Oregonians, we need your help. ICE activity is increasing in our communities. If you see something, report it to PIRC's hotline (1-888-622-1510) and get your phone out to record it.

San Francisco is preparing for federal law enforcement's invasion of the Bay Area, whether it happens or not.

SNAP benefits expire in one week.

1/3 For 73 years, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report was the heartbeat of public health. Now, @nejm.org and @cidrap.bsky.social are launching “Public Health Alerts” -- a rapid alternative born from the same need: timely, trustworthy data when it matters most.

I am begging the mainstream media to talk less about the East Wing & more about the loss of SNAP funding for the next few days. The East Wing is gone. We can’t change that. We *can* help people prepare for the loss of SNAP. We can urge folks to donate to food banks. We can give them warning.

This is driving me crazy. The New York Times calling this madness an “anti-drug operation” is one of the worst forms of propaganda: accepting stated motivations of powerful people as the truth.

Disabled people tried to warn you. When everyone rushed “back to normal” and started adopting eugenicist talking points like “only the vulnerable are at risk from covid”… we said this would happen. It was always about culling the herd. Eliminating the weak. Dismantling public health

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

"US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement in LA" * article explains he was shot by an ICE officer whose weapon discharged when he used it to smash a car window

1. ICE has sharply increased its spending on weapons in 2025, according to an analysis of federal gov't data by Popular Information. Records reveal ICE has increased spending on “small arms" — a category that includes guns, armor, chemical weapons, and explosives — by 700% compared to 2024 levels

Often, people go hungry because a catastrophic event happens without warning. A sudden job loss, illness or expense. We know November SNAP payments are in jeopardy. We have advanced warning. Those in power need to figure out a way to ensure food gets to the people who need it.

Good morning everyone! After some rough times, we’re heading into yet another shutdown week feeling lifted by the community spirit of the #NoKings marches. We’re going to call our reps to make sure they’re paying attention. What are you doing to help keep the momentum going?

I'm posting a screenshot from my friend Tasneem in Gaza, as her accounts here are quickly deleted, like most of the Palestinian civilians. Please give to Tasneem so she can feed her children and raise funds to escape the ruins and violence of Gaza. And to others. ❤️🙏 tinyurl.com/Tasneemo

Today is the 1st day of Prison Banned Books Week, a week examining the catastrophic impact of censorship on information access in carceral facilities. Go to prisonbannedbooksweek.org for updates & actions this week, and SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BOOKS TO PEOPLE IN PRISONS GROUP via books, $, volunteering!

Bombs are falling again in Gaza. Alaa is in the area where the bombing is heaviest. 45 people have been martyred. They are restarting the war with even less international attention. Please if you can support Alaa, she used what little internet she had to tell me this news and ask me to spread it

If you couldn’t attend a No Kings event but want to do something to resist and help an ICE target… sign the petition for Rodney Taylor. He’s a disabled double amputee who’s been held for months in ICE custody. He was days away from receiving new legs when he was taken.

Y’all here is a fun fact: Portland has a brand new volunteer organization called “operation inflation” that allows people to borrow inflatable costumes for protests. They just started a couple weeks ago and have like a 160 costume library (and counting because people keep donating).

a perfect, yet terrible, example of how absurdism, when in direct confrontation with fascist forces, effectively conveys the absurdism of that force. that said, hope she’s okay. just terrible.

This is devastating. RIP @igd.bsky.social.

Now more than ever we need to be amplifying mutual aid. Donate to local food banks and community fridges. Check on the people in your life who may be struggling. Offer to drop off some groceries or a home made meal. Without November SNAP there will be many people going hungry. Help where you can

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

Good news for those (illegally) RIFed - & another reason to join your local union A federal court just clarified that its restraining order protects even more feds from RIFs during the shutdown -- including those in unions their agencies stopped recognizing (illegally, btw). #CollectivePower

ABC News: "Humanitarian situation 'catastrophic' in Gaza: ICRC" Gaza is in ruins, the civilians are displaced and hungry. Like many, my friend Tasneem's house and city was utterly destroyed. She relies on donations to feed her family. Please give to Tasneem and others. 🙏💕 tinyurl.com/Tasneemo

Help your friends stay digitally safe today activistchecklist.org/flyer/ #NoKings #NoKingsDay #WeWillPrevail #DemocracyRocks

“When you have a disability people can’t see, you don’t get the same level of empathy,” Joy says. “It feels like the world has moved on.” Long Covid is setting back a generation of kids--likely against their federal rights Our @rollingstone.com investigation www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Testimonies from released Palestinian prisoners, as well as the bodies handed over, highlight alleged Israeli abuse.

After being sued for violating state-level human trafficking laws, GEO Group, the nation’s largest private prison company, is pushing the Supreme Court to grant private government contractors like itself blanket immunity from such lawsuits.

It’s a sign of how lost the liberal establishment is that its primary solution to egregious, ineffective, illegal government repression is to require ICE use more surveillance technology while it keeps doing what it does.

Good evening. There are good things happening in our communities. How might you add to the good? www.ktvu.com/news/grassro...

Six people had their visas revoked due to their social media posts. Six people are being deported because of what they said online. Six people have had their freedom of speech suspended. It won’t stop with these six people. Either we all have freedom of speech or none of us do.

The corporate media lecturing the poor on why they don’t deserve to eat food

As expected, the first 9 compacts were a trial run. They have now come for all of us. And each of us, and all of us, should say no. Scoop via @liamknox.bsky.social at Bloomberg: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

This family was impacted by the Paradise fires and is now struggling due to ICE detention. Help if you can www.gofundme.com/f/bring-ozan...

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

Forensic Architecture did an amazing study on Tear Gas Tuesday in Portland, 2020.

Greek Parliament Approves Harsh Migration Bill: Prison Sentences, Fines and Ankle-Monitors New migration law passed by Greece is considered one of the toughest in Europe. Opposition parties and international media speak of “Trumpian turn.” unicornriot.ninja/2025/greek-p...

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

They’re back

A 15 year old boy with autism went missing earlier this week He was selling fruit with his family in Springbranch when he disappeared They filed a missing person’s report & begged the public to help find him Turns out he was in a Houston ICE detention facility They kidnapped a disabled child!

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world. I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

ICE isn't supposed to detain pregnant women except in extenuating circumstances, but our reporting found that the Trump administration appears to be detaining pregnant women at alarming rates in deplorable conditions. Read my latest for @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/10/10/i...

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

RIFed Civilians in Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS)-CDC’s Disease Detectives Read about this rigorous training program 👇 "They are not household names but over the years they were first to confront the outbreaks that became known as hantavirus, Ebola & AIDS." This decision will haunt our future

RIFed: National Center for Immunization & Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD), Office of Director OD sets tone for the rest of the center, determine priorities, review high profile science, etc NCIRD focuses: Flu. Whooping cough. Polio. Covid. Meningitis. Yeah, you want this center to fully function 🤯

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms. (Published June)

Seeing pictures of an abandoned tamale cart in Pilsen where ICE took a tamale street vendor. Those photos of left behind carts are so haunting. Community members disappeared. Not just vendors but people who have long standing relationships with the community and people.