good advice to read this book, from a rally in Boston yesterday. @alexvitale.bsky.social

I have verified that Keith Porter Jr’s father created this GoFundMe and is asking to support his grandchildren

It’s beyond insane that our overarching internal security agency has spent months tweeting barely-coded messages of support for neo-Nazi groups and the entire media apparatus looks at it and says “That’s odd but certainly not part a major story that is relevant to current events, I’m sure”

A reminder on Law Enforcement Appreciation Day: It's not just "a few bad apples." Police violence is a systemic problem in the U.S., and it happens on a scale far greater than other wealthy nations. Who, exactly, does this system protect & serve?

relevant to portland right now, but also evergreen always.

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

The resident dean who was fired was given only ten days to vacate his housing. @harvard.edu is putting a Black family — with a newborn baby — out on the street because of comments opposing white supremacy. Please donate to their gofundme: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Please keep boosting this post! The family is less than $1K shy of their $7K goal to bury their beloved son/brother/cousin. The funeral is two days away. Can we help them reach their goal in time? Shacoby Kenny should still be alive. If he'd had $2500 to pay in bail he would be. #bospoli

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

As Trump escalates terrorizing ICE and Border Patrol raids, organizers say the answer isn’t hiding but building mutual aid and rapid response networks that meet material needs and protect people’s dignity so communities can survive.

DHS tweeted this yesterday. Little more than 24 hours later, ICE agents just shot and killed a legal observer in Minneapolis.

I was really going to wait longer to post this until I'd added all the examples to github, but since clearly the pace of 2026 may actually outstrip 2025: here is a rough guide to archiving legislative and congressional hearings. 2026 is going to be an all-hands situation. We need eyes on everything.

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

We tried so hard to raise the alarm. Is anyone paying attention yet?

From the comrade card archives. “Grief is and will always be a reflection of our capacity to love, and it is our grief that will keep us human in these times, as fascism attempts to grow where solidarity belongs.” — Tanuja Devi Jagernauth

after dealing with thyroid issues & endocrinologists & cardiologists & electrophysiologists & testing over the last 3 months, i've concluded that either: a) thyroids aren't real. or b) thyroids are THE MOST REAL and COMPLEX and impact EVERY BODY SYSTEM in innumerable ways. thoughts? which is it?

Now unlocked: @dreanyc123.bsky.social returns to discuss how healthcare workers can resist ICE and refuse to participate in criminalizing the people they care for, and the resources available from Beyond Do No Harm @interruptcrim.bsky.social on.soundcloud.com/6f5nCoDvSKOJ...

today is a good day because my shirt from @moxiest.art arrived!!!! spread the word: gavin doesn’t care about: -trans people -unhoused people -immigrants -Palestinians -women -incarcerated people -you

"We can act on our strongest convictions that dehumanization anywhere is unacceptable because we are all bearers of the image of God." Check out my latest article with @faithandleadership.bsky.social faithandleadership.com/i-was-slamme...

📣 IT'S TIME! Applications are now open for our Spring 2026 cohort of the Abolitionist Public Health Network! Interested in organizing an abolitionist, anti-authoritarian campaign on your campus? Learn more and apply here: bit.ly/AbSPHSpring2026

please call & share to support Juan David and his family: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

this is a major hit to radical public health. a good reminder to all who forgot that harvard should not be considered a leader in anyone's "resistance" movement.

Spend five minutes talking to someone who has survived what these policies were designed to stop and you’ll never be the same again. PREA is imperfect and often weaponized, but it’s often the only protection trans/intersex prisoners have. Everyone involved in this should never know a moment’s peace.

yesss amen! and also send some cash over to CCWP while you're at it! womenprisoners.org

BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

6 years today the first COVID case was identified in a man in Wuhan marking the beginning of a global pandemic that changed the world. We are way less prepared today to face another pandemic than we were back then. This fact makes me sad.

If you need a whistle in Somerville, stop by Gracie’s. If you need A LOT of whistles that’s probably ok too.

Thinking about this today. “It also means more than simply living. It means our lives are made so much better now that they actually feel worth living— that the change that gender-affirming care makes possible isn't just about life or death, it's about a vibrant life instead of the absence of one.”

i talked about Alice Wong's death in therapy today and my therapist described her as someone who "lit others up." i just find that so apt as a descriptor for who i experienced Alice to be. may she rest in love, knowing that her light continues to shine on in so many of us.

ICYMI: I spent a week with an illustrator in Connecticut’s only immigration court, where judges decide whether thousands of people each year can stay in the U.S. We found few lawyers, long backlogs and lessened transparency. (And yes, that's me.) www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky

reminder: please only share info about ICE presence that has been confirmed & verified by you and/or a trusted source. inciting fear & panic can prevent people from seeking needed care & getting essential resources. it's important that we share info, but it's important that we do so responsibly.

In sorting my own thoughts about the moment, I began writing about the way science is being used by bad actors under the guise of "evidence-based medicine". I also talk about the limits of our ability to fully boil down evidence into axioms that make subjectivity irrelevant.

While Alice has become an ancestor, her work continues! If you want to share her wisdom with others, you can purchase copies of her books for your local library, share her dazzling array of digital media from DVP, or donate to her legacy fund: www.gofundme.com/f/alice-wong...

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong

One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.

I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

"If you think they treat me badly when the whole world is watching, it pales in comparison to what happens inside that facility...It’s why I refuse to be silent, & I will continue showing up to the Broadview facility til it's closed." @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social religionnews.com/2025/11/13/w...

I believe one reason for their disdain for public health is that it is based on and recognizes our interconnectedness as human beings, as inhabitants of this earth, in direct contrast to the dominant culture's emphasis on individualism.

Thinking about how we had this whole kerfuffle where the word “cisgender” was banned on multiple platforms despite being a statement of fact, but Ohio can just redefine the word “respectful” and the matter is settled. Gaslighting as policy. www.nbc4i.com/news/local-n...

An analysis of news pieces about Trump’s anti-trans decrees found that “70 percent did not include a quote from a single trans person. Instead, journalists turned to cisgender sources — mostly government officials — to speak about trans people, their lives, and how they would be affected.”

reason #413985 it's important we be clear that abolition isn't just about dismantling jails, prisons, & detention centers, but also the extension of carcerality outside of those settings

Chicagoans are making, sharing, and printing designs for whistles that can warn people when ICE is in the area. The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible.”

“We have rarely witnessed such brutality erupt into public view like it has in Chicago,” writes Michael Woolf, senior minister of Lake Street Church of Evanston. “For me, this is a spiritual emergency, and it means putting our bodies on the line in order to stop deportations.”

Teen Vogue was seriously committed to diverse and inclusive journalism and their disability coverage was extremely good. This is a big loss and someone better snap this column up!!

With all the excitement about the election I don’t want this story to get lost. This morning 8 car wash workers in Boston were kidnapped by federal agents in the largest workplace raid in the area in recent memory. The details are horrifying. 🧵 www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/04/m...

BREAKING: NBC News projects: Prop 50 Congressional Redistricting has been approved.

we don’t even have to tolerate him right this second