1/ I’d like to share what’s happened since Sept. 30, the night of the most dramatic raid of the Trump administration’s Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago. Under the cover of darkness, 37 immigrants were taken from an apartment complex …🧵

Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in one month of "ceasefire." Gardens, homes, entire neighborhoods turned to dust www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is not the first time we've seen federal agents direct chemical agents indiscriminately at members of the public in Chicago. Not at people attacking them or even protestors, just people going on with their day. bsky.app/profile/roya...

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.

Her husband told her that detainees at Broadview had to get up at 5am to get in line for one bathroom. He often peed himself. One time he had to wait until 2pm to use the bathroom. You could only use the bathroom once a day. He said the agents would beat you if you used the bathroom on yourself.

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

I am so glad Councilor Avalos and her cat are physically fine. I'm just utterly horrified by this and hope they can find whoever is responsible.

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

This is literally what the actual "siege" of the auxiliary ICE building looks like

“A Portland Police Bureau assistant chief said in court recently that federal police were “instigating” some of the clashes between officers and protesters outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in South Portland.” www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/0...

Political violence

As others have pointed out, the idea that we can control their behavior by modeling respectability (cooperating with the compulsory grief around Kirk, for example, and not saying truthful/angry things about him) is akin to an abused person's belief that they can control the abuse by being perfect.

I abhor violence, even as I was targeted with violent threats. Turning Point USA has a professors watchlist: it has been used to harass hundreds of academics, many women, people of color and LGBTQ people. 3/

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

“How does the computer know something happened if no one tells the computer about it” is the easy-reader way to explain why we still need human reporters and data-collectors And I also find it genuinely alarming that even some people on this website don’t seem to grasp this

I figured out how to share my zine, Love Letter to Federal Employees! It was written in the spring so things have evolved. Many things are still true even though the numbers and stats have changed. It is formatted to print double sided, fold & assemble. archive.org/details/love...

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The more times you watch it, the better its design gets. Wish we had more like Kyle Clark. @kylec.bsky.social

All this energy, deadly pollution, and respiratory illness/death just to power a "self" proclaimed nazi chatbot. The elected officials that gave carte blanche to elon with no oversight or regulations should be held criminally responsible along with musk.

A lesson on how to write a headline.

"It can’t notice a spark in a student’s eyes when they connect a concept to their lived experience. It can’t see the brilliance behind a messy, not fully developed idea, or the potential in an unconventional voice. It cannot build a beloved community." /1

NEW: the Trump admin has moved to terminate TPS for Honduras and Nicaragua, covering over 50,000 people Both of these designations date back to 1999, meaning Trump wants to strip legal status from people here legally who have had a background check every 18 months for the last 26 years.

yep www.cjr.org/analysis/pau...

Congressman Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin’s Third Congressional District has deleted this tweet.

The saga of the NYT's anti-Mamdani story taken from notorious white supremacist Jordan Lasker (they call him an "academic") gets even more amazing: Lasker's only impactful paper, which claimed white people are smarter, is infamous: it misused data so badly it got his tenured co-author fired. 2/

My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!

it’s absurd that NYT forced him to delete these skeets, which … convey the factual information that Zohran Mamdani is, in fact, a man of South Asian descent who was born and raised in Africa, and that the pseudonymous source of the hacked material is a white supremacist eugenicist.

🚨Want to know where all the immigration enforcement money is going to? We've got you covered! - $51.6 billion for border wall ($46.6 billion for wall, $5 billion for CBP checkpoints and facilities). - $45 billion for ICE detention - $29.9 billion for ICE enforcement Grand total: $170.7 billion.

I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it. Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...

SUPERCHARGED ICE RAIDS. Trump's bill would inject $150+ billion into his mass kidnapping agenda. ICE’s acting director said he wants a system “like Amazon...to get your product delivered in 24 hours.” More detention centers, more ICE agents, more chaos in our communities.

TAKING AWAY FOOD ASSISTANCE: The Senate bill would reduce food support for veterans, people experiencing homelessness, youth aging out of foster care, and stay-at-home parents. Failure to meet new work requirements would mean losing benefits for 3 whole years.

MEDICAID CUTS: The Congressional Budget Office warned that the Republican Medicaid cuts could force 10.9 million people to lose their health coverage. The Senate version puts 100,000 to 400,000 MORE people at risk by making even harsher work requirements.

If your response to this is, today is worse? I need you to understand that we did not have a Constitution at all where millions of people were concerned, for generations of US history—at least, not one that guaranteed any kind of freedom. SCOTUS said fine to that. They didn’t have the last word.

Any political historians know of any significant attempts to amend OR constitution to change our PT legislature to full time? Pros: more jobs (staffers), more people able to run bc full time job/more $, more time to get things done. Cons: costs more & dems won't tax rich people & corps to fund it

I cannot get over the fact that in the age of fascistic oligarchy, OR dems choose to end universal preK rather than close tax loopholes and make corporations pay their what they owe.

WTF is wrong with these people?

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To treat Zohran Mamdani as the kind of “dangerous” force that requires pulling out every dirty trick, agèd reprobate, and millions of dollars while handling Trump’s constitutional demolition derby with kid gloves is simply unforgivable.

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Let state and local lawmakers know how you feel about Kotek messing with Preschool for All which was passed with overwhelming voter support! I'm pretty fucking tired of Oregon lawmakers not honoring their commitments to the vast majority of the people of Oregon. FUND PUBLIC EDUCATION.

This is an amazing job opportunity!

Preschool for All is under attack! We're sounding the alarm, and we need your help. Visit our website to learn more and stay updated. friendsofpfa.org

CLARIFICATION : The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline. They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY So spread this around They can be texted. They can be called.

Kaleidoscope Youth Center: www.kycohio.org.

Project Live Out Loud, a housing program for LGBTQ+ young adults coming out of homelessness. thelinkmn.org/housing-program/project-live-out-loud