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Tracy Baim

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lgbtq+ \ journalist \ advocate \ chicago lesbian \ feminist\ she\her 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🦄 Windy City Times cofounder 1985 \ author Skeets my own.

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Tracy Baim @tracybaim.bsky.social · May 3

Just out. Liberating Healthcare: 50 Years of Resistance, Resilience, and Healing at Howard Brown Health, is the longest of my 14 books, and perhaps the most difficult birth. #booksky

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 1h

Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 13m

Oh, by the way, I wrote in @thenation.com about how Trump is condeming millions of Americans to hunger this Thanksigiving with his accelarated timeline of adding work requirements for SNAP benefits.
I also discussed how work requirements provably don't work, for the neoliberals in your life.

Trump Has Just Condemned More Americans to Hunger

The administration’s decision to fast-track a bunch of changes to food stamps—including new work requirements—is as stupid as it is cruel.

www.thenation.com

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Tracy Baim @tracybaim.bsky.social · 15m

Tonight: Gerber/Hart Library Oct. 15 free event, Latinx Activism and Journalism Panel, gerberhart.org/latinx-activ... ... Join us at Gerber/Hart at 6:30 PM for a panel discussion about Latinx Activism and Journalism with Robert Castillo, Mona Noriega, and Manuel Hernández-Nuñez moderated by me.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3h

Yesterday, white nationalist paramilitary forces attacked another Chicago neighborhood with chemical weapons. Families and at least one infant were gassed. This morning, they are kidnapping more immigrants both here and in other metros (D.C., L.A. still being terrorized).

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 3h

Jacob Soboroff is doing a great job investigating and debunking the claims that ICE is making about their arrests targeted worst of the worst

Congress can help reign in ICE- IF we get a Democratic majority. That will be more likely if California passes Proposition 50. #YesOnProp50

[Image of Uncle Sam holding California oranges]

SAVE DEMOCRACY FROM GOP ELECTION RIGGING

CALIFORNIA

VOTE YES ON PROP 50

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 3h

This is what "grooming" looks like:

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 5h

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 14h

I thought they said it was wrong for an administration to ask a social media platform to take stuff down.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 4h

This deserves more attention. North Carolina wiped out $6.5 Billion in medical debt for 2.5 million residents. Less than 1/3 of what we paid to bail out Argentina.
www.carolinajournal.com/nc-program-w...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 1d

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 21h

ICE targeted an apartment building near my home. Masked agents in unmarked cars. I've said this before. Democratic Governors & Mayors need to order their local police depts to arrest any & all unidentified & masked alleged ICE agents.

This anonymous denial of due process is deadly.

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Lauren Harper @laurenleharper.bsky.social · 23h

The Justice Department must release the OLC opinion authorizing these strikes.

Let the public scrutinize the opinion's legality.

No more secret law.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Trump announces another strike "just off the Coast of Venezuela" that killed 6 people

Under my Standing Authorities as Commander-in-Chief, this morning, the Secretary of War, ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility — just off the Coast of Venezuela. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks, and was transiting along a known DTO route. The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No U.S. Forces were harmed. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!!!!

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 20h

We’ve lived 15 years under Citizens United, watching billionaires and corporations shape democracy with their wallets. Reform once seemed impossible. But now, a group in Montana is asking a radical question: What if states simply stopped granting corporations the power to spend in politics?

Could We End Corporate Money In Politics?

Backers of a referendum before Montana voters next year believe they’ve found a vulnerability on Citizen United

thinkbigpicture.substack.com

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 17h

Have Trump, JD Vance, Mike Johnson, and the entirety of the GOP and right-wing media own and embrace these vile and bigoted Telegram messages written by Young Republicans.

They will because they see apology as "weakness."

Tie it around them.

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 15h

Raise your hand if you are not the LEAST BIT surprised that an outfit run by that animal abuser Kristi Noem, would shoot at pets.

Totally Disgusting.

#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 15h

‘F*cking Losers’: Massively Popular Dog-Themed Instagram Account Bashes ICE for Allegedly Shooting Pup in Rare Political Post

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‘F*cking Losers’: Massively Popular Dog-Themed Instagram Account Bashes ICE for Allegedly Shooting Pup in Rare Political Post

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20h

Based on the video shared by Univision (they've paired it with overhead from ABC), today's attack might be the most chemical gas we've seen feds launch into a neighborhood so far. The clouds are enormous/that's a lot of canisters. Completely engulfing cars and homes.

instagram.com/reel/DPzWnGCklvl

unichicago on Instagram: "Operativo federal termina con gases lacrimógenos en Chicago. Esto es parte de lo que se vivió en la escena. Tienes más información …"

Operativo federal termina con gases lacrimógenos en Chicago. Esto es parte de lo que se vivió en la escena. Tienes más información en nuestra biografía.

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Amy Sundberg @amysundberg.bsky.social · 14h

Oh wow. This feels like an important milestone.

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 15h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18h

An extraordinary new policy from the Defense Department that equates basic reporting methods to criminal activity has prompted a revolt among Pentagon journalists that could leave the nation's largest agency and the world's largest military without a press corps.

'Without precedent': Virtually all news outlets reject restrictive Pentagon press policy

The policy would force news organizations to refrain from publishing material not approved by the military. Media lawyers say it violates the 1st Amendment.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1d

I like and respect Gov. Mills, I really do.

But she’s already said she’d only serve one term if elected. Why would we nominate someone just for us to have to defend the seat in 6 years?

Graham Platner is 40. He brings a new vision of politics and can serve for quite a bit.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15h

The official government account for DHS appears to be run by far-right trolls deliberately trying to provoke a response by using a term openly associated with ethnic cleansing. They will attack anyone who points this out and express faux outrage at the suggestion. They know what they are doing.

Remigration Wikipedia Page.

Not to be confused with Return migration.
Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.
It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement. Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture.

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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 1d

amazing impact with this @themarshallproject.org reporting

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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 16h

basically all of world history says if you’re throwing tear gas by schools and churches and grocery stores you’re the bad guys

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Just Jill 💖 @just-jillg.bsky.social · 18h

This should be considered everywhere. They are kidnapping, abusing, harassing and threatening people who have rights. Every single one of them have rights and they are ignored. What they’re doing is unconstitutional and illegal.
Payback will come.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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