Someone said that show wasn't for "everybody." Agreed. It was for people who dine while sitting on plastic chairs. Who take a little coffee with their condensed milk. People who speak with accents and pay in cash. Not "everybody," just every person who's excluded from the idea of America.

Job offer!! I’m helping a PBS series look for a social media manager/content creator for an upcoming promotional campaign. The start date is ASAP, and a project timeline that currently goes to July. This is for a series on American Muslim history, so candidates with cultural familiarity preferred!

May he never eat another good meal

The most consistent organizers I know are not posting vitriol or resentment on social media, they're mobilizing. Folks who have been fighting deportations, doing harm reduction, and abolition are describing this as an "easy" moment, an "opportunity," or "the time." This isn't to say-

I just facilitated a session of folks who wanted to do something, but didn't know who they could organize with. I introduced an incredibly simple concept: you can organize anything with anyone. Your garden group? Meet your new comrades. Book club? Novel accomplices. PTA? Coalition partners.

“Ochoa had for years dreamed of working for the Border Patrol and finally landed a job there, she said. By the time the couple split in 2021, he had become a gun enthusiast with about 25 rifles, pistols and shotguns, Angelica Ochoa said.” www.propublica.org/article/alex...

Empowering them materially and then trying them to restrain them legally won’t work.

JUST IN: ICE agents in San Francisco just now drove through protesters, used pepper spray, & brandished rifles at those who had gathered to try to stop an immigration arrest. A woman, holding onto the hood of an ICE SUV, was thrown off. youtu.be/GQ_YGzfaQLM

The best thing we can do to support Minnesota from far away is prepare locally. If you're in the Bay, we're dominated by 501C3's and nonprofits, but this isn't their moment. Assemble the PTA, start a group chat w/ neighbors, literally call your friends. Don't let formalization stop you.

Politicians don't respond to "shame," they respond to power. Specifically, they respond to threats *to* their power from collectives of those they've robbed of said power. Shame is useful in small p politics, but not with these jokers.

Bears got a standing ovation leaving soldier field tonight after losing to the Rams and goddamn if that isn't a classy fucking city, I don't know what is

Quite a quote from Texans LB Azeez Al-Shaair, who was asked about his STOP THE GENOCIDE eye black after today’s game www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

Ginger cuz looks like he’s never even heard of an oblique

"This is a verified page fundraising support for the Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, AFL-CIO and Working Partnerships' 2026 rapid response effort to meet the needs of impacted union members, worker center members, and their families..." workingpartnerships.betterworld.org/campaigns/su...

At Coscto, workers organized in-store spaces so that delivery delivery app drivers can avoid ICE agents Bicycle clubs are buying out tamale and fruit stands so that vendors can stay home Cafes are giving away whistles for free Hear me when I say this: you can do something and you can do it at work.

It is so incredibly important that we allow this moment to change us in similar ways. Crying more, caring more, feeling more is how we find it within ourselves to do more.

Recently a Chicago organizer told me that while they while they intellectually knew that we only have each other, this moment in which they often find themselves alone on a corner with nothing but a whistle and a comrade, has really deepened the level of care with which they do this work

A frightening byproduct of professional activism is that average people think they need to be certain, brave, and an expert in order to go do something. You don't. Do it unsure. Do it scared. Do it without having read all the books. Showing up for your community doesn't require a degree.

To the most action averse person who is watching this “helplessly,” I say: these people have salaries, their weapons cost money, their gear, their fucking advertisements on LinkedIn all cost money. This so called institution has a budget, and your taxes pay for all of it. Tax day is April 15th.

Often, I find good liberals' primary obstacle to agitation is certainty, specifically around legality. But as the veneer of civil rights fade, these people who we've dismissed for so long, are ready and willing to supplant reformism with community safety. It's a necessary and thrilling change.

There is not enough antacid in the Midwest for the Bears to be playing like this

If you're in Oakland this weekend, I'm facilitating a FREE session on overcoming personal barriers to organizing. If you or a loved one, is unsure of what to do, how much risk to take, or generally has an aversion to thinking of themselves as an organizer. Everyone welcome! oacc.cc/event/activa...

Neither Kissinger nor Rumsfeld experienced the consequences of architecting human rights atrocities and war. Please stop talking to me about international law.

In order to effectively resist empire waging war in our name, we must first accept that kidnapping, the exploitation of land & people is how empires are built and function. That we have acquiesced to it in many ways and that to begin to put an end to it requires we fundamentally change how we exist.

The legal profession is absolutely wild to me. In 2024, here are the demographics: 1% Indigenous, 5% Black American 6% Latine, 6% AsianAm. Nearly 80% of the time, the person who supports folks in detention or navigating the criminal legal system doesn't share their lived or community experience.

A Gen Z-led advocacy group announced a boycott campaign targeting major corporations “that enable, profit from, or directly collaborate with ICE.” Beyond the Ballot launched “Not With My Dollars: ICE Out of My Wallet” just days before Black Friday kicks off.

Bears record being 7-3 is such intense Catholic core

Imagine witnessing a historic win accomplished on the premise of making life affordable in one of the biggest cities in the country, only to turn around and make life unaffordable for millions more. Speechless but unsurprised

We are about to see the full extent of gentrification in the fight to replace Nancy Pelosi

If ur struggling w/ why or how to take community action bc you've never organized, are scared, or don’t know where to start, this session is for you. Come get unstuck with us. oacc.cc/event/activa...

If you’re in the Edgewater/Rogers Park area, we need people with their whistles on visibly out on patrol. Even if it’s just a walk on your lunch break or while you walk your dog, it matters. This is an all hands on deck day. Whatever you can do. ICE is heavily present in the area. Hope I see you.

Forrest Smith, the only National Park Service engineer cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells, lost his contract, leaving 93 orphaned wells on park lands unmanaged. These leaking wells release methane and toxins, threatening human health and the environment.

If Mamadani pulls this off it’s gonna be a great reminder that A LOT of cultures eat with our hands

A journalist embedded with a group running counterintelligence on one of ICE’s most important operations in the country, in LA’s South Bay, compiling plate numbers, tracking scout cars, and tipping off workers before ICE can grab them. Read this:

Al Pastor Papi 232 O’Farrell St., San Francisco Tues-Sat (ID required) Monster Pho 360 40th St., Oakland Weds-Sun Shrimpin' Ain't Easy Check Instagram for locations and times Tony & Alba’s Pizza and Pasta 3137 Stevens Creek Blvd., San Jose Tues-Sun

People are SNAP aren't going to tell you they're on SNAP. They're kids, or elders and heavily stigmatized. People are going to very quietly go hungry. So stock your community fridge. Leave out unperishables along w/ Halloween candy. Deliver meals if you've got a car. Hunger is a quiet thing.

They were at an ice cream shop this morning. A fucking ice cream shop. In case you were at all confused about who they're trying to kidnap and the terror they're trying to engender.

CHP is currently pushing people out of the entrance to Coast Guard Island, Alameda, California, where ICE agents and federal guard are being housed. They’ve been asked to clear the street so “civilians” can leave the base. Unclear what they mean by “civilians” and won’t offer more information.

Just got off a call with a parent who wanted to know how to protect her kid's school. I left her with a plan and Maya Shenwar's intro to Let this Radicalize You: "We all have a role in imagining and building the world we want to live in. No one gets to simply ask, to simply write down the answers."

NEW: I found 17 sheriffs in Illinois that have contracts to detain people for ICE through U.S. Marshals Service contracts. IL law explicitly prohibits these types of intergovernmental service agreements. news.wttw.com/2025/10/22/d...

Today I learned that empathy without direction can be toxic. In other words, the empathy we feel while doomscrolling can actually be physiologically harmful if we don't let it lead us to join mutual aid or community defense efforts

We should prepare ourselves for what will inevitably be very violent turf battles between branches of law enforcement

But it's a "ceasefire," right?

San Francisco, like numerous American cities, is deeply segregated by class. Thinking that this solitary event indicates a trend, let alone one that transcends social division, is just silly?

Gentle reminder that polls don't gauge what is ethical or just. A poll about how "most Americans" feel about trans healthcare is simply a way to understand how effective media and religious campaigns have been in their transphobia.

“ is he tall Does he remind you of your father?” Gotta send this person directly into therapy

No Kings is a liberal protest and critiques of that are valid. That being said, this is a massive number of people and they represent a huge opportunity unlike any we’ve seen in years. I hope that most of us can do both, see what’s presented here and push it forward instead of tearing it down

Grateful to @prismreports.org for the space to cover whats happening in my community as transphobia deepens at a national level and to @deanspade.bsky.social for offering framing beyond the individualism usually associated with unemployment

I have learned so many important lessons from being in Chicago about preparedness and how broad our coalition will be. Am eternally grateful to this city (with a special shoutout to Rogers Park) for showing us how to fight what is here and what is coming