Alexander Zimmerman
Mutineer on ship of Capital & State.
Exiled public Librarian bunking in so-called Maine, US.
Luddite currently sailing the Non-Profit Tech seas.
All the music, all the tea.
- Reposted by Alexander ZimmermanTexas AG Ken Paxton has announced legal action against the Houston area Screwston Antifascist Committee, alleging commission of terrorism and doxing. Their account has been quiet for some time, but this was one of their last posts — identifying a neo-Nazi.
- Reposted by Alexander ZimmermanI swear to god, I left this cat alone for two fucking minutes with a jar of red beets. Two. Minutes. #CatsofBluesky
- Reposted by Alexander ZimmermanBruce Pennington’s 1968 cover to ‘A Scent of New-Mown Hay’ by John Blackburn. Probably the most surreal early Pennington work I've seen
- Reposted by Alexander ZimmermanNEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons. We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team. Read more:
- "They attribute much of their success to the fact that they know their neighbors, and more importantly, their neighbors know them. They are the antithesis of the faceless agents of the state whose terror hinges on their anonymity." truthout.org/articles/som...
- Reposted by Alexander ZimmermanA new edition of the 1 Million Experiments zine is here! It’s terrific as usual and includes a new zine which is a treasure. To jump-start neighborly relations, try one of the 50 (mostly untried) ways to meet your neighbors. Get into some Porchside Abolition. open.substack.com/pub/millione...
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- Reposted by Alexander ZimmermanWhen I saw pictures of Liam Ramos with his Spidey backpack and bunny hat, I felt an overwhelming responsibility as someone who works in superhero comics. Please do check out the art in #Comics4Liam and visit comics4liam.com to support Liam and groups helping other immigrants like him. ❤️💪🐇
- Friends, we're thrilled to announce #Comics4Liam to encourage artists to draw pictures for Liam Conejo Ramos and share links to help Liam's family and other immigrants persecuted by ICE! Check out comics4liam.com and please do feel free to pitch in! Images by the great @trungles.com!
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- "So do me a favor. Do not build another app. Have another conversation. Make another conversation possible. Make access, material, comfort, something possible. Make sure the baby has a hat. Make sure you have one too."
- Reposted by Alexander ZimmermanI truly believe discourse about voters (especially those who may have voted for Trump) would go better on this app if everyone was using the spectrum of allies as a framework commonslibrary.org/spectrum-of-...
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- Reposted by Alexander ZimmermanMy 15yo co-organized a walkout protest at their school in deep red Tulsa Oklahoma!
- Reposted by Alexander ZimmermanIt's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"
- Reposted by Alexander Zimmerman“Anthony-Evenson, who knows ASL, said the hands spelled out ‘ICE out’ by using the sign for ‘ice’ and the ‘resistance fist.’”
- Reposted by Alexander ZimmermanA pair of snowy owls on the coast of Chicago
- Reposted by Alexander ZimmermanAn underpass installed beneath a busy stretch of road in Eliot, #Maine, a few years ago has led to “a substantial reduction in turtle mortalities,” according to a state biologist. themainemonitor.org/turtle-tunne...
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- Reposted by Alexander ZimmermanAcross Georgia, thousands of students are making the same calculation. From Lakeside High to Kennesaw State, they’re deciding that a suspension is a small price to pay to draw attention to the actions of ICE and the recent tragic deaths in Minneapolis.
- We have so much to learn from each other - keep sharing! "Best Practices Guide for Neighborhood or Area Patrol / Monitors" #CommunityDefense #ICEWatch
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- Reposted by Alexander ZimmermanWe have an unprecedented moment of solidarity between leftists, liberal, centrists, and even non-MAGA Republicans on opposing DHS and after like 3 days Dems completely folded their hand and are prepared to give ICE $10 billion more if they pinky promise to behave themselves
- Reposted by Alexander Zimmermani can confirm the chats I’m in which include renowned security specialists - people who actually advise on how to protect your comms from authoritarian dictators for a living - also think this outburst of paranoia about Signal is really weird and unwarranted
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- Reposted by Alexander ZimmermanIn the second part of a two part series, Margaret and James reflect on their time in Minnesota, the incredible community response to the immigration raids, and what other communities can learn from the Twin Cities. @margaret.bsky.social @jamesstout.bsky.social www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
- Reposted by Alexander ZimmermanNew It Could Happen Here Margaret and James reflect on their time in Minnesota, the incredible community response to the immigration raids, and what other communities can learn from the Twin Cities. @margaret.bsky.social @jamesstout.bsky.social www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
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- Baa hahaha This is some of the*wildest* shit I've read in a long time.
- "That mosaic—the ability to unify all the disparate lists into one master picture—doesn’t yet exist, sources tell me. That, however, is the direction we’re going, especially with software packages like Palantir that can be customized to aggregate all that is collected." #Surveillance
- 🚨 I've obtained a list of secret watchlists the Department of Homeland Security uses to keep tabs on American citizens www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ices-secre...
- Reposted by Alexander ZimmermanWARNING, fellow journalists: As @nicoschmidt.io explains, attackers are trying to hijack reporters' Signal accounts by tricking people into handing over their 2FA codes. www.linkedin.com/posts/nicosc...
- Today!
- 🚨 Today, Thursday July 29!! 🚨 @grahamformaine.bsky.social calls for Emergency Protests at Susan Collins' Senate field offices in Portland and Bangor Maine. #Maine #MEPolitics #AbolishICE #SusanCollins #NoICEInME
- South Portland High School Sit-in demonstration in solidarity with immigrant communities. Friday, Jan 30th. #SoPo #SouthPortland #Maine
- Reposted by Alexander ZimmermanICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest * Free to access
- "The Green Hand Bookshop is participating in the strike. We will be paying our on-shift workers, and they can opt to do whatever they feel is most important for them on that day. We encourage our fellow business owners to do the same." #Maine #ICEout greenhandbooks.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-fr...
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- Reposted by Alexander ZimmermanEvaristo Kalonji, an #asylumseeker from Angola who has no criminal record, vanished from South Portland, #Maine. He turned up in one detention center, then another. Read more from @krstnimg.bsky.social for free below 👇 themainemonitor.org/missing-cong...
- Reposted by Alexander ZimmermanYou are not prepared for the sound in this video. I sure wasn’t, anyway
- Reposted by Alexander ZimmermanBtw, if you are interested in 3D printing whistles, I have a great one for you to try It sounds like a person screaming www.thingiverse.com/thing:2662731
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- "There’s a public video circulating of the two-gentleman fleeing the brewery saying nothing because it seems when they are unmasked and without their weapons and uniforms, they are nothing but sad white men who hold racist views and no power. These men are no doubt...
- Reposted by Alexander Zimmerman"You raise your voice, I erase your voice." Meet 𝐄𝐝𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐨 𝐆𝐨𝐧𝐳𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐳, an ICE Deportation Officer from Miami, FL (originally from Puerto Rico). Gonzalez has lived in Miami and Hollywood, FL. He decided it would be fun to travel to Miami to kidnap and threaten people. #OneOfOursAllOfYours #UnmaskICE
- Reposted by Alexander ZimmermanREAD: Leqaa Kordia has been held by ICE since her arrest in March 2025. Her attorneys say the White House is targeting the last remaining Columbia University protester in custody for her activism, using racism and procedural tricks to prevent her release. mondoweiss.net/2026/01/the-...
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- Reposted by Alexander ZimmermanA good news story: a year old male mountain lion walking around a San Francisco neighborhood was successful tranquilized and relocated to wilderness, in part because the neighborhood helped out and had the right attitude.
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- helluvah quote! 💜
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- 1/2 Maine has wonderful Orgs fighting to keep us safe - from traditional Non-Profits, to city/church Mutual Aid groups, to scrappy Immigrant led formulations springing directly from impacted communities. They all could use your support. Also I see countless Mainers trying to Do Something...
- Periodic reminder to please donate to the Maine Solidarity Fund 💜 "...a collective of frontline organizations, cultural anchors, and direct service providers with deep ties to Maine’s Black and Brown immigrant, and Trans communities." #Maine #Solidarity #AbolishICE www.mainesolidarity.org
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- Reposted by Alexander ZimmermanThe goal of fascism within a liberal state is it ultimately will violently reestablish a status quo of power. It will eventually fail, and in its wake, liberals will step in and claim “we beat facism, all is better now” while inheriting and sustaining this new status quo of social hierarchy.
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- Reposted by Alexander ZimmermanAlso, the primary purpose of law enforcement body cams, functionally speaking, will always be the surveillance and criminalization of members of the public, not law enforcement themselves. Extraordinary exceptions confuse people about this.
