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Reader. Sometime blogger. Fan of chocolate. Stories in @Harvard_Review @Orion_Magazine, Boston Phoenix (RIP) , @BostonGlobe, more. She/Her.

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Pramila Jayapal's Special Edition Resistance Lab: Boycott the Billionaires · Mobilize Fighting authoritarianism requires collaboration, strategic coordination, and fully embracing your own power. Join Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal for The Resistance Lab: Boycott the Billionaires, a sp...

“Pramila Jayapal's Special Edition Resistance Lab: Boycott the Billionaires” -I have to miss this one. Hope you can go! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

22.02.2026 21:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Great questions, @markey.senate.gov. I look forward to your response, @icegov.bsky.social, Director Todd Lyons.

05.02.2026 15:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Indivisible Brooklyn volunteers with the Hands Off NYC campaign handing out materials to defend neighborhoods from ICE.

Indivisible Brooklyn volunteers with the Hands Off NYC campaign handing out materials to defend neighborhoods from ICE.

Today, thousands of people came out to events all across NYC—picking up and handing out materials to defend their neighborhoods from ICE. There were whistles kits & know your rights cards. People went to hundreds of businesses hanging signs of solidarity. Incredible feat by @handsoffnyc.bsky.social.

16.11.2025 02:12 👍 2884 🔁 842 💬 32 📌 32
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Charlotte grocery store offers free delivery to protect immigrant community While U.S. Border Patrol is in Charlotte detaining people, one grocer wants “to help you receive the items you need from the comfort of your home.”

www.charlotteobserver.com/charlottefiv...

16.11.2025 05:03 👍 14684 🔁 4116 💬 298 📌 222
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This is so insane. #MedicareForAllNOW

10.11.2025 04:02 👍 5944 🔁 2798 💬 317 📌 227
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🚨 Immediate Action—Call TODAY A matter of hours may decide the healthcare of millions. It all comes down to NV, IL, ME, VA, PA, and NH.

🚨 Immediate Action—Call TODAY All in favor of stabilized healthcare costs AND living in NV, IL, ME, PA or NH? Please call your Senators. open.substack.com/pub/thepeopl...

10.11.2025 14:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The GOP Is Fine With You Getting Your Fingers Chopped Off Donald Trump’s yes-men at the Consumer Product Safety Commission are withdrawing a series of proposed safety rules, incl

The Consumer Product Safety Commission just scrapped a table saw safety rule that could have prevented amputation injuries and saved over $2B in healthcare costs a year.

This comes months after Trump fired all three Democratic CPSC members.

"Make America Safe Again."

27.10.2025 19:15 👍 1640 🔁 719 💬 85 📌 24

This is very helpful for those looking to ditch Spotify!

24.10.2025 07:35 👍 216 🔁 99 💬 23 📌 4
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(from the inbox) Bikes were essential to ICE watching and rapid response on the north side today, helping people better locate feds in traffic.

In this anonymized video, cyclists tail masked agents in a white Denali with Georgia plates through Rogers Park:

21.10.2025 21:07 👍 314 🔁 84 💬 4 📌 11

I know that there are people outside Chicago who are paying attention and seeing these videos but there are no words for how it feels when the videos show everyday places in your neighborhood, places that are part of your routine. The sense of violation is profound.

22.10.2025 00:48 👍 1298 🔁 280 💬 31 📌 14
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Exclusive: Major federal immigration operation headed to San Francisco Bay Area The Trump administration has dispatched more than 100 federal agents, including from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, to Coast Guard Base Alameda and they’ll begin to arrive Thursday.

Looks like we are about to see a significant increase in snatch-and-grab operations around the Bay Area

408-290-1144 is the hotline for the Palo Alto/Mountain View area

www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

22.10.2025 19:27 👍 312 🔁 268 💬 8 📌 10
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In Speaker Johnson’s district, people would see their health care premiums skyrocket $2,284 per month if Republicans refuse to protect health care.

Republicans are making their own constituents poorer and sicker.

14.10.2025 20:47 👍 188 🔁 95 💬 21 📌 6

This is some vile stuff. And these aren't teenagers. Many are Republican staffers. At least one works for Trump.

"Epithets like “faggot,” “retarded” and “n--ga” appeared more than 251 times combined."

14.10.2025 20:49 👍 684 🔁 294 💬 44 📌 16
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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

Oh hey, check this out. They talk the same way in their private chats as they do on Twitter www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

14.10.2025 18:33 👍 954 🔁 263 💬 47 📌 26

Can’t make the protest? Here are other ways you can resist:

• Get connected to the resistance: fiftyfifty.one

• Get trained on noncooperation:
nokings.org/rise

• Get engaged in politics:
pol-rev.com

• Get started:
Choosedemocracy.us

13.10.2025 12:20 👍 90 🔁 48 💬 2 📌 1
FBI Most Wanted Terrorists

FBI Most Wanted Terrorists

13.10.2025 12:11 👍 212 🔁 61 💬 5 📌 4
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Costumed protesters in Portland defy description of the city as a 'war zone' Dancing frogs, peacocks and unicorns outside the federal immigration building present a joyful contrast to the Trump administration's portrait of the Oregon city, they say.

Shake your groove thing #NoKings, Saturday, Oct 18 www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

13.10.2025 12:17 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Unbearably violent images from Downtown Chicago where a classical music concert was played on the Chicago River. This is too elegant and magical to be seen.

11.10.2025 12:31 👍 6363 🔁 2555 💬 399 📌 298

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

10.10.2025 21:22 👍 14064 🔁 5743 💬 579 📌 222
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"Ari" is working in the poblano chilis in Santa Clara County. He explains how workers harvest the chilis, then take their full buckets over to a conveyor belt & dump them on it. The conveyor belt goes up lifting the chilis & "Ari" then directs them into different bins. #WeFeedYou

10.10.2025 20:00 👍 693 🔁 153 💬 23 📌 7

“Show me your hellhole.” I love it.

10.10.2025 10:00 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Rock on, Portland!

10.10.2025 01:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Chicago Heights priest begins walk for immigrant children from Pope Leo’s childhood home in Dolton Gary Graf, a Chicago Heights Catholic priest, began a 50-day justice walk from Pope Leo’s boyhood home in Dolton to New York.

"A Chicago Heights Catholic priest began a 50-day pilgrimage in support of immigrant children, from Pope Leo’s boyhood home in Dolton, IL to New York ...

'This is not only a physical act of endurance, but a spiritual act of solidarity, a prayer in motion'..."

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/06/c...

09.10.2025 18:33 👍 6228 🔁 1655 💬 116 📌 50
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

09.10.2025 20:23 👍 55906 🔁 22621 💬 1874 📌 2153

Thank you, Chicago!

09.10.2025 09:39 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“Continuous Vetting” of All Visa Holders Is Impossible, but the Threat Alone Chills Free Speech Government claims of AI-powered surveillance create an illusion of total oversight that encourages self-censorship without actually improving security.

The Trump administration is escalating its surveillance of tens of millions of *legal* immigrants, forcing them to refrain from expressing opinions that someone might deem “anti-American.” It’s a clear attack on free speech and the First Amendment. bit.ly/4823Brc

06.10.2025 16:01 👍 82 🔁 56 💬 4 📌 3
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This is the dumbest poll question ever.

Try polling the question, "Should the Republicans shut down the government in order to make sure families' insurance premiums go up by 75%?"

01.10.2025 14:47 👍 966 🔁 218 💬 77 📌 20

Demanding fairness will not get easier or less costly. Trump escalates his cruelty. Now is the time to hold our politicians to account. Stand up on Oct 18. Find a NoKings.org near you.

05.10.2025 20:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The President gets no special new powers during a shutdown. He can't eliminate agencies. He can't use federal funds to punish his political opponents.

As Trump's illegality grows during the shutdown, Democrats' spines should stiffen to oppose his corruption.

03.10.2025 18:35 👍 2382 🔁 653 💬 65 📌 29

When they use helicopters and flash-bang grenades at 1am to roust people from their homes, zip-tie them, some of them naked, some of them children, it is time to stand up. Attend a NoKings.org protest near you. Oct 18.

03.10.2025 13:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0