Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

The reason why Dems are in the mess theyre in is bc they've tried to be Republican-lite since '88. Why get the diet version of fascism?

Oh I most certainly am and it feels bad!

Do yall know how long The New Republic had an all-white masthead? If not, you should take some time and look it up today. Really interesting stuff.

Women are about to experience a world that insists they only exist to be oppressed if we don't start taking lessons from the past

I will eventually shut up about this but Bad Bunny’s use of the power lines is an outstanding example of how to communicate about climate and energy issues. Not about who is the smartest nerd in the room and spewing numbers but about people’s actual lives. Genius.

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

I freaking love Olympics parents so much 🥹

Can't say it enough, if you are going to build ANYTHING, you are going to be criticized much more than you will be praised. Do not be deterred. Build what you want to exist. Find your people and seek their counsel. Keep it moving.

I'm an idealist politically & that's ok, I don't accept this slop they give us, in my heart I know it's not right. I know better is possible. I imagine better.

On a similar note, as Mamdani continues to notch W after W you’re going to start seeing opinion pieces about how this could never work in any city other than New York, etc., etc. Do not engage! It’s just entrenched power bullshit and that’s all! Don’t let them make that a conversation!

Shout out to everybody who really doesn’t have a clue how they’re gonna keep on keeping on. It’s some cool folks in this club. We just gotta make it one day at a time, one foot in front of the other.

Srsly, the new 6-7? It’s “fuck ICE”! Kids are shouting it out of nowhere, getting their teachers to say it and cheering, making TiKToks about it…all the influencers are working it into their content. A savvy politician could really pick up some heat with a smart reference or two.

What a luxury it must be to be able to look at systemic violence and think “it’s a distraction”.

I read the “SAVE Act” (the GOP’s new voter suppression bill) so you don’t have to. This is my one page summary. Jesus it’s bad. 1/

To call this "harm reduction" or a "good step" is to treat the public like idiots. It's insulting. They are acting like people making real demands are children, and they are the adults in the room.

I do not think the most significant cultural shifts will come from a World War, Class War, Race War, or whatever other battle people weirdly fantasize about. I think it’ll be an integration of the idea that children are people and not the property of their parents.

All these men driving women out of their fields with giggly idiot grabassery and then bloviating to the public about how the lack of women is proof of male intellectual superiority... I hate them all. I hate them so much.

I hope lawyers, secretaries of state, and state attorneys general are preparing for what’s coming.

"No, this IS the training."

and if you want to donate, i found this directory that seems helpful: standwithminnesota.com

how the fuck you gonna reform a children’s concentration camp asshole

After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.

Man @thebeaverton.com never misses www.thebeaverton.com/2026/01/man-...

Anybody else following Taryn Smith’s solo row across the Atlantic on Insta? I’m thinking about her constantly. She’s so close. Go Taryn, Go!

Firing Bovino but not restoring this baby to his family tells you all you need to know

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

May this motherfucker never know peace.

I once asked my late uncle what he thought ended the legal Jim Crow era. He immediately responded that the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in 1964 were the moment Jim Crow died. When I asked him why he said: “When White folks fight White folks, it changes everything. Enough was enough.”

Ruthie and Craig: “Don’t just think about winning, think about what you’re going to do the day after you win”

You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.

Or are they assaulting the nostalgia? All of this feels like a giant unveiling (for white people) of how fake some of our American “rights” actually are—particularly the 2nd amendment.

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc... Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

We are observers, not protestors. We show up to document and film the atrocities ICE is committing. Using 5 year olds as bait. Kidnapping senior citizens. Breaking down doors without warrants. Murdering poets and nurses. Media has all of that information because *observers* were there to document it

We pay this asshole more than double what we pay teachers.

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

COLLECTIVE LIBERATION OR BUST

I hope that Democrats realize what’s happening in Minnesota is also a dry run for what the regime has planned for the midterms.

I fear my tipping point into madness is "Thus is un-American" posts in response to ICE terrorizing immigrants. I beg you to open Wikipedia (I would say a book but let's start small) and read up on The Trail of Tears, Fugitive Slave Catchers, Japanese internment, Indian Boarding schools & Jim Crow

Part of the issue is that those most actively protesting and leading mutual aid are women and gender non-conforming people. Both groups are illegible to many as protesters. This helps explain the invisibilization of current protests and resistance.

Democratic party: we must spend billions to find out what the people want. The people: (loudly and clearly, through the very process the Democratic Party set up) We want this. Democratic party: we must spend billions to fight this.

"Neighbors in neon vests dot the neighborhood... Information-sharing networks have been built. Residents have connected with non-profits and churches to deliver food to people who are locked in their homes out of fear. Resistance signs are everywhere..." www.liberalcurrents.com/so-hows-the-...

Talked to a Somali man today who said his mosque last night was surrounded by neighbors ready to protect them against ICE if needed. Made me feel proud to live in this city.

I grew up 30m from Harper’s Ferry yet we never learned about John Brown in school. This obviously wasn’t an ignorant oversight.

This is the best addition to our meme arsenal since like the Elmo fire

Feel this in my soul! Once you start lobbying lawmakers it becomes clear pretty quickly how many of them hate us.

These are prisons. The criminalization of homelessness and push towards mandated, coerced medical interventions and civil commitment—a bipartisan project—was always going to lead us here. This is why when we talk about, strategize and organize around abolition, we must include ALL carceral spaces.

New York, 1969