A skill I would really like us all to cultivate is saying "I don't think this is a great tactic, but I agree with the cause," and then just moving on with our lives.

This isn't it. Embracing the police-state rhetoric of people with criminal records as "the worst of the worst," even if only to show the Trump regime's hypocrisy, is not helpful and ultimately abets fascism and a white-supremacist government. One in every three US adults has a criminal record.

This Veterans Day I’ll be at the Vietnam Memorial and then on a very different march to say no to occupation from Chicago to Palestine! As veterans our message is clear: “No ICE, No Cuts, No Occupation” Bundle up and join us www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...

Calling the Democrats “cowards” suggests that they're scared to do what's right when they show no fervent interest in being an opposition. They're largely colluders, not cowards. Many want their base to think they're cowards to maintain investment in the idea that they can be pushed to do better.

The Federal government, along with the state of Texas, continue their crusade against the Prairieland Defendants. Des is only one of the 18 protesters that the Trump administration is attempting to paint as an “antifa” terrorist group.

cw rape I've been talking about this recently in the context of labor but it's even more hideously apparent here: if you give people the power to commit violence against someone unless they obey you, here that violence is deportation, you get HIDEOUS sexual violence Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Oriana Korol—arrested by ICE for playing GHOSTBUSTERS on a clarinet—is incredible, and the kind of ally we need in massive numbers if we’re going to halt this crushing authoritarianism: “This has just increased my commitment to social justice and to fight back against mistreatment of minorities.”

And you, governor, should stop providing state cops to police protesters for ICE at Broadview.

In just 5 months, one Tennessee county spent $130,000 of taxpayer money locking people up for ICE. When we say local governments wield significant power in ICE's immigration agenda, this is what we mean. www.wvlt.tv/2025/07/01/k...

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

People are spontaneously posting up near any laborers or street vendors they spot. Just saw a rapid responder guarding a man working on a building exterior. Many things are terrible today but lord, this stuff matters.

In a fight between Pritzker and and police, who is going to win? This is what happens when both parties allowed law enforcement to become one of the most powerful political actors in the country -- a taxpayer-funded political movement that wants to kill people.

I support nonviolent action. It's literally what I do. But telling people that allowing themselves to be harmed to demonstrate the character of their enemy will be politically transformative denies the desensitized reality of the present.

Connect with your people offline. Take the chats to signal but also take your close relationships offline entirely. We need to be connected when they shut this all down. What’s your organizing plan if things go dark? Where do you meet? Who picks up what work? How do we communicate?

Liberals and Democrats will call for "funding local police" as a way to solve the problem of DHS/ ICE and no one will think about the fact that this is how we got here.

This narrative that ICE has "backed off" Chicago persists despite a flood of bystander video and reports showing an unprecedented and growing wave of masked terrorists violently kidnapping Illinoisians off the streets in Chicago. I can only assume our media ecosystem is to blame for this.

ICE has fired tear gas and pepper balls at protesters outside their Broadview facility. They are terrorizing immigrants across Chicagoland. The time to resist is now. It will only get harder as authoritarianism tightens its grip. Please pay attention to this struggle.

Thinking a lot this morning about how the dispersed nature of these kidnappings over such a broad area makes it so easy for them to avoid making bigger waves. The surface can appear totally calm while they're grabbing neighbors, and most people have no idea until/unless something flashy happens

“It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins ‘Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.’ “ Let’s take note from @espiers.bsky.social in the Nation and be honest about what people lived and died for, the good, the bad, and in the case of Charlie Kirk, the ugly.

Even the "admiration" for what he built is fake. If you had access to MILLIONS of dollars from ur dad + other rich white men at 18, most of you could have built an organization that targeted oppressed people too. I find all of it incredible. And they bleat on and on about MERIT, lol.

Hot off the press! Out Oct 16, featuring two new chapters, Against the Romance of Police Reform and Futures Beyond Policing. Hoping this study of anti-Black criminalization is helpful as we face the rise in fascistic authoritarian rule, and the policing used to enforce and enable it.

Malcolm X: “If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”

“You are not alone!” I told military members questioning the morality of their orders to deploy to Chicago. @vetsaboutface.bsky.social can connect you with veterans like me who chose to resist. Read more from the press conference and other About Face members. chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/09...

Urvashi Vaid in 2008: “I do not believe that the bitter power struggle progressive movements have been waging with authoritarian movements can be wished away by speeches seeking a new national consensus or by centrist policy accommodations.”

"Table your disputes and connect with people who are providing direct support to targeted groups in your communities ... How can you help? There’s no need to start from scratch. Find already-organized people and figure out how to contribute to or expand upon their efforts."

So far in 2025, local jails saw the largest share of growth in U.S. Marshals detention. Renting jail space to the Marshals has been key to overcoming sanctuary policies and likely is essential to plans for further criminalization using the bloated ICE detention budget:

The leadership of the Democratic party is not anti-fascist. I think that it's helpful to keep this in mind at all times.

The right understands and uses power to crush their opponents.

If you can't begin to imagine what it means to resist fascism in the United States, start by thinking about what it means to protect and defend each other, and what it means to protect and defend anyone targeted for violence by the fascist state.

The Border Patrol El Centro Sector employs five dedicated agents to make what are essentially ICE “fancams” for social media. But they’re not editing in CapCut like most people on TikTok 😳 Reporter @marinamasako.bsky.social shares five key takeaways from watching their social media videos.

This plaque was among 3 that were installed today to complete the Ida B Wells National Monument in Bronzeville. I missed the ceremony but Michelle sent me some photos. It's among the greatest honors of my life to have played a part in making sure that Ida got her flowers. What a blessing! Go visit!

THIS. This is the way to respond to Smith's "provincial police force" BS. There are a thousand little choke points and spaces where sand can be thrown into gears. What do YOU have the ability to slow down or make far more difficult to complete/implement? (Don't actually tell me or anyone else FYI)

Like how do you not mention the death camps and the tens of billions of dollars to fill them - a pretty prominent part of the bill!! - unless....

this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely

To continue in the football analogy, I want to scrap that game and be part of creating a better way to collectively use our time, but I think @olufemiotaiwo.balky.social humor is a great way to help people realize that maybe the DNC values maintaining the game far more than winning.

In 2022, courts sent 11% more youth to incarceration – the first increase in youth confinement in over 2 decades. A particularly alarming stat given that 38% of people in state prisons were first arrested before age 16. More from our latest report 👇 www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2...

📢CALL TO ACTION🚨 Veterans say #military off our streets! As we watch #NationalGuard and #Marines being mobilized against the very civilians they are supposed to protect, military members have a moral decision to make. #LosAngeles #Righttorefuse

People need to understand the word “criminal” is the easiest weapon for an authoritarian to use and work on changing their emotional reactions to the word and recognize they’ve spent most of their lives being manipulated into vilifying allies to the delight of the wealthy.

It is impossible not to commit violence when the state has ultimately the power to define everything you do as violence.

today marks 40 years since Philadelphia police bombed the Black liberation group MOVE's home in West Philadelphia. 6 adults and 5 children burned to death. over 60 homes were destroyed from the resulting fire, and over 250 people left homeless. (resharing @kimkelly.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com)

I personally endorse the defection of Navy jets to the Orcan Liberation Front. el aire y el mar unido jamás será vencido

Someone on here is on about banning presidential pardons and it’s honestly impressive the commitment to the partisan schtick. Like calling for more carcerality, now, so your political rivals don’t get off is wild to me. Wild. When we’re seeing in real time where that carceral zeal gets you.

We cannot selectively care about fascism and state violence carried out by our government. Whether it's Yemen, or here, or Palestine, or Lebanon, or Sudan, our commitment to repro justice must include us all. Take action: www.warresisters.org credit @nisrinelamin.bsky.social

68 African migrants were killed in a U.S. air strike on Yemen and it’s mostly crickets in mainstream N. American media or “alleged” and “Houthis claim.”

One of my favorite local movement hubs, the PO Box Collective, is holding an online fundraiser. PO Box is a cultural space, a political education space, an incubator of actions and ideas, and a place where mutual aid work happens. It's everything community should be. It's so worth supporting.

I loved having a chance to discuss fascism, coalition building, and all the complex ways we should be thinking about strategy now with @mskellymhayes.bsky.social on Movement Memos. I hope folks find this useful.