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Travis Malekpour

@tmalekpour.bsky.social

NYCPS Special Education & Social Studies Teacher; Former CSEA Local President; UFT Member; NYC Men Teach Mentor Program Facilitator, NYC Civics for All Teacher Leader; Camera Roll is Mostly of Dogs. Posts are mine, not my employer’s.

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Kim Kelly@kimkelly.bsky.social · 7mo ago

My take on the Jan 23 action in Minneapolis is that I don’t really care whether it’s a “true” general strike (we could argue about that all day). What DOES matter is that it’s a bold and necessary escalation, and local labor leaders are publicly encouraging workers to join in anti-ICE resistance

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9mo ago

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

As a Black Hawk helicopter roared overhead, the slender, 28-year-old immigrant from Venezuela answered softly, his eyes darting to a television crew invited to film the raid. Next to Caicedo, masked Border Patrol agents inspected another man’s tattoos and asked him if he belonged to Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang that the Trump administration has designated a terrorist group. Until that moment, Caicedo’s only interaction with law enforcement in his two-and-a-half years in the United States had been a traffic stop two weeks earlier for driving without a license or insurance, according to the records we reviewed. Chicago police had run a background check on him and found no prior arrests, no warrants and no evidence that he was in a gang. Caicedo said he had a pending asylum application, a steady job at a taco joint and a girlfriend whose daughter attended elementary school across the street. None of that mattered. The U.S. government paraded him and his neighbors in front of the cameras and called their arrests a spectacular victory against terrorism. But later, after the cameras had gone, prosecutors didn’t charge Caicedo with a crime. They didn’t accuse him of being a terrorist. And after a brief hearing in immigration court, the government sent him back to the country he had fled nine years earlier. “I lost everything,” he said in a phone interview from his mother’s home in the Venezuelan city of Valencia. “For those fools, everyone from Venezuela is a criminal.”
Melissa Sanchez@melissa-sanchez.bsky.social · 9mo ago

You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants. We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

Kim Kelly@kimkelly.bsky.social · 12mo ago

On this day eight years ago, during the fascist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, VA, neo-Nazi James Fields drove his car into a crowd of antifascists, killing 32-year-old paralegal Heather Heyer. She is gone but many of us survived to fight another day. Remember her. Don’t give up. 🖤

Andrea@teachbk.bsky.social · last yr.

"When we forget the poor, when we forget the stranger... it is not just those with the least among us who suffer, we all become smaller. For as Dr. King said, "We are caught in inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny."" This. This is why.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · last yr.

My profound thanks to Rev. Stephen A. Green and the Greater Allen AME for the honor of addressing their beautiful congregation in Jamaica, Queens this morning.

Andrea@teachbk.bsky.social · last yr.

This is why wealthy people are so uncomfortable, why hateful people are so angry, and why evil people are so threatened. This vision of a unified, loving, and just society is their worst nightmare. And this is why he will win. Good people want it & believe it can be true

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz.bsky.social · last yr.

U guys are actually delusional. Anyone advocating that the U.S. government, which has spent the past year attempting to criminalize speech against war crimes, should replicate China’s extreme censorship of online speech and that will somehow be better for marginalized ppl needs to stfu w all respect

adefesioso@adefesioso.canica.pe · last yr.

Thing with "free speech" today is that people are noticing online media makes it toxic and so far, none of the west's proposed solutions have worked. China on the other hand, has been less affected by trolls and radical speeches allowing society to move but at a slower and steadier pace.

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz.bsky.social · last yr.

“We just need to give the U.S. government (under Trump no less!) complete and utter authoritarian control over all of our online spaces and then we’ll have less trolls and everyone will be happier.” DO YOU HEAR YOURSELVES

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz.bsky.social · last yr.

You don’t even have to take my word for it, the Heritage Foundation and other right wing pro-Trump groups have been very explicit about how they plan to use “online safety” laws and the backlash to social media in the U.S. to censor all LGBTQ content, abortion info, etc off the internet.

Heritage Foundation Says That Of Course GOP Will Use KOSA To Censor LGBTQ Content

We’ve talked a lot about KOSA, the “Kids Online Safety Act” that has massive bipartisan support in Congress. The latest version was introduced with 26 Senators as sponsors or co-sponsors. We’ve exp…

techdirt.com

DarkSideRahb @darksiderahb.bsky.social · last yr.

The most insane part is that OSA was passed back when the Tories were in charge of the HoC. All Labour had to do was table a motion to repeal it. But Labour under Keir Starmer has zero fucking backbone. They're going to walk the UK right into the hands of Reform simply by acting like 'Tories-light'.

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz.bsky.social · last yr.

Left wing voices have completely abdicated the issue of civil liberties/free speech online and now the extreme far right is taking the issue up and recruiting people off the backlash to age verification. Especially young gamers

Tweet reading: It's maddening because it's mainly far right politicians talking about this in the UK, so we're watching people fall down the alt right pipeline in real time because they do care about this and are shocked by it 😬 desperately need more left wing voices talking about this
Cathy Gellis@cathygellis.bsky.social · last yr.

Let's not forget that this seat was vacant because Islamaphobic Democrats wouldn't let Biden's appointee be confirmed. And Schumer let the clock run out.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · last yr.

Bove himself is a literal criminal. A man whose short time in the public eye is defined by his open contempt for the law and those responsible for enforcing it. And the only reason he was nominated is because of his slavish devotion to the president’s most lawless impulses.

Kim Kelly@kimkelly.bsky.social · last yr.

The city of Philadelphia slapped the union with multiple injunctions during the strike, and was rumored to have been planning to use the courts to force the sanitation workers back to work. So much for all those speeches from the mayor about “respecting” the workers.

Kim Kelly@kimkelly.bsky.social · last yr.

“Sam Spear, the lead attorney for AFSCME District Council 33, said [union president] Boulware ended the strike because the laws for public sector employees make it difficult to carry out extended work stoppages before being ordered back to work by the courts.” www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...

Philly’s city worker strike ends after Mayor Cherelle Parker strikes deal with AFSCME District Council 33

Trash collection is set to resume Monday after Philadelphia’s first major strike of city workers since 1986.

inquirer.com

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz.bsky.social · last yr.

~Personal news~ I'm so excited to announce that I'm joining the Omidyar Network's next Reporters in Residence cohort! I'll still be doing my newsletter/YT, but I'll be writing a lot more about the fight to protect free speech and civil liberties online. Get in touch w tips!

Announcing our sixth class of reporters in residence - Omidyar Network

Our new reporters will report on the emerging rules, institutions, norms, people and narratives shaping our technology and society.

omidyar.com