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Lenifaye
@andreafaye.bsky.social
Media-based and resource organizer. Quaker Chaplain in-the-making.

Durham now, Chicago forever.

https://andreafayehartrt.substack.com/
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November 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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“An Oct. 3 video clip captures an agent typing something into ChatGPT on his phone while riding in the passenger seat of a vehicle.”

“The footage shows the time on his phone, 8:48 a.m., and one of the messages he sends to the AI Chatbot: “Long format like yesterday’s.”
Bodycam footage from Operation Midway Blitz released: ‘It’s all about arresting people’
The group of videos made public through the Loevy & Loevy law firm includes footage from agents who responded to controversial arrest operations in the Little Village and Irving Park neighborho…
www.chicagotribune.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I guess I left because I never wrote that book.
November 25, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Hello! I am celebrating Sagittarius season and my upcoming 39 birthday by raising $3,900 for Access Reproductive Care-Southeast, an independent abortion fund that helps thousands of Southerners access abortion, after care: donorbox.org/a-decade-of-...
A Decade of Defiance: Help Us Raise $200,000 by December 31 - Andrea Hart's Fundraiser on Donorbox
I turn 39 Nov. 29. To celebrate, I'm doing something that feels aligned with who I am and the communities that raised me: I’m asking my friends, family, and loved ones to help me raise $3,900 for ARC-...
donorbox.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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You should be paying attention to Tennessee.

The congressional race in the state’s seventh congressional district, which includes Nashville, is where cracks in Donald Trump’s base are starting to show.
The Tennessee race that suddenly has Trump world nervous
Democrat Aftyn Behn is putting up a fight.
www.motherjones.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Folks, Giving Tuesday is around the corner and this is my yearly PSA that while you may be annoyed with nonprofits raising money that day, please be kind especially this year. It's been BRUTAL trying to raise money in 2025.
November 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
NC we gotta support our immigrant businesses this holiday season.
November 18, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Something I'm big on lately is building community-led infrastructure across regions/states but especially in solidarity with the South.

Seeing all my NC-based Signal threads ignite to share resources and inspiration from Chicago to fight ICE is a divine affirmation.

I believe that we will win.
November 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
"there is something worth mourning about the absence of permanent, dedicated premises for organizing. . . [they held] conflict and disagreement. . . but the chance to navigate this in person, in spaces built collectively, meant generating new ideas and new ways of doing things."
Where is the left?
Radical organizing was once backed up by a network of physical spaces. How can we rebuild them to support the movements we need now? By Rosie Hampton.
newint.org
November 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I really thought Nancy Pelosi was already retired. My friend said she's the Michael Jordan's of retirements.
November 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world:

'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..."

chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...
Pope Leo calls for ‘deep reflection’ about treatment of detained migrants in U.S.
“Many people who have lived for years and years and years, never causing problems, have been deeply affected by what is going on right now,” Chicago-born pope says.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Think about how much further along we’d be if there was more pushback when they were testing their limits at the beginning of this term
It's becoming chillingly clear: an administration that gleefully dismantled USAID and consigned countless people to slow death by starvation and preventable disease will not hesitate to inflict hunger on tens of millions of Americans by cutting off SNAP funds.
October 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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It's becoming chillingly clear: an administration that gleefully dismantled USAID and consigned countless people to slow death by starvation and preventable disease will not hesitate to inflict hunger on tens of millions of Americans by cutting off SNAP funds.
October 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Today was a hard day. Regulations that we passed unanimously last year, after 7 years of advocacy, were largely gutted. The FCC capitulated to the correctional telecom industry in roughly doubling rate caps for prison and jail calls. I'm truly sorry.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...
F.C.C. Changes Course on the Price of Prisoners’ Phone Calls
www.nytimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:51 PM
The piece is alive!

So grateful for the @objectivejournos.bsky.social for publishing this and for getting to workshop it during The Forge's Summer Writing class.

What if instead of misdiagnosing journalism’s collapse and mourning a myth, we honor the radical legacy of people-powered media?
October 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”
October 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Like I said... I assume NOTHING re: the NYC electorate except that folks usually live down to expectations. If you don't want Cuomo as Mayor then you need to get out to vote. Vote early if you can.
October 27, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I enjoy facebook memories because I'm sentimental. 10 years ago today City Bureau launched and now I co-own the very coffee shop/bookstore where this photo was taken around that time:
October 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM
submitted my first invoice for a piece of writing, ever! it's slated to be published next week. can't wait for it to be out in the world and to craft more things to share.
October 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Any one who has reported on his real estate work or any business he's touched could've predicted this.
Breaking News: President Trump is having the White House’s entire East Wing demolished to make way for his $200 million ballroom. The project is far more extensive than he initially let on.
Trump Will Demolish Entire White House East Wing for Ballroom: Live Updates
nyti.ms
October 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Saw One Battle After Another yesterday and walked away thinking it's the film Ari Aster wish he made with Eddington. It reminded me of the feeling I had after seeing There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men in theaters in 2007.

Paul Thomas Anderson knows how to make a truly American film.
October 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
the more I assess investments in tools/strategies to "save democracy" the more I'm convinced we need to be doing programs that are mutual aid, guaranteed income and/or rapid response funds for basic material needs.

I would bet those would have a far greater impact than funding nonprofit news.
October 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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I am happy that more people see that the police state is a BIPARTISAN project.
October 12, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Honestly a pretty formative Pitchfork staff memory for me was when D'Angelo returned and started playing shows. I probably watched him cover "Space Oddity" 50 times when it happened. Black Messiah is a masterpiece. His cover of "Sometimes It Snows in April" still makes me cry. We didn't deserve him.
D'angelo - Space Oddity (David Bowie cover) - Paris 29.01.12
YouTube video by Cream Fresh
www.youtube.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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We remember trailblazing transgender activist Miss Major, who has sadly passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major began organizing before 1969’s Stonewall riots, and her love for her community has turned her into a mother figure to thousands of queer and trans people around the world.
A Mother’s Day Chat With Revolutionary Trans Activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
Janet Mock has called Miss Major, who has nurtured generations of queer and trans youth, “the mother we all deserve.”…
truthout.org
October 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM