My statement on ICE activity in front of Eastern Middle School on Wednesday.

Handed out a couple hundred constituent contact cards and Know Your Rights flyers in Spanish, Amharic & Dari at the East County Expo! Thank you Kingdom Fellowship, Manna, Black Physicians Healthcare Network, & more for connecting residents to resources alongside MoCo Rec, Public Libraries, & MCDOT!

Honored to be @seiu.org Local 500’s first endorsement of this campaign season! SEIU Local 500’s members do critical work for our students and community, and it’s been great organizing with them to achieve significant wins together over these last few years!

Our community showed up and showed out to scare ICE out of our communities TWICE this morning. Nuestra comunidad se presentó y se manifestó para asustar a ICE y sacarlo de nuestras comunidades DOS VECES esta mañana. 💪

There are widespread reports of ICE agents abducting people while masked, without warrants or identification. Due to recent events, we strongly advise: do not open your door or car for anyone you don’t know. That’s the message. No need to elaborate.

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander was just arrested by Trump’s ICE agents because he asked to see a judicial warrant. This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice. Release him now.

Proud that our students will not sit by or stay silent as their Blair classmate was taken by ICE. We cannot stay quiet and hope for the best when the worst is already happening. It’s time to flex. To organize. To work harder and smarter. It’s all hands on deck.

Met an active duty member of the military yesterday who filed conscientious objector paperwork in response to deployment of military on U.S. soil. Was told multiple Army have filed, unknown quantities in other branches.

We feed you. They hunt us.

NEW: The White House is quietly ordering agencies to freeze billions of dollars in additional funding for the EPA, Interior, Ag, National Science Foundation and more as part of a strategy to make cuts to education, climate, etc permanent and weaken role of Congress. www.eenews.net/articles/whi...

BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

Warning: ICE is planning 30 days of immigration raids across Los Angeles County. If you or someone you know may be impacted, now is the time to set up a support system, identify a safe place, and stay alert.

One more for the "WTF" quota... This lady has been legally in the U.S. for 50 years. She was detained by ICE in *February* when coming home from a trip to the Philippines and only just released last week. "It was horrific; it was awful, it is crowded—super crowded." www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Bolts covered last month that Maryland Dems stood down on a proposal to ban this program, 287g, in their state, sinking the ban in the final hours of their legislative session. icymi, important reporting: boltsmag.org/maryland-287...

I think @petergleick.bsky.social's comparisons are right on target here. I also don't think most Americans know that this is what is happening and what this means for this country. The dangers cannot be overstated at this point.

Great to spend today Know Your Rights canvassing with the MoCo Immigrant Rights Collective! 💪🦋

Mark your calendars, we’re kicking off Round 2! Join friends and allies from across the County on June 16th for a reelection Launch Party at El Aguila Tex Mex in Colesville. Time to celebrate our wins, and build our movement for work still to be done! 🌮 Event is free, just RSVP at bit.ly/MinkLaunch

Every Harry Potter book or shirt you buy directly funds the persecution of trans people. There's absolutely no excuse to support anything Harry Potter anymore unless you hate trans people.

Hey folks, I have a HUGE request from the Trevor Project and would appreciate help getting the word out. Trevor is now recruiting for it's 2025 National Youth Survey. They need people 13-24, LGBTQ+, in the United States to take it. This research is critical to LGBTQ+ rights. Take it here:

Hard not to notice that ICE isn't breaking up drug rings or gangs (because we would ABSOLUTELY hear about it if they were), but instead are dressing up like bank robbers and doing the laziest shit possible, like hanging out at immigration court or grabbing people for busted taillights. Worthless

Boyle: We just verified with the congressional budget office and of 13.7 million Americans who will lose their health care because of their bill, exactly zero are undocumented immigrants

WASHINGTON (AP) — US immigration officials appear to have begun deporting migrants from Myanmar and Vietnam to South Sudan, attorneys say.

🚨IMMIGRATION ALERT🚨 Uber/Lyft/delivery drivers & contract workers, if you enter federal property (ex. NIH, Arlington Natl, Fort Meade,etc) you may hit a checkpoint. Multiple reports of drivers, riders, even contract workers reporting for work on fedl property being detained by ICE. Even TPS holders.

A deeply meaningful groundbreaking today: a new Burtonsville Elementary, after 10 years of community advocacy. We are getting it done!

BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts. Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.

Library of Congress staff just showed what resistance looks like. After Trump abruptly fired Dr. Carla Hayden, the respected Librarian of Congress, he tried to install Todd Blanche, his former personal lawyer and current Deputy Attorney General, as acting librarian. Staff weren’t having it.

1. Shamefully, the Washington Post Editorial Board has just endorsed the junk-science report put out by RFK Jr's HHS department on trans people. The paper is willing to put science aside when a politically juicy target like transgender people is involved. Subscribe to support real journalism.

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Abolish ICE. I am having nightmares about these incidents and waking up absolutely frozen in fear... and I'm not the one living them. This is terror, this is fascism. We must end this nightmare.

Prior to the civil war, armed citizens in the north confronted US Marshals and vigilante slave catchers to prevent them from abducting Black people who had escaped slavery. They had the moral clarity to resist the greatest evil of their time.

I am positive that the folks who follow me already know this, but if you see a person being kidnapped off the street, put your body in the way. Record it and get in the way.

In New York, ICE detained a busload of farmworkers that were actively involved in a union drive. In Washington state, ICE dragged a farmworkers’ rights activist and leader out of his car to detain him. Be warned: attacking unions is a hallmark of fascism.

1. Register here for the free Americans for the Arts Zoom webinar tomorrow, Wednesday, May 7 at 1pm PST. this is for BOTH withdrawn AND terminated grants. they'll have expert advice on appeals and next steps

all right everybody, here we go links, trackers, webinars, templates, and all the free support you need if you just got that nightmare NEA email on Friday please share far and wide, you do NOT have to be in Oregon to use these resources

bumping this for the night shift. i beg of you to get everyone you know with a canceled grant into tomorrow's webinar about how to appeal. storm the goddamn battlements and demand your fucking money. if you need help figuring out how to lie to the fascists I've got Zoom office hours at 5 PST

1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans. These are their stories 🧵

🚨Reports of planned ICE activity in DC: restaurant & food delivery (May 6 -10) 🚨Informes sobre la próxima actividad de ICE en DC dirigida a trabajadores de restaurantes y delivery de comida. (del 6 al 10 de mayo) 📞 ¿Vio a ICE? Did you see ICE? MSMA (DC/MD): 202-335-1183 CASA (MD/VA): 888-214-6016

Terror in Nashville: The Tennessee Highway Patrol aided ICE in a coordinated assault on immigrant communities last night—randomly stopping drivers, including an Uber driver, a DoorDash worker, and a pregnant woman. Each patrol car was flanked by 2 unmarked vehicles used to detain human beings.

Colorado last year became the first state to mandate polling places inside all county jails—and turnout among voters who are held in jails, often pretrial, skyrocketed: It grew by roughly 900% between 2022 and 2024. boltsmag.org/jail-vo...

🧵This is the cruelty they don’t want you to see. Yorely Bernal was deported to Venezuela. Her partner, Maiker Espinoza, exiled to El Salvador’s brutal CECOT prison camp. No criminal records. Their 2-year-old daughter, Antonella, is still in DHS custody. Read on… www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/w...

They did everything they were supposed to do. His application for citizenship was "under review," he was a father and husband, a small business owner, a valuable part of our community. They took him anyway. Please help support this family. www.facebook.com/share/p/16Np...

New in PN: Trump's polling has already collapsed "Trump is increasingly unpopular. This presents a chance for Democrats to tie fascist politics — such as the targeting of immigrants and trans people — to a toxic presidency, and delegitimize those evil policies for years to come."

One of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF

"'She’s a very talented scientist with huge potential … the capacity to be the best of the best,' he said..." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Here is a Beta Version of the ICE Flights Tracker. There is much to do to improve it but we wanted to get it out there. Court Districts are available per request. This will evolve to become more user friendly. Pairs well with @jjindc.bsky.social's BlueSky account public.tableau.com/views/ICEFli...

A 19-year old U.S. citizen was traveling from Albuquerque to Tucson. He was arrested and detained by ICE for 10 days, before his family showed a judge his identification & he was finally released. news.azpm.org/p/news-artic...

If. Data. Is. Collected. no matter what it's on (robot, smart toothbrush, self-driving car, social media account, etc) police are going to want it and given our current data landscape, they are going to get it.