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Linda Mannheim

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Words in The Nation, Granta, Sight & Sound, and more. PhD Researcher at the University of Westminster. THIS WAY TO DEPARTURES, stories about leaving the place you're from, was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize.

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kind of amazing that everything trump does can be understood through the lens of narcissism and it's related needs (e.g., self aggrandizement, revenge, domination, grievance validation). i don't think any character has been so one-dimensional, not even wile e coyote or scrooge mcduck

21.02.2026 19:00 — 👍 10295    🔁 1720    💬 217    📌 94

Thank you Virginia Giuffre. Thank you Gisèle Pelicot.

19.02.2026 12:32 — 👍 30    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0
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Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop

And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹)

RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless

17.02.2026 11:29 — 👍 4403    🔁 1783    💬 36    📌 105

Roses are redde
Violettes are blue
Sayinge that the adoption of a technologye ys inevitable
Ys a way to trick you

16.02.2026 19:26 — 👍 317    🔁 96    💬 1    📌 2
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Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Palantir, a US spy-tech firm, has been given access to millions of NHS patient records.

Its founder has said the NHS should be 'ripped up'.

Join me in calling on the government to end the dangerous Palantir contract.

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

13.02.2026 10:26 — 👍 4174    🔁 1902    💬 117    📌 87
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IMPORTANT pls RT

My online novel seed-story.com is loading sporadically/not at all

The servers belonged to Google Creative Labs Sydney (now apparently defunct)

If anyone reading worked there/knows someone who did pls get in touch urgently so this pioneering work of digital literature can be saved

12.02.2026 11:26 — 👍 4    🔁 10    💬 2    📌 0
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“Most people are still scrolling because there’s nowhere else to go”: An Interview with Joanna Walsh — Cristina Politano Joanna Walsh’s Amateurs!: How We Built the Internet and Why It Matters was recently published by Verso Books. In it, Walsh charts the ascendancy of a new kind of digital creative, one who mud…

“Most people are still scrolling because there’s nowhere else to go”: An Interview with @badaude.bsky.social — @monalisavitti.bsky.social

minorliteratures.com/2026/02/10/m...

10.02.2026 09:00 — 👍 7    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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“The Nation” Nominates Minneapolis for the Nobel Peace Prize With their resistance to violent authoritarianism, the people of Minneapolis have renewed the spirit of Dr. King’s call for “the positive affirmation of peace.”

As longtime observers of struggles to establish peace and justice in the US and around the world, The Nation is honored to nominate the city of Minneapolis and its people for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.

28.01.2026 15:48 — 👍 1098    🔁 366    💬 55    📌 111
Philly DA vows to prosecute ‘wannabe Nazi' ICE agents who violate the law
YouTube video by NBC10 Philadelphia Philly DA vows to prosecute ‘wannabe Nazi' ICE agents who violate the law

"If we have to hunt you down, the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities. We will find you. We will achieve justice. And we will do so under the Constitution and laws of the United States."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ft1...

29.01.2026 03:50 — 👍 10164    🔁 2678    💬 125    📌 384
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

This Bruce anti-ICE anthem is gonna leave a mark:

28.01.2026 20:10 — 👍 416    🔁 133    💬 8    📌 14
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US-Comiczeichner dokumentieren ICE-Gewalt: Mit dem Stift gegen Trump und die Monster-Truppen Mit Aktionen wie „Ice Out Comics“ protestieren US-Künstler gegen das Vorgehen der Einwanderungsbehörde ICE. Sie machen Schicksale von Betroffenen anschaulich und werben für Zivilcourage.

Ausführlicher Artikel von @larsvontoerne.bsky.social über „ICE out Comics“ 👇

28.01.2026 06:24 — 👍 13    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0

This day calls on us to do more than reflect; it calls on us to act — to confront antisemitism wherever it exists and to reject all forms of hatred and dehumanization. May the memories of all those lost be a blessing — one that guides us as we build a world where every life is sacred.

27.01.2026 17:33 — 👍 1116    🔁 111    💬 3    📌 3
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I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

27.01.2026 16:45 — 👍 17317    🔁 6915    💬 503    📌 329

So keep pushing. Anything short of ICE’s abolition isn’t nearly enough.

And I’d say that even ICE’s abolition should only be the start of ending the violence that came to feel “normal” under Trump.

26.01.2026 23:38 — 👍 2606    🔁 551    💬 14    📌 8

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

26.01.2026 23:35 — 👍 20846    🔁 8651    💬 268    📌 714
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brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

27.01.2026 00:22 — 👍 23469    🔁 7824    💬 331    📌 882

If it is fascism now it was fascism then but if you were wrong no need to pause to make a special effort to admit your error -- we don't have that much time now, please act right away, get organized, and then tell your followers what you are doing to stop fascism and what they too can do.

25.01.2026 20:33 — 👍 3692    🔁 1132    💬 43    📌 39

You have lived long enough to see a French anti-fascist organisation (a traditionally very anti-US milieu) organise a ‘rally in solidarity with the American people’.

26.01.2026 09:29 — 👍 589    🔁 180    💬 7    📌 3
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DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

25.01.2026 16:27 — 👍 4780    🔁 3151    💬 122    📌 150
A pitbull with a big head stand in the foreground behind them is three containers of bright, orange, poppies and a container with sunflowers in it. Behind that is a street in crosswalk with cars in it.

A pitbull with a big head stand in the foreground behind them is three containers of bright, orange, poppies and a container with sunflowers in it. Behind that is a street in crosswalk with cars in it.

A screenshot of an Instagram story that includes a photo of three masked men and green military gear arresting a person who is on the ground. Below that is a photo of a black explorer and it’s license
echoparklatu 22m
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9:05am - One person
kidnapped from
Sunset & Echo Park.
STAY SAFE OR COME OUT!
9:05 a. m. - Una
persona secuestrada en Sunset y Echo Park Ave. MANTÉNGANSE
SEGUROS O SALGAN SI PUEDEN!
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A screenshot of an Instagram story that includes a photo of three masked men and green military gear arresting a person who is on the ground. Below that is a photo of a black explorer and it’s license echoparklatu 22m See translation > 9:05am - One person kidnapped from Sunset & Echo Park. STAY SAFE OR COME OUT! 9:05 a. m. - Una persona secuestrada en Sunset y Echo Park Ave. MANTÉNGANSE SEGUROS O SALGAN SI PUEDEN! 306682

ICE took the flower man in Echo Park 40 minutes ago. He’s at this corner every day. I’ve bought flowers from the man and woman here for anniversaries and birthdays. Lemmy loves to smell them whenever we walk by in the mornings. I was just at the street corner 15 minutes before it happened. Fuck.

25.01.2026 17:49 — 👍 2827    🔁 1203    💬 41    📌 74

This isn't a crisis we fact-check our way out of, we need to build something bigger and more radical to resist the tide of authoritarianism engulfing our democracies. We can't wait for institutions to act, it's up to us to organise.

25.01.2026 09:29 — 👍 508    🔁 114    💬 8    📌 4

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

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24.01.2026 19:00 — 👍 724    🔁 108    💬 9    📌 3
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Footage taken moments before a struggle shows that the man was filming, holding a phone in his right hand, backing up. His left hand is up, visible, palm facing out, as he backs away from the area. An agent uses his right hand, on the torso of the victim, pushing him back, while the man complies.

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Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

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Killing of Alex Pretti - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing...

24.01.2026 19:35 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
Tens of thousands of demonstrators filling the streets with signs and banners

Tens of thousands of demonstrators filling the streets with signs and banners

Demonstrators as far as the eye can see. Current status of the march in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota for Ice Out of Minnesota. They are turning onto 3rd Street from 5th Avenue.

23.01.2026 20:18 — 👍 14713    🔁 4353    💬 240    📌 356

A remarkable story of courage, ethics, and solidarity.

'...Each new arrival was given a #Leica camera. The refugees were paid a stipend until they could find work. Out of this migration came designers, repair technicians, salespeople, marketers and writers for the photographic press.'

#Refugees

17.01.2026 21:05 — 👍 11    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program

Holy hell, what an obituary

15.01.2026 16:57 — 👍 4922    🔁 1661    💬 178    📌 506
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La dépendance technologique aux softwares & cloud services américains : une estimation des conséquences économiques en Europe - Cigref « La dépendance technologique aux softwares & cloud services américains : une estimation des conséquences économiques en Europe » est une

80% of Europe’s spending on cloud services and software - around €265bn per year - flows to US companies.

Digitally, Europe is less a sovereign power and more a US colony.

www.cigref.fr/la-dependanc...

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