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writer of fiction and history and other things too, lots about migrant justice. history prof; happy in the classroom. some kinda commie jew, 🐈 lover, mom to two amazing grown women, i ❀️ joe. annie dirusso> ani de franco

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Also important to note that organizers from Chicago (and LA) are sharing their experiences, strategies and tactics with other cities.

For example - Columbus, Oh is now working on purchasing thousands of whistles and distributing rapid response info in preparation for bigger actions in the city.

22.10.2025 12:30 β€” πŸ‘ 698    πŸ” 74    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 4

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

22.10.2025 12:12 β€” πŸ‘ 16759    πŸ” 4177    πŸ’¬ 295    πŸ“Œ 275

voting for you

22.10.2025 01:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

what #gustavopetro supporting regime change in the US?

21.10.2025 13:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

i get more than one email a week from administrators who have never taught a history class but want to tell me how to do my job. but this week w the shutdown of canvas which we have all been encouraged if not forced to use: πŸ¦—πŸ¦—

21.10.2025 13:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
What was reported in @politico is offensive and very concerning. But I'm also glad that many leaders, including @EliseStefanik and @ReMikeLawler, spoke out strongly and swiftly against these hateful statements. This is what leadership looks like - and is how decency and morality can be modeled. politico.com/news/2025/10/1...
Everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber.
viner as we oning ut
Great. I love Hitler
Also ... we are officially under consideration for a Trump endorsement.

What was reported in @politico is offensive and very concerning. But I'm also glad that many leaders, including @EliseStefanik and @ReMikeLawler, spoke out strongly and swiftly against these hateful statements. This is what leadership looks like - and is how decency and morality can be modeled. politico.com/news/2025/10/1... Everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber. viner as we oning ut Great. I love Hitler Also ... we are officially under consideration for a Trump endorsement.

Greenblatt with kinder words for Republicans who are affiliated with actual Hitler Youth than what he says about Zohran Mamdani

16.10.2025 18:07 β€” πŸ‘ 957    πŸ” 206    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 16

you have to call off the state police that is roughing up protesters if you are serious.

16.10.2025 19:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2787    πŸ” 557    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 0
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A main organizer of VC Defensa in Ventura County was rammed in his vehicle by federal agents and taken into custody this morning. This video is from VC Defensa IG and shows the ramming. Organizers are thinking he’ll be taken to LA MDCβ€”headed there now

16.10.2025 19:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1179    πŸ” 709    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 100

wait so the orange menace ANNOUNCED covert action against venezuela? that’s how it works now?

16.10.2025 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

so essentially Palestinians in Gaza & the West Bank can look forward to living under a similar regime as contemporary Chicago.

14.10.2025 12:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

14.10.2025 03:28 β€” πŸ‘ 4490    πŸ” 1412    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 1

it's one of them scary because i'm starting a chapter and not sure what i mean to say wrtg days. please comment with good cheer and encouragement and receipts for having been there and prevailed.

13.10.2025 15:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

the university of β€œno you can’t/why didn’t you/you have to or else” for students and academic workers is a place of vast opportunity and riches for the administrative class.

13.10.2025 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

it’s a small thing in a crowded field of awful but it’s β€œdemocratic” cities (policies, politicians, etc) not β€œdemocrat”.

10.10.2025 23:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#LeticiaJames for president!!!

10.10.2025 22:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Greta Thunberg is not in the Epstein files, but Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Donald Trump are.

07.10.2025 21:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3411    πŸ” 897    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 19
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Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Adam Douglas Thompson. #NewYorkerCartoons

Sign up for our humor newsletter to get Daily Cartoons delivered to your inbox: nyer.cm/0EivDaD

06.10.2025 15:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1874    πŸ” 634    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 30

as a spiritual new yorker (rent’s much cheaper!) i cannot wait to be represented by @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

06.10.2025 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

if the 14th amendment goes down what about corporate personhood??

06.10.2025 14:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Develops New Strategy to Counter Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence COUNTERING DOMESTIC TERRORISM: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM) establishing a comprehensive

they're terrified of any kind of resistance so they make up lies and policies to scare and punish it:

28.09.2025 20:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

terrible to fly in this capitalist hellhole
and tonight i’m
imagining all the deportation flights , the unnecessary agony

26.09.2025 00:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

23.09.2025 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 32198    πŸ” 19533    πŸ’¬ 1228    πŸ“Œ 1799

the current war on the left & trans folks comes out of the long history of indigenous & black death, endless red scares, and the grim architecture of islamophobia that enables the fascist ideas of #antifa and #trans menace. this the grail of oligarchs forever: a carte blanche for power & repression

21.09.2025 17:25 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

calling the left terrorists completes a long, bipartisan campaign building on islamophobic policy starting in the 1990s

20.09.2025 17:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

sure i do think about retiring from the hellhole of the public university. but i love teaching and plus being someone’s nightmare image of a woke professor is damn satisfying.

19.09.2025 22:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

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anybody seen an actual flag burning- by the β€œradical left” or anyone else?- lately? like the last decade or so?

16.09.2025 22:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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ICE Abducts Man Suing Off-Duty Police for Abusing Day Laborers β€œThe Department of Homeland Security has become the department of state terror,” said Rep. Delia Ramirez.

Willian Gimenez was abducted by ICE yesterday in Chicago. He had been part of a lawsuit against off-duty police and Home Depot employees for abusing day laborers. Latino Union says he was targeted for advocating for his rights as a worker. @bloomekatz.bsky.social and I report.

13.09.2025 19:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1320    πŸ” 697    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 16

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class.

This is Kirk's legacy.

You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

12.09.2025 19:13 β€” πŸ‘ 18255    πŸ” 6438    πŸ’¬ 95    πŸ“Œ 139

@r-ida is following 18 prominent accounts