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DJ Alderman
@mareralph.bsky.social
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🏳️‍⚧️ they/them Urban planner. Organizer. Writer. Musician. I probably argued with you at a party. Chicago over everything. Opinions are my own. linktr.ee/mareliam
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DJ Alderman @mareralph.bsky.social · 12d
I was surprised to learn that my article for @citybureau.bsky.social and @southsideweekly.bsky.social was nominated for a CHIRBy!
It is an honor to be acknowledged alongside the work of such luminaries.
www.storystudiochicago.org/chirby-awards/
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Jesse Mermell @jessemermell.bsky.social · 1d
He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe
The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.
www.bostonglobe.com
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 23h
It’s great to be paid for protesting and everything but let me tell you the whole antifa reimbursement process is just terrible
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 20h
Wrote about the temptation to put Gaza on the back burner now that the ceasefire is solidifying—and why we can't let that happen. Gaza still needs you, and me, and everyone to fight until real Palestinian liberation is won. www.discourseblog.com/p/gaza-still...
Gaza Still Needs You
This fight is not over.
www.discourseblog.com
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Planetizen @planetizen.bsky.social · 23h
Study: Cramped Quarters Worsen Sleep — but not as Much as Long Commutes - h/t Medical News
Study: Cramped Quarters Worsen Sleep — but not as Much as Long Commutes - h/t Medical News
A Japanese study links commutes over 50 minutes to higher rates of insomnia and daytime sleepiness.
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 1d
WaPo, which declined to endorse in the 2024 presidential election, wants you to know that a candidate in this year's mayoral election in New York City is overpromising on bus fares.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 1d
Yep when Trump says he loves coal miners he means the guys who own mines — as always the little guy was good for conning out of a vote and after that the mass grave.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/c...
Coal Miners With Black Lung Say They Are ‘Cast Aside to Die’ Under Trump
www.nytimes.com
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 1d
In Franklin County, some residents who voted for Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders have started to regret their support after she announced the construction of a new prison there.
The Prison Next Door
How Arkansas’ secretive plan for a new state lockup angered people in a deep red corner of rural America—and changed how some see incarceration.
boltsmag.org
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d
Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.
How Genocide Happened
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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 2d
HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts
Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.
www.bloomberg.com
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 2d
This seems like a good time to remind everyone that Donald Trump’s first appearance in the New York Times was when the Nixon Justice Dept. sued him and his father for refusing to rent apartments to black people.
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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 2d
HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts
Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.
www.bloomberg.com
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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 2d
ICE drag girl out of car & body slam her to ground—then pin her face down & kneel on her neck.

"I'm 15!" she cries out. "I'm not resisting!"

Agents have now asked multiple area housing associations to unlock main doors—so they can go door to door.

Hoffman Estates, Illinois
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DJ Alderman @mareralph.bsky.social · 2d
RIP Tony Fitzpatrick
In 2002, he recorded this with Pine Valley Cosmonauts for their album The Executioner's Last Songs, in memowhen there was a moratorium on the death penalty in Illinois but before abolition.

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Idiot Whistle, by The Pine Valley Cosmonauts featuring Tony Fitzpatrick
from the album Executioner's Last Songs
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 3d
These freaks keep getting on TV talking about opposing antifa and how they believe antifa wants to destroy them, and not a single person in mainstream media has asked or commented on what is the opposite of antifascism and who is threatened by antifascists
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d
I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 3d
aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 3d
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d
Seen in Maywood, Illinois
Handwritten sign on parked car dash that reads ZIP TYING CHILDREN IS FUCKING WRONG
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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 8d
Think about all the things ppl in our country, in your town, need but never get. Think about all the organized abandonment of ppl struggling in our communities.
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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 8d
“If the immigration enforcement apparatus of the United States were its own national military, it would be the 13th most heavily funded in the world.“

- @sarahlazare.bsky.social & Lindsay Koshgarian, @inthesetimes.com

inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...
The 13th Largest Army in World Is Unleashing Violence in Chicago
As federal agents kill and use extreme force in Chicago, their budget surges.
inthesetimes.com
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4d
None of us can do everything but each of us can do SOMETHING.
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Peter Aidan Byrne @peteraidanbyrne.bsky.social · 4d
Parable of the Sower was one of those glaring gaps in my reading that I finally fixed just a year or so ago, and beyond how good it is in its own right, it was EASILY the eeriest "this could have been written yesterday about tomorrow" experience I've EVER had.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 4d
Octavia E. Butler saw the future—and warned us.

Aina Marzia reviews Positive Obsession by Susana M. Morris, a new biography tracing Butler’s journey to literary legend, showing how her vision transformed both sci-fi and Black liberation.

inthesetimes.com/article/octa...
Octavia Butler speaks passionately, set against a vibrant abstract background with bold geometric shapes and vivid colors, conveying energy and creativity.
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 5d
People who live in big cities and have MAGA relatives in rural and suburban areas are getting deja vu, that's for sure.

We've all had conversations with relatives who insist they know better than us what our cities are like. That we must be deluded not to see the constant riots and muggings.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d
Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 6d
I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us
Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter: A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them. Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 6d
I think something we have to do more of is talk about how kickass a lot of American cities are because right now some people think they’re run by Sharia Law nudists and most of us never thought to counter that argument because it’s stupid and doesn’t make any sense
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6d
BEST BIG CITY IN THE US 9 YEARS IN A ROW.

While critics try to paint Chicago as something to fear, the rest of the world knows the truth — this is the best big city in America.
Best Big City: Chicago Wins Award 9th Year in a Row
Learn why Chicago was voted the Best Big City for the 9th consecutive year by exploring our vibrant culture, welcoming inclusion, and so much more.
www.choosechicago.com
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404 Media @404media.co · 6d
NEW: Cops in Texas told 404 Media in May they used Flock to find a woman who self-administered an abortion out of concern for her safety.

Documents now show police were conducting a “death investigation” and discussed whether they could charge her with a crime: www.404media.co/police-said-...
Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime
Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.
www.404media.co
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 6d
Happening right now. To us. In America.
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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 9d
Stephen miller is actively calling for a civil war right now on Twitter.

I really do not think Americans are taking in the reality that the federal government is openly admitting to waging war against democratically held cities and states and what comes now that this is being openly said.
Stephen Miller Follow @StephenM Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself. › Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance • 3h 1/ Judge Immergut just granted a restraining order that prevents Trump's mobilization of the Oregon National Guard in Portland. IMMERGUT, District Judge. This case involves the intersection of three of the most fundamental principles in our constitutional democracy. The first concerns the relationship between the federal government and the states. The second concerns the relationship between the United States armed forces and domestic law enforcement. The third concerns the proper role of the judicial branch in ensuring that the executive branch complies with the laws and limitations imposed by the legislative branch. Whether we choose to follow what the Constitution mandates with respect to these three relationships goes to the heart of what it means to live under the rule of law in the United States.
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