On the way out of Boston

Politics doesn’t have to be fueled by hate. Real progress comes when we replace cruelty with compassion, division with dialogue, and fear with understanding. Let’s bring empathy back into the conversation—our future depends on it.

“Please have some compassion on my situation” The cruelty and cowardice of federal management needs to be stressed. They’re only out to save their own skins. No one is showing an ounce of compassion. Few are lifting a finger to help their employees. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Hundreds of Filipino activists marched against ICE in San Francisco today, denouncing the detention of Filipino migrants. “We have Filipino migrants who aren’t being assisted by their Philippine government," organizers said. missionlocal.org/2025/09/hund...

“Trump signed an executive order calling for federal gov’t to share data across agencies, raising questions over whether he might compile a master list of personal information on Americans that could give him untold surveillance power… They have turned to one company: Palantir.” @sheeraf.bsky.social

DHS publishing an enemies list of Democratic politicians who dared to criticize their barbaric cruelty.

"One of the main enforcers of H-2A rules, the Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division, last year had one of the lowest levels of investigators since the H-2A program was launched in the 1980s ... If the Trump administration's proposed budget gets approved, it will make even further cuts."

The VA is down 600 doctors and about 1,900 nurses so far this year, the first time the agency has seen net losses in years. At several facilities, more than a third of the positions for doctors are unfilled. By @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social @vernalcoleman.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social

The Department of Labor is supposed to safeguard our workplace rights. But many of the department’s workers have left or been forced out from DOGE’s threats to federal workers. An understaffed and overstretched Department of Labor hurts ALL workers.

Holy shit - shoutout to these brave pilots who are doing what every single one of us need to be

Action: Phone zap! Call the Commonwealth Club and tell them to cancel the rest of Peter Thiel’s lecture series. Here’s some phone numbers and a script:

There are so many people like Leland Dudek with the attitude: “Maybe if I cooperate and give them what they want, things will be better?” No. This never works. Nothing good comes from being a collaborator.

“We’ve been looking for a messiah to bring in the end times,“ said a woman who called herself “Satan’s babygirl” and had a black upside-down cross painted on her forehead. “We believe Peter Thiel is the Antichrist we’re looking for.”

“If tech billionaires seek to spread Christianity, they should stop hunting Antichrists and reflect on the words of Jesus Christ, who urged his followers to practice empathy and forgiveness and to care for people rather than exploit and surveil them.”

This was the site of our first #TeslaTakedown, on Feb.13. Later, one of our folks brought a Spirit Halloween banner. May this be the end of the story for every one of them, & he a tiny footnote in the history of the fading madness we experienced on our way to a more just & sustainable world.

A familiar face makes an apearance at Peter Thiel’s Secret Antichrist Lecture in San Francisco. A line of protestors has greeted the line of tech bros waiting to hear Thiel

First night of Peter Thiel’s “Antichrist” lecture series was met with protest in San Francisco

it is not civil when an evil person says evil things in a calm tone of voice. conversely, it is not uncivil when a good person uses curse words to denounce evil things at the top of their voice. it is evil to pretend not to understand this.

The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss. A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Political violence.

“Palantir: Software that kidnaps.” Spotted in Oakland

Well said!

SFPD “let out-of-state cops run more than 1.6 million illegal searches of the city’s license-plate reader database — including at least 19 that were marked as related to” ICE. The controversial surveillance technology is produced by Atlanta-based Flock Safety.

"We ... found that even a small group of folks, if well-organized, loud, creative, and consistent, can cause a remarkable amount of damage to a target in an urban area."

The U.S. government has become a neofascist regime run by a sociopath. Keeping it funded now is to participate in the most atrocious abuse of power in U.S. history. So I for one have decided that the best route is to shut the whole thing down.

By cutting even more VA jobs Secretary Doug Collins is jeopardizing veterans’ essential health care services. That’s not putting veterans first—it’s putting them last.

“Those promises, in the hands of a certain kind of court, can vanish without argument, without a hearing, without even a signed name” “A majority of justices gave a silent blessing to immigration raids…that target people for looking Latino, speaking Spanish and working jobs that build this country”

“A posting from the weather service's parent agency seeking meteorologists asks applicants to identify one or two of Trump's executive orders ‘that are significant to you, and explain how you would help implement them if hired.’”

Trump officials, in their haste to shrink the federal bureaucracy, “didn’t really consider whether there were some aspects of the CFPB that might be useful for their projects and what they might have to do to preserve them.” 😮 You don't say.

People really need to stop taking seriously the idea that Israel has any intention of ever agreeing to a ceasefire in Gaza. They've made it clear that they're not going to stop until they've kicked all the Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip and annexed it, and we should believe them.

There were explosions near a residential area in Doha on Tuesday after the Israeli military claimed it carried out ‘targeted strikes’ on Hamas officials. Qatar has condemned the attack in the strongest terms.

“Congress could…entirely do away with [the Supreme Court’s] appellate jurisdiction…. A lesser step would be to allow appellate review only of final opinions, thereby eliminating the emergency docket as a means of lifting temporary restraining orders or preliminary injunctions.”

🚨‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️🚨Journalist Yusuf Omar has shared a video reporting that the Family, the main vessel of the Global Sumud Flotilla, was targeted by a drone on Monday while docked in the port of Tunis, Tunisia. Omar, who was on board at the time, said that the drone

Internal Revolt: Leland Dudek, the agency’s then acting chief, helped DOGE at first, then tried to resist when he saw what it was doing, Dudek said in 15 hours of candid interviews.

"The demise of the CFPB will harm hard-working families, veterans and seniors, while corporate profits climb and Silicon Valley and Wall Street celebrate." www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

The administration is attacking workers @EPA whose public letter stood up for our clean water and air. Suspending jobs that save lives is not what Americans want. It takes courage to demand accountability + protect crucial public services. Read: www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/c... #supportfederalworkers

NEW: Ignoring urgently needed reforms in favor of fruitlessly trying to find evidence of fraud, DOGE descended on the Social Security Administration “thinking it should work like a McDonald’s,” the agency’s former acting chief reveals to ProPublica.

How shall we react when a Bay Area city is occupied by Trump-aligned federal forces? Could transit strikes play a part?

Hiring if you are Aryan enough

My heart is broken…

The entire system must be shutdown, dismantled, redesigned and rebuilt. The concentration of wealth and power went too far.

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, voted for cuts to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but he’s also routed more than 800 of his constituents’ complaints to the agency — the most of any current lawmaker from either party, ProPublica found.

Trump Regime Takedown. Join us every Saturday 12-2 at Van Ness and O’Farrell. Check out our Mobilize page for Trump Regime Takedown. buff.ly/Z4msLzv And this Saturday, Sep 6 at 2 PM, proceed to the overpass over Geary on Webster St for 50501SF’s latest banner drop!

Banner Action; 9/6 from 2-3:30pm Pedestrian bridge over Geary Blvd at Webster In light of the threat to unleash the military on more cities, our message is 'NO TROOPS ON OUR STREETS', but what are you currently fighting for, or against? Bring your banners, signs, and flags and join us!

www.govexec.com/management/2... "In short, these revised rules would complete the process of corruption and politicization of the civil service under the banner of so-called ‘accountability.’ The only accountability will be to the whims and prejudices of Donald Trump.”