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Artist; Professor of Critical Race & Ethnic Studies. Author of Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media (2022 Duke) and Atoms Never Touch (Novel, 2023 AK Press). Palestine will be free!

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It appears that this legend owns a little bookstore — and you can order books from him instead of Bezos. Link in next post.

25.01.2026 17:45 👍 12960 🔁 3865 💬 107 📌 97
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Experts Warn U.S. in Early Stages of Genocide Against Trans Americans Genocide scholars say policies targeting transgender Americans match early warning signs of mass atrocity.This piece has been updated from its original email version.Genocide scholars are sounding the...

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Experts warn U.S. in early stages of genocide against trans Americans
Almost zero media coverage of this report.

25.01.2026 19:18 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
How ICE is using far-right subculture to recruit
How ICE is using far-right subculture to recruit YouTube video by CBC News: The National

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CBC: How ICE is using far-right subculture to recruit

25.01.2026 19:16 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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“ICE KILLED GOOD”: Protesters decry Minneapolis shooting Images from across the country show how people are honoring a 37-year-old woman killed by federal agents.

Across the country, people are taking to the streets to honor—and demand justice for—Renee Nicole Good, the 37-year-old US citizen who a federal immigration agent shot and killed in Minneapolis on Wednesday.

08.01.2026 17:52 👍 252 🔁 84 💬 18 📌 1
A green devil saying annihilate ice

A green devil saying annihilate ice

08.01.2026 15:09 👍 1217 🔁 280 💬 9 📌 1
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Be Earth Now – Rainer Maria Rilke recited by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows Podcast Episode · Emergence Magazine Podcast · 12/16/2025 · 22m

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Joanna Macy reads Rainer Maria Rilke #poetry

08.01.2026 17:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Statement on Abuse of Power of ICE and Other Federal Agents in Chicago
On October 3, 2026 Alderwoman Jessie Fuentes (26th) witnessed ICE agents attempting to detain a patient at a clinic in her ward - a patient seeking medical care after ICE allegedly used excessive force and broke his leg. When Ald. Fuentes asked the agents for an arrest warrant - a basic constitutional requirement - they refused and instead unjustifiably put her in handcuffs.
Showing a warrant before detention is not optional; it's a cornerstone of constitutional law. And yet,
ICE agents continue to ignore this requirement.
This is not new, nor is it an isolated incident. ICE agents continue to violate civil liberties with impunity, and if we continue to allow this erosion of due process to go unchecked, we risk undermining the foundation of our democracy.
Due process is not negotiable. We will not stay silent. We must stand together to demand accountability. What's playing out day-by-day is a warning that we must organize and not relent.
Speak out and show up. Go to ICE watch trainings. Learn your rights so you can protect the rights of those around you.
And we, as members of the City Council hold firm that it will take a coalition all of us, united across racial and ethnic communities, political leanings, ages and socioeconomic status, to stand up to the disturbing pattern of abuse from ICE and the federal government, and the complete disregard for the rights we hold as Americans.

Black text on white background Statement on Abuse of Power of ICE and Other Federal Agents in Chicago On October 3, 2026 Alderwoman Jessie Fuentes (26th) witnessed ICE agents attempting to detain a patient at a clinic in her ward - a patient seeking medical care after ICE allegedly used excessive force and broke his leg. When Ald. Fuentes asked the agents for an arrest warrant - a basic constitutional requirement - they refused and instead unjustifiably put her in handcuffs. Showing a warrant before detention is not optional; it's a cornerstone of constitutional law. And yet, ICE agents continue to ignore this requirement. This is not new, nor is it an isolated incident. ICE agents continue to violate civil liberties with impunity, and if we continue to allow this erosion of due process to go unchecked, we risk undermining the foundation of our democracy. Due process is not negotiable. We will not stay silent. We must stand together to demand accountability. What's playing out day-by-day is a warning that we must organize and not relent. Speak out and show up. Go to ICE watch trainings. Learn your rights so you can protect the rights of those around you. And we, as members of the City Council hold firm that it will take a coalition all of us, united across racial and ethnic communities, political leanings, ages and socioeconomic status, to stand up to the disturbing pattern of abuse from ICE and the federal government, and the complete disregard for the rights we hold as Americans.

List of elected officials

List of elected officials

Statement on Abuse of Power of ICE and Other Federal Agents in Chicago

05.10.2025 15:05 👍 329 🔁 106 💬 12 📌 32

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05.10.2025 21:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Murder is kindness

05.10.2025 21:51 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Federal agents shoot woman they say 'boxed in' authorities in Brighton Park Authorities were on patrol when they were "rammed by 10 cars," according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security. One of the drivers "was armed with a semi-automatic weapon," prompting...

U.S. Border Patrol agents shot a woman on Saturday morning in Brighton Park marking the second shooting since President Donald Trump’s administration launched an aggressive immigration enforcement operation in the area last month, the @chicago.suntimes.com reports

04.10.2025 18:16 👍 474 🔁 308 💬 32 📌 44

Average infection: 1 per year

Risk of long term issues on first infection: 10%

Risk increases with each subsequent infection.

After your 3rd you have a 30% chance of long term issues.

How many years until you become disabled?

03.10.2025 02:12 👍 60 🔁 34 💬 3 📌 3

The sculpture calls on audiences to overturn the global colonial order allowing climate change to continue to worsen, and to envision futures of climate justice.

Support provided by the Center for Coastal Climate Resilience, UCSC Arts Division and the City of Toronto #art #climatechange #amoc

03.10.2025 01:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Probability Engine: Atlantic Overturning is a 17' sculpture depicting the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a global climate tipping point. If this tipping point is crossed, and the ocean current reverses, sea levels could rise swiftly along the east coast of the United States.

03.10.2025 01:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The Probability Engine – Critical Realities Studio

More info about the project here, along with the poem that goes with the sculpture:
criticalrealities.sites.ucsc.edu/the-probabil...

Eternal gratitude to my collaborators Ian Costello, Ryan Li Dahlstrom, Tamara Duplantis, Star Hagen-Esquerra, Marcelo Diaz Viana Neto and Madison Mccartha!!!

03.10.2025 01:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The NEXTies: Earth & Sea A celebration of the bold visionaries, innovative thinkers, and grassroots heroes in our community.

Come see The Probability Engine: Atlantic Overturning up now and all weekend, at the Seymour Marine Center in Santa Cruz! The work depicts a global climate tipping point & calls on audiences to overturn the global colonial order allowing climate change to continue www.eventbrite.com/e/the-nextie...

03.10.2025 01:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Happy Critical Role Campaign 4 Day for those who celebrate! Can’t wait to meet all these new characters and places tonight.

Tyranny is Whitney Moore's

@criticalrole.bsky.social Campaign 4 let’s go!!!!

#criticalrole #critrole #tyranny #criticalrolefanart

03.10.2025 00:25 👍 418 🔁 117 💬 4 📌 0
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ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

02.10.2025 23:59 👍 13482 🔁 5745 💬 363 📌 283

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

02.10.2025 22:42 👍 32076 🔁 15411 💬 645 📌 724
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🇫🇷 #BREAKING | People are protesting the Israeli hijacking of the Global Sumud Flotilla ships at Paris, France 👇

01.10.2025 21:19 👍 179 🔁 85 💬 3 📌 3
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#BREAKING | Barcelona: Protests in front of the Israeli consulate over Israeli interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla.

01.10.2025 21:18 👍 230 🔁 97 💬 2 📌 2
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State AGs Defend Trans Americans in Stunning Rebuke to Trump’s FTC — Assigned Eighteen state Attorneys General unite to stand up in defense of trans Americans, in opposition to a Federal Trade Commission investigation into trans healthcare.

On Friday 18 blue state attorneys general BLASTED the Federal Trade Commission, telling it to back off trans youth healthcare and warning of an insidious attempt to reshape the regulation of medicine in the US.

And nobody covered it.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

01.10.2025 14:44 👍 2695 🔁 1441 💬 31 📌 137
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Italian citizen Tony La Piccirella from aboard one of the Global Sumud Flotilla boats: "if you're seeing this video it means we have been intercepted by the Israeli navy. We ask the Italians state for protection."

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01.10.2025 19:29 👍 91 🔁 50 💬 1 📌 0
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The Inventor of the Future - Boston Review The autobiography of anticolonial luminary Andrée Blouin captures her era’s euphoric highs as well as its tragic denouement.

“Blouin’s very birth troubled a colonial order erected on a strict racial hierarchy. She would make sure that her life would be far more of a problem for it.”

@sandipto.bsky.social reviews MY COUNTRY, AFRICA, the autobiography of the anticolonial revolutionary published by @versobooks.bsky.social

01.10.2025 16:49 👍 20 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1
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🚨 Update from Yasmin Acar, spokesperson for the Global Sumud Flotilla, speaking from the Alma Freedom ship:

At 150 nautical miles from Gaza, about 20 drones are hovering overhead. Multiple naval vessels have been spotted, with reports of an imminent interception by Israeli vessels.

01.10.2025 02:02 👍 180 🔁 111 💬 5 📌 7
New/Mode | Make your voice impossible to ignore

This is ambitious, but we’d love to start this new week having crossed 10,000 emails to Governor Newsom. If you haven’t yet signed time is of the essence

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It’s not limited to people in California, Governor Newsom should know people across the country are watching us.

01.10.2025 02:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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It’s official: AIPAC is trying to buy my election to keep me out of Congress.

Apparently, I’m a “dangerous detractor”... by believing Palestinians (like myself and my family) deserve basic human rights.

But we’re not going to let AIPAC win.

30.09.2025 00:27 👍 22924 🔁 6101 💬 476 📌 224
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Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...

BREAKING: WE WON!!!
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Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.

Full ruling here:

30.09.2025 17:43 👍 2667 🔁 763 💬 17 📌 43

Thank you Tess!

30.09.2025 07:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

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