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Mindy McAdams @macloo.bsky.social · 2h

Think about why they think rape is “cool”—well. Nuff said.

Mindy McAdams @macloo.bsky.social · 2h

In part my little rant was inspired by that Politico report about the racist young GOP “leaders,” who certainly seem like the types no woman would want to go out with.

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Mindy McAdams @macloo.bsky.social · 2h

—that the complainer typically lacks the qualifications necessary to get the kind of job he’s complaining about. So the complaint is really: “No one gave me a job that I wanted, which I have not bothered to train for.” Funny how similar that is to the complaint that women refuse to date him.

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Mindy McAdams @macloo.bsky.social · 2h

There are also the white-collar jobs and skilled jobs that are held by qualified black and brown Americans and by women that the whiners claim were “stolen” from white men. If we examined the qualifications of every complaining person with a racial or gender grudge, I think we would find—

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Mindy McAdams @macloo.bsky.social · 2h

We talk a lot about the supposedly stolen jobs that the complaining Americans would not do anyway—agriculture, planting and harvesting, and cleaning, dishwashing, etc. The complainers don’t even want those jobs but they’re mad that immigrants are doing them.

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Mindy McAdams @macloo.bsky.social · 2h

I was thinking about the whole “they’re taking our jobs” claim. The first question to the complaining person should be: don’t you have a job? What is your job? Then whose jobs are “they” supposedly taking?

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Mindy McAdams @macloo.bsky.social · 3h

Whenever someone is trashing another person based on the other’s race, ethnicity, religion, language, etc., we need to turn that back on the trasher and find out why they feel so threatened by the other. What are they so afraid of?

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 16h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 16h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 17h

It is alarming that the Trump Admin & rogue ICE agents would abduct a 13-year-old child from Everett, transport him to a facility over 500 miles away & reportedly subject him to harrowing conditions.

They must stop violating our constitutional rights.

My full statement:

A graphic that reads:

“It is absolutely alarming that the Trump Administration and its rogue ICE agents would abduct a 13-year-old child, transport him to a facility over 500 miles away without his family, lawyer or a court knowing, and reportedly subject him to harrowing, inhumane conditions, including inadequate nutrition and sleeping on a concrete floor with an aluminum blanket while still healing from a broken foot.

“He is a 7th-grader who should have been met with compassion and care, not criminalized and sent to an adult prison.

“The Trump Administration must stop violating the constitutional rights of our constituents. I join the chorus of community voices demanding basic adherence to due process, preservation of this child’s constitutional rights, and his immediate return to his family.”

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 15h

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 16h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14h

Here is the students' @idsnews.bsky.social report out of Indiana University, where the student media director was fired today. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IU fires student media director after he refused to censor the IDS

Indiana University directed the IDS to stop printing news.

www.idsnews.com

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Mindy McAdams @macloo.bsky.social · 1d

Prabowo smells money. He’s holding his pockets wide open.

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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 1d

Trump was caught on a hot mic arranging a meeting between a foreign head of state and Eric Trump, who runs the Republican's family business.

Isn’t this exactly the sort of thing GOP members of Congress used to care about? www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

‘Hot mic’ catches Indonesian president asking Trump for a meeting with son Eric

The American president was overheard arranging a meeting between Prabowo Subianto and Eric Trump, who runs the Republican's family business.

www.msnbc.com

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Mindy McAdams @macloo.bsky.social · 1d

When you declare war on the anti-fascists, you declare yourself as a fascist.

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Mindy McAdams @macloo.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly. No DAR ladies died in that fire.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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Mindy McAdams @macloo.bsky.social · 1d

Crime and Punishment was so good, I read it in high school even though no one forced me

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Mindy McAdams @macloo.bsky.social · 1d

I second this with enthusiasm

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 2d

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1d

People have no idea how many homeless people in this area are serving their fast food or checking them out at the grocery store lane.

Want to solve homelessness? Build a lot more affordable housing and pay living wages.

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Mindy McAdams @macloo.bsky.social · 2d

2/ Not everywhere, of course, and not for everyone. But the ideas about fair treatment and opportunities for all were spreading. Ideas about tolerance for religions, personal lifestyles and gender realities, neurological differences that impact social functioning. We were becoming more accepting.

Mindy McAdams @macloo.bsky.social · 2d

This. I see a deliberate dismantling of the structures of equity and inclusion that I had observed emerging and growing ever since the 1960s. We in America were building and participating in a kinder, fairer world. Racial, socioeconomic and climate disparities were slowly improving.

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

It is impossible to understand the rage and furor that is fueling the Trumpist project without grappling with this first: They really believe the “leftist” revolution has successfully taken over the institutions which are now being used to subvert the “will of the people” and destroy “real America.”

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 2d

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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Mindy McAdams @macloo.bsky.social · 2d

He is uniquely repulsive.

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Mindy McAdams @macloo.bsky.social · 3d

Here is reporting that could literally save your life. www.propublica.org/article/heal...

This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.

When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

www.propublica.org

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