This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility. Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.

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Just dripping with empathy.

Time to go comment on another cruel and intrusive rule this administration wants to implement.

I see, I see www.reuters.com/world/us/boe...

"Hope is not blind optimism or uncritical belief in a political savior. Hope, to me, means the ability to imagine a better world is possible and then work to build it brick by brick. It is, as @prisonculture.bsky.social says, not an emotion but a discipline—one we must practice every single day."

Hope is a fuel. Use it to burn down something terrible.

I got bad news for Trump about every election going forward from now until the end of time

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

Amen

Woke up to news that a church in my town was vandalized with a swastika. Please get out and vote in your state and local elections today. The presidential elections aren’t the only ones that matter.

hug your war criminals a little tighter today

People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.

Since when is Mike Johnson a poet? This is beautiful.

People who received an mRNA-based Covid vaccine — it didn’t matter whether it was Pfizer or Moderna’s — up to 100 days before starting immunotherapy were twice as likely to be alive as those who either didn’t receive the vaccine or got it outside that time window. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.

Canva has a wars ended flyer template?

Every word that comes out of his mouth is a smelly lie.

America’s still terrified of powerful women in politics. It’s pure misogyny baked into the system. Add race to the mix and it’s on a whole different level of hate that most won’t even admit. Time to get over that shit! Let’s take a step forward on Tuesday. [video: @mollyjongfast.bsky.social ]

This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works. I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.

That’s too bad.

Choppers overhead all morning. ICE caravans driving around. Evanston/Skokie schools & some local Catholic schools on lockdown. This happens in multiple places around Chicago every fucking day. Even Halloween.

A friend told me that years ago the organization he worked for would talk publicly about funding crises by saying something like “we’re not broke, we’ve been robbed” to get people to think about how the government and elected officials impact the economy.

A good list for people in NYC to share about how people impacted by SNAP cuts might access some food: open.substack.com/pub/eboyle/p...

This is what I mean when I say the problem is spiritual -- "spirit" in the sense of "team spirit" or "spirit of the law." The effect of collective human belief upon the scope and boundary of what is right and wrong and permissible and possible.

This tiny dude has been hanging around on the island for 2 weeks. I’m so afraid I’ll squoosh him, I moved him into the far away planter on the right this morning. Tonight, he’s back. 💕

Boston/Jamaica Plain, MA 11/

This seem like a headline specifically drafted to hide from casual American readers the fact that the left has won, and that the anti-immigrant racists lost.

Do not be a doomer about this. Just call your New York friends and remind them to vote, and tell them to do the same. He is more popular and will win with good turnout.

Just finished canvassing for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social in Carroll Gardens! Fun, inspiring, life-affirming, etc.! Sign up and get out the vote, y'all!

A Black Trans woman who’s the sole care-taker of her Autistic brother is asking for help with bills after losing her job. She’ll be able to bounce back but behind on water and electric bills. If we each give $1 she’ll reach her goal. We’ve helped 166 people so far let’s keep going.

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

This is what I am talking about!!

Changes coming to the Salem Pantry effective Nov 1 due to Trump withholding SNAP food aid for American families during the Republican shutdown of the federal government. About 1 in 5 #SalemMA residents, including hundreds of kids, rely on SNAP for food. Visit thesalempantry.org for more details.

The gatekeeping of organizing to keep people from starving to death has to stop. YES, donate to and volunteer to your local food pantries. AND please understand that people are ALREADY hungry and many food pantries are ALREADY overwhelmed.

This is amazing. And it’s truly the stuff of nightmares.

I’ve been listening to @swordsjew.bsky.social’s Culture Warlords off and on all day. I almost turned it on as I was settling down for bed, and my goodness I’m glad I didn’t because that’s way too heavy right before bed! Fantastic book, btw, very very relevant for our moment.

No one is coming to save us but us.

I set up a recurring donation here. I encourage anybody who is able to give some money to help take care of hungry folks in your region. www.capitalareafoodbank.org

I just joined Travis in a monthly gift to the Greater Boston Food Bank. Please join us in supporting your local food banks. #NoHungryNeighbors

I would like to mention again that menstrual products are covered by FSA funds. fsastore.com - so if you find yourself with money left on the table by the end of the year, consider using those funds and donate the products [pantries, homeless shelters etc...]

Reading this made me cry.

The Trumpist regime’s core project is fueled by a very old ethno-nationalist vision: Redefine citizenship, redraw the boundaries of who gets to belong, roll back the post-1960s civil rights regime, nullify the very foundations of pluralistic democracy rooted in the Reconstruction amendments.

I’m good with my taxes subsidizing social welfare for people who can’t afford food. I’m enraged with my taxes subsidizing corporate welfare to businesses that won’t pay a living wage.

Nicely played with the Reagan ad during the game, Ontario.

That MasterCard logo projected on the mound is just silly. #worldseries

This is a U.S. citizen being brutally abducted by ICE while his mom pleads for them to stop and the videographer cries for help. The Chicago police do nothing to stop it. They will come for everyone, and they’re not even hiding that anymore. If you are not organizing and resisting yet, get started.

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If you are a person who told everyone they were overreacting in 2016, and you have since realized you were wrong, I think you have a valuable role to play right now: Talk to people who aren't convinced things are *that bad* about why you were wrong and what you wish you had done differently.