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S Chhabria

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Historian of capitalism & colonialism. Author, Making the Modern Slum: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295746272/…

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
It’s not about keeping us safe from criminals. This is ethnic cleansing.
Screenshot of a post on X by Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@R…) stating: “NEW: Data released by ICE shows that virtually the entire growth of detention in the last few months has been among people with no criminal record at all—no criminal convictions and no pending criminal charges.” Below the text is a line chart titled “Detention Population, Among Those Arrested in the Interior, by Criminal Record, May 2019 through January 7, 2026.” The chart shows three lines—prior convictions, pending criminal charges, and no criminal record—with a sharp rise near the end in the “no criminal record” category. The source is listed as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
The ICE agent who shot Marimar Martinez in Chicago tried to goad her out of her car. He said “do something b*tch” and shot her 5 times. The ICE agent who shot Nicole Renee Good did the same thing. Stood right in front of her vehicle and yelled “f*cking bitch”. They hate women & it shows.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/01/2026
at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us

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S Chhabria @schhabria.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Great read.
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S Chhabria @schhabria.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Renee Good's poem: i want back my rocking chairs, solipsist sunsets,... poets.org/2020-on-lear...
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2020 Academy of American Poets Prize
On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs by Renée Nicole Macklin
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ACLU @aclu.org · 02/10/2025
BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
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Daniel Mang @danielmang.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
The Modernity of Caste and the Market Economy, by David Mosse – 30 October 2019 leftrenewal.org/articles-en/...
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The Modernity of Caste and the Market Economy, by David Mosse – 30 October 2019 – Left Renewal Blog
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Daniel Mang @danielmang.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Where Does Caste Fit in A Global History of Racial Capitalism?, by Sheetal Chhabria – 13 July 2023 leftrenewal.org/articles-en/...
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Where Does Caste Fit in A Global History of Racial Capitalism?, by Sheetal Chhabria – 13 July 2023 – Left Renewal Blog
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Polity, Journal of Political Science @polityalsberuf.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
This issue includes a #ClassicsRevisited collection on Cedric J. Robinson’s Black Marxism and beyond, including contributions by Rafael Khachaturian @rafkhach.bsky.social, Anuja Bose, Sheetal Chhabria, Sharon Wright Austin, Kris F. Sealey, and H. L. T. Quan, w/ an introduction by Robyn Marasco.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Update: I offered the amendment. Not to refuse acceptance of the Qatari jet; just to prohibit Trump from taking it with him when he leaves office - after the taxpayers spend $1 billion to retrofit it. Failed 14-15. Every single Republican voted to allow Trump to take the jet.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
To them every part of government - even Social Security - is just a source of enrichment for their billionaire friends. "Privatizing" Social Security is just about getting Wall Street a bunch of fees to manage money.
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S Chhabria @schhabria.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
I wish @ACLU would run for president, like the whole organization as a team. If citizens united grants corporations personhood, then @aclu.org and @aclum.bsky.social can run for president.
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S Chhabria @schhabria.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
“What good is a union in hell?” An urgent question for every labor organizer who thinks bread and butter issues are all that matter.
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S Chhabria @schhabria.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
A new kind of sick. Trump Administration Will Burn 500 Tons of Food Meant to Feed 1.5 Million Children - People
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Federal immigration agents can now deport people to countries that aren’t even their own, with as little as six hours’ notice.
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Everytown for Gun Safety @everytown.org · 11/07/2025
“Gun violence has become a cutting-edge U.S. export—but one that will harm, not help, its positive balance of power. If U.S. policymakers do not take gun violence more seriously, they will only ensure that this balance goes further off kilter.” - Jacob Ware, Everytown Survivor Fellow
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American Gun Violence Goes Global
Its spread is distorting and diminishing U.S. soft power.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Trump and Noem fired the people who answer the emergency phone line. It’s not really incompetence because they know what they are doing. They are intentionally breaking government - even the parts that help us when we are deep in crisis.
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FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
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S Chhabria @schhabria.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
"There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery." —Karl Marx
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 10/07/2025
The strange saga of a shadowy UAE company’s $100 million investment in World Liberty Financial, the Trump-aligned crypto trader.
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Does Trump’s Biggest Crypto Backer Really Exist?
The strange saga of a shadowy UAE company’s $100 million investment in World Liberty Financial, the Trump-aligned crypto trader
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𝙾𝙻𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙰 🤍 🇲🇽 𝟺𝚃𝙷 𝚃𝚁𝙰𝙽𝚂𝙵𝙾𝚁𝙼𝙴𝚁 @olivia4t.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
🚨 🇺🇸 #ICE delay taking detained woman to hospital—left her handcuffed & covered in own vomit for 8 hours. She suffered medical emergency during arrest—not given medical care. Now agents stalk the hallways & lobby of hospital 24/7—creating "hostile environment" for staff & patients.
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Report from someone at federal immigration court (26 Federal Plaza) in NYC: “I’ve seen at least two detainments today where they [ICE agents] haven’t even let them [asylum-seekers] go to their hearings first.”
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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
War criminals discuss war crime - Netanyahu, Trump discuss forced transfer of Palestinians out of Gaza flip.it/uoDT._
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Netanyahu, Trump discuss forced transfer of Palestinians out of Gaza
Both tout controversial proposal to push Palestinians, who are being bombed and displaced by Israel, to other countries.
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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Trump understands that federal student loan debt is a tool of social control — a way to structure society based on who gets relief and who doesn't. Sadly, he's using it to keep people indebted when he could use it to liberate people. This is classism. apnews.com/article/stud...
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Student loan cancellation program could become Trump retribution tool, some advocates fear
President Donald Trump is revamping the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, sparking concerns it could become a tool for political retribution.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/07/2025
Rep. Joaquin Castro on Texas floods: "I don't think it's helpful to have missing key personnel from the National Weather Service not in place to help prevent these tragedies."
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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
The wretched, murderous aid scheme in Gaza was developed by the Boston Consulting Group—along with schemes to "relocate" Palestinians. The company blames rogue elements. www.ft.com/content/c0e6...
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BCG modelled plan to ‘relocate’ Palestinians from Gaza
Consulting firm had multimillion-dollar role in contentious new aid scheme for shattered enclave
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Imagine this is you. You’re locked in a cell thousands of miles from home. No one knows where you are. No charges. No trial. No end in sight.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Court papers filed Wednesday state that Mr. Abrego Garcia was beaten, deprived of sleep, and subjected to psychological torture during the nearly three months he spent in Salvadoran custody. It is unacceptable to send people to other countries to be tortured!
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
They’ve destroyed American medical research, the American education system, the American university research system, and the aid system that protected millions of lives, and they’ve given our anti-immigrant masked paramilitary police force a budget the size of a nation
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 03/07/2025
BREAKING: Congress just gave final approval on a budget bill that guts Medicaid, defunds Planned Parenthood, and supercharges funding for ICE. We the people will bear the brunt of these harmful policies — and we won’t forget who caused this devastation to our health, rights, and dignity.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 03/07/2025
The nation’s immigration detention centers will have more funding than the federal Bureau of Prisons.
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Trump’s Budget Just Passed the Senate. Brace for a Massive Increase in ICE Raids.
The budget gives $175 billion to immigration enforcement. “The orders of magnitude are going to be multiplied,” immigration experts say.
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Chris Bush @cjbush88.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I think with that budget they’re going to be invading everyone’s home town soon. They’re now the third biggest paramilitary organization on earth behind the US and Chinese armies.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 03/07/2025
She’s right.
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Neil Stenhouse @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
This graph takes the annual budget ICE will now have from the bill that just passed and compares it to the entire defense budget of large countries. ICE will have about as big a budget as the entire Canadian military. www.newsweek.com/immigration-...
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Terrifying piece by @fionaharvey.bsky.social Worth mentioning that the global population is predicted to be up 50% by 2050, by which time crop yields could be down up to 30% Are you and your family members ready to cut your calorie intake in half? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Droughts worldwide pushing tens of millions towards starvation, says report
Water shortages hitting crops, energy and health as crisis gathers pace amid climate breakdown
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
the stories that come out of the ICE camps are going to look like the stories that come out of every camp system; rampant corruption, epidemic disease, physical and sexual abuse on a vast scale, a death rate far higher than normal, and medical abuses.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia offered his first account of the “severe beatings” and other abuses he says he suffered while jailed in El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison. He says in a court filing that he lost 31 lbs in two weeks. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
I really struck a nerve here. I stand by what I said.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/07/2025
FROST: "They say they're pro-life because they want the baby to be born, go to school and get shot in the school. Die in the school, die on the streets." FOXX: "You are not going to come into this room and impugn our integrity!"
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 01/07/2025
This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)
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mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Ladies and gentlemen. Today is a new day. Today is an episode of Israel’s crimes. Today, I drew this family tree of Abu Samra family. Three brothers who were slaughtered along with their wives and their children. TWENTY THREE HUMAN LIVES.
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I obtained this from a community member minutes after arriving on scene following a raid at the Cypress Park Home Depot this morning. they detained day laborers.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 26/06/2025
NEW: The govt says it plans to begin proceedings to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to an unnamed third country (not El Salvador, where an immigration court found he is in danger of persecution) once he is released from TN criminal custody (as soon as tomorrow).
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
White House Deputy Press Secretary now claims that this representation—made by a Justice Department attorney in federal court just a few hours ago—is “fake news.”
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This is fake news. Abrego Garcia was returned to the United States to face trial for the egregious charges against him. He will face the full force of the American justice system - including serving time in American prison for the crimes he's committed.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
This. Is. Insane. Read this, please.
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50501 New York @50501newyork.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
You may have seen videos recently of masked ICE agents aggressively confronting bystanders by shoving phones in their faces and taking pictures of them. Leaked emails show that they’re likely using facial recognition tools to identify and surveil these bystanders. This is a fascist police state.
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ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show
The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...
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