Every city needs to be preparing. Find yr local immigrant support groups, find yr local peacekeeping / marshal cadres, find yr DSA direct action & de-escalation groups, find yr observers - get trained, get equipped, get prepared for what’s coming out way. Folks are waiting to welcome you.

take a second to really wrap your head around this.

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ICE has a new tool to use location data from data brokers to identify the movements of protestors. Please remove your phone's Advertising ID and disable always-on location access forapps that sell your data (most of them). Instructions for Android and iOS from the EFF: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Last week, Austin PD called ICE to turn in a woman from Honduras and her US-born 5 year-old daughter. They only knew about them because the woman called 911 for help with a domestic disturbance. She needed help and they handed her over to ICE. The police don’t care about protecting you.

I think about this quote from the Luddite movement all the time

THIS!!! Instead of using the particularities of your pigs as an excuse for not acting, maybe read about what folks are doing in places like Brazil (their pigs are WAY more bloodthirsty than yours) to mobilize. You're not fucking special. Plenty of people have it as bad or worse, LEARN FROM THEM!

your very existence is troubling, enraging, and distracting as hell for some of the shittiest people on earth so no, i’m afraid you may not kill yourself rn

I'm not telling you to get rowdy. Act however your conscience (and your tactical analysis) tell you that you should. But just understand that people who have picked a different set of tactics than you are, whether frustratingly or not, on the same side as you.

Social movements are strong when the rowdy and the peaceful elements work in solidarity with one another. The myth of the provocateur is spread specifically because it undermines that solidarity.

I have been in far more demonstrations than I can count. I dedicated probably fifteen years of my life going to every one I could. I have never, not once, seen an agent provocateur. Agree with their tactics or not, the people breaking shit, throwing rocks, even throwing molotovs, are protesters.

Good morning. They're going to sell you the lie of provocateurs. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/theyre-goi...

Need I say more?

Friend of a friend is fundraising to meet her housing crisis needs. www.gofundme.com/f/please-hel...

Important context to "more/better training" arguments: the murder of Renée Good was a product of that training by someone who has trained others. (I've seen same in civil rights cases; by moving where he did, he was intentionally generating a pretext to shoot her without genuine risk to himself.)

AND LISTEN TO LOCAL AND ESTABLISHED ORGANIZERS. Los Angeles is not Chicago. New York City is not Philadelphia. Local leaders who've been out there doing the work...will know best. Listen. to. them. Stay frosty.

They are extremely unpopular, unable to significantly expand their forces (they are already poaching local police for ICE and reassigning significant percentages of FBI/ATF toward enforcement), lacking in organizational resilience and one bum ticker/blood clot away from total movement collapse

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Rest in power to Keith Porter who was murdered by an ICE agent in Los Angeles. It’s terrible that his name is just now being circulated, but now that it is, continue to say his name.

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

Blue monday #art #illustration

Every one of these announcements reads to me as "we don't have enough people and supplies to occupy more than one city at a time"

This story kinda came and went but the fact that the government is explicitly and vocally thanking all the major media outlets for adhering to the bro code feels very relevant right now!!

tipping

Trans News Network recently published an interview with Billie Jean Sweeney about the New York Times' transphobic coverage. I went point-by-point through the NYT's response with a fact-check (and a little snark.) You can read it here:

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

see? i'm real. #MyArt #SilentHill2

We have published the following update to our article following an email response from the New York Times. Trans News Network has a policy against platforming bigotry. As such, we have declined to publish the Times' statement which included blatant transphobia.

sometimes i get an idea and have no choice but to follow it to its conclusion

How a Book is Made (1986) by Aliki Brandenberg

Congress has not formally declared war since 1942, 83 years ago. Look at all the war the US has done in the past 83 years. Very obviously, it long long ago stopped requiring congressional approval for war according to its own constitution.

1. try not to post things that will get you arrested 2. try not to post things that will make your friends want to off themselves

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i hope 2026 is the year abod will be able to leave gaza. working & raising his kids under conditions of genocide is crushing him. he can't afford to leave on his paycheck alone, and he hasn't received any donations in almost a week. it'd be cool if u could give or share ❤️ chuffed.org/project/help...

[somberly] You cannot serve both god and money [upbeat music hits] Until now. Introducing god as a service

merry christmas time to repost the classic

We are ready for Xmas

Infatuation

In the Miami airport. Oohh… Aahhh.

Found the perfect charm for my PS Vita: a smaller PS Vita

I wrote much less this year than I've written in the past five, so there's not a whole lot to revisit. This piece, though, I still think is probably the best article I've ever written, even if it was a dumb professional move to write it [free to read] www.patreon.com/posts/empero...

Everything is far too bright. #artph

Copyright is about corporate power, repression of information and maintenance of culture monopolies and everyone who thinks it's going to protect them has been sold a bill of goods

Finished Portrait/Bust Commission for chat-system! 🥳💖💕✨

also like idk i think nutrition is interesting when you divorce it from fatphobia and ableism. like bodies are interesting!!! the way bodies process stuff is interesting!!! noticing the specific ways different foods or lack thereof feel in my body is interesting!! to me!!!