they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work see you all there

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility. Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying. All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

This strikes me as pretty bad

I have been saying for a few years now that people really need to take a seriously long look at the center of that venn diagram where the circles are marked "AI Culture" and "Disregard For/Violation Of Consent." The whole "AI Actress" situation is more of why.

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

How do we call on others to re-engage or engage in general? We can’t keep silent to our family, friends and community either.

Pam Bondi's DOJ now running interference for far right influencers arrested by local cops in Portland. Opens investigation into arrest of Nick Sortor www.kgw.com/article/news...

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...

NEW: Federal workers are being told to blame Democrats for the shutdown. Workers at one agency were given unhinged, partisan language to use when setting out-of-office replies, and pop up banners across different agencies blame Democrats too. read @telliotter.bsky.social:

“Free speech was written for hard truths, not polite fictions. Calling something fascist isn’t violence—it’s vigilance.” adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/naming-fas...

This is now the second attempted terrorist attack on the LGBTQ community in a week as "revenge" for Charlie Kirk. This follows an attempted mass shooting of a gay bar in Arizona. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

As immigration agents have escalated their tactics, US citizens, many of them Latino men, have been stopped and in some cases taken into custody by law enforcement officers. Allison, Jenny and I took a closer look at the encounters. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

There are multiple forms of fascism/fascist countries, and probably some that have not happened yet. The menu is bigger than two choices. It still shouldn't be complicated, but studying civics, public policy, democracy and elections/voters tells me it is. This has happened over decades, not years.

What we’re hearing around Detroit—early ICE storm Alt text has Spanish translation

NEW: The town of Newburgh, NY — which is in the middle of a state lawsuit claiming its at-large voting system dilutes Black & Latino voters' collective power — says in friend-of-the-court brief that the US Supreme Court should weigh in on whether state voting rights acts violate the US Constitution

For the record, the local police had to arrive to free the girl from … the federal police. This is horrific. It’s undeniable that we will need trials for ICE officials and officers after all this. “Leominster police arrived at the scene, recovered the child and returned her to the family.”

Cata “Xochitl” is a DACA recipient and community organizer who immigration agents abducted at the airport. She remains in detention despite an immigration judge terminating her case. Since her unjust detention, DHS has falsely claimed that DACA doesn’t protect Cata from detention and deportation.

ICE agents held a 5-year-old autistic girl outside her Massachusetts home to pressure her father to surrender to authorities last week, according to the girl's family

Mark your calendars: Republicans in Missouri have placed a referendum on the 2026 ballot that democracy advocates say would kill the state’s ballot initiative process.

Sounds like the segregationists in Connecticut are having a grand ole time “While waiting for the police to arrive, the old Karen’s friend said, ‘You’re not the minority anymore.'” www.blackenterprise.com/alex-okeefe-...

Pete Hegseth posted this with the caption “for Charlie, our warriors, and our nation”

mainstream media: we dont understand why "the left" keeps saying trump is a racist

HUGE NEWS: Governor Newsom just signed into law our bill to ban ICE & other law enforcement from wearing ski masks & other extreme masks. The No Secret Police Act (SB 627) will help stop the masked secret police who are kidnapping people in our communities. Show your damn faces.

Dems should spell out consequences for carrying out Trump's corrupt or illegal orders. Threaten to scour every FCC document to scrutinize Brendan Carr's corrupt deliberations over licenses/mergers. Say right on ABC that the network capitulated to autocratic pressure. newrepublic.com/article/2006...

BREAKING: Immigration court orders Mario Guevara can be deported immediately. This is a gross miscarriage of justice. If Mario is deported, that sets dangerous precedent -- targeting reporters for their coverage & free speech. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It feels like we are Very Close to this happening, based on who they are hiring and the kind of signaling leadership is doing.

Gotta try and pay for those ultra wealthy tax cuts some how. "I know your back hurts Grandma, but Trump needs his gold toilet, ya know?"

an attempted authoritarian takeover is happening *right now* the world we'd like to live in: <All the President's Men reporting> (much of) the actual media:

Classic divide & conquer. Trump is giving money to Tribal Colleges & Universities + HBCUs that he took from grants for other minority-serving institutions. Those grants were already approved by Congress. While TCUs may benefit from the move, Alaska Native students will face cuts.

Hundreds of people detained at the Alligator Alcatraz immigration processing center west of Miami, Florida, appear to have vanished. They have disappeared from the ICE online database, and their lawyers and families have been unable to locate them. english.elpais.com/usa/2025-09-...

NEW: 11 Democratic officials were arrested after showing up at 26 Federal Plaza and demanding access to the ICE holding cells on the 10th floor, refusing to leave. Others were arrested outside after blocking the building exit during a sit-in protest. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/n...

lowering the temperature check: “She’s a nasty human being. She hates her country. She hates our country so much she doesn’t have to be here,” Nancy Mace said of Ilhan Omar. "Fuck her." www.huffpost.com/entry/nancy-...

Narciso Barranco was the man I spoke to in the heinous Downtown LA basement where ICE continues to hold individuals in abusive conditions. This powerful article describes his life in the U.S. - both before & after his abduction. His story is both intensely personal & universal.

“Nearly every agent on Baltimore’s domestic terrorism squad was reassigned this year to work full time on immigration enforcement, forcing them to walk away from investigations of a network of violent predators that targets and exploits children online.”

Happy Mexican Independence Day!

He’s right, buuuut there are about 7-8 of these large issues that plague the US right now.

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If a working journalist cannot say that something true happened solely because it reflects badly on the subject, their publication has no interest in truth.

US continuing to lose arts and culture opportunities/jobs because of bad policy and disinvestment.

We're close to reaching a chilling moment; the first time in history where the single largest group of people arrested by ICE in the interior and held in detention are people with no criminal record. The gap is now down to fewer than 300 people.

It gets even crazier

NEW: Justice Department concedes it gave judge inaccurate info during Labor Day weekend showdown over effort to send Guatemalan kids to that country. DOJ said parents sought the kids back but Guatemalan AG didn't find 1 case of that. w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

Terrible ruling and precedent, no wonder election and public officials keep leaving their field. "Just following orders" doesn't mean you didn't break the law, and now anybody could just say that and get away with it. So more attacks on #elections and #democracy, super. www.freep.com/story/news/p...

The cops heard Mills on speaker phone coaching the victim on how to obstruct justice and he's still walking around free because men's right to beat women is a core GOP principle.

Let's be clear what this image represents. Those skull masks were first popularized on the far right by a very specific Nazi terror movement that began on the pro-terror Ironmarch forums and entered mainstream news with the Atomwaffen Nazi terrorist murders. THAT is the reference here.

My friends cried all day today. I am numb. I don't want to feel. Please open the image and read what Director Julia Huffman wrote about our Colorado Wolves. Please sign. actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...