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Gaawiin
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✨Indigiqueer
✨Suqpiat & Anishinaabe
📍Mni Sóta Maḳoce
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New "How to Report ICE" zines up today:

#Nashville
#Asheville (In North Carolina folder)
#TwinCities Metro Area (in Minnesota folder)

#NewYorkCity en Español!

I am working on the backlog and will have more out tomorrow!!

drive.google.com/drive/folder...
SALUTE zines **BE SURE TO PRINT AT 100%!** - Google Drive
drive.google.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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In a new phase 3 trial, people randomly assigned to receive a flu shot made with modified mRNA were 34.5% less likely to be diagnosed with an influenza-like illness than people given a standard flu shot made with inactivated virus.

We need to stop the anti-science attacks against mRNA vaccines!
November 20, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Very excited to share the NASA/ESA/STScI press release of our team's work on Apep! It's a terrific writeup, complete with a brand new beautiful visualisation of the nebula geometry.
1/? ⚛️🔭🧪
science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
Webb First to Show 4 Dust Shells 'Spiraling' Apep, Limits Long Orbit - NASA Science
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a first of its kind: a crisp mid-infrared image of a system of four serpentine spirals of dust, one expanding
science.nasa.gov
November 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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If you want to learn more about how family policing and the systems that claim to protect children make them—and our communities—less safe, join our co-founder @dreanyc123.bsky.social, Erin Miles Cloud and Dorothy Roberts on Dec. 1 at 4 PM ET for this event, hosted by @haymarketbooks.org:
How to End Family Policing
Join us for a virtual book launch of How to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action, a much-needed intervention arguing that the systems that claim to protect children make them—and our…
www.haymarketbooks.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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the nuzzi story is fun and all but at the center of it is the elevation of a man who has dedicated his life to making children catch preventable diseases to a position where he can enact harm at enormous scale
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Mega Prayer and Mutual Aid request. My friend Lisa's daughter, Angelique Sanchez, was diagnosed with Lupus as an infant, that she has managed to survive is a miracle. Over the last two months, she has been having severe complications, this is her 5th hospitalization in that time.
November 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Happening now in Broadview—outside Chicago:

A procession of Illinois Handmaid’s, with the Illinois Democratic Women of Cook County, walks in procession to the ICE detention facility.

“Even though we are silent, we are powerful,” an organizer told the group before starting.
November 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."
In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together
"Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.
organizingmythoughts.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.
October 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Join our September 25 online celebration of REBUILD, a free service that connects formerly incarcerated individuals to a therapist of color. We’ll hear from program participants and graduates, give updates about the first four years of REBUILD, and discuss ways to support and continue the program.
REBUILD: Four Years Strong - With Mariame Kaba
Community organizers, program participants, & more celebrate REBUILD's impact.
www.eventbrite.com
September 19, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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at least twice now, this federal agent has come out of the broadview ice facility with his sidearm drawn.

last friday, an ice agent shot and killed a man during a traffic stop nearby in franklin park, illinois.
September 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Cannot escape the feeling that people would care more about the nightmare unfolding in Chicagoland if Trump had actually sent the National Guard. People hung all of their ideas about fascist escalation looks like on that. Meanwhile, agents hunt our neighbors and gas protesters here.
September 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Everything’s been so bad I didn’t have a chance to actually read more about this, but holy god this is bleak. In another section, he is seeking the ability to be able to selectively revoke passports based on these speech-based criteria.

theintercept.com/2025/09/13/m...
September 15, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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There’s a passage in Pedagogy of the Oppressed that feels directly relevant to the way some people wag their tongues about “family abolition.” Freire warns about the oppressor-convert: the one who claims to speak for the people but cannot bring themselves to actually trust the people 🪡
Family abolition is about ending the state’s exploitation of family as a stand-in for public infrastructure. No housing? Rely on family. No healthcare? Family. No safety net? Family. The neoliberal family formation is privately subsidized state abandonment dressed with a sentimental smokescreen.
September 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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It's great that states are forming regional public health alliances to ensure people still have access to vaccines. They should take it one step further & include distributing free masks & tests, installing clean air infrastructure etc. The best way to prevent outbreaks is with layered protections!
September 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Someone asked me what victory against the forces seeking to occupy Chicago looks like. Obviously, those forces being repelled is the goal, but there are layers to what success looks like in these deteriorating conditions. The first is to successfully resist the normalization of military occupation.
September 3, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Thanks again to @bishonentype.bsky.social for a great conversation on the most recent episode of It Could Happen Here. If you're new to AltNPS, this episode is a great place to start, and you should subscribe to the show if you aren't already!
Big thanks to @altwatcher.bsky.social for talking with me, everyone should go follow his work!
New It Could Happen Here 🌀🌲🌀

Garrison talks with Jack from AltWatcher about a viral social media account posing as dissent Park Service employees sending coded messages on the internet.

@bishonentype.bsky.social @altwatcher.bsky.social

www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
September 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Illinois is currently exploring the possibility of purchasing Covid-19 vaccines in bulk straight from manufacturers to make sure everyone will still have access.
August 31, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Just want to remind folks during these messy times that you can buy a copy of Read This When Things Fall Apart for an activist in need. This book is a care package that my friends and I made for people on the front lines & in the thick of crisis. Let's pass it around: www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...
August 31, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Three hours ago, an Israeli quadcopter dropped a grenade on a group of people in Shujaeeya neighborhood in Gaza City.
It killed a woman named Yousra Abu al-Kass.

Note: Yousra lost her husband and two children in previous air strikes.
August 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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A truly global, materialist disability politics has to account for the unevenness of who survives long enough to age into disability, and who is systematically killed before that horizon.
August 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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On November 15, I'm facilitating a discussion circle at Communiversity about radical Black women who were socialists and communists in the early to mid 20th century:
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/communiversi...
Communiversity Catalog: Black Radical Women in the U.S. 1910–1960: A Study and Discussion Circle — Interrupting Criminalization
www.interruptingcriminalization.com
August 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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"If a US citizen or green card holder refuses a search, they cannot—at least in theory—be denied entry to the country. However, their devices may be seized temporarily, and they could be subject to extra questioning. Foreign visitors can face detention or deportation for refusing a search."
Phone Searches at the US Border Hit a Record High
Customs and Border Protection agents searched nearly 15,000 devices from April through June of this year, a nearly 17 percent spike over the previous three-month high in 2022. "The real issue is the c...
www.wired.com
August 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM