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lawyer, researcher / thinking about surveillance & counterinsurgency in the us suburbs 🪁 views my own

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
ICE plans intel units in every field office to research immigrants, map who they know www.projectsaltbox.com/p/ice-plans-...
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ICE plans intel units in every field office to research immigrants, map who they know
ERO ONE would task them with researching individuals and charting their associates for the agents who carry out arrests and deportations.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
We put a tracking device in a shipment of rare books acquired by an anonymous buyer. It ended up at an Amazon facility where the company scans books for training data and destroys them in the process: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/
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AAUP @aaup.org · 22/07/2026
OUT TODAY, the AAUP just released the first comprehensive account of how the Trump administration has taken the same playbook it's used on law firms & foreign governments & turned it on American universities. US higher ed has, in effect, become a target of a massive extortion racket. 🧵
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New Report on Extorted Compliance Charges “Massive Extortion Racket” Against Higher Ed
A new AAUP report, "Extorted Compliance: A Threat to Institutional Autonomy, Academic Freedom, and Shared Governance," exposes how the Trump administration has extended its pay-to-play approach to gov...
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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
56 years ago today, the Young Lords took over Lincoln Hospital, demanding better care for their Black and Latino neighbors. It's important to read this alongside patients rights movements and wages for housework because there were *many* such takeovers of clinics and hospitals in this period.
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Palestine suporters globally are at risk as Fergie Chambers becomes the first person to face extradition from Spain to the US for donations to the country
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Pro-Palestine donor faces 30 years in prison as US targets activists
Palestine suporters globally at risk as Fergie Chambers becomes first person to face extradition from Spain to the US for Palestine donations
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NYC Public Library Action Network @nycplan.org · 17/06/2026
Are you a writer, author, or scholar based in NYC? New York City deserves the kind of writers and thinkers that only consistently well-funded public libraries can ensure. Help us call on the Mayor and City Council to fund our library systems with our open letter: forms.gle/SvQYwiyiHqXT...
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Open letter from NYC based writers, authors, and scholars to the Mayor re: public library budget
NYC Public Library Action Network is asking writers, authors, and scholars based in New York City’s five boroughs to sign on to an open letter to Mayor Mamdani asking him to fulfill the promise he mad...
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The State Department supposedly sent $1.5 billion tax dollars to the Board of Peace slush fund, which is now empty.
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Exclusive: State Department sends $1.25B from other programs to Board of Peace
The administration is drawing on funds used for international disasters and peacekeeping to fund Trump’s Gaza effort.
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Taylor Fox @taylor-fox.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
please consider donating to support the families of the brave men who stopped a mass shooting, saving over one hundred children, in yesterday’s attacks against the largest mosque in San Diego: launchgood.com/amin
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Support the families of the Martyrs of Islamic Center of San Diego | LaunchGood | LaunchGood
A security guard. A community member. A staff member. Three men killed at the Islamic Center of San Diego. Their families need us now.
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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
among many details, this account describes the judge looking down on the birth from their elevated position. no dignity afforded at all.
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NYC for Abortion Rights @nycforabortion.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
On Fri night, Brooklyn court staff forced a woman to give birth inside the courtroom. Per public defenders, she gave birth in handcuffs, unable to reposition herself, unable to pick up her infant. The men who’d shackled her looked on. The judge lauded the birth of a ‘beautiful baby’ on the record.
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
In light of the plot to assassin's Nermeen Kiswani, this piece by Esmat El Halabi about the 1985 assassination of Alex Odeh is very much worth reading: sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2020/10/...
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Los Angeles Intifada
“Take this down carefully,” a man told the Los Angeles Times over the phone on the morning of September 13, 1972. “I just bombed an Arab’s house in Hollywood. No Arab is going to be safe in this co…
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/03/2026
NEW: Cherise Doyley never expected to see a judge while in labor. Yet she found herself fighting a court for the right to make medical decisions about her own body — from her hospital bed. Here’s how her case unfolded.
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She Was in Labor at a Florida Hospital. Then She Was in Zoom Court for Refusing a C-Section.
A virtual court hearing from a pregnant mother’s hospital bed shows what forced medical treatment can look like.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge has barred Gov DeSantis from designating CAIR as a terrorist organization and punish those who associate with the group. “Once again, Florida chooses political posturing over the First Amendment,” Judge Walker writes. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 02/03/2026
You can watch writer & filmmaker Toni Cade Bambara's documentary on this, THE BOMBING OF OSAGE AVENUE! www.pbs.org/video/whyy-s...
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WHYY Specials | Bombing Of Osage
Confrontation between Philadelphia Police and members of the MOVE organization in 1985
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
That + 6 accounts on polymarket made around $1 million in profit by betting on the US to strike Iran by Feb. 28. Accounts were all freshly created in Feb and had only ever placed bets on this bloom.bg/3ORPnBo
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Polymarket Iran Bets Hit $529 Million as New Wallets Draw Notice
As US and Israeli bombs fell on Iran this weekend, bettors on Polymarket — where $529 million was traded on contracts tied to the timing of the strikes — were cashing in. Almost immediately, blockchai...
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Rebecca Burns @rebeccaburns.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The largest rent strike in a century? The Minnesota unions behind the massive Jan. 23 day of action are now backing a potential rent strike to demand an eviction moratorium. At least 10K could withhold rent starting March 1. Here's what to know (1/6) inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...
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Terrorized By ICE, Unable to Pay Rent, Minnesotans Are Getting Ready for a Rent Strike
A tenant organizing push in the Twin Cities has support from labor unions representing more than 25,000 workers.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Overview of the board of “peace” on Gaza by @danaelkurd.bsky.social Essentially (my interpretation here): we’re seeing an attempt to return to a pre-UN world mixed in with Dubaization. It’s perfectly suited for the likes of Netanyahu, MBZ, Orban, Putin and ofc Trump pca.st/episode/b5a6...
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Gaza and the Board of Peace feat. Dana El Kurd
Dana breaks down what’s being planned for Gaza, the so-called Board of Peace, and how this is a model for global conflict in the future. Sources: UNOCHA on ceasefire violations -…
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Wow — New YouGov / Economist poll: 46% support abolishing ICE 43% oppose abolishing ICE This is the first time that abolishing ICE has received net positive support
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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Last year when I wrote about prison staff jumping ship for ICE, I reported that BOP had lost a net of at least 1400 employees by late fall. I just got new data showing they lost a net of ~1700 by mid-December -- though w/EOY retirements the final 2025 figures will likely be higher.
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
If you are able, please consider joining me in supporting @prisonculture.bsky.social's Black Zine Fair in 2026. As someone who encourages students to read & make zines in my gender studies classes, I can attest to the power of the form. gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f...
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Black Zine Fair Returns in 2026 — Help Us Bring It to Life
The Black Zine Fair was founded by Mariame Kaba and Neta Bomani in 2023 to address a clear gap: Black publishers and artists have long shaped independent publishing, yet we were still underrepresented...
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 07/01/2026
Last week, we published a story detailing ICE's strategy for recruiting new officers, including targeting "gun rights" supporters and geo-fencing ads around gun shows. Ex-ICE director told me: “That mentality you’re fostering tends to inculcate in people a certain aggressiveness" wapo.st/3Ngmo9C
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The Trace @thetrace.org · 07/01/2026
Update: As of January 7, The Trace has identified 28 incidents, including 14 shootings, in which federal agents shot someone or held them at gunpoint during an immigration enforcement action under Trump’s crackdown. At least four people have been killed and five others have been injured.
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How Many People Have Been Shot in ICE Raids?
The Trace is tracking gun incidents connected to Trump’s immigration crackdown. Know of one? Please be in touch.
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Taylor Fox @taylor-fox.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
“The year-plan for 2024 noted ‘facial rec software combined with scraping is efficiently producing named POIs,’ or persons of interest. For 2025, Canary Mission’s goals included distinguishing their brand from competitors and sharing data with donors.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/01/2026
Attorneys at the Education Department’s civil rights office describe working in a “dismissal factory.” Most discrimination complaints filed by students’ families have been dismissed without ever being investigated, records show. (Published December 2025)
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Monkey Sounds, “White Power” and the N-Word: Racial Harassment Against Black Students Ignored Under Trump
Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discriminat...
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 15/12/2025
Eight people detained for allegedly protesting in support of Palestine are currently undertaking the largest hunger strike in UK prisons in over 40 years. The strikers need international solidarity to show the world they are not alone. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/pale...
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Palestine activists conducting a historic hunger strike in Britain need our international solidarity
Eight people detained for allegedly protesting in support of Palestine are currently undertaking the largest hunger strike in UK prisons in over 40 years. The strikers need international solidarity to...
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Taylor Fox @taylor-fox.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Vassar SJP reports that university administration demanded it cancel a recent teach-in on the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, citing material support laws (which apparently covers educational programming now):
Text from Instagram post reading that on December 2, the Vassar administration demanded that we canceled our educational teaching on the popular for the liberation of Palestine by email citing. It is unlawful knowingly provide any support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
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Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
“The state and the different settler factions may quarrel over timing, optics, and methodology, but they agree on the destination.”
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Good Settler, Bad Settler | Defector
This article has been adapted from a piece published Nov. 16 on the author’s Substack page. Last week, after masked settlers torched a mosque in Salfit, set fire to Palestinian trucks in Huwara, and b...
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union. They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration. More updates TK.
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Ricci @riccisergienko.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Seems like they had a source in the chat & not that they’re able to hack into signal or get the records via warrant. Important distinction for organizers & guardian article should’ve made it more clear. They are spying ON ORGANIZERS, not just the signal chat. Understand how they will come after you
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Truthout @truthout.org · 18/11/2025
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said that Muslims are a “threat to our freedom” on Tuesday as he targeted the largest Muslim civil rights organization in the U.S. with a foreign terrorist organization label in an escalation of a movement of anti-Muslim hate in the state.
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Abbott Says Muslims Are “Threat to Our Freedom” as He Targets Civil Rights Group With Terrorist Designation
Governors do not have the authority to designate groups as a foreign terrorist organization.
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LPE NYC @lpenyc.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Join us tomorrow for a very timely conversation on municipal power in NYC! The event starts at 6:30pm at CUNY Law.
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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Kind of a big deal that @hellgatenyc.com can confirm that NYC First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro used his position to cancel Kehlani's SummerStage concert in order to punish the artist for their political speech on Palestine: hellgatenyc.com/randy-mastro...
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How Randy Mastro Killed the Kehlani SummerStage Concert—And a Whole Lot More
With Mayor Adams thinking about his next act, the former first deputy mayor to Rudy Giuliani is now "guiding every conceivable aspect of this administration."
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.
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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Important new report out from AAUP & MESA, “The data…offers a detailed account of how landmark civil rights legislation – and particularly Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act – has become a primary tool to restrict speech on campus.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Surge in antisemitism investigations at US universities after October 7 attacks, data shows
A report shared exclusively with the Guardian documents how a civil rights law has become a tool to impose ideological priorities on US schools
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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Organized Communities Against Deportations has launched a new mutual aid fund to support immigrant families in Chicago impacted by ICE raids Link to donate: donorbox.org/mutualaid2025
New: mutual aid fund supporting immigrant families impacted

All donations support families in Chicago IL who have been directly impacted by detention, deportation, and ICE raids
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Taylor Fox @taylor-fox.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
“Support of Palestine is inherently subversive in the West because Israel is essential to Europe and America’s idea of themselves. Even if we assiduously focus on Palestine in isolation from other issues, its liberation is necessarily a world-building project.” stevesalaita.com/palestine-an...
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Palestine and the Making of a New New World - Steve Salaita
The liberation of Palestine is, above all, a world-building project.
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
In 1975, after decades of illegally surveilling & sabotaging left-wing movements in the US (and assassinating people abroad) the Senate painstaking wrote out the government's playbook for destroying movements. In January, the first commercial and streamlined version of this report hits bookstores.
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The Church Committee Report
After fifty years, this shocking report—released in a single, readable volume for the first time—is still the most accurate account of US government spying on its own citizens., The Church...
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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 20/10/2025
Every weekday on Broadway, undocumented immigrants line up to enter 26 Federal Plaza. They enter harshly lit hallways where ICE agents mill around — waiting to take people away. For our cover story, Stephanie Keith captures the anguished scenes of arrest in downtown Manhattan. buff.ly/N6JNPUP.
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Taylor Fox @taylor-fox.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
may we all aspire to this level of courage and principled commitment
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Adora Svitak @adorasv.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Heteropessimism is having a pop culture moment. I wrote about it in my new paper out today in @culsoc.bsky.social ! Please give it a read: doi.org/10.1177/1749... Huge thanks to my advisor @ralmeling.bsky.social for reading dozens of drafts & supporting me in getting this from early stage to pub!
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Reading Heteropessimism: Painful Attachments in Contemporary Literary Fiction - Adora Svitak, 2025
From viral threads describing male partners’ incompetence at grocery shopping to TV shows like Fleabag, heteropessimism abounds in popular culture. Contemporary...
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 19/08/2025
ICE raids aren’t abstract headlines. In Pasadena, CA, masked federal agents abducted neighbors and left families terrified. Residents refused to stay silent. Listen to the latest Working People Podcast with @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social & @palumboliu.bsky.social
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These 'neighbors from the hood' saw ICE terrorizing their community—and banded together to fight back
“They're showing up and just kidnapping people. I think we, as Americans, should have an expectation that we should be able to walk—regardless of the color of our skin, what we do for a living, the la...
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Israel kills 5 journalists of Al Jazeera and the New York Times decides to publish a piece explaining why Israel doesn’t like Al Jazeera and how AJ is controversial.
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Atlanta Community Press Collective @atlpresscollective.com · 07/07/2025
Cop City RICO trials: Ayla King day 1 live thread
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
A US firm (Boston Consulting Group) was paid $4M+ to model ethnically-cleansing 500,000 people from Gaza. This is the same firm that helped establish the 'aid' operation currently murdering Palestinians every single day. (They have now disavowed that depraved project.) www.ft.com/content/c0e6...

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	The BCG team also built a financial model for the postwar reconstruction of Gaza, which included cost estimates for relocating hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from the strip and the economic impact of such a mass displacement. One scenario estimated more than 500,000 Gazans would leave the enclave with “relocation packages” worth $9,000 per person, or around $5bn in total.
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