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@spaceforpeace.bsky.social

Feminist political geographer, peace studies prof (views my own), solidarity activist. #Colombia.

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words projected on the front of the USIP building that say “Trump destroyed this Institution, imposing his name on the building, a narcissistic attempt to associate himself with peacemaking.”

words projected on the front of the USIP building that say “Trump destroyed this Institution, imposing his name on the building, a narcissistic attempt to associate himself with peacemaking.”

New — This was projected on the US Institute of Peace building this evening ahead of the first meeting tomorrow of Trump’s farcically-named “Board of Peace.”

Photo taken by person who was over there tonight. Unclear who’s behind the projection.

19.02.2026 03:48 — 👍 4016    🔁 1112    💬 51    📌 45
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Feminist Methodologies This book gives insights into feminist methodologies in theory and practice and offers valuable tools for feminist research as a continuous praxis This is an open access book.

"Feminist Methodologies: Experiments, Collaborations and Reflections" Editors: Wendy Harcourt, Karijn van den Berg, Constance Dupuis, Jacqueline Gaybor

#Free2DownloadAndRead

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

20.02.2026 15:51 — 👍 13    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

Do you have the phone numbers of three neighbors right near you that you could call in an emergency? No? Knock on their doors. Start talking.

20.02.2026 19:22 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Renee Good's Murder and Other Acts of Terror An interview with Robin D. G. Kelley on how to think about ICE—and the broader history of police violence.

“Militant civil disobedience, aggressively confronting a phalanx of masked agents in riot gear, or blocking traffic is nonviolent, but these tactics are not considered by the political class to count as ‘peaceful protest.’”

Historian Robin D. G. Kelley on how to think about ICE:

18.01.2026 16:24 — 👍 87    🔁 45    💬 4    📌 4

Governments telling professors and students what they’re not allowed to talk and think about. Nakedly authoritarian and also, should work great. There are few things young people respond to more obediently than having politicians tell them what they’re allowed to think about. s/

19.02.2026 22:36 — 👍 353    🔁 147    💬 10    📌 4
Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature

Oh, FCC takes this off the air? Make their repression backfire. Watch the video. Maybe give Talarico a donation. He is speaking truth to power. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...

19.02.2026 23:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

this is brilliant - thank you!

19.02.2026 22:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Bloody hell. I spent 15 years getting a ban on the use of this stuff in Colombia for the drug war. It’s basically Roundup (linked to cancer).
“Trump signed an executive order invoking the Defense Production Act to ensure an adequate US supply of elemental phosphorus and glyphosate-based herbicides”

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Eighty-four years ago today, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which consigned 125,000 Japanese Americans to incarceration in concentration camps throughout the country. We commemorate this Day of Remembrance every year in hopes that this never happens again.

19.02.2026 14:14 — 👍 5    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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How a Planned Disney World Vacation Turned Into Four Months in Immigration Detention A 9-year-old shares her story of being held at the nation’s only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.

She lives with her grandmother in Colombia and travels frequently to the U.S. to visit her mother. Her visa made them targets for ICE.

A trip to Disneyland ended with a 9-year-old, who had broken no laws, detained at Dilley, Texas.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

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Tell Enterprise: ICE OUT NOW Join us in demanding Enterprise: Publicly call for an immediate end to the ICE “surge” into MN and for ICE to leave the state; Exercise their 4th Amendment rights and publicly post signage denying...

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell Enterprise: ICE OUT NOW. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

19.02.2026 20:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Kinda weird that the party that controls the House, the Senate, and the White House claims there's rampant voter fraud.

19.02.2026 19:11 — 👍 29792    🔁 8640    💬 1138    📌 460

Measles can kill and leave survivors with "severe diarrhoea, pneumonia, ear infection and hearing loss, blindness and encephalitis (inflammation of the brain). Measles is also thought to cause immune amnesia, wiping out the sufferer’s immune system." #Vaccinate #HerdImmunity #SaferVaccinated

15.02.2026 17:38 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1

I leaned a good word to describe this today: cryptogyny

bsky.app/profile/oliv...

18.02.2026 15:39 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

I just can’t stop thinking abt federal agents raiding the cells of incarcerated children to confiscate their drawings & letters. This is Nazi shit.

18.02.2026 20:58 — 👍 422    🔁 186    💬 7    📌 7
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Lindenwold, New Jersey: When asked about his first-ever protest, he expressed his deep concern, stating, “I never want to see a child run away from our own government again.”

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Joaquin Castro

@JoaquinCastrotx
I have an update on Juan Nicolás, the 2-month-old baby detained at Dilley, and his mother. 

Me and my team have been in contact with Juan’s family. Juan has bronchitis—according to his mom—and at some point in the last several hours he was unresponsive. Juan was still discharged from the hospital despite that around midnight today. 

Juan’s mom went in front of an immigration judge this morning. She was told she will be deported, but was not told when or where. Both Juan and his mom are back at Dilley and their future remains uncertain. 

We are all deeply concerned that Juan and his mom will be deported and that Juan’s health will continue to deteriorate. His life is in danger because of ICE’s monstrous cruelty. I will continue to provide updates and we will keep fighting to protect them.

Joaquin Castro @JoaquinCastrotx I have an update on Juan Nicolás, the 2-month-old baby detained at Dilley, and his mother. Me and my team have been in contact with Juan’s family. Juan has bronchitis—according to his mom—and at some point in the last several hours he was unresponsive. Juan was still discharged from the hospital despite that around midnight today. Juan’s mom went in front of an immigration judge this morning. She was told she will be deported, but was not told when or where. Both Juan and his mom are back at Dilley and their future remains uncertain. We are all deeply concerned that Juan and his mom will be deported and that Juan’s health will continue to deteriorate. His life is in danger because of ICE’s monstrous cruelty. I will continue to provide updates and we will keep fighting to protect them.

A two month old baby in one of the country's immigrant concentration camps is suffering from bronchitis and was recently unresponsive.

They are refusing him care.

A baby may be killed at the hands of ICE. Will we care about this as much as a white man being murdered?

17.02.2026 22:41 — 👍 338    🔁 157    💬 7    📌 11
Mia Valentina Paz Faria
A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas 
Detained for 70 days

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by 
@micarosenberg
 et al for ProPublica:

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

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“Something inside of me said, ‘Go up there and stand with these people,’ ” said Zobel, a 36-year-old school coach who said he’s never been to a protest before in his life. “I wanted to stand for what is right.”

17.02.2026 22:33 — 👍 76    🔁 15    💬 2    📌 0
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A Running Count of How Many People ICE Has Killed and Injured ICE is not required to report any use-of-force incidents against the public. So The American Prospect created our own running tally.

Linda Davis, a K-8 special education teacher, was killed today after ICE pursued a driver fleeing a traffic stop in Georgia.

Linda Davis is one of many people who have died after coming into contact with ICE. The government doesn't record these deaths, but we do.

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Linda Davis was killed by ICE today. A Black woman, a beloved teacher, killed by ICE in Savannah, Georgia.

Her name is Linda Davis and she was killed by our government.

17.02.2026 00:58 — 👍 1824    🔁 1438    💬 26    📌 28
NY Times screenshot.

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose
Anti-ICE Accounts 

The department has sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officials
and tech workers said.

NY Times screenshot. Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts The department has sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officials and tech workers said.

🧵This is ridiculous. DHS needs help to “expose” anti-ICE accounts? These accounts are not hiding—they’re not even “accounts.” They’re regular people. I am an anti-ICE account. Fully public, real name, employer in bio. In this regard, I am not weird—certainly not by the standards of 2026. 1/9

17.02.2026 00:38 — 👍 42    🔁 14    💬 2    📌 3
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Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.

A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
 
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
 
Not one dime for this cruelty.

www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...

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A graphic of a baby overlaid with the text:

Medical Emergency

Two-month-old Juan Nicolas detained in Dilley, TX is now vomiting after coughing and remains in respiratory distress.

Call. Share. Tag Your Reps.

Dilley: 830.378.6500
Congress: 202.224.3121

A graphic of a baby overlaid with the text: Medical Emergency Two-month-old Juan Nicolas detained in Dilley, TX is now vomiting after coughing and remains in respiratory distress. Call. Share. Tag Your Reps. Dilley: 830.378.6500 Congress: 202.224.3121

Please call and demand the release of Juan Nicolas. Babies should not be held in detention centers.

Every person in ICE custody should have access to the medical care they need – promptly and from competent providers.

@cantwell.senate.gov, @murray.senate.gov, @repemilyrandall.bsky.social

16.02.2026 21:48 — 👍 25    🔁 20    💬 1    📌 2
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Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

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During Regime 1.0 they digitized ALL of the naturalization records. I've been muttering "Digital Windrush" ever since.

There was no reason to do this unless they were planning on using denaturalization for voter suppression, seizing social security/medicare $, ginning up grounds for deportation

13.02.2026 02:19 — 👍 17    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 0

Can we all somehow send solar panels to Cuba? I bet that wouldn't even register for the Trump administration.

14.02.2026 00:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

it would be great if the nations of Latin America all sent solar panels to Cuba, and if as individuals we could contribute to that.

14.02.2026 00:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why is ICE seizing people’s phones and documents? • Minnesota Reformer After the federal agents took the shackles off Gust Johnson’s ankles to release him from detainment, he asked for his phone back. That would be staying at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, th...

A 76-year-old veteran and nurse was tackled and detained at the site of Alex Pretti's killing. Agents told him his phone was evidence in an investigation into him assaulting an officer.

“I didn’t assault an officer. I got assaulted by three officers." minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/12/w...

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