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Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 32m

Samstag in #Bremen. Join us, in solidarity with millions resisting the fascist takeover of the US government - and remind our fellow Bremer to be vigilant of the fascist trend in Germany
www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

NO KINGS Bremen GERMANY! · No Kings

**TIMES ARE EXPRESSED IN LOCAL TIMES, NOT EDT. The rally will begin at 13 Uhr CEST in Bremen, Germany. We will meet at the Heinrich Heine Statue, which is in the park behind the Kunsthalle. Die Zeite...

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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 17h

The director of the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion has just been laid off.

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Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 14h

Trump is just the face of a MAGA DICTATORSHIP comprising a handful of white supremacists, radical right religious fanatics, & unethical billionaires, and an elaborate propaganda machine. What happens when T falls, is anybody's guess--but fall he must.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16h

Donald Trump thinks he’s all powerful. It’s up to us to remind him on October 18th that he’s not.

We will show him who really has the power in this country — and we will do it peacefully. nokings.org

Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 14h

I always turn it into No Dictators, which is more spot on. Better yet, no Fascist Police State, which is even more spot on. Time to say that word, with all the fears and worries it inspires. (And Trump is not, actually, doing all this by himself. He is just the face of it)

Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 16h

#omasgegenrechts #Bremen Wir brauchen Euch!
Samstag, 18.10, 13:00 Uhr

Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 1d

"We have to understand that this is not about fighting ICE agents that are quote, unquote, carrying ‘carrying out immigration enforcement.’ What we are fighting is fascism.”
Thank you @jessiefuentes.bsky.social #Chicago

Jake Wittich @jakewittich.bsky.social · 1d

The same ICE agent who handcuffed Ald. Jessie Fuentes has been filmed in at least 3 other violent encounters, including the viral arrest of a woman in Waukegan in front of the mayor.

“He’s obviously a danger to individuals and particularly women," Fuentes said.

Read more at @windycitytimes.com

Ald. Jessie Fuentes to file lawsuit against ICE agent who handcuffed her in Humboldt Park incident - Windy City Times

Ald. Jessie Fuentes (26th Ward) is preparing to file a lawsuit against the ICE agent who handcuffed and threatened to arrest her at Humboldt Park Health earlier this month. In an interview with Windy ...

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Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 1d

The thing I wonder about is y'all keep saying "Trump" did this and that, but Trump hardly has a brain left. Can we hear more about the coalition that's formed around him, that's feeding his psychopathic ego? What happens when T... is no more?

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Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 1d

CAN WE MAKE THIS MORE VISIBLE beyond NPR? (Whatever "immigrants" means: people of color, with and without documents, legal residency, citizenship... People whose parents or grandparents immigrated (whose didn't?). Their friends & neighbors, anyone trying to protect them from being disappeared...)

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. n.pr/4obhR5w

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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Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 1d

Na. Mosquitoes are not native to Hawaii. They were introduced by humans and have raised havoc with native bird species. Scientists are just trying to "undo" the damage

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Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 1d

The really sad part is that NOW this headline is actually hopeful...

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Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 1d

This is the kind of blatantly fascist intimidation that only my most politically engaged friends in Germany are hearing about @weserkurier.bsky.social faz.net/datenschutz

Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 1d

NON-COMPLIANCE with #ICE WORKS (sometimes)

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

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Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 1d

Otherwise known as "basic science." For decades, I've been writing novels (slooowly!) about people doing this kind of curiosity-driven science...
#FictionMeetsScience tinyurl.com/SciNatLit

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Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 1d

Gotta repost a bit of HOPE...

Lizardrath 💙 @lizardrath.bsky.social · 2d

Now that Christian Nationalist Ryan Walters is no longer Superintendent of Public Instruction in Oklahoma, the state is working QUICKLY to undo his legacy.

This is why you never hire an anti-education activist to run public schools.

Gives me hope for America!

youtube.com/watch?v=Fh0f...

Oklahoma has already started erasing Ryan Walters’ disastrous legacy

YouTube video by Friendly Atheist

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 3d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/AoXcgAq

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 3d

WHERE IS CHICAGO POLICE, who should be protecting their citizens from the violence and lawlessness of ICE thugs???
@mayorofchicago.bsky.social @govpritzker.illinois.gov #Chicago

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

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Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 3d

#Bremen friends:
Join us Oct 18 to show solidarity with the millions of Americans who will be stepping out in their cities and towns to resist the MAGA police state--and warn your compatriots about the dangers of modern fascism

#MARUM #AWI #unibremen
www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

NO KINGS Bremen GERMANY! · No Kings

**TIMES ARE EXPRESSED IN LOCAL TIMES, NOT EDT. The rally will begin at 13 Uhr CEST in Bremen, Germany. We will meet at the Heinrich Heine Statue, which is in the park behind the Kunsthalle. Die Zeite...

www.mobilize.us

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Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 3d

#Resist #OCT18 #NOKINGS

Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 4d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 5d

#chicago #ice

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 5d

A man was just abducted by ICE on Clark and Lunt, feet away from our campaign office.

Now our community is showing up and patrolling for ICE. Join us by getting involved in Protect RP: www.facebook.com/share/1DQqPQ...

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Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 5d

YES! Finally. THIS is what it means to protect your residents. Can you take a page from this playbook LA and Chicago? #LAPD #Chicago #police #ICE

✊Larry Colvin✊ @larrycolvin.bsky.social · 6d

Portland PD threatens ICE with arrest! More. Of. This. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 5d

#Resist complicity!

CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 5d

🚨🚨🚨University of Arizona students, staff, and faculty are speaking out against Trumps demands in exchange for money. Let’s boost their voices! 1/2

Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 5d

"Neutrality?" Like when the press thought they were being "neutral" by countering the science of climate change with the anti-science of climate denialism? Bottom, line, they drove you out by not letting you do the job of a Vice Provost for Climate Science, Policy, and Action

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Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 5d

I'm reposting personal videos from the streets because it's important to know about the #resistance and repression around the country and the news is not reporting.
I'm in Europe now, and my German friends said they had no clue there was so much resistance to the regime in the US. #Chicago

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 6d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 6d

@wisarchive.bsky.social #womeninscience

Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 6d

For #spacetober_challenge day 8 prompt propulsion, my portrait of #mathematician, aeronautical #engineer, philanthropist & Cherokee ‘hidden figure’ of the space race: Mary Golda Ross (1908-2008).⁠ 🧪🐡🧮🔭👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci
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Great-great-granddaughter of Chief John Ross, who was forced to lead his people on the

Linocut portrait of Mary Golda Ross looking over her shoulder in a gradient of green (at bottom) to gold (at top) surrounded by vehicles important to her career including P-38 Lighting fighter plane, and Agena rocket, important to Apollo missions in grey.

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Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 6d

Yes. WHY only 58% disapprove of the rise of a fascist police state in America is a mystery, but IF we are to resist armed federal militias and a complicit Congress and Supreme court, backed up by billionaire funding, at least 70% of the population need to be on board.

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