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southwest melting time
using this as an archive for this insanely horrible time in human history
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From @chicago.suntimes.com on the now-public body-cam footage that was relied upon by Judge Sara Ellis.
H/t to @sophiesherry.bsky.social, Kade Heather, @vimiller.bsky.social @angelamassino.bsky.social and Kaitlin Washburn for taking on a holiday evidence drop: chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet...
H/t to @sophiesherry.bsky.social, Kade Heather, @vimiller.bsky.social @angelamassino.bsky.social and Kaitlin Washburn for taking on a holiday evidence drop: chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet...
Bodycam video shows feds’ aggressive tactics in vivid detail: ‘Deploy f---ing gas’
The videos, released weeks after U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis’ historic order limiting agents' use of force, offer a firsthand look at flashpoint incidents from suburban Broadview, and Chicago's Lit...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
From @chicago.suntimes.com on the now-public body-cam footage that was relied upon by Judge Sara Ellis.
H/t to @sophiesherry.bsky.social, Kade Heather, @vimiller.bsky.social @angelamassino.bsky.social and Kaitlin Washburn for taking on a holiday evidence drop: chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet...
H/t to @sophiesherry.bsky.social, Kade Heather, @vimiller.bsky.social @angelamassino.bsky.social and Kaitlin Washburn for taking on a holiday evidence drop: chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet...
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Insanely stupid and short-sighted choice. I didn't even know they were still trying to run this racket. You put more universities in danger with this shit you idiots!
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Insanely stupid and short-sighted choice. I didn't even know they were still trying to run this racket. You put more universities in danger with this shit you idiots!
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NEW: The federal trial for poet and activist Isabel "Isa" Lopez has been reset Feb. 2, 2026, after several delays and cancellations. Lopez is facing four federal felonies from protesting federal agents carrying out an operation in Minneapolis in June.
unicornriot.ninja/2025/poets-f...
unicornriot.ninja/2025/poets-f...
Poet's Federal Trial Set For February, Community Continues Support - UNICORN RIOT
The federal trial for poet and activist Isabel "Isa" Lopez has been reset for Feb. 2, 2026, after several delays and cancellations.
unicornriot.ninja
November 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
NEW: The federal trial for poet and activist Isabel "Isa" Lopez has been reset Feb. 2, 2026, after several delays and cancellations. Lopez is facing four federal felonies from protesting federal agents carrying out an operation in Minneapolis in June.
unicornriot.ninja/2025/poets-f...
unicornriot.ninja/2025/poets-f...
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Insane Nazi gangster Trump said days earlier that the United States could “very soon” expand its campaign of killing people at sea suspected of drug trafficking to attacking Venezuelan territory.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
Trump Declares Venezuelan Airspace Closed
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Insane Nazi gangster Trump said days earlier that the United States could “very soon” expand its campaign of killing people at sea suspected of drug trafficking to attacking Venezuelan territory.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
bro straight up doesn’t even have sovereignty over this nation
November 29, 2025 at 3:59 PM
bro straight up doesn’t even have sovereignty over this nation
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Guy uses this card for everything
November 29, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Guy uses this card for everything
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Days since Greg Bovino was last shown to be a liar: 0
‘His word means nothing’: Dismissed case reveals dishonesty of Border Patrol commander, protester says
Cole Sheridan was charged with assaulting Gregory Bovino in Broadview, but prosecutors tossed the case after a video appeared to contradict Bovino’s account. Several similar cases have been dismissed ...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Days since Greg Bovino was last shown to be a liar: 0
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Such an absolute shame & embarrassment.
Fuck, Northwestern just caved. Reading the deal now. ( www.northwestern.edu/president/do... )
www.northwestern.edu
November 29, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Such an absolute shame & embarrassment.
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TL;DR: basically the same contemptible garbage as all the other schools, anti-trans, anti-protest, more restrictive on admissions than the court held in SFFA. 75 million dollar tribute payment. At least no surveillance of teaching evaluations I guess?
November 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM
TL;DR: basically the same contemptible garbage as all the other schools, anti-trans, anti-protest, more restrictive on admissions than the court held in SFFA. 75 million dollar tribute payment. At least no surveillance of teaching evaluations I guess?
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Amazing how the "free" press is in lockstep with Israel apologists re: cold blooded murder.
November 28, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Amazing how the "free" press is in lockstep with Israel apologists re: cold blooded murder.
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D.C. Shooting Suspect ‘Could Not Tolerate’ the Violence of His C.I.A.-Backed Unit in Afghanistan
“The units had been trained for nighttime raids targeting suspected Taliban members, & were accused by human rights groups of widespread killings of civilians.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
“The units had been trained for nighttime raids targeting suspected Taliban members, & were accused by human rights groups of widespread killings of civilians.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
D.C. Shooting Suspect ‘Could Not Tolerate’ the Violence of His C.I.A.-Backed Unit in Afghanistan, a Childhood Friend Said
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
D.C. Shooting Suspect ‘Could Not Tolerate’ the Violence of His C.I.A.-Backed Unit in Afghanistan
“The units had been trained for nighttime raids targeting suspected Taliban members, & were accused by human rights groups of widespread killings of civilians.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
“The units had been trained for nighttime raids targeting suspected Taliban members, & were accused by human rights groups of widespread killings of civilians.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
the only reaction you’d expect after a former child solider recruited into the CIA during US occupation of another country lashes out after being cornered
Trump attacked immigrants living in the U.S., claiming without evidence that most of them were from “failed nations” or from “prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels.”
Trump Says He’ll ‘Permanently Pause’ Migration From ‘Third World Countries’
Trump attacked immigrants living in the U.S., claiming without evidence that most of them were from “failed nations” or from “prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels.”
www.forbes.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:27 AM
the only reaction you’d expect after a former child solider recruited into the CIA during US occupation of another country lashes out after being cornered
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the Chicago Bears are now 9-3 and remain in first place after defeating the defending super bowl champions. Thats the Chicago Bears, from Chicago.
November 28, 2025 at 11:07 PM
the Chicago Bears are now 9-3 and remain in first place after defeating the defending super bowl champions. Thats the Chicago Bears, from Chicago.
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GUARDIAN: “Per head, 🇺🇸 output is six times China’s, and yet, inexplicably, there seem to be more abjectly poor Americans than Chinese. 🇺🇸 inequality is breathtaking… keeps getting worse…”
Wanting to address this isn’t radical.
NOT wanting to is.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Wanting to address this isn’t radical.
NOT wanting to is.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
November 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
GUARDIAN: “Per head, 🇺🇸 output is six times China’s, and yet, inexplicably, there seem to be more abjectly poor Americans than Chinese. 🇺🇸 inequality is breathtaking… keeps getting worse…”
Wanting to address this isn’t radical.
NOT wanting to is.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Wanting to address this isn’t radical.
NOT wanting to is.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Absolutely mind blowing
Must concern all…
Removing a judge in the Palestine Action case to replace with a "principal adviser" to Israeli spy Robert Maxwell- Asa Winstanley
electronicintifada.net/content/judg...
Removing a judge in the Palestine Action case to replace with a "principal adviser" to Israeli spy Robert Maxwell- Asa Winstanley
electronicintifada.net/content/judg...
Judge in Palestine Action case has ties to Israel lobby
Victoria Sharp worked for Robert Maxwell and her twin brother sits on charity board with Trevor Chinn.
electronicintifada.net
November 28, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Absolutely mind blowing
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wagingnonviolence.org/2025/11/we-a...
We’re entering a new phase of the resistance: Mapping the shift from shock to the beginnings of mass action over the last 10 months of the anti-authoritarian struggle in the U.S.
We’re entering a new phase of the resistance: Mapping the shift from shock to the beginnings of mass action over the last 10 months of the anti-authoritarian struggle in the U.S.
We’re entering a new phase of the resistance
Mapping the shift from shock to the beginnings of mass action over the last 10 months of the anti-authoritarian struggle in the U.S.
wagingnonviolence.org
November 28, 2025 at 1:16 AM
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/11/we-a...
We’re entering a new phase of the resistance: Mapping the shift from shock to the beginnings of mass action over the last 10 months of the anti-authoritarian struggle in the U.S.
We’re entering a new phase of the resistance: Mapping the shift from shock to the beginnings of mass action over the last 10 months of the anti-authoritarian struggle in the U.S.
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Catching up with Steve Albini’s Closet, the endless online yard sale of the late Chicago music legend’s estate
Catching up with Steve Albini’s Closet, the endless online yard sale of the late Chicago music legend’s estate
The Chicago record producer and musician who worked with Nirvana, PJ Harvey, the Pixies died in 2024 at age 61. Most of the proceeds of the sale of his stuff go to Albini’s widow, the filmmaker Hea…
trib.al
November 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Catching up with Steve Albini’s Closet, the endless online yard sale of the late Chicago music legend’s estate
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Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
ICE agent who shot woman in Chicago drove Border Patrol vehicle back to Maine
An unnamed ICE agent, who shot and injured a woman in Chicago, is now back in Maine after driving the Border Patrol vehicle he was in 1,100 miles.
wgme.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
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We launched our Crowdfunder an hour ago - and we've already sailed past £10,000.
Extraordinary.
Hope is here.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
Extraordinary.
Hope is here.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
Hope is here: help us deliver it
Raise £100,000 to turn our incredible momentum into election wins. Will you help us beat reform in May?
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 9:04 AM
We launched our Crowdfunder an hour ago - and we've already sailed past £10,000.
Extraordinary.
Hope is here.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
Extraordinary.
Hope is here.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
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This is almost word for word what xenophobes in the 1930s and 1940s said about Miller's Jewish ancestors and relatives. He's so hateful he couldn't possibly recognize that of course.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
This is almost word for word what xenophobes in the 1930s and 1940s said about Miller's Jewish ancestors and relatives. He's so hateful he couldn't possibly recognize that of course.
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this is just gutter racism
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
this is just gutter racism
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Jack White is the king of “indie dudes love sports too” representation matters baby
November 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Jack White is the king of “indie dudes love sports too” representation matters baby
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In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.
November 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.
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Happy Thanksgiving from the ice cream aisle.
Thankful for our city.
Thankful for our city.
November 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Happy Thanksgiving from the ice cream aisle.
Thankful for our city.
Thankful for our city.