Albany and El Cerrito aren’t towns most people think of when they imagine protest. But over the past two years, neighbors have built a grassroots collective for Palestine that’s reshaped their activism and sense of community. ✍️: @cecilialei.bsky.social 📸: @estefancy.bsky.social

Today, we’re running an essential story from @leilaniclark.bsky.social about Sonoma County residents taking action to protect undocumented day laborers from ICE raids. The new program, Adopt a Corner, is activism as a simple act of neighborly solidarity.

Great @leilaniclark.bsky.social read in @coyotemedia.org this morning about a kind of neighborhood watch I can get behind: Looking out for the safety of day laborers.

loved editing this story from @leilaniclark.bsky.social, with photographs by @estefancy.bsky.social It’s about people feeling scared and uncertain and still doing the right thing for each other, because we’re all we’ve got

There is no intel,” says one of the officials, who were granted anonymity to discuss sensitive matters. “Nothing new, that I’m aware of…" www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Nature is so much more interesting than fascism.

“What Senator Alex Padilla did today was political theater.” --Kristi Noem, the Head of Costuming, Hair, and Makeup at Political Theater

A person who works in Whittier, CA, reached out to share that the Whittier police chief said 🧊 will be in Whittier for 30 days and that they are currently posted up in Norwalk, by Cerritos College.

And so forth. Elite panic is a thing and elites do too often seem to prize property relations over actual lives.

Solidarity with David Huerta of SEIU. Working class power, both in and outside of the workplace.

Ray of hope if you need one today: New Mexico just earmarked $50 million for new wildlife crossings, the most a state has *ever* appropriated for safe animal passage. #roadecology www.forbes.com/sites/noelfl...

For years we've heard from the right about "welfare queens" and other so-called "freeloaders" pulling one over on the government. But actually, it's the wealthy who are the real freeloaders — pulling one over on us all by skirting their taxes. Where is the outrage over that?

My high school age son has a classmate just seized by ICE and she is now in a cell in Louisiana, her phone seized. This is High School in the USA in 2025. More Au Revoir Les Enfants than Ferris Bueller. School and community response already in motion.

I honestly don’t even get this. Tuan Phan accepted that he would be deported to Viet Nam. His wife went there to meet him. The US government arbitrarily deports him to South Sudan, from where he has not been heard from. Pure sadism. www.kuow.org/stories/pier...

I got to spend the day leading observers & doing comms work on a multi-acre LandPaths/Fire Forward prescribed burn at the Grove of Old Trees in Occidental. Still processing the day but will be writing about this later.

BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts. Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.

A friend and I have decided that next year's Met gala theme needs to be quinceañeras. Getting Anna Wintour on the speed dial...

Happy paperback pub day to @manjula.bsky.social! If you haven’t read The Last Fire Season yet, go get yourself a copy! It’s excellent. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/711111...

Appreciated the opportunity to talk about the Press Democrat, my hometown newspaper, with Ericka Cruz Guevarra & the team at The Bay. Subscribe to a newspaper. www.kqed.org/news/1203959...

Hearing from a friend how ICE on Tues was hanging out near both campuses of Mundo Verde in DC, a bilingual public elementary school, but never attempted entry. Why? In part bc "10 parents at each campus" offered to take shifts of working outside the school all day. That's community right there.

Call for submissions! 🗣️ The Offing’s Essay department is seeking new works! Follow the link to submit today! theoffingmag.submittable.com/submit

As the descendent of a Pershing Square soap boxer of the Wobblie variety, I wholeheartedly endorse this sentiment.

Working on the weekend is pretty great when this is the vibe. #sonomacounty #azolla

This is huge news and impacts so many scientists, researchers, nonprofits, etc., including the one where I work.

This headline gutted me www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people

Happy International Workers’ Day to all who celebrate!

The uplift from the Art of Decisions writing class I took on Sunday with @theferocity.bsky.social and Eula Biss is carrying me through the week. Generous and gifted writers, teachers, and cultural critics, both of them!

Jeferson Escalona, who DHS said was a “self-admitted” member of Tren de Aragua: "They're making false accusations about me. I don't belong to any gang." W/ @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/americ...

ACLU says another three US citizen children were disappeared from their own country today: www.aclu.org/press-releas...

"In a news release published Monday, the City of Hyattsville Police Department (HPD) said that “at no time” did its officers identify Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia as a member of any gang." www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-n...

Huge shoutout to everyone this is what a global boycott looks like. Tesla just reported a staggering 71% drop in profits compared to Q1 of 2024. It’s working. Keep the pressure on.

Also, feminism has shown the way! Subsidized childcare! Robust, paid parental leave. Tax credits! Reproductive freedom. Universal healthcare. Until they make the world better, there is little incentive to have kids (though they are adorable lil munchkins)

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump admin must facilitate the return of SMART Union Local 100 apprentice Kilmar Abrego Garcia. They need to quit wasting time and bring our union brother home NOW!

what a horrible feeling it is to pay taxes to this infernal country

Breaking News: Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia student activist who is a legal permanent resident, was arrested by ICE at a meeting he thought was a step to becoming a U.S. citizen. nyti.ms/4cxlwG4

bloomberg: ~90% of deported migrants to el salvador had no criminal record

I'm not afraid you of you, bitch

This piece is a bit bleak, but it's a banger. If we are to meet our critical moment in history, we need to reckon with the reality that we are not up against adversaries we have seen before. We are up against end times fascism. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Burn piles, French broom pulling, and a hike to see the sublime proliferation of wildflowers at Riddell Preserve in Healdsburg. Aka my day at work this weekend.

To have a hope of combating the greedy, traitorous end times fascists we will need to build an unruly open-hearted movement of the Earth-loving faithful: faithful to this planet, its people, its creatures and to the possibility of a livable future for us all. Faithful to here.

Listen up. The Department of Homeland Security is scraping your social media for "antisemitism." If you have posted anything in support of Palestine and you are on a visa, have a green card, or are undocumented, take steps. This is serious. www.uscis.gov/newsroom/new...

An inspiring intro to @danisavestheworld.bsky.social series on Rojava! Over the coming weeks she’ll highlight different projects & aspects of the women’s revolution. In the meantime, here’s your entry into Rojava! 🐦‍⬛ OH! CW: you might want to go there ASAP! ❤️‍🔥 www.cawshinythings.com/how-its-done...

We are seeing a very clear pattern of banning things that make Trumpists and their kids feel bad: - Books about colonialism, slavery and segregation - Challenging ideas about gender - Protests against genocide - Science generally It's a blanket ban on hard feelings. They called us snowflakes.

“Viewing fire as a medicine, this method of burning forests and grasslands — what are today known as prescribed, controlled, cultural or traditional burns — also limited the threat of devastating wildfires blazing out of control.” indiginews.com/features/cul...

If you're in the Bay Area, check out Landpaths' good fire program with opportunities for public participation and education on how to apply fire to the land: landpaths.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/l...

The thing about ACT UP, as Sarah Schulman notes, is that there wasn’t time for protracted disagreements over strategy; people were dying of AIDS left and right. SO, if some folks want to do X strategy for a protest but you wanted to do Y, ACT UP’s approach was to say “you do X and I’ll do Y.”