Reporters, if you wrote about learning loss due to covid school closures, you can write about learning loss due to state terror.

The family of three, who have a pending asylum application, went to urgent care on Jan. 15 to get medical help for their 7-year-old daughter. They only made it to the parking lot as immigration officers detained them. It's the same location where federal officers recently shot two people.

Last night, someone (I just met) asked me if I was "familiar with the Boggs quote about the time on the clock of the world." I said that yes, I was familiar. 🥰 Happy Friday & solidarity with all y'all fighting where & how you can.

"Grief is excessive; so is revolution. It is a defiant "yes" when the rest of the world would say no. It is a refusal of the foreclosing of our time, an overflowing of humanity into the places that it is forbidden. We will not be machines anymore." — Sarah Jaffe

Eight weeks. I want more time. To mourn. To grieve. The relentlessness of the return to normal makes think of Sarah Jaffe's book which I am so glad I read last year — about her grief in the context of this fascist, genocidal moment.

They’ve raised over 6K. They are aiming for 100k. Let’s get them there. These are neighbors supporting neighbors under siege.

yup, we rise up to the level of our training, not to the level of our imagined selves.

New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.

there are a bunch of big names on this list, including multiple beard award winners, and some places i never would have guessed in a hundred years (the malt shop?!) and i'm genuinely floored and delighted to see so many participants bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li...

Rallying with Reagan High School students in Milwaukee who just organized have organized a walk-out to register their outrage over ICE.

When Arielle Angel wrote about this poem in Jewish Currents a couple years back, my mom asked me to print it out for her. I forgot. Until this morning. Sorry, mom.

We cannot cross until we carry each other.

Insomnia + grief means bagels before dawn (& work).

Cooking with my mom’s frozen food tonight and it is unbearable.

Fresh flowers for mom.

Look, if you do not look back on moments in your life and cringe, what are you even doing? No way to live fully without error or bad judgement or incomplete, blinkered analysis. Claim the cringe as a sign of growth & learning & keep reading & doing & articulating things to the best of your ability.

Talk to your dead relative using “AI”? Craven motherfuckers. Here’s my open letter to teachers about why I am saying no to AI in schools.

It's better if the Democratic Party in DC does NOTHING rather than to give ICE more money for body cams and training. NOTHING is better than that plan. I mean it. DO NOTHING.

New lesson by @jessehagopian.bsky.social Using a gallery walk, students are invited to explore competing explanations for U.S. intervention in Venezuela and then develop their own hypothesis. All our lessons are free. Send feedback & stories if you use it. www.zinnedproject.org/materials/wh...

Three years ago today, Georgia state police murdered Tortuguita as part of their drive to destroy the Weelaunee Forest and build a deadly police militarization center. Tort fought for a world without police and capitalism, and so should we. Viva, viva Tortuguita.

"Last summer, the city of Portland paid millions to descendants of Black families forced from their homes by racist urban renewal projects." "It was an effort decades in the making." "And one of the driving forces was a local librarian." #Oregon #USA #Housing #Courts #Slavery

Read the whole issue. rethinkingschools.org/magazine/

"We are going to keep watch over the lands of our country so that they truly profit her children." -- Patrice Lumumba, democratically elected prime minister of Republic of the Congo 6/30/1960 #tdih 1961: Lumumba was executed 💔 with help of U.S. & Belgium. ⬇️🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/pa...

This is my song. “Those are the real stakes — not white children feeling guilty, but white children armed with truth, history and a righteous desire to work with others to change the world.”

Some new stickers showing up in southeast Portland.

crying in my classroom, a memoir

Why did this just make me burst into tears in my classroom after a long week of teaching?

Instructions for today. And every day.

Good news Friday: 1. Two days ago a kid stopped by my room before school to ask me if I liked his new earrings—he’s been super shy with me all year. 2. Two boys used my room a pop-up barbershop after school this week. 3. The kids led a walkout yesterday & were positively beaming afterward.

When you focus on the regular people showing up magnificently in all of their flawed beauty, it helps you to keep going.

Special (hopefully extra miserable) place in hell for adult so-called activists whose first impulse is to criticize young people who are trying something for doing it the wrong way (many students at my school staged an anti-ICE walk out today)

"The Liberian man arrested over the weekend after heavily armed immigration agents used a battering ram to break through the front door of his Minneapolis home had been checking in regularly with federal authorities for years, his attorney said Tuesday."

My daughter's school in Richfield, MN (adjacent to Minneapolis) is closing tomorrow due of out-of-control federal agents. Fourth graders spent the week building walls of snow at recess to protect their classmates from ICE. This isn't about immigration enforcement, it's about terror.

I have arrived at the wearing my mom’s clothes stage of grief.

Read the whole issue. rethinkingschools.org/magazine/

"From the classroom to the street, we need to defend our students and together learn the most effective ways to kick ICE out of our schools and communities."

Started the Debs biography with an intro by Mike Davis last night and I was reminded of this comrade card which I share and share and share and share because we do — have to love, defend, & fight for each other.

Vanquish these craven motherfuckers is just a perfect phrase that can apply to so many different domains of life in 2026

Also a good visual of my internal state: foggy, out of focus, dark — with light, some natural & some manufactured, trying to break through.

Predawn Portland.

Time to reskeet this again

Surely someone has written a beautiful searing poem about death certificates so that I don’t have to?

Good morning from Mt. Tabor.

"The Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition, is among several groups co-hosting a vigil Saturday afternoon at Terry Schrunk Plaza downtown. "Portland Contra las Deportaciones, an immigrant rights organization, is also co-hosting a rally outside Legacy Emanuel Hospital Saturday in North Portland."

She was my first & best teacher. She taught me how to love.

My mom’s note to herself about what food she’d cooked & put in the freezer. She crossed ‘em out after we ate them. Tomato sauce (3) 2 pumpkin soup 1 pastitsio 1 bolognese 1 corn chowder 1 red lentil 1 puttanesca 1 carrot soup [what the fuck does that say, mom?] Black bean soup 1 eggplant stew…

In addition to making a new printing of the Public Collectors booklet "Who Shares the Restroom Code with ICE Agents?" I am also making an 11x17" double-sided poster version of the whole interior text, which will be a free download that people can print and share. Look for both by tomorrow.

And a magnificent variation of Debs by Brit "Red" Schulte from @mskellymhayes.bsky.social's new book of letters to activists in crisis. (www.pilsencommunitybooks.com/item/vCQt68D...)

To all the comrades out there on this Friday making the decision to survive more.

OK, here I go... Have a good weekend, y'all.