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Eric K Ward (Woke Since 1619) @bulldogshadow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

On Saturday, September 19, Morrissey and John Lydon with Public Image Ltd. will play Riot Fest 2026 in Douglass Park, in Chicago. Did anybody read the room? #punk #immigration #choicepoints

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Punk (Chicago’s Riot Fest 2026) Is Not a Costume

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John @localcelebrity.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

An excellent piece by Chicago Nazi-punching legend @noraflanagan.bsky.social adding some context to the decision by @riotfest.bsky.social to book Morrissey and John Lydon to play this year. erickward.substack.com/p/punk-chica...

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Punk (Chicago’s Riot Fest 2026) Is Not a Costume

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Nora Flanagan @noraflanagan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The memes haven’t been this good since the queen died

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Nora Flanagan @noraflanagan.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Marjane Satrapi to a group of students in Chicago, including my own, shortly after CPS tried to ban her book: “When we stop thinking of people and make them abstractions, it becomes easier to bomb them. We bomb abstractions. I wanted us to be people again.”

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Nora Flanagan @noraflanagan.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The fun part about this is I can’t tell if it’s real. He has become a caricature of himself at this point.

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

If you want to poke your eyes out before 9am: Behold, the Department of Education using Ms. Frizzle from The Magic School Bus to celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week while they dismantle public education and PBS.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

The "great replacement theory" bullshit that is now ubiquitous in Republican Party discourse was Klan shit in the 1990s when David Duke was saying it, it was Klan shit in the 1960s when George Wallace said it, and it was Klan shit in the 1920s when the Klan said it. bsky.app/profile/seth...

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C. Tocci @tocci.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

The missing context is Rufo’s whole mission statement: that leftists marched through institutions like public schools & higher ed the last 60 years to politicize youth against America, so conservatives much now counter-march back through to restore the nation. Fantasy, but politically useful.

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Florida Creates a More Conservative U.S. History Course to Rival A.P.

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Nora Flanagan @noraflanagan.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Not to take away from his recent Pulitzer Prize for fiction, but @danielkraus.com also wrote a combination deep dive and personal memoir around Night of the Living Dead that I kept needing to close and put down just to absorb a particular sentence or two. Best read this year and it’s not even close.

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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Perhaps unsurprisingly, there's no mention of far-right terrorism (neither white supremacist nor anti-government) in the Trump administration’s new national counterterrorism strategy. Instead, the domestic focus is on "violent left-wing extremists" and "cartels and gangs."

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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Politico be normal about Chicago, difficulty level: Impossible.

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Nora Flanagan @noraflanagan.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Been waiting for this episode FOREVER — at least since the podcast started, but in my own way I’ve waited since the author of Grit spoke in my urban school district about how poor kids (& their teachers) just don’t WANT success enough. If you see me yelling & cackling in my car today, no you didn’t.

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Wile E. Peyote @niceandinnocent.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Why are they all so stupid on top of everything else

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Emily J. Edwards @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

anyway YOU WOULD NOT HAVE LABOR RIGHTS WITHOUT NEW YORK CITY'S FEMALE GARMENT WORKERS, AND TO HAVE THE BEZOSES AT THE MET GALA IS A DARK STAIN ON THE HISTORY OF APPRECIATION FOR WOMEN'S LABOR, ORGANIZING, AND THE ART OF TEXTILES AND NEEDLEWORKING

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Delia Catalina Ramirez @delia.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Had a great day with Alderperson Fuentes and Commissioner Vásquez talking to so many of our neighbors about the importance of electing Jason Dónes to the Chicago Board of Education this November. We need Jason on the Board as someone backed by community and ultimately accountable to our community.

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 04/05/2026

it only took seven months from the time bari was announced editor-in-chief of cbs news to 60 minutes started doing nyt-style puff pieces on understanding the nazi next door.

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Nora Flanagan @noraflanagan.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Josh Weiner spent most of May Day with Nate Friedman, the brave sunglasses wearing YouTube pest who is sure all protesters get paid. (Guess who he often implies pays them. Come on. Guess.) I know Friedman has no shame, but Weiner appears to feel awkward chasing children around, as he should.

Nate Friedman and Josh Weiner interview several young women at Union Park’s May Day rally.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

The Republicans control all three branches of government, the J6ers were all pardoned, right wingers own Twitter, Facebook, the Washington Post, CBS and CNN…right wing donors exert unprecedented influence over the nation’s universities, but sure, we’re on the verge of a Cultural Marxist revolution.

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🏳️‍🌈🚲Cole🚄🚟 @coleurbanist.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I will not STOP being upset about how close this race was until we beat her

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Nora Flanagan @noraflanagan.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

After railing against May Day as ‘coercion’ at a CPS board meeting, NAVI’s Josh Weiner was creeping on students as they marched into Union Park on May Day. He is not a CPS parent or an educator. His org targets teachers, seeks to ban curriculum, and demonizes LGBTQ+ resources, ethnic studies & DEI.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Amisha Patel, former ED of Grassroots Collaborative and lifelong organizer, has passed away. Last month, she penned this essay about her cancer fight as an analogy for organizing struggles: "...how do we build a long-term vision that we can strive toward together, even in the hardest of times?"

truthout.org

Fighting Cancer Has Given Me New Insights on the Anti-Fascist Challenge We Face

To resist authoritarianism, our work must be deeply relational. We must act even in uncertainty. Nurturing builds power.

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wes(is no longer)injapan @wesinjapan.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Every school in America is going to need to build a ballroom.

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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I just feel like I have read enough history books to know that you don’t really want your society to be at this point.

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Nora Flanagan @noraflanagan.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Unsure. Does Reese Witherspoon think I need these?

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

"'When we began working with informants, we were living in the shadow of the height of the Civil Rights Movement, which had seen bombings at churches, state-sponsored violence against demonstrators, and the murders of activists that went unanswered by the justice system,' Fair said."

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 24/04/2026

#OtD 24 Apr 1976 the far-right National Front organised a march through the main Asian area in Bradford, England. Politicians held a rally but 100s of young Asians broke away, fought through police lines and attacked the racists. More in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/2019/09/18/e...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

fuuuuuuck

On the agenda that day: the future of nuclear energy in the Trump era. The meeting was convened by 31-year-old lawyer Seth Cohen. Just five years out of law school, Cohen brought no significant experience in nuclear law or policy; he had just entered government through Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency team.

As Cohen led the group through a technical conversation about licensing nuclear reactor designs, he repeatedly downplayed health and safety concerns. When staff brought up the topic of radiation exposure from nuclear test sites, Cohen broke in.

“They are testing in Utah. … I don’t know, like 70 people live there,” he said.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

That's *exactly* what Miller was about to say.

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Nora Flanagan @noraflanagan.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

And Chicagoans know his repertoire gets much, much worse.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Prepare to take action on May First. Protests show awareness and they deter the worst. (16/17) indivisible.org/events/may-d...

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May Day Strong: No Work, No School, No Shopping | Indivisible

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 06/04/2026

I may be on the wrong side of this war.

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Nora Flanagan @noraflanagan.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Looking at you, Chicago politicians and journalists

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

The "ecosystem isn't broken" on X--it's working as intended. X is a fascist propaganda network because Elon Musk manipulates the algorithm to promote fascist content. Musk manipulates the algorithm to promote fascist content because he is a fascist. The game is rigged.

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Nora Flanagan @noraflanagan.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Let’s be smart in advance: make a plan to post what you’re drinking after you get the news. Champagne, scotch, black coffee, herbal tea, fruity water, whatever. Doxxing people re. Charlie Kirk was a test run for the other thing. Post a beverage & maybe some artful profanity. We’ll get what you mean.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

not to downplay the severity of what's cominb but the entire fall campaign of just executing boats full of civilians in the caribbean was a screaming klaxon that illegality of the order is no obstacle for Hegseth's Department of Warcrimes

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

There really is no pleasing the NYT, is there "I'm all for protest, but not property destruction. What happened to civil disobedience?" "Blocking the roads is not the way to win hearts and minds" "This peaceful protest is too small to do anything" "This large peaceful protest is...too large?"

A Challenge for 'No Kings' Protests, the Third Time Around

Organizers want this to be the largest protest yet. But is hitting a number enough to deliver an effective political movement?

Listen 8:31 min

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

We all know this is fascism.

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Nora Flanagan @noraflanagan.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Unpopular opinion, esp while teaching at selective enrollment high schools for 25 years: the College Board is a scam. Dual credit offers more access and authentic assessment for students historically excluded from the AP racket. Let’s work on dual credit and include issues with AP in the discussion.

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Zach Hazard Vaupen @emo-sludge.com · 29/03/2026

“I’m saving up for the other sleeve and then maybe a back piece”

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I think I'm gonna be mad about this forever, actually

A meme based on an old Chick religious comic tract. In it, a crowd of people are telling Jesus to shut up.

The text around the scene reads "Most people rejected His message. They hated Kaegi because He told them the truth."

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Nora Flanagan @noraflanagan.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I’m just gonna go ahead and not take the Skyway on my way out of town this morning.

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Nora Flanagan @noraflanagan.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Union busting is disgusting, even (especially?) when it comes from an organization we’d like to think would never.

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John @localcelebrity.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

It was never about women’s sports and the more people like Rahm and Gavin act like it is the more they enable this. The regime wants nothing short of trans genocide.

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Nora Flanagan @noraflanagan.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Picking up speed toward canceling elections in America

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YTJF. @thewayoftheid.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Yeah but it’s ok bc certain people can say the hard r in the conference room again

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