People are routinely subjected to sexual harm, yes, and other people perpetuate sexual harm. But it is a myth that serves the police to make "sex trafficking" a unique crime that is committed by shadowy others. All of the copaganda has not protected women and girls at all.

Federal agents have fired so much tear gas near Mindy King’s apartment in Portland, Ore., that she and her 13-year-old son bought gas masks to wear inside. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/c...

“evaporated”

Police in Bloomington, MN just announced that one of the guys they arrested in an underage sex trafficking sting was a **background checker for ICE agents.** He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.

A wildlife biologist with the park system has been working for nearly 30 years, with 8,000 volunteers, to create nesting habitats in Oakland and Hayward for the California least tern and other threatened shorebirds.

community fridge idea for those that have them! doesn't necessarily involve cooking! people often request "grab and go" type things at mine, but people often drop pantry staples (tons of peanut butter, dry noodles, various breads, dry beans, canned goods). so i frequently grab those to assemble

Since 2025, ICE has doubled in size.

Todd Blanche gives away the game here. Rep. Massie nails it. The Epstein Files Transparency Act does not permit redacting the identifying information of the men involved! 1/2

"If the government may simply seize someone without due process, there is no check on its ability to seize anyone."

The Librarians is streaming now thanks to PBS Independent Lens. www.pbs.org/independentl...

Portland filmmaker Jan Haaken has a new short documentary called “SUMUD: A doctor’s report on genocide and survival in Gaza.” “Sumud” in Arabic means “steadfast perseverance.” www.opb.org/article/2026...

“Maybe it’s not a big deal for the city. But for some of these organizations, $10,000 is the difference between keeping a staff person or staying open, and certainly $8.5 million more than fills that gap.” #Portland www.opb.org/article/2026...

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility 💔💔

In Boston ICE randomly pulled over this huge white Irish guy with a Mass drivers license, 20 years in the states, legal status, pending green card and have held him for 5 months, his citizen wife paid a $4k bond that was ignored(!) ICE forged his signature on deportation agreement, no appeal

Totalitarian heartbreak 💔

A Historically BLACK University cannot say Black. A Historically BLACK University cannot say Black. A HISTORICALLY BLACK UNIVERSITY cannot say Black.

Beyond sad that this ice rink will be destroyed. Three generations of kids in my family have skated here. 😢

Such a great sunrise this morning 😍

Good article on the misery that the US is inflicting on everyday people in Cuba. What Trump is doing is just an intensification of six decades of US economic warfare. apnews.com/article/cuba...

Awesome job, NY TIMES profiling Lila Rose, who got her start doing fkery with James O’Keefe of project veritas

cops: sex trafficking victims are impossible to find! most of them don’t even know they’ve been trafficked. dozens of women over decades: here’s our sworn statements about jeff epstein cops: … prosecutors: … anti-trafficking task forces: … cops: we have no choice but to do a craigslist sting

cannot possibly convey how actually crazy-making it can feel, after spending 20 years monitoring all these orgs blaming sex workers and the internet for enabling a vast sex trafficking network, to now see Jeffery Epstein’s inbox

“The administration is telling us what their long game is, which is to treat women’s bodies as commodities and to create laws to exert control over these commodities.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Wild that it’s gone completely under the radar that a historic Black church was targeted by ICE days after holding an anti-ICE press conference with two U.S. Representatives and there hasn’t been a single article on it.

Great to see this getting national attention, and worth reading to see how the union is supporting Maria.

😂😂😂 apnews.com/video/canine...

Of course it's Paxton.

Anti–sex trafficking stings and laws are not neutral. They frequently harm sex workers and survivors. Police and organizations like “Saving Innocence” often worsen conditions instead of providing safety or support. abc7.com/post/califor...

Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot in the back by a Klansman in 1963. The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"

As @jeffsharlet.bsky.social documented in The Family, honoring brutal right wing dictators from around the world has been a National Prayer Breakfast tradition since the 1980s.

This song reminds me of my childhood. I would put together roller skating routines to it. Rest in Power LaMonte McLemore "Open up your heart and let it shine on in" www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlrQ...

Portland City Councilor Sameer Kanal says he’ll push ahead with a proposal to ban tear gas citywide after ICE goons unleashed it on protesters last weekend. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

"Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these sunken eyes and learn to see" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Man4...

This speaker powerfully connects history to the present. "And, we don't know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse, but we know enough."

“While the timing of this information is difficult, I do not believe these were hidden maliciously, but are instead a relic of the old government system of accounting," Council President Jamie Dunphy said.

I don’t understand why colleagues stay silent when this happens.

Judge Simon here in Portland just granted the TRO in the ICE use of force case. The first three sentences are pretty haunting.

Kelly Vargas writes about what happened to her, her husband, and their 6yo daughter in the family camp in Texas. Filth, illness, medical abuse—her child has lasting complications from being injured by a staff member. We don't know the half of what's happening in the camps, but we know enough.

“They gave us no warning." Broeker estimated that it was about a three-to-five-minute journey to escape out of the clouds. “I was pretty incapacitated by the gas. I almost passed out a couple times. The only reason I got out safely is because my friends and I locked arms and walked out together.”

just learned that Justice Sam Alito has a book coming out in October called "So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country" and wow I already hate it

DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting. Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.

Professional athletes are being advised not to leave the hotel or go anywhere without their passports while visiting Minnesota. This is not a country that can safely host international events like the World Cup. Boycotting is not even a political question anymore. It is a basic issue of safety.

Every time I see images of tear gas filling the streets, I think about how it has been linked to spontaneous abortion. Fascists will prevent people from getting abortions while endangering wanted pregnancies. It’s reproductive control and coercion. www.scientificamerican.com/article/poli...

“ICE must be abolished, and it will be.” Events like yesterday bring us closer to this truth. What I saw with my eyes was thousands of people united in solidarity against this stain on our country, and then their children were assaulted with chemical weapons. That’s not something you move on from.

Maria sustained a torn rotator cuff, concussion and bruised ribs during the incident and received medical treatment at a hospital, according to the GoFundMe.

Oh thank God, this poor kid and this poor family www.ksat.com/news/local/2...

#PDX #Portland #Oregon

Marching now to the ICE facility "ICE out of Portland! ICE out of everywhere"

The reporting out of Haiti is unbearable. Sexual violence is being used to control communities and break people’s lives. abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

BIDEN JUST SAT ON ALL THIS *sigh* Biden saw himself literally called to be the healer of the nation. He truly believed that his role was to be the Great Uniter, bringing both parties back to the middle. BUT ALSO? Both parties serve Big Business/Billionaires, and not the People.