We guest lectured to a law school class this week about mutual aid & social movements (& mutual aid as social movement!) & the importance of care work in building a new world! We read: truthout.org/articles/mut... What are you favorite accessible mutual aid reads for new folks?

new: at least 26 unhoused chicagoans have been abducted since the start of "operation midway blitz." the full scope of people disappeared is likely much larger but is obscured by heavy criminalization, social stigma, and fewer eyes and phones around to bear witness. via @katieprout.bsky.social

DC next.

Muriel this morning

“What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight.” —Mike Davis

i've got less than six hours to hustle $405 pull thru

Young people in NYC absolutely showed out and there should be 1000 articles and profiles about this. Because we have had to put up with 1000 MAGA diner stories for years now.

We were able to dig deep this month for eviction prevention & utility support. We get more requests than we can meet. If you are able to start a monthly donation, please do so we can expand this support & keep folks healthy & housed 🖤 givebutter.com/remorahouse

In the past week we’ve sent: $5100 in SNAP support $2350 in monthly stipends to unhoused & recently folks $1100 for eviction prevention This week we will send: $2100 to reconnect recently housed people’s power, who are without necessary medical equipment while it’s shut off TOTAL: $10,650 🖤🏴

Burrito bowls made! Will label them and deliver them to the community fridge later this afternoon/evening. 🌯❤️ I also bagged up some shredded Mexican cheese to go with each container.

Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest. The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says. "I could smell the onions and mustard."

Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer. Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss. 'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.

getting natou to goal would make me feel better. tip or boost, pls!

I’m at Arkansas/16th NW in Washington DC, where a group of federal agents (5-6 cars) are standing around a car with a small child. The parent doesn’t appear to be present. One officer told me “to use the hashtag #rapist when you posted the video.” They seem to be waiting for someone.

Tonight, in Chicago, North Side rapid responders and community members held a vigil. At least ten people were abducted by ICE in Rogers Park alone today. We uplifted the message RESIST ICE in lights. We spoke out, sang together, grieved, and reaffirmed our commitment to defending our neighbors.

If you've stopped masking in public for whatever reason, now is a really good time to start again

If you have a story to share with Marisa, please do. None of the raccoons at RH are on SNAP, but a lot of our friends & comrades are. DC funded it while the federal govt did not, but that week or two leading up was filled with anxiety & more than a few tears.

We don’t have time or capacity to send thank you notes to the folks who send us money. But we are thankful. All the folks we send money, food, supplies to are thankful. We couldn’t do this without you all! Thank you for the years of support! Love & solidarity!

In @brookepintodc.bsky.social's Ward with agencies she supposedly has oversight of participating.

I'm looking to speak to people who rely on SNAP about what this past week has been like. If that's you, please reach out, or pass along to others. Can be anonymous. Signal: marisakabas.04 Email: [email protected]

I mean you are living through an attempt at inflicting mass starvation on millions of people. This is an ELIMINATIONIST political movement. The sooner folks wake up to this, the better for all of us.

Mutual aid should be a threat to the state, not a substitute for its “failures.” It is saying “the state does not do this & will not do this because it is built to oppress & exploit.” Mutual aid is a radical act of caring for each other outside of those systems of oppression.

Parks Police is notorious among the unhoused community in DC for being particularly brutal. We did a camp defense years ago on NPS property & a resident who’d been unhoused for decades said we had to be ready for them to “come in batons swinging… they’ll crack skulls.”

Reminder: Food banks need money more than food! They have access to buying things cheaper than you do, and they know what the community needs better than we do!

Lots of fbi uniform, vaguely uniformed cops at fort totten metro, fyi #ice #freedc @remorahousedc.bsky.social

My neighbor spotted ICE on our block last night, right near the Hyattsville @pgcmls.bsky.social location. Unmarked SUV driven by an guy in a flak jacket. Stay vigilant #Hyattsville 🧊

As SNAP hangs in the balance for nearly 42 million people, misinformation is rampant. Myths of laziness and fraud persist when we should be talking about too low wages for workers, income inequality, and our threadbare social safety net. In this guest post, Adam Chandler sorts fact from fiction:

any body see some good dogs in costumes visit for trick or treating

My food situation is critical. I'm completely out of food, hungry, freezing, and in severe pain. The stress and pain are overwhelming, and I can't stop crying. I urgently need to get groceries today. Any mutual aid helps me eat. Thank you. tamilove21 on Cash App, Venmo, and PayPal

We politely request any & all cute costume pictures — dog, cat, pig, gerbil. You got ‘em? We want ‘em.

Happy Halloween! We packed up camping kits to go out with tents we distro. Kits have lantern, flashlight, extra batteries, paracord, zip ties, body wipes, poncho, & new KYR info from @aclu-dc.bsky.social! We’ve got more kits than tents right now, help us restock: tinyurl.com/remorahousew...

“To say that D.C. residents are traumatized by the surge of federal agents and stepped-up immigration enforcement is not hyperbole,” Councilmember @brianneknadeau.bsky.social said this week. Here's @maustermuhle.bsky.social's report on testimonies at the Council hearing she called on the issue:

Quick update: A federal judge ruled this afternoon that the Trump administration has to use contingency funds to pay for SNAP benefits. City officials tell me they are reviewing the decision, but either way city funds will be available to ensure no benefit payments are missed.

A lot of people are going to be choosing between paying rent & eating this month. You should also donate to eviction prevention work if you can.

This is incredible news! We’ll still be sending out the money raised to help folks with groceries. We’re working to identify more folks who are not getting this relief where they live.

"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity." - CLR James, "The Black Jacobins"

Independent outlets like @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @thetriibe.com, @unraveledpress.com and @blockclubchi.bsky.social are doing a TERRIFIC job reporting on what's currently happening in Chicago. Folks should support and follow them.

So please take heart. There's no way to measure the good you are doing, but you're doing it. Don't stop. And please be gentle with yourselves. The bad guys aren't done yet, and neither are we.

Anyways this is a really incredible & well researched book!

If you see someone stealing food, no you didn’t

As a microcosmic illustration of how the carceral state and capitalism support each other, this is pretty hamfisted.

"The ultimate, hidden truth of the world, is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently." —David Graeber Art by Kate DeCiccio (Imagination Card - www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...)

This is also why we've been organizing with health care workers through our Beyond Do No Harm Network—workers can and should refuse to participate in criminalizing and harming people in the context of care. Our co-founder @dreanyc123.bsky.social discusses this in this @deathpanel.bsky.social episode

These are prisons. The criminalization of homelessness and push towards mandated, coerced medical interventions and civil commitment—a bipartisan project—was always going to lead us here. This is why when we talk about, strategize and organize around abolition, we must include ALL carceral spaces.

Thread from @maustermuhle.bsky.social following the hearing on human rights violations during the federal takeover. Subscribe to get the full story in your inbox tomorrow 51st.news/signuphttp:/...

According to Madhvi Bahl from @dcmigrantmutualaid.org, since the federal takeover kicked off on August 11 the group's hotline has received 4,852 incoming calls on immigration enforcement and other federal activity in the city. In the 79 days prior to the takeover, it was 743 calls.

My day job is working at a women's shelter in DC, and many of our clients are on SNAP. If you're local and can support these women so they can stay fed, the info is here: www.instagram.com/p/DQU7kh3CbKg/ We need grocery store gift cards and shelf-stable food donations!

Get your unhoused neighbors names. Talk to them. We keep each other safe.

Encountering police, federal agents, or military troops in D.C.? At this critical moment, knowledge is power. Here are some phrases to use to exercise your civil rights in various situations. 1/3