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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 02/10/2026
just wanna re-up the part where I wrote that many immigrants in Maine have been sheltering in place since January for their own safety, with ICE still operating in the area. it is October.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 25/09/2026
thousands of people protested in New York City streets over Netanyahu’s UN visit today. over 100 were arrested. on the ground with @alicesperi.bsky.social @us.theguardian.com
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Netanyahu’s speech at UN spurs protests in New York City: ‘Let Gaza live’
Actor Susan Sarandon, whistleblower Chelsea Manning and comedian Caleb Hearon are detained by NYPD
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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Like Octavia E. Butler said, “We don’t have to wait for anything at all. What we have to do is start.” “Do the thing and you will have the power.”
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
For @playboy.com, I spoke with sex workers around the country who are organizing for self-defense with firearms education, carry permit classes, and gun clubs. As one organizer told me, “It’s very much this ‘stay ready so you ain’t got to get ready’ type thing.” www.playboy.com/read/politic...
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Meet the Sex Workers Forming Gun Clubs for Self Protection
Sex worker gun clubs are popping up across the country as a form of self-defense and community protection.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12/09/2026
Happening now in the Chicago suburb of Franklin Park: Community members have gathered to commemorate the 1-year anniversary of the death of local resident Silverio Villegas González, whom an as-yet unidentified ICE agent shot and killed on this block at the start of "Operation Midway Blitz."
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LOOKOUT @lookoutnews.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The government waived 66 laws to build a half-billion-dollar border wall. Activists in Lochiel, Arizona have spent 2+ weeks trying to stop it by keeping someone 50 feet up a centuries-old cottonwood around the clock.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
But the truth is that society is a construction project and it is not self-executing. Having a shared project to work on collectively is essential. We are living through a time where a number of people aren't bought into the shared project. So here we are.
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Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Illinois law says local officials can't help federal agents deport people. So how did so many residents end up on ICE's radar through information shared by local police, sheriffs, and prosecutors? I filed 394 FOIA requests to find out. (An @injusticewatch.org partnership with @theintercept.com!)
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Illinois promised to protect immigrants. Local officials helped deport them anyway.
In over a third of Illinois counties, cops, sheriffs, and even prosecutors helped federal immigration agents route at least 150 people into the deportation system since Trump returned to office, despi...
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 26/08/2026
Will Lawrence says opposition to data centers comes down to a basic question: Who decides a community's future—its residents or Silicon Valley and Wall Street? @rebeccaburns.bsky.social speaks with the insurgent candidate taking on the GOP in Michigan inthesetimes.com/article/meet...
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Hamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
SCOOP: ICE is planning to offload seven warehouses purchased for more than $700 million by either giving them to other federal agencies or selling them outright, according to documents obtained by The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...
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ICE Spent $700 Million on 7 Warehouses. Now It Wants to Get Rid of Them.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah
An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 23/08/2026
me every day reading the news, honestly
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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 06/08/2026
“The paramedics Israel is targeting in Lebanon are volunteers — jeopardizing their lives not to earn a living, but to help in their spare time,” writes Mary Turfah. The risks they’re taking are clear. And they are offered the option to leave. Very few of them do.
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‘If I Leave, Who Is Going to Rescue People?’
In Lebanon, Israel’s bombs have wounded thousands, including my family. I visited the paramedics risking their lives to save them.
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The Trace @thetrace.org · 15/08/2026
We're hiring! The Trace and Block Club Chicago are looking for a full-time staff writer to cover the impact of gun violence on Chicago’s neighborhoods. More info here:
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The Trace and Block Club Chicago are hiring a Staff Writer
The Trace, in partnership with Block Club Chicago, is looking for a full-time staff writer to cover the impact of gun violence on Chicago’s neighborhoods.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
If the criticism is "why don't journalists write about X?" the answers usually are: -a word count limit of 600 or less -a publishing quota deterring longer stories -an editor shot down the pitch or cut that detail or angle -a beat reporter was laid off -freelance rates of $250 to $350
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Coal miners, countertop workers, and coffee shop workers are all facing down the same deadly threat: silica. Let me tell you all about it—
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The Trump administration is fining immigrants as much as $1.8 million for supposedly staying after a deportation order. There's a big problem: there's no way for these immigrants to pay what they owe. theintercept.com/2026/08/20/t...
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Immigrant Wants to Pay $368,000 in Fines, but Broken Payment System Won’t Let Him
The fines, for not “willfully” leaving the country, can accrue interest and harm people in immigration proceedings.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 19/08/2026
60 yrs ago, sex workers, drag queens and street youth held a landmark riot against police in SF's Tenderloin—the world's 1st Trans District now that space is held by Geo Group. trans people are still arrested at SF Pride—over tagging Flock cams. the trans fight against police in '66 and today:
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The fight to protect a trans landmark in California from ICE’s biggest contractor
Compton’s Cafe is one of the earliest examples of LGBTQ+ resistance. Today, a prison company occupies the site
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 19/08/2026
“These are our homes. This is how we protect each other and keep each other safe.” @lilyericksonseltz.bsky.social reports that from Vermont to Texas to Michigan, student renters are building tenant unions and challenging universities and corporate landlords alike.
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Why Tenant Unions Are Spreading Across College Campuses
Faced with aging dorms, private equity landlords and few protections, student renters are banding together.
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Sophie Hurwitz @hurwitz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Dudes are sending me emails saying I should be tortured over this, which means you should probably read the article to figure out what’s making them so mad
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
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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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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14/08/2026
New: We pieced together dozens of violent incidents from the ICE agents seen in viral videos from Virginia this week. They've roamed across multiple states, but are most often working in Chicago. We also verified the identity of Martin Lagunas, the fed who pointed his gun at a woman on Monday:
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Chicago ICE team seen threatening drivers has roamed from Illinois to Minnesota to Virginia
A federal agent from Chicago identified by community members as 40-year-old Martin Lagunas was recorded pointing his gun in the face of a Virginia woman on Monday. His team of ICE agents has been docu...
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Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Black Lives Matter, Land Back, and Palestinian flags have been ordered removed from a Los Angeles high school after a complaint that one 11th-grade social studies teacher discriminated against Jewish students by "fail[ing] to present pro-Israel or pro-Zionist ...classroom content."
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Censorship in LA School District Could Become National Norm, Educators Warn
Educators in the country’s second-largest school district are facing repression in the wake of a new California law.
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Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Because it's the Trump administration, the DHS' efforts to surveil and obtain financial records on left-leaning Minneapolis orgs as part of their crackdown on the city manages to both deeply sinister and laughable. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dhs-spi...
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Andrea González-Ramírez @andreagonram.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I spoke with people back home in Puerto Rico about the water crisis and how attributing it to the current drought conditions isn't the full story. Read more: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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‘I’m Tired of Being Resilient’
Skipping laundry. Bathing in the sea. Catching drops falling from AC units. This is life in Puerto Rico amid the worsening water crisis.
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Yana Kunichoff @yanak.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
After an early morning raid in Tucson questions swirl, including about what happens to children left behind after a parent is taken by immigration authorities This is part of a new effort by AZLu to cover immigration more closely, called Borderland Bulletins azluminaria.org/2026/08/13/a...
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After early morning Tucson raid, 5 detained and few answers  - AZ Luminaria
Tiff Williams was walking their dog around 6 a.m. Thursday in their north side Tucson neighborhood when they saw a commotion at the house across the street.   Williams watched as agents spilled out of...
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John Washington @jwashing.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Here’s article from Lookout on the tree sit blocking border wall construction in Lochiel, Arizona Including this photo of the tree at night www.lookoutnews.org/lochiel-tree...
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
15 seconds. "CD3s [the family of technologies to which the G.LO.V.E. belongs] may increase the affects [sic] that can cause sudden death including physiological changes with"
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 10/08/2026
On August 23, Isaac Silver of Buttons of the Left is bringing more than a century of May Day history to the In These Times offices in Chicago, told through buttons, artifacts and ephemera from the labor movement. There will also be bagels. And brunch. Kids are welcome.
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Buttons Bagels and Brunch — In These Times Events
Explore more than a century of May Day history through labor artifacts, Haymarket memories and brunch with archivist Isaac Silver at In These Times.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 09/08/2026
I spoke to the mutual aid groups and mask blocs combatting the spread of COVID and viral illness by freely distributing masks and tests and lending out air purifiers — who nationally have now distributed thousands of masks for wildfire smoke, too, amid an anti-public health admin @us.theguardian.com
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How clean air clubs are protecting Americans from wildfire smoke
Mutual aid groups that started giving out PPEs during COVID are now loaning air purifiers and distributing masks to fume-addled communities
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 07/08/2026
Curators Anna Kornbluh and David Maruzzella are inviting Chicago-based artists to ask what political art can do now. Their Fall of Freedom exhibition will be held Oct. 2–4 at the In These Times offices in Chicago. Proposals due Aug. 10: interccect@gmail.com
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Art In These Times – Fall of Freedom — In These Times Events
Authoritarian assaults on free thinking, fellow feeling, and creative making call for artists to unite in defiance. The 2nd annual Fall of Freedom festival convokes us to assemble, to curate,…
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 07/08/2026
less than 48 hours after Madison, WI police killed Corey Ruiz, Austin, TX police killed 17-year-old Anthoneil Williams on July 24. he called 911 after seeing someone with a gun. they immediately shot him, dozens of times.
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Yikes. Women accounted for all of the job losses and all of the labor force decline in July, according to @nwlc.org
WASHINGTON — Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center jobs analysis of monthly data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That brings the total net number of women who have left the labor force since January this year to 845,000. In comparison, there are 406,000 fewer men in the labor force now than in January. 

A total of 165,000 women, aged 20 and over, left the labor force last month — meaning they are neither working nor looking for work — while men's labor force participation was unchanged. Overall, the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July. Women accounted for all of these losses, losing 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9,000 jobs. Women make up 50.1% of the workforce.
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Schuyler Mitchell @schuylermitchell.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
“If my brother hadn’t been deported, he might still be alive.” @hurwitz.bsky.social has a beautiful & important piece on Glendy Marisol González de la Cruz & Nixon Giovanni Pérez Paz—the St. Louis couple murdered in Guatemala last month after being deported www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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She followed ICE’s advice to self-deport. Five weeks later, she was dead.
A St. Louis mother took her three daughters to reunite with her deported husband in Guatemala. Neighbors found the couple bound and shot in a sugarcane field.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 06/08/2026
A life devoted to labor education, intergenerational organizing and social justice. Join friends, family and movement communities for a celebration of Beatrice Lumpkin on Sunday, August 9, at the Chicago Teachers Union Center.
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A Celebration of the Extraordinary Life of Beatrice Lumpkin — In These Times Events
Join us with the Chicago Teachers Union as we honor the life and legacy of Beatrice “Bea” Lumpkin. Bea was a CTU member, educator, labor organizer, and steadfast advocate for working people who…
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I talked to Krystal Two Bulls and Joseph White Eyes about how Native organizers are resisting the sprawl of data centers in Indian Country. We also discussed how chatbots, robots, mineral extraction, and surveillance are affecting Native communities.
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You Can’t Drink Data: Native Communities Are Resisting the AI Death Cycle
“These are tools to extract from who we are to erase us,” says organizer Krystal Two Bulls.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
STRIKE ALERT: Prisoners across the U.S. will stage a National Prisoners' Human Rights Strike from May Day through June 19 (Juneteenth), 2027, uniting the fight to end legalized slavery with the struggle to restore voting rights to the prison class Jailhouselawyersspeak.com @jaillawspeak.bsky.social
Flyer showing an illustration of an injured Black figure with the text: NATIONAL
PRISONERS' HUMAN RIGHTS STRIKE
MAY 1 - JUNE 19, 2027
FROM MAY DAY TO JUNETEENTH:
WE REFUSE TO SLAVE.
SHARE THESE DATES TO THE INSIDE.
GET THE FULL PRESS STATEMENT AT JAILHOUSELAWYERSSPEAK.COM
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Unions representing workers at 40 ports in Europe and the Mediterranean are calling for a global day of action on Oct. 30 against "war and militarization," including US-Israeli war on Iran and genocide of Palestinians. They're calling for workers to strike, protest, refuse to handle arms. My latest.
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Dockworkers Unions in Six Countries Announce Day of Strikes and Protests Against War and Genocide
Unions representing workers at 40 ports in Europe and the Mediterranean are calling for an international day of action on October 30.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/07/2026
Three likely ICE removal flights on private jets have taken off within 25 minutes of another. Hard to know yet where they are headed, but these jets have all recently done third-country removals to Eswatini, Ghana, Poland, etc etc
An ADSBx map showing  three jets leaving Mesa, AZ, a Talon Air jet headed NNE over Colorado and two Journey Aviation jets heading NE over New Mexico.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 22/07/2026
When Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a one-year pause on data center construction on July 14, making New York the first state to pump the brakes on the AI infrastructure boom, tribal nations had already enacted their own moratoriums for months without waiting for a governor’s signature.
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As Data Centers Sidestep Tribal Consultations, Tribal Nations Are Fighting Back
A recent New York moratorium gives the appearance of accountability without the structural change that would require it.
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 27/07/2026
Shawn Fain has broken his silence on the federal monitor’s investigations. Now he and union leadership are alleging that the monitor is overreaching because of a personal political vendetta over the the union's call for a ceasefire in Gaza. bit.ly/4hzTwGt
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The War on the UAW
The United Auto Workers called for a ceasefire in Gaza. The union’s federal monitor didn’t like it—and now he’s investigating Shawn Fain, just weeks before union elections.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I love my local newspaper so much and read it everyday! Sign the workers’ petition, they deserve the world!!
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 22/07/2026
A proposed $9 billion quantum computing development could reshape Chicago’s South Side. Who gets to decide what “progress” looks like? Join Damon A. Williams, Daniel Kisslinger and moderator Nashwa Bawab, next week, 7/29 for a virtual panel on community power. secure.actblue.com/donate/neigh...
Event graphic titled “Who Decides the Future of Our Neighborhoods?” promoting a discussion about Quantum Entanglements, a multimedia investigation into South Side Chicago communities responding to a proposed $9 billion quantum computing development and concerns about contamination, displacement, surveillance and policing. The graphic features photos of Damon A. Williams and Daniel Kisslinger of Respair Production & Media and AirGo, moderator Nashwa Bawab of In These Times, a QR code and the In These Times logo.
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John Washington @jwashing.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
A transgender woman in Eloy Detention Center told @repyassansari.bsky.social that she was strapped to a wheelchair and interrogated, and then sent to solitary confinement. My latest conversation with the congresswoman for @lookoutnews.bsky.social www.lookoutnews.org/a-trans-woma...
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A Trans Woman Says She Was Handcuffed to a Wheelchair at an Arizona Immigration Camp
Genesis says she was restrained and interrogated for hours after being accused of soliciting sex. Her account, shared with Rep. Yassamin Ansari, adds to growing allegations of abuse inside Eloy Detent...
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 21/07/2026
Every federal arts dollar draws $9 in nongovernment support. But the NEA’s inflation-adjusted budget has fallen sharply since 1980. @leftiecowboy.bsky.social argues that art should be treated as civic infrastructure.
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The Big Idea: Publicly Funded Art
Art is how we make sense of ourselves. But the U.S. government, unlike many other countries, is investing in it less and less.
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Chabeli Carrazana @chabeli.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The world may have moved on from Minneapolis but its immigrant community continues to struggle. We spoke to single mothers who hid from ICE for months, ran through their savings, and now can’t pay to renew their DACA applications. At least dozens are in this situation. 19thnews.org/2026/07/ice-...
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Single mothers lost months of income hiding from ICE — and now can’t afford to renew immigration papers
They survived ICE's takeover in Minneapolis. But now their DACA protections are set to expire, leaving dozens scrambling to afford hundreds of dollars in fees to maintain their legal status.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Looking for examples of leftist folks doing disaster preparedness (not just response, but the prework of preparedness) in their communities. Interested in talking to some folks about what that looks like and what it helps them to cultivate.
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Sophie Hurwitz @hurwitz.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
A cop in Wisconsin used Flock to search his ex’s license plate information 200 times. Months later, the officer assigned to investigate him was criminally charged for doing the same thing. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Police keep losing their jobs for using Flock cameras to stalk people
Advocates say it's too easy to abuse automated license plate reader technology.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 16/07/2026
April 2024, a Pomona College student after her school had her arrested for protesting for Gaza and BDS: “We stand unwavering in our demands, and we know that the things that have historically toppled apartheid states is pressure from institutions.” www.teenvogue.com/story/studen...
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