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From the No Kings protest in my hometown:

submitted 16 hours ago • 18 comments

This is heartbreaking. (via someone at the St. Paul rally)

submitted 15 hours ago • 29 comments

The rule of law lives or dies on our willingness to act—occasionally with grim resolve. It’s time for people who value justice to screw their courage to the sticking place. https://trib.al/DiKqsBS

submitted 18 hours ago • 29 comments

Madness. This is MADNESS.

submitted 18 hours ago • 4 comments

We have been working on a story about the run of ICE impersonators robbing and terrorizing mostly Latino businesses. Now this has jumped to impersonating cops for politically motivated assassinations.

submitted 18 hours ago • 21 comments

If you're marching tomorrow show us your signs! And if you want to march but aren't sure where, find a protest near you here. There are a LOT. www.nokings.org

submitted 1 day ago • 146 comments

and if you can't do street protest due to disability or other reasons there are lots of other ways to contribute!!! a bunch are in this nifty zine spencersunshine.com/wp-content/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

The federal government is telling you they cannot afford to house you, feed you, educate you or heal you — but that they do have enough resources and scale to criminalize, assault, deport and incarcerate your neighbors simply going to work or taking their kids to graduation.

submitted 5 days ago • 47 comments

1) I was momentarily distracted walking through midtown and ran directly into a barrel-chested Busta Rhymes who kept me from falling backwards, then said, “My bad, sweetheart.” 2) My husband being concerned that the bar we were in was serving children alcohol because he didn’t recognize Elijah Wood.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

I just keep looking at my phone and saying “oh my God” like Bob from Bob’s Burgers.

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

STILL.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

To me, arguing online lacks benefit, so I don’t. And if I’m honest, I’ve been so sickened for so long at the rampant cowardice I have to constantly see displayed, that the version of me that WOULD argue with strangers online is kinda toxic. At least more toxic than I am comfortable being in public.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Sen. Alex Padilla was just removed from Kristi Noem's press conference in Los Angeles (video: Bill Melugin/Fox News)

submitted 2 days ago • 1623 comments

I’d been having a tough time, so the kid I used to nanny is coming to town so we can go to the movies. He starts college in August, and I just can’t believe that sweet boy grew into such a kind and thoughtful young man. Let me stop before I cry again.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

"Head Start, fed science research, DV shelters await cuts. Hospitals turn away trans people. The regulatory state unravels while corporate polluters spew toxins. The RW is blowing up everything & incinerating the planet. White supremacy is apocalyptic for everyone.” hammerandhope.org/article/trum...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Yes'Cers Fk ICE

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

NEW: The board of the Fulbright Program has just resigned after accusing Trump aides of political interference. They say a State Dept. office under Rubio and Darren Beattie has cancelled scholarships to nearly 200 US professors and researchers. Story: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

submitted 3 days ago • 38 comments

Shit ain’t been right since Desus & Mero went to Showtime.

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

State troops sent to Los Angeles by the Trump administration, without the approval of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, were expected to sleep on floors or outdoors, a source told the Chronicle.

submitted 5 days ago • 394 comments

“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.” Doechii at the #BETAwards

submitted 5 days ago • 205 comments

UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!

submitted 5 days ago • 631 comments

NEW: Over a thousand people are rallied in Downtown LA in support of SEIU, after SEIU President Pres. David Huerte was arrested days ago after an ICE raid (ABC7) Won't be able to be as active with the updates today, but I'll do my best to provide some

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

University of Michigan ends undercover surveillance contracts after Guardian revelations

submitted 5 days ago • 27 comments

Masha Gessen worries that Americans are entering a phase of the "shock exhaustion" witnessed in Putin's Russia: A coping response to awful things happening in rapid succession is to normalize extremism. Establishment media (incl. the Times) too often enable this by both-sidesing authoritarianism.

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

The city of Glendale, in Los Angeles County, announced today that they're quitting an agreement with ICE thad allowed ICE to house its detainees at the Glendale police department. mynewsla.com/crime/2025/0...

submitted 6 days ago • 256 comments

Today, the 2+ million people incarcerated across the U.S. learn about life “outside” through PBS, one of the only available media channels, writes Daniel K. Forkkio. In prisons, where books are banned & visits are restricted, PBS is a crucial lifeline. prismreports.org/2025/06/03/p...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

The weird, often whitewashed way the civil rights movement is taught (or not taught) seemed to convince a lot of people that nonviolence was met with nonviolence, instead of you know, dogs, hoses, beatings, death, etc

submitted 6 days ago • 309 comments

"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear."

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

Depression is a monster for what it does to your relationships alone.

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

Every person on Bluesky should know: * Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever * Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies * Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured * Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic www.404media.co/the-200-site...

submitted 90 days ago • 1181 comments

I know that many don't want to hear this but we've been moving towards this current state of affairs over the past 65 years. And it's really been a bipartisan project. The expansion of the carceral state is the fuel for fascism. Folks have been trying to make this case for a long time.

submitted 7 days ago • 27 comments

Although the Houston ICE arrestee is described in the story as part of the Afghan army, his attorney identifies him as a veteran of the Kandahar Strike Force—aka the QSF or NDS-03, the CIA’s Afghan surrogate force in Kandahar. Here’s a 2021 story of mine about NDS-03’s very difficult escape:

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

Protecting our neighbors is how we build community TRUST. Nobody trusts the state, and with good reason. All we have is one another.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

That's a lot of people protesting 🤔

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

not sure there's a more embarrassing profession than ICE agent. Oh, you dress like a soldier to abduct sous chefs and throw flashbangs at protesters? Get a real job you loser

submitted 7 days ago • 86 comments

live from the huge spontaneous anti-ICE protest after the agency used military-style tactics during a series of raids in Los Angeles today.

submitted 8 days ago • 238 comments

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man the Trump administration wrongfully deported to El Salvador, is on his way back to the U.S., his lawyer tells NPR.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments