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@mayhlin.bsky.social
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Movement rooted researcher & educator @ center for empowered politics and CSULB. Long Beach, CA
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prisonculture.bsky.social
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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cristianfarias.com
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
October 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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thellpsx.bsky.social
The Sameer Project has been doing crucial work to get food into Gaza. Gaza is facing mass, created starvation- people are dropping in the street from lack of food and water. Never again is now. Donate if you can and spread the ord. linktr.ee/thesameerpro...
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We are a donations based aid initiative for Gaza led by Palestinians,
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July 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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aljazeera.com
A cast member of Verdi's opera Il Trovatore unfurled a Palestinian flag on stage at London's Royal Opera House, despite attempts from someone backstage to take it away.

A spokesperson for the Royal Ballet and Opera called it a “wholly inappropriate act.”
July 21, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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ddayen.bsky.social
Yuriana Julia Pelaez Calderon, an organizer with the Los Angeles-based Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, was picked up by men in an unmarked car last Wednesday, and nobody knows where she is. She made a phone call late Friday and the information she gave is chilling:
Juli was able to make a phone call late Friday and told her family that: She is in a warehouse, but she does not know the location She believes that the people who picked her up are bounty hunters There are many others being held where she is being held.
June 29, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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molliekatzen.bsky.social
Take a minute to look at these increases to the ICE budget in the GOP mega bill. Take another minute to let it sink in. They're preparing a police state that will far exceed rounding up Spanish-speaking brown people.
June 29, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
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 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM
mayhlin.bsky.social
I'm attending We Are California's event, “Hands Off LA Emergency Teach-In” - sign up now to join me! #wearecalifornia www.mobilize.us/millionvoter...
Hands Off LA Emergency Teach-In · We Are California
What’s really happening in LA? We’re talking about the Trump Administrations invasion of Los Angeles and the disappearing our loved ones and neighbors. We Are CA and we believe that our immigrant ...
www.mobilize.us
June 19, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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jonathancohn.bsky.social
These 75 Democrats joined Republicans to "express gratitude" to ICE agents and call for greater local and state collaboration with ICE.

jonathancohn.medium.com/a-tale-of-tw...
June 10, 2025 at 4:27 AM
mayhlin.bsky.social
“Those same networks of community organizers and activists — many of whom had previously mobilized around housing justice, Palestinian solidarity and other causes — quickly pivoted to immigration enforcement protests.”
lapublicpress.bsky.social LA Public Press @lapublicpress.bsky.social · Jun 9
ICE raids tried to split LA apart, but might have made it stronger.

From coordinating wildfire relief to blocking ICE buses, community organizers say LA County residents keep proving that in a city of strangers, nobody fights alone.
ICE raids tried to split LA apart, but might have made it stronger
From coordinating wildfire relief to blocking ICE buses, community organizers say Los Angeles County residents keep proving that in a city of strangers, nobody fights alone. Over the past three days, ...
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June 10, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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phillewis.bsky.social
“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.”

Doechii at the #BETAwards
June 10, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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ddayen.bsky.social
The correct way to connect the authoritarian presence in LA and the Big Beautiful Bill is that the bill gives the government the resources to do this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your town if the bill passes.
June 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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haymarketbooks.org
Another world is possible if we fight for it.
FREE Ebooks: Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about border and poli...
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June 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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interruptcrim.bsky.social
Solidarity with every single person showing up to defend and protect their loved ones, their neighbors, and their community against state violence. All we have is each other.

We’re staring down fascism and authoritarianism; the only side to be on and to support unequivocally, is that of protesters.
erinscafe.bsky.social erinscafe @erinscafe.bsky.social · Jun 7
The most striking thing about the LA protests is how many people just dropped everything to show up and yell at federal agents. There are people in suits, and carrying dogs, and wearing flip flops or bike helmets.

These are not people who planned to do this today. But there they are.
June 10, 2025 at 12:03 AM
mayhlin.bsky.social
Proud of my hometown ❤️
adefwebserver.com Michael Washington @adefwebserver.com · Jun 9
Here is the entire start to finish video of how we kicked ICE out of the AC Hotel in #Pasadena on 6/8/2025 - #NoIce #Pasadena #Protest CC: @maddow.msnbc.com
June 9, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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shoton35mm.bsky.social
I'm outside Metropolitan Detention Center where a group of around 50 ppl are protesting the recent immigration raids. Tensions flared for a moment when federal police cleared a path for several vehicles to enter the Federal Building. @lataco.bsky.social
June 8, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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chadloder.bsky.social
Heavily-armed DHS paramilitary forces in military vehicles fired dozens of stun grenades at a crowd of onlookers today in Los Angeles.
June 7, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
“Making durable changes isn’t always about the raw numbers,” says @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social. In addition to hearing Olúfẹ́mi's insights on protest & organizing, this episode may also appeal to people who want to hear me nerd out about direct action. Audio + transcript: truthout.org/audio/awaren...
“Obviously, the more people are involved, the better, and there’s a reason to keep track of how many people are involved, but we really need to focus in on what we’re getting people involved to do. And it’s got to be something better, deeper, and more compelling than just telling people to express displeasure with how things are going.” — Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
May 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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mommunism.bsky.social
We were hoping that this letter to @bsky.app could first be shared by a Gazan, but we were too worried that doing so would get their account deleted so we are sharing first.

You can sign on to the letter about the unfair treatment of Gazans on Bluesky here:

docs.google.com/document/d/1...
[CLICK here if you would like your name added to this letter] النسخة العربية من هذه الرسالة متاحة أدناه. Open Letter to the Bluesky Team About Their Treatment of Palestinians in Gaza The signatories of this letter are all members of the Bluesky community, many of us have actively participated on the platform since its inception. We came to Bluesky because it was a breath of fresh air, a place that felt different from many of the other social media platforms. The lack of a central algorithm, the ability to build and use custom feeds, and the lack of penalty for link promotion contributed to an environment that allowed diverse and interesting voices to find their footing and community on Bluesky. While some of the signatories of this letter have had no issues with speaking their mind publicly on Bluesky, unfortunately that is not true for all the signatories because many are Palestinians currently living in Gaza. These Palestinians are journalists, artists, engineers, teachers, grandmas, entrepreneurs, a man who owned an ice cream shop, a pediatrician who has been featured on CBS Morning News, aid workers, architects, waiters, pharmacists, students–and perhaps most essential to the backbone of Bluesky, posters. All of these people provide unique and interesting voices to the Bluesky community. However, unlike the other signatories of this letter, these Bluesky community members have struggled to keep their accounts on the platform. Most of them have lost multiple accounts and/or have had their accounts labeled as spam. Some cannot even make an account without it immediately being removed from the platform. Gazans undertake immense efforts to simply be on Bluesky. Sometimes, they walk for miles just to have access to the internet. They scale rooftops where they are exposed to potential military attacks just for the opportunity to get better cell signals–one signatory of this letter tragically lost her brother this way. They use what little money they have to pay … Gazans have also been aggressively targeted and unfairly reported by bad actors. Many accounts openly encourage the reporting and targeting of any Palestinian. Several groups exist for the express purpose of looking for Palestinian accounts to report. We believe Bluesky owes Gazans, and the entire community who benefits from their voices, a greater duty of care especially in the context of the horrors they are enduring. We ask Bluesky to implement the following changes: Provide information on all Bluesky-affiliated websites in Arabic that explains the rules and expectations of the site in clear language. Investigate the accounts that are mass-reporting Palestinians on Bluesky. The mass reporting of Palestinians on Bluesky is a group effort to render the platform a hostile place for a community based on their ethnicity. As such, it is racism, and should be understood as such. Reports against Palestinians who have broken no community guidelines must be understood as racism, and the accounts that submit those reports should be disregarded in the future. Many Bluesky users encourage Gazans to tag or reply to them, and this is not always understood as unwelcome behavior. If an account is reported as Spam for tagging or replying to others, treat only reports from the tagged/mentioned account as legitimate, seeing as they were the only ones who received a notification. Send emails regarding disciplinary action every time it is taken. Gazans do not always get an email explaining what they did wrong, and those that do are required to parse a language they do not speak in order to understand their violation. Have these emails contain an easily visible link to information about their violations in Arabic. Respond to appeals in a timely fashion, many Gazans simply never hear back from Bluesky after they appeal a decision. In addition to removing Gazans for alleged spam behavior, Bluesky has also sometimes indicated that they are deleting an account for being a scam or … End IP bans on any account from Gaza and allow them to make new accounts where they can comply with Bluesky rules and continue to be valued members of the community. We understand that even if all these changes are made, many Gazans may still violate Bluesky rules in the future, but we hope that Bluesky will abandon their punitive approach to these violations and instead embrace an attitude of education, cooperation and community care– one that works to ensure people in Gaza can participate in a way that keeps their voices heard. We also call on the Bluesky community to help and support these accounts however they can. We want to continue to build a healthy community with better community members and this cannot be done if Gazans continue to be shunned. We can use this as an opportunity to show how to protect all vulnerable groups in the future. We hope that Bluesky does not follow the path of other social media platforms and instead forges ahead with a different philosophy. After all, that is the reason so many of its users are there. Bluesky's ethos of "No Caesars” should apply to all members of its community. [To add your name to the list of signatories, click here.]
May 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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birchbot.bsky.social
🗣️ WHAT HAPPENED IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THIS WEEK - May 19-25 - MAGA Murder Budget

Please share this flyer far and wide! Print and post them everywhere - hand them out at your next Tesla Takedown, at your church, at your grocery store!

We are all we’ve got! And everyone has something to give. 💜
MAGA Murder Budget Republicans in the House of Representatives passed their mega-budget bill in the wee hours of the morning on Thursday. They held the debate and vote starting at 1am because they didn’t want the public to see what was happening in real time. This budget is bad news for almost everyone, the exception being people who earn more than $1M per year *and* who are US Citizens. Work reporting requirements: enrollees who are between the ages of 19-64 would be required to upload proof every month that they worked at least 80 hours during the previous month. They would have to do this reporting every single month. Eliminate gender affirming care for Medicaid and ACA beneficiaries: the bill bans gender affirming care for all Medicaid recipients, including adults. It also prohibits “gender transition procedures” from being included as an “essential health benefit” for all insurance plans purchased in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace. Almost 1 in 4 trans people are medicaid beneficiaries. It is unclear how many trans people are enrolled in ACA plans. For the first time, parents with children over the age of 6 would be required to prove they are working at least 80 hours-per-month or face losing their SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits. This would affect more than 4 million children. Reducing free school lunch eligibility: Right now, if at least 25% of students participate in programs like Medicaid or SNAP, then a school automatically qualifies for the free lunch program. This budget would increase that requirement from 25% to 60% of students. Work requirements do not make it easier to achieve gainful employment. They can’t change how many or what kind of employers are hiring. They don’t provide people with training or education to become gainfully employed. Work requirements don’t increase employment rates. Study of states that have added more stringent work requirements found no meaningful change in employment rates. Good news of the week: The Boss (a.k.a. Bruce Springsteen) has been using his tour to speak out against the Tyrant President. Boy oh boy did Trump get mad about it. From The Boss himself, “It's in the union of people around a common set of values, now that’s what stands between democracy and authoritarianism…There’s some very weird, strange, and dangerous shit going on out there right now. In America, the richest men are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world’s poorest children to sickness and death. This is happening now, in my country.” Now, we don’t all have the platform that Bruce Springsteen has, but let’s take inspiration from him and use our thousands of voices to speak bravely about what is happening. Call your Senators and US Representative - find them here. Check out https://5calls.org/ for scripts on what to say! Protest: mark you calendar for June 14 https://shorturl.at/OY3wN Trump wants to have a dictator’s birthday celebration. Get ready to show him there are no kings and no dictators in this country. Learn about the origins of the Public Library https://tinyurl.com/pbslib Public libraries are one of the last, great public goods we have in the US. We must protect them. Donate: Local food banks https://tinyurl.com/468293ck They will need all the help they can get if this budget passes as-is. People will lose their SNAP benefits, and children will lose free school meals in many places. They will be turning to food banks for help.
May 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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equalityalec.bsky.social
This article describes it in more depth, but I want to focus on a few things. First, when you build infrastructure like this and create new jobs/pensions for right-wing unions, it's hard to ever remove them. This new gestapo could become a permanent feature of our lives. www.wola.org/analysis/160...
$160 Billion to Detain and Deport: Congress’s “Reconciliation” Bill is a Betrayal of Priorities and Will Harm the Most Vulnerable - WOLA
This piece focuses on the incredible scale of what the U.S. Congress is proposing to spend on enforcement and border security. The reconciliation bill’s mammoth dimensions are not getting the attentio...
www.wola.org
May 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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equalityalec.bsky.social
THREAD. A lot of attention is rightly going to Medicaid cuts and other very bad things in Trump's bill passed by the House, but there's something else that isn't getting enough attention, that is very difficult to find in any news coverage, but that will fundamentally alter life for all of us.
May 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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dreanyc123.bsky.social
The challenge is to ACT.

YOU, in courageous concert, are the something or someone.
mskohut.bsky.social MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · May 23
Fascism sets in EXACTLY like this. Days go by. Nothing improves. The people wait with bated breath for SOMETHING or SOMEONE to help. Court orders, but no enforcement. Time passes. We become desensitized. Life goes on. Rights are chipped away. Life goes on. People die. Life goes on.
May 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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madycast.com
STOP: Don’t panic–organize!

@thefreeradical.org and I consulted for weeks with experts about the bill attacking Medicaid for trans people.

We find that advocates can still kill the bill or mitigate its impacts through direct action and community solidarity. 🧵👇🏽

www.madycast.com/p/dont-panic...
Don’t Panic–the Battle Over the Trans Medicaid Ban Is Far From Over. Here’s How To Fight Back.
While confusion and misinformation spreads on social media, advocates offer concrete strategies to stop the GOP’s genocidal attack on trans people’s lives through community solidarity and defiance.
www.madycast.com
May 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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mauraquint.bsky.social
A very important thing that we can all do -- TALK to people you know about what this bill does. We know the media is going to push Republican framing. We know Republicans will lie. We also know the things this bill does are wildly unpopular. WE have to be the messengers.
May 22, 2025 at 11:24 AM