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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 1h

Big if true

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 3h

If GOP is indeed steadfast in destroying the College Board, the progressive agenda is to make sure nothing replaces it. The College Board is an EdTech tapeworm inside K-16 gobbling away from both ends. I’m pretty sure its GOP critics just wish they owned the tapeworm.

Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 3h

the college board's not a progressive organization

Kent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social · 3h

I've proctored dozens of AP and SAT tests at my school and never earned a single dime for any of it.

They profit off an army of teachers providing them free labor.

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 3h

I think I have some documentation from previous iterations of the project

A very happy raccoon with an impressive art project

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 3h

People should spend less time talking about what they (claim to) have read with strangers online and more time reading stuff and discussing it with people they respect, face to face.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 11h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 6h

You officially live in a “show me your papers” nation, if you were wondering how far along things are now.

And ICE took his unhoused friend.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 7h

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 2d

#tdih 1972 DC prisoners led jail uprising.

Demanded:
-- juveniles be housed separately from adults
-- decent food
-- overcrowding addressed.

At their request, U.S. Rep Shirley Chisholm, D.C. School Board Pres. Marion Barry, & others met with them.

See ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/dc...

Oct. 11, 1972: D.C. Jail Uprising

An uprising took place at a Washington, D.C. jail to protest conditions.

www.zinnedproject.org

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 2d

Your sound system must be outstanding

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 2d

While I understand and sympathize with your general sentiment here, “triumph of civilization” is terribly ironic praise that anyone who loves US Universities should spend some time sitting with.

www.landgrabu.org

Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.

www.landgrabu.org

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 2d

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 2d

To be fair, this is also just top-level trolling lol

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 2d

Los Angeles has experienced all this, day-in and day-out, everyday for over 4 months. Literally 1000s of incidents. What’s happening now in Chicago and what has been happening in Washington, DC. Every day feels like a fucking nightmare we can’t wake up from.

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 3d

DAILY MEMO: Another ICE Detention Death and A Woman is Saved From ICE By Police 🧵 2 parts

If you appreciate reporting like this, please consider becoming a member of L.A. TACO, buying some merch, or dropping a dime in our fundraiser so we can continue to bring you this news.
@eltragon.bsky.social

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 2d

It’s really demoralizing to see all the stuff ICE did in LA covered in Chicago as if they hadn’t already been doing it here for more than 3 months.

We need solidarity across the continent where we all learn from each other. It can’t be shocking when old tactics move to a new place.

Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 2d

Just today, here's a story from the @chicago.suntimes.com -- not only are ICE/feds masking themselves constantly (and some local cops too, I've seen it), now they're driving around without license plates. More "laws for thee, whatever I wanna do for me" in action chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 2d

Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · Jun 4

The tragedy-farce cycle has accelerated and compressed and now everything is always already both.

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 2d

Never a bad day to watch this PSA youtu.be/d79EBJYJbuA

How to correctly pronounce Axolotl #nahuatl #axolotl #ajolote #mexico #pronunciation #pronunciacion

YouTube video by A Paquiliztli

youtu.be

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 2d

As long as we’re dreaming, maybe we could advocate for a commons-based process of reparation and restoration rather than one rooted in private property and individuation?

Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 3d

Jonathan Rosenbaum’s book “Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia” is really good on this

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 3d

Did you ever write anything about the movie Excision (2012)? If you haven’t yet, would you, please?

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Remora House DC 🎃 @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 3d

If you are employed & doing pretty fine right now, set aside some money from each paycheck to dedicate to mutual aid asks. Even just $20.

Shit is really bad, the social safety net is being shredded, & truly TRULY all we have is each other right now.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 3d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

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...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 3d

I mean, some of them are. A lot of us aren’t struggling epistemically or morally, just materially and politically. The stakes are very clear right now! Unfortunately, many of those who are lack moral clarity seem to have large platforms…

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 3d

I’m still mad about the interview in NLR

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 3d

(I think it’s important to also situate this as about the aftermath of the “global war on terror” and the constant and outrageous excesses of criminalization over the past century of counterrevolution)

Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 3d

This is how I think about it

Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 3d

Now is a great time to learn more about histories of protest and tactically effective resistance to militarized policing. One lesson that’s being spontaneously rediscovered and reworked for digital capitalism in Portland has been called Tactical Frivolity by past observers

Screenshots of videos of Portland cartoon bloc

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