Kemi Alabi
@kemiaalabi.bsky.social
Poet. Author of Against Heaven and other experiments. Another world is possible. 🌱
www.kemialabi.com
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Federal agents are overtly abusing their power to try to intimidate advocates and elected officials. We need ICE out of Illinois immediately and justice for people like Ald. Jessie Fuentes who are defending their communities.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/f...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/f...
Federal Agents Handcuff Chicago Alderperson At Hospital ER
In another incident caught on video Friday, federal agents inside a car randomly threw tear gas into a Logan Square street while people — including a 2-year-old — were outside nearby.
blockclubchicago.org
October 3, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Federal agents are overtly abusing their power to try to intimidate advocates and elected officials. We need ICE out of Illinois immediately and justice for people like Ald. Jessie Fuentes who are defending their communities.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/f...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/f...
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All charges brought against protesters at Broadview today must be dropped. When cops and agents attack crowds without provocation, they make shit up to justify their attacks (in his case, an attack waged on a cooperative crowd to produce fascist social media content). These charges must be dropped.
October 4, 2025 at 12:17 AM
All charges brought against protesters at Broadview today must be dropped. When cops and agents attack crowds without provocation, they make shit up to justify their attacks (in his case, an attack waged on a cooperative crowd to produce fascist social media content). These charges must be dropped.
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Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
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I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.
September 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.
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At 47th and Western.
ICE just snatched a man outside Home Depot and then, while speeding away from the scene, nearly hit a 17 year old boy on a scooter on his way to school this morning.
He's okay. He jumped off the scooter in time. Agents didn't check on him; they kept driving.
ICE just snatched a man outside Home Depot and then, while speeding away from the scene, nearly hit a 17 year old boy on a scooter on his way to school this morning.
He's okay. He jumped off the scooter in time. Agents didn't check on him; they kept driving.
September 18, 2025 at 1:39 PM
At 47th and Western.
ICE just snatched a man outside Home Depot and then, while speeding away from the scene, nearly hit a 17 year old boy on a scooter on his way to school this morning.
He's okay. He jumped off the scooter in time. Agents didn't check on him; they kept driving.
ICE just snatched a man outside Home Depot and then, while speeding away from the scene, nearly hit a 17 year old boy on a scooter on his way to school this morning.
He's okay. He jumped off the scooter in time. Agents didn't check on him; they kept driving.
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in wheaton, illinois, this morning—
it appears bystanders helped chase off this crew of ice agents, who had boxed in a person's car outside a convenience store.
multiple people showed up and recorded the interaction. after a brief back-and-forth with agents, the feds got in their cars and left.
it appears bystanders helped chase off this crew of ice agents, who had boxed in a person's car outside a convenience store.
multiple people showed up and recorded the interaction. after a brief back-and-forth with agents, the feds got in their cars and left.
September 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
in wheaton, illinois, this morning—
it appears bystanders helped chase off this crew of ice agents, who had boxed in a person's car outside a convenience store.
multiple people showed up and recorded the interaction. after a brief back-and-forth with agents, the feds got in their cars and left.
it appears bystanders helped chase off this crew of ice agents, who had boxed in a person's car outside a convenience store.
multiple people showed up and recorded the interaction. after a brief back-and-forth with agents, the feds got in their cars and left.
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A friend reposted this by @zellieimani.bsky.social from 2020 and it remains apt:
“For the oppressed, peace is the absence of oppression. But for the oppressor, peace is the absence of resistance."
“For the oppressed, peace is the absence of oppression. But for the oppressor, peace is the absence of resistance."
September 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
A friend reposted this by @zellieimani.bsky.social from 2020 and it remains apt:
“For the oppressed, peace is the absence of oppression. But for the oppressor, peace is the absence of resistance."
“For the oppressed, peace is the absence of oppression. But for the oppressor, peace is the absence of resistance."
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The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.
🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.
www.404media.co
September 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.
🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
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The Sun-Times has more about Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, the man slain by ICE on Friday.
September 16, 2025 at 4:18 AM
The Sun-Times has more about Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, the man slain by ICE on Friday.
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ICE is snatching people across Chicagoland again today.
Insanity inducing number of reports and sightings rolling in, including—you guessed it—agents over at 31st/Cicero again.
A car window smashed near Roosevelt and Cicero. Sightings in Wheeling, southwest side of Chicago, more in Cicero, Melrose Park, Blue Island.
The ring of fire is burning
A car window smashed near Roosevelt and Cicero. Sightings in Wheeling, southwest side of Chicago, more in Cicero, Melrose Park, Blue Island.
The ring of fire is burning
September 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
ICE is snatching people across Chicagoland again today.
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It’s hierarchy.
a reminder that most of the time what appears to be hypocrisy is in fact a coherent statement of values
September 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
It’s hierarchy.
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A man with a green card said ICE agents arrested him in #Lynn, Mass then took him to a detention facility—but first made a detour to a cemetery, where they took him out of their vehicle and beat him.
#mapoli #Massachusetts
#mapoli #Massachusetts
Worker arrested by ICE in Lynn, later released, says agents beat him in cemetery
A Massachusetts man said he told immigration agents multiple times that he's a legal resident and that he was brought to a cemetery where they assaulted him.
www.nbcboston.com
June 12, 2025 at 11:27 PM
A man with a green card said ICE agents arrested him in #Lynn, Mass then took him to a detention facility—but first made a detour to a cemetery, where they took him out of their vehicle and beat him.
#mapoli #Massachusetts
#mapoli #Massachusetts
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ICE is detaining people in torturous conditions in a two-story office building in #Burlington, Mass.
The detainees are barely being fed, can't wash their hands, and are in such confined spaces that they can't all lie down at once.
#Massachusetts #mapoli
www.wbur.org/news/2025/06...
The detainees are barely being fed, can't wash their hands, and are in such confined spaces that they can't all lie down at once.
#Massachusetts #mapoli
www.wbur.org/news/2025/06...
June 8, 2025 at 9:13 PM
ICE is detaining people in torturous conditions in a two-story office building in #Burlington, Mass.
The detainees are barely being fed, can't wash their hands, and are in such confined spaces that they can't all lie down at once.
#Massachusetts #mapoli
www.wbur.org/news/2025/06...
The detainees are barely being fed, can't wash their hands, and are in such confined spaces that they can't all lie down at once.
#Massachusetts #mapoli
www.wbur.org/news/2025/06...
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"Hackers have targeted GlobalX Air, one of the main airlines the Trump administration is using as part of its deportation efforts, and stolen what they say are flight records and passenger manifests of all of its flights, including those for deportation, 404 Media has learned."
May 6, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"Hackers have targeted GlobalX Air, one of the main airlines the Trump administration is using as part of its deportation efforts, and stolen what they say are flight records and passenger manifests of all of its flights, including those for deportation, 404 Media has learned."
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I know you aren't going to want to hear this but the reason the system can deport Mahmoud Khalil and send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador is that for years we've been executing factually innocent people like Marcellus Williams and sending legally innocent people to places like Riker's Island.
April 15, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I know you aren't going to want to hear this but the reason the system can deport Mahmoud Khalil and send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador is that for years we've been executing factually innocent people like Marcellus Williams and sending legally innocent people to places like Riker's Island.
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Drake’s fall from grace—from pop superstar to rap beef punchline—is proof that we as a nation can turn away from Trumpism with the proper amount of ridicule and grassroots communal celebration
I will not be taking questions at this time
I will not be taking questions at this time
this is the most patriotic I’ve felt since 9/11
February 10, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Drake’s fall from grace—from pop superstar to rap beef punchline—is proof that we as a nation can turn away from Trumpism with the proper amount of ridicule and grassroots communal celebration
I will not be taking questions at this time
I will not be taking questions at this time
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19th News [Jan 19] -- New 592-page anthology, “A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States,” took its 40 editors more than a decade to compile. It documents how GAC is not experimental, not new, and not even confined to trans people. Available Feb 1.
[HT @denisenorris.bsky.social]
[HT @denisenorris.bsky.social]
Gender-affirming care isn’t new. An upcoming book sheds light on its history.
More than 40 authors contributed to “A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States,” which took its expert editors more than a decade to compile.
19thnews.org
January 30, 2025 at 2:22 PM
19th News [Jan 19] -- New 592-page anthology, “A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States,” took its 40 editors more than a decade to compile. It documents how GAC is not experimental, not new, and not even confined to trans people. Available Feb 1.
[HT @denisenorris.bsky.social]
[HT @denisenorris.bsky.social]
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Every time you see a story in the media announcing that puberty blockers are banned, it's untrue.
They've just been banned for trans kids.
Cis kids who are in distress because of precocious puberty still get them. Trans kids who in distress, don't.
People, generally, don't know that.
They've just been banned for trans kids.
Cis kids who are in distress because of precocious puberty still get them. Trans kids who in distress, don't.
People, generally, don't know that.
January 29, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Every time you see a story in the media announcing that puberty blockers are banned, it's untrue.
They've just been banned for trans kids.
Cis kids who are in distress because of precocious puberty still get them. Trans kids who in distress, don't.
People, generally, don't know that.
They've just been banned for trans kids.
Cis kids who are in distress because of precocious puberty still get them. Trans kids who in distress, don't.
People, generally, don't know that.
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If you're in Illinois, you're on Section 8, and your landlord tries to evict you because of the government funding freeze, email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. My cases are pay-whatever-you-can.
January 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
If you're in Illinois, you're on Section 8, and your landlord tries to evict you because of the government funding freeze, email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. My cases are pay-whatever-you-can.
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“I didn’t [write this book] out of desire; desire would never be enough to sustain such explorations. I did it to save my life.” — Toi Derricotte discussing the process of writing what became THE BLACK NOTEBOOKS
January 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
“I didn’t [write this book] out of desire; desire would never be enough to sustain such explorations. I did it to save my life.” — Toi Derricotte discussing the process of writing what became THE BLACK NOTEBOOKS
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HAPPENING NOW: DOZENS OF TRANS ADVOCATES AND ALLIES STAGE “BATHROOM SIT-IN” ACROSS SPEAKER JOHNSON OFFICE FOR IMPLEMENTING MACE’S BIGOTED BATHROOM POLICY WITH BANNERS THAT SAY “STOP PISSING ON OUR RIGHTS” AND “FLUSH BATHROOM BIGOTRY” DEMANDING AN END TO ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATION. #BanBathroomBigotry
December 5, 2024 at 5:16 PM
HAPPENING NOW: DOZENS OF TRANS ADVOCATES AND ALLIES STAGE “BATHROOM SIT-IN” ACROSS SPEAKER JOHNSON OFFICE FOR IMPLEMENTING MACE’S BIGOTED BATHROOM POLICY WITH BANNERS THAT SAY “STOP PISSING ON OUR RIGHTS” AND “FLUSH BATHROOM BIGOTRY” DEMANDING AN END TO ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATION. #BanBathroomBigotry
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15 activists, including Chelsea Manning @xychelsea.tv and Raquel Willis @raquelwillis.com, were arrested for occupying a women’s bathroom across from Speaker Mike Johnson’s office in protest of his and Nancy Mace’s proposed federal trans bathroom ban, calling on Dems to “grow a spine” and fight it
Trans Activists Arrested For Occupying Bathroom Outside Mike Johnson's Office
Teen Vogue was present as organizers were arrested from the women's bathroom across from Speaker Johnson's office.
www.teenvogue.com
December 5, 2024 at 8:12 PM
15 activists, including Chelsea Manning @xychelsea.tv and Raquel Willis @raquelwillis.com, were arrested for occupying a women’s bathroom across from Speaker Mike Johnson’s office in protest of his and Nancy Mace’s proposed federal trans bathroom ban, calling on Dems to “grow a spine” and fight it
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Breaking: Chelsea Manning is leading a bathroom sit in protest at the Capitol.
Courtesy of Pablo Manriquez.
Courtesy of Pablo Manriquez.
December 5, 2024 at 5:35 PM
Breaking: Chelsea Manning is leading a bathroom sit in protest at the Capitol.
Courtesy of Pablo Manriquez.
Courtesy of Pablo Manriquez.