Politicians are never saviors, part one billion

FUCK ICE FOREVER

Join us on Tuesday, November 11th for No Oaths to Trump Banner hanging across the nation. Find an event here: www.mobilize.us/nooathstotru...

Free masks are back in stock, while supplies last! Huge thanks to the dozens of people who helped us get these into storage. Y'all were able to bust down SIX pallets of masks and get them moved into storage in less than half an hour. Now it's time for distribution. We keep us safe. 1/3

The biggest #strike of the year starts on Tuesday, featuring 45k #healthcareworkers. This means tens of thousands across Oregon, California, Washington and Hawaii, in particular. Picket lines at 6 KP locations in Portland area, and will lead the labor march on Oct 18th. truthout.org/articles/23-...

I expect State violence to increase this week in the lead up to next weekend's mass protest events, in every sector of law enforcement. Let's try something different this time around. Don't blame protesters. Find out what folks in trouble need & offer support. Please.

So to summarize: - There is a pattern where Vought makes the RIFs too wide, apparently to flood the zone with sh*t and see who will draw protests. - They restore some people after outrage and work by us. - But we are still left with many who remain fired at the end.

If schools are going to be phone-free, shouldn't they be AI-free as well?

It’s important to understand that the demonization of ‘Antifa’ isn’t just about kneecapping the enemies of MAGA. It’s about creating an opportunity to bring down the law-enforcement apparatus on anyone who dares dissent. open.substack.com/pub/davidnei...

Chicago: Avondale! 60618! A neighbor has created a community altar at the Shell station on the south east corner of Belmont and Milwaukee - a memorial to human rights and victims of ICE. I added to it and you should too. Let's make it massive and impossible to miss. Bring your offerings.

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck

Ever since I started distributing whistles, people keep asking me stuff like, "Can I put a thing in a Little Free Library too?" I try to respond gently and not constantly say "THE WHOLE FUCKIN' POINT IS TO PUT STUFF IN THOSE BOXES SO OTHER PEOPLE CAN TAKE THEM!"

land acknowledgement at the Israeli beach resort in Gaza shit

"The man with the most power has expended enormous energy targeting those with the least." Katelyn on this Zohran quote: "This is the line. It's the line that got me to tear up as I was watching it." strikes me how this kind of powerful, simple message grows from belief, not focus groups!

A trend I’ve noticed after having watched too many of these despicable ICE arrest videos is when bystanders demand they let detainee go, an officer suggests they’re being picked up for a serious crime to try and deter help. But we know that’s not true of a vast majority of people and the jig is up.

How the media are gaslighting trans people

This one includes a sheriff's van from Indiana—not uncommon to see sheriff's departments from Indiana and Wisconsin assisting with transport here.

While this is going on here, ICE has been spotted on foot + in vehicles across SW + NW sides of Chicago. Can't verify reports rn, but also presuming suburbs. Yesterday was brutal. It's not lost on us they have more agents free for weekend kidnappings now with their facility secured by state police.

Let's not equivocate: state-controlled media are propaganda.

WATCH: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program. ➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4odsKnn

Cute...but can we learn more about the "toxins?!" 😳

UNC just removed their long-standing space for the Black Student Movement to gather, in yet another stunning capitulation to the toddler-man’s anti-DEI demands.

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday. Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

I ❤️ Portland! www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

This is it. Very glad to see this full-throated welcome to queer people — and recognition of trans people’s history — from Zohran Mamdani in the closing month of his campaign and on National Coming Out Day.

lol gentle reminder that DEI is not illegal. Supporting marginalized groups is not illegal. Anyone reneging on support is making a CHOICE to do so.

The thing about what is happening now out of Portland is so much is not real! People who are pretending to be journalists on social media are starting from a political position and then gathering short clips to try and push the government's message.

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

“I am living with the deep pain of watching someone I once loved become the face of evil,” Miller’s cousin wrote in a July Facebook post that resurfaced over the weekend. “This is not by accident, but by design. Your design, Stephen.” trib.al/NlDCvcf

A PDX friend and I were just talking about our ambivalence around the depiction of Portland right now. We’re both loving the frogs & unicorns and know that this Portland is real and does exist. But it’s not the whole story of the city and I think it’s dangerous to deny/ignore its other realities.

“It is the city’s progressive veneer, this book argues, that allows the repressive core of its policing machinery to function so effectively, weathering scandals, co-opting critics, and periodically renewing police legitimacy with well-timed and carefully limited reforms.”

We will NOT stand for Trump and Vought decimating our health sciences with RFK Jr's permission. JOIN US FOR A RALLY AT HHS ON FRIDAY 10/17! WE ARE TAKING BACK SCIENCE. #ImpeachTheQuack #GetOutTheVought #TakeBackScience

I could not watch this documentary about what is happening in NY Immigration court in one sitting. Not because it's long—it's less than 20 minutes—but because it's so wrenching and heartbreaking. I still think you should watch it. It's extremely important. youtu.be/AF-k7Mq5Xqs

Now is probably a good time to note "disorderly conduct" has a broad definition and there's little stopping a cop from framing your conduct as disorderly at a protest (which they need to do in order to disperse people). Whether charges stick is a different story. But we know how this typically goes.

President Trump got an updated Covid vaccine & flu shot at Walter Reed today www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

An extremely rough day for Edgewater in Chicago. ICE activity near schools. People kidnapped while working in yards, standing on hiring corners. So many rapid responders biking, walking, driving, whistles around necks, trying to protect their neighbors, but up against such well-funded forces.

Presented without comment, the current scene outside Union Station in DC as I got off the train.

Great news, everyone, the Mortality and Morbidity people got fired We're all going to live forever

We need something like a “Fascistpedia” to keep track of those who collaborated with the regime. Later, they'll be scurrying to hide their cowardice and moral rot. A permanent record will guarantee enduring shame. Let’s give them their own museum.

we’re in this one together folks

To anyone who organizes events, please try to make your main entrance an accessible entrance. Showing up to an event where everyone is directed to enter via stairs and you have to have people go track down event organizers to get an accessible entrance opened isn’t the most welcoming vibe lol

New Orwellianism just dropped

It may be—for now—a mild form of fascism. Political opponents aren’t being jailed or shot, entire opposition media outlets aren’t being shuttered, and books aren’t being burned. But from Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America. trib.al/a0i8hTE

Boosting! 📣

Reps. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Rob Wittman, R-Va., and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, all voted for cuts to the CFPB. Yet collectively, they routed more than 1,000 constituent complaints to the agency, ProPublica found. (Published August) By @joeljacobs.bsky.social

A story indistinguishable from those depicted/dramatized in all the WWII / Holocaust movies and plays and novels we grew up with

Can you get asylum status in Canada if the executive branch describes your city as a "war zone" and keeps trying to strip you of civil rights and send the military to put down dissent?

The word terrorist no longer means anything thanks to the Trump administration using it for everything they simply dislike.