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Cassie Miller
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Senior research analyst at the Southern Poverty Law Center. Historian.
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cassiemiller.bsky.social
The antiabortion movement has produced an incredible amount of violence, and many members believe people who have and perform abortions should face the death penalty—a segment that appears to be growing. This seems to be another example of the violence against clinics that has increased post-Dobbs.
jessicavalenti.bsky.social Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 1d
An anti-abortion protester has shot someone outside of a South Carolina Planned Parenthood.

My source says one person was injured and taken to the hospital—and that the protester was arrested.

More soon.
November 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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kathleenbelew.bsky.social
This is the facility where masked thugs put our neighbors, friends, and community members after they snatch them off the street. Please note that they are doing this to long-term residents, too. This is not targeted at criminals. They are grabbing tamale vendors, landscapers, preschool teachers.
lyndab08.bsky.social Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 8d
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 5:01 PM
cassiemiller.bsky.social
These people want to pretend they have sophisticated arguments, but this just boils down to “women shouldn’t be in the workplace.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
“and feminine virtues and vices — but those things are always a spectrum, and it's hard to get a grip on them. And if I sat here and said, Women tend to be more emotional, while men tend to be more intellectual, you could have five perfectly valid objections to that right off the bat. So I think I will restrict myself to the judgment on which I am confident, which is that the pathology in our institutions known as wokeness is distinctively feminine and feminized. And that, in a very literal sense, our institutions have gone woke because there are more women in them than there used to be. Douthat: What is the essential nature of wokeness that you associate with a certain kind of feminized politics or feminized ways of relating to other people, relating to colleagues or co-workers, or anything else?”
November 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
The welfare state is about dignity, equality, and making people not poor, but as @itsafronomics.bsky.social says/cites here, it’s often also an investment that more than pays for itself
itsafronomics.bsky.social Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 15d
Why should you 🫵🏿 care about SNAP? SNAP recipients saw:

- Improved life expectancy
- Lower chance of incarceration
- Lowers chance of poverty
- Lived in better neighborhoods
- Higher human capital

SNAP keeps our neighbors fed, communities safer, and kids educated. Also people are HUNGRY. DUH!
November 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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politico.com
EXCLUSIVE: Embattled Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia told Republicans that the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and that he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a group chat viewed by POLITICO.
Trump nominee says he has a ‘Nazi streak,’ bashes MLK Jr. Day, according to texts
Paul Ingrassia’s bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.
www.politico.com
October 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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maureenf.bsky.social
30 people disappeared in this shaded area today.
October 17, 2025 at 12:28 AM
cassiemiller.bsky.social
Victories are hard to come by these days but WE WON.
adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social Adam Steinbaugh @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social · Oct 16
Federal court (after six years!) rules on and dismisses Gavin McInnes' lawsuit against the @splcenter.org

The case sought to declare it defamatory to say McInnes and the Proud Boys are "extremists," "far-right," a "hate group", or "white supremacists."

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Aside from what is actually alleged in the complaint (including materials adopted in it) , which is all the court may look at, see Coral Ridge, 6 F.4th at 1253, Mcinnes's briefing returns to the same losing refrain: the Proud Boys says it is not a hate group; SPLC acknowledges that the Proud Boys says it is not a hate group and that the group contends that it has engaged in non-hateful activity; therefore, SPLC acted with actual malice in describing it as a hate group. Under this flawed formulation, any published statement denied by a public figure is, by virtue of that denial, published with actual malice. squarely rejected. The Eleventh Circuit has noted that "there is a fair debate about whether the term hate group is definable in such a way that it is provable as false" and that the "debate is complicated [further] by the fact that SPLC put its own definition of the term on its website." Coral. Ridge, 6 F.4th at 1252 n.7. This court need not resolve at this time the questions posed in that debate. But if it had to, it has already found that SPLC's hate group designation was not provable as false because "there is no single, commonly understood meaning of the term 'hate group'" from which to test the label's veracity. Coral. Ridge, 406 F. Supp. 3d 1258, 1274 (M.D. Ala. 2019) (Thompson, J.). The underlying issue highlighted throughout Mcinnes' s arguments is that SPLC has amassed too much influence over social media companies. This is neither here nor there. It has been said that the film critic Roger Ebert could make or break a film's financial... success in three words or less. Ebert could have declared that "The Godfather" was a hateful, misogynistic, deeply racist film and that could have ruined the film's boxoffice. But that would not, by fiat of Ebert' s influence, make his judgment-based opinion a fact. That is, Ebert calling the movie hateful does not make the movie, in fact, hateful.
October 17, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
There are so many obvious constitutional violations in this story. It is enraging.
There is no war, there is no foreign invasion, there is nothing that justify it. This is a choice to create a military presence that will brutalize residents of cities that do not support the President.
lyndab08.bsky.social Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · Oct 15
"The boy, who is Hispanic and African American, was held in a garage for five hours “without informing his family, stating any charges, or allowing him to call an attorney,” the statement said. He is a U.S. citizen, as is his entire immediate family, the release said."
Feds ram SUV after chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd
The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood. Two men being pursued were arrested as were two bystanders. The crash drew dozens of neighbors who...
chicago.suntimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.
On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help. "I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed. "I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions. "I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her, 'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.
October 11, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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miriamelder.bsky.social
Impossible to delink this from the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - the total militarization of law enforcement. Story opens with a Black Hawk helicopter deployed against Americans and only gets worse from there abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground
ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.
abc7chicago.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
“Fuck them kids.”

That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.

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bangs. "They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'" Watson said trucks and military-style vans were used to separate parents from their children. Other neighbors said agents destroyed property to get in the building. "They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down," said witness Darrell Ballard. "We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."
October 3, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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alexwenzel.bsky.social
That quote is not out of context, the full version is worse.
“Then obviously the particular characteristics of an individual, how they look, how do they look compare to, say, you?” he said to the reporter, a tall, middle-aged man of Anglo descent.
September 29, 2025 at 12:47 AM
cassiemiller.bsky.social
There has been a lot of coverage of Return to the Land, but @jtischauser.bsky.social and I dug a bit deeper into the history of white supremacist compounds and how RTTL’s ultimate aim is to ultimately undo the Fair Housing Act and legalize segregation www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...
Inside Return to the Land ‘whites-only’ community in Arkansas
A group of white nationalists attempt to build a white separatist neighborhood on 160 acres — an outright attack on the Fair Housing Act.
www.splcenter.org
September 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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jtischauser.bsky.social
NEW, from @cassiemiller.bsky.social and me.

We looked into the history of white supremacist compound building in the U.S. to put Return to the Land's efforts in Arkansas into perspective.

www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...
Inside Return to the Land ‘whites-only’ community in Arkansas
A group of white nationalists attempt to build a white separatist neighborhood on 160 acres — an outright attack on the Fair Housing Act.
www.splcenter.org
September 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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maitelsadany.bsky.social
They ripped him apart from his US citizen pregnant wife. They detained him 1,200 miles from home. They denied him the birth of his son. They made him miss graduation. They defamed him. And now, a LA immigration judge has ordered his deportation.

All because spoke, organized, assembled.

For shame.
September 18, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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crampell.bsky.social
Texas DA once paid for an abortion — then charged a woman who had one with murder, court filing claims www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Texas DA who charged abortion patient with murder accused of once paying for one
Three years after Texas prosecutors charged a woman with murder for inducing her own abortion, the local district attorney is accused of paying for an abortion while having an affair decades ago.
www.houstonchronicle.com
August 13, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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hannahgais.bsky.social
DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man?

Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.
Homeland Security @DHSgov Which way, American man? http://JOIN.ICE.GOV photo of uncle sam with his hat off at a crossroads with title "America Needs You, Join ICE Now"
August 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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fireantprincess.bsky.social
if you all need a taste of how long it takes to undo fascism, the weimar republic legalized abortions, the fascists made them illegal, and we still have remnants of the fascist anti-abortion laws right now in germany, abortions are illegal but decriminalized. we still are not back at weimar.
junlper.beer onion person @junlper.beer · Aug 11
this is tragically going to work. they’re going to roll back all rights to before the time of ronald reagan and it’s going to take so much to reverse course of this fascism
August 12, 2025 at 7:28 AM
cassiemiller.bsky.social
Paul Ingrassia has a Senate confirmation hearing tomorrow. Here are some things he has said and done:
-Attended a Nick Fuentes rally
-Argued that “reverse racism against European and Christian culture is far, far more insidious than any other kind of ‘racism.”
www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...
Bigoted beliefs and racist ties found among more Trump administration personnel
In its first months in office, the second Trump administration has welcomed personnel who embrace conspiracy theories, bigotry and racism. These are people who have the power to shape the nation’s imm...
www.splcenter.org
July 23, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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oliverbullough.bsky.social
I'm not lost for words very often, but I have no idea how anyone could sit down and write this.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/o...
July 23, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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fahrenthold.bsky.social
NEW TONIGHT: The IRS says that churches can now endorse candidates from the pulpit, carving out an exemption to the decades-old ban on politicking by nonprofits.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...
I.R.S. Says Churches Can Endorse Candidates From the Pulpit
www.nytimes.com
July 8, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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andreapitzer.bsky.social
I wrote about how the Everglades experiment fits into the history of concentration camps in the US and abroad, and how it will connect a domestic network of camps to an international one. We’re watching the imposition of a global concentration camp network.
Opinion | Don’t call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp.
This facility’s purpose fits the classic model, and its existence points to serious dangers ahead for the country.
www.msnbc.com
July 5, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Jun 28
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:

- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
joncooper-us.bsky.social Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Jun 28
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June 29, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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jtischauser.bsky.social
NEW, from me: I found long time far-right activist and defense lawyer, Jason Lee Van Dyke. leading training efforts inside Patriot Front.

www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...
Extremist lawyer appears to be training Patriot Front to fight
A longtime far-right activist and defense lawyer with a history of making death threats, Jason Lee Van Dyke appears to be leading Brazilian jujitsu (BJJ) training efforts inside Patriot Front, accordi...
www.splcenter.org
June 25, 2025 at 10:29 PM