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Leona Lee

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Please Mask Up! Disability Rights, Affordable and Accessible Housing, and Disabled Debtors Cohort with the Debt Collective. https://debtcollective.org/working-groups/disabled-debtors-cohort/ and silly cats & Chicago stuff.

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Leona Lee @leonalee.bsky.social · 10d

This Thursday, I'll be facilitating this meeting; I'm happy to answer any questions!

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 7h

NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.

My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

Early planning documents reviewed by WIRED describe a statewide transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers across Texas, with ICE estimating each trip to average 100 miles. Every county would have its own small, around-the-clock team of contractors collecting immigrants from local authorities deputized by ICE. It is a subtle transfer of the physical custody process into the hands of a private security firm—authorized to carry firearms and perform transport duties “in any and all local, county, state, and ICE locations.”

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11h

Independent outlets like @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @thetriibe.com, @unraveledpress.com and @blockclubchi.bsky.social are doing a TERRIFIC job reporting on what's currently happening in Chicago. Folks should support and follow them.

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 12h

Low-intensity warfare is uncanny. We continue to go to work, bring kids to school, shop for groceries, etc. But our everyday routines are punctuated by random episodes of spectacular violence; war as a way of life.

Scenes From the Occupation

As the feds cracked down on immigration in Chicago this fall, filmmaker Carlos Javier Ortiz’s camera was rolling. These stills and footage show a city in crisis — and a city defiant.

www.chicagomag.com

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 1d

Was putting my face on and missed a call from my dad. Saw this text and called him back. (This is a nice story. Also his name is not Bob. That’s what the grandkids call him. Long and unrelated story.)

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Dad
16m ago
It's your father, otherwise known as Bob, give me a call. I got some little news for you. Love you

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Leona Lee @leonalee.bsky.social · 2d

hello, BlueSky friends! my week is off to a busy start. hope you're all doing well!

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Stef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social · 2d

Little reminder that an inaccessible website means lost customers, and lost revenues.
From the article: "Research shows UK businesses collectively lose £17.1 billion a year because shoppers using assistive technology abandon websites that don’t work for them...

Black Friday and Cyber Monday: why accessibility could be your biggest sales advantage

Businesses lose nearly £446 million every BFCM weekend because of inaccessible websites. Learn how accessibility boosts conversions, loyalty, and sales, and how to prepare for the biggest shopping weekend of the year.

davedavies.dev

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JenBen🏳️‍🌈 @burquesky.bsky.social · 3d

If you're in #Albuquerque and the lack of #SNAP benefits is affecting you, your kid(s) can get free pizza at Richie B's!

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JenBen🏳️‍🌈 @burquesky.bsky.social · 3d

This place in Rio Rancho is offering free pizza for children during the #SNAP benefits outage.

#Albuquerque

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3d

The government shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Travis Peters, an urban farmer in Detroit, is giving out free produce tomorrow

'If it's getting tight, my food is free. Don’t even sweat that'

As SNAP benefits come under threat, a Detroit farmer is stepping up to help fill the void

The federal shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Urban farmers like Travis Peters are stepping up to ensure their communities can eat.

www.whatimreading.net

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Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 3d

Every mention of SNAP being frozen should include this simple fact:

TRUMP is CHOOSING TO CANCEL FOOD ASSISTANCE. There are literally emergency dollars available to keep SNAP funded.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 3d

They have emergency funds for SNAP. The GOP is letting it expire.

So Netanyahu-like: to hold hostage food funds & use starvation as a political tool to blackmail enemies.

“At least one expert now predicting this could trigger the greatest hunger catastrophe in the U.S. since the Great Depression.”

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COYOTE @coyotemedia.org · 3d

While the feds continue to play stupid games, SNAP recipients are set to lose food aid for the next month. In the Bay Area, a growing number of restaurants are stepping up to help, and we're maintaining the list. Share with anyone who needs it. www.coyotemedia.org/these-bay-ar...

These Bay Area Restaurants Are Offering Free Food to SNAP Recipients

Amid a government shutdown that will cut off aid for 42 million Americans, local food scene folks plan to pick up the slack.

www.coyotemedia.org

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Leona Lee @leonalee.bsky.social · 3d

I second your Monday AAAHHHH!!

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 4d

AAAAAAAAAAAHHH

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 4d

BUT ALSO, historically, making people go without food is a dangerous game. Real good way to stoke something you can’t stop.

Json Momoa @jotatx.bsky.social · 4d

7+ million people on the streets scared the Regime and now they are implementing the mechanisms to break their spirit, and this is it.
If you're too busy looking for food you're too busy to protest.

We know that all too well.

This is a heads-up from a Brazilian friend, that have seen that up close

US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Saturday that food benefits under one of the country's biggest social assistance programs will not be issued next month amid the ongoing federal government shutdown.

www.reuters.com

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 4d

I want to flag this up further, as it and Perry's Strib anti-genAI piece hit at related issues:
For 30 years we have essentially let digital culture develop w/o regulation or oversight. This will mark a historically catastrophic mistake. The Biden FCC barely began to try to rein things in and now...

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4d

Roomba should have been a warning.

Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House

One man's robot vacuum was constantly communicating with its manufacturer, sending a detailed 3D map of his house halfway across the world.

futurism.com

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Dr Luke Steubenstein 👹 @lukesteuber.com · 5d

I just heard Corpse Bride music playing super loud while I was walking down the street so I opened a random door in the building, climbed up some stairs and found parking garage rooftop Corpse Bride

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 5d

Per @chicagotribune.com, the pajama-pants-guy is a former county prosecutor.

And he had some things to say. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/c...

A different video captured after agents unleashed tear gas showed plumes of smoke billowing down the street as the crowd's piercing shouts and whistles reached a fever pitch.
Onlookers scurried to the sidewalk to get away from the chemicals, with one neighbor, Brian Kolp, seen walking away barefoot and in Chicago Blackhawks pajamas.
Kolp, 41, said he was drinking coffee on his couch and watching the news as he always does on Saturday morning when he saw what's become an all-too-familiar scene unfold outside
his window.
Two U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents were tackling a man to the ground on his front yard.
Meanwhile, Kolp's TV continued to blare a news segment discussing the ongoing temporary restraining order restricting federal immigration agents' use of tear gas.

Kolp, a former prosecutor with the Cook County State's Attorney's office, sprang into action as he sometimes wondered he would have to do
throughout the Trump administration's
"Operation Midway Blitz" these last two months.
He didn't even have time to put on his shoes or change out of his pajamas, he said, drawing jeers from one of the agents as he screamed
"Nazis!" and "Gestapo!" at the agents.
"Quite honestly, when all this started happening, I thought to myself that if the opportunity ever came my way to have to get involved in one of these situations, I was certainly going to do what I could to make sure that they weren't openly and flagrantly violating the law or the Constitution," Kolp said. "And yet, they just went ahead and did it anyway."

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 5d

A reminder that losing SNAP will be particularly devastating to those whose disabilities require them to have special diets.

The disability tax is real.

Everything costs more when you’re sick, and special diets are no exception.

Boost & donate to mutual aid. People need help.

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Leona Lee @leonalee.bsky.social · 5d

you've nailed the proportions & expression, well done!

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 5d

The incident is marks the third straight day that federal agents have deployed tear gas against Chicagoans and the seventh time in 22 days.
Video from a photographer for the @chicagotribune.com:

armando l sanchez @mandophotos.bsky.social · 5d

Border patrol agents deployed tear gas on the 3700 block of North Kildare where residents say a landscape worker, a resident, and a woman on a bike were detained. Video from a resident.

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Leona Lee @leonalee.bsky.social · 5d

gorgeous roses, and brilliant descriptions, thanks for sharing them!

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 5d

Stop and smell the roses. Put a smile on your face.

A pinkish purple rose at Forsyth Park in Savannah. Smells like ube.

A red rose at Forsyth Park in Savannah. Smells like early morning.

A pink rose at Forsyth Park in Savannah. Smells like wet earth after a rainfall.

A yellow rose at Forsyth Park in Savannah. Smells of pleasant pastries

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Leona Lee @leonalee.bsky.social · 5d

got my parents' wedding silverware set cleaned, listed last night, & it sold already. thinking of my mother selecting the pattern, and her china pattern, so hopeful at 18 years old.
...ok, I'm feeling a bit old today! lovely sunny day here. xo

four old-fashioned silver forks, with a rose pattern on the handle called 'Spring Garden'. they are lying on turquoise fabric.

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