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M. E. O'Brien @genderhorizon.com · 26/06/2026

Our latest monthly story for Project 2052! It’s a suspenseful narrative story of a pregnant trans person and a detained midwife escaping from new age fascist-aligned TERFs! It’s sexy, it’s adventurous, it’s a page turner

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19/02/2026

Justice for Dr. Linda Davis. ICE must be held accountable for the deadly chain of events and the cruel aftermath. Her memory lives on in every life she touched.

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University of Washington Center for Human Rights @uwchr.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Through Nlets and the WA Department of Licensing, federal immigration enforcement agents can look up your vehicle's plate number and find out your name, your address, and more. WA state could cut off ICE/CBP access to DOL data.

Concerned about Flock? Wait until you hear about Nlets.
Read the reports: 1) Leaving the Door Wide Open: Flock Surveillance Systems Expose WA Data to Immigration Enforcement. www.tinyurl.com/WAflock 2) Roadside Assist: Washington State's Continued Sharing of Drivers' Information with Federal Immigration Enforcement tinyurl.com/NletsWA

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

A mistake I’ve seen about the Minneapolis resistance from folks outside the state is an assumption the actions we’re taking aren’t good enough because other people have done them in bad faith before. Remember that all of these things were co-opted in bad faith because they work in good faith.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 08/02/2026

There are so many reasons to hate the Patriots. But for me, it starts and ends with the ICE collaborators they're enriching. gillianbrockell.ghost.io/the-truth-ab...

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The truth about ICE and the New England Patriots jets (Go Seahawks)

The best reason to hate the New England Patriots is where their team planes have been.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 27/01/2026

Race as a construct is so powerful that only now are many people saying ‘they are killing us’. They have been killing us. We have all been us the whole time.

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Migration Studies @migrationjrnl.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

How does US immigration enforcement treat pregnant migrants? @qabila.bsky.social and @M. Téllez show how detention policies under both parties render them disposable, exposing how profit extraction and racialized control persist even under claims of humanitarian exception. doi.org/10.1093/migr...

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Amanda Heffernan @qabila.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The absolute gall of Obama & Clinton to say this without acknowledging that THEY BUILT THIS MACHINE. Thank you @williamcson.bsky.social for calling it out and for all your work. Check out a great episode on @thefirethesetimes.com

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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 26/01/2026

This is Minneapolis: A neighbor sold some silver jewelry she inherited from her grandparents to cover rent for a neighbor who hasn't been able to work during these 7 weeks of federal occupation and is at risk of eviction. We need an eviction moratorium NOW. And resources for food delivery.

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Elise A. Mitchell @bydreamphd.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

There’s a lot being said about ICE paralleling fugitive slave patrols. As a historian of slavery, I think it’s far more complicated than most are articulating. A lot of historical context and power dynamics are being mashed up in the process.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi. He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael. At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk. Wael died on Friday at age 30. ICE caused his death. They didn’t get to say goodbye.

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Disabled son of ICE detainee dies after 30 days of hospitalization

It had been months since Wael Tarabishi seen his father. The family is calling on ICE to release Maher Tarabishi so he may attend his son's funeral.

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22/01/2026

Press needs to start referring to her as Reverend Nekima Levy Armstrong, I am learning, not from any media organizations unfortunately

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.

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Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

"Given ICE is operating as a black box of impunity, what’s being reported is likely only scratching the surfaces of mistreatment," Zain Lakhani, a director at the Women’s Refugee Commission, told Jezebel. www.jezebel.com/ice-is-rushi...

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ICE Is Rushing to Deport a Woman Who’s Eight Months Pregnant

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Amanda Heffernan @qabila.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Anne Braden, presente! Not my literal ancestor but one I (aspirationally) claim. Thank you for this thread. m.youtube.com/watch?v=sMMQ...

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The Untold Story of a White Anti-Racist Activist | Anne Braden: Southern Patriot | Full Documentary

YouTube video by Historical Docs

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Amanda Heffernan @qabila.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

What does no submissions on spec mean?

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La Resistencia @laresistencianw.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

HB 2464 is headed to executive session on 1/22, contact members of the House Community Safety committee and let them know that we need justice for people in private detention!

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Amanda Heffernan @qabila.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

How does immigration policy intersect with reproductive oppression in the United States? Proud to share our new article exploring the experiences of pregnant people detained, excluded or expelled by US immigration enforcement from 2017-2022. @migrationjrnl.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/migr...

Screenshot of the abstract of the article, "Una Mujer Embarazada necesita el sol": Pregnant migrant women, carceral capitalism, and immigration enforcement at the US-Mexico border, by Amanda Heffernan and Michelle Téllez, in Migration Studies, Volume 14, Issue 1, March 2026.

Abstract full text: The US immigration detention and deportation system is a vector for state violence against criminalized, racialized populations, in service to racial capitalism. The immigration policies of both Democrats and Republicans are designed to extract profit from migrants, disciplining them as a deportable underclass of workers while minimizing and externalizing the costs of social reproduction. The detention of pregnant women presents the immigration enforcement system with both discursive and material challenges, as detaining pregnant women entails additional potential costs and exposes the system to public critique on humanitarian grounds. Through an analysis of the experiences of detained pregnant women at the US/Mexico border, we argue that federal immigration policy in USA renders pregnant migrant women disposable and expendable, even during administrations that purport to make humanitarian exceptions for them. We describe and analyze processes of profit extraction, externalization of social reproduction, and symbolic exploitation in relation to the detention of pregnant women from the last year of the Obama administration in 2016 through 2022. Our findings demonstrate that recent Democratic and Republican administrations alike mobilize discursive and material practices to neutralize the challenge embodied by pregnant detainees, preserving and protecting an ever-expanding and privatized immigration enforcement system while causing profound harm to pregnant women and their families.

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Amanda Heffernan @qabila.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Employees wanted to run out the back door when ICE was reported at a nearby strip mall. She convinced them to stay, thinking that inside the back of the restaurant would be safer. She's so stressed and scared and wanting to do the right thing. And she's a citizen. It's absolutely a war zone.

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Amanda Heffernan @qabila.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I just got off the phone with my stepdaughter who manages a chain restaurant in MPLS suburbs. She has employees on leave scared to come to work, others arriving in tears, terrified, managers giving employees rides to/from work, running scenarios in her mind of how to respond if ICE raids them 1/

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Amanda Heffernan @qabila.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Thank you so much for sharing!

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Amanda Heffernan @qabila.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Sipped some seltzer that turned out to be tonic water 😝 I hate that stuff

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Amanda Heffernan @qabila.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

❤️ sambusas & liberation ❤️

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Amanda Heffernan @qabila.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

This country is in such a terrible place. Antisemitism is an important & interlocking part of all the -isms that are consuming us. We have to reckon with it & the ugliness of our past to be able to move towards a future with any hope. This community & all communities deserve safety.

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Amanda Heffernan @qabila.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

My good friend's partner was detained by ICE last week. He was the victim of wage theft, and the immigration enforcement system was weaponized against him. He and W have a 3-month-old baby. If you have capacity pls consider donating & sharing. www.gofundme.com/f/help-m-and...

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Donate to Help M and W Keep Their Family Together, organized by Amanda Heffernan

Español Abajo M and W need help to free M from immigration detention, and… Amanda Heffernan needs your support for Help M and W Keep Their Family Together

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Amanda Heffernan @qabila.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

They weren't exactly pro-ICE but insisting that raids (that they were newly paying attention to) were being carried out by "cosplaying" Proud Boys etc, couldn't be "real" ICE agents acting like this, and flipping out on me when I said that this is who ICE has always been/what they've always done.

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Amanda Heffernan @qabila.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Piled on and blocked for saying that ICE agents are...ICE agents.

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Amanda Heffernan @qabila.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

I had such a hard time with the anachronistic language. I haven't made it past the first episode but maybe I should stick with it?

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Amanda Heffernan @qabila.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

The construction of the neck/back is so cool! Wish there was a pic of the whole back. Just lovely.

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Amanda Heffernan @qabila.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Can I use the same extensions with Waterfox? Mostly thinking of my citation manager Zotero.

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Amanda Heffernan @qabila.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Enjoyed this whole thread! Do you think looking at critical realism could help with this part? Learning about it in my PhD program helped me make sense of my own perspective and approach (nurse-midwife doing mostly ethnographic-ish work). I think it's a good grounding for mixed methods, too.

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Amanda Heffernan @qabila.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

This whole thread is excellent and worth reading!

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Amanda Heffernan @qabila.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

The embroidery on the sash is so lovely

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Amanda Heffernan @qabila.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

If you want to support people to breast/chest/bodyfeed their infants - **if** they want to/are able to - pass national paid family leave! The fact that they won't tells you everything you need to know.

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Amanda Heffernan @qabila.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

As a midwife who was a board-certified lactation consultant for 10 years, RFK Jr can F right off with this theocratic, antifeminist hogwash.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

“”These microorganisms live with you for the rest of your life and they’re resetting your genes,” she says. “They have a lot of benefit. When we add back these old organisms, we’re seeing whole protein pathways get reset.”” (No paywall) Get your shots! archive.md/2025.12.06-2...

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Amanda Heffernan @qabila.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

@benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social this is what I was talking about in the meeting on Thursday. Can connect you with someone I met through Sanctuary Campus Network who did a deep dive into the form 990 at his university, if you like.

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La Resistencia @laresistencianw.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

La Resistencia volunteers who observed the deportation flight informed us that 83 people boarded the plane to be transferred and/or deported. Someone using a guide/probing cane was seen being guided onboard the plane. #AbolishICE #AbolishGEOGROUP #ChingaLaMigra #ShutdownNWDC #FreeThemALL

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Amanda Heffernan @qabila.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I tried to watch the first episode of Death by Lightning today and struggled with the dialogue within 5 minutes. When she says "since I was a teenager" in 1880!! Anachronism Grinch, reporting for duty 🫡

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