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Southside Shai

@southsideshai.bsky.social
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📍DC • digital communicator sick of digital spaces • cultural organizer and folk artist • I do it for the love of the people

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Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid @dcmigrantmutualaid.org · 06/05/2025
In light of the DC raids we want to reshare our ICE watch 101 graphics. Reminder to verify, document, and then report to our hotline.
ICE WATCH 101: DC
BYSTANDER GUIDE

1. VERIFY THAT IT IS ICE
• It is important that you try & verify that it's ICE.
DC is uniquely overpoliced - apart from MPD, we have 30+ federal law enforcement agencies in the District. It can be difficult to tell them apart.
• Look at their badges, arm patches, vests/ jackets, and cars. ICE vehicles can be marked as ICE or DHS.

2. DOCUMENT BUT DO NOT ENGAGE
• Record the date, time, and location of the incident.
Be as specitic as possible!
• Take pictures and video. Try to capture pictures of the officers and their vehicles. Do NOT post the photos or video on social media.
• Other relevant info to document: How many agents are there? What are they doing?
• Do NOT engage. You could end up making things worse for the person being targeted.

3. CALL OUR HOTLINE: 202-335-1183
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Washington-Baltimore News Guild @wbng.org · 07/04/2025
Today, hundreds of tech workers at The Washington Post publicly announced their union @wapotechguild.bsky.social and requested voluntary recognition. ✊ We’re so proud of our members and all the solidarity received from the @postguild.bsky.social along the way!
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Ohh "America First" was a hit list
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 27/03/2025
As #Ramadan2025 comes to an end in a few days, let’s remember that people of faith can be powerful allies in the fight against the climate & biodiversity crises. 🌏✊ Faith and environmental action go hand in hand! Here’s why ⬇️
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5 reasons why people of faith are a powerful force in the fight against climate change and environmental crises - Greenpeace International
Whether religious or atheist, faith guides many of us. Simply because success is not guaranteed in most struggles. Our energy and motivation sometimes find their source beyond logic and rationality. H...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/03/2025
Hossam 😞 For over a year we have followed all of your reports, as you tried to bring the world the truth of this horrific genocide. Now it has claimed you. May you rest in power.
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 22/03/2025
zionism is a repudiation of jewish values, in particular the belief that if we love our fellow as ourselves, and care for the widow, the orphan, the stranger, and the oppressed, that we will be blessed and worthy of redemption in this world and the next. zionism ultimately says love and trust no one
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
So it appears DOGE has decreed that Social Security administration will no longer provide phone support. At all. This is in addition to shutting down a ton of local SSA offices. www.axios.com/2025/03/17/s...
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Leaked memo: DOGE plots to cut Social Security phone support
Changes could break the system, former officials say.
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Daniel Delgado #CeasefireNow @ddelgadovive.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I have been thinking about how part of the reason Arizona continues to shift blue is that right wing groups spent 20 years using it as test state for many of the laws that are now being rolled out nationally. Turns out people actually hate living under those conditions.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
When this piece was made last year, I thought it was, you know, pretty clever. Now, I think it might be one of the most important pieces of the decade.
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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
As we await the Senate vote on the congressional spending bill that could slash $1.1 billion from D.C.'s budget, a quick historical 🧵: Back in 2011, Congress used D.C. to avert a government shutdown. Local officials were furious. So they did something about it.
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Southside Shai @southsideshai.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
If spirituality wasn’t central to liberation colonial forces wouldn’t have worked as hard to stamp out traditional practices in favor of the fundamentalist Abrahamic religion/dogmatic secularism dichotomy
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BSonblast @bsonblast.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Today's quick update [Mar 13]: - RSF drone strike on a communal Iftar (Ramadan meal) in East Jireif, Khartoum; 2 civilians reported killed and others injured. - RSF shelling continues in ElObeid for the 8th consecutive day. #KeepEyesOnSudan
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
a screenshot of my post reading: i'm on bluesky for the scientific community

the post contains a screenshot of a series of threaded replies:

- my post: who up waning they gibbous
- Papa Nurgle's favorite daughter's post: It's a waxing cresent tonight, JERRY
- my post: who up waxing they crescent
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The Onion @theonion.com · 14/03/2025
Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them
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Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them
WASHINGTON—With the elected officials trying their hardest not to move a muscle, reports confirmed Monday that top Democratic leaders in Congress were standing real still in hopes that the American pe...
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
We can stop this power grab over DC's local budget. We are worth fighting for.   Whether you're a DC resident or acting in solidarity with the people of DC, we have everything you need to tell the Senate VOTE NO on cloture and VOTE NO on the CR: bit.ly/dcs-budget 🎥: @survive.show
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 13/03/2025
This is what many cities in the U.S. looked like before the EPA. Why the heck would anyone celebrate deregulating it?
Illegal dumping grounds off the New Jersey turnpike across from Manhattan in the 1970sSmog rolling on over Manhattan in the 1970s
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Meta rep flagged 'critiques of tech industry figures' as 'sensitive or controversial content' www.usermag.co/p/meta-rep-f... by @taylorlorenz.bsky.social
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Meta rep flagged 'critiques of tech industry figures' as 'sensitive or controversial content'
Meta said that the journalist "should never have received this response," but the incident set off a wave of concern over censorship online.
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Southside Shai @southsideshai.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
As @naomiaklein.bsky.social so eloquently explains it, disaster capitalism is here. It’s why I don’t respect Oprah or any celebrity/wealthy person who sees disaster as an opportunity to do anything but amass more wealth…
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Southside Shai @southsideshai.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
We love a rep who blocks people calling on him to do his job 🥰😍😍😍 @schumer.senate.gov
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Imagine this: On the evening of March 8, you and your spouse unlock the door to your apartment building. As you step inside, two men—not in uniform—push their way in behind you. They tell you your visa has been revoked and that they are there to deport you.
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Southside Shai @southsideshai.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
We love to see a good threat in these authoritarian times 🙏🏽
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ceej @ceej.online · 12/03/2025
not the way I do it
screenshot of a CNN article that reads: “Eating a hot dog could take 36 minutes off your life, study says” above a picture of two hot dogs
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Southside Shai @southsideshai.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Look at this antisemitism in full force 🤯
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
They absolutely could not possibly be clearer that they are going to try to cut Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
JUST IN: Judge Ho cancels hearing on the unraveling of Eric Adams prosecution. Suggests he's ready to rule on dropping the case, likely in line with his appointed adviser's recommendation to dismiss the case with prejudice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
And this is why you should fight this kidnapping tooth and nail regardless of whether you agree with Mahmoud.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 11/03/2025
Too bad Uvalde Elementary didn’t sell Teslas.
Picture of police guarding a Tesla dealership.
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
DOCUMENT DESTRUCTION: My reporter Brett Murphy obtained a remarkable directive to folks at USAID: Empty the safes with the classified and personnel records and then, "Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break."
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
"What if, rather than blaming Palestinians, Arab Americans, and American Muslims, these pundits had seen their treatment—under Biden and for decades before him—as central to the Trump-led repression looming before us?" Noura Erakat on the imperial boomerang www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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The Boomerang Comes Back - Boston Review
How the U.S.-backed war on Palestine is expanding authoritarianism at home—from Project Esther to violence at the border.
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Southside Shai @southsideshai.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
If Hakeem Jeffries feels like a mouthpiece for AIPAC it might be because they spent nearly $1M—almost the equivalent of his net worth—to reelect his pro-Israel ass The Democrats are basically recreating the drained pool theory, against Palestinians and sacrificing Free Speech for all.
Hakeem Jeffries
Net Worth (2024)
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$1M

Picture of Jeffries sitting in front of an American flag looking like a ratopen secrets

Contributor - American Israel Public Affairs Cmte

Total - $866,425
Individuals - $856,425
PACS - $10,000

BlackRock Inc
Total - $80,875
Individals - $80,875
PACS - $0
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Southside Shai @southsideshai.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
🎯🎯🎯
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Logan Grendel @focusedoninfinity.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
It is like the 30s in Germany rn, but it's also like the late 1700s. Which of those should we draw from more?🤔 "History doesn't repeat, it rhymes." There truth to that, but the wild combination of new factors like climate chaos & social media & pandemic make this moment 100% unique. We can win.
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Since Obama administration, at least, leftists/radicals repeatedly warned that Dems pouring cash into ICE and militarized police was not just evil in its own right, but laying the groundwork for open fascism. We were dismissed, with various degrees of vitriol, for pointing this obvious fact out.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 11/03/2025
UPDATE on Mahmoud Khalil from his lawyers and his wife: "Today I spoke to Mahmoud and he is healthy and his spirits are undaunted by his predicament." (Legal team now includes ACLU, CCR.)
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Amy E. Greer, attorney for Mahmoud Khalil provided the following update this evening:

                First, importantly, today I spoke to Mahmoud and he is healthy and his spirits are undaunted by his predicament.  He also greatly appreciates, and, typically for him, is moved by the extraordinarily broad and steadfast support he has received from a variety of communities that understand what is at stake.  He is in ICE custody in Louisiana, and arrangements have been made for local attorneys to visit him today and tomorrow.

                The remarks by government officials, including the President, on social media only confirm the purpose – and illegality – of Mahmoud's detention.  He was chosen as an example to stifle entirely lawful dissent in violation of the First Amendment.  While tomorrow or thereafter the government may cite the law or process, that toothpaste is out of the tube and irreversibly so.  The government’s objective is as transparent as it is unlawful, and our role as Mahmoud’s lawyers is to ensure it does not prevail.        

                Today Mahmoud's legal team, which includes Kyle Barron, CLEAR, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Amy Greer filed a motion to compel in federal court in the Southern District of New York, as part of the habeas corpus petition filed on his behalf over the weekend, seeking an order requiring the government to return to New York for any immigration proceedings.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Musk keeps firing us, and with all this free time, we’re organizing America. They call us “paid protesters”—but seriously, where do we sign up for that paycheck? We’re open to those “Soros bucks.” Every day, we spill the tea, knowing retribution is coming.
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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
DID YOU KNOW: The handshake evolved from a medieval custom where knights would approach one another with an open hand to show that they were not online and posting.
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Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Right now there is clear, overwhelming opposition to Mahmoud Khalil’s abduction across the moderate, liberal, progressive & left spectrum. This kind of loud unity is what authoritarians are afraid of. To keep it up we need every institution & public leader to join the chorus.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
A sad day for America—Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University activist, has been arrested by ICE, not for any crime, but for his political activism. The Trump administration claims he was involved in “pro-terrorist” activities, yet no formal charges have been filed.
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Grist @grist.org · 10/03/2025
In Canada, Indigenous advocates argue that mining companies violate the rights of nature. Tribunal judges found the industry guilty of “ongoing ecocide.” grist.org/equity/in-ca... #Canada #Indigenous #Nature #Environment #GreenSky
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In Canada, Indigenous advocates argue that mining companies violate the rights of nature
In Western legal systems, arguments against pollution or the destruction of the environment tend to focus exclusively on people: It’s wrong to contaminate a river, for example, because certain humans ...
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Southside Shai @southsideshai.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
!!!!!
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Inshallah the violence unleashed will be turned inwards 🙏🏽
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Southside Shai @southsideshai.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The plaza itself was a lie from the start - @mayorbowser.bsky.social has only ever been good at disappearing native DC residents for her lucrative real estate deals so BLM plaza was only ever a PR move for her, but this is still sickening to see: www.instagram.com/reel/DHBg9lD...
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Hey y'all it's happening - they are already demolishing
BLM plaza: https://Inkd.in/evxR6XD3
Additionally, Republicans are looking to categorize D.C.'s local government as a federal agency, adding insult to injury because we already pay taxes with essentially no federal representation: https://Inkd.in/
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They are looking to tank the local economy and then use that to remove our ability to govern ourselves— setting the precedent to disappear dissidents and those unsightly, pesky native Washingtonians (the direct descendants of enslaved Africans).

Empirical evidence shows that it takes 3.5% of a population to sustain resistance an authoritarian regime and mobilize as needed. The top way to prevent an authoritarian takeoverScreenshot of LinkedIn post:

Free DC shows far more leadership and accountability to the people of D.C. than DC Mayor Muriel Bowser ever has, full stop, and we need your support - yes, even those of you not in D.C.

Call your lawmakers and tell them you are concerned about the state and fate of D.C., and that you want to know yojr representative is willing to live up to the obligations of their role and protect our democracy.

Tell your friends and family what is happen, even if you know they won't believe you. The truth is under attack, and it is our civic responsibility to keep it alive.
I woke up Jan 21 in a "red state" without my consent, and I refuse to comply.
If we lose D.C., we lose America, full stop.
We must resist, it is our great responsibility.
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Southside Shai @southsideshai.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Something something government waste…
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
UPDATE: Mahmoud Khalil is being held by ICE in the Jena/LaSalle Detention Facility in Louisiana, per ICE detainee tracker Khalil was detained Saturday night from his New York apartment building
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the Trump Administration disappeared Mahmoud Khalil in order to capitalize on the liberal/left split on Gaza. You either step up to defend people and protect rights or you don’t. This is another crossroads and I pray people see it for what it is.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
it does bum me out how many establishment Dems are willing to move to the right by throwing whole sections of the population to the wolves but not by at all altering their stance on gun control
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 09/03/2025
And we keep hashtag "Not All Americans"-ing the rest of the world. It's infuriating & embarrassing. It's our American exceptionalism hard at work. Would the Allies have accepted "not all Germans/Italians/Japanese?" 80 years ago? Has US militarism spared many of those who "didn't want this?" Ever?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/03/2025
re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
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