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Erin
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Queer Southerner based in Chicago. Archivist and aspiring creative. covid aware. they/he
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South Shore residents of the apartment building raided by ICE expressed feeling abandoned by city and state leaders.

One resident said tenants still haven’t heard from Ald Gregory Mitchell (7th Ward). The South Shore building is in his ward.

thetriibe.com/2025/11/buil...
Building raided by ICE now ‘falling apart from the inside out,’ South Shore residents say • The TRiiBE
“No one paid attention to the fact that people were living here without heat before ICE came,” said Infiniti Gant, a housing organizer with Southside Together. “People were living here with mice and r...
thetriibe.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Photos from St. Paul today captured by MPR photojournalist Kerem Yücel. He filed them even after being hospitalized after being injured by a less lethal munition.
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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The South Side Community Art Center — a Bronzeville landmark that has been an artistic home for generations of Black creatives such as Margaret Burroughs, Gordon Parks and Kerry James Marshall — received a $2 million grant to help restore its historic building and construct a major addition.
Bronzeville's historic arts center's glow-up boosted by new $2 million grant
www.wbez.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50.

I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.

#GiftLink

wapo.st/49WOdx1
Alice Wong, disability rights advocate and wordsmith, dies at 51
Alice Wong, a transformational leader for disability rights and justice, who founded the Disability Visibility project to magnify disabled culture, died Nov. 14.
wapo.st
November 16, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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🗓️This Saturday, Nov. 15 at 1:30-4 PM ET in Brooklyn: Our co-founder @prisonculture.bsky.social is facilitating a discussion circle focused on the contributions of radical Black women activists and theorists in the U.S. from 1910-1960. If you're in NYC and interested in joining, register now to join!
Communiversity Catalog: Black Radical Women in the U.S. 1910–1960: A Study and Discussion Circle — Interrupting Criminalization
www.interruptingcriminalization.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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open.substack.com/pub/faewolfe... - this might be helpful to some of you.
How do you know you're in perimenopause?
20 signs the change has begun.
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Emergency food access locations (Chicago) via growgreaterenglewood on ig 💕
November 5, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Here in Atlanta yesterday, more than 2,000 people waited in their cars—one woman for 14 hours—for a box of food. The giveaway ended early; there wasn't enough to go around.

Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.
November 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Over 10,000 killed within three days.

Pools of blood around a hospital so large they could be seen from space.

An absolute nightmare.
“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism
The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.
yaledailynews.com
November 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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saw someone say right-wingers on SNAP are soon going to have to decide if being racist is worth being hungry, as though the entire mechanism by which fascist populism propagates isn't convincing people to vote for being hungry by enticing them with the chance to be racist
October 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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People get irate when you don’t “perform” poverty correctly.
It annoys me when people say “they’re on SNAP but their hair and nails are done and they’ve got tattoos”. It’s extremely normal to do your own hair and buy press on nails, and tattoos literally last forever. What do tattoos someone got 10 years ago have to do with them needing to eat now
October 27, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Not only is it going to be a hunger crisis, it's going to be a farm crisis. All those gallons of milk bought from dairy farmers, all the produce, all the on sale ground beef and packs of chicken that are paid for by SNAP are subsidies to farmers who don't qualify for commodities subsidies.
October 26, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.

Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:

* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled

* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
October 27, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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CDC ordered staff this week not to release their experts’ assessment that found the risk of catching measles is high in areas near outbreaks where vaccination rates are lagging.

“The decision to vaccinate is a personal one,” a spokesperson said, echoing a line from a recent editorial RFK Jr. wrote
March 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Evergreen reminder that cops lie.

ICE, prosecutors, and federal, state and local law enforcement officers lie and mislead the public around everything from crime stats to individual instances of violence by agents. We should never repeat their narratives unchecked, as if what they say is factual.
How to Clean Up Copaganda — Interrupting Criminalization
bit.ly
October 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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The IG page @littlevillagelocal posted a few videos and a photo of what happened in the nhood today. Their caption was so moving! It spoke to ICE attempting to enter doors throughout the nhood but people and businesses resisting and locking their doors. La Villita Se Defiende.
October 23, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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If you haven't signed up for a migra watch or legal observer training yet time to do it comrades
October 23, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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You can *care* about many things and you can only take concrete & sustained action on 1 or 2 things.
October 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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I talked with @prisonculture.bsky.social and Red Schulte about the importance of zines under fascism, political education that builds power, finding collective courage, and the mistakes we’ll make along the way. Audio + transcript:
Making Things Together: Zines, Strategy, and Survival
“We’re going to need a lot more in-person opportunities for us to expand our humanity,” says organizer Mariame Kaba.
truthout.org
October 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Here is a block list for them bsky.app/profile/best...
Blockety block block BLOCK!!!
October 17, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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US Government accounts have arrived on Bluesky.

Block on sight.

Protect your digital space.

Be aware that the DHS account in particular is known to quote dunk on regular people to encourage their followers to harass them.

The detach quote function will come in very handy here…
October 17, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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If anyone's wondering how this is possible, the answer is these strike teams are moving terrifyingly fast. Grab first, ask questions later. We were about 8-15 minutes behind them today for several hours. They're jumping out of vans, chasing people across lawns, taking them from bus stops, etc
30 people disappeared in this shaded area today.
October 17, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Blessed to see D’Angelo in Detroit back in 2015.
October 14, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Losing Assata, Miss Major and D’Angelo is quick succession has been jarring. Thankful for and buoyed by the work of all three. What gifts they all were to this world.
October 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM