New: I wrote about how the SPLC let union breaking and fear of MAGA drive it away from its own civil rights principles. After I spoke up about Gaza, the SPLC disciplined me and terminated my employment—leading to a discrimination settlement: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲 “One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.” www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...

This BORTAC crew from the Rio Grande Valley BORTAC detachment (L. Andy Chavez, R. Tee Rico) were at the center of a snatch & grab in the Northside neighborhood of Irving Park right before a children's Halloween parade. Rico's wife, fwiw, is a TV reporter who's covered BORTAC w/no conflict disclosure

We first unmasked (or not—Donahue never actually covers his face) two CBP agents in November at great personal risk as two reporters who have been repeatedly targeted by the feds, including with assaults and arrest. Since then, more and more outlets have felt comfortable naming agents:

ICE at BWI this morning.

New—RFK Jr. will host a World Autism Awareness Day event Thursday at HHS, ft. a group fitness activity (???) and remarks from Diana Diaz-Harrison, National Autism Coordinator, and Peter Nye, Program Officer at the Administration for Community Living (ACL) Invite sent to employees + shared with me:

For those who might forget, Diana Diaz Harrison runs a series of schools in Arizona that secluded and restrained #ActuallyAutistic students (via @bethhawkins.bsky.social). www.the74million.org/article/trum...

Today's anti-trans Supreme Court ruling is an example of what we call gender fascism. Nothing is more dangerous to young people than forcing them into roles that don't fit their needs. Legislation and state violence wouldn't be necessary to impose these norms if the norms were really “natural.”

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

An 8-1 decision by SCOTUS, with only Justice Jackson in a (forceful) dissent, strikes down Colorado's ban on conversion therapy as a free speech violation. apnews.com/article/supr...

NEW: Thomson Reuters, the media company which is also a data broker, has long provided personal data for ICE tools, according to documents obtained by 404 Media and sources. There are also indications its data is now part of the Palantir system ICE uses to find which neighborhoods to target.

happy trans day of revenge to all who celebrate, I love trans people and fuck you if you don’t girlslivingoutsidesocietysshit.bandcamp.com/album/trans-...

"Hegseth’s broker at Morgan Stanley contacted BlackRock in February about making a multimillion-dollar investment in the asset manager’s Defense Industrials Active ETF, the people said, shortly before the US launched military action against Tehran."

Reducing CO2 emissions is paramount. But reducing methane is necessary for avoiding critical warming thresholds. Warning we could soon cross these limits while downplaying the importance of methane reductions is hypocritical.

BREAKING: Israel's Knesset has passed a law to execute Palestinian detainees. Death by hanging. Mandatory sentencing. No pardon. 90 days to carry out. It applies through military courts with a 96% conviction rate. It does not apply to Israelis.

ICE has access to your DMV data—your name, address, photo—and they're using it to intimidate protesters. States can cut it off. Some already have. Tell your governor NOW: youtube.com/shorts/vFh6G...

This story is insane. Married an American, arrested at her greencard interview, flown out of state, nearly killed multiple times when her diabetes was ignored and then mistreated. When she finally got out? Found out her credit card had been used illegally. www.daylightsandiego.org/san-diego-wo...

They keep stealing shit from the people they detain. Remember how they took that kid’s cell phone and sold it for cash? Just straight up lawless gangsters

A staggering new finding from Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies: since 2001, the money left over each month for lower-income renters—after paying rent and utilities—has fallen 60 percent to a record low of $210. $210 left over for food, healthcare, childcare, and everything else.

This 50 yr old woman spent 5 months in jail accused of a crime in a state she's never even been to, because Clearview AI misidentified her as the suspect. A judge signed off on it, cops went along with it, no process in place to even question the AI. www.cnn.com/2026/03/29/u...

“I’m against it. Period,” said Patti Rose, wearing a “No ICE in Berks County” pin. “It’s not about criminals. It’s about rounding people up randomly. We have a lot of empty warehouses in Pennsylvania, we’re a prime target for their campaign … it’s barbaric.” From @wdownard.bsky.social

Levin: This is the largest protest in Minnesota history… The next major national action of this movement is not just gonna be another protest. On May 1st, across the country, we are saying no business as usual. No work, no school, no shopping.

Vital Arctic sea ice shrank to tie its lowest measured level for the winter, the season when ice grows, as a warming Earth shattered records across the continents.

This is wild: a company is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for $$$. Some meeting participants only found out after we told them. Included meeting on protecting kids from ICE, was supposed to be private www.404media.co/this-company...

Once again -- ONCE AGAIN -- asking the Republicans to build their own sex dungeon and leave the rest of us alone Tthis is a thread now, I'm pulling every Republican Sex Dungeon post I've ever posted into a single thread

Uncanny. The only way to tell them apart is that Patrick Bateman has killed fewer homeless people

There were no visible ICE agents in the terminal, but the Allegheny County Airport Authority expects the airport to be part of President Trump’s plan to deploy immigration agents to alleviate TSA staffing shortages that have caused hourslong lines at other airports. From @publicsource.org

The history of Ukraine helps explain the present - if you want to understand how we got to where we are now, the Holodmor Research and Education Consortium has created a free course in the history of the Ukrainian famine. Sign up here: www.coursera.org/learn/holodo...

This is perhaps not the time for this particular political battle, but I can't help myself: In all the discourse around funding/not funding the TSA & sending ICE in to the airports, one thing that I have not yet seen expressed is that the TSA sucks big time and should also be abolished

So it has begun

"According to Flores and Velasquez, one of the deputies took a liking to a family kitten and offered to take it home with him." --> so, the Florida sheriffs who deported the parents liked the family's cat. The family's pastor had to take in their 4-month old baby and 8-year-old daughter.

I'm receiving reports from airports all over the country about ICE sightings. I'll be sharing updates here as I get them. ⬇️

Federal agents used cell phone data to place her near the protest (she was picking something up nearby), compared her d.l. photo to footage from the demonstration and concluded she resembled a participant and, 6 weeks later, stopped her car, cuffed and detained her for hours in a federal building.

Oh, look! The Abundance Faction's favorite fossil-fuel-friendly, purple-state governor is taking big action on environmental protections. Maybe persuadable voters do care about their health and their world after all. 🤔 1/2

it's a real mindfuck to see the leadership of a publication creating some of the most important journalism of a generation trying to screw the people doing the work

Financial documents compiled by ProPublica reveal a myriad of relationships among Trump and his team that could create conflicts of interest — including ties between appointees and industries their agencies frequently interact with. Explore our database 👇

@statnews.com conducted a national survey of NIH-funded researchers and found that, a year after Trump's return, many scientists are reeling, with some closing labs entirely. ‘This is like the Titanic,' one respondent told me. For full details, see our special report www.statnews.com/2026/03/19/n...

Royer Perez-Jimenez was 19 years old. He died by suicide at 3am on March 16 at Glades County Detention Center in Florida. He is the 2nd person to die in ICE custody this week, the 13th this year, and the 42nd under Trump. 🧵

The most effective censorship rarely looks like censorship. It looks like risk. When speaking up carries existential consequences, advocacy changes. Systems rarely collapse because people stop caring. They collapse because caring quietly becomes unsafe. apple.news/AFibeKOzc...

Before May Day became the international day to celebrate labor struggles, workers and other rebels observed March 18, the anniversary of the beginning of the Paris Commune in 1871. Today marks 155 years since the uprising that established the Commune. crimethinc.com/arch18

The outcome of the first Prairieland trial does not mean that resistance is impossible. But it does mean we have to —teach all potential defendants not to cooperate with police —teach all potential jurors about jury nullification —and take these steps to build redundancy and resilience:

"BYD, which recently surpassed Tesla in electric sales, said early this month that its newest charging stations can charge an EV with the company’s updated 'Blade' battery from low to 70% in five minutes. In nine minutes, it can be almost fully recharged." www.wsj.com/business/aut... (gift link)

NO BORDERS, NO NATIONS

About a dozen Reaper drones lost during Iran war. "Each MQ-9 Reaper drone costs at least $30 million to produce, meaning the US has lost about $360 million worth of the drones in less than three weeks." news.antiwar.com/2026/03/16/u...

Far too many states, including those who have supported Ukraine, have decided that that’s happening there and in Myanmar isn’t something they need to learn from. The world Of conflict has fundamentally shifted and big budget militaries have been slow to pivot and catch up.

SCOOP— Trump wants a 24k gold coin w/ his face on it for America 250, but an official at a late February coin advisory committee meeting called it something only done by "nations ruled by kings or dictators." After NYT reported the criticism, US Mint yanked online vid of the meeting w/o explanation.

Nearly 6 billion people live in the 101 countries that a study has identified as confronting a net decline in water supply — signaling enormous challenges for food production and a heightening risk of conflict and instability. (Published July 2025)