NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program. This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE. Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.

This is one of the most important cases that galvanized Black people in the late 40s through the 1950s. Almost every major Black leader had a comment about it. It is also one of the most successful defense committees that was organized in the 20th century. Almost no one knows about it today.

Rent is due in the Twin Cities, and many families won’t be able to pay. “Operation Metro Surge” has left thousands sheltering in place from ICE agents roaming the streets. With many afraid to go to work and bills piling up, calls grow for Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to declare an eviction moratorium.

Incredible reporting from Street Sense on the trend of escalating camp evictions, with the city routinely clearing the same people repeatedly. In 2025, one camp was cleared FOURTEEN TIMES. Evictions don’t end homelessness.

this is a mistake.

Two Human Rights Watch employees — the group’s entire Israel-Palestine team — resigned after senior staffers blocked a report calling Israel’s denial of Palestinian refugees’ right of return to their homeland a crime against humanity.

Sharing a reminder to anyone who could use it: be gentle with each other so we can be dangerous together. Remember, it’s a marathon, not a race 💜

The election denial movement relies on propaganda and urging their believers into action based on genuine belief that they are in the right. People saying "there aren't enough ICE agents" are kinda missing the point. The point is to get people to distrust the results of the election.

This action launched #TeslaTakedown. Just two people with signs and a camera outside a NYC showroom. These photos spread and inspired us all. One simple, small act of clarity and courage that launched a global movement to hold the world's richest man accountable. 🤘✊

again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are his net worth is $253.2 billion. so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire and then do it again tomorrow and again the day after that and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months

Tooting the horn again, but I wrote a whole book about this. Tom Homan has been promising this.

Grown-ass 45-year-old adult man arrested on assault charges after picking fight with students who had been protesting ICE. “‘After further thorough investigation, it was determined that Watts was the primary aggressor,’ police said.” people.com/texas-man-ar...

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

After Pinterest laid off 15% of its staff to focus on an AI-forward approach," several engineers at the company created software to track the layoffs. Pinterest then fired the engineers.

yes, incarcerated mothers are the heroes we rarely read about, protecting, loving, caring for their kids from behind bars. @inquest.bsky.social

mainstream news companies are at least largely full of right wing propaganda and disinformation and ads spun as news and ai slop/genai bootlicking. and sometimes gambling.

Kindergarten teacher called a prank ICE hotline thinking it was real. She called to report her 6 year old student to ICE to try to get them and their family deported. 6 years old. She does not enjoy hearing her own words and actions played back to her.

The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody

The president of the ASPS is a huge Trump supporter if you're wondering why they shifted positions now to align with the Trump Administration. He's donated substantially to Trump and Ted Cruz. This was a political decision. www.fec.gov/data/receipt...

You cannot do "commonsense reform" for a secret police force that's declared itself exempt from constitutional requirements. You cannot reform ultraviolent agencies that have been corrupt for decades and now have accountability only to the president's goons and lackeys.

Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel? Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again. And they almost shot some kids in the process.

When I visited Auschwitz, the thing that got me (or one of the things) was the neighborhood and school adjacent to it.

With only 5 Palestinians in need of medical evacuation from Gaza permitted to leave through the Rafah crossing after it reopened on Monday, health authorities warned that the restrictions Israel is continuing to impose at the crossing could ultimately kill thousands of Palestinians.

A lot of wisdom being dropped here about deescalation. At artful protests I organized in the early 2010s, where people showed up expecting a family-friendly vibe, we sometimes had folks who were bloc'd up who I had to talk to. They always heard me out because we had mutual respect. They knew me.

Without A/C, there is no relief from extreme heat for people behind bars. Take a look at the commissary at one TX federal prison that charges $30 for personal fans, profiting off incarcerated people's misery:

A reminder that incarcerated folks in Texas reported having to douse themselves with toilet water to cool off from sweltering heat – and the state still refuses to provide A/C.

With ICE ravaging my neighborhood, it's easy to forget Pete Hegseth is still blowing up speedboats. Meanwhile, Marco Rubio is deferring questions about whether there's really any cocaine on those boats to the "War" secretary. Wrote this last week but still timely: truthout.org/articles/rub...

Updated list! Food is pretty urgently needed if you have the capacity. The city does not provide anything, this is being organized by library workers who have decided, unsupported by admin, that it's cruel to expect people to sit somewhere for 12 hours without food or something warm to drink.

hi pets my wife and i are in need of money to be able to pay some bills and a trip to get hrt meds. this month was so tight, we actually overflowed in some bills that we had. wife's job is still uncertain, and things have been hard. ko-fi.com/tabymeow

Sometimes you have to say it out loud to appreciate how dire t all is: The president just openly declared his plans to steal the midterm elections — in an interview with the former number two person at the FBI.

DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting. Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.

This isn't a win. It's a systematic way to catalog protesters and legal observers into the Palantir database. It's not even tinfoil hat category to claim this any longer. We're being targeted and added to watch lists.

No one who has seen the Epstein case unfold should have any doubt left about why victims don’t report. When reporting means facing more abuse, more exploitation, and more betrayal at the institutional level, while the perpetrators are the leaders of the very systems of “justice” supposed to help you

Each year, 2.7 million jail admissions are for misdemeanor charges. Yes, this includes charges for behaviors like jaywalking or even sitting on a sidewalk.

If you missed this, they teargassed a little girl and her grandmother just over half a mile away from the facility

People all over Portland, Oregon were impacted by the chemical warfare deployed by the feds tonight. Here’s a thread of some Portlanders experiences who weren’t even at the protest:

Attorney Arick Fudali, who represents 11 Epstein survivors, says the release of the files has been a “perfect storm” of “incompetency and an active cover-up” by the Trump administration, as one the survivors he represents was named over 500 times by mistake.

Let me take a moment to plug @liberationlib.bsky.social, who send books (chosen by the kids, wherever possible) to incarcerated kids. Those kids are mostly teenagers. They are also cruelly dehumanized by an inhumane system.

I think it's funny that this interview gave Chotiner a chance to reference this thing he tweeted about 4 years ago

think of all the college students who were disciplined or expelled for protesting genocide

The intention of a system of oppression is its predictable effects, like this. Racist terror.

reposting with alt text for accessibility: Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)

privacy features are an accessibility tool i need but bluesky lacks

Today is Feb 1. The rules just changed. If you receive SNAP benefits, you might have woken up ineligible today without knowing it.

Liam was taken from Columbia Heights, the town just south of my high school in Fridley and just north of the Arts district in NE Minneapolis. I spent a lot of time with friends there after extracurriculars. News of his abduction completely broke my heart. I’m glad he’s home. #Comics4Liam

ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.

is there a single form of oppression jk rowling isn’t a fan of perpetuating. you can’t even say misogyny bc she hates other women as a whole too.

Video of his remarks where he says, verbatim, that one of his jobs as leader is to funnel more aid to Israel 75% of Democratic voters oppose sending Israel more military aid, as do 66% of independents and 60% of Americans overall according to recent polling

Doesn't seem like this should be his job

This article is a very good example of why "more training" and "more vetting" isn't the answer. Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez joined Border Patrol in 2018 and 2014 respectively. These aren't new agents. www.propublica.org/article/alex...