A dude just ambled down the middle of my (usually very busy) brooklyn street as we were shoveling. He was drinking a beer and listening to music and I just barely heard him say quietly “greatest city in the fuckin’ world.”

I tell my Rep we want to see Democrats SWING BIG. We almost don’t care if they miss, we just want to see them TRY.

When I call @repyvetteclarke.bsky.social and @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social , I tell them I want them standing in @schumer.senate.gov’s office yelling creative solutions to throw sand in the gears and that they’re voting no on EVERY damn nominee. Every GOP proposal. I try everything so should they.

Hey, New Yorker, sitting at home, or a friend’s place, scrolling on your phone as the snow comes in? Want to take a quick moment to support our public libraries? It is easy-peasy, and libraries are an absolutely crucial, varied, and delightful public resource! 👇🏼 actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

The County Council of Baltimore adopted a bill this past week that prohibits the construction of any new ICE detention centers inside the county. Here is the emergency zoning act, should anyone want to use the language for your own jurisdiction. countycouncilweb.s3.amazonaws.com/Bills%202026...

We're seeing a drop off in newborn donations in Minneapolis. Birth workers are seeing small/early babies due to stress/food insecurity—ICE has not stopped—families still in desperate need of support. If you're able, here is a wishlist compiled by folks doing mutual aid www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

I will be donating. Will others join me?

I’ve stared at this and the memo referring to minimal upgrades to the sprinkler plan. Unless this warehouse was storing highly flammable goods, there is typically a massive increase in sprinkler heads when adding lots of new partitions and in high occupancy situations, especially when people

still remember the "it's too early/hyperbolic/irresponsible to compare these guys to Nazi Germany" Reasonable Posters - whom, I imagine, are waiting for the renovations to be completed before they update their priors

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

I also observe this rule and it’s made my life fun and interesting and full of sparkling conversation, albeit absolutely lousy with puns.

Happy Last Day of Childcare House of Cards Until Parent Teacher Conferences in Two Weeks Day to all parents who celebrate!

In Minnesota, this policy involved ICE officers arresting refugees who had done EVERYTHING right, then flying them to Texas in chains for interrogation. Remember, these people had filed every application on time, had done nothing wrong, and were here in the country 100% legally.

ICE has doubled its capacity to hold immigrants at MDC, while federal filings from immigrants held there reveal frequent lock downs, inedible food, and difficulty accessing medical care.

It turns out if you tell people "hey let's make whistle kits together" and then set up whistle kit assembly stations, they get really into making whistle kits and talking with each other and it makes people happy. I recommend it.

If you need a quiet thing to watch, here are twin babies moving cans of beans from a box. From occupy sandy, my first time just feeding people because we had electricity and neighbors needed hot meals. Do quiet things. Move the beans to the bowls. This is the future. youtu.be/gMSLZBjV3iU?...

I encourage everyone to sit with the term "ethics waiver" for a minute.

I think it’s time for Democratic leaders to start saying “if you’re a pilot or ground crew involved in a deportation that was stayed by a judge, you’ll be held criminally liable for human trafficking.” Everyone involved in these flights should have that fear in the back of their minds.

This is a good thread. There is a huge difference between "the court system is still able to provide some positive outcomes in some cases" and "the court system is capable of providing due process and the system is fair."

Yesterday, I encountered the apex of disdainful Brooklyn coffee shop friction where a neighbor held a community event. I ordered a black tea with milk. I wandered the shop looking for sugar, as is my preference. I asked where sugar was. “We keep it behind the bar,” said the owner. Then, my friends,

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Important to note that "Authorized" here means that DHS/ICE have given *Themselves* permission to do this "masked engagement" bullshit, not that either congress or the courts say it's okay. Challenge this everywhere & every way possible, & in the meantime, keep ourselves & each other safe as we can

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

-52 U.S. Senators -who are aware that DHS has killed innocent people and locked up in excess of 70,000 -including thousands of children -voted to give them more of our money -because I guess they are ok with that

NYC-area officials raise Pride flag at Stonewall after Trump admin takes another down https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-area-officials-raise-pride-flag-at-stonewall-after-trump-admin-takes-another-down

Gillibrand’s DC office is answering the phone. You know what to do. Abolish ice. Block everything they try to do.

Marimar Martinez is a hero. Please keep her safe. And please remember every time you hear a claim from the DHS that they will lie. Constantly. Blatantly. Without remorse.

I don't know if it's really clear, outside of coverage of Mpls and pockets of organizing elsewhere, that hundreds of thousands of people are actively and at every level of society fighting our government as it abducts and imprisons and torments our neighbors.

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

Crucially, many local governments are furious with ICE over these purchases, because they were not consulted or even told. Because they are federal property now, it's taking a commercial property off the tax rolls while likely imposing dramatic additional infrastructure costs.

In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in: - Hagerstown, MD: $102 million - Surprise, AZ: $70 million - Hamburg, PA: $87 million - Tremont, PA: $120 million - San Antonio, TX: $82 million - El Paso, TX: $123 million - Social Circle, GA: price unknown This is unprecedented.

Dr. Sammy part 2. So many plants we eat aren’t native. So many of the plants we call native are NOT. Like honey bees and Mexican milkweed, many are naturalized, having been here hundreds of years. There’s an elitist snobbery about “native only,” that’s not inspiring. 🌱 Original viral video in 🗯️

It’s a balmy 25 degrees and sunny and beautiful today in Brooklyn. Everywhere I’ve gone today, people have their windows open, blasting Bad Bunny. No te puedo borrar…..

As I sit here scrolling through the delightful Bad Bunny exaltation and historical context, I am putting key rings on ice alert whistles with renewed purpose.

Shutting it down for the night. I hope everyone revels in the fact that antifascists are going to win. May tomorrow bring us more justice and some peace.

Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...

thank you bad bunny for highlighting the importance of critical power distribution infrastructure bsky.app/profile/cost...

🧵 If you care about our Haitian neighbors in Ohio, please debunk & “call in” folks with large platforms claiming the churches are trafficking children. The community is bracing for what could possibly be the largest family separation operation in US history. Video via @haitianbridge.bsky.social

RESPECT and LISTEN to the Haitian community that lives there. Locals have shared “leftists influencers” as agressive as the administration is threatening to do an ethnic cleansing. Here is a video debunking the claims.

Just because good news is worth celebrating: There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection. HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.

If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to have adhd, the answer to that 3 am urgent question “I wonder if the yolk will fall out neatly and look cool if you carefully cut the white in a spiral” is …YES. But it should probably cooked more firmly than I like them, because its cooked but too delicate.

This is why they must be challenged every single time. Not accommodated. Not bargained with. Just challenged.

I’ve been so skeeved out by all the DHS slopaganda. And gigachad or whatever he is that they think is some ideal dude just looks like Bluto to me. (Yes, Popeye’s nemesis.)

I know that they will always do the cruelest thing and the most racist thing, but the extent to which these particular fuckers will also do the stupidest thing. Fire up the phones. Make every fucking member of the GOP own this. Fuck them.

Sanctuary School is 30% off this month using the code BHM2026. hep.gse.harvard.edu/979889557009...

🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US. Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records. Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

Of all these fruit watercolors, I think I love the freckled apples the most. I started painting because of this feed. I’m *terrible* and it is sooo hard and I still like it.

Currently listening to Eric Foner on the Underground Railroad and carefully reading every BS memo from DHS in the context of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and the language is absolutely parallel.

Crucial from @brianbeutler.bsky.social: Anyone selling warehouses to ICE for camps should prepare for video leaking of "people inside being tortured." They'll have to answer for atrocities "in their communities." On the pod we went big on Trump's new vulnerabilities: newrepublic.com/article/2061...

2 weeks ago, the El Paso Medical Examiner ruled the death of a Cuban ICE detainee a homicide. This time, when a 32-year-old Nicaraguan man died, ICE bypassed the county medical examiner in favor of a military facility. They won’t publicly release a ruling. www.texastribune.org/2026/02/03/t...