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

Dear Grim Reaper, I have some notes

California just banned employers from forcing workers to pay a debt, fee, or penalty to leave their job. Bosses have increasingly been trapping workers with debts incurred in training and other exploitative fees. Now that's illegal in the nation's biggest state.

In Chicago right now and we all need to prepare for the extreme variance of different areas. The marathon was yesterday and people everywhere just hanging out having coffee. Even in Rogers Park last night things felt calm. A good reminder to keep building in the face of false calm.

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

Racist violence against the faith leaders so often indicates a massive national tipping point. Not just MLK, but also people like James Reeb. There’s nowhere for people who defend ICE to go from here.

This defense of art in the face of staggering profit is so, so, so good.

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors) Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson: "Private establishments can partner with us to make it clear that private property is private property and ICE cannot enter establishments without a valid warrant ... If Congress will not check this administration, then Chicago will."

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May Assata live on in something more than quotes. May her spirit guide you toward building relationship. May it compel you to love in public. May it move you to defend your community in word and deed.

Grateful to be profiled for staying consistent to my values in this political moment. Read more: www.jejunemagazine.com/home/kim-tran

An LA Times story about the ICE raid on MacArthur Park shows just how effective community safety can be. The park was papered with fliers and virtually empty when ICE arrived. A line a couple graphs in: "It’s unclear if anyone was arrested during the sweep."

Calling people hot as shit isn't the takedown the right thinks it is?

“This dude scares my boss” is a pretty solid campaign platform

he's right and he's right to say it

Progressive economic policy works. Going left works. Everyone hates genocide. I, too, love New York.

It is 2025, and I am having an argument with someone about identity first language. And yes, I am exhausted.

I think a relatively safe person sharing their fears about protesting is actually good. Gives you the chance to validate their anxiety and ask them to imagine a different fear. What if they were they were afraid of indefinite detention, deportation, quiet disappearance?

The first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV—a refugee himself—is mobilizing priests to accompany migrants at immigration court on June 20. (Via Christopher Hale)

Please, please, please verify the news you're sharing, folks. Whether it's about what's happening in LA, Iran, or Gaza, now more than ever we need to share accurate updates. Check out the URL, do the eye test, look into the author. Follow independent journos when you can.

This movement cannot hinge upon whether you know immigrants (though, trust me that you do.) It's about whether you'll stand up to a police state. To fascist militarization. To your state, city, and neighborhood being overrun by governmental violence without your consent.

The SJP protestors at Columbia literally based everything they did on what they found in the university archive of anti-American War in Vietnam protests. Our tactics are borne of those who came before us.

BREAKING: LA solidarity protesters in Austin are occupying JJ Pickle Federal Building, which houses local ICE processing center