Imagine you're driving down the highway when suddenly the car to your left LAUNCHES A LARGE, SMOLDERING BATTERY RIGHT AT YOU

The government is rounding people up and putting them into camps and nobody is talking about it as political violence Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

I repeat that whenever you see a man toss a woman around in front of witnesses and cameras, you can bet he’s had practice in private.

Oh Portland. Don't you go changing 😅

ICE shooter Joshua Jahn's politics aren't what's being reported, three longtime former friends tell me. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...

The guy who murdered Trayvon Martin signed his gun and auctioned it for over $100,000 but the left... 🫠

I wrote for @theguardian.com this week (also in print in this week’s @streetroots.bsky.social) on Portland’s investigation into permit violations at the local ICE facility. It’s one tool for a long process that could ultimately provide some accountability, with eviction unlikely, but in the toolbox.

For what it's worth, FBI agents tend to dress in really suburban clothes... like they only shop at REI or something. Sometimes they wear their duty boots, which is a dead giveaway. Source: FBI from Portland JTTF used to come harass me semi-regularly during the first season of Trump

Bring me my sipping bleach 🧐

85 yrs old and relevant as ever:

"So long as men die, liberty will never perish." -Charlie Chaplin

Quick reminder that YouTube is the #1 distributor of far-right content in the history of the planet. By a wide margin. For over a decade now.

So Kenvue (née Johnson & Johnson Consumer Healthcare division) is gonna sue the White House over this Tylenol bs, right? Right? *insert Padme meme*

Don't debate the dehumanization of people. Leave no room for fascists. www.laprogressive.com/the-media-in...

I really gotta stop shopping at the Burnside QFC. They just don't care about selling spoiled meat. And their produce is sad.

L. Ron Hubbard singing 'Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm' by the Crash Test Dummies. Thats it. That's the skeet. #IYKYK

Can't wait for all the profoundly uninformed opinions about Tylenol headed our way 😑

The CDC schedule includes 10 different vaccines for children (birth to 7), all listed below with doses: Hep B: 3 RSV: 1 DTaP: 5 Hib: 3 or 4 IPV: 4 PCV: 4 Rotavirus: 2 or 3 Chickenpox: 2 Hep A: 2 MMR: 2 This means *7 YEARS* of shots all at once would only be 28-30 doses of 10 different vaccines. 🫠

me telling my grandkids what it was like to have vaccines

Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the air after our government threatened a private company with retaliation, marking a dark moment for free speech in our nation. More than 400 artists across our nation signed on to say: We refuse to be silenced by those in power.

Apropos of nothing, a Shutterstock photo of a worker throwing a bucket of water on the face of a giant gold statue of Türkmenbaşy.

Make Ready: Safeguarding Our Movements against Repression crimethinc.com/Safeguarding Donald Trump has signaled that he is expanding his offensive against immigrants to target critics of his regime as well. Everyone should read this guide spelling out concrete steps we can take to prepare.

President Johnson, in a November 9, 1968 letter to the Smothers Brothers: “It is part of the price of leadership of this great and free nation to be the target of clever satirists . . . May we never grow so somber or self-important that we fail to appreciate the humor in our lives.”

Doing a hate rally at someone’s funeral is weird AF

*googles assholes named Andrew* google AI: your query is based on an insulting generalization, however... *presents laundry list of assholes named Andrew*

Something I really really want everyone to hear: One of the CORE principles of organizing is, you always leave room for escalation. You have to have something to hold over your opponents' heads and leverage as a real threat. Once your escalation peaks, you've played your hand. It's over.

State Senator Graciela Guzman is out here in front of the facility demanding the release of two of her constituents (who are U.S. citizens), asking to speak with federal agents. No response from them so far. Shes putting on a respirator.

Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms

Terrific piece, especially this part.

Atomwaffen (AWD) disbanded years ago after arrests and convictions of its members for threats/murders/terrorist plots, but has maintained its influence on nazi groups through their aesthetics and full fledged accelerationism. Someone(s) is apparently making some effort to re-establish the group now.

UPDATE: Mario Guevara, a journalist who was detained by ICE for covering a peaceful protest, could be put on a plane to El Salvador at any moment after a Board of Immigration Appeals ruling earlier today. Our partners are in court now demanding that Mario is released immediately.

welcome to The Resistance, *checks notes* *sighs* *weeps gently* ...michael eisner

We’re protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility and an agent came out to tell us to go away. We said we’re exercising our First Amendment rights so he shot the ground with pepper balls and said, “Your First Amendment rights are on the sidewalk.”

Finding myself in a reflective mood today, I decided to reread Humberto Eco’s 1995 essay “Ur-Fascism.” Meditating on the definition & essential properties of fascism, Eco identified 14 key features, only one of which is needed “to allow fascism to coagulate around it." It is, perhaps, relevant. 🧵

I’m a U.S. citizen who was wrongly arrested and held by ICE. Here’s why you could be next. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Make Measels, Mumps, and Rubella Great Again

liberals read the Niemöller poem and went oh good i'm last

Three things I know for sure: 1) I am not smart with money, outside very basic budgeting. 2) I'm such a finance dumb that I don't even know who to talk to about that. 3) If I don't remedy this soon I'll never be able to stop working.

by karl rove am i being pranked here

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

"On the morning of September 15, 2025, my father was violently detained by ICE in North Portland. He had just left our home when unmarked vehicles surrounded him." www.gofundme.com/f/3kmkp-help...

An update on the ICE facility. Our administration's investigation has "show[n] more than two dozen detention policy violations of the facility’s land use conditions of approval with the city, which does not allow detainees to be kept overnight or held for more than 12 hours." 1/

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

"I see that Saruman has many descendants. We Hobbits have against them no magic weapons. Yet, my gentle Hobbits, I give you this toast: To the Hobbits. May they outlast the Sarumans and see spring again in the trees." - J.R.R. Tolkien

"I have found that it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keeps the darkness at bay." -Gandalf the Grey

A think tank is where you put your critical thinking skills under water until the bubbles stop