This is important y’all. This is our chance to save the stars.

#OtD 20 Feb 1990 US miners won a 10-month strike and occupation of Pittston Coal plant in Virginia. Sit-ins, sabotage and the actions of thousands of strike supporters and women played a key role in its success stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9264...

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TONIGHT 👇 Union? Nonunion? Doesn't matter, you can fight ICE at work and we'll tell you how. In just one hour, we'll give you the resources and info you need to organize your co-workers to beat ICE and stay safe.

#tdih 1942 Executive Order 9066 President Roosevelt authorized WWII incarceration (internment) of U.S. citizens of Japanese descent. About 122,000 people sent to prison camps. Many of their homes, businesses, and farms were confiscated. #TeachTruth ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ex...

Pretty cool new monument going up in Fburg to honor the people sold at the auction block before the civil war. “We have found the names of about 100 of those individuals.” Memorial planned for site of now-removed Fredericksburg slave auction block

That last sentence? That's the strategy. They've been pretty open about it.

Via NCR - Trump’s US-led Board of Peace a 'colonialist operation,' Cardinal Pizzaballa says. ‘Others deciding for the Palestinians.’ #Trump #Palestine #Gaza #Catholic #boardofpeace www.ncronline.org/news/us-led-...

I think it’s time for Democratic leaders to start saying “if you’re a pilot or ground crew involved in a deportation that was stayed by a judge, you’ll be held criminally liable for human trafficking.” Everyone involved in these flights should have that fear in the back of their minds.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

This is awesome. University of California employees — Your retirement is invested with the private equity firm that owns ICE’s charter airline for Africa and Asia deportations. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Botany valentine. Another oldie.

Roses are red, ICE is a menace,

Nurses were so angry they MARCHED ON THEIR OWN UNION LEADERS who tried to push this agreement on them. 'Nurses marched from Macy’s on 34th Street to the union’s headquarters a block south on West 33rd to deliver the petition on Wednesday, chanting “We are your nurses! Listen to your nurses!”'

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Every single president of the United States since Lyndon Baines Johnson has expressed public and private opposition to Israeli annexation of the occupied West Bank, but every single president since LBJ has also greenlit unconditional support while Israel annexes it anyway.

One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.

@pedinska.bsky.social : Julie K. Brown is on here but I didn't see this in her TL yet (may have missed it): :: Why Was Epstein making quarterly payments of thousands of dollars to Ohio State’s head of gynecology? This needs to be investigated — like yesterday. ::

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to bring back 3 families deported in recent months, ruling their removals relied on “lies, deception, and coercion.” The government must also pay for their return. www.ocregister.com/2026/02/06/b...

Announcing…. my new book, THE DISSIDENTS. A story about Autocrats, Vigilantes, Communists.... and Cartoonists! For sale September 15, from Abrams Comicarts.

what could go wrong

This is from 2018. Hardly aged at all. @tomtomorrow.bsky.social

The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley. Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo. Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles. Get them out!

IT'S HAPPENING

Martinez ends her testimony with this: "If there's not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government."

NYT publishes soft-focus feature on the shithheel provocateur who led to the terrorizing of Minneapolis. Why? WHY?

Rahman: "We call ourselves a civilized nation, but we lack rules and accountability around what a person claiming to be law enforcement is permitted to do to another human being." She ends with this: "I am not afraid. And I am not afraid to keep working on this problem, even after ICE is gone."

As the House prepares to fight over how much of DHS to shut down, I encourage you to pick your favorite factoid from this @vermontgmg.bsky.social report on CBP/ICE criminality and send it to your MoC. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...

death by preventable disease is an inevitable and even desired outcome of concentration camps. in every era of concentration camps people have died of typhus, which is a disease of privation and enforced crowding. this illness is intentionally inflicted

This is an incredible stat. prospect.org/2026/02/02/f...

University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme. dailyillini.com/news-stories...

I should add that revoking TPS for Haitians (and others) is another clear sign that none of this is about "immigration enforcement." As stated above, this is an attempt at carrying out ethnic cleansing. And it should be reported as such.

This is a section of border where the State of Texas authorized state police to shoot from helicopters at vehicles, and they killed two people. The shooter, also from the RGV, got a promotion. This region is steeped in militarization and impunity. That's where agents like these get their training.

The entire minnesota delegation needs to be at Whipple by lunch.

I sent this testimony to my senators, who appear to think this will all blow over soon with a few cosmetic "reforms"

Here's my full 50-page indictment of CBP and ICE and decades of corruption, abuse of force, racism, and misogyny. I promise you — however bad you've ever thought it was, the full reality is even worse, deadlier, and more corrupt. This isn't a "Trump only" phenomenon:

This is a good point re: Portland today This wasn't on federal land It wasn't when agents were claiming to do any enforcement activity It was federal agents shooting gas at children and union families in the streets Im not a lawyer, but I dont see how qualified immunity counts here It's assault

There are four more students from Liam's MN school district in federal detention in Dilley, TX, two of them from the same school as Liam. A second grader, a fourth grader, a fifth grader, and a high-schooler.

Did y’all it is the Black History Month Centennial? Thank you Carter G. Woodson for Negro History Week. asalh.org/about-us/ori...

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

This was true for Va in Nov '25 legislative cycle (we have off-year state/local elex), & I have to think it played a role in the result, beefing up the D majority in the House of Delegates. Important for building organization & deepening bench even when it doesn't translate into immediate gains.

Lawyers can't reach clients in ICE detention. I've heard it anecdotally, but scale of issue is horrifying. Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...

People outside of Minnesota should know that a lot of ICE agents are harassing, assaulting, and abducting people in plainclothes and unmasked. Plainclothes ICE agents are especially likely to be in places people visit out of necessity—like hospital lobbies.

Thread. Wael Tarabishi was murdered by ICE just as surely as if one of their masked goons had repeatedly fired a Glock at his head at close range. Refusing to let his father (who'd kept him alive) attend his funeral is IDF-level cruelty. Please support the family (link in thread).

Remember that in addition to arresting reporters, the regime deported journalist Mario Guevara after detaining him while covering No Kings Day protests. “His imprisonment is among the longest for any reporter arrested in connection with their work as a journalist in United States history.”

ICE Withholds Congressionally Mandated Detention Data In the midst of heated budget negotiations over immigration enforcement, ICE flouts Congress's prior mandate to publish timely detention data. austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-withho...

They could not have made it any more clear that they will not abide by law or immigration status. It is an ethnic cleansing campaign supported by a campaign to attack resistance and dissent.

“Independent” is doing too much work in this first wave. They are arresting journalists and just like everything else they’ve done, they’re testing the limits of our resistance by starting wt vulnerable margins.

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...