awkword
Hip Hop Artist | Sociologist | Organizer | Activist | Strategist | Journalist | @tendemands.bsky.social Founder • Work: NWU, Unicorn Riot, Counterpunch, Mass Appeal, Melina Abdullah, Noelle Cook, etc. • aka @philmandelbaum.bsky.social • thisisawkword.com
- Are you a white ally? Longtime DC organizer Arianna Afeni Evans shares some ways you can show your solidarity. bit.ly/afeniandawkword
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- Reposted by awkwordA cautionary tale Republicans refused to learn. California tried this brand of cruelty. Prop 187 targeted immigrants and pretended it was “law and order.” Teachers and doctors were expected to turn families in. Kids were treated like evidence. It backfired. Hard. open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...
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- Reposted by awkword⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️ 🧵 It was the first all-Black protest in America that most people never heard of. It was the loudest protest ever—all without saying a word.🤫 Let me tell you about The Silent Parade of 1917. (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
- Reposted by awkwordWow Judge Ana Reyes-in her decision to reinstate TPS for Haitians living in America-called DHS Secretary Kristi Noem a racist Good “Plaintiffs charge that Secretary Noem preordained her termination decision and did so because of hostility to nonwhite immigrants. This seems substantially likely”
- Haiti’s TPS continues for now!!!!! And zowie: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.…
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- How body cameras played right into police hands — and assist ICE in tracking and kidnapping US residents @equalityalec.bsky.social
- A conversation with abolitionist attorney Alec Karakatsanis bit.ly/alecandawkword
- “Now we can get official footage of every murder and kidnapping” - @chanda.blacksky.app
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- Reposted by awkwordAmerica is outraged after ICE killed two white people in Minneapolis. I understand why folks are feeling afraid and angry right now. But I need you to understand something just as clearly: this is what Black America has been living with for generations. open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...
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- Reposted by awkword⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️ 🧵 Let us begin #BlackHistoryMonth by acknowledging a medical milestone. What happened when Black physicians and nurses were excluded from all-White hospitals? They built their own. Pull up a 🪑.(cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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- Reposted by awkwordThe Mayor of Portland, OR after ICE shot tear gas into a crowd “To those who..work for ICE: Resign..Through your use of violence and..trampling of the Constitution, you have lost all legitimacy and replaced it with shame. [G]o home, look in a mirror, and ask yourselves why you have gassed children”
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- Reposted by awkwordThe Supreme Court now understands the need for an enforcement mechanism for ethical obligations. Not for the President or for their own code of ethics, of course; this is more of a “snitches get stitches” enforcement for staff members. www.rawstory.com/supreme-cour...
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- ICYMI: The US is currently holding three times as many people in immigrant detention as were detained in the Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939 — six years into the Third Reich, and just before the start of World War II.
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- “We cannot descend into cynicism… It’s our role at this point in history. We are the ancestors to people to come.” - @sdonziger.bsky.social youtu.be/8Rc4SXXVK9U
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- Reposted by awkwordThe oligarchs funding the police state invested early—over $4 MILLION to elect Trump and GOP allies. Now they’re cashing in: $170 BILLION approved for DHS & ICE. For GEO Group, CoreCivic & CSI Aviation, deportation is big business. #DefundOligarchy
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- Reposted by awkword⚠️WOKE CONENT⚠️ 🧵 This book is one of the most profound pieces of literature I've ever read. I held off on posting a thread about it due to the title—but as they say, never judge a book by its cover. Pull up a seat, my friends🪑.(cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
- Reposted by awkwordTrump DOJ Sues to Force States to Share Confidential Voter Data
- Reposted by awkwordMaria Santay, a U.S. citizen and community observer, live-streamed masked ICE agents detaining her after they boxed in her car from all sides and smashed her window. Local police showed up and did nothing. She was denied access to a restroom, and forced to pee in the parking lot while handcuffed.
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- Reposted by awkwordThe Trump administration accused Don Lemon of participating in a protest which interrupted a church service-though Lemon was covering the event as a reporter Yet ICE routinely camps out at churches so they can arrest worshipers upon their exit-and this has interrupted services-with Trump's blessing
- Reposted by awkwordTonight’s #FridayLimericks call out the systematic assault on the First Amendment. Under President Trump, we are cursed With unquenched anti-liberty thirst. He’s attacking our rights Over pissed pants and slights, Trimming freedoms enshrined in the First.
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- “These algorithms create this contagion” 5 years ago, Brooke Binkowski warned of “really noxious ideas getting lots of exposure… ripping apart society at the atomic level” — all paid for by Big Tech youtu.be/l_YVCrtpJjk @brooklynmarie.bsky.social
- Reposted by awkwordSo this provides motive for pre-meditated murder.
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- Reposted by awkwordThis is testimony… 📌 Stella Carlson, “Pink coat lady”, speaks on the murder of Alex Pretti. “After the shooting, they (ICE) decided to just scatter and save themselves.”
- Reposted by awkwordIllegal Immigrant MAGA Rapper ROASTED After SIMPING for Trump
- Reposted by awkwordDuring an arrest in Minnesota on January 27, 2026, an #ICE officer (illegally) wore the racist Thin Blue Line flag over his face as a mask. An analysis of this symbol used by neo-nazis 🧵⏬⏬
