Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

I truly believe a big reason why Democrats are failing to appropriately respond to the moment is a pathological refusal to admit that there were aspects of the American status quo pre trump that were extremely fucked up and unjust

Ivankov is great, but he is simultaneously the leader of not just some of the best lgbt representation I've ever seen but also the worst. Like his introduction is him in a prison with a community of queer liberationists. He's also the Queen of an island outside the prison that is a drag stereotype.

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

To the point, ICE is now trying to threaten people who videotape them, because they're probably reeling at how easy it is for who, what, when, how to be disseminated among action networks almost instantaenously. Speaks to things getting fraught, I would guess.

This is why the work of community watch groups is so important. It's not just capturing the faces of ICE agents, but also their vehicles. In Massachusetts we are already seeing them adapt and change their tactics in response to the work of community groups.

the daily wear and tear of worrying about yr neighbors, constantly vigilant with whistle in hand, etc

25 years ago today I stood on a blockade on the Adams Mine road. In defiance of potential mass arrests we held Thanksgiving dinner for 1,000 people. I made the decision that weekend that I would dedicate my life to resistance and defending people. Happy Thanksgiving www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsPz...

There's no such thing as food waste. It just isn't being eaten by people.

This year, I've had so many productivity issues. Whole days lost, deadlines completely blown I've been trying to figure out what's wrong with me Yeah, so for the last 48 hours I decided to tune out the news and concentrate on an article and surprise surprise: it was the fascism this whole time

This is the fucking Prussian constitutional crisis. If you let them fund the military without Congressional authorization you've just given up on constitutional government. Congress is a dead letter.

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

Make no mistake: this is part of eugenicist policy under fascism.

There's probably some historical precedent somewhere for ICE's strategy of arresting people's children for the sole purpose of drawing their parents out of hiding to come rescue them but I sure as fuck can't remember ever seeing anyone else do it Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Jaffa Factory 2 is one year old! 151 episodes in, and the shenanigans are just as good as ever - they've just built their very own Jaffa plane, and are making headway on a space facility. Happy birthday, boys!

FFS! Ford’s using our money to enrich friends and family not just rich donors like in the Greenbelt Scandal - he’s not even hiding it! More on Friday’s OShow Scandal Panel with @keithleslie.bsky.social and @markcripps.bsky.social #Onpoli #Cndpoli #CanadaSky 🤬🇨🇦

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News. Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios. www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

Maple MAGAs are "quisling" traitors - I had to look that up. Keep them #ElbowsUp #Resist

Huge support to the inflatable frog costume person in Portland for both embarrassing the regime and reclaiming frog imagery from the internet right.

Let's get over the niceties and start using the F word. youtu.be/PTlr4QhN2Mg?...

Framing this as if it just happened is just a *touch* irresponsible!

I would like to get to a place where consigning 14 million people to death isn’t described as “DOGE didn’t do much.”

I am so fucking proud of the place I lived for ten years. This is the best of the city, this is the heart and the goodness of it and I'm so glad

I have so many thoughts on the Trump Carney meeting, two huge new Ford scandals that just broke and the collapse of America into a violent fascist regime in front of our eyes. What a week and it’s only Wednesday. Friday’s OShow Scandal Panel going to be EPIC 🇨🇦 #Cndpoli #Onpoli

Between this and Miller’s “plenary authority” word vomit mishap, they’ve really given the game away this week

Cops used 83,000 cameras to track a single abortion patient — on her abuser’s tip.

A clip from Big Brother came up on my Tiktok feed of a participant, Caroline Monk, making the most disgusting comments towards fellow participant, Zelah, who is a transman. this is unacceptable and she should have been IMMEDIATELY removed from the show. I started a petition - chng.it/kMb7BJMWpZ

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

The entire debate over whether or not protestors should use violence comes down to the fact that the definition of “violence” is applied unevenly to different groups on the basis of power. If you’re attempting to upend the status quo, someone will always call something you did violent.

There was nothing that helped me understand authoritarianism better than books on domestic violence and the psychology of abusers. There is no distinction between the two groups. Men who assault their wives and children want the social environment to do the same to strangers that bother them.

One of the things that brings me the greatest despair in authoritarianism is watching people react to state violence the way they react to domestic violence. By justifying anything and everything the perpetrators does through blaming a victim for failing to be submissive enough.

this is literally stuff King Charles did, like not only did the American colonists have a revolution to not have this happen, but they did so in the wake of the English revolution, which was about not having stuff like this happen

New It Could Happen Here 🎤 Robert, James, Mia, and Gare talk about the comedians who sold their soul to perform stand up for the royal family in Saudi Arabia. @iwriteok.bsky.social @jamesstout.bsky.social @miawong.bsky.social @bishonentype.bsky.social www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

The way we are experiencing this is as a genuine "fuck you guys" moment, where the level of "fuck you" increases with your level of transness and POCness And I'm sure there are folks on the team who don't feel this way about it but this is how the failed comms strategy is working, publicly

The MAGA plan to break up our country: secret meetings in Washington, a massive American slush fund and Danielle Smith. Here is my latest on the MAGA and MAGA MAPLE attack on Canada. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nwi...

Brain damage from a medically induced coma is the canadian equivalent to worms eating your brain.

as the person who kicked off a lot of the modern "civil war 2" discourse i don't think we're past the point where that can be avoided. i do think we are already in a state of mass civil conflict. but many nations (see: Italy) have been through similar upheavals without war.

When you're getting lined up in front of the fascist firing squads just remember this is the world you wanted, you just though it'd be the trannies and not a bunch of posh journalists who went to all the right schools with all the right connections Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

The one thing about the rise of fascism is that even if we lose it's going to be so fucking funny watching all of the liberal dogs like the Guardian get consumed by the fascist beast they created Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

🤤 (shocked, shocked I tell you)

"Tyrants" seems like a particularly timeless word.

For years we had a problem where the right would say "X is happening!" and we'd have to be like "ok no that's not quite right, Y is happening but not Z and you really have to understand the history of A..." Now we can simply say "no that is a fuckin lie" and move on

@unraveledpress.com & other press have been threatened, shot with less-lethals and arrested while reporting on federal immigration activities in Chicagoland and on the resulting protests at Broadview. I'm now at a hearing asking the federal court to rein ICE & co in. I'll let you know how it goes.

HOLY SH*T. There it is. Trump says he will speak to the DOJ about giving Ghislaine Maxwell a pardon.

feels like when the power-hungry mod of a mastodon server loses it, but this time it’s on the scale of an entire platform

🙋‍♂️Show of hands: Who here is tired of the jingoistic brew of White supremacy, Christian nationalism, and toxic masculinity. Fuck that noise. 🖕

Wouldn’t this be lovely…🫶🏼♥️🫶🏼 #VoteDemocratic #Pinks