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Susan Strasser

@sustras.bsky.social
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Historian of American consumer culture. Hiker. Knitter. Redhead. Aunt.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 10h
This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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Susan Strasser @sustras.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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New Facility at Louisiana Airport to Hold Immigrant Children and Families
The site in Alexandria, La., a major expansion of the Trump administration’s busiest deportation hub, will streamline and accelerate removals.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 03/10/2026
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LEARN HOW WE CAN PROTECT OUR ELECTIONS AND WIN!
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
“Alcatraz AI”
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University of Kentucky Installs Facial Recognition Tech Around Campus, Sparking Privacy Debate
University of Kentucky's biometric dorm pilot raises real privacy questions around data retention, access controls, and whether 'optional' will stay that way.
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Susan Strasser @sustras.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/news/2026/se...
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Nearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable online
Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“the primary goal was never to stop crime.” Solidarity with our beloved community members in Memphis who are also under occupation by this corrupt administration.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18/09/2026
The administration keeps closing off public spaces the president claimed to be saving. DC residents hate it.
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The Kennedy Center is just Trump’s latest hostage
The administration keeps closing off public spaces the president claimed to be saving.
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Leslie Molson @ladymolson.com · 15/09/2026
Let's not forget survivor Sarah Collins Rudolph, Addie Mae's sister, who keeps the memory alive: www.sarahcollinsrudolph.com/about
A photo of Sarah Collins Rudolph, laying in a hospital bed after the bombing, with bandages on both eyes, alongside a photo of Rudolph from 2011.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
FUCK ICE
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Hagerstown Rapid Response @hagerstownrapidresponse.com · 05/09/2026
Tonight we joined our comrades in nearby Frederick, Maryland where #ICE had been camped out for days, terrorizing a neighborhood. At around 2:17 in the video is when they start beating the shit out of peaceful protestors with batons. How is this allowed to happen? @maddow.bsky.social
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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 04/09/2026
This is incorrect. USPS processes all official mail-in ballots using expedited Election Mail protocols, prioritizing them regardless of added postage. Adding a stamp to a prepaid ballot envelope does not alter or speed up how the automated sorting machinery handles & routes the ballot. More info 👇
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Can I Vote | NASS
Welcome To Can I VoteNeed help with voting? You've come to the right place. This nonpartisan website was created by state election officials to help eligible voters figure out how and where to go vote...
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krazylars.bsky.social @krazylars.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
ICE has issued a subpoena to REI demanding transaction records for a specific green beanie in Minneapolis since 2024. The data sweep aims to identify protesters from a local church demonstration, raising significant concerns regarding mass surveillance. 😂
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ICE Wants to Know Everyone Who Bought a Certain Green Beanie From REI in the Last 2 Years
Homeland Security Investigations agents hit the outdoor retailer with a controversial subpoena as part of a dragnet search for the identities of protesters who entered a Minnesota church in March.
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Susan Strasser @sustras.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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ICE Wants to Know Everyone Who Bought a Certain Green Beanie From REI in the Last 2 Years
Homeland Security Investigations agents hit the outdoor retailer with a controversial subpoena as part of a dragnet search for the identities of protesters who entered a Minnesota church in March.
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Susan Strasser @sustras.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Apple Maps now obeying, too.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
BREAKING: Devastating new report from @humanrightswatch documents the dismantling of civil rights enforcement in the year and a half since Trump took office. “This report documents what was lost and what it is costing the victims of discrimination.” www.hrw.org/report/2026/...
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Remedies Abandoned
The 112-page report, “Remedies Abandoned: US Civil Rights Enforcement Under the Trump Administration,” documents the administration’s efforts to unravel the work of four key agencies between January 2...
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Susan Strasser @sustras.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Except when it doesn't...
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Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Come be my colleague! My department is searching for an assistant professor of the history of science. I am chairing the search and am happy to answer questions. Deadline is tomorrow! networks.h-net.org/jobs/70099/a...
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American University - Assistant Professor of History of Science, Technology, & Society | H-Net
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Dear William, I recently had the privilege of discovering your work “Hamlet” and the way you weave themes of mortality, revenge, and the human condition into such a compelling narrative really stood out to me. We would be honored to feature you in our upcoming “Voices That Matter” book club …
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 28/08/2026
Texas has suspended over 1.2 million voter registrations. Many valid voters in Texas have found their voter registrations were somehow canceled when they checked. Check your registration here and fix it immediately - Texas doesn't always honor provisional ballots cast on election day.
goelect.txelections.civixapps.com
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We're not changing the name of Lake Ontario. Name it whatever you want at your leisure: gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario (tag us so we can see your work 🙂)
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art
A localized version of Guernica with a loon at the center and a person holding an ICE OUT sign 

“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’” 

Jennifer Nelson
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 27/08/2026
TODAY: Get trained on what to do if ICE invades your community. We’ll discuss how to build a nimble communication infrastructure that will enable you to activate on the ground as soon as ICE shows up in your area.
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Immigrant Justice Summer# Call 5: How to Use Signal for Rapid Response Organizing in Your Community · Indivisible
When ICE comes to your community, the window to coordinate is measured in minutes. A rapid response plan means nothing if your communication infrastructure isn't already in place. This hands-on worksh...
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Fellow Texans: verify that your voter registration hasn't been suspended without your knowledge. I just double-checked mine following a link in the article; it took all of 1 minute. Make sure your voice can be heard in November.
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CoCo ✌🏼💛🕊️ @coco.sheshed.rocks · 26/08/2026
Beautiful 🩷 Tonight at 9:25, the Empire State Building will sparkle pink in honor of Dolly Parton ~ celebrating her seven-decade career and legacy of giving through the Dollywood Foundation and Imagination Library💗🩷💗 #DollyParton 🩷 #SheShed
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 24/08/2026
"ICE tactics, already sadistic, are looking increasingly like torture," writes @judith-levine.bsky.social. "The slim avenues to legal recourse and the refusal of transparency or accountability by the perpetrators of de jure and de facto torture are driving detainees to desperate measures..."
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ICE’s tactics look increasingly like torture | Judith Levine
Plans for gloves that can deliver electric shocks underline the homeland security department’s sadistic practices
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Susan Strasser @sustras.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Um, the weather in the DMV is quite fine today. The noise from the many flyovers, however, is not. And at 7:30 PM, it's still going on.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 23/08/2026
DoorDash has been silent as ICE detains and murders their delivery drivers. But to avoid a 20-cent tax on delivery orders, DoorDash is now backing a bill that would give Trump more authority over DC and its residents. Delete your account until DoorDash stops fighting to give the regime more power.
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Delete DoorDash: our demands
Our demands for DoorDash on H.R. 9720, ICE raids, and the DC task force. How to close your account until it answers.
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PoPville @popville.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Eric got a great shot earlier
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The only meeting Hakeem Jeffries should be having with Jared Kushner is to tell him he’ll be subpoenaed by the House for a corruption investigation on day one of Democratic control of the House. This is just pathetic stuff from the House Dem leader. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/u...
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Jeffries and Kushner Meet Privately as Midterm Attacks Fly
President Trump’s son-in-law and the man in line to be speaker of a Democratic-led House discussed how Democrats and the administration could work together.
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Susan Strasser @sustras.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We have been getting them over Takoma Park all day. Plus many low-flying helicopters. The noise is something...
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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Here is Johns Hopkins University's new Affirmative Action program... Yes, what a timely intervention to remedy the great inequalities of the modern world, a brave initiative to address the most urgent problems of our time [sarcasm].
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Johns Hopkins University - Executive Director | H-Net
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 21/08/2026
We’re in! Indivisible is a proud partner of the March on Washington: Defend the Vote, hosted by Rev. Al Sharpton, the National Action Network, and the Drum Major Institute on the 63rd anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington.
DEFEND THE VOTE.
www.MarchOnWashington2026.com
HOSTED BY National Action Network, Drum Major Institute
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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Apply to (symbolically!) replace Linda Kerber and Landon Storrs! It’s a phenomenal department at a phenomenal university in a phenomenal college town. 🗃️ networks.h-net.org/jobs/70222/u...
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The University of Iowa - Assistant Professor, U.S. Women's History (Tenure Track) | H-Net
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 18/08/2026
We’re training 10,000 volunteers in seven states we’ve identified as most vulnerable to GOP election interference before, during, and after Election Day: Alaska, Georgia, Iowa, North Carolina, Michigan, Ohio and Texas. Get trained up with organizers on the ground if you’re in one of these states. 👇
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Battlegrounds 2026 Survey
The GOP will use every tool at their disposal to rig the 2026 midterms and intimidate voters. That's why Indivisible is countering Republican shenanigans with an aggressive Battlegrounds program to WI...
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 14/08/2026
Trump called established climate science “fraudulent” and threatened NAS with consequences. Now, NAS has pulled the climate chapter designed to help judges evaluate scientific evidence. Article: zurl.co/xliei
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Top Science Body Deletes Climate Chapter From Judges’ Manual
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine had been under pressure from Republican leaders, including President Trump.
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Susan Strasser @sustras.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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PoPville @popville.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
“ACLU-D.C. Comments on One-Year Anniversary of National Guard Troops in the Nation’s Capital” - See the full statement: www.popville.com/2026/08/aclu...
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“ACLU-D.C. Comments on One-Year Anniversary of National Guard Troops in the Nation’s Capital” - PoPville
From The American Civil Liberties Union of D.C.: "On August 11, 2025, President Trump announced that he was deploying National Guard troops to patrol Washington, D.C. Despite a lawsuit, protests by D....
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Mara 👻 aBOOlish I.C.E. @mauratwit.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Alabama ‼️
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
My latest: open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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Republican Senate Confirms Trump As Attorney General
The Vote to Confirm Todd Blanche as Attorney General is Catastrophic
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Susan Strasser @sustras.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
@sifill.bsky.social could not be more clear. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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Republican Senate Confirms Trump As Attorney General
The Vote to Confirm Todd Blanche as Attorney General is Catastrophic
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 07/08/2026
The way we stop Trump’s election sabotage isn’t panic — it’s organized community power. Nearly 30,000 Americans across all 50 states are building the nationwide infrastructure we need to respond to attacks on voting rights in every community. Please join us.
mobilize.us
Hands Off Our Vote in 2026! · Indivisible
**We know that Trump and his Big Lie cronies are plotting to do everything they can to undermine our elections in 2026.** Whether it’s trying to end mail-in voting, targeting registration programs, bl...
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Jimmy Kimmel nailed another one. Enjoy.
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
DoorDash has been silent as its delivery drivers are hunted and killed by federal agents. Now, the company is backing #HR9720, a bill attacking DC Home Rule. We are calling on everyone to #DeleteDoordash. Let us know you've deleted your account and share your reasons why: deletedoordash.com
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Delete DoorDash: our demands
Our demands for DoorDash on H.R. 9720, ICE raids, and the DC task force. How to close your account until it answers.
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Susan Strasser @sustras.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Reading this in Frankfurt airport, on my way home. Was feeling sad to leave my friends in Berlin, plus mornings free of news, but now I see I am just in time!!! Whew!!
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Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"Ours is a beautiful, ancient craft essential for any society's needs for self-understanding. We are equipped with a host of modern methods, but guided ethically by very old rules that no authoritarian political project ought to be allowed to profane." www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbz2...
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WATCH: David Blight makes opening statement in hearing on how Smithsonian presents history
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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Stanford AAUP @stanfordaaup.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
New NSF policy essential bans all collaboration with Chinese scientists. This is another disaster for science. www.science.org/content/arti...
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New NSF policy would ban almost all collaborations with Chinese scientists
Agency drops attempt to mitigate risk in favor of outright prohibition on working with most Chinese research institutions
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
In the well-over 100,000 documents written by founders included in the Founders Online database from the National Archives, no one uses the phrase "God's noble experiment." No one.
Chuck Schumer: "The founding fathers called America God's noble experiment. I believe in all three words to this day: we are one nation under God, we have clung to noble ideals for longer than any other nation, and we are an experiment always changing, trying to make ourselves better.
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Steven Nelson @snelsonus.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I appreciate the @theguardian.com’s willingness to call this group what it is. Neo-fascist group Patriot Front parades Confederate flag in Washington DC on Fourth of July www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Neo-fascist group Patriot Front parades Confederate flag in Washington DC on Fourth of July
Hundreds of masked members of the white supremacist organization marched and chanted in the US capital
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