Please please please even if you can't call, recirculate these posts so who can make the call see it

My latest reprinted in @truthout.org. "One group member admitted that she followed ICE vehicles while honking loudly so often that her car horn broke."

I have been lawyering for just under 13 years now. (I am old.) In that time, I have seen dozens of clients have good outcomes from staying silent and asking for a lawyer. I have seen exactly zero outcomes improved from talking to cops, and dozens of outcomes made worse. Don't. Talk. To. Cops.

Last week, the Department of Justice hung a new banner outside its headquarters featuring President Donald Trump’s face, a startling move that critics say provides the starkest evidence yet that the department is not being run as independently, despite the administration’s claims.

NEW: The USPS changed its rules on how it postmarks ballots. This may affect elections at every stage at which there's a mail deadline. An underplayed one: VOTER REGISTRATION. Many voters who send in their registration forms by mail could be postmarked late, missing out without realizing it.

Heads up, folks. You have calls to make!

Cops being cops. This is NOT an ICE issue. We'll fool ourselves if we believe it is. This is a policing issue. #DismantleChangeBuild

A lot of reporting on local law enforcement “refusing to work with ICE” is somewhat dishonest. You really cannot reduce deportations and detention without reducing policing and arrests, which requires a wholesale reexamination of the whole criminal system.

📣 A system that can and will do this is not justice and never will be. #DismantleChangeBuild

20 members of Congress are finally speaking out for Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee who’s now spent more than a year in an ICE camp. He was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when they detained him. He’s been denied his prosthetics, placed in solitary & his health is declining:

If you oppose the construction of ICE prisons, it’s a good time to also oppose jail construction, even when framed as “improvements” or “updating existing facilities”

Imagine how much better working class communities would have been if the courts had followed the law and refused to allow the foreclosure crisis because those MBS didn't properly transfer mortgages? That kind of power shift would have changed our trajectory. But it's always profits over ppl.

And end felony disenfranchisement altogether. It's stupid, doesn't increase public safety, and actually undermines one of the most important social determinants of health that decreases anti-social behavior - civic engagement.

NEW: The Victims Who Fought Back An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of women who killed their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison? By @pamelacolloff.bsky.social

Prisons and incarceration have become the central issue in an upcoming election to replace an Arkansas state Senator who died last fall. The two leading candidates both oppose plans to build a mega prison in rural Franklin County.

Exposure to chemical irritants can cause chest tightness, coughing and shortness of breath. For kids, there’s more potential for serious side effects.

If you can’t feed your family on the minimum wage, then it isn’t a real minimum. A wage floor should guarantee basic stability — not lock working people into a lifetime of struggle.

You, an individual, cannot "fix" the whole world. You can act at the scale of your life. You should act at the scale of your life.

The most important thing about Tom Homan's "tactics" are that they rely on many people's desire to have "good police" who will "do things the right way." A reminder that to resist ICE requires resisting the impulse to demand help from law enforcement. www.cnn.com/2026/02/20/p...

These mfers are really sick and we want to trust the future of humans to people to do not value humans! WT

Fascism is here and yet we insist on continuing to make things. Keep creating. It's so important. Do not let the fascists colonize your imagination or curtail your creativity.

Incarcerated people in one TX prison are warned by some staff & doctors to "drink bottled water" because the tap water is too risky. ...except a water bottle from commissary is completely unaffordable when you make $0 per day, as incarcerated folks in TX do.

I'm just thinking about what that baby is going to go through with that 🤬 as his teacher. The passive aggressiveness she's going to aim at him and he will have no idea what the hell is going on thinking that there's something wrong with him. 💔

Say it with us: ONE JOB should be enough. It should be enough to afford basic things like food, shelter, and healthcare. PERIOD.

We need to do a setoff on our next payment(s) to the feds until this debt is paid in full.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders' plan to build a huge mega-prison in rural Arkansas has drawn major opposition, with some residents saying it's made them think differently about incarceration in the face of organizing. Now that's bleeding into a local election, as candidates vow to fight the governor. NEW:

Relevant words.

What would a typical worker earn today if their wages had grown as fast as CEO pay over the past 50 years? Take a guess and watch this video to find out.

A 9-year old girl traveled to Florida for a vacation at Disney. Then, she spent four months imprisoned in Texas. Gutting story: www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Memo to Kathy Hochul and Gavin Newsom: Why taxing the rich makes enormous sense https://robertreich.substack.com/p/memo-to-kathy-hochul-and-gavin-newsom

“I reject the lie that deporting my neighbor is how I win better pay and working conditions. We’re fighting for a country where families stay together without living in terror, so we’re ALL better off!”

The surge in violence meted out by ICE absolutely should continue to be condemned, but I think a lot of people didn't realize or care that activists have been facing life-altering injury from cops for generations. "Law enforcement" has always been the violence. It ALL needs to stop.

I hope New Yorkers will challenge Mamdani about this. Too often, people feel they need to be absolutely for or against a politician — ignoring their missteps or throwing them out with the bathwater. You can like and/or believe in someone and still challenge them to deliver on their promises.

Remembering Rev. Jesse Jackson, the Civil Rights icon and a leader in Chicago since the '60s: blockclubchi.co/40dMUDJ

Do Americans know that in 39 states it is ILLEGAL to boycott Israel? I wrote about it today because we have a chance in Illinois to right this wrong. But I'm realizing most Americans have no idea Netanyahu spent at least $25M to criminalize boycotts of Israel. www.qasimrashid.com/p/illinois-m...

What’s one way we can rein in ICE? We can start by boycotting ICE’s corporate collaborators that are profiting from the agency’s cruelty. Watch.

The billionaires want us fighting each other instead of banding together.

I often think about the fact that if the FBI et al had not killed Fred Hampton, he would be 78 today. Younger than Jesse Jackson was. Must have felt strange to outlive many of your contemporaries by decades.

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." —FDR, 1937

It's not enough to tell people to be "outraged." What precisely is it that you want them to DO? This is where so much falls apart and where a number of people fall short. Part of it is that people do not actually know what they want people to do; the other part is that it's DIFFICULT to organize ppl

ICE detention in Texas: www.sacurrent.com/news/two-mon...

The Epstein Class is the by-product of an economy that emerged over the last two decades, from which this new elite has siphoned off vast amounts of wealth. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-squalor-of-the-epstein-class

Nothing that can help regular people is possible. Everything that can hurt regular people is easy to do. This is basically how most politicians act right now.

Oh, okay. I'll bite. The right to vote is enshrined in the Constitution. The "right" of armed federal cops to arrest, beat, and kill people with anonymity is not.

ICE doesn't ever "leave" any state. There will continue to be ICE and CBP enforcement actions as there were during previous presidents. Hillary Clinton was saying this in her remarks. She doesn't like the visible violence but she is fine with "regular" violence.

💯 This is true when it comes to building any carceral institution including prisons. If they build it, they will fill it. We cannot separate the two. It's important because we clearly know now that if anyone is unsafe, everyone is unsafe. #DismantleChangeBuild

Your Presidents' Day reminder that patriotism isn't about attacking immigrants, cutting taxes for the rich, or dividing us by race & faith. True patriots don't pander to divisiveness or hate. They work to confirm the "WE" in "We the People of the United States."