ICE's campaign of violence against our neighbors in Massachusetts and Rhode Island has totally depleted the fund for helping community members with bonds and legal representation. This would be a great place to donate if you have funds!

A Waukegan councilman was briefly detained by U.S. immigration agents on Friday, and he says the agents drew their guns on him while he was sitting in his car with his hands raised. “My life flashed before my eyes,” said Ald. Juan Martinez.

This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility. Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.

At one food pantry in Boston, the spike in demand means there's now a two-week wait for some to receive food, stressing needy families as well as pantry staff.

Great @gbbranstetter.bsky.social read on how throwing trans people under the bus is not a winning political strategy and in fact the opposite is true. Democrats have an opportunity here to not be craven cowards succumbing to transphobic messaging.

LMAO absolutely they were.

The point isn't that these materials aren't a threat to an authoritarian regime—they are! But they're also widely available pieces of writing you can likely find in any punk house, activist space, or bookstore. The criminalization of their possession is a criminalization of all dissent. Free Des!

As a bookstore that sells pamphlets and magazines, the criminalization of such materials feels pretty close to home. So let's take a closer look at the materials the federal government is claiming tie readers to "antifa terrorism." We can pick out six titles in these grainy photos. 1/

“Part of a fascist project to offload the work of thinking, especially the reflective kind of thinking that reading, study, and community engagement provide.”

I’ve been thinking this. 42 million people live in Canada. That is cutting off food access to the entire country.

For people who are interested in and working to develop abolitionist interventions and groups to help keep each other safe, we have a new resource that aims to help demystify a few things about how we create these organizations and formations, and how we sustain them. Read it here:

Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online. It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Reporters from the NPR Network are covering the uncertainty and lapse in benefits in states across the country.

The average recipient of federal food aid will see a massive 61% benefit cut this month — and millions will lose November benefits entirely — under the Trump administration’s plan to only partially fund SNAP as the government remains shut down.

Here for the dry humor and pun sandwiches being served up on this thread. (and the outcome, obviously)

someone got indicted on the basis of “transporting antifa materials” for allegedly transporting a box of ZINES THEY’RE PROSECUTING PEOPLE FOR DOMESTIC TERRORISM OVER ZINES

The NYPD often issues civil summonses to homeless people, one researcher explains. “A lot of those violations, it’s really unclear whether a criminal or civil summons makes any difference in that person’s material situation.”

Don’t think ppl understand the terror the Feds are unleashing on the streets of LA right now. Roving patrols targeting vulnerable individuals. It’s horrible. There’s no one coming to save us except ourselves.

Protecting incarcerated people’s access to physical mail and inside-led print publishing is a feminist public safety issue. These letters and publications sustain dignity, care, legal literacy, and organizing.

Tonight’s virtual event to launch How to End Family Policing, featuring a conversation with @interruptcrim.bsky.social’s @dreanyc123.bsky.social, @movfamilypower.bsky.social’s Erin Miles Cloud, and professor Dorothy Roberts has been postponed. Sign up for notice of new date

Don’t believe anything they say. https://apnews.com/article/detroit-michigan-halloween-terror-plot-fbi-patel-d4758edbde0b18c19ca7b38f9e836904

US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say

ICE shot an American citizen and food bank worker who tried to block them arresting an immigrant by pulling his car in front of them. After being released from hospital: "He is now facing charges for assault on a federal officer." www.calonews.com/featured-top...

Just came from a local organizing meeting & my god people the cops are never ever ever ever gonna be on “our side” especially in a police state Our imaginations have been so captured we can’t imagine our way out of this trap it’s literally the #1 obstacle ppl want to rely on what made this possible

The Trump regime’s murder spree continues. An administration of serial killers.

He told the world what was happening in El Fasher. Then they sought him out. How Sudan lost ‘a true hero of the war’

This was a key part of the “reverse Underground Railroad,” too. And they worked closely with federal agents, the US Marshals Service. theintercept.com/2025/10/31/i...

Gaza Government Media Office says just 24 percent of agreed aid allowed into Gaza since ceasefire deal came into force.

Staggering atrocities in Sudan. Following the mass slaughter of nearly 500 men, women, and children at a maternity hospital, UN officials say: "The situation is simply horrifying... El Fasher, already the scene of catastrophic levels of human suffering, has descended into an even darker hell."

On U.S. complicity in the unfolding massacres: "The U.S. should halt arms transfers to the UAE, which is supplying the RSF with the weapons used to carry out atrocities in Darfur. Failure to take action could condemn hundreds of thousands more civilians to death at the hands of genocidal forces."

The UAE-backed RSF is "now using state-of-the-art drones and execution squads to dominate the region's Black population." "Rights researchers already are warning that the killings have the potential to surpass the genocide that played out in Rwanda just over 30 years ago."

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.

The ceasefire continues according to virtually every media outlet. Israel is demolishing entire neighbourhoods in Gaza to make sure Palestinians never go back. The genocide is ongoing

Oh my god I have been trying to explain this to people for YEARS! Changing who pays for police violence will lead to people harmed by police getting LESS restitution while police violence will continue apace. Maybe folks will listen now that Marshall Project says it? truthout.org/articles/in-...

In a post-Roe landscape where access to accurate reproductive health information is more crucial than ever, Meta's enforcement system is silencing the very voices communities need most. www.eff.org/pages/meta-...

Over 10,000 killed within three days. Pools of blood around a hospital so large they could be seen from space. An absolute nightmare.

In Belmont Cragin on Chicago's northwest side this morning, a rally is opening in support of day laborers outside the Armitage/Cicero Home Depot. Activists are calling out the corporation for continuing to allow ICE and Border Patrol to stalk and attack immigrants in their parking lots.

TransWave Jamaica has been supporting the trans community in JA since 2015. Please donate to them now as they'll be able to help some of the most vulnerable folks post #Melissa transwaveja.org

If you’re looking to support on the ground Jamaican orgs, We Change Jamaica focuses on gender equality and LBGTQ+ inclusion & they are putting together aid packages for queer & trans Jamaicans who don’t feel safe going to shelters. gofund.me/09619a41e

From an interview I did with an Evanston man who filmed the incident at Oakton/Asbury today:

Although published almost 15 years ago, Queer (In)Justice by @kwhitlock.bsky.social @jmogul.bsky.social & I has a lot to teach us about the shapes criminalization of trans & queer folks has taken in the past - and the narratives that fuel it - that are relevant to current conditions. Worth a read.

This quote still holds.

US citizen, 67, ‘has ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents after being dragged out of car while driving home into street they’d blocked off

This is a must-read essay by @recolston.bsky.social, who was one of the journalists aboard one of the ships of the Global Sumud Flotilla and was detained by the Israeli military for five days last month, in @thenation.com. A Reflection on “Objective” Journalism From the Global Sumud Flotilla

GET THIS BOOK BY @interruptcrim.bsky.social's @lewispants.bsky.social!!!!

SCOOP: The Trump administration acknowledged they don’t know the identities of the people they’re killing; can’t meet the evidentiary burden to prosecute survivors; and consider those survivors to be “unprivileged belligerents." theintercept.com/2025/10/31/t...

This edition also draws lessons from Practicing New Worlds. Although published 2 years ago this month, it is full of relevant reminders from abolitionist organizers about what is possible when we build critical connections, communities of practice & networks of influence. bit.ly/PracticingNewWorlds

NGL, this month's TMIC is rough... AND full of opportunities for people to come together in the face of violence to forge resistance. I encourage you to read it with others, and commit to taking one small action together. Grateful to the IC team for getting it out in the waning hours of October.