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Longtime theater person, everyday climate person. Humans are born with rights.
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sashafury.blackskycomra.de
People seriously need to attend to the possibilities that capitalism has displaced in their imaginations.
November 19, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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royalpratt.bsky.social
Sister JoAnn Persch, immigrant rights activist who prayed the rosary outside Broadview every week since 2007, has died. Block Club’s Lucia Preziosi
with the obituary blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/18/s...
Sister JoAnn Persch, Trailblazing Immigrant Rights Activist, Dies At 91
Sister JoAnn Persch spent decades with the Sisters of Mercy, fighting for immigrant and refugee rights in Chicago and across the country. She prayed the rosary outside the Broadview ICE facility every...
blockclubchicago.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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blackamazon.bsky.social
Do you know what kind of writing we might have had if some of the white girls who didn’t sleep with sources got a shot.

Mang can you imagine if the babies from Teen Vogue had a crack at RFK JR.
November 19, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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michaelmgirard.bsky.social
This is the sort of thing that should be prevented by the #FDA, indirectly led by #RFK.
November 19, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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hebagowayed.bsky.social
Today there was an attempted ICE raid in Bensonhurst & community members showed up. Even though NYPD collaborated with ICE by trying to disburse the crowd; community members stood their ground & ICE left without kidnapping a single person per the rapid response groups I'm on. We protect us!
November 19, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
Harvard Management Company increased investment in an exchange trade fund tracking the value of Bitcoin in the third quarter, making the iShares Bitcoin Trust its largest disclosed U.S. equity holding.

Avani B. Rai and Saketh Sundar report.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Bitcoin Now Harvard’s Largest Publicly Disclosed Holding, Tripling in Size in Third Quarter | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard Management Company dramatically increased its investment in iShares Bitcoin Trust, an exchange trade fund tracking the value of Bitcoin, in the third quarter of this year.
www.thecrimson.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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us-political-news.bsky.social
ICE agent arrested in southern California for pulling a gun on a 17 year old teenager…

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November 18, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social
This story is honestly insane. Faraway investors buying up Detroit homes and turning them into crypto tokens; letting housing fall into disrepair, and evicting residents. This is what happens in an extraction economy.
rooseveltinstitute.org Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 15h
Housing + Private Equity = A recipe for profit over people.

As urgency grows around housing and affordability, we peel back the curtain on an issue impacting hundreds of Detroit residents: housing as a digital investment asset.
https://bit.ly/4o1ISIg
November 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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thierryaaron.bsky.social
Speaking of Larry Summers.

Here's what he famously said about toxic waste and #climate breakdown.

What a di*k! 🤡

Quoted here by @annpettifor.bsky.social
annpettifor.substack.com/p/nordhaus-r...
Of the ten economists Nordhaus surveyed one is Lawrence Summers, ex-President of Harvard University, director of the National Economic Council from 2009-10, and the 71st United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1999 to 2001. It was he, who as the World Bank’s Chief Economist from ’91 to ’93, signed off on an internal memo arguing that exporting pollution to countries with lower wages would reduce “foregone earnings from increased morbidity and mortality,” so that “the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that.” Larry Summers appears as No.17 on the list. Under the sub-heading Apocalypse or Small Potatoes, Nordhaus asks respondents for their “best guess” at the impact of 3-degree warming by 2090. The reaction ..in the words of respondent 17, would be “small potatoes.”
November 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
In the Oak Park neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan, on November 17, 2025, an ICE goon tased a non-resisting woman and then threw her non-responsive body into his truck like a rag doll.
November 18, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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dfarnitano.bsky.social
“I’ll fight until hell freezes over and then I’ll cut the ice and fight on”
post by @jamellebouie.net from chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over" Nothing made slavery's toxicity more obvious to Union troops than its effect on the fundamental unit of society, the family. For one thing, slave sales separated families. In the Upper South, where many Union soldiers were stationed in 1861, about one in three first marriages was broken by sale, and about half of all slave children were separated from at least one parent. 129 With their own eyes, soldiers saw slavery snap bonds between parents and children. The men of the Seventh Wisconsin were awakened by gunshots one November night. The following day, soldiers "learned, and saw the cause of the alarm in the form of two negro women—a mother and a daughter." The pair had fled to Union lines to avoid the proposed sale of the "goodlooking" daughter into the so-called fancy trade, which soldiers viewed as a form of concubinage. Outraged by the plight and moved by the vulnerability of the mother and daughter, "every private in the ranks" cursed "that system which tramples on the honor of man, and makes merchandise of the virtue of women," according to one member of the regiment. 130 When an Iowan encountered a young child about to be sold by her own father, who was also her master, he vowed, "By G-d I'll fight till hell freezes over and then I'll cut the ice and fight on."
November 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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cwebbonline.com
This is bullshit! What are the charges?

📌 Border Patrol arrested two women for allegedly honking their car horn to alert others of the agents’ presence
November 18, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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indivisible.org
From Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, we’re saying “We Ain’t Buying It” and asking Americans to hit pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=ind_wabi
(above images of the Target, Amazon, and Home Depot logos that have been crossed out) We Ain't Buying It Target Companies This action is taking direct aim at Target, for caving to this administration's biased attacks on DEl; Home Depot, for allowing and colluding with ICE to kidnap our neighbors on their properties; and Amazon, for funding this administration to secure their own corporate tax cuts.
November 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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chromatowski.bsky.social
“ABC11 spoke with Lori Lober, a study participant. Initially, she was given a grim prognosis, with median survival rate of less than 2 to 3% for five years. However, the trial at Duke Health gave her new hope. She has remained disease-free for 24 years.”

I could cry.
Duke Health researchers announces breakthrough in breast cancer vaccine trial
A small group of women with advanced breast cancer participated in a trial where they received a vaccine, and all are alive today.
abc11.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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papootx.bsky.social
Cops Arrest ICE Agent For Whipping Out Gun on Driver

Police arrested ICE agent for assault with a deadly weapon.

He approached a 17-year-old boy on a dark street in Riverside CA with his sidearm drawn and pointed toward the window.

www.thedailybeast.com/cops-arrest-...
Cops Arrest ICE Agent For Whipping Out Gun on Driver, 17
A lawyer says things have “gotten so bad” that the official thinks he can “turn his own block into his personal ICE checkpoint.”
www.thedailybeast.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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michaelburchert.bsky.social
Wow, it seems like we just need to stop poisoning the world.
watershed-i.bsky.social WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 2d
Only 2 years since the ban on neonics, France's population of insect-eating birds has risen 2-3% - from banning a single type of insecticide. Demonstrating just how much harm we cause birds when pesticides kill off the insects they need for food.
@paneurope.bsky.social
guyshrubsole.bsky.social Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 2d
Good news: Study shows France’s birds making tentative recovery after neonicotinoid pesticide ban

UK has only just closed loophole in neonics ban (‘derogations’) so may be too soon to see recovery here?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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kashana.blacksky.app
If you don’t want to hate read any part of that book, this was a great year for books that are actually good! I’d recommend Great Black Hope by Rob Franklin, Discontent by Beatriz Serrano, Audition by Katie Kitamura, Boom Town by Nic Stone, and The Payback, by me.
November 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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palumboliu.bsky.social
The beginnings of elite art collection coincided with the rise of the robber barons and the suppression of the labor movement. Kin connects this to Taylorism and the idea of scientific management, that further extenuated the rift between the mind and the body, intellectual activity and labor.
November 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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oliviamesser.bsky.social
79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5.

He’s been taken by ICE in Florida.

www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...
Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S.
Paul Bojerski never gained official residency, but he checked in regularly with ICE for years. Then in July, at age 79, he was detained and sent to Alligator Alcatraz.
www.orlandosentinel.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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neurograce.bsky.social
Yes! We handed them out in WSP this weekend with @handsoffnycfams.bsky.social / @handsoffnyc.bsky.social
melissagiragrant.com Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 1d
“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles
Taking a cue from Chicago, community groups have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks — a grassroots system people in other cities have adopted to help neighbors sound the alarm.
www.thecity.nyc
November 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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drandrewthaler.bsky.social
Bitcoin now consuming as much energy as the entire country of Pakistan.

That seems bad.
ketanjoshi.co Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Jan 30
The people at CBECI were kind enough to send me a copy of their updated Bitcoin power consumption data

At the end of 2024, Bitcoin's total consumption for 2024 *did* end up matching that of Pakistan. 2024 saw the biggest jump in power consumption ever. Absolutely wild stuff ->

ccaf.io/cbnsi/cbeci
November 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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wtp-protest.bsky.social
Between the insurance companies and hospital administrators, there is little room for health practitioners and patients.
November 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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josephcox.bsky.social
New: this app lets ICE track vehicles and owners across the country. ICE uses phone to scan license plates, add to a database of billions of records. Thomson Reuters then enriches that with marriage, voter, other info. Can predict where a car will be in the future
www.404media.co/this-app-let...
This App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country
Material viewed by 404 Media shows data giant Thomson Reuters enriches license plate data with marriage, voter, and ownership records. The tool can predict where a car may be in the future.
www.404media.co
November 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
"The cyclists arrive at sunrise, rolling through Chicago’s Latino neighborhoods and stopping at tamale carts, elote stands & candy stalls. They buy out every last item — every tamale, every corn cob, every bundle of sweets. Then they load up the food and deliver it to shelters and families in need."
wgntv.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM