“It’s time for every single Minnesotan who loves this state and the notion of truth and freedom to raise their voices and deepen their solidarity for our neighbors and coworkers living under this federal occupation.”

Any Tokyo-based web designers looking for work? DM me your portfolio/profile link - this is not for me but trying to help out a friend.

Ford worker TJ Sabula has raised more than $330,000 on GoFundMe since being suspended from his job for calling Trump a "pedophile protector". All this & more in today's Payday Report newsletter paydayreport.com/suspended-fo...

If he gets canned he will make many years worth of salary on a Go Fund Me before he wins his grievance through the union.

COOKIE UNION

On my way to the Supreme Court where I'll be proud to support 15-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson, West Virginia's only transgender athlete, as she opposes the state's effort to ban her from playing as herself. Win or lose, Becky and her family are heroes for standing up for what's right

The only synagogue in Jackson, MS burned last night. It was arson. They've been here before--they were attacked by the KKK because the rabbi spoke in favor of civil rights. They have no usable torah for services, all burned. Torahs are handmade! If you can donate a bit this week, here's a spot.

One of the many things I love about Scotland is how seriously they take accessibility to voting. Starting at 16, if you live in Scotland, your vote counts!

The guy who first dressed as Portland Frog, a major symbol of our protest and then other national protests, has been arrested while peacefully protesting. Prints of this painting by Simran Gleason are being sold to support his defense. www.simrangleason.com/prints/p/por... #pdx #protest

"construction is unskilled labor!" Immah need you to shut the hell up with that nonsense. Unskilled labor doesn't exist. But if it did it sure wouldn't be construction. Source: it's taken me nine months to rebuild this floor, and I'm only now laying down the planks with glue.

While some unions are protesting Trump's attack on Venezuela, 4 US unions are working with the Trump Admin to demand that all oil imported from Venezuela be imported on American-flagged ships. The move would eliminate the jobs of workers in Venezuela paydayreport.com/u-s-unions-d...

Abolish. Prosecute. Build and invest in community care.

Was it political ideology? Yes. Was it misogyny? Yes. Was it queerphobia? Yes. All of the above. Good was murdered because an angry, insecure man working for a fascist state police force was upset by her politics, her gender, and her family arrangement. These things aren't separate.

They Midwest Nice is out. The overt sarcastic taunting is in. This might just be the angriest I've ever seen Minnesotans.

The rage that has to exist in the average Minnesotan to watch someone stuck on an icy hill and STAND BY AND TAUNT THEM

The Trump admin’s reckless ICE operations are trampling on working people’s fundamental rights and freedoms. We demand that ICE stop these dangerous operations and leave our communities and workplaces before even more innocent people are hurt or killed. https://bit.ly/4sFzgGL

DHS Releases Watchlist Of Mothers Driving Cars https://theonion.com/dhs-releases-watchlist-of-mothers-driving-cars/

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

It fixes nothing, but maybe you need to see this right now.

I put on the handset on the coupler to access infotrac for an essay assignment.

Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."

Abolish Border Patrol. They're just ICE with another name.

They don't have capacity to terrorize more than 2-3 cities at a time. Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief. Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time. Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.

The most often incorrectly-attributed quote re: conflict, yet nonetheless accurate: "*No* plan survives first contact with the enemy."

portland city council confirms that two portland residents have been shot by federal agents. at this time, the city council has been told that both victims are alive.

Abolish ICE. paaflcio.org/seven-mounta...

As a break from the horrible, I would you like you to recommend an album I should listen to from the years 2006-2025. I largely stopped listening to new music after I left university.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

When I was organising McDonald's workers in the US, this was always a core issue! It's no different in the UK, France, or the rest of Europe. McDonald's has a deep culture of sexual harassment.

“But what can Democrats do?? You know Trump won’t ACTUALLY be impeached!” Look at this and see the importance of leadership to go alongside popular outrage & solidarity in the face of grievous harm. Now is not the time for doomerism nor quietism.

Time to roll out this chestnut again. I'm sure it won't be the last.

10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good at the site of her murder

ICE killed a member of our community today. ICE showed up at my kid’s daycare today. ICE is bragging about the number of families they’ve torn apart in a matter of days, and promising that their campaign of terror isn’t done.

Fuck ICE. They were slave patrols in waiting the moment Bush II created them. And it's not like INS was shining beacon of judicial integrity.

No. Square the circle. "He's spending money on invading other countries. The only money he's spending here is to kill you."

Fuck Bari Weiss, fuck bootlicking regime propaganda

There's a lot of horror out there in the world, so here's my dog in a hat. We can beat the horror by organising and standing up for each other.

All the shit we talked about the Aggies wasn't supposed to actually be serious and based on truth.

Rubio to "run" Venezuela. What a world. The dumbest timeline. Not the worst. But definitely the stupidest.

Archival footage of @dicknixon.bsky.social celebrating International Unsolicited Duck Pic Day in 1971. In those days, you had to mail your duck pics. Here is President Nixon informing the White House Photographer to find a suitable subject for his postcards.

Posting Ducks on Main.

With Democrats like these, who needs Republicans?

Time to post duck

"Rapacity" - you can bet the US media will never use that term. Look at the closeted Senator Graham staring lovingly as his Nazi man-hero tames the lap dog White House press. "Trump’s rapacity could target Colombia, Greenland next." english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...

The only topic #cartoon

I hate oppression which does not apply to me. I have privileges I shouldn't have in a fair society. I am willing to give them up, where possible. Not just comfortable. I hate oppression I suffer, as I lack other privileges. They are tools in my activist toolkit. But they are different tools.

I learned this after we won(?) gay marriage. The Right immediately pivoted to attacking trans people so many of us gays started to advocate on their behalf while discovering that many *other* gays were like “nah, we’re good now, no thanks.” Oh.

ok but not congress

I am going to Latin America on a small travel grant, but need $3,000 more for coverage of unions fighting back against Trump. I've covered unions in Latin America for 20 years & feel workers abroad need to hear their stories. Donate & fightback! paydayreport.com/send-a-labor...

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.