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shelleymiller.bsky.social
Shelberta, CA
@shelleymiller.bsky.social
Musician/educator/bendy human. Cat mom/plant dad. Fearless scaredy-cat. Not a fan of cops. (they/them)
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Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.
October 31, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/30/f... They are targeting children and religious holidays. They are staging ICE raids in cemeteries. There is nothing about this that has anything to do with law and order. This is lawlessness and desecration.
Feds Won't Pause Immigration Blitz During Halloween, Día De Los Muertos, Homeland Security Boss Says
During a news conference Thusday, Gov. JB Pritzker also slammed federal agents' targeting of people without criminal records and using tear gas on neighborhood streets.
blockclubchicago.org
October 30, 2025 at 6:35 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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October 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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I am never ever fucking EVER getting over these fuckers just driving around snatching our neighbors off the street.
October 17, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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The deployment of tear gas throughout the Chicago area is a growing health concern. ICE is deploying tear gas in residential neighborhoods, near children, playgrounds, stores, etc. What are the health implications on our communities?
October 12, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Today so far feds in Chicagoland have:

Attacked & arrested protesters at the Broadview detention center w/the help of the ISP other agencies

Tear gassed a street in Logan Square that has a grocery store & elementary school on it, among other things

Violently handcuffed an Alderperson

It's 3pm
October 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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ICE attacking people again with support from state cops.
October 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Firing a Black woman for quoting Kirk’s horrific statements about Black women is insane. It seems the Washington Post would rather perform politeness (and demand that the people Kirk harmed do it too) that tell the truth: karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...
The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
karenattiah.substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.
September 13, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...
September 13, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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You're getting a clear X-ray of America right now.

Look at who this country's powerful institutions choose to elevate, venerate, and celebrate.

Look at the double standards.

Look at the people who adore Charlie Kirk - then spend five minutes reviewing his hateful legacy.

This is America.
September 12, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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I seriously don't know how to explain to people that it is not in fact a sign of maturity and democracy to peacefully debate whether certain groups of people should be allowed to exist
September 12, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Silicon Valley does not “want to build stuff.” Silicon Valley is supremely lazy, its innovations as of late are just disruption aka breaking the law and getting away with it because of corruption, plagiarism robots that tell kids to kill themselves, and outsourcing manufacturing.
There is a lot to hate about the politics of the silicon valley right, but they do actually want to build stuff, and I would prefer if the left didn't cede "we should be able to build stuff" to the right.
September 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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they think they can just erase trans joy and trans freedom. they can't. they can make things a lot harder and more painful. but that joy and that freedom is not theirs to take and it is incumbent on all good people to say so.
August 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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The "oh you won't compromise and abandon [marginalized group]? enjoy the nazi takeover!" argument rings pretty fucking false when you consider that the horrors of a nazi takeover begin with the abandonment of marginalized groups.
August 16, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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my periodic reminder that your artistic work — your writing, music, dance, whatever it is — is crucially important for you and for the people who receive it, in ways you might never personally experience or grasp. you gotta trust me, please keep going
June 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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These kids absolutely crush Ozzy Osbourne's "Crazy Train",
xylophone-style! 🔥

His music has spanned the generations 🖤

And this is why every school needs a well funded music program 🎶

🔊
Melissa_Musing
July 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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The answer to who we should throw under the bus is Rahm Emanuel not the people he is demonizing.
July 23, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Rahm Emanuel criticized Dems for talking about "pronouns," but Megyn Kelly is the first interviewer I've seen drill down for his views.

Boys + girls are "fundamentally, physically different." No "men claiming they're women" in women's prisons.

"Can a man become a woman? No."
July 22, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Oh look…I know those silly enby bees on the left!
July 10, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Extremely here for this amount of improbability & chaos. And hearing the call from two of the announcers who made me fall in love with the game in the first place is…chef’s kiss.
July 9, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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This is slavery. What Trump is proposing is slavery.
He proposes releasing some ICE prisoners to labor on farms where the employers will “own them” and be responsible for them.

Historians have spent decades meticulously proving the straight line between slavery and modern capitalism’s concept of the laborer—or we could just let them say it.
The camp is to filter out workers for Trumps new Slavery policy where he sells them to businesses.
He says so in this video
Make Americans Slaves Again
July 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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June 28, 2025 at 10:44 PM