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Iruka

@iruka88.bsky.social

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St. Paul MN. Leftist YIMBY and AUDhD. We need community networking, mutual aid, and radical empathy.

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Iruka @iruka88.bsky.social · 1d

...and local and state police are supporting them.

When are we going to realize that this is already way over the line of 'it can't happen here'?

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

I have a zine I published this year that focuses on US policing and tear gas: issuu.com/projectnia/d...

A [short] History of U.S. Police & Tear Gas

This is the 6th issue in Mariame Kaba's archival activations series. It was designed by Cindy Lau (October 2024).

issuu.com

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Iruka @iruka88.bsky.social · 10h

Word I’m hearing is that Tidal is a better app than Spotify and doesn’t run ads for 🧊

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 21h

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Coach Gowron @coachgowron.com · 11h

Your enemies will tell you there is no point in fighting back. They tell you this to break your morale, but in so doing, they tell on themselves. They fear being stood up to, or else they would not work so hard to downplay it. If someone says fighting back doesn't matter, make it matter.

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Iruka @iruka88.bsky.social · 11h

And I’m sure it’s their word against yours.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 11h

www.themirror.com/news/us-news...

ICE now targeting legal residents and fining them $130 for not having papers

The Trump administration continues to rain down on undocumented immigrants all across the U.S., but particularly in major cities, including Chicago and its suburbs, known as Operation Midway Blitz

www.themirror.com

Iruka @iruka88.bsky.social · 12h

Aren’t they supposed to follow orders? If they are, whose are they following? Local cops have been assisting ice for over a week.

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Iruka @iruka88.bsky.social · 12h

If you’re so not afraid, why are you harassing protesters with police?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12h

Trump claims ICE’s reign of terror in Chicago is targeting the “worst of the worst.”

But out of the 1,000 undocumented immigrants that have swept up, the agency has only cited 10 men with a criminal background.

Don’t believe his lies for a second.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Trump says migrants drive violent crime in Illinois. But ICE can’t find many violent criminals.

Masked ICE agents and other federal forces showed up in Chicago to go after gangsters. Instead, they keep catching people who are just living their lives.

www.msnbc.com

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12h

Based on the video shared by Univision (they've paired it with overhead from ABC), today's attack might be the most chemical gas we've seen feds launch into a neighborhood so far. The clouds are enormous/that's a lot of canisters. Completely engulfing cars and homes.

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unichicago on Instagram: "Operativo federal termina con gases lacrimógenos en Chicago. Esto es parte de lo que se vivió en la escena. Tienes más información …"

Operativo federal termina con gases lacrimógenos en Chicago. Esto es parte de lo que se vivió en la escena. Tienes más información en nuestra biografía.

www.instagram.com

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Secret Third Thing @gochujung.bsky.social · 15h

Chicago’s East Side neighborhood has a history of being one place where industry concentrates its most polluting elements. That environmental racism plus the release of multiple forms of chemical weapons today exacerbates terrible health consequences for a mostly Latino working class community.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 15h

masked federal agents used multiple canisters of tear gas + other chemical munitions on a crowd of residents in chicago's southeast side around 12:40 p.m.

neighbors had gathered on a residential intersection following a morning during which dozens of border patrol agents terrorized the community.

tear gas billows from canisters in a residential intersection, at 105th street and south avenue north, on chicago's southeast side.

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 15h

INCORRECT HEADLINE: Reporters refuse to sign Pentagon’s new press rules

CORRECT HEADLINE: Pentagon launches sweeping effort to censor the news, kicks out major media outlets

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Iruka @iruka88.bsky.social · 16h

They already have continued. It might be a good idea to pay attention to media sources in the Middle East that don’t originate with Israel.

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 17h

It’s wild how much whiteness wants credit for putting out fires it started.

Black people are told to be thankful to white people for “saving” us from slavery they created.

US presidents boast about ceasefire deals for conflicts they funded with tax money.

Whiteness isn’t water. It’s Kerosene.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 17h

California just banned employers from forcing workers to pay a debt, fee, or penalty to leave their job.

Bosses have increasingly been trapping workers with debts incurred in training and other exploitative fees.

Now that's illegal in the nation's biggest state.

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Indigiqueer Hummingbird ~*For Good*~ @riotousmuse.bsky.social · 18h

Today, Minneapolis

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Rep. Leigh Finke @leighfinke.bsky.social · 16h

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy has died. She was 78.

As an activist for our shared liberation, I am so grateful I had the opportunity to share space with her on this earth, even a handful of times. Miss Major showed us how to do this work. Our fight is just, and lifelong; let her light lead us onward.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 17h

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls for calling on them to redeem themselves. "I have not seen them cross the line yet" means the line doesn't fucking exist.

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Iruka @iruka88.bsky.social · 18h

OK, but hear me out, how long are people going to treat the star tribune as a reliable source of news?

Matt Keliher @mattkeliher.bsky.social · 19h

I wonder how long the Strib will get away with saying the crime problem in MPLS is the result of an "understaffed police force" instead of saying that the city's leadership chooses to not implement proven strategies for reducing violent crime. www.startribune.com/roper-doomsd...

Roper: Doomsday docs aside, Minneapolis’ lush urbanity makes it a special place to call home

The city blossoms in the warmer months, even when bad headlines drown out what makes it great.

www.startribune.com

Iruka @iruka88.bsky.social · 21h

Yeah, what would happen if you prevented it before it happened in the first place?

You know, avoided the guns and having police swarm communities and scare the 💩 out of us?

I want to see a public health driven approach.