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Nicole Rizzuto

@fluentisona.bsky.social

I spend a lot of time talking, writing, and teaching about LGBTQ history, identities, and communities. Ask me about Dead Lesbian Syndrome.

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First Responders Are Being Overwhelmed by Data Center Fires First responders in a small Ohio town have answered 84 emergencies between two Amazon data centers, all on the taxpayer's dime.

Fucking vampires.

Amazon got a 100 percent property tax abatement... and has fires on the regular.

futurism.com/future-socie...

08.10.2025 16:02 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

07.10.2025 15:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2052    πŸ” 1225    πŸ’¬ 91    πŸ“Œ 362
Three images of a mural:
1. Superman punching ICE agent. 
Label: Original
2. Same image, but Superman covered in Black paint. 
Label: Defaced
3. Same image, but Krypto pissing on ICE agent painted into black void. 
Label: Improved

Three images of a mural: 1. Superman punching ICE agent. Label: Original 2. Same image, but Superman covered in Black paint. Label: Defaced 3. Same image, but Krypto pissing on ICE agent painted into black void. Label: Improved

Evolution of a Pilsen mural.

11.08.2025 13:37 β€” πŸ‘ 347    πŸ” 105    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 5

this shit looks like someone’s about to shoot franz ferdinand

07.10.2025 23:35 β€” πŸ‘ 419    πŸ” 132    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 0

Your Prime Day reminder that Amazon...

-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump

07.10.2025 18:33 β€” πŸ‘ 4298    πŸ” 2090    πŸ’¬ 196    πŸ“Œ 136

Fuck Gavin Newsom. I will never vote for him and you shouldn't either.

07.10.2025 19:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1502    πŸ” 399    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 23

Please scream this from the mountains. Do we really want them to be as efficient as the Nazis before responding?

07.10.2025 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 309    πŸ” 55    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

I need people to stop referring to conversion "therapy" as something that's been discredited or doesn't work. That's like saying torture is "discredited" or doesn't work. That they don't work for their stated purpose is secondary to the fact that they DO work for their REAL purpose:

07.10.2025 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 732    πŸ” 169    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 8

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

07.10.2025 02:10 β€” πŸ‘ 5558    πŸ” 1549    πŸ’¬ 62    πŸ“Œ 50
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β€œWe are home now. We marched from the park to ICE, very peaceful crowd. We were standing around ICE pushed us down, sprayed us with chemical and I was hit in the head with a projectile. This was so unprovoked. People have to know that the Feds are attacking people with NO provocation whatsoever.”

06.10.2025 23:18 β€” πŸ‘ 7877    πŸ” 3845    πŸ’¬ 318    πŸ“Œ 182

This really makes it sound like a Border Patrol agent tried to kill an anti-ICE activist in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him

06.10.2025 22:45 β€” πŸ‘ 8620    πŸ” 3066    πŸ’¬ 174    πŸ“Œ 60

Remember how millennial Tumblr users invented a whole word to mean they're attracted to intelligence and now sex workers need to look unintelligent in order to make money?

06.10.2025 23:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I was walking down the street in Johannesburg rocking my gay rainbow keffiyeh when an agitated, elderly man stopped me in my tracks.

He wanted someone to rant to about how outrageous it is that Mandela's grandson was abducted off the Sumud flotilla and hasn't been returned home yet.

06.10.2025 18:08 β€” πŸ‘ 450    πŸ” 55    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1
Tweet from the VP:
Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It's been
overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most.
Yet she oozes with contempt.
My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you'd be a much
happier person if you showed a little gratitude

Tweet from the VP: Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It's been overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most. Yet she oozes with contempt. My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you'd be a much happier person if you showed a little gratitude

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

04.10.2025 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 13347    πŸ” 3353    πŸ’¬ 1146    πŸ“Œ 551

Everything is too expensive and you can be kidnapped off the streets or shot by a bigot at any moment; you can't go to the doctor or get a vaccine or read certain books or learn history or speak a language other than English but hey at least a computer will drink a lake to talk to your kid for you

03.10.2025 01:50 β€” πŸ‘ 868    πŸ” 262    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 14
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Federal Agents Handcuff Chicago Alderperson At Hospital ER In another incident caught on video Friday, federal agents inside a car randomly threw tear gas into a Logan Square street while people β€” including a 2-year-old β€” were outside nearby.

Federal agents are overtly abusing their power to try to intimidate advocates and elected officials. We need ICE out of Illinois immediately and justice for people like Ald. Jessie Fuentes who are defending their communities.
blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/f...

03.10.2025 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 15903    πŸ” 5983    πŸ’¬ 648    πŸ“Œ 304
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ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

03.10.2025 19:18 β€” πŸ‘ 9844    πŸ” 4717    πŸ’¬ 853    πŸ“Œ 946
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Jackie and her four young children were kidnapped from a picnic by ICE.

Today, those kids are still missing their mother.

Listen to Jackie’s friend, Mimi, tell their story:

03.10.2025 19:22 β€” πŸ‘ 270    πŸ” 124    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 4
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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 3: Earl Manigault

When he stepped onto the court, the world watched. No one dunked harder or jumped higher. But the GOAT never made it pro.

There are countless NYC stories like his. Brilliant talents lost to drugs or crime. It doesn’t have to be this way.

03.10.2025 14:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3625    πŸ” 728    πŸ’¬ 71    πŸ“Œ 91

Today has truly been a banner day on this here site

03.10.2025 04:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about β€œinfighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.

02.10.2025 14:39 β€” πŸ‘ 6129    πŸ” 1220    πŸ’¬ 60    πŸ“Œ 199
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Your Cheat Sheet to the 2025 General Elections - Bolts Four contests have come to largely define the 2025 elections: the elections to lead New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City, plus California’s redistricting measure. But there’s so much else... Read M...

Every election I turn to the @boltsmag.org cheat sheet to see what is on the ballot. It's an incredibly helpful resource: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

02.10.2025 20:18 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

02.10.2025 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 850    πŸ” 419    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 114

What is the city government going to do to address the recent South Shore raid? Seems people were left with their apartments destroyed, items stolen, and potentially unhoused. Dozens others were taken into federal custody. Complete destabilization of our communities’ sense of peace and safety.

02.10.2025 02:53 β€” πŸ‘ 60    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Adding "feds fucking choking a man in broad daylight" to the list.

Absolute terror across Chicago today. Begging for national attention that matches the level of crisis on the ground here feels like screaming underwater at this point.

01.10.2025 21:27 β€” πŸ‘ 926    πŸ” 590    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 12
An older Black femme, laying in a hospital bed. She's smiling and holding a pink, lavender and yellow dragon stuffie.

An older Black femme, laying in a hospital bed. She's smiling and holding a pink, lavender and yellow dragon stuffie.

Miss Major, one of the mothers of the trans liberation movement, has been in the hospital for 10 days with sepsis and a blood clot. She has looked out for us for generations, now it’s time to look out for her. Donate if you can: fundly.com/missmajor

30.09.2025 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 3524    πŸ” 3264    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 35

ahahahahahaha oh no

01.10.2025 02:42 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

is there any way we can just swap a bunch of useless dem senators at the national level with the dozen dem state senators in chicago who have been running around to mobilize their communities and confront ICE directly

30.09.2025 22:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1068    πŸ” 181    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 4

40 people from 7500 South Shore is an insane amount of people. This is one apartment building, in a neighborhood that is 93% Black, with ICE attacking people sent here by the Texas governor 2 years ago.

01.10.2025 01:37 β€” πŸ‘ 171    πŸ” 88    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

30.09.2025 03:06 β€” πŸ‘ 9691    πŸ” 3187    πŸ’¬ 98    πŸ“Œ 56

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