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Kathleen Belew

@kathleenbelew.bsky.social

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Historian of the white power movement, gun violence, the apocalypse. Coloradan. kathleenbelew.com Book coming soon! Home, at the End of the World (Random House) Posts reflect my own views only.

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · Dec 6

I am writing a book about mass shootings in Colorado in the 1990s and I have been working on it for years, and I just found a whole new mass shooting I hadn't known about before. There are so many that they can still pop out of the archive and surprise me

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 10h

A 15-year-old kid was tear gassed, slammed to the ground, and detained for five hours in a garage by armed ICE in Chicago blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/15/1...

15-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Taken By Feds For 5 Hours After East Side Protest, Attorney Says

A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said the teen hit an agent in the face with an egg. They said claims that agents disappeared the teen are “categorically false.”

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 11h

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 10h

Thread, agree, and also: can we focus on the real nazis, please

Historian Jen @historianjenfl.bsky.social · 12h

I've been down this rabbit hole for 2 days now. Each video is crazier than the last. First it was the lightning bolts, then it was a fixation on the star, then it was the number 8. Not a single video references a source. It makes the left look absolutely insane to an average person.

ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 1d

TikTok currently has a ton of videos claiming Taylor Swift is selling a necklace with Nazi imagery because it has lightning bolts in the chain when 1. It is very clearly referencing the chorus of the song Opalite and 2. The SS lightning bolts were not shaped like that.

Everyone please touch grass.

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 14h

So then they support reinstating all the people who made jokes about them or Trump or Charlie Kirk and then got fired and doxxed?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 14h

obviously this is fake news

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump: "The people of Chicago are walking around with MAGA hats. You have women, beautiful Black women, walking around with MAGA hats. 'Please let the president in and we don't care how he does it ... bring in the Marines.'"

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Jenn Burrill @jennburrill.bsky.social · 1d

The Young Republicans chat uncovered by @politico.com are chilling:

▪️ using gas chambers
▪️ raping enemies
▪️ supporting slavery
▪️ using physiological torture to root out those who aren't true believers

These aren't just kids - it includes the general counsel for the New York State Young Republicans

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No Confederate Troops In Illinois! @il-eye-on-leaders.bsky.social · 20h

Also, crucially, follow these independent journalists:
@unraveledpress.com
@peoplesfabric.com
@thetriibe.com

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 20h

Our Babies Will Not Be Warlords ftw

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 20h

Hey, thanks for the whistles!! xo, the North Side

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 3d

Resources for Whistle Warriors
Spanish and English flyers
Zines
Supplies– Metal and Plastic Whistles

link:
www.pilsenartscommunityhouse.org

or Google Drive via @tracyabell.bsky.social:
drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Resources for
Whistle
Warriors

WHISTLE ZINES

WHISTLE FLIERS

DOWNLOAD HERE / This is a PDF with
both English & Spanish one page fliers
that do not need to be folded.

SUPPLY LINKS

graphic of whistle

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 20h

By the way, nothing like federal overreach and masked thugs in your city to make absolutely clear why we need reliable local media. Follow Block Club Chicago, WBEZ, and the Chicago Sun-Times if you're here, find your reliable local news source wherever you are.

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 20h

(Also works with car horns if you wish to stay in a vehicle for safety reasons)

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 20h

That's a fine question but it is impossible to evaluate whether they have legitimate authority when they operate with faces covered and violating the law (crashing into vehicles, detaining people without due process, refusing to identify themselves, masked agents with no traceability)

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 20h

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 20h

Here's how they did the whistles, which include a pamphlet with code for "Alert: ICE in the area" (beep beep beep) and "ICE detaining an neighbor, please come form a crowd" (beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep) blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/15/h...

Hundreds Pack 'Whistlemania' Events To Fight ICE In Chicago: 'We Have To Stand Up For One Another'

Hundreds of neighbors joined Whistlemania events in seven neighborhoods to assemble whistle kits that alert when immigration agents are nearby.

blockclubchicago.org

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 20h

Ravenswood--but sign up to help here id you're on the north side! airtable.com/appnZWYoSjWa...

ICE Is Cracking Down on Chicago. Some Chicagoans Are Fighting Back.

www.nytimes.com

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 20h

Please give this information to people who consume media that tells them ICE is simply after bad guys.

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 20h

At a raid on the drop-off line at a local elementary school, hundreds of parents had ICE surrounded within three minutes. ICE gave up and fled.

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 20h

My neighbors have filled the Little Free Libraries with whistles so we can warn each other about ICE. Chicago is not afraid.

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 20h

They tear gassed 13 Chicago police officers. Please watch this footage of federal officers throwing tear gas canisters into crowds of people who are simply observing and recording on their phones. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

ICE Is Cracking Down on Chicago. Some Chicagoans Are Fighting Back.

www.nytimes.com

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 1d

Update from another kid who was shot on campus the same day that Charlie Kirk was shot on campus (this one in Evergreen, CO) coloradosun.com/2025/10/14/m...