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Today you should send love to your trans friends. Tomorrow, too. Maybe every day for a while.

BREAKING: Alejandro Theodoro Orellana, who was arrested earlier this week by FBI agents on an allegation of Conspiracy to Commit Civil Disorders after he was accused of “distributing face shields, has been released on a $5,000 bond. Press conference to come. Photo credit: Centro CSO

Boise Mutual Aid extends solidarity with the protesters in LA and around the country Full statement here:

I'm aggressively reposting this because thousands upon thousands are hitting the streets this week, and it's an excellent time to help people connect their politicization and rage to ongoing movement work — and expand their view of our power in this moment! if you're protesting tmr, worth a read?

It's a big weekend everywhere. If you're going out: have fun, take care of each other, and NEVER talk to police! Take this advice from a professional:

Nearly every leftist group in Boise has experienced noise ordinance harassment and silencing while the right-wing protesters targeting them never seem to

The Salvadoran migrant was wrongly deported to El Salvador, prompting outrage over Trump’s mass deportation campaign.

hell ya (second try) web.archive.org/web/20010608...

"Leave the provocateurs standing" is such a funny idea. If these theoretical provocateurs are using people as cover standing, won't they just... sit down, too? What if they sit down before you? Does that mean that you're the provocateur in this game of musical chairs? Just an incredible idea.

WORD OF WARNING when you upload gifs it converts them to images of the first frame. Apologies for the swastika not being stepped on in the last post, that was just the first frame of the "skanks against fascism" gif where the swastika DEFINITELY gets stepped on!

Code Switch examines the role race plays in society. This episode about policing, specifically Copaganda, is EXTREMELY timely! "How the news can make us think we need more cops" Here's the RSS feed:

NEW: The two refugees that sparked Spokane’s mass immigration protest? They came here through a gov humanitarian parole program & were in the asylum process. They did everything they were ‘supposed to do’, & were picked up by ICE anyway. Here’s what we know. www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

The less dramatic - barely in the news - trickle down layoffs from losing federal funds, and broken promises forced into these agencies. Here is another (and yes I know all of these people). Rural Idahoans are the ones being hurt by this.

Out today, my new piece about The Protocol, and particularly the gaping hole where the experiences of actual patients should have been.

This week on Live Like the World is Dying, @jamesstout.bsky.social and Miriam talk about how to stay safe with danger all around. They talk health and safety basics for protests like security culture, protective gear, first-aid kits, and dangers like projectiles, tear gas, and pepper spray.(1/2)

Protesters and ICE watchers are gathering again outside immigration court this morning, where ICE agents have been kidnapping people after mandated hearings in downtown Chicago. Sessions have been canceled (and arrests prevented) multiple times this week due to their presence.

Two of our friends from Wollongong share their thoughts and experiences from the blockade of Bisalloy Steel. Through a clever set of tactics, picketers have disrupted over 100 operation hours at this veritable merchant of death supplying the IDF.

Reports coming in that people managed to break out and escape horrific ICE prison in #NewJersey. "About 50 inmates at Delaney Hall, the ICE detention facility in Newark, banded together and pushed down the wall of a dormitory room..." www.nj.com/essex/2025/0...

Update: immigration court in sacramento was shut down and all our families made it out safely despite the huge ICE ramp up in presence in the court today. WE HAD PEOPLE LITERALLY SHAKING, so fearful to go in to court— but going anyways because they want to follow the “right” procedure.

It's kinda wild that there's video emerging of burning high density towers where families were sleeping and this is the story

“This action tries to hide from the truth. The Nez Perce Tribe holds a duty to speak the truth for the salmon, and the truth is that extinction of salmon populations is happening now,” said Shannon Wheeler, chairman of the Nez Perce Tribe.

I am putting my art up in the street for everyone. It is a drawing I did on a piece of cardboard, pen and ink, sharpie marker and crayon. Abolish ICE.

"On many of the most consequential issues – Israel, immigration, policing – the Democrats are not resisting Trumpism. They are participating in it. A centre-right party that shares core positions with its far-right opponent cannot mount real opposition." www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Happening now in Chicago at Michigan & Ida B Wells, protesters gather to oppose ICE’s operations. Twice this week, protesters have forced Chicago’s immigration court to close early, as ICE has moved to aggressively arrest people attending their court mandated hearings.

I know the Dem leaders are busy purging party positions of challengers to their failed leadership during this Constitutional crisis, but are they going to do anything now? Where the hell is Schumer? A colleague just got cuffed. Are we going to have to wait 3 days to get a limp press release faxed?

I'm reading "Another War Is Possible: Militant Anarchist Experiences in the Antiglobalization Era" by Tomas Rothaus @batallonbakunin.bsky.social (@pmpress.bsky.social) and it is SO GOOD holy shit. It's giving me the same intense emotions as Victor Serge's "Birth of Our Power."

And Bundy supporters showed up armed to the teeth and were openly sighting in on federal employees. None of this seemed overly troubling to those on the right. Imagine if these images were of LA protestors aiming in on LAPD officers.

Mutual aid and building communities that are resilient and resistant to the fascist onslaught We are now in is the way forward we have the tools we have done it before and we will do it again. we protect us.

for the last 5 years I've thought daily of the solidarity, creativity and care I saw during the 2020 uprisings. I asked @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social, @mskellymhayes.bsky.social, @deanspade.bsky.social +more what lessons from then we can use now @teenvogue.com

I'll wear my rainbow another day. My Pride's a riot, it's not a parade. Wearing black to the Pride parade A.C.A.B. but the gays are O.K.! @laurajanegrace.bsky.social 👏👏👏

SPOKANE @scarspokane.bsky.social has info on bail funds!!!!!

Teargas deployed against peaceful protestors in #Spokane.

This is going on *RIGHT NOW* in Spokane. SPD has declared an unlawful assembly and multiple people have been arrested. Police are preparing to teargas peaceful protesters. I need answers from @mayorspokane.bsky.social and SPD about why they unnecessarily escalated this situation and supported ICE.

REMEMBER S.A.L.U.T.E.! Take this moment seriously! Do your part to spread only good information!

Peaceful protest against ICE in Spokane is happening at 411 W Cataldo after the detainment of a young man who went to his hearing. Over a dozen protestors are sitting in front of the bus , prepared to be arrested. The bus windshield has been spray painted

Last week, Mark Fitzpatrick -- owner of a right-wing Idaho bar -- promoted an anti-LGBTQ event on a white supremacist podcast. On the show, Fitzpatrick denounced the LGBTQ pride movement as "wicked." angrywhitemen.org/2025/06/09/m...

How on Earth anyone could view this image of soldiers firing point blank on huddled masses as anything but an act of cruelty is beyond me. How you perceive this photo is a litmus test of your humanity.

Hardcore Against ICE All profit donated to @borderkindness.bsky.social sticktoyourguns.net/collections/...

This is why people are in the streets. This is why everyone should be in the streets. Share this and spread it wide.