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There had better be trials. And not just for the low-level thugs carrying out these orders, but for everyone up the chain of command.
If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics.
It’s trials w real punishments.
If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics.
It’s trials w real punishments.
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 12:45 PM
There had better be trials. And not just for the low-level thugs carrying out these orders, but for everyone up the chain of command.
If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics.
It’s trials w real punishments.
If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics.
It’s trials w real punishments.
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Gonna talk in entomology class today about how Jewish scientists forced to work in Nazi concentration camps secretly sent fake vaccines to the eastern front and managed to kill 4,000 Nazis with typhus.
Vaccine subterfuge: How vaccine-makers fooled the Nazis from inside a concentration camp lab
Confined first at Auschwitz then Buchenwald, a Jewish microbiologist conspired with a ragtag team of scientists and rebels to send dud typhus vaccines to the German soldiers on the eastern front.
www.gavi.org
October 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Gonna talk in entomology class today about how Jewish scientists forced to work in Nazi concentration camps secretly sent fake vaccines to the eastern front and managed to kill 4,000 Nazis with typhus.
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they’ve made it easier to build concentration camps.
Looking to speed up building network of migrant detention centers, Trump administration turns to the US Navy | CNN Politics
The Department of Homeland Security is funneling $10 billion through the Navy to help facilitate the construction of a sprawling network of migrant detention centers across the US in an arrangement ai...
www.cnn.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:18 AM
they’ve made it easier to build concentration camps.
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Maine is the oldest state in the union. Seniors use mail-in voting.
If this ballot measure passes in 9 days in Maine, it will upend the rules of elections in that state in the future — starting, you know it, with next year’s Senate race.
It was pushed by a conservative organization that is aiming to shift the state to a GOP majority.
boltsmag.org/maine-questi...
It was pushed by a conservative organization that is aiming to shift the state to a GOP majority.
boltsmag.org/maine-questi...
A Ballot Measure Targets Mail Voting in Maine - Bolts
Question 1, on the November ballot, would set up a barrage of new restrictions on absentee ballots that would considerably affect older voters and people with disabilities.
boltsmag.org
October 27, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Maine is the oldest state in the union. Seniors use mail-in voting.
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State Supreme Court elections are *super* important for the rest of our democracy. Don't sleep on them.
If Dems win the Supreme Court races in Pennsylvania in 9 days, it’s extremely likely the GOP can’t get a majority on that court until 2029.
The GOP really wants to have this majority during the 2028 presidential race.
Can’t put the stakes any more clearly than that. boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...
The GOP really wants to have this majority during the 2028 presidential race.
Can’t put the stakes any more clearly than that. boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...
Inside the Clunky Elections to Control Pennsylvania's Supreme Court - Bolts
The GOP is making an expensive push to end Democrats’ majority on a court at the center of election lawsuits, sparking a fledging campaign season with little precedent or template.
boltsmag.org
October 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
State Supreme Court elections are *super* important for the rest of our democracy. Don't sleep on them.
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Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.
October 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.
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abolish abolish abolish abolish abolish abolish abolish abolish abolish abolish abolish abolish
“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.
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
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.
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
October 3, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Jesus Christ, how are you so unbelievably bad at this?
A deeply unpopular president is recklessly destroying our government, wrecking our democracy, covering up pedophilia and now threatening to use military force against our own citizens but you're tsk-tsking about protecting healthcare?
A deeply unpopular president is recklessly destroying our government, wrecking our democracy, covering up pedophilia and now threatening to use military force against our own citizens but you're tsk-tsking about protecting healthcare?
The Trump administration’s threat to deploy troops in Portland is unlawful.
Here’s a thought.
Focus on protecting the healthcare of the American people.
Here’s a thought.
Focus on protecting the healthcare of the American people.
September 28, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Jesus Christ, how are you so unbelievably bad at this?
A deeply unpopular president is recklessly destroying our government, wrecking our democracy, covering up pedophilia and now threatening to use military force against our own citizens but you're tsk-tsking about protecting healthcare?
A deeply unpopular president is recklessly destroying our government, wrecking our democracy, covering up pedophilia and now threatening to use military force against our own citizens but you're tsk-tsking about protecting healthcare?
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Don’t worry, once we’ve helped them come for immigrants and trans people, they’re sure to be appeased and dedicated to solidarity in our great big tent and not come after anyone else, as history teaches
September 30, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Don’t worry, once we’ve helped them come for immigrants and trans people, they’re sure to be appeased and dedicated to solidarity in our great big tent and not come after anyone else, as history teaches
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It’s really funny that you can amass hundreds of billions of dollars, and still
Be desperately uncool and dull. I know that’s gotta hurt.
Be desperately uncool and dull. I know that’s gotta hurt.
September 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
It’s really funny that you can amass hundreds of billions of dollars, and still
Be desperately uncool and dull. I know that’s gotta hurt.
Be desperately uncool and dull. I know that’s gotta hurt.
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It is weird that the assassination of essentially a celebrity influencer is a bigger deal than the shooting of two top state legislators + their spouses
September 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
It is weird that the assassination of essentially a celebrity influencer is a bigger deal than the shooting of two top state legislators + their spouses
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Thinking about the family of Representative Melissa Hortman & her husband who were assassinated at the hands of a radical MAGA shooter in June.
Melissa was doing such important work for the state of Minnesota & this country-we grieve her loss & demand strict gun reform legislation.
Melissa was doing such important work for the state of Minnesota & this country-we grieve her loss & demand strict gun reform legislation.
September 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Thinking about the family of Representative Melissa Hortman & her husband who were assassinated at the hands of a radical MAGA shooter in June.
Melissa was doing such important work for the state of Minnesota & this country-we grieve her loss & demand strict gun reform legislation.
Melissa was doing such important work for the state of Minnesota & this country-we grieve her loss & demand strict gun reform legislation.
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For everyone saying political violence has no place in this country…
Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year.
And America shrugged and moved on.
Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year.
And America shrugged and moved on.
September 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
For everyone saying political violence has no place in this country…
Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year.
And America shrugged and moved on.
Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year.
And America shrugged and moved on.
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Important:
institutions protect themselves, not you.
Tenure protections will not stop this.
We need broad labor protections and for tenured faculty to stand up for and stand with contingent colleagues.
institutions protect themselves, not you.
Tenure protections will not stop this.
We need broad labor protections and for tenured faculty to stand up for and stand with contingent colleagues.
and if you’re just waking up that
1) students can do this
2) students do do this
3) there are outside bbstructures of support that reward this (sometimes financially!)
4) your admin will (usually) not protect you
then you have been in a bubble of absurd privilege
1) students can do this
2) students do do this
3) there are outside bbstructures of support that reward this (sometimes financially!)
4) your admin will (usually) not protect you
then you have been in a bubble of absurd privilege
September 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Important:
institutions protect themselves, not you.
Tenure protections will not stop this.
We need broad labor protections and for tenured faculty to stand up for and stand with contingent colleagues.
institutions protect themselves, not you.
Tenure protections will not stop this.
We need broad labor protections and for tenured faculty to stand up for and stand with contingent colleagues.
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They even killed her dog and nobody cared.
For everyone saying political violence has no place in this country…
Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year.
And America shrugged and moved on.
Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year.
And America shrugged and moved on.
September 10, 2025 at 8:58 PM
They even killed her dog and nobody cared.
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Already seeing people excise the essential fact that trans existence was the inciting factor in the Texas A&M professor purge. Don't let them. Our lives are on the line and they want to make this solely about academic censorship.
September 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Already seeing people excise the essential fact that trans existence was the inciting factor in the Texas A&M professor purge. Don't let them. Our lives are on the line and they want to make this solely about academic censorship.
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SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
September 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
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Pritzker is meeting the moment. We know who is not.
Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment:
"To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
"To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
September 2, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Pritzker is meeting the moment. We know who is not.
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“If you want to understand why the Democrats are polling at their lowest point for more than three decades, look no further than these two uninspiring Democratic leaders in Congress.” By @mehdihasan.bsky.social @theguardian.com @zeteo.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It’s time for Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to step down | Mehdi Hasan
This fascist moment, this age of Trump, demands outspoken, unrelenting and fearless opposition. We all deserve better
www.theguardian.com
September 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
“If you want to understand why the Democrats are polling at their lowest point for more than three decades, look no further than these two uninspiring Democratic leaders in Congress.” By @mehdihasan.bsky.social @theguardian.com @zeteo.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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just something to have on hand in these times
How to Keep Tabs on ICE Agents Who May Be Surveilling Your Neighborhood
Here’s a step-by-step guide.
www.teenvogue.com
September 2, 2025 at 10:51 PM
just something to have on hand in these times
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If you're protesting ICE in Chicago, let me know at sheryl@weikallaw.com if you need free legal training or legal support. If you're arrested protesting ICE, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
September 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
If you're protesting ICE in Chicago, let me know at sheryl@weikallaw.com if you need free legal training or legal support. If you're arrested protesting ICE, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
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hi, cis folks!
this is present day reality for UK trans folks. it’s outrageous someone should have to have taken this journey to live as themselves, participate in society, & be with who they love.
hi, cis americans!
this is a future trans americans see that starts with “we need to compromise.”
this is present day reality for UK trans folks. it’s outrageous someone should have to have taken this journey to live as themselves, participate in society, & be with who they love.
hi, cis americans!
this is a future trans americans see that starts with “we need to compromise.”
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
August 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
hi, cis folks!
this is present day reality for UK trans folks. it’s outrageous someone should have to have taken this journey to live as themselves, participate in society, & be with who they love.
hi, cis americans!
this is a future trans americans see that starts with “we need to compromise.”
this is present day reality for UK trans folks. it’s outrageous someone should have to have taken this journey to live as themselves, participate in society, & be with who they love.
hi, cis americans!
this is a future trans americans see that starts with “we need to compromise.”
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You guys see where this is going? Right?
September 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
You guys see where this is going? Right?
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New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download!
California (by county/area)
Chicago
Colorado
DC Metro Area (DMV)
Massachusetts
North Carolina Triangle Area
NYC
Philly
Pittsburgh
Portland, OR
St. Louis Metro Area
Washington State
Please share!
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
California (by county/area)
Chicago
Colorado
DC Metro Area (DMV)
Massachusetts
North Carolina Triangle Area
NYC
Philly
Pittsburgh
Portland, OR
St. Louis Metro Area
Washington State
Please share!
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
August 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM
New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download!
California (by county/area)
Chicago
Colorado
DC Metro Area (DMV)
Massachusetts
North Carolina Triangle Area
NYC
Philly
Pittsburgh
Portland, OR
St. Louis Metro Area
Washington State
Please share!
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
California (by county/area)
Chicago
Colorado
DC Metro Area (DMV)
Massachusetts
North Carolina Triangle Area
NYC
Philly
Pittsburgh
Portland, OR
St. Louis Metro Area
Washington State
Please share!
drive.google.com/drive/folder...