somewhere in portland, there's one person, or a small handful of people, who came up with the inflatable costume idea, and I feel like they deserve our immense respect for defining the obvious developing aesthetic of the contemporary battle against fascism

my god. (the tan rectangle is a copy of the Constitution.)

I didn't get a picture of the best sign I saw today, but I remember what it said: Somewhere in America A little Hispanic girl Is hiding in an attic And keeping a diary. #NoKings

Listen to this powerful interview clip.

DC. No Kings!

One thing I always hear from heroism experts is that doing small courageous things equips us to do big ones later on.

Way to go, NYC! #NoKings

No Kings-San Francisco, CA

Polebridge, Montana, and the surrounding North Fork area only has around 100 full-time residents. On Saturday, the hamlet on the edge of Glacier National Park saw more than 60 people attend a No Kings Indivisible rally at the dirt road intersection.

Minneapolis is showing up and showing out. #NoKings

I've been saying Boston won't take this shit.

Powerful sign at No Kings in Cleveland

On April 1, ICE apprehended 47 people — including 9 children — at a birthday party in Dripping Springs, Tex. The agency’s only disclosure about the raid describes the operation as targeting people believed to be connected to the Tren de Aragua gang. 🧵

Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."

Wikipedia is worth $10/month because if it dies so does reliable knowledge. Cough up if you can -- it's cheaper, more interesting and morally superior to Netflix.

Man, this freaking guy. "I have no staff ... The phones don't work. There's no computer," Grijalva says from her sparsely furnished office on Capitol Hill. "We don't have a government email." www.npr.org/2025/10/16/g...

"She should be doing the job I'm literally preventing her from doing."

I used to be a Democrat but now I’m all in with the No Spam Texts party. As soon as it exists.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go." The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:

NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.

This is a very good paragraph. From "The Last Days of the Pentagon Press Corps" in The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec... By Nancy A. Youssef

Proud of the alma mater

"Show them you're not afraid. Do it for the country. For the Constitution. For your family. For yourself. Do it for your freedom. While you still can." This is excellent. Every Dem strategist who thinks there's risk in engaging these debates should watch it for guidance.

Bari's tenure will last less than 18 months--as soon as GOP loses the mid-terms, she'll be out on her ass.

Why are there so few (none?) news stories about individual ICE agents themselves? Who they are, what motivates them, any moral dilemmas they face? Why aren’t protesters trying to get some to speak out?

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry. The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

I understand MAGA because I used to be MAGA. Then I turned 10.

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

you do not have to be a parent to fully appreciate the horrors of this but also it is so hard to be a parent and to know that other people who have the same role and love as you do are going through this needless, random and permanently damaging terror

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

Wen should direct more attention to incidents like these because Americans are more likely to respond to brutality to pets than to brutality to human beings.

Portland Frog gets it

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms. (Published June)

The Administration - raised taxes on clean energy with one big beautiful bill - is stopping or making clean energy projects harder to be built - is raising prices on materials with tariffs - all while AI is spiking electricity demand They are stopping supply while demand goes up It’s a crisis

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

“I haven’t done anything,” Miranda said to the officers in the video. “Turn around or you’re going to get the dog,” an officer said. “We’re going to put you in cuffs, or you’re going to get the dog.”

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Be yourself

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lmao, kristi noem wanted a black bloc fight and got an inflatable rave instead. fuck you DHS, rip city forever.

Gutting.

yo they hired Mamdani video guys. someone's doing some thinking somewhere

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

BEST BIG CITY IN THE US 9 YEARS IN A ROW. While critics try to paint Chicago as something to fear, the rest of the world knows the truth — this is the best big city in America.

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city. They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Huge historic turning point — Renewables surpassed coal as the world’s leading electricity source for the first half of 2025! #greensky #energysky #renewableenergy