Getting ready for a vigil for Renee Good in the Western suburbs. Please also remember Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, also killed by ICE just minutes after dropping a child off at school, on Sept 12, outside Chicago.

The person who was shot in the face here is a local organizer who has been very active in the Movement for Black lives.

Don't know what happened here, but I know CBP is going to lie about it

Only 1 person in the US has absolute criminal immunity and that's Donald Trump for "official acts," b/c of a bullshit opinion by SCOTUS. "Absolute immunity" is not a real thing in criminal law. That no one is immune from criminal law is an essential part of the rule of law.

It was only a couple of weeks ago that JD Vance said people didn't have to "apologize for being white" anymore, now his fellow large adult groypers are implicitly making the argument that belonging to the "white liberal" category makes you fair game for summary execution.

In response to this @zeteo.com reporting, the trump White House sends us this comment, attributed to spokeswoman Abigail Jackson: "You have no concept of the law and no idea what you’re talking about." Ok! Thx 🫶

The scale of the protests in Iran are absolutely unbelievable. Hard to quantify, but I've seen some speculation that this uprising is more significant than the 2023 protests (themselves the largest challenge to the regime since it came into power in '79.) (Video from @AmirMiresmaeili on Twitter)

The ban should have been discussed in every civilized country the moment his "mechahitler" AI generated SEXUAL. IMAGES. OF. CHILDREN. Elon can't even buy friends on his own platform. His cars are fiery deathtraps. His space shuttles explode. F*ck his wealth and f*ck his "influence".

Right

I'm out of words to describe how awful Elon Musk is.

It is vital to understand that here, on Bsky, there is no algorithm there is only the lot of us reposting those on the ground trying to get the word out, in order for what they are witnessing to find an audience.

I just watched two women get kidnapped right in front of me in Northeast Minneapolis. ICE is still terrorizing our city.

This moron got himself a fancy new job by being an ingratiating dipshit. defector.com/tony-dokoupi...

“Bands of masked men apprehending people in broad daylight in the streets and hauling them off. Disappearing people to a third country,” a former DHS official said. “We’re at an inflection point in history right now and it’s frightening.” (Published Oct. 2025)

Current DOJ use of force policy states that even if the ICE officer did what Trump, Vance and others are claiming he did, that's still not allowed. From the policy here: www.justice.gov/archives/ag/...

Our schools shut while the paramilitaries brutalize us at random

Military-style operations being conducted by violent amateurs across all of South Minneapolis, seemingly against people who look at them the wrong way.

The situation in Minneapolis is insane: seemingly many large convoys of heavily armed masked men, blocking off streets at random, grabbing people nearly at random, racing around the city with no discernible plan or aim. Under attack by our own government the day after it killed someone

I’ve heard from multiple friends today about daycares being raided and parents being ripped out of cars (in one case with a child left behind in the backseat). Grim times here.

Victim: ". . . ran from ICE and was shot twice, wife was shot once as well" CBP: ". . . shot at a subj that almost ran them over" Sounds like a very similar scenario to yesterday.

Cops are much less than 1% of the US population and yet they're responsible for about 8% of all homicides every year

The sooner people realize nobody's got our backs except each other the better.

They saw the Minnesota lawmakers throw their hands up and say oh well and figured it's open season. This doesn't happen if Walz says we're gonna hunt this guy down on TV last night

I despise these discussions where people bring up Obama's immigration enforcement ["he deported more!!"] to make it seem like Dems are real tough. Our whole conversation on immigration is upside down and backwards. And Dems have fed into the fear-mongering.

"U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents shot two people in Portland on Thursday afternoon, according to Portland city councilors."

They keep doing it because they were recruited to do this, their bosses encourage them to do it and their is no meaningful pushback

I don’t ever want to hear about how we have to “vote Blue no matter who” to “save democracy” again It’s complete bullshit

I should also note that 7 Republicans (Cramer, Daines, Moran, Scott (FL), Scott (SC), Tuberville and Wicker) were absent for the vote. Had these Democrats not gone along with the GOP, Van Hook would have not been confirmed.

They are complicit in facilitating fascism. They should be forever shunned

Clear-eyed, fact-based, and written to explain to normies. No “both sidesing.” No “Trump officials disagree.” No gaslighting that what we can see with our own eyes might not be true. This is journalism. Well done, @people.com

American conservatives will look you right in the eye with a straight face and tell you that complete and utter subservience to masked federal police is patriotism, anything else deserves being executed in the street, and tax dollars for healthcare is tyranny.

new race to see which state will be the first to charge federal agents with murder or attempted murder of their residents. Solidarity works better when all try it rather than none.

American Samoans, unique among *everyone* born in US states or territories, are denied US citizenship. That means they are banned from voting. That's made some a target of vicious GOP prosecution for fraud; even if they were told incorrect info from public officials. A. New. Must. Read.

Israeli government accelerates settlement expansion in occupied West Bank

Shameful “The top Democrats in the House and Senate declined to say whether they would slash funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement after an agent in Minneapolis killed 37-year-old Renee Good.”

This is very straightforwardly the old vision of absolute monarchy subject only to the king's conscience and duty to God, exceeding even Hobbes' account of sovereign authority. But if the king were a serial fraud, adulterer, rapist, a near-constant liar, a promoter of hatred and violence.

"This was not the first time I’d interviewed a displaced, dispossessed person who was tacitly asking me to recognize their humanity. It never got easier." from @lisang.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/reportage/wh...

One reason I favor impeaching Noem is because it's a political process for a political problem. No, this will not stop ICE enforcement action but YES it would be an opportunity to educate the public about DHS & perhaps begin to lay a foundation for dismantling it.

New from ECDS: Professor Kylie Smith’s Jim Crow in the Asylum examines racial segregation in mental health care in the U.S. South through an open-access digital edition featuring GIS storymaps and interactive data—read our latest blog post to learn more: scholarblogs.emory.edu/ecds/interdi...

through a death certificate i had for YEARS, i was able to get my gr. gr. uncle's medical records from Central State Hospital, va's 1st mental institution for Black people, founded in 1870 after less than 10 months, he died there. my gma & her siblings never knew what became of their uncle

"Vance’s twisted and wrongheaded view of Christianity has been repudiated by two popes. His Catholicism seems to be little more than a political prop, a tool only for his career ambitions and desire for power." www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-...

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

Strong Hearts Native Helpline is a Native-led nonprofit that offers 24-hour, seven-day-a-week support for anonymous and confidential calls from people who have experienced domestic violence or sexual assault. (via Alaska Beacon)

We have no idea how many people have actually died in this regime's detention camps, both in the US and overseas.

and FWIW-- Life is a Sacred Text is about to start a new spiritual-activist era integrating the prophets' wisdom, healing modalities, and organizing tools to help bring this new world into being. Join us for free or more and be part of it....

But the message remains the same: Find your role(s). Show up regularly, not just when something happens. Give yourself space to feel things when you need. Have a practice to nourish yourself. It'll get harder before it's better. (Sorry.) Another world is possible. We can make it so, together.

This is awful. They named their child Dean because he was so proud of his position as dean of the school. Nothing he said warrants this. Just hateful white supremacists targeting a Black man with the help of another sell-out institution that markets itself as a bastion of intelligence.

like there are a million things you can do here is a list www.lifeisasacredtext.com/goodtrouble/

Researchers Find ‘Criminal Imagery’ Of Children On The Dark Web Created By Elon Musk’s Grok