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A (re)introduction! 👋 We're DAME, an independent women-owned/led news & opinion site, covering politics, policy, culture, media, climate & more. No ads, no corporate overlords, no paywall, just generous readers who help keep us publishing. We may be small , but we're determined, now more than ever.
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Trump has manufactured a crisis of violent crime in the Windy City, siccing masked ICE agents on immigrants and their defenders. And the mainstream media is both-sides-ing the story.
@allisonhantschel.com
in her column this month
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ICE Is Bringing the Violence to Chicago - Dame Magazine
Inside St. Jerome Catholic Church in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood on a recent Sunday, incense wafted through the air as prayers in Spanish rose upward. The service was to honor friends and loved...
https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/11/11/ice-is-bringing-the-violence-to-chicago/
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Allison Hantschel
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This month in
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I wrote about the siege of Chicago, what it feels like to live here, about the violation of the ICE invasion and the gratuitous violence of the president against a city he's hated for years:
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ICE Is Bringing the Violence to Chicago - Dame Magazine
Inside St. Jerome Catholic Church in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood on a recent Sunday, incense wafted through the air as prayers in Spanish rose upward. The service was to honor friends and loved...
https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/11/11/ice-is-bringing-the-violence-to-chicago/
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Ben Railton
2 days ago
Here it is, my 249th
#ScholarSunday
thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below in comments, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
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#ScholarSunday Thread 249 (11/9/25) – Black and White and Read All Over
Here it is, my 249th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below in comments, please share as widely as...
https://blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunday-thread-249-11-9-25/
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only)
4 days ago
Trump’s DOJ has asked the Supreme Court to issue an order that will let them withhold payment of full SNAP benefits for November They’re prepared to starve 42 million people-16 million kids-so they can pressure Democrats to do what Trump wants It’s monstrous And nobody in the GOP will stop him
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Carl Quintanilla
4 days ago
Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.” The result was “institutionalized hunger.”
@kristencrowell.bsky.social
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The Immigrant Legal Resource Center
4 days ago
⚖️ The Trump administration is firing scores of immigration judges, many w/ a background in defending immigrants, while hiring new judges tied to DHS, ICE, & the military. For many, this isn’t just a reshuffle. It’s a restructuring of who gets to decide who stays in the U.S.🧵
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Miriam Elder
7 days ago
Regular reminder that the best work covering this city is done by local outlets -
@wnyc.org
@thecity.nyc
@spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social
@hellgatenyc.com
and others. You don’t have to rely tonight on the newspaper you are constantly annoyed at!
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David M. Perry
7 days ago
I was just doing an op-ed training and was asked about independent media - I shared this thread. It’s a great collection of outlets.
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Matt Novak
7 days ago
“Similarly, Bovino testified that he has instructed his officers to arrest protesters who make hyperbolic comments in the heat of political demonstrations…”
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David Rothkopf
7 days ago
Government is not our family. Our families are our families. And ghouls like Johnson and MAGA want to make our families suffer. That's politics today. Dems want to help make people's lives better. Republicans want government that helps make billionaires richer at the expense of all of us.
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KansasWoman
8 days ago
#SupportTrustedMessengers
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Tony Serrata 🇺🇦
8 days ago
A must sub list of Indy news.
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The news about Teen Vogue is terrible, the latest in the long list of corporate-owned media layoffs, closures, and shifting tone and coverage. There are so many great independent outlets, a list too long but this is a fantastic starter pack. PLEASE pick a few & support them if you're able.
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David Rothkopf
8 days ago
Important from
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Remember how he behaved during his confirmation hearings....
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8 days ago
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Unfortunately, traditional corporate media isn't "our media", it's "his media" now. But, so many truly amazing independent outlets and journalists *can* be our media. Please support them however you're able to.
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The Daily Show
8 days ago
We've got you 👍
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The editors and writers on the political beat at Teen Vogue have done incredible work. And
@leximcmenamin.com
is just fantastic (we're proud to have published several pieces by them). What a loss for journalism. (PS - hire Lex!)
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Erik Sternberger
11 days ago
This is near my niece and nephew's school in Evanston, Ill just hours ago as they are now on lockdown. This is what's happening. It's an occupation by ICE in a Chicago suburb. They must be abolished.
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Sherrilyn Ifill
12 days ago
He did.
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"It hasn’t even been a year, and already Donald Trump has ticked through the list of signs for fascism like it’s his to-do list."
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Can Italy’s History Offer Lessons for Surviving Our Current Moment? - Dame Magazine
Before visiting the school in Amandola, a small town in Italy, my husband Pat and I meet English teacher Daniela for coffee on Piazza Risorgimento. We’re there to talk to Daniela’s 12- and 13-year-old...
https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/10/30/can-italys-history-offer-lessons-for-surviving-our-current-moment/
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Ned Resnikoff
12 days ago
If you're looking for somewhere to give your money over the next couple of months, your local food bank is about to be absolutely walloped. I'd either give local or steer your donations to Feeding America, which is the main nationwide food bank network.
www.feedingamerica.org
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U.S. Hunger Relief Organization | Feeding America
Feeding America is a nonprofit network of 200 food banks leading the fight against hunger in the United States. Learn how you can help end hunger in America.
https://www.feedingamerica.org
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Karl Bode
12 days ago
1. stoke urban unrest and violence 2. leverage response to justify further freedom erosion, state violence against ideological enemies, and suppression of midterm vote
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Pentagon readying thousands of Guard ‘reaction forces’ as U.S. mission widens
The Defense Department’s newly established “quick reaction force” within the National Guard is being readied for civil unrest missions in U.S. cities.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/10/30/pentagon-national-guard-quick-reaction-force/
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13 days ago
"Republican donors have forked over billions of dollars to drown the country in media that says Trump is good and libs are bad..." "If information control is his top priority, ours should be generating and gathering information that undermines him, and spreading it as far as possible."
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Joseph Cox
13 days ago
New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo “I’m an American citizen so leave me alone” “Alright, we just got to verify that”
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
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ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship
Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”
https://www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-agents-are-scanning-peoples-faces-on-the-street-to-verify-citizenship/
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The Flytrap
14 days ago
Meet
@theflytrapmedia.com
worker-owner and cofounder
@nicolefroio.bsky.social
! Nicole is a Colombian-Brazilian feminist journalist with over a decade of experience in movement-aligned reporting and feminist pop culture criticism.
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Gary Legum
14 days ago
Every day he tells the same easily disprovable lies right to reporters' faces, and I really don't know why they keep going into this room and asking questions. Don't go for a couple of days and see what happens. Have some dignity.
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Sam Halpert
14 days ago
Say it again: members of Congress need to draft articles & talk publicly & loudly about the case for treason. Trump told generals on camera in person: the campaign in U.S. cities is a WAR. The military needs to hear it laid out for them, how serious this is. Write for them, not the GOP.
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Trump saying out loud that he no longer feels bound by even the pretense of civil law is a staggering admission for an American president writes
@themaxburns.bsky.social
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The East Wing Isn’t Even the Half of It - Dame Magazine
Employees working in the Treasury Building enjoyed a bird’s-eye view of the rubble that, just a week ago, had been the White House’s historic East Wing. The view was so good, in fact, that the Treasur...
https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/10/28/trump-east-wing-democracy/
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BlackskyNews 🗞️
24 days ago
👋🏽 I’m also creator of
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feed. I made
#BlackskyNews
after seeing a “news” company slash their Black and multicultural teams just like that. With your input, this feed will grow. Please like it, pin to your home page and share
#BlackskyNews
w/ your followers. ✊🏾
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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"We are all constantly calibrating our presentations to show the world who we are, or who we want to be. Yet, when we do it with gender, people get anxious. The question I want to answer is why." -
@judedoyle.bsky.social
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The Language of Gender - Dame Magazine
Gender is not just a personal experience. It’s a social phenomenon. It’s not enough to know you are a man or a woman; other people must also know this about you, and in order to make that happen, you ...
https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/10/22/the-language-of-gender/
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Sherrilyn Ifill
20 days ago
Can you imagine that this is an ICE recruitment poster? It’s like “why sit around on your sofa w/your wife nagging you every two minutes when you can sit in comfort in a van big enough for friends? You’ll get a mask, a gun, & your very own “illegal” so you can feel superior & secure in your ride.”
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin
21 days ago
Have been predicting this for several days. VERY important lawsuit.
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A great list of follows! (and thanks for including us) we want to also add
@mississippifreepress.org
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21 days ago
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Brooke
21 days ago
Well, that was the point
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Mark Jacob
21 days ago
This is either journalistic incompetence or worse.
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The Editorial Board
21 days ago
Perhaps one day the consensus will be that it was all about white power and immigration status and immigration law had nothing to do with it.
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Zeb Larson
21 days ago
One of the things we need to be really clear on: the GOP and Trump are mining our history in order to build an updated Jim Crow. Our past history is going to be very instructive on this point. I wrote about that here for
@damemagazine.bsky.social
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The GOP’s New, NEW Jim Crow - Dame Magazine
Republicans and Trumpers haven’t been subtle about their attacks on the Civil Rights Movement and its legacies. One of the talking points of the late Charlie Kirk was that the 1964 Civil Rights Act ha...
https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/10/21/the-gops-new-new-jim-crow/
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Mark Jacob
21 days ago
Every day it amazes me that reporters who have been lied to for a decade hear something new from the liar and pretend to their audience that he might be telling the truth this time.
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Mark Jacob
21 days ago
It's obvious that Trump pardoned the J6 criminals to empower domestic terrorists who would help him build a dictatorship. Trump did it even though polls showed most Republican voters opposed pardons for J6 criminals who assaulted cops. Trump did it to build a thug army and normalize violence.
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More than just erasing legal protections or rolling back laws, the administration is trying to revive the white nationalism that was baked into the Jim Crow worldview.
@zeblarson.bsky.social
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The GOP’s New, NEW Jim Crow - Dame Magazine
Republicans and Trumpers haven’t been subtle about their attacks on the Civil Rights Movement and its legacies. One of the talking points of the late Charlie Kirk was that the 1964 Civil Rights Act ha...
https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/10/21/the-gops-new-new-jim-crow/
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The Bulwark
25 days ago
Gov. Jared Polis: "If you're a Republican, imagine it was President Biden sending troops into your Republican states to enforce DEI...Imagine for a moment how you would feel. That's how Democratic governors feel with federal troops invading their own cities."
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Brendan Nyhan
25 days ago
Will Trump force an indictment against a sitting US senator? Who wants to live in a country like this?
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑
27 days ago
Uline's owners "have used their wealth to funnel millions of dollars into the most extreme RW politicians & mvmts... contributed $144 million to conservative groups in the 2024 election cycle... donated $4+ million to bankroll anti-abortion groups who pushed to overturn Roe v Wade."
refuseuline.com
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Kate Ertmann
25 days ago
A really excellent episode of
@wbur.org
’s ON POINT (link at bottom) - that has some affirming overlap with my recent piece for
@damemagazine.bsky.social
on tracking how maximum entropy has historically been a death knell in regimes. My piece:
www.damemagazine.com/2025/09/23/w...
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What can Americans learn from Stalinism?
Some historians argue that President Trump is using a Stalinist-style playbook to amass power, silence his enemies and suppress science. What Americans should know about notorious Soviet dictator Jose...
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025/10/15/americans-learn-stalinism-trump
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Karl Bode
25 days ago
one of the early signs for me that we were cooked was when all the staid voices in policy I know (who previously whispered among themselves that I was historically hyperbolic) started freaking out harder than I ever could
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Chris 🍂 DevPods.gg gamedev community
26 days ago
Healthcare $0 Science $0 Education $0 Housing $0 Suicide Prevention $0 Infrastructure $0 Food Safety $0 Banking Regulations $0 Gun Safety $0 Argentina $40,000,000,000 Abducting Spanish Speakers $45,000,000,000 Climate $0 someone who is good at economy please help me budget this. my country is dying
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Jonathan Ladd
26 days ago
We often say Congress has the power of the purse, a framing coming from the Federalist Papers. But to be technical, it is federal law that has the power of the purse. Appropriations bills are laws! Rather than a fight between branches, it's better to think of this as a question of the rule of law.
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Aaron Rupar
26 days ago
Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy"
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Andrew Lawrence
26 days ago
“but you commented earlier about a naked bike ride in portland” would be a legitimate follow up for any reporters in the room w johnson when he says he didnt see the important story youre asking him about
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