If you haven’t seen it, this footage from @apnews.com is incredibly important. The intent here seems unmistakable, in two ways: (1) just read the genocide convention, here it **absolutely** is, and (2) this level of infrastructural destruction is, no question, meant as pre-development demolition.

Must see TV...

🧵 regarding the shutdown: The Democrats aren’t being clear enough about this but we can be: this shutdown is about saving lives. If we don’t reverse the Medicaid cuts (and the ACA subsidies on insurance bought through the exchanges) that Republicans made this year, people will die.

I’m so looking forward to getting the three copies I ordered; one for myself and the others for two activist friends.

I know not everyone is who they thought they would be under a fascist, authoritarian regime. That's okay. But it's time to do more than react and post about it. It's time to get organized—including mapping or creating lines of support and defense in your community.

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.

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Holy shit they woke up grandpa

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“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

When the Trump regime says "Antifa", they don't only mean protesters, but in their own words: "anti-capitalists; pro-immigrant and anti-racism advocates; all trans people; and anyone with hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality." Remember that.

Inniu, I pay tribute to Manchán Magan who taught us that our connections to each other are what make us divine and human

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

hi, cis folks in california! this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out. he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841 want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

Seems like a good day to help someone in Gaza

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The biggest pushback to "defund police" was people saying but that's anarchy! What about public safety? So, to be clear, cops zip tying naked kids at 2am and throwing them into vans while damaging their homes looks like law & order and public safety to you? This is what makes you feel safe? FOH

An update from Jessie Fuentes

**raiding an emergency room**

CALL PRITZKER TO DEMAND HE REMOVE ILLINOIS STATE POLICE FROM BROADVIEW: (Chicago) 312-814-2121 or 312-814-2122 (Springfield) 217-782-6830 or 217-782-6831 Hearing impaired (TTY): 888-261-3336 I called and talked about how the state cops joined ICE in brutalizing protesters today.

Seeing lots of religious leaders as part of this ICE protest:

Kristi Noem's on the roof at Broadview surrounded by snipers and Kat is still out there demanding to see what horrific conditions are going on inside.

Tá mo chroí bhriste. Táim ag caoineadh. Níl a fhios againn cad an chaill an teanga

They're terrorizing people to create fascist propaganda content to circulate on social media.

This explains a lot. For a moment, I wondered why they'd do something as ridiculous as drop agents on the roof of the apartment building from helicopters, but of course, they did it for this footage. The same reason they were marching in formation downtown and snatched a family in Millennium Park.

LRP: 3 months 30+ apps and a shitty career coach later — I haven’t even gotten an interview at places that are like ADJACENT to my old job

People who are currently looking for work can attest that it is a shit show out there.

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Socialism phobes quaking

When I say kidnapped, I mean that Israel is, according to international law, currently abducting citizens of multiple countries including multiple elected representatives of European countries, Israel’s ‘allies’.

guys, chill out, people always are just spontaneously falling off of a 22 story balcony at a hotel. this is totally normal

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Out now:

Thread in quoted post. I was here w/Kelly today, & she continually got right in front where ICE was shooting people with pepper & rubber bullets, as well as tear gas. She also gave me masks & goggles to hand out to people. This is a thread of ways to show her some love. You can Venmo her here:

They are not even bothering a basic disinformation campaign regarding the “war ravaged” conditions in Portland or pretending that they are trying to be the good guys: just flat out staying they are invading a peaceful Democratic city because they can.

As ICE continues to terrorize Chicagoland, protesters gathered this morning outside the Broadview detention center—throwing stuffed animals at DHS agents, playing music through tear gas assaults, and putting their bodies on the line to stop ICE vehicles. My latest.

"I believe in living. I believe in birth. I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth. And i believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, seasick sailors, can still be guided home to port.” ― Assata Shakur

There are a bunch of people rallying outside the fence at Broadview as well, but there are way more people there than at the nearby intersection that may prove more strategic. I’m headed back to the intersection.

I’m on the ground near Broadview. Because of illegal fence, we are at a nearby intersection.

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What an employer sees is an autistic employee exhibiting symptoms of burnout. What they don't see is that the autistic employee is doing the job of 4 people without being paid to do it, and without any of the structures that those jobs usually have.

Newsletter is out now: There are very few major global events of my childhood where my anxiety was ever soothed by any authority in my life. So why would I think there would be comfort at the end of a movie or book that is about the destruction of everything I know and love?

This is really bad. It won’t get the popular opposition the Kimmel incident did, but it’s way more sweeping and authoritarian. This is an effort to bring the full force of government down on any and all opposition to this administration. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

So much energy and righteous anger here after the horrifying attack against a woman by an ICE thug earlier today. #ICEoutofNY

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