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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 10h

You may have noticed that folks who are from Chicago love this city. There's a reason for that. I walked to the lake with friends yesterday, and when I saw the waves rolling in, I felt something shift back into place inside of me. So many parts of this city are part of me. We will defend this place.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 17h

This weekend, three men in Evanston hugged their families goodbye to look for work at Home Depot but were attacked by ICE before they could return home.

Two were abducted, one is petrified of leaving the home.

If you’re able, please help us support our neighbors: www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

Donate to Stand With the Families Left Behind After Evanston ICE Raid, organized by Michele Hays

If you are on social media and live near Evanston, IL, you ma… Michele Hays needs your support for Stand With the Families Left Behind After Evanston ICE Raid

www.gofundme.com

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#FreeHer #DismantleChangeBuild @nameisparadise.bsky.social · 1d

Y'all do know that this is how cops act every day in Black, Brown, and poor communities, right?....Right?

Cause we've been telling y'all. As always #DismantleChangeBuild

NPR @npr.org · 1d

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.

Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

organizingmythoughts.org

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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 3d

If y'all wanted to go into your evening smiling: some dude none of us have ever met has a wheelchair that works now. The broken one has been donated to the same shop I got the new one from, so they're gonna repair that and give it away.

Mutual aid is a force multiplier.

Virtue cycles are awesome.

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 3d

Free them all, papers for all, care not cops, a better world is possible.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 2d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

It would be interesting for someone to run for US president on the platform of firing every one hired to work for ICE over the past 4 years. Firing all of them on day 1.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

I admit that I also feel worn out from having warned about U.S. policing for decades.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

Extremely funny that people think this is now a Pritzker hate account when all we've been doing is documenting the same police violence we've been documenting well before this ICE surge

Sorry for disrupting your worldview. Welcome to what cops are!!!

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 3d

Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector.

Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

www.nytimes.com

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 3d

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The Activists Fighting for Dignity for Incarcerated Pregnant Women

Prison doulas and legislative interventions can be a lifeline for incarcerated pregnant women. But the most important solution is to abolish prison births altogether.

www.thenation.com

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#FreeHer #DismantleChangeBuild @nameisparadise.bsky.social · 3d

But....millionaires and billionaires cannot be made off these reduced prices. Every single agency is for sale in this administration.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3d

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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#FreeHer #DismantleChangeBuild @nameisparadise.bsky.social · 3d

Just excessive force waiting to happen. Who approved this, Director Latoya Hughes?!

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Alt: a close up of a woman wearing hoop earrings and a braid

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 3d

One month into Trump’s immigration blitz, Chicago escalates its fight back.
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CUDDY @ptcontagion.bsky.social · 4d

Be aware…This is a difficult watch…Share this evidence …Expose this overreach…Hopefully these videos will one day soon…Help to identify and bring to justice those responsible…

ICE Sparks Outrage With Chicago DACA Arrest

YouTube video by NowThis Impact

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Occupy Wall Street @occupywallstnyc.bsky.social · 4d

José Felan was kidnapped and captured during the 2020 George Floyd uprising in Minnesota. After many long years of struggle behind bars, José is being released into a halfway house in December, but he needs support to get back on his feet.

Support 2020 Uprising Prisoner Jose Felan!

José Felan is a political prisoner who was kidnapped and captured during the 2020 George Floyd uprising in Minnesota. After many long years of sacrifice and ...

www.givesendgo.com

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#FreeHer #DismantleChangeBuild @nameisparadise.bsky.social · 4d

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 4d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4d

The MSM does not interview community organizers. It's part of why they miss so much of what happens at the local level.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 4d

It’s hard to overstate the role of the NYTimes in normalizing both genocide and fascism beneath an obscene veneer of civil discourse.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5d

None of us can do everything but each of us can do SOMETHING.

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