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Remora House DC 🎃 @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 15h

Same in DC. It’s been two months.

Still constant helicopters overhead. Abandoned work trucks where neighbors have been kidnapped by ICE. Armed national guard walking the streets. Feds posting up in former unhoused spaces to keep people away.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

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Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social · 1d

it is disorienting when you lose someone who you navigate your life to, like a star blinking out of the night sky.
a life lived in fearlessness, she carved out space for so many of us.
an amazing woman.
check out this doc by some of my pals.

Watch MAJOR! Online | Vimeo On Demand

The award-winning documentary "MAJOR!" follows the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender elder who has been fighting for…

vimeo.com

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 1d

So far TODAY Israel has:

- bombed Gaza City
- bombed Khan Younis
- shot and killed five Palestinians in Gaza City
- refused to open the Rafah border crossing
- announced they would once more block aid

This is what a "ceasefire" with Israel looks like. This is what it has always looked like.

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 23h

D'Angelo. 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 21h

I think alternative spaces are where I’ve encountered most of it?

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 1d

Judge William Smith (W. Bush appointee): The Government has done "precisely what the ... [court's] Order forbids."

The case is Illinois v. FEMA

On Wednesday, we'll publish an updated catalogue of such judicial decisions on noncompliance with court orders at @justsecurity.org at the link below:

The “Presumption of Regularity” in Trump Administration Litigation

Comprehensive study of court cases involving Trump administration and the basis for courts no longer giving a "presumption of regularity."

www.justsecurity.org

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · Jul 8

“Presumption of Regularity”

Our legal institutions are so incapable of flexibility and responsiveness to changing conditions, wonks have been complaining about this since the very beginning of Trump 1.0 www.lawfaremedia.org/article/irap...

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 1d

Power and Powerlessness reading group?

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 1d

Big if true

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 1d

If GOP is indeed steadfast in destroying the College Board, the progressive agenda is to make sure nothing replaces it. The College Board is an EdTech tapeworm inside K-16 gobbling away from both ends. I’m pretty sure its GOP critics just wish they owned the tapeworm.

Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 1d

the college board's not a progressive organization

Kent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social · 1d

I've proctored dozens of AP and SAT tests at my school and never earned a single dime for any of it.

They profit off an army of teachers providing them free labor.

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 1d

I think I have some documentation from previous iterations of the project

A very happy raccoon with an impressive art project

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 1d

People should spend less time talking about what they (claim to) have read with strangers online and more time reading stuff and discussing it with people they respect, face to face.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 1d

You officially live in a “show me your papers” nation, if you were wondering how far along things are now.

And ICE took his unhoused friend.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 3d

#tdih 1972 DC prisoners led jail uprising.

Demanded:
-- juveniles be housed separately from adults
-- decent food
-- overcrowding addressed.

At their request, U.S. Rep Shirley Chisholm, D.C. School Board Pres. Marion Barry, & others met with them.

See ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/dc...

Oct. 11, 1972: D.C. Jail Uprising

An uprising took place at a Washington, D.C. jail to protest conditions.

www.zinnedproject.org

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 3d

Your sound system must be outstanding

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 3d

While I understand and sympathize with your general sentiment here, “triumph of civilization” is terribly ironic praise that anyone who loves US Universities should spend some time sitting with.

www.landgrabu.org

Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.

www.landgrabu.org

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 3d

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 3d

To be fair, this is also just top-level trolling lol

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 3d

Los Angeles has experienced all this, day-in and day-out, everyday for over 4 months. Literally 1000s of incidents. What’s happening now in Chicago and what has been happening in Washington, DC. Every day feels like a fucking nightmare we can’t wake up from.

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 5d

DAILY MEMO: Another ICE Detention Death and A Woman is Saved From ICE By Police 🧵 2 parts

If you appreciate reporting like this, please consider becoming a member of L.A. TACO, buying some merch, or dropping a dime in our fundraiser so we can continue to bring you this news.
@eltragon.bsky.social

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 3d

It’s really demoralizing to see all the stuff ICE did in LA covered in Chicago as if they hadn’t already been doing it here for more than 3 months.

We need solidarity across the continent where we all learn from each other. It can’t be shocking when old tactics move to a new place.

Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 3d

Just today, here's a story from the @chicago.suntimes.com -- not only are ICE/feds masking themselves constantly (and some local cops too, I've seen it), now they're driving around without license plates. More "laws for thee, whatever I wanna do for me" in action chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 3d

Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · Jun 4

The tragedy-farce cycle has accelerated and compressed and now everything is always already both.

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 3d

Never a bad day to watch this PSA youtu.be/d79EBJYJbuA

How to correctly pronounce Axolotl #nahuatl #axolotl #ajolote #mexico #pronunciation #pronunciacion

YouTube video by A Paquiliztli

youtu.be

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 3d

As long as we’re dreaming, maybe we could advocate for a commons-based process of reparation and restoration rather than one rooted in private property and individuation?