely by volunteers. Our mission is to assist anyone being released from Cook County Jail, their loved ...

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

We're seeing a drop off in newborn donations in Minneapolis. Birth workers are seeing small/early babies due to stress/food insecurity—ICE has not stopped—families still in desperate need of support. If you're able, here is a wishlist compiled by folks doing mutual aid www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

Operation Metro Love Thy Neighbor
Hello Friends of Operation Metro Love Thy Neighbor! Many of our neighbors in Minneapolis are being targeted based on the color of their skin, their accent, or their country of origin. From a healthcare standpoint, this is leading to very scary outcomes, as patients are terrified to leave home and are foregoing necessary care in an effort to stay safe. For moms and babies, medical professionals scramble to meet these needs and to ensure patient safety. As neighbors and community members, we want to ensure these moms and babies have their needs met in terms of supplies, personal care items, and infant and toddler items. While it's a far cry from a baby shower, we are doing our best to ensure that our neighboring mamas have what they need in times of massive distress. All items purchased on this list will be delivered to me and then immediately sent out into the community for maximum impact. On behalf of all the mama and baby teams, we so appreciate your love and generosity.

Black image with white text and white line drawing of a parent holding a baby. Text reads: "Mama + Baby donations needed. All items with an asterisk must be unused. Other items may be gently used. These items will go to immediate homes and be appreciated. [heart emoji] Thank you! ITEMS NEEDED: diapers (size 0-6)*, baby wipes*, pacifiers*, teething items*, free and clear detergent, baby shampoo, baby-safe lotion, infant clothing (all sizes), infant hats, baby blankets, burp cloths, swaddlers, hands-free baby carriers, breastfeeding guards*, feeding pillows, maternity pillows, belly bands, nipple cream*, pimps, infant safe toys, pack + play, epsom salt."

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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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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

NYC Public Advocate @jumaane.bsky.social: “There are tens of thousands of people whose names we will never know who stood up and was the light in the dark times that got us through.”

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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Rapid responders, community defenders, parents and caregivers and neighbors, thank for your courage and your determination in the face of murderous state violence, in these wrenching times. 💔

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 30/12/2025

I say all of this because I think the most urgent thing we must do now is reorganize our models of care. This has to become about how we must all care for each other & we cannot rely on “I’ve paid good money so professionals can take care of me” it never worked justly. It is not sustainable.

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

The proposed Chicago city budget has a $5 million line item for a ShotSpotter replacement. Abandoning this failed pursuit would free up the funds needed to maintain 2025 funding levels at our city libraries, which would still leave the libraries underfunded but would avoid disastrous proposed cuts.

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Christopher Whitaker @civicwhitaker.com · 14/11/2025

This quote from Tony Fitzpatrick, "Chicago is a boxer: They don't have the best skills, they don't have the best snap on their jab. But you get to the twelfth round, and you look across the ring and that guy's still there."

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 14/11/2025

It’s being reported that Greg Bovino and 250 of his goons will be leaving Chicago. But it’s also being reported that he’ll be back, in larger numbers. But Chicago is a boxer, tired but unbowed. I wrote about how we’ll be ready. dansinker.com/posts/202…

Everyone I know is exhausted from the last two months. Exhausted from rushing out on the ding of a Signal notification, exhausted from standing in front of schools keeping watch, exhausted from confronting heavily armed masked agents in tactical gear with nothing more than a whistle around your neck. Exhausted—so exhausted—from being witness to neighbors, friends, and family going missing. Over 3000 people, according to the goons' own count. One was too many. Everyone I know is exhausted. Everyone I know is ready to go another round.

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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

40th Ward Ald. Andre Vazquez is up next. “I’ve never been prouder to be a Chicagoan in my life. … Come to Chicago and you’ll realize what greatness in this county looks like,” he says, riffing off MAGA. “Chicago is a welcoming city unless you’re a fascist.”

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 28/10/2025

“Chicago is the future.“ @joseolivarez.bsky.social for @chicagomag.com

when we win
the masked agents raid our neighborhoods.
what do they cover up? (yesterday) is their promise
& their charge. on 75th and South Shore they ram down
our doors using (yesterday). they toss canisters
of (yesterday) into our children’s lullabies. why?
my people,
we carry (today) & (tomorrow) in twin holsters. we
plant (today) & (tomorrow) in our gardens. every day
there are more sprouts. let it be known: Chicago
will never cower. (yesterday) already died. (yesterday)
is dying. (yesterday) will die again. there is no future
in (yesterday). the agents in our neighborhoods hide
their faces because they are losing. because they lost.
when we win,
there will be whistles from the gulls
circling Lake Michigan. let them sing it:
Chicago is a city of (today) & (tomorrow).
Chicago is the future.

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 13/10/2025

You can arrest us or pepper spray us or whatever, but we will make you look stupid and feel silly doing it because wanting to assert control is stupid. You want to assert control? Do it to an inflatable frog! So, it’s not just a meme thing, it’s a Portland cultural thing.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

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They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11/10/2025

🧵 regarding the shutdown: The Democrats aren’t being clear enough about this but we can be: this shutdown is about saving lives. If we don’t reverse the Medicaid cuts (and the ACA subsidies on insurance bought through the exchanges) that Republicans made this year, people will die.

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

@govpritzker.illinois.gov owns every arrest and act of violence against protesters this morning. He is aiding and abetting Operation Midway Blitz by allowing state cops to do this. He tells us to film ICE. His cops have shoved me around for filming this morning.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social tells these cops about themselves.

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Constantine @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Alright, so I've been afraid to say this out loud, but I think after today, I can say it: In the first Battle of Los Angeles, the good people of LA County have prevailed. We beat ICE back. 1/

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Constantine @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

So, Chicago, thwart. Thwart like lives depend on it because they do. This was long and nobody'll read the whole thing, but man it felt good to write because, for the time being, LA fucking won. 11/end

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

That’s what time it is on the clock of the world, and it’s what time it is in Chicago. I’m not made of steel. I can feel the anxiety of this moment. But I can honestly say there’s no place I would rather lock arms and hold the line than here, in the city I love—in this place where I belong.

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sophia / صوفيا @brownisthecolor.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Some of the bottles of rice and formula and flour Egyptians threw into the sea have actually made it to Gaza - now people in Cyprus and Lebanon are joining the effort, with scientists from all over the world virtually assisting them in figuring the time and location to do so based on the currents. 💚

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

NEW: Bob Geldof lets rip over Gaza genocide. PRESENTER: "Isn’t it a bit unfair to say this is the Israelis as a whole?" GELDOF: "Stop it Trevor. If Israelis want to protest, get in your cars. Stuff your cars full of food & drive through that border. Let your own army stop you. Shame on you.”

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die
July 21, 2025

AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip since its staff journalists left in 2024.

Along with a few others, they are now the only ones left to report what is happening in the Gaza Strip. The international press has been banned from entering the territory for nearly two years.

We refuse to watch them die.

One of them, Bashar, has been working with AFP since 2010, first as a fixer, then freelance photographer, and since 2024, as lead photographer. On July 19th he managed to post a message on Facebook: “I no longer have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work anymore.”

Bashar, 30, works & lives in the same conditions as all Gazans, moving from one refugee camp to another under Israeli bombings. For > a year he’s lived in utter destitution, working at extreme risk to his life. Hygiene is a major issue for him, with recurring bouts of severe intestinal illness.

Since Feb, Bashar’s been living in the ruins of his home in Gaza City with his mother, 4 brothers & sisters and the family of one of his brothers. Their house is devoid of any furnishings, except a few cushions. On Sunday morning, he reported that one of his brothers had “fallen, due to hunger.”

Even though these journalists receive a monthly salary from AFP, it’s no longer enough to buy food, or they have to pay completely exorbitant prices. The banking system has collapsed, and those who exchange money via online bank accounts charge a commission of up to 40%.

AFP no longer has the ability to provide them with a vehicle and there is not enough fuel to allow these journalists to travel for their reporting. Driving a car means becoming a target for Israeli airstrikes. AFP reporters therefore travel on foot or by donkey cart. (alt txt continued in next post)

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

We have three urgent requests today: 1. Contribute to a trusted org or individual fundraiser. Don't keep scrolling.. We know that the many requests can get overwhelming - like your contribution won't make a dent. But we have strength in numbers. Here is one: chuffed.org/project/1132...

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South Gaza: Tents, Food & Water

**With Famine on the rise, we will significantly lower tent purchases and focus on food (rice and bread) and water over the next couple of weeks**

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Monica Samelson @monicocelot.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Thank you to Blind Field for publishing this essay on why the left needs to embrace our deeper libidinal urges of we're going to win. And thanks to everyone who helped me write it and think it! blindfieldjournal.com/2025/07/17/a...

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All Good Trouble is Trouble

By Monica Samelson On May 28 a glacier collapsed onto a village in Switzerland. With our rising global temperatures, the ice couldn’t hold onto the mountain anymore. In June heat waves ravaged a gr…

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20/07/2025

Our governments are forcing us to watch Palestinians starve to death A bipartisan endeavor We kept saying genocide and it has been and also that can make it hard to appreciate this is a new level to it Mass, irreversible starvation

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

When we told our Death Panel listeners that we were having a baby, hundreds of people wrote in to say some version of the same thing: that knowing, loving & raising children had further radicalized them. That it exposed how much of the world is built to punish vulnerability and make care impossible.

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All Good Trouble is Trouble

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Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

So pleased to have the inimitable and brilliant @reproutopia.bsky.social thinking with Heavyweight, now up at Lux! lux-magazine.com/article/brag...

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Doing the Dirty Laundry

Sol Brager claims their Zionist, Nazi-fighting kin.

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

#tdih 1970 Young Lords occupied Lincoln Hospital’s major admin building in South Bronx in response to terrible conditions for African Americans & Latinos. K-12 curriculum should include long, ongoing struggle for access & equity in healthcare. Film & more⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/yo...

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July 14, 1970: Young Lords Occupy Lincoln Hospital

The Young Lords occupied Lincoln Hospital’s major administrative building in response to deplorable treatment of people of color.

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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

The earth is big. Water is powerful. Fire too. Also viruses. Exponential growth can take things from tiny warnings to unmanageable problems pretty darn quick. The human is tiny and 100% dependent on the living planet.

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Monica Samelson @monicocelot.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

This talk was a highlight of the conference for me, in particular the resonant insistence that we *know* what care is (what it feels like), even though we're not getting it from the places that promise it. @reallandsend.bsky.social emphasized the need to recruit defectors from healthcare. As a (1/)

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 @moxiest.art · 11/06/2025

leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

If you hit me in the face repeatedly until I fight back, because you want to put some narrative spin on my defensive efforts, letting you beat the shit out of me isn't some genius solution. (Anyone who thinks otherwise has never had the shit beaten out of them.)

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Some of the BS takes we're seeing are also what a near-religious belief in criminalization gets you. All of the "no one is above the law" BS (um, have you noticed that, yes, some people fucking are?) is a fetishization. People think we're going to upstandingly cooperate our way out of fascist rule.

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M. E. O'Brien @genderhorizon.com · 03/06/2025

For his podcast Speaking Out of Place, radical scholar @palumboliu.bsky.social interviewed @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social and me about Everything for Everyone, with unusually astute and inspiring commentary and questions. It was an honor. speakingoutofplace.com/2025/06/02/t...

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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Until recently I hadn't read "Scapegoat," a book that is never mentioned in the now 6-year-long Dworkin revival going on (even though it seems in many ways to be her magnum opus). It's the book where Dworkin finally says what she thinks women should do. The answer she comes up with may surprise you.

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Monica Samelson @monicocelot.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Ok, wait. Wait. You're telling me that in the year 2000 The Nature Conservancy was an oil company? While they were pretending to save the Attwater's prairie chicken from extinction? But actually they were drilling for oil? (Reading ch6 of This Changes Everything by @naomiaklein.bsky.social )

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