Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country? Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

3/ jury nullification is becoming increasingly important as activists are acquitted of non-violent crimes (property damage is non-violence) best zine on jury nullification:

#OtD 14 Feb 1779 British coloniser captain James Cook was stabbed in the neck and killed by a Native Hawaiian as he tried to kidnap local leader, Kalaniʻōpuʻu. After his crew killed a local chief, Cook had also to shot and killed a Hawaiian person stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8558...

The $38.3 billion they are going to spend for interment camps could fund the annual budget of NASA, the EPA, and all clean energy R&D at the Department of Energy—combined.

Hey remember the shooting in Minneapolis that happened between Renee Good and Alexi Pretti, the guy they claimed was shot by an agent after he had attacked that agent with a shovel? I know it's hard to believe but the agents' story fell apart and charges were dropped. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...

This is why I still do electoral politics. Right here.

My latest: Applauding community defense is not enough. We are organizing resistance to a concentration camp regime. The front lines are everywhere. (Plus resources and my must-reads list!)

Stop Cop City gave us a lot of tactics on how to get in the way of fascist infrastructure being built. Those tactics need to be utilized and expanded in the way that ICE Watch has used and greatly developed the tactics of Cop Watch.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Disgraceful - freedom of speech is now being criminalised to protect one community group at the expense of the pain, sacrifice and suffering of another community group. This means no longer is everyone equal before the law!!!

A real problem rn: as USAID has retreated from pub health & as WHO is being defunded & cutting back, the Gates foundation has gained MORE influence. Govts & NGOs around the world will be even less likely to criticize Gates bc his (ill gotten) wealth is the last thing between life & death for them

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

I’ve been thinking a lot lately that we should be advancing a politics of library leftism, which aims to build 1,000+ libraries throughout the country as the foundation of a broader public works project fully invested in third space social cohesion

NEW EPISODE! We’re joined in conversation with co-host Jeff Jones and Jeremy Varon, an activist-scholar, Professor of History at the New School for Social Research, and author of "Our Grief is not a Cry for War," a social history of the movement against the “war on terror.” bit.ly/4tclUBU

The opening ceremony for the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics is tomorrow. In my latest with @edgeofsports.bsky.social we press past the five-ring spectacle to shine a light on the underbelly of these politically charged Games. For @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

They’re trying to run the Kilmar Abrego Garcia playbook with a five year old boy in a bunny hat because nobody can find peace if they embarrass the Trump administration publicly. Normal people didn’t like it with Garcia and they really aren’t going to like it for Liam.

“It seems our university leaders cannot even say that it is wrong to murder a former student in broad daylight because some people might disagree,” geography professor Kate Derickson

Happening now in Silicon Valley: marchers have surrounded the Palantir building and are holding a prayer vigil for victims of ICE, while video of ICE and Palantir crimes is projected on the building. #abolishice #iceout #palantir #paloalto

It feels like it's been impossible to get people outside of higher ed to understand that eliminating staff/programs/majors is primarily an ideological project, whatever claims are made about finances. What's happened at the Post is what's been happening in higher ed for ages.

"These certificates were supposed to open doors, not remind me of what I've lost," says Hamada Abu Layla, 45, holding his three university degrees. Reporting from the Strip, Ismail Nofal details the loss of academic life in Gaza. https://bit.ly/4tcjnI5

The Nation’s homepage today is dedicated entirely to Gaza and its people. Despite a so-called ceasefire, bombings continue, hunger persists, aid trickles, and hundreds of thousands live in threadbare tents.

If Google is turning over user email data with nothing but a DHS administrative warrant I would assume until proved otherwise it is also turning phone location info over to immigration

Come out to @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social on Sunday, Feb. 15th at 3:30pm for an exciting conversation with @vijayprashad.bsky.social. While the state of our world is dire indeed, there are also so many reasons for hope. Join us for a wide ranging conversation that looks at the U.S. and beyond.

Rep. Stephanie Mickelsen is a potato farmer, and her support of immigrant workers put her at odds with Republican leadership. As Trump moved the party even further right, the fight got personal. ICE raided her farm. Our latest collaboration with our colleagues at @boisestatepublicradio.org:

Protesters are pushing back against the Trump admin’s practice of kidnapping their neighbors and executing dissidents, and the Trump admin is arresting the journalists who publicize that righteous anger I wrote about Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, & the First Amendment ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

“Amazon paid $40 million for the movie, with an additional $35 million marketing budget, and $28 million of that went directly to Melania Trump.”

Dumbest idea.

What a nightmare. “After a week of public outcry over the South Texas Family Residential Center’s treatment of young children behind its walls, the Dilley facility is experiencing a measles outbreak, according to immigration attorney Eric Lee.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

“Antifa is not an organization. Antifascism is a natural response to state terror. Antifascist action belongs to the people. Anyone can do it... Every day this goes on, DHS creates thousands of new antifascists.”—Riley (an anonymous antifascist researcher)

Words to live by.

To be clear, tear gassing a peaceful march with children and seniors was intentional. They are tear gassing kids in order to scare adults into inaction in the face of a fascist takeover. But what do we think they’ll do if we give them even more power???

Whether it's Democrats wanting the federal government to release the names of people who raped children with Jeffrey Epstein or Republicans wanting state governments to release the names of people who voted Democrat in 2024, both sides are seeking names for retribution.

I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.

Lawyers can't reach clients in ICE detention. I've heard it anecdotally, but scale of issue is horrifying. Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...

It really is worth understanding what an escalation this is by the feds to be teargassing the big family friendly march

"But only the worker actually goes on strike. As such, the only people who should call for a strike are the workers who will be striking." open.substack.com/pub/tabithaa...

for over 3 weeks, I've spoken to ICE watchers and organizers across the country: first right after Renee Good's killing — then 2 weeks into my reporting, Alex Pretti was killed. ICE watchers are being detained and harassed — but they're also stopping ICE abductions and inspiring others to join them

Portland Union march last night.

This whole 🧵

The Trump Administration is set to terminate TPS on February 3rd, putting more than 375,000 Haitian TPS holders at risk of immediate danger, including family separation. LIVES ARE ON THE LINE. We NEED your help to protect them #TPSForHaiti 🇭🇹

I just watched the lyric video of Bruce's new song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDaP... - powerful

"Efforts to remove unhoused people will focus on the security perimeters of Olympic venues, according to the report." For many of the major venues, what's been discussed has been a one-mile radius. For the Figueroa/Expo Park cluster, that would encompass huge sections of downtown and South LA

What folks on the ground have explicitly said and made very clear in their actions is they are sick of media only covering the pain and chaos, none of the kinship and resilience. They’re asking press to document their humanity. Chasing chaos doesn’t do that.

The enraging part is that he really thinks he's doing something big here.

Trump announced today that he was going to keep housing prices up, sued the US taxpayers for $10B, threatened Canada, made a few dozen posts about how he won in 2020, posted about prosecuting Obama for treason, then went to a movie about his wife that Bezos spent $75 million on.

Impossible to keep up with the amount of activism happening across the country.... www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/29/t... [Gift link]

This is why no matter who is in office, we must always be organized.

The CTU’s vice president said the union will make a formal demand to bargain with the district over the effects of immigration enforcement on schools, anticipating “more vicious” federal operations in the spring.

“Palestinian children are regularly used by Israeli soldiers as “human shields” when they raid neighbourhoods; their detention and abuse is often used to put pressure on family members to surrender — just as ICE did with Liam Ramos and his father.”

I want to live in a world that doesn't have one class of people that makes all the decisions, and another class that has to live with them. I want to live in a world where everyone can have a say in the decisions that affect their lives. *anarchism intensifies*