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The Midwest People's History Project is an ongoing chronicle of moments when ordinary people got organized and made history. DM for contributions.

Detroit, MI
Joined April 2014
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Spotted in Chicago
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good god
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elephant seals, welcome to The Resistance
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Motherboard
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Elephant seals completely took over a beach during the government shutdown and they're refusing to give it back
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California
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ICE is failing. Keep it up y’all
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agitator in chief
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ICE has taken 35 of 2,000 people they were trying to deport into custody. They are blaming community defense efforts for their lack of success. Keep it up y'all.
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Is that a fucking golden piano?
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The Queen will urge Britain to overcome "deeply held differences" by treating one another with "respect and as a fellow human being" in her Christmas speech. @ianpaynesport asks: are we divided?
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Someone who is good at the economy please help
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The police want so desperately to look like the victims right now
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don't make us tap the sign
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In Chile, someone bravely climbed a pole to disable a surveillance camera and then was joyously caught by the crowd below 🙌 Teamwork makes the dream work❣
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The Philando Feeds the Children Fund just wiped the school lunch debt of EVERY kid in St. Paul — $166,000! Before his murder by the @StAnthonyPolice , he was known to pay kids' debts at the cafeteria he worked in. "He is STILL reaching into his pocket, and helping a kid out."
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Remember when everyone kept posting videos of a white woman setting the Wendy’s on fire and calling her an “outside agitator”? Well it turns out she was #RayshardBrooks ’s long term girlfriend and now she is looking at years in prison because of you snitches. Well done, assholes.
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Woman identified as suspect in fire at Atlanta Wendy's where Rayshard Brooks was killed
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graphic design is my passion
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yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
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Shouts out to these McDonald's workers in Paterson, NJ 💕
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Sinkhole, welcome to the resistance
@680NEWS
CityNews 680 (Inactive)
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TTC vehicle gets swallowed up by sinkhole
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For two days, residents in Portland have surrounded the local ICE detention center with a 24 hr encampment. Tonight, without a fucking shred of irony, ICE agents complained those blocking their trucks were "keeping them apart from their families." #SurroundICE #OccupyICEPDX
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Imagine having strangers on a balcony shouting down at you how to escape the police. Insurrections really do bring out the best in people, its so beautiful to see 😿
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This is also the same Wendy’s that called the cops on him for sleeping in his car
@Phil_Lewis_
philip lewis
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The Wendys where Atlanta Police shot and killed #RayshardBrooks has been lit on fire by protesters:
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gonna tell my kids this was chapo trap house
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"quietly being adopted" is a weird way of saying kidnapped
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Migrant children quietly being adopted after their parents are deported: report
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We need everyone
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Huge if true
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The first concession of the #PrisonStrike . They scared.
@keribla
Keri Blakinger
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#BREAKING Texas prison system just voted to drastically slash the cost of inmate phone calls - the new contract will be 6 cents per minute instead of 26 cents.
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Plot twist for White America: It turns out billionaires are actually the ones taking your children's spots at Ivy League schools and pushing opiates down your family's throats
@axios
Axios
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Exclusive: Johnson & Johnson was the "kingpin" that fueled the country's opioid crisis, serving as a top supplier, seller and lobbyist, according to a state official leading the legal fight against the companies that helped create the crisis.
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Flint, Michigan is an image from the future, in which the bare necessities of survival are denied to more and more people who are considered to be superfluous to the needs of capitalism
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Teamwork makes the dream work
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Galaxy brain
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That's fucking beautiful for real
@wsvn
WSVN 7 News
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Police say the man checked his wife out of a nursing home and threw her a death party, where they used meth and listened to their favorite music before she died.
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This was taken outside of Cook County Jail in Chicago, where 304 people inside have already tested positive for COVID-19, making it the largest cluster in the country. Jails and prisons across the country are quickly turning into death camps. What are we going to do about it?
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Employees of the largest freight railroad network on the continent just declared a strike 👇
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when you are 100% committed to having absolutely no fucking idea who is treading on you
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THREAD: As police and politicians insist that this wave of uprisings is the sole work of "outside agitators" to justify violent crackdowns, now's the time to revisit the long, racist history of the term and its role of fracturing solidarity in the name of counter-insurgency.
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Y'all know Stormtroopers were literally named after Nazi foot soldiers right?
@TPUSA
Turning Point USA
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Zip, Zero, Zilch, Nada #SocialismSucks
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they lookin for roommates?
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Uhhhh so this just happened
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Last week in the East Bay, Joseph Malott was attacked by police dogs and violently arrested after throwing a tear gas canister back towards the police. His charge? "Assault with a deadly weapon."
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After we storm Area 51
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Nobody ever expects the guy with the Whole Foods bag full of eggs 😂
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The bar has been set
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And now here's a video of farmers slinging horse shit at the cops #GiletsJaunes
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Outraged neighbors are beginning to gather in the Russell neighborhood of Louisville after waking up to news that David "Yaya" McAtee was murdered by the LMPD and National Guard last night outside of his beloved BBQ stand. #DavidMcAtee
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joy to the world, death to capitalism
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EveryoneHatesThePolice.jpeg
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Her name was #MakhiaBryant and she was 15 years old.
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@LaceyCrisp
Lacey Crisp
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Protesters have gathered at Legion Lane off Chatterton Road in SE Columbus after @ColumbusPolice confirm an officer shot and killed someone.
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yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
@kkruesi
Kimberlee Kruesi
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ALSO BREAKING: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho prison officials say 364 inmates hacked the JPay tablets they use for email, music and games and collectively transferred nearly a quarter million dollars into their own accounts. #idpol
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anyway fuck the bosses, support your local strikers
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Employees of the largest freight railroad network on the continent just declared a strike 👇
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After serving four years in a California federal prison for felonies related to the 2016 uprising at Standing Rock, Red Fawn Fallis was released yesterday. This is how her family and friends greeted her at the Bismarck Airport
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And now here's a video of farmers in Limoges painting a government building with multiple coats of liquified horse shit #GiletsJaunes
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"Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfil my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to go unbuild walls." R.I.P. Ursula K. Le Guin
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Good to know
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@NickMiroff
Nick Miroff
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One DHS official we spoke to expressed frustration and astonishment that Portland protesters were showing up with leaf blowers to disperse tear gas and send it right back at fed agents
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so pleased that this is becoming a slogan of the #ClimateStrike
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A peculiar mystery indeed 🕵️‍♀️
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Water is life Racial capitalism is death
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yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
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it's literally not
@AmandiOnAir
Fernand R. Amandi
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VOTING. IS. THE. SOLUTION.
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This sign from the #ClimateStrike is everything
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Shout out to one or more jurors
@mattdpearce
Matt Pearce 🦅🇺🇸
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Hung jury: One or more jurors refused to convict border activist Scott Daniel Warren for providing two migrants with water, food and lodging. He faced up to 20 years in prison if convicted.
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Anybody got a link to his bail fund?
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Dykes to watch out for. #StopCopCity
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Prisons are confederate monuments, pass it on.
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Isaiah Willoughby was arrested on Tuesday for setting a fire outside the abandoned 3rd Precinct in Seattle. The police were able to identify him because this paranoid “ally” posted pictures of him acting as a professional “outside agitator.” Now he is facing decades in prison
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OMFG, last week someone added a footnote to the infamous HELL IS REAL billboard in northern Indiana and the owners still haven't noticed... #AllOutAugust
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"France is essentially ungovernable and it's why they have nice things." #GiletsJaunes
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Rikers Island jail in NYC now has the highest density of COVID-19 infections in the entire world
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We aint seen him
@ABC
ABC News
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Tennessee authorities are looking for the driver of a four-wheeler who dragged a police sergeant down the street as dozens of riders took over downtown Nashville on Saturday. The officer is resting at home as he recovers from his injuries, officials say.
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I'm sorry but WHAT in the fuck is going on
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Someone just hacked the French police union's database and doxxed all of the cops #GiletsJaunes
@franceinfo
franceinfo
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Les données personnelles de près de 500 policiers du syndicat Alliance piratées lors d'une cyberattaque
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