A friendly reminder that a child rapist is going to stand up and lie for at least an hour straight on live tv today and you absolutely should resist every urge you have to watch and share clips of his ugly lying fascist face. Instead: defiancedispatch.substack.com/p/guidance-f...

Okay I am losing it. There is a literal book about an Epstein survivor called Blue Butterfly. Virginia Guiffre also used a blue butterfly for her nonprofit for survivors. And now we find out ICE is holding teenage girls at Dilley in inaccessible areas called “blue butterfly zones”?!?!

Mmmk so let me get this straight: 1. Americans paid 96% of the cost of Trump’s tariffs in 2025, an average of $1000 per family. 2. The Trump regime collected $195 BILLION from tariffs 3. SCOTUS struck down the tariffs. 4. Greedy corporations now want refunds for the $ *WE* paid? THIS IS OUR MONEY!

New @practivistpod.bsky.social 🎤 with @bluesboysteve.bsky.social & @jesscraven101.bsky.social practivistpod.com #MSWMedia Guest: @jiggygero.bsky.social Listen: redcircle.com/shows/dce195...

The data nerds said that immigration is a losing issue for us. But check out this Important read on how our collective effort to share emotionally resonant footage of ICE encounters helped to catalyze a seismic shift in public opinion against ICE 👇🏾 open.substack.com/pub/defiance...

For those wondering whether to focus on ICE, Epstein or affordability, the answer is all of the above, it’s the same story: The same Epstein class that has been hoarding our wealth so we can’t afford anything are profiting off the abuse of children, whether in concentration camps or Epstein island.

ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.

The courage of Minnesotans defending their neighbors and the voices of everyday Americans speaking up against ICE for the past few weeks has given Dems a spine! No $$ to DHS to abduct our neighbors and traumatize children in concentration camps. DHS shutdown 👏

Bad Bunny could have done an anti-Trump/ICE message, but choosing to do a beautiful proactive showcase of culture and love and redefining America on those values was so much more powerful. We all really needed to feel those good feels when we’ve been so immersed in darkness.

Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

Hilarious for all these conservatives and sports people to realize that Fox News has been lying to them about SF this whole time. The Bay is the most beautiful metropolitan area in America. Been here 15 years and there is no where better. sfstandard.com/2026/02/06/s...

My Sapo Concho x Portland Frog merch has arrived and it’s dope af! Check out Concho.org if you’re jealous. Oh and fuck 🧊

The cruelty is literally the point. Monsters.

I feel physically ill from reading Epstein emails. Absolute fucking demons. My brain literally cannot process that this level of evil exists and is protected by this system. Burn it all down.

🕯️ Many resistance movements have used candles in their windows to signal opposition to tyranny and to quietly and peacefully spread hope and solidarity, from the Underground Railroad to resistance fighters in Europe during WWII. Shine a light until America is free. wearethelight.us

Not exaggerating when I say that the collective action in Minnesota will be studied for generations if not centuries to come

Please help us bring Liam Adrian Cornejo Ramos (he’s only 5 years of age and is currently in pre-K. Yesterday, he and his father were kidnapped by ICE. This will help the family with legal services to help reunite Liam and his dad with their family. gofund.me/be8a1b2ab

A four year old kidnapped by ICE on his way to school. Look at his little spiderman backpack. His little hat with ears. This could be any of our kids.

REQUIRED READING - we need to stop trying to reason our way through narrative and instead recognize that we are emotionally-driven beings and design our narratives accordingly. open.substack.com/pub/antiauth...

Our year = protests, posts, pressure, power. Your recap = #ResistanceWrapped. Get your Resistance Archetype. www.resistancewrapped.com Drop your results 👇

A really great lookback at wtf happened in 2024 from @waytowinus.bsky.social out today 👇

The right and Republicans understand this. The broader left, center, and Democrats could. Today we are releasing Towards Strength, a summary of a year of research into the losses of 2024, chronic Democratic underperformance, and what voters are thinking as we head into 2026.

Here's what the media narrative around "record sales" this Black Friday is hiding: 1) People actually bought less stuff. They just spent more money because shit is more expensive. 2) People are shifting their money to small businesses. 3) Target + Home Depot stocks have felt the impact of boycotts.

RESOURCE: Just saw a great presentation by @jiggygero.bsky.social from The Defiance Dispatch Substack on "Using Narrative to Build a Culture of Defiance to Beat Fascism." Here's one of their slides that nicely summarizes some key elements of the anti-fascist narrative we should all be building.

You can walk away. Before the shame follows you home. #StopICE

“ICE is abducting people” is a message. A video of it happening? That’s narrative power. New pod w/ @jiggygero.bsky.social on messaging, emotions, fascism & how we fight back. substack.tcspod.com #NarrativeStrategy #Advocacy #TheCampaignStrategist

After yesterday’s surrender, we’re launching the largest Democratic primary program that we’ve ever run. We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader. If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇

“.. As the raids have continued, consumers have started to question whether the company’s silence makes it an accomplice to the sweeps rather than merely the backdrop. .. A backlash is coming for the company.” @bloomberg.com $HD www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

I'm going to lose my fucking mind.

Well if Senate Dems won’t shut this regime down, we will! Don’t buy from Target, Home Depot, or Amazon from Black Friday through Cyber Monday. Let’s inflict some pain on those capitulating to Trump.

Money is always the reason.

It is looong past time to oust Schumer. And any Dem who doesn’t call for leadership change should be primaried. We need an actual opposition party, not a bunch of cowardly losers cosplaying as fighters.

LESS. THAN. A. WEEK. Took them less than a week to take one of the most visible public repudiations of the GOP in my lifetime and turn it into hog slop. I’m so mad my temperature is higher than my ACA premiums.

Dems: We are winning elections and winning the shutdown, you know what all this winning feels uncomfortable. Let’s go back to our safe space of losing and being hated for being cowards.

Someone please jam this chart into the brains of the Dem party. Being anti-establishment and ready to fuck shit up is a winning strategy.

remember all those hot takes during the primary about how Mamdani was the candidate for rich white liberals? a "champagne socialist" ? yeah, about that

THIS IS A DAYCARE. WITH CHILDREN INSIDE. The ICE gestapo is now traumatizing children by invading a daycare and disappearing one of their teachers during school drop off. (Not that this matters, but the teacher is here legally.)

This person took this when they called the race

Re-upping this from 4 months ago because it is still true

Earlier this year, we published an article headlined “10 Ways to Enrich the Trumps and the MAGA Movement.” We failed, though, to consider that the president might simply force the US government, i.e. us taxpayers, to straight-up pay him hundreds of millions of dollars.

> @newyorker.com

MIT deserves some love for not capitulating to Trump. More of this please! www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

MAGA in disarray 🍿

Feel like it’s pretty clear that people want: 1. CHANGE, and not incremental change, but big new revolutionary ideas 2. SOMEONE THAT FIGHTS to make their lives better Establishment Dems insist on being cowards who want to protect the status quo. So they’ll keep losing unless they learn from Zohran.

Generational change is coming: Since Zohran Mamdani won on Tuesday night, more than 1100 young people have reached out to @runforsomething.net to explore a run for local office -- one of our biggest spikes of the year yet.

I’m back from maternity leave and it has been a very strange time to be away from the world of politics. The fascist takeover has moved more quickly than I anticipated tbh 😬

people keep arguing about whether the dems should move right or left but I feel like a larger takeaway from the past several cycles isn't policy, it's that people's politics are deeply inconsistent and we're all highly susceptible to marketing, advertising and propaganda

Between electing Trump and celebrating the killing of CEOs, what is clear is that Americans are very pissed at the status quo + systems that are continually screwing them over. If Dems don’t recognize this and continue to be the party of “institutions” and “norms” and “civility,” it’s over for them.

It seems like the party that’s supposed to be about healthcare should be able to figure out how to tap into the very clear rage that people feel toward their experiences with the healthcare industry. But Dems are somehow yet again missing the moment. (But are we surprised?)