People are like “I love cozy games” and the gameplay is just being able to afford rent, having the energy to keep a tidy and beautiful home, and having the time and opportunity to make friends

The audacity of the Oregonian editorial board to come out today and call concerns of racism “trivial.” The old guard of Portland can’t fall fast enough.

For a $20 donation to ActBlue, the Democrates will form a committee to propose an investigation into formulating a response to suggest that ICE agents should be required to utilize the Nemesis system from Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor

the horror of this is compounded by the fact that the whipple building sits on the same military fort where 1600+ Dakota, mostly women and children were held in a concentration camp in 1863, where over 300 died

NEW: Portland Councilor Loretta Smith allegedly fired a staffer for union organizing. An unfair labor practice complaint, filed today, claims Smith showed increasingly hostile behavior to the worker following the union announcement, culminating in his termination last week.

People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .

The Mercury has obtained a series of images of group messages that show racist, sexist, and homophobic tropes used by a local developer and other local conservative political activists during a council president election. Readers may find this content offensive.

Protester blinded, skull fractured by DHS agent during Santa Ana demonstration, family says

ICE agents are posing as utility workers here in Portland and other parts of the state - I posted information in Spanish in this thread and the NW Natural page also has information in seven languages - please share!

[notification two months from now] Department of Homeland Security just tweeted “Heil Hitler”

I keep seeing people asking why the police aren't arresting ICE or protecting people from ICE and I desperately need you to understand that the police aren't protecting you from ICE because protecting YOU is not and never has been their function and that's why we need to defund them.

They’re not subject to Any of the hipaa rules and regs. Uploaded information is as good as public. The privacy breach implications alone are should dissuade you. It’s made worse by the fact that chat gpt has continued to claim lives and driven others into psychosis.

“Home Depot and Lowe’s are using AI-powered license plate readers and feeding this data into law enforcement surveillance systems accessible to ICE. Their parking lots are also regular sites of ICE raids targeting day laborers.”

It's a good time to remind everyone the entire PPB Rapid Response team resigned from the team because one of their own was charged with a crime, which he later apologized for.

Extremely good thread

it's absolutely wild that very few people have heard about the ICE wagon getting torched in pennsylvania www.tiktok.com/@johan.a.dia... www.instagram.com/reel/DTTIjP0...

Too many people are trying to differentiate between ICE and police. I will hold your hand as I say this: Police in the US treat marginalized people the way ICE treats everyone. They're far more similar than you want to admit. Defunding the police and abolishing ICE are the same fight.

Andy Ngo: "Antifa terrorists in Minneapolis are chopping up blocks of ice to throw at federal officers. This is a common tactic among Antifa which I warned about in my book. I experienced a violent Antifa frozen object attack in 2019, leaving me with brain damage and a permanent British accent."

Hi folks, I'm seeing a lot of "Eyes on Minneapolis" & "We support Minnesota" sentiment. Here's a tangible way you can help: Trump just suspended federal funding for SNAP benefits to Minnesota. Second Harvest Heartland is an MN-based hunger-relief org. Please donate what you can. www.2harvest.org

The Twin Cities are home to generational teachers of resistance and resilience. There are liberation singing groups, there are too many radical bookstores to name, and May Day in Minneapolis is something you simply have to see to believe. It is heartbreaking but it is also real life in MSP.

I broke the story yesterday that masked ICE agents (not DOJ) were removing items including a personal computer from the home of Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who shot Renee Good. I have yet to see a single news outlet cover this or an elected official even acknowledge it.

Incredible that people have careers based around telling those who are struggling to keep their chin up and not react because "They're clearly [doing worse thing than the last thing] to bait an excuse to [do even worse thing]." It's a ratchet. You're describing a ratchet. You are selling ratchets.

In Minneapolis this afternoon— Hundreds are streaming across the snow and ice into Powderhorn Park for a rally and march demanding ICE leave Minnesota. It is bitterly cold. There are hardcore Midwesterners out here making their way in with trekking poles.

I think we won’t really free up the space to imagine a way out of American fascism until people grasp this: most of what the “opposition party” has to offer them is their preferred actors for state violence

If you are waiting for a sense of conscience to kick in, you are fooling yourself. This will stop when we make it stop.

Please help. If you are against ICE sexual abuse/ harassment/humiliation, torture, targeting, and framing PDX activists Please call Ron Wydens office and Oregon attorney general. 503-378-4400. Here are the facts and a way to help.

I don’t think they’re misreading them so much as they are terrified of the implications because it means the status quo has to break. there’s no incrementalism for this. mass radicalization of this scale scares Democrats more than anything Republicans could do and I mean that literally.

Oh, look. From 2014: “Border Patrol agents have deliberately stepped in the path of cars apparently to justify shooting at the drivers [in] 67 cases that resulted in 19 deaths.” You can’t reform that culture. Ross was in Border Patrol in this period (2007-2015). www.latimes.com/nation/la-na...

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to: * 8 people shot * 5 of which were U.S. citizens * 2 died * no victims drew a weapon The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

The fight against fascism is also a fight for a shared sense of reality. We see demagogues twisting the facts and blatantly lying, while legacy media are keen to present every story as a matter of conflicting interpretations. With social media drowning in #AIslop, this is only going to get worse 1/

We know just about everything we need to know by the last two words issued by the agent-or by a man nearby- on his cellphone video: “Fucking bitch.” This is uncontrolled rage from a man who could not handle a woman standing up 1/ The ICE agent’s cellphone video: Five key moments

Worth noting that people’s “gang affiliation” is often that they are in danger for trying to leave them.

The defense of ICE shooting unarmed Women for trying to drive away hinges on an argument that Women are supposed to just let armed men kidnap them and any action taken to prevent that justifies being executed in the street.

We are literally talking about death squads. Why is it so insane to suggest abolishing them?

It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers. Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing

federal agents flopping around ice in minneapolis and momentarily hit the gun flashlight switch

The way the Trump regime is trying to inexorably bind Renee Good's queerness to their accusations of "domestic terrorism" cannot go ignored.

Here is a thread about a true police-shooting incident that I'm going to use to pose a fun little thought problem for anyone anywhere who think there ia a single justifiable reason to ever allow a law enforcement officer to use force on a citizen and remain anonymous. From my back pages:

I’m glad this exists defector.com/rolling-ston...

Germany’s AfD and the U.S. GOP are forging an alliance—moving from rhetoric to coordinated action. As Republicans welcome a party deemed an extremist threat by German authorities, the MAGA movement is legitimizing a partnership built on anti-immigrant politics and “Great Replacement” ideology.

Here is a great thread of other fundraisers, Nationwide, for families whose loved ones have been killed by ICE!

“The fact that the uprising [Iran] has lasted more than eleven days is itself a sign of a fundamental change…With each passing day, the cost of repression for the regime is becoming heavier; Not just human, but in legitimacy and internal cohesion.”

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.

Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears: archive.is/ur35j

It's funny that so many Dem supporters are arguing shit like 'if you'd voted for Harris this wouldn't have happened' while the actual democrats, when asked if they would try to rein in the right wing death squads, aren't willing to actually answer.

Boar's Head, again. Listeria, again. Pecorino cheese

The evidence is increasingly pointing to the probability that an ICE agent killed a woman after misreading her as a threat because he was distracted by his simultaneous effort to record her so he could upload her image to a facial recognition database.

ICE has murdered THIRTY TWO PEOPLE in detention centers. Four in the last week. www.msn.com/en-us/news/c...