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snarkety @snartkety.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Also important to note that organizers from Chicago (and LA) are sharing their experiences, strategies and tactics with other cities. For example - Columbus, Oh is now working on purchasing thousands of whistles and distributing rapid response info in preparation for bigger actions in the city.

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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

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rachel ida @r-ida.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

what #gustavopetro supporting regime change in the US?

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rachel ida @r-ida.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

i get more than one email a week from administrators who have never taught a history class but want to tell me how to do my job. but this week w the shutdown of canvas which we have all been encouraged if not forced to use: 🦗🦗

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

A main organizer of VC Defensa in Ventura County was rammed in his vehicle by federal agents and taken into custody this morning. This video is from VC Defensa IG and shows the ramming. Organizers are thinking he’ll be taken to LA MDC—headed there now

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rachel ida @r-ida.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

wait so the orange menace ANNOUNCED covert action against venezuela? that’s how it works now?

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rachel ida @r-ida.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

so essentially Palestinians in Gaza & the West Bank can look forward to living under a similar regime as contemporary Chicago.

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rachel ida @r-ida.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

it's one of them scary because i'm starting a chapter and not sure what i mean to say wrtg days. please comment with good cheer and encouragement and receipts for having been there and prevailed.

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rachel ida @r-ida.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

the university of “no you can’t/why didn’t you/you have to or else” for students and academic workers is a place of vast opportunity and riches for the administrative class.

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rachel ida @r-ida.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

it’s a small thing in a crowded field of awful but it’s “democratic” cities (policies, politicians, etc) not “democrat”.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Greta Thunberg is not in the Epstein files, but Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Donald Trump are.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 06/10/2025

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Adam Douglas Thompson. #NewYorkerCartoons Sign up for our humor newsletter to get Daily Cartoons delivered to your inbox: nyer.cm/0EivDaD

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rachel ida @r-ida.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

as a spiritual new yorker (rent’s much cheaper!) i cannot wait to be represented by @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

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rachel ida @r-ida.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

if the 14th amendment goes down what about corporate personhood??

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rachel ida @r-ida.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

terrible to fly in this capitalist hellhole and tonight i’m imagining all the deportation flights , the unnecessary agony

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

miamiherald.com

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

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rachel ida @r-ida.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

the current war on the left & trans folks comes out of the long history of indigenous & black death, endless red scares, and the grim architecture of islamophobia that enables the fascist ideas of #antifa and #trans menace. this the grail of oligarchs forever: a carte blanche for power & repression

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rachel ida @r-ida.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

calling the left terrorists completes a long, bipartisan campaign building on islamophobic policy starting in the 1990s

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rachel ida @r-ida.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

sure i do think about retiring from the hellhole of the public university. but i love teaching and plus being someone’s nightmare image of a woke professor is damn satisfying.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

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rachel ida @r-ida.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

anybody seen an actual flag burning- by the “radical left” or anyone else?- lately? like the last decade or so?

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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Willian Gimenez was abducted by ICE yesterday in Chicago. He had been part of a lawsuit against off-duty police and Home Depot employees for abusing day laborers. Latino Union says he was targeted for advocating for his rights as a worker. @bloomekatz.bsky.social and I report.

inthesetimes.com

ICE Abducts Man Suing Off-Duty Police for Abusing Day Laborers

“The Department of Homeland Security has become the department of state terror,” said Rep. Delia Ramirez.

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Miles Howard @milesperhoward.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Murder. He’s calling for the murder of people, a significant percentage of whom are veterans who served in our country’s military.

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rachel ida @r-ida.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

periodic reminder that “ding dong the witch is dead” is protected speech under the first amendment

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rachel ida @r-ida.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

la misma porquería making a lot of sense rn

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rachel ida @r-ida.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

A lot of awful things going on and this one is creeping up quietly- the use of mass immigration detention to expand prison labor and potentially restore the convict lease system of the post-Reconstruction south, only this time, everywhere:

jacobin.com

$1-a-Day Jobs and the Logic of the New Immigrant Crackdown

Immigration raids and detention aren’t just political theater — they supply corporations with cheap, captive labor and help roll back protections for all workers. Behind the language of border securit...

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rachel ida @r-ida.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

alondra of milwaukee’s comité sin fronteras:” history doesn’t whisper, it repeats”

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rachel ida @r-ida.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

it’s a nightmare inversion of p-funk’s “chocolate city”

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

"Having an armed citizenry comes with a price, and that is part of liberty." Charlie Kirk

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

It's hard to see how Trump won't exploit the shooting of Charlie Kirk to further expand his police state...even while his FBI is busy cutting veteran agents that don't fit into his sycophantic and ideological mode.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 10/09/2025

Let’s make one thing clear from the start: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. — Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

@govpritzker.illinois.gov's take on Kirk is the correct one: "Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it." On point. So glad Democrats are saying this.

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rachel ida @r-ida.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

URGENT; if you don’t want the state of Wisconsin to pass legislation equating criticism of the state of Israel with antisemitism please call Greta Neubaer and ask her NOT to lift the flag for dems on this bill: Office Phone: (608) 237-9166 Toll-Free: (888) 534-0066 Rep.Neubauer@Legis.Wisconsin.gov

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rachel ida @r-ida.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

so now that Palestinian kids can’t come to the US for medical care, thank you #lauraloomer, where can they go?

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

🚨NEW: Reversing *generations* of practice, the Board of Immigration Appeals gives ICE exactly what it demanded, ruling that any undocumented immigrant who entered illegally is categorically ineligible for release from detention on bond — expanding mandatory detention by millions of people.

Matter of Jonathan Javier YAJURE HURTADO, Respondent
Decided September 5, 2025
U.S. Department of Justice
Executive Office for Immigration Review
Board of Immigration Appeals
Based on the plain language of section 235(b)(2)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality
Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1225(b)(2)(A) (2018), Immigration Judges lack authority to hear bond
requests or to grant bond to aliens who are present in the United States without admission.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Pritzker: It appears they are amassing ICE officers… It’s been reported that about 300 officers are planning to come in and do what they did in LA — terrorize neighborhoods and cause mayhem. Their plan is to create enough chaos on the ground that troops will have to be called in

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rachel ida @r-ida.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

when things go well in my classroom teaching is like dancing

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rachel ida @r-ida.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

when things are bad as they almost always are in the occupied public university, a few listenings to @danielkahn.bsky.social 's rendering of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" in Yiddish often does the trick.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 03/09/2025

the right is genuinely so afraid of zohran mamdani it’s quite astounding to witness them openly bribe in such a pathetic way

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rachel ida @r-ida.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

beta readers are raving about my book proposal, which, friends and fellow writers, is so not nothing. grateful.

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