Emese Ilyès
@emeseilyes.bsky.social
Critical social psychologist. Educator co-building worlds inside of classrooms. Participatory action researcher. Szèkely Hungarian. Committed to collective liberation and radical solidarity. https://www.commondreams.org/author/emese-ilyes
The start of 2026 has been harrowing, ICE murdered Renee Good for being a witness. Trump abducted Venezuela’s president. The circle of who counts is shrinking fast. But. Remember. OUR paychecks fund this. OUR tax dollars arm these agents. And we have a say. We have to refuse to fund our own terror
Funded by Our Own Tax Dollars, American Fascism Is Here | "Civil disobedience is a moral requirement now. We do more after Renee Nicole Good's murder, not less."
Funded by Our Own Tax Dollars, American Fascism Is Here
Civil disobedience is a moral requirement now. We do more after Renee Nicole Good's murder, not less.
www.commondreams.org
January 9, 2026 at 3:15 PM
The start of 2026 has been harrowing, ICE murdered Renee Good for being a witness. Trump abducted Venezuela’s president. The circle of who counts is shrinking fast. But. Remember. OUR paychecks fund this. OUR tax dollars arm these agents. And we have a say. We have to refuse to fund our own terror
The brutality is the point. Subu Vedam was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 YEARS for a murder he didn’t commit. Finally exonerated, he walked out of prison, only to be ABDUCTED by ICE over a decades-old deportation order.1/2 tinyurl.com/hhu82mjd
He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
tinyurl.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The brutality is the point. Subu Vedam was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 YEARS for a murder he didn’t commit. Finally exonerated, he walked out of prison, only to be ABDUCTED by ICE over a decades-old deportation order.1/2 tinyurl.com/hhu82mjd
Women in the Global South, hit hardest by climate chaos, also hold the solutions. Their new Gender & Climate Justice Fund amplifies that power! @janefonda.com : www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/t... @janefonda.com #ClimateJustice #WomenInClimate we need to celebrate examples of meaningful solidarity!
Jane Fonda: Trump needs an education on climate | CNN
Actress Jane Fonda and activist Mela Chiponda join Christiane Amanpour to discuss launching the Jane Fonda Gender and Climate Justice Fund.
www.cnn.com
October 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Women in the Global South, hit hardest by climate chaos, also hold the solutions. Their new Gender & Climate Justice Fund amplifies that power! @janefonda.com : www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/t... @janefonda.com #ClimateJustice #WomenInClimate we need to celebrate examples of meaningful solidarity!
Guide to being an explorer. ✨By Keri Smith.
July 31, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Guide to being an explorer. ✨By Keri Smith.
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Pedagogies of Quiet Resistance: Collective Care in the Age of Anticipatory Obedience
- Dr Emese Ilyes @emeseilyes.bsky.social
- Dr Emese Ilyes @emeseilyes.bsky.social
July 18, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Pedagogies of Quiet Resistance: Collective Care in the Age of Anticipatory Obedience
- Dr Emese Ilyes @emeseilyes.bsky.social
- Dr Emese Ilyes @emeseilyes.bsky.social
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EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker.
My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
June 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker.
My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
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JUST NOW: Bernie tells the crowd about Trump attacking Iran, the crowd erupts into “NO MORE WAR!” chants
Bernie calls the attack “grossly unconstitutional”
Bernie calls the attack “grossly unconstitutional”
June 22, 2025 at 12:51 AM
JUST NOW: Bernie tells the crowd about Trump attacking Iran, the crowd erupts into “NO MORE WAR!” chants
Bernie calls the attack “grossly unconstitutional”
Bernie calls the attack “grossly unconstitutional”
Just days ago the US was in “negotiations” with Iran and now Trump just bombed them. With the flick of BiBi’s little finger, Trump is manipulated despicably.
June 22, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Just days ago the US was in “negotiations” with Iran and now Trump just bombed them. With the flick of BiBi’s little finger, Trump is manipulated despicably.
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Masked federal agents have just forcibly detained NYC mayoral candidate Brad Lander as he was trying to assist someone at immigration court.
Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.
June 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Masked federal agents have just forcibly detained NYC mayoral candidate Brad Lander as he was trying to assist someone at immigration court.
Been thinking a lot about how Trump projects his distorted relationship to humanity onto all of us. He is wrong. We do not revel in watching others hurt. Humanity is built on collective care instead of selfish destruction. We can’t let him convince us otherwise. www.commondreams.org/opinion/la-p...
June 15, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Been thinking a lot about how Trump projects his distorted relationship to humanity onto all of us. He is wrong. We do not revel in watching others hurt. Humanity is built on collective care instead of selfish destruction. We can’t let him convince us otherwise. www.commondreams.org/opinion/la-p...
Who is watching the debates tonight?! Rank: Zohran Mamdani, Brad Lander, Adrienne Adams, Zellnor Myrie. Early voting starts Saturday. #nycvotes #zohranmamdani #dontrankcuomo
June 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Who is watching the debates tonight?! Rank: Zohran Mamdani, Brad Lander, Adrienne Adams, Zellnor Myrie. Early voting starts Saturday. #nycvotes #zohranmamdani #dontrankcuomo
“… that fool crow, picking through trash near the corral, understands the center of the world as greasy strips of fat. Just ask him.
May 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
“… that fool crow, picking through trash near the corral, understands the center of the world as greasy strips of fat. Just ask him.
This call to join together in a rebellion of love, persistence and commitment.
Excerpt from Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s As We Have Always Done
#resistance
Excerpt from Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s As We Have Always Done
#resistance
May 22, 2025 at 1:37 AM
This call to join together in a rebellion of love, persistence and commitment.
Excerpt from Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s As We Have Always Done
#resistance
Excerpt from Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s As We Have Always Done
#resistance
When universities withhold diplomas from valedictorians speaking truth to power and billionaires dismantle public services, our students pay the price. Education isn’t a commodity, it’s a right. We need to defend it.
May 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
When universities withhold diplomas from valedictorians speaking truth to power and billionaires dismantle public services, our students pay the price. Education isn’t a commodity, it’s a right. We need to defend it.
Anyone up for a listening party of Bruce Springsteen albums while we eat Ben and Jerry’s this weekend?
May 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Anyone up for a listening party of Bruce Springsteen albums while we eat Ben and Jerry’s this weekend?
Whose nonexistence is necessary to the self-conception of this place, and how uncontrollable is the rage whenever that nonexistence is violated?
- Omar El Akkad
- Omar El Akkad
May 2, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Whose nonexistence is necessary to the self-conception of this place, and how uncontrollable is the rage whenever that nonexistence is violated?
- Omar El Akkad
- Omar El Akkad
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Congress created the grants in the aftermath of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. The goal was to help schools hire mental health professionals, including counselors and social workers.
Education Department stops $1 billion in funding for school mental health
Congress created the grants in the aftermath of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. The goal was to help schools hire mental health professionals, including counselors and social workers.
www.npr.org
May 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Congress created the grants in the aftermath of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. The goal was to help schools hire mental health professionals, including counselors and social workers.
Tiny drops of magic sprinkled into this gently Spring week
April 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Tiny drops of magic sprinkled into this gently Spring week
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Dear god let this man cook.
April 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Dear god let this man cook.
I keep feeling echoes in my body between what we are seeing now and what I have experienced as a little girl under authoritarianism. This article is of little lessons of survival I’m carrying and I wanted to share them with you . https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/survive-trump-s-authoritarianism
April 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I keep feeling echoes in my body between what we are seeing now and what I have experienced as a little girl under authoritarianism. This article is of little lessons of survival I’m carrying and I wanted to share them with you . https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/survive-trump-s-authoritarianism
“Scholarship cannot flourish in an atmosphere of suspicion and distrust. Teachers and students must always remain free to inquire, to study and to evaluate, to gain new maturity and understanding; otherwise our civilization will stagnate and die.” Justice Earl Warren
April 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
“Scholarship cannot flourish in an atmosphere of suspicion and distrust. Teachers and students must always remain free to inquire, to study and to evaluate, to gain new maturity and understanding; otherwise our civilization will stagnate and die.” Justice Earl Warren
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NEW: Entire scientific fields have been wiped out by the nearly 800 grants cancelled at NIH, finds a @nature.com analysis of the unprecedented cuts.
About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone.
See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:
About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone.
See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:
How Trump 2.0 is slashing NIH-backed research — in charts
Nature analyses which fields of science and US states are being hit hardest by grant terminations.
www.nature.com
April 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
NEW: Entire scientific fields have been wiped out by the nearly 800 grants cancelled at NIH, finds a @nature.com analysis of the unprecedented cuts.
About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone.
See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:
About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone.
See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:
This 👏🏼is 👏🏼how 👏🏼you👏🏼do👏🏼it!
There we go.
MIT following Harvard's lead here
April 15, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This 👏🏼is 👏🏼how 👏🏼you👏🏼do👏🏼it!