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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 4h

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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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 2h

Www.hidinginplainsightbook.com

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M Hobart @mhobart.bsky.social · 1d

Among other things, these guys love brutalizing girls, women, children and pets. Weak men think brutalizing people makes them seem strong.

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M Hobart @mhobart.bsky.social · 1d

Inspiring and very useful directions for community mapping!

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

I know not everyone is who they thought they would be under a fascist, authoritarian regime. That's okay. But it's time to do more than react and post about it. It's time to get organized—including mapping or creating lines of support and defense in your community.

Mapping Community Defense and Care in Our Neighborhoods

This worksheet can help us prepare for Trump's military interventions at the neighborhood level.

organizingmythoughts.org

M Hobart @mhobart.bsky.social · 1d

How do MAGA people not see all this ‘poor me’ whining and needing so many ‘attaboy’ pats on the head as anything other than pathetic and weak? I just don’t get it, seems so out of step with middle class and esp white midwestern culture.

M Hobart @mhobart.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like a race to the bottom. I think we need gutsy fighters, but we can fight for democracy and good policy without actively and hatefully dehumanizing other people.

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M Hobart @mhobart.bsky.social · 1d

Oh dang, please not Trader Joe’s being awful. Oof.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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M Hobart @mhobart.bsky.social · 1d

An unusually poor take on this from you. On one hand “US base there”, “Qatari base here” seems like apples to apples, but with this admin, with recent bribes, Qatar being first out of all possible allies to have a base in US, not being in NATO… too many differences. It’s apples to oranges.

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M Hobart @mhobart.bsky.social · 1d

What a bootlicker. As if. I suspect someone somewhere will award some made up BS prize soon, be it golf championship, honorary degree, or for some imagined contribution to peace, all to assuage dear leader’s baby feelings.

M Hobart @mhobart.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely amazing gobsmacking recklessness and corruption. Just the start of selling off all kinds of US resources (which belong to US taxpayers) off to cronies and whoever may shelter MAGA loyalists when they finally have to flee the country.

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Kathleen Clark @kathleenclark.bsky.social · 2d

A master class from MIT in responding to authoritarian overreach:

Your “premise … is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
… America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking & open competition for excellence.

Dear Madam Secretary,
I write in response to your letter of October 1, inviting MIT to review a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." I acknowledge the vital importance of these matters.
I appreciated the chance to meet with you earlier this year to discuss the priorities we share for American higher education.
As we discussed, the Institute's mission of service to the nation directs us to advance knowledge, educate students and bring knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges.
We do that in line with a clear set of values, with excellence above all. Some practical examples:
• MIT prides itself on rewarding merit. Students, faculty and staff succeed here based on the strength of their talent, ideas and hard work. For instance, the Institute was the first to reinstate the SAT/ACT requirement after the pandemic. And MIT has never had legacy preferences in admissions.
• MIT opens its doors to the most talented students regardless of their family's finances. Admissions are need-blind. Incoming undergraduates whose families earn less than $200,000 a year pay no tuition. Nearly 88% of our last graduating class left MIT with no debt for their education. We make a wealth of free courses and low-cost certificates available to any American with an internet connection. Of the undergraduate degrees we award, 94% are in STEM fields. And in service to the nation, we cap enrollment of international undergraduates at roughly 10%.

source:
https://orgchart.mit.edu/letters/regarding-compact

• We value free expression, as clearly described in the MIT Statement on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom. We must hear facts and opinions we don't like - and engage respectfully with those with whom we disagree.
These values and other MIT practices meet or exceed many standards outlined in the document you sent. We freely choose these values because they're right, and we live by them because they support our mission - work of immense value to the prosperity, competitiveness, health and security of the United States. And of course, MIT abides by the law.
The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
In our view, America's leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences. Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education.
As you know, MIT's record of service to the nation is long and enduring. Eight decades ago, MIT leaders helped invent a scientific partnership between America's research universities and the U.S. government that has delivered extraordinary benefits for the American people. We continue to believe in the power of this partnership to serve the nation.
Sincerely,
Sally Kornbluth

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M Hobart @mhobart.bsky.social · 2d

You absolutely should visit Portland! It’s just a wonderful city with amazing food, bookstores, public art, interesting neighborhoods, parks, cool community vibes and an awesome river.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

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M Hobart @mhobart.bsky.social · 3d

This would be even better for primary and secondary ed

M Hobart @mhobart.bsky.social · 4d

Pritzker gets to the heart of the matter: optimism about 2026 or 2028 elections being free and fair is deeply misguided.
What will it take to overcome MAGA/Trump tactics to ensure safe voting, fair elections and accurate vote counts?

M Hobart @mhobart.bsky.social · 4d

And if they can’t get enough immigrants to work with this exploitative visa program, the next likely population will be prison labor. So much of Trump’s policy is a confederate-loving racist traitor’s wet dream. Proves that talk about ‘free markets’ was always BS. No freedom for labor, only capital.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 4d

I read somewhere recently that what the rich really want is slavery and it's hard not to read this article through that lens

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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M Hobart @mhobart.bsky.social · 4d

A necessary and heartbreaking view into Gaza: “here under the roar of planes, time folds in on itself; each second heavier than a year, each year only another breath of the same unending night. Life for us no longer breaks into seasons. Now survival is our singular measurement.”
-Abdullah Hany Daher

Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 4d

"Yesterday, the world’s calendars turned their neat page to October 7th, yet here in Gaza the clock broke long ago. Under the roar of planes, time folds in on itself."

A new piece by the Palestinian writer from Gaza, Abdullah Hany Daher
jewishcurrents.org/a-time-that-...

A Time That Refuses to Pass

While the world marks two years since October 7th, 2023, those of us in Gaza have been living inside one long night.

jewishcurrents.org

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M Hobart @mhobart.bsky.social · 4d

Exactly. So important to follow the money, and realize every Trump admin action is permeated by corruption and benefits some individual or corporate donor.

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M Hobart @mhobart.bsky.social · 4d

Repulsive, depraved, reckless, and so deeply deviating from American values and the sense of sobriety, fairness and respect for human dignity one hopes to see in one’s government. JFC, what is wrong with these people? What admirable precedent do they look to for their choices?

M Hobart @mhobart.bsky.social · 4d

Searingly true. It is very hard to shift out of complacency & the illusion of safety even when abuses of power are close by and heading straight at you like a horde of wasps. The moves towards fascism must be taken seriously far before it feels like an emergency. In reality, the emergency is NOW.

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M Hobart @mhobart.bsky.social · 4d

“Even the median experience of those being tyrannized can be free of intolerable forms of oppression. If we wait until the abuses become severe and widespread enough to register in our standard analytic tools, it will be too late.
The public ha[s] to be acclimated to extrajudicial oppression.”

Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 4d

This is a wakeup call to all people who could be fighting harder. www.offmessage.net/p/the-median...

The Median Experience Of Tyranny

If the politics of tyranny were self-discrediting, we wouldn't need mantras like "never again."

www.offmessage.net

M Hobart @mhobart.bsky.social · 4d

"...vectors for delivering handouts to Monsanto." POETRY!

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M Hobart @mhobart.bsky.social · 4d

IF doing a lot of work here

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