Citizens of all types are stepping up to fight for our rights! Thankful for flight monitors like Nick Benson.

open.substack.com/pub/tammytri... Still pondering this provocative article by Tammy Triolo.

To my ICE observing friends, here is some EXCELLENT advice from an actual ophthalmologist* about getting pepper sprayed. tl;dr: irrigate with one liter of water mixed with some baby shampoo *yes, we all know him as Dr. Glaucomflecken, but he’s really an eye doctor.

It's always worth reading Thomas Zimmer's thoughtful analysis.

How sad that citizens need to organize to protect victims of federally-inflicted injury! Thank God such good citizens exist and are doing this work.

NEW: What’s happening in the US is TECHNOFASCISM. It’s fascism + surveillance technologies. Palantir is playing a central role. And the UK is next in line. My latest for @thenerve.news 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/technofasc...

Amen!

Great news for Texans!

ICE is terrorizing our country. It’s time to stand up and fight back. Join us this Saturday in Austin: tinyurl.com/stopICErally

You love to see it!

Leave it to Popehat to have a topical story in his back pocket. Can't wait to see pictures of Bovino eating hot dogs on the bar stoop in beautiful downtown El Centro.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

This is awesome!

Yet another unconstitutional policy of this corrupt and cruel administration.

A key part of the struggle against encroaching authoritarianism is to reject rather than perpetuate the Trumpist assertions of absolute power, to push back against the notion that resistance is futile – that MAGA is inevitably marching towards triumph.

We are all in a fox hole with hot dish-loving people and they’re so kind.

In addition to Good's murder, ICE has been busy in Minneapolis causing car wrecks and traffic jams, filling the streets with tear gas and goons with loaded weapons, issuing specific threats and sewing general chaos. This is not law enforcement to preserve order. It's an occupation to cause chaos.

Bear with me for a thread. Republicans have mastered the art of making excuses for horrific things they want and forcing an argument online and in media over the *excuse* rather than the deed. It ends up in completely fake arguments. Rufo & others basically admit this.

Trump needs to fix this by going to Europe. Specifically, he should go to the Hague.

Again I say into the void: stop saying the ICE officer had no time to think. Time doesn’t start when the drama starts. They drove up. They walked up. They engaged. Stop saying there is only reflex, no thought. If so, stop arming ambulatory startle reflexes & calling them cops

Texas hands over complete list of registered voters to Trump administration www.texastribune.org/2026/01/09/t...

Wise words from a truly "good cop."

All of us (White Christians) need to work on solving this existential problem.

The wisdom of Josh Johnson. ❤️

Talarico: In 2024, Trump met with oil executives and promised them a ‘great deal’ in exchange for $1 billion in contributions. And now Trump thanked them with a gift — the nation of Venezuela, home to the largest oil reserves in the entire world. We have to recognize how corrupt this new war is

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

A reminder......

Our bodies and brains aren’t built for this. We shouldn’t be continually grieving this way, we shouldn’t be perpetually lamenting newly appearing fractures, and we shouldn’t need to constantly defend ourselves from the wounds inflicted by those leading us. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/we-shouldn...

What an excellent story, with a glimpse of how we need to proceed to undo the evils inherent in our culture.

MELIA would love some peace and quiet. Shelter life is too noisy. Only 3.5 years old, around 50lbs of pure love. She enjoys walks, playing, car rides. An adult only home, no dogs. [email protected] Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter (516) 785-5220 3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit Wantagh, NY 11793

Wrong. The First Amendment protects our right to record law enforcement activity in public — full stop.

What an amazing story! Hurray for the new citizen, his attorney, and especially the JUDGE!

Dan Froomkin has been the go-to guy for press accountability for many years. I'm thankful he's still on the job!

This is not the American way. For any relative or friend saying “well they need to come here legally” - show them this video. These people are doing it right and at the last minute - having their citizenship yanked away. After doing everything right! @tallnate77.bsky.social /1

Really interesting thread.

Listen…If y’all want to talk honesty, then let’s be honest about all of it. The promises, the hypocrisy, the receipts. Because what you campaigned on and what you’re doing? Two very different things.

Seriously, he's just doing it out in the open! Grrr.

Buried in here: UMC pastors in Chicago told me they were going to keep doing this for a wide spectrum of Methodists who have legal battles amid the ongoing mass deportation effort in the city — immigrant families, pastors who have been arrested, etc. Some serious denominational solidarity here.

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We will be in D.C. on November 22 for our first in-person event! If you can't be there in person, join us here: citizensimpeachment.com/sign-up-to-h...

The federal government’s “Compact” will put the University of Texas at Austin under political control. Join with Longhorns for Liberty before the Board of Regents meeting on November 19-20 and tell President Jim Davis and the Regents to protect UT Austin’s independence by rejecting the Compact.

As the world’s eyes turn to the Climate Change Conference (COP30), Austin-based Texas Impact/Texas Interfaith Power & Light is sending video dispatches from the conference.

If you live in Travis County (TX), you can vote anywhere you see a sign today saying“vote here/aqui." You can find polling locations, wait times at those locations, a sample ballot, and more here: votetravis.gov/current-elec...

Gutting our government

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”