No rest until DHS is institutional rubble.

There are more than 66,000 people watching this training right now

ICE operations are spinning up in Maine. @themainemonitor.org is looking to help report on ICE activity there and has set up a page to report what you're seeing. Also includes Signal and encrypted Protonmail options for secure communications.

You're going to find this hard to reckon, but there were adults who spent the last decade arguing the biggest threats to speech in America were nine sophomores at Oberlin.

When state libertarian parties decide it’s finally time to push back on authoritarianism

The universe is too fucking fabulous for capitalism and Nazis y’all www.scientificamerican.com/article/jwst...

so this happened all the time during trump 1. the faces of the thing change while the thing remains the same. unless stephen miller himself is taken out of the immigration policy control room, this means essentially nothing for federal action

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.

A federal court handed the DOJ its third loss in its hunt for states’ unredacted voter rolls, and dismissed its lawsuit against Georgia for filing in the wrong district. The decision comes after federal judges dismissed two similar lawsuits against California and Oregon.

ICE is changing tactics in Maine: "Now, the volunteers in Maine say federal agents have started showing up at their homes and intimidating them or threatening arrest. Some of them, masked and wearing tactical gear, have issued stark warnings not to follow them." www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...

Rent is due in MN and ICE is still terrorizing people there. Whenever I feel despair about what's happening, I donate to one of the mutual aid funds here. In case it might also be helpful to you:

The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.” The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.

Even when they show signs of weakness or forced regret, we must not give an inch. Authoritarian governments still respond to public opinion, which is why sustained pressure matters. We have to keep making clear that these thuggish actions are unconscionable and will not be tolerated. Don’t let up.

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With renewable energy deployments dipping last year due to Chinese power market reforms, electric vehicles are the overwhelming global leader in decarbonization technology:

Amazon Web Services hosts massive surveillance systems for both ICE and DHS. Citizens Bank provides nearly $1 trillion in credit & bonds to private prison companies. AT&T has a $147 million contract to provide communications services to DHS. Know who is profiting from ICE’s cruelty.

Statement from the Minnesota Timberwolves team chaplain with alt text (ht @gregolear.bsky.social)

We are raising a nation of dumbasses. It’s on purpose

"Good enough" What could *possibly* go wrong?

This is a nice example of Upper East Side politesse undermining a newspaper's basic task of conveying the truth. No one could look at the administration's statements and conclude that they tried to form a considered judgment, but that is too uncomfortable for the headline writers to acknowledge.

Here's a regular white guy (literally "Chad") not a protester. because, "It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt." Chad witnessed something shattering. And, that all changed in a moment. Excellent article!

During the Soviet era, at times of govt instability, the state broadcaster would typically preempt scheduled broadcasts by airing performances of Swan Lake

1,173 people were shot dead by "law enforcement" in the USA last year. In the UK, it was 2. The US population is 6x that of the UK, so go ahead and multiply the second figure by 6. Then explain to me why this massively disproportionate rate of killing is so.

I've watched a lot of video by Legal Eagle for entertainment purposes. This is not one if those. This video about the murder/execution of Alex Pretti & murder of Rene Goof is a heartfelt, honest, & powerful condemnation of the out of control criminality of ICE & DHS. youtu.be/nDEAWxG7Bq8?...

Listen to her.

In Russia, if you call the illegal occupation of Ukraine a “war” or “invasion” instead of the “special military operation,” you could be sentenced to 15 years in prison.

This is the way.

I think about this post a lot

Two Thursdays ago, when i was teaching Alice Wong's "Disabled Oracle Society," i taught this new crop of student about the myth of Cassandra, and how Apollo's curse wasn't just that no one listened to her, but that the more she tried to make people listen, the more hostile they got. So.

I lost my job, my kids have measles, and masked secret police roam our streets murdering civilians and abducting the witnesses. But at least now we have full sovereignty over a couple of military bases in Greenland.

There are 690 separate polling locations, for 1703 voting divisions, just in the City of Philadelphia. And Pennsylvania law specifies that LEOs cannot be within 100 feet of the entrance to a polling location unless (a) they're there to vote or (b) have been asked to come in to break up a fight.

>>Turns out "don't tread on me" actually meant "tread on them." You weren't afraid of tyranny. You were afraid of losing dominance. There's a difference, and this moment exposes it completely.<<

I mean it’s true that there are “paid agitators” in Minneapolis. There are 3000 of them and they’ve assassinated two people.

I apologize to those who follow me for ocean, climate, and car rants. But I'm also a human who cares about other people, and an American who wants his country to live up to its highest ideals (although I'd settle for it not being an international pariah at the moment).

This was a tiny project, but it's been really beautiful. Love notes, from across the world, to activists in Minneapolis. Shared just a few of the hundreds we've already compiled here, along with instructions for how you can participate as well. thewhitepages.net/p/i-really-t...

Started the first batch of safety whistles with filament kind people donated to the distro efforts. Thank you kind folks for this hero shit. I may be broke but I do have time and machines and I’m gonna keep em running for as long as they need to.

BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.

In this dark hour, remember: You have friends everywhere.

Protesters chanting "We're not cold, we're not afraid, Minne[apolis/sota] taught us to be brave" in Boston tonight outside Government Center station.

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

now - especially now - a reminder that we are going to win. and this is why

"We show up for the people who need us to bear witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyrany. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values."

Get the 5 Calls app. Leave voicemails on weekends or after hours if you’re “not a phone person.”

The whole point of that “First they came for the—“ poem is that they get around to everybody.

Semafor reporter on the funding package. picking up from posts that there's some organizing around this underway, will link those in this thread as I find em

an administration staffed to the top with degenerate liars