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@bkbeagle.bsky.social
Scholar w a focus on in-prison social movements, prison strikes, prison work, carceral political economy. DJ at Lot Radio. Recording artist w various small bands. rosegardennnn on letterboxd
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This week in NYC at The New School for Social Research!
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When the prison guards went on strike, many inmates said they were doing so to preserve their ability to do things like this.
A @nytimes.com investigation has found that state prison guards have been credibly accused of engaging in such behavior — putting inmates in restraints and then assaulting them — far more often than was previously known.
Restrained, Beaten, Asphyxiated: New York Prison Guards’ Brutality Grows
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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The NYPD is confirming its involvement in an FBI probe targeting volunteer immigration court observers, saying it was part of a “broader counterterrorism investigation" into "a range of possible criminal activities.”

www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/21/n...
NYPD Confirms Involvement in FBI Probe Targeting Volunteer Observers in Immigration Court
An FBI document referred to activists at immigration courts as “anarchist violent extremist actors” and cited a "sensitive source with excellent access” to an encrypted chat.
www.thecity.nyc
November 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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This is, of course, a stark betrayal of the New School’s storied history and animating spirit. It demonstrates something many of us know intellectually but have trouble grasping: many university leaders *do not care* about, even *actively despise*, the basic values that bring us to work every day.
The New School is now a place where students cannot major in History, Anthropology, Sociology, Global Policy & International Affairs, Global Studies, Urban Studies, or Environmental Studies. And more pauses, closures, and mergers coming down the pike this week. The future is uncertain.
November 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Gaza saw its first major rainfall of the season today. Within minutes, people were submerged and tents holding families and children flooded. This is slow death. There is no justification for why proper shelter that can withstand the elements is not being allowed in.
November 15, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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we are going to win
NEW: Dems easily flipped the sheriff's office in Pennsylvania's Bucks County, a big swing county in the Philly suburbs.

So? The incumbent GOP sheriff had contracted with ICE. His Dem challenger promised to end the contract.

Now he wants other swing-state Dems to look at his victory as a lesson:
Voters Ousted This Pennsylvania Sheriff After He Signed Up to Collaborate With ICE - Bolts
A populous, swing county replaced its GOP sheriff on Tuesday after months of controversy over his joining ICE’s 287(g) program. The Democratic winner promises he’ll end the contract.
boltsmag.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility.

Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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A whole new generation is going to be reading about Eugene Debs this morning.

Read him from Haymarket in his own words.

www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1246-t...
The Selected Works of Eugene V. Debs, Vol. I
An extensive compilation of articles, speeches, press statements, and open letters by American socialist Eugene V. Debs.
www.haymarketbooks.org
November 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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NEW: Footage of a US citizen in Chicago being rammed then dragged from her car on her way to work.

Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.

She was later released with NO CHARGE.

A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.

You decide…
November 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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All morning was spent chasing ICE out of my neighborhood in Chicago (Avondale) and meeting other neighbors who were out patrolling on foot, on bikes, and in cars. A caravan of ICE SUVs got within a half block of my house. I finally had to use my whistle. It works. It drew others out to the street.
October 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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"Man goes scorched earth on ICE agents kidnapping people in his hometown."

Source:
old.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...
October 22, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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Protesters have blocked the westbound side of Canal. They are chanting "ICE out of New York now!" and "Liberation, not deportation!"
October 22, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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First pass at the chaotic scene that just happened in Lower Manhattan.

Military-Style Sweep Hits NYC as Masked Federal Agents Arrest Canal Street Vendors www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/21/i...
Military-Style Sweep Hits NYC as Masked Federal Agents Arrest Canal Street Vendors
Spontaneous protestors were met with an armored military vehicle and assault rifles in a crackdown that escalated the Trump administration’s focus on NYC.
www.thecity.nyc
October 21, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Good idea
October 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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you have to call off the state police that is roughing up protesters if you are serious.
Pritzker: Illinois is not a place you can conquer and our people are not your subjects
October 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.
NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.
October 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...
Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.
October 14, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Various prescient folks have been saying for a long time that there's no avoiding a reckoning w the political power of police. This seems set to hit mainstream consciousness as awareness spreads they cannot be relied on to obey dem city/ state leaders who oppose trump/ice
the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.
Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?
October 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Community opposition keeps building, getting more organized 👍
October 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.
October 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately
The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
October 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Stop lying. Your state cops attacked protesters alongside ICE yesterday. I was there. I and others were violently attacked by ICE agents. Your state cops acted in concert with them during the attack.
State, county, and local law enforcement have been working together and coordinating to ensure public safety around the Broadview ICE facility, and to protect people’s ability to peacefully exercise their constitutional rights.
October 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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State police assisted ICE in the performative brutalization and arrest of protesters today. @govpritzker.illinois.gov must answer for this.
A protester tackled and arrested by state police for trying to block an ICE vehicle.
October 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM