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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁

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Founder/Lead Editor, Standard Error Research Editors (@standarderror.bsky.social, http://stderr-editors.com; opinions here are mine!) Ex American Journal Experts/Springer Nature, Chicago Booth, @cepr.org, LSE Lefty Mama 🇺🇸 > 🇬🇧 > 🇨🇴 > 🇺🇸 📍Chicago & Medellin

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · Nov 13

New followers! I’m the founder and lead editor at the boutique social science editing startup @standarderror.bsky.social which you should also follow if you haven’t already! We’re growing fast and happy to have you along for the ride

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Eiynah 🇵🇸 @nicemangos.bsky.social · 51m

Declaring Palestine Action a terrorist group and declaring "antifa" a terrorist group... It's all connected to how any and all Palestinians (and their supporters) are immediately labeled Hamas, and in many cases that seems to justify their killing. Please make the connection.

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Eiynah 🇵🇸 @nicemangos.bsky.social · 1h

< then you are not even close to understanding how urgent and horrific this rise in fascism is.

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Eiynah 🇵🇸 @nicemangos.bsky.social · 1h

If you cannot see how the genocide & ethnic of Palestinians, with no consequences for the perpetrators ...has emboldened the worst people in the world... If u can't see that the calls for 'remigration' (ethnic cleansing) in the west r inspired by the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians

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Eiynah 🇵🇸 @nicemangos.bsky.social · 1h

I'm amazed by the people on here who seem to care so much about the fascism at home but have not yet said much about the fascism their country has enabled abroad.

If you cannot make that connection, *still* .. I'm not sure how you are planning to effectively oppose it.

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 1h

Here's how they did the whistles, which include a pamphlet with code for "Alert: ICE in the area" (beep beep beep) and "ICE detaining an neighbor, please come form a crowd" (beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep) blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/15/h...

Hundreds Pack 'Whistlemania' Events To Fight ICE In Chicago: 'We Have To Stand Up For One Another'

Hundreds of neighbors joined Whistlemania events in seven neighborhoods to assemble whistle kits that alert when immigration agents are nearby.

blockclubchicago.org

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 1h

I know your work, Kathleen, but I didn’t know we’re neighbors. Thanks for sharing this

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 1h

My neighbors have filled the Little Free Libraries with whistles so we can warn each other about ICE. Chicago is not afraid.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 1h

One of the rare pleasures in academia is being asked to review something and finding that it's really rather wonderful.

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 2h

If I’m missing something please don’t disabuse me yet, my faith in the possibility of a popular front is a bit wobbly today

Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 2h

Haven’t heard anything ridiculous from Ezra Klein in about ten days. What are the chances the prodigal has gotten right with God

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tweety fish of innsmouth @sifu.tweety.fish · 3h

it's so tidy that every single problem in american society up to and including car dependence is directly traceable to racism. monocausal-ass dystopia.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13h

This is real. Chicago today.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 16h

Incredible photo from @chicago.suntimes.com ‘s Anthony Vazquez. Pointing what looks to be a teargas launcher at someone’s head at nearly point blank range is incredibly dangerous. This is why I prefer a ballistic helmet in the field.

Feds ram SUV in chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd

The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N on Chicago's East Side, resulting in dozens of residents showing up to protest the federal immigration agents.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 15h

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 15h

Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents.

ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.

The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.

An ICE agent throws a tear gas canister at protesters at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Federal immigration enforcement agents detain a protester during a skirmish at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent points a crowd control weapon at a protester Tuesday at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A Chicago Police Department officer washes his face after being exposed to tear gas during a protest at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 15h

Nobel Peace Prize recipient María Corina Machado appeared on Donald Trump Jr.’s podcast.

She touted the oil reserves in Venezuela (the largest in the world) and vowed to privatize the oil industry to enable American corporations to exploit and profit from the country’s resources if she gains power.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 15h

The screen-shotted tweets are a distraction. Rubio's position is that foreigners don't have a right to speak, and that Americans don't have a right to hear what they have to say. Nothing about this claim is limited to speech about Charlie Kirk. apnews.com/article/trum...

US revokes visas for 6 foreigners over Charlie Kirk-related speech

The Trump administration has revoked the visas of six foreigners deemed by U.S. officials to have made derisive comments or made light of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last m...

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 16h

What is to be done about Nazis controlling all the organs of the federal government

Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 16h

Evil

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17h

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17h

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

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The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 23h

The lesson, which we should already know, is that confining fascists behind a cordon sanitaire is a condition for the exercise of democracy. Authoritarians simply cannot be folded into electoral politics for all the reasons in this thread. They make it impossible for democracies to credibly commit

Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 23h

This is not to say that elections don't matter; they clearly do, and democracy requires them, and in every case I'd rather my side win than lose. But if I'm working on the question of what to do *while in power*, it's going to be heavily biased towards *how do we ensure electoral defeat isn't fatal*

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 18h

What times these are Jerry

Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 18h

This admin wants to shoot us. They are desperate to shoot us and film it for their voters

Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 19h

It appears Trump is determined to provoke civil unrest in Chicago. Every effort to appease him results only in escalation by Trump’s goons. He’s trying our patience, and not all of us are saints.