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2026-04-01 18:22:54 GMT

"After No Kings, Indivisible, one of the lead organizers of the "No Kings" protest, is pivoting to building support for the May Day Strong walkouts and actions. They intend to use their massive email lists and organizers for May Day Strong. The May Day Strong coalition is calling for "No Work, No School, No Shopping" on May 1st.
“Coming off the heels of the massive energy from the No Kings mobilizations, people are ready to take action and keep fighting for a democracy of, by, and for the people,” says Indivisible Co-Founder Leah Greenberg, whose organization started the No Kings protest. “On May 1, Indivisibles will be joining people across the country with a clear message: we demand a government that invests in our communities, not one that enriches billionaires, fuels endless war, or deploys masked agents to intimidate our neighbors.”
While many have long dismissed a May Day general strike as a pipe dream, it seems more likely in the wake of the Minnesota General Strike and the energy of the "No Kings Movement."
https://paydayreport.com/no-kings-organizers-pivot-to-may-day-general-strike/

2026-03-25 02:07:20 GMT

Hundreds mobilized in Memphis, Tennessee to protest and denounce a visit from Trump, as the deadly war in Iran continues to rage, conditions in the US only worsen, and state repression ramps up.
A tiny rally of a "couple dozen people attended a morning rally [in] support [of] Trump..."
https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/local/2026/03/23/memphis-protest-rally-trump-visit-reaction/89291431007/

2026-03-11 22:59:44 GMT

People mobilized in South Burlington, #Vermont, after ICE chased someone, leading to "car crashes involving federal vehicles, a foot chase, and a daylong protest."
https://www.wcax.com/2026/03/11/ice-operation-south-burlington-ends-arrest-protests/

2025-10-18 16:47:20 GMT

About a year ago, we announced a hiatus on this project. Due to an outpouring of support, we pushed ourselves to continue, and over the last year, we’re proud of the interviews and roundups we’ve been able to produce.
But as events in the United States have continued to escalate and conditions have grown more dire, it’s clear that IGD does not have the capacity to meet the moment as a hub for grassroots reporting and journalism. In the face of this reality, we feel its important to be clear about our inability to continue, in the hopes that more people can push themselves to build and grow media projects and platforms.
We should all have a sober and clear-eyed view of what is happening. The current administration is attempting to consolidate extreme authoritarian power. People are being silenced and working-class people are being attacked. A police state is being constructed. Conditions are worsening. Inflation and prices are exploding and the entire country feels like it is slipping into dictatorship and economic collapse, as most people struggle to put food on the table.
As corporations and the State consolidate news into fewer hands and the far-Right pushes to silence those who speak out, the need for dynamic and vibrant grassroots media that amplifies working-class voices and gives a platform to social movements is needed now more than ever. We hope those that enjoyed IGD over the years can help in constructing new infrastructure that can help meet our present moment.
https://itsgoingdown.org/igd-2015-2025/

2025-10-14 01:27:55 GMT

"After federal agents deployed tear gas near a Chicago elementary school, community members have banded together to ensure children can come and go safely as the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown continues in the city.
Now, a new line of protection has surrounded students in the Chicago Public Schools system. Armed with whistles and know-your-rights pamphlets, these community volunteers call themselves “guardian angels.” Together, they secure the perimeters of elementary, middle and high schools across the city.
When the call for volunteers went out, 500 community members stepped up, filling more than 1,000 shifts at nearly 100 schools on Chicago’s northwest side. The goal is to ensure students can attend class for an education without fear of a confrontation with ICE.
This “guardian angel” movement has continued to grow, and volunteers have shown up in droves daily at school pick-up and drop-off locations."
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/feds-tear-gas-chicago-school/

2025-10-09 15:47:44 GMT

"This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray has come under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Their campaign to have Dr. Bray fired has resulted in doxxing and death threats that extended to his partner, Dr. Yesenia Barragan, also our colleague, forcing Drs. Barragan and Bray to leave their home for their safety and that of their children. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our valued colleagues."
https://rutgersaaup.org/defending-our-colleagues-from-attacks-by-the-rutgers-chapter-of-turning-point-usa/

2025-10-08 18:14:23 GMT

"On Saturday, federal agents shot Marimar “La Maggie” Martinez five to seven times in Brighton Park. Yesterday, she walked out of the hospital—bandaged, limping, but alive—flanked by her lawyer, Christopher Parente, and a crowd chanting her name.
That image—a Latina activist standing upright after federal bullets tore through her car and body—belongs to a long ledger of American overreach. CBP called it an “ambush.” Her community calls it what it looks like: an execution that failed.
The government’s story crumbles on contact. Prosecutors claim Martinez rammed a Border Patrol SUV and charged an agent. But Parente told a federal judge he has the body-cam footage, and it shows the opposite: a CBP agent taunting her—“Do something, bitch”—before steering his unmarked vehicle into hers and opening fire. Seven bullets later, Martinez drove herself a mile to a repair shop for help.
That footage exists. It’s time we all see it."
https://migrantinsider.com/p/chicago-latina-shot-by-border-patrol

2025-10-05 16:49:50 GMT

"If you’re here for my must-reads list, you can find that at the top. If you’re here for a rundown of Trump’s recent escalations in Chicago, scroll down."
https://organizingmythoughts.org/must-reads-and-the-war-on-chicago/

2025-10-05 16:39:30 GMT

"The Department of Homeland Security blatantly lied about the victim of a recent shooting committed by an ICE agent during an immigration arrest in Chicago."
https://newrepublic.com/post/201297/ice-shot-man-no-criminal-record

2025-09-25 08:06:29 GMT

"A federal judge in San Francisco on Wednesday temporarily blocked a federal administrative subpoena aimed at unmasking Instagram accounts that named and shamed a Border Patrol agent who was part of the immigration raids in Los Angeles this summer."
https://theintercept.com/2025/09/24/court-block-instagram-subpoena-ice-border-patrol/

2025-09-25 08:04:26 GMT

“He was most certainly an edgelord, an irony guy,” one friend said. (Edgelord is online-speak for someone who likes to espouse edgy, nihilistic views). Asked about the inscription on the bullet, the friend said: “Josh was an edgelord who wanted someone to get blamed. I think he tried his best to write something goofy … to rile people up.”
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-shooters-motive

2025-09-23 17:17:56 GMT

"The past few anti-antifa panics have shown that MAGA has an expansive definition of who constitutes antifa, with everyone even a little left of center liable to be labeled that way. Equating antifa with a “major terrorist organization,” as Trump has, then becomes an excuse for the right to target whomever it pleases, with both state persecution and vigilante violence.
Meanwhile, last week Trump’s Justice Department quietly removed a study online that showed far-right extremists commit “far more” fatal violence than those on the far left, while MSNBC reported that Trump’s campaign to mass-deport millions of immigrants from America has diverted FBI agents from monitoring and prosecuting violent far-right groups.
The Trump administration’s problem isn’t so much the scourge of political violence but who gets to commit it."
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-antifa-executive-order-terrorist-organization-rcna233011

2025-09-21 07:43:12 GMT

"Three people familiar with the federal probe into Kirk’s assassination told NBC News that investigators have yet to find a link between the alleged shooter and left-wing groups."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/no-evidence-charlie-kirk-shooting-left-wing-groups-rcna232513

2025-09-14 18:38:21 GMT

"Immigration agents shot and killed an unarmed 38-year-old father outside Chicago on Friday—and their initial narrative of events was quickly disproven by videos captured by witnesses." #Chicago #AbolishICE #MeltICE
https://unraveledpress.com/what-happened-to-silverio-villegas-gonzalez/

2025-09-14 18:17:18 GMT

Multi-millionaire pundit with a net-worth of over 10 million wants the government to murder you if you can't pay your rent.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/brian-kilmeade-fox-kill-homeless-mental-health-issues-1235426948/

2025-09-13 09:34:19 GMT

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We did a roundup of deadly far-Right and neo-Nazi mass shootings. The total number of people killed was 10, with over a dozen injured across multiple state: https://bsky.app/profile/igd.bsky.social/post/3lgqq6p4aa22i

2025-09-13 09:33:32 GMT

Reminder that several months ago, a white supremacist, Trump supporter, and according to one fellow student, a former member of Turning Point USA, shot up Florida State University (FSU), killing two people and injuring six in a mass shooting.
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/fsu-shooting-witness-claims-gunman-35077595

2025-09-13 07:17:37 GMT

Probably the best and most sober read on the current situation surrounding the shooting in Utah yet.
"We have let school shootings in America persist long enough that we have created a culture where kids grow up seeing them as a path towards fame and glory. Another consequence of how thoroughly the internet has flattened pop culture, politics, and real life violence. All of it now is just another meme you can participate in to go viral. Made even more confusing by a new nihilistic accelerationist movement that delights in muddying the waters for older people who still adhere to a traditional political spectrum. Many young extremists now believe in a much simpler binary: Order and chaos. And if you are spending any time at all trying to derive meaning from violent acts like this then you are, by definition, their enemy."
https://www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-kirk-was-killed-by-a-meme

2025-09-10 00:42:47 GMT

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2025-09-09 20:36:57 GMT

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This report states the crowd rallied in support of the roofers and brought them food. Video can be seen of around 6 masked agents leaving the scene as the crowd chants and screams at them. Photo of Border Patrol vehicle that had its tires slashed here: https://www.newsbreak.com/share/4223349622826-ice-raid-in-rochester-stymied-as-2-workers-evade-arrest-200-residents-protest
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2025-09-09 20:24:47 GMT

"Federal immigration agents were seemingly forced to retreat from a roofing job site Tuesday in the Park Avenue neighborhood after being confronted by more than 100 protestors.
The group shouted “shame” and "Gestapo,” and applauded as agents in the ICE-led action drove a Border Patrol SUV away on four flat tires, which had been slashed."
#Rochester #NewYork
https://www.wxxinews.org/local-news/2025-09-09/ice-agents-in-the-park-ave-neighborhood-spark-large-scale-protest

2025-09-09 06:37:07 GMT

This weekend, tens of thousands across DC and Chicago took the streets, mobilizing against ICE and Trump's threats to flood city streets with the US military.
Check out our roundup here: https://itsgoingdown.org/tens-of-thousand-march-in-dc-and-chicago-against-ice-and-trump-occupation/

2025-09-06 17:53:42 GMT

Massive anti-ICE, anti-occupation march on the White House happening right now in #DC. #FreeDC
Photos via @aarum.bsky.social‬ and
‪@mark-frassetto.bsky.social‬
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2025-09-05 18:12:05 GMT

Large anti-ICE mobilization today outside of detention center outside of Chicago, IL.
Demonstrators blocked ICE vehicles, which turned around.
"Protesters gathered outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center in Broadview, Illinois, on Friday. One of the organizers, Rachel Cohen, who was arrested last week, told CBS News Chicago that there are many concerned community members."
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/activists-gather-outside-ice-facility-in-broadview-illinois-calling-facility-conditions-inhumane/

2025-09-04 05:55:21 GMT

“Spyware like Paragon’s Graphite poses a profound threat to free speech and privacy,” Farid Johnson said. “It has already been used against journalists, human rights advocates and political dissidents around the world. The quiet lifting of the stop work order also raises the troubling prospect that parts of the executive branch are acting without adherence to the government’s own vetting requirements.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/02/trump-immigration-ice-israeli-spyware

2025-09-01 06:44:57 GMT

Photos released of vandalism targeting New York Times
"The NYT has long served as the chief propaganda organ of US empire...Their editorial board has never opposed a US war...They lied to justify war in Iraq. They lied...to justify genocide of Palestinians."
https://neversleep.noblogs.org/post/2025/09/01/two-actions-against-the-new-york-times/
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2025-08-30 18:16:07 GMT

Neo-Nazis no show to their own rally, as community rallies to oppose them in #Bloomington, #Illinois.
"Some of those who showed up said they lived nearby, and they wanted to make it clear that “Nazis were not f---ing welcome in my neighborhood.”
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-08-30/only-counter-protestors-show-up-for-march-on-bloomington-after-flyers-with-swastika-like-imagery

2025-08-30 17:41:27 GMT

#NYC baseball coach confronts ICE child predators.
“There's only one way to get into the cage, so my whole thing was I can control that. I was in front of the entrance and that's when I just said, you know, I may die here, but they will not take one of these kids."
https://www.wcpo.com/politics/immigration/nyc-youth-baseball-coach-confronts-ice-i-may-die-here-but-they-will-not-take-one-of-these-kids

2025-08-28 07:07:04 GMT

"After years of legal battles, the city of Seattle has disclosed the names of all its police officers who attended President Donald Trump’s rally on Jan. 6, 2021."
https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-police-at-jan-6-trump-rally-told-investigators-they-witnessed-no-violence-records-show

2025-08-28 05:30:17 GMT

"A federal grand jury has refused to indict folk hero Sean Charles Dunn on a felony assault charge for allegedly throwing a sandwich at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer in Washington, D.C. on August 10.
Video captured a man, allegedly Dunn, throwing a sandwich at an officer and then fleeing the scene on foot.
“Fuck you! You fucking facists!” he yelled before throwing the sandwich, according to the complaint. “Why are you here? I don’t want you in my city!”
https://truthout.org/articles/d-c-grand-jury-refuses-to-indict-folk-hero-who-tossed-sandwich-at-cbp-officer/

2025-08-27 18:40:10 GMT

As politicians are calling for Trump to reign down more violence against #Portland, we spoke with independent journalist @npub1h9q…fkmf about how this terror is already impacting communities on the ground.
https://itsgoingdown.org/interview-with-alissa-azar-pdx/

2025-08-26 07:21:31 GMT

"For months, around 60 tenant households at the Virgil Square and Mozaic at Union Station apartments have refused to pay utility fees..."
https://lapublicpress.org/2025/08/la-tenants-strike-union-rent/

2025-08-26 06:39:40 GMT

"People are sharing information on checkpoints super quickly online and DC is not a large city so people are able to mobilize quickly. On the ground, folks are self organizing to both film the cops, support anyone being detained, absolutely roasting every officer present, and setting up at intersections ahead of the checkpoints with posters to divert traffic around."
https://itsgoingdown.org/whole-city-fighting-back-dc/

2025-08-25 20:51:32 GMT

"George Retes, a 25-year-old U.S. citizen and Army veteran who is taking on the federal government after he was detained by ICE for three days and three nights without explanation. Retes was arrested during a raid in July at a cannabis farm in Camarillo, California, where he worked as a security guard. Retes was driving to work when he encountered a checkpoint, where agents broke his car window, pepper-sprayed him and dragged him out of his vehicle for arrest. While he was jailed without charge, Retes missed his daughter’s third birthday.
“They never let me call my family. They never told me what I was charged for. They just kind of threw me in there and didn’t care,” Retes tells Democracy Now!"
https://truthout.org/video/us-citizen-detained-by-ice-during-raid-on-ca-farm-is-suing-trump-administration/

2025-08-25 07:52:42 GMT

"The whole city is fighting back every day in every corner of the city.
The occupying forces haven’t had a moment of peace and the city is working tirelessly to protect and support each other."
https://itsgoingdown.org/whole-city-fighting-back-dc/

2025-08-25 03:12:41 GMT

ICYMI: Our latest installment of In Contempt, a roundup of news on state repression, political prisoners, and beyond.
https://itsgoingdown.org/in-contempt-55/

2025-08-25 02:07:15 GMT

"What’s been especially powerful is the depth of community support and the diversity of tactics and events. There’ve been Indigenous-led prayer and dance ceremonies, art builds, nighttime bloc’d-up demos, group bike rides to the facility, bloc parties, dance parties, liberal rallies, cookouts… You name it. It’s been going on every. Single. Day. Mutual aid has been constant, with folks bringing food, medical supplies, water, and whatever else people need. I remember being overwhelmed by the sheer number of cars honking in support on multiple occasions. At some point, you get used to the noise, but it’s a beautiful thing to grow numb to."
New interview with @npub1h9q…fkmf on continuing protests against #ICE in #Portland.
https://itsgoingdown.org/interview-with-alissa-azar-pdx/

2025-08-24 07:05:39 GMT

Report via BlueSky:
"Large Free DC protest against the Trumpist occupation at 14th & U. We're being cheered by a metric crapton of cars and passers-by. Cops stationed at the end of every block nearby but keeping their distance so far.
Things like this give me hope that the American people will not surrender to fascism.
We have marched down U Street and shut down traffic."
VIA: @zachbrand-wiita.bsky.social‬
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2025-08-23 08:38:20 GMT

We spoke with @npub1h9q…fkmf on how protests against ICE continue in #Portland, as the state responds with targeted repression and violence against the entire community.
"The violence they’ve inflicted has sent at least 11 people to the hospital with serious injuries. They’ve fired tear gas and munitions in massive quantities, sometimes shooting munitions from rooftops. People have been arrested on fabricated charges, detained, ID’d, and released. Neighbors by the facility are buying gas masks for their toddlers because of all the chemical weapons seeping into their homes. It’s bad."
https://itsgoingdown.org/interview-with-alissa-azar-pdx/

2025-08-23 06:55:05 GMT

"DC residents are routinely reporting such sightings on ICEblock, an iPhone app tailor-made for locals to pinpoint ICE agents in real time. There’s also an emergency hotline (202-335-1183), which then shares the reports with the immigrant community. Beyond these dedicated spaces, I’m also seeing neighbors post sightings of law enforcement and police checkpoints on Nextdoor, which historically has been known as a watering hole for nosy neighbors and humdrum bigots, but in DC—at least recently—has turned into a space where people are trying to help strangers."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/08/dc-pushback-national-gauard-ice-federal-agents-protest/

2025-08-23 06:35:52 GMT

"A free media fair to inspire & nurture radical ideas & action in the Sierra Foothills..."
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/08/22/18879181.php

2025-08-23 06:33:25 GMT

"Sanctuary for all can now only arise from the militant rebellions for total autonomy."
https://reexist.noblogs.org/bulletin/rex3/
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2025-08-23 06:32:22 GMT

"The half-dozen individuals—who also wore gloves, hoods and sunglasses—arrived at Kiln on foot from Southeast 11th Avenue. They threw balls of paint at the Kiln office and spray-painted nearby parked cars before departing on foot. People came out from Kiln’s building just as the group left the property. “Fuck AI” was tagged in pink paint across a vehicle parked close to the entry of the building.
Papers left behind at Kiln after the vandalism tell of a “Butlerian Jihad Against AI,” a reference to the Legends of Dune prequel trilogy by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson depicting a war of humanity versus robots and computers."
https://rosecitycounterinfo.noblogs.org/2025/08/ai-event-crashed-in-se-portland-vehicles-vandalized/
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2025-08-22 06:12:57 GMT

"As activists continue a push to draw awareness to the largest federal detention center in Pennsylvania, a protest is planned for Sunday in Philipsburg, just a few miles from the Moshannon Valley Processing Center."
https://www.centredaily.com/news/local/community/philipsburg/article311759328.html
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2025-08-22 06:11:37 GMT

"A new viral video has surfaced of an unnamed resident of Mount Pleasant standing toe-to-toe with a pack of plain-clothed agents on a surveillance sting near the “Chinga La Migra” banner that ICE yanked down over the weekend. "
https://migrantinsider.com/p/epic-video-mount-pleasant-resident

2025-08-22 06:08:56 GMT

Demonstrations and campaigns remain ongoing against Tech-Right surveillance giant, Palantir.
https://truthout.org/articles/organizers-are-demanding-palantir-drop-contracts-with-ice-and-israeli-military/

2025-08-21 17:34:31 GMT

"Several antifascists in Augsburg, Germany can answer that question posed by The Clash years ago. You see, after antifa in that city were successful in confronting fascist “identitarian” leader Martin Sellner and his stooges and running them out, police decided this was a “crime.” The cops, excited about getting to cosplay the military, launched a series of pre-dawn raids on the homes of antifascists around the city, smashing in doors and completely trashing the homes they raided. This was all done in support of charges of ” aggravated breach of the peace.”
https://intlantifadefence.wordpress.com/2025/08/21/when-they-kick-at-your-front-door-how-you-gonna-come/

2025-08-21 17:33:48 GMT

New interview with Andrew Lee out on Truthout.
https://truthout.org/audio/resisting-the-authoritarian-city-block-by-block/

2025-08-21 06:15:24 GMT

"Federal immigration agents pepper-sprayed protesters and a reporter in San Francisco on Wednesday, after arresting an asylum-seeker in immigration court that morning. In a chaotic street scene caught on video, the agents pulled out batons and tasers and tackled several protesters to the ground, detaining at least one."
https://missionlocal.org/2025/08/ice-agents-pepper-spray-protesters-arrest-one-in-downtown-s-f/

2025-08-20 07:00:18 GMT

“There are millions of our people in this country. And if we were to organize ourselves, we absolutely can defend ourselves.”
https://truthout.org/articles/organizers-mobilized-community-self-defense-even-before-trumps-la-ice-crackdown/

2025-08-16 06:45:56 GMT

Wheatpaste in DC.
VIA: ‪@/missmouse.bsky.social‬
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2025-08-15 07:26:47 GMT

"More than 100 protesters gathered late Wednesday at a checkpoint set up by a combination of local and federal officers on a popular street in Washington, D.C., where U.S. President Donald Trump has taken over the police force and deployed around 800 National Guard members as part of what he hopes will be a long-term occupation of the country’s capital — and potentially other major cities."
https://truthout.org/articles/get-off-our-streets-dc-residents-protest-federal-agents-running-checkpoint/

2025-08-12 07:48:55 GMT

"As night time set around the District, there was a report that the newly federalized police force had set up a checkpoint at the large intersection of New York Avenue and Bladensberg Road. Every car that passed that intersection was being stopped and its driver queried.
Police were seen in force at many metro train stop platforms throughout the day and were visible in high numbers particularly in the downtown area. Squads of police were recorded roving near the African American Museum and the Washington Monument. Groups of federalized police were also roving in downtown shopping areas.
FreeDCProject has published a series of bulletins on its website outlining what the residents of DC can do to ensure safe DC communities even though the Federal government is not acting in the city’s best interests. They urged residents not to obey in advance, to put up banners and signs resisting the takeover, to speak to their neighbors about what was happening, to organize resistance campaigns while expressing joy and camaraderie, to resist the takeover."
https://dcmediagroup.us/2025/08/12/dc-grassroots-groups-prepare-for-authoritarian-takeover-of-city/

2025-08-10 20:01:58 GMT

Over 1,000 people hit the streets against ICE in Overland Park, #Kansas, after DHS abducted workers at several restaurants.
https://www.kctv5.com/2025/08/09/protesters-overland-park-rally-against-ice-presence-metro/

2025-08-10 18:28:27 GMT

"Across the country, communities are not waiting for rescue. They’re organizing mutual aid, defending each other, and building infrastructure that authoritarianism can’t dismantle.
Version 2 of Resist Project 2025: A Radical Guide to Countering Authoritarianism in the U.S. expands on the first edition..."
VIA @npub1xf0…xj3x
https://www.radical-guide.com/resist-project-2025-version-2-out-now/

2025-08-10 18:23:49 GMT

This reports that the KKK is "planning to hold events in August in Indiana and Ohio, and an event in September in Tazewell, Tennessee."
Read more here:
https://www.radicalreports.org/p/morning-briefing-kkk-events

2025-08-10 06:49:56 GMT

New leaked documents show that the Trump administration is using tariffs to push "other nations to provide concessions for individual companies including Chevron, one of the world’s 10 largest oil producers, and Elon Musk’s Starlink," as well as expand imperial US military interests.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/08/09/trump-trade-policy-national-security/

2025-08-10 06:35:47 GMT

"Due to unchecked state repression, people present at the noise demonstration are now facing decades of prison time and years of pre-trial detention, regardless of their actions or knowledge. For weeks, local and federal agents have terrorized friends and family members of those arrested at the rally, serving no-knock warrants and conducting widespread surveillance. Multiple people arrested were not even at the demonstration on July 4th. Most defendants remain detained without formal charges, without legal representation, and in limbo between state and federal jurisdiction. Finding attorneys has been extremely difficult given the incredibly repressive behavior of the government.
We are witnessing state repression in real time. It is clear that police and prosecutors hope that the deplorable conditions of imprisonment will break the defendants and compel cooperation under duress. State and federal agents are wielding their power to silence people who dissent, to terrify and deter the public from exercising their rights to protest, and to make an example of the Prairieland Defendants in order to quash anti-ICE speech. The government seems determined to criminalize everyone even remotely related to the July 4th rally, regardless of their level of involvement. The flurry of arrests and severe charges are meant to suppress political organizing and free speech."
https://www.nlg.org/nlg-stands-in-support-of-the-prairieland-defendants-facing-unchecked-federal-repression/
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2025-08-07 08:50:18 GMT

New edition of In Contempt just dropped, share, read, and contribute to movements and struggles against state repression.
(photo via @npub1h9q…fkmf h/t)
https://itsgoingdown.org/in-contempt-55

2025-08-06 08:01:11 GMT

"What gives me the strength to continue this work is first my love for my country and second my parents who always told me that I must continue to help people because the people in Gaza need help and I made a decision that I will continue to help people even if it costs me my life."
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/08/06/mutual-aid-in-gaza-i-will-continue-to-help-people-even-if-it-costs-me-my-life/

2025-08-03 19:06:01 GMT

“We have people patrolling all over the city starting at 5:30 in the morning."
"Yet if Los Angeles is a testing ground for mass deportation, it’s also a place to see how the resistance is evolving."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/opinion/ice-immigration-protest-resistance.html

2025-08-03 06:25:08 GMT

"This morning, the Heart of Texas Network for Immigrant Rights hosted a protest in support of Waco construction worker Noe Guerrero, who was arrested by ICE on July 24.
Guerrero was arrested for failing to carry ID documents. His employer states that the documents were in Guerrero’s truck.
Yesterday, federal criminal charges against Guerrero were dropped, meaning he will soon be released from jail and into ICE custody."
https://www.kwtx.com/2025/08/03/community-protests-ice-arrest-waco-worker-noe-guerrero/

2025-08-03 06:10:58 GMT

"Did you not realize what this would be, being f*cking Gestapo, being Nazis? You didn't realize what this would be like. You should quit! Quit now, quit! Now, you Nazi f*ck. Quit your job. It's gonna be like this every f*cking day you're coming. Every day, anytime you try to kidnap people, we are gonna be here!” A rapid responder yelled at fleeing ICE agents in Kansas.
As ICE and HSI raided two El Toro Loco locations in Lenexa and Kansas City, Kansas on Wednesday, rapid responders mobilized to both locations. In Lenexa, they chased HSI out of the restaurant, documenting on video the agents’ faces, vehicles, failure to show a warrant, and more.
https://www.thedailypoliticususa.com/p/americans-say-no-as-terrified-ice

2025-08-03 06:00:40 GMT

"They're terrified."
"Did you not realize what this would be? Being fucking gestapo, being Nazis?"
People in Missouri confront ICE. Run them out of restaurant.
Via @/pabloreports
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2025-08-02 06:39:09 GMT

“I don’t want food, I refuse any treatment. I didn’t even ask to be taken to the hospital, because I’m fighting for my family and all Cubans, and I belong where my people are, in prison, suffering the same hardship they are.”
https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-07-31/the-cuban-migrant-on-hunger-strike-at-alligator-alcatraz-its-up-to-them-to-decide-whether-i-live-or-die.html

2025-07-29 16:41:20 GMT

"During our multiple discussions, we look at the recent deployment of the military into Los Angeles, CA, the ramping up of ICE raids and arrests across the US, and the passing of the Republican so-called “Big Beautiful Bill,” which ear-marks billions for war and the deportation machine, while cutting taxes on the ultra-wealthy and corporations, and slashing social services, health-care, and food assistance for the poor. Already, which has lead to rural hospitals being threatened with closure as food banks struggle to keep up with demand."
https://itsgoingdown.org/big-beautiful-social-war-six-months-into-trump-2-0/

2025-07-29 16:35:41 GMT

"US immigration officers made false and misleading statements in their reports about several Los Angeles protesters they arrested during the massive demonstrations that rocked the city in June, according to federal law enforcement files obtained by the Guardian.
The officers’ testimony was cited in at least five cases filed by the US Department of Justice amid the unrest. The justice department has charged at least 26 people with “assaulting” and “impeding” federal officers and other crimes during the protests over immigration raids. Prosecutors, however, have since been forced to dismiss at least eight of those felonies, many of them which relied on officers’ inaccurate reports, court records show."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/28/doj-la-protesters-false-claims

2025-07-29 16:28:34 GMT

"In our latest, we talk to Texas based journalist Candice Bernd about the devastating floods that hit the Hill Country on July 4th weekend. We discuss the effect of the floods on locals, failures of early warning systems, how DOGE’s cuts to the federal government contributed to it, and how mutual aid has stepped in to support the community."
https://greenandredpodcast.org/2025/07/29/texas-floods-epic-fails-and-mutual-aid-in-the-hill-country-w-journalist-candice-bernd/

2025-07-29 16:07:39 GMT

"Amazon Labor Union founder Chris Smalls was beaten after the IDF arrested him while trying to break the siege of Gaza with the Freedom Flotilla Coalition."
https://paydayreport.com/chris-smalls-union-prez-teamsters-sean-obrien-silent-on-beating-by-idf-promotes-right-winger-on-social-media-instead/

2025-07-27 02:56:40 GMT

"This piece aims to refresh and refine our thinking around the concepts of Leadership, Organization, and Spontaneity, and in particular examine the actual relationship between these very real phenomena in on-the-ground, combative struggles versus how they are conceived of in the largely stale imagination of the American Left. While the Leninist and nonprofit Left(s) probably deserve the most scrutiny here, it must be said that much of anarchism has done us no favors in clarifying the mess either, and often makes the confusion even worse."
https://itsgoingdown.org/all-cocoons-are-temporary-revisiting-leadership-spontaneity-and-organization-for-revolutionary-struggles-in-the-21st-century/

2025-07-27 02:42:23 GMT

Brand new episode from @npub1qzd…6d5w - featuring interviews with leading organizers and authors, analyzing Trump 2.0, six months into the administration.
"During our multiple discussions, we look at the recent deployment of the military into Los Angeles, CA, the ramping up of ICE raids and arrests across the US, and the passing of the Republican so-called “Big Beautiful Bill,” which ear-marks billions for war and the deportation machine, while cutting taxes on the ultra-wealthy and corporations, and slashing social services, health-care, and food assistance for the poor. Already, which has lead to rural hospitals being threatened with closure as food banks struggle to keep up with demand."
https://itsgoingdown.org/big-beautiful-social-war-six-months-into-trump-2-0/

2025-07-27 02:29:12 GMT

Mutual aid groups on the ground in #Palestine are taking action daily but need support.
Check out our guide here:
https://itsgoingdown.org/your-guide-on-how-to-support-mutual-aid-groups-in-palestine-as-humanitarian-crisis-deepens/

2025-07-25 18:48:17 GMT

With full support from the US government, 2 million people are being threatened with starvation, as the state of Israel continues to carry out the ongoing ethnic-cleansing of #Palestine.
We've created a list of on-the-ground mutual aid groups that are doing direct support and distribution of supplies, with easy links so you can boost, support, and amplify.
All of us can organize benefit events and show material solidarity with people in Gaza organizing to provide mutual aid.
Check out here: https://itsgoingdown.org/your-guide-on-how-to-support-mutual-aid-groups-in-palestine-as-humanitarian-crisis-deepens/

2025-07-25 01:55:26 GMT

Don't miss the latest episode of @npub1qzd…6d5w - featuring interviews with multiple authors and organizers, including Silky Shaw, Jessica Pishko, Vicky Osterweil, and Kristian Williams, about six months into the second Trump administration and the terrain ahead after the passing of the Republican budget bill.
https://itsgoingdown.org/big-beautiful-social-war-six-months-into-trump-2-0/

2025-07-24 08:02:37 GMT

“Since we started organizing the union, a lot of us have gotten lease violations, which we're gonna burn today."
#Kentucky https://www.lpm.org/news/2025-07-23/renters-burn-lease-violations-as-tenants-union-seeks-to-expand-in-kentucky

2025-07-22 08:37:41 GMT

"Scott says one of the most notable finds was an [Atlanta Police Foundation] letter lobbying the Atlanta City Council to stop a public referendum campaign, which sought to cancel the facility’s ground lease through a citywide vote."
https://www.wabe.org/atlanta-community-press-collective-publishes-open-records-from-police-foundation-lawsuit/
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2025-07-22 02:37:36 GMT

Deep-dive into the Northwest Pioneer Association (NPA), a neo-Nazi group in the Pacific Northwest that includes an active military instructor at West Point.
https://pugetsoundanarchists.org/dragged-into-moonlight-part-i/
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2025-07-22 00:45:43 GMT

Statement from Jakhi McCray in New York. Support rally was held today in outside of court. For more updates, check out: https://bsky.app/profile/freejakhi.bsky.social
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It has been one month since the NYPD & the U.S. government came after me, accusing me of setting fire to police vehicles belonging to the 83rd precinct in Brooklyn. According to them, $800,000 worth of damage was done & the charred remains of the vehicles represented a direct attack on the police.
Today, July 21st, I walked into the 83rd precinct & turned myself in. There's a real chance that I won't see the outside of a cell for years. but I make this choice clear of mind &, in a naive way, hopeful. It's a hope that comes from feeling loved & supported by my friends, my family, & my comrades that have rallied in support of me in wake of the accusations. It's a feeling that I cherish & will hold on to in the now uncertain timeline of my life. I'm 21 years old & I know it's normal to be unsure about life & the world, but I want to thank you-whether I know you or you're just meeting me for the first time now—for giving me some comfort in all this.
My charge comes with a minimum sentence of five years & a maximum of 20. The federal government has labeled me "armed & dangerous" & blasted a $30,000 bounty for my capture, which Zionist & white supremacist news outlets have happily supported in their racist doxxing & smear campaign against me. My home has been raided alongside two other addresses in New York City, & my little siblings had assault rifles brandished at them as they were harassed & forced outside.
I'm not, nor was I ever, scared. This scare tactic is nothing compared to other black people that are beaten &/or murdered, & their names being dragged through the mud as the media does damage control for the officers that did it. It's not new to Palestinians & Arabs that are being assassinated, deported, & harassed. I've met immigrants that live under daily paranoia. not knowing whether or not ICE goons will bust through their doors & kidnap their families.
I've been arrested 12 times before this, & doxxed & lied about by fascist press & police officers alike. I've seen friends & comrades lose relationships, homes, & jobs because of their refusal to be responsible for the genocide in Palestine & the kidnapping of migrants. The SCC61, the CUNY8, the Prarieland 11, the 2020 prisoners, Tarek Barzouk, Leqaa Kordia—all just a few current examples of the government's attempt to regain control. The use of COINTELPRO & its domestic warfare campaign that left hundreds of dead & imprisoned revolutionaries throughout the 20th century & now has caused a memory crater in our movement, where we don't know how to handle the brutality of State repression.
Repression is the State trying to call our bluff. It is intense because it shows itself when our potential to disrupt genocides & capital becomes too grand to ignore. Millions of people, whether they consider themselves revolutionaries or not, that participated in the encampments, the anti-ICE street rebellions, & the George Floyd Uprising have helped create a social crisis in the last five years that continues to bring in millions more & fuel the need for liberation.
The constant effort it takes the State to oppress us is not manageable. It is already breaking, with the funding & hiring disasters in federal agencies, the infighting between the Trump administration & his base, & the complete political catastrophe over Israel. The harshness of the State's eye on our movement is nothing more than a defensive reaction. a mask from their fear. This is as much of a make or break moment for them as it is for us. If we come out of this with our solidarity & our infrastructure intact, it is a monumental win for our communities & a devastation to our enemies.
Our greatest strength is each other-that we are not just coworkers maintaining appearances for the duration of a shift. We are comrades, & with that comes a promise to love, defend, & fight for one another. Because you are my comrades, I hold this promise towards all of you. I don't know what will happen now, but I do know that I will never stop fighting & I will do my best wherever I find myself to be.
With love & solidarity, Jakhi
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2025-07-20 18:29:31 GMT

Brand new from @npub1c2k…dpz5 - a collection of short stories of resistance to fascism, white supremacy, ICE, and rising authoritarianism.
"This zine, then, is a small sampler of acts of solidarity that just might keep us safer under fascism in order to get more of us to the other side, toward a world without fascism."
Includes PDFs for printing zines. Read here: https://itsgoingdown.org/everyday-antifascism-14-ways-that-solidarity-keeps-us-safer/

2025-07-20 06:47:36 GMT

Soccer fans in #Seattle, WA hold up "Chinga La Migra" banners.
Photo via: @/hothouseearth.bsky.social‬
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2025-07-20 06:27:27 GMT

"We must fight to build real bonds and projects of mutual aid based in solidarity with those attacked and displaced by the systems of exploitation, while mobilizing against our common enemies."
https://itsgoingdown.org/the-enemy-arrives-by-limo

2025-07-20 06:07:58 GMT

“When the ICE raids started to become more brutal in L.A., we thought we couldn’t go to the next Fire home game and not recognize what is going on. It didn’t feel right,” says Cubeta. “We came up with this design that was Spanglish and tied into the Fire.”
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/mls-protests-fan-groups-boycott-team-silence-ice-raids-1235387537/

2025-07-20 01:33:34 GMT

Amazing record of local anarcho-punk project in the PNW!
"Sabotage Noise describes itself as “the Salish Sea’s premier scuzzy punk zine.” It has been published since mid-2023 by Sabotage Noise Productions, a Kitsap County-based benefit show booking collective. As of 2025 the zine has an average monthly circulation over 2,000 and can be found at a variety of spaces around the region including cafes, bookstores, record stores, dive bars, and more."
https://historicalseditions.noblogs.org/post/2025/07/18/sabotage-noise-2023-present-digitized/
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2025-07-17 17:49:02 GMT

Free the Spokane 9.
"The arrests in #Spokane — not the first time in recent weeks that the government has aggressively gone after anyone involved in resisting the ICE raids — are a window into how this police state plans to operate."
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-protesters-arrested-spokane-20250717.html

2025-07-17 17:36:38 GMT

Posted by Ghassan Shamieh, attorney in San Francisco about how community mobilizations against ICE are blocking deportations and keeping people safe.
"This is what people power looks like...It's thanks to these protesters that ICE has not shown up to immigration courts...So when you ask what can you do, this is exactly what you can do. Organize in your communities, show up to immigration courts and scare ICE away, just like these folks do.
Actions like these literally save lives. Because of their action today, ICE didn't show up."
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/869/767/566/292/980/original/68832d98a304e77b.mp4

2025-07-17 17:13:11 GMT

Brand new from @npub1c2k…dpz5 - a collection of short stories of resistance to fascism, white supremacy, ICE, and rising authoritarianism.
"This zine, then, is a small sampler of acts of solidarity that just might keep us safer under fascism in order to get more of us to the other side, toward a world without fascism."
Includes PDFs for printing zines. Read here:
https://itsgoingdown.org/everyday-antifascism-14-ways-that-solidarity-keeps-us-safer/

2025-07-16 20:34:39 GMT

They're slashing health-care and shuttering rural hospitals.
They're cutting disaster response as fires rage and flood waters rise.
Food banks are seeing pantries run dry as inflation rises.
It's cool though - the DHS is posting based white nationalist memes from 2016.
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2025-07-16 20:18:41 GMT

Several #Michigan hospitals being threatened with closure after new Trump cuts.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/michigan-advocates-warn-medicaid-cuts-192949564.html

2025-07-16 19:51:04 GMT

“This politically motivated action is a perversion of our justice system,” [the Mayor of Spokane] said in a statement Tuesday morning. “The Trump Administration’s weaponization of ICE and the (Department of Justice) is trampling on the U.S. Constitution and creating widespread fear across our community.”
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/federal-agents-arrest-spokane-ice-protesters/

2025-07-16 19:47:18 GMT

New update posted support/crowd-funding page of DFW prisoners arrested during recent raids. States that arrestees are being denied basic rights and access to legal representation. From most recent update:
"Johnson County Jail is obstructing the defendants’ access to legal representation and retaliating against them for exercising their 5th and 6th amendment rights pursuant to the U.S. Constitution. These constitutional violations have occurred in conjunction with a far-reaching investigation that has included numerous instances of excessive force and intimidation by various police agencies, friends and family of the defendants reveal.
A majority of defendants remain without legal counsel in violation of the 6th amendment. At least three defendants have been denied their requests for a public defender on the grounds of alleged “incomplete paperwork.” The DFW Support Committee, a group of family and friends of the defendants, said that, “this delay or denial of the right to counsel appears to be in retaliation to the defendants’ lawful right to refuse to speak to law enforcement without their lawyer present and is an egregious violation of their constitutional rights.”
In response to one of the defendants exercising their constitutional rights, Johnson County Jail has transferred this person to a solitary medical unit, despite the fact this person has no medical issues or needs. “I am completely appalled at the way their constitutional rights have been ignored,” this defendants mother said, “I grow increasingly concerned for their safety and well-being with each passing day.”
Johnson County’s use of segregation and isolation of pretrial detainees — presumed innocent until or unless convicted at trial — amounts to torture and excessive force used to punish and coerce these defendants in contravention of federal and state law.
Defendants’ friends and family report raids of their homes where agents deployed flashbang grenades, caused extensive damage, and detained spouses, family members and housemates without cause. In one instance, federal agents tackled the adult child of a defendant and put a bag over their head before arresting them and transporting them to jail. “I was terrified, I had no idea what was going on,” the child later said. During this interrogation, agents offered this person monetary bribes in exchange for information, which of course were refused. Police also attempted to extort them by offering to “get rid of a warrant” if they cooperated with the law enforcement investigation. "
See full update here: https://www.givesendgo.com/supportdfwprotestors
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2025-07-16 19:40:04 GMT

"The overlapping missions of military forces and civilian law enforcement in the U.S. have blurred lines, sown confusion, and pushed the U.S. further down the path of becoming a police state."
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/16/federal-troops-la-doing-nothing/

2025-07-16 19:37:54 GMT

"Being situated between radical upheavals is no cause for dejection—unless we squander the opportunity given to us. That requires us to be serious, as serious at developing movement capacities as we are at developing our resumes, relationships, or beach bodies. It means preparation and work, just like a job application or exercise regimen."
https://instruggle.substack.com/p/capacity

2025-07-16 19:36:51 GMT

"..[T]he One Big Beautiful Bill...gutted public food and healthcare safety nets, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Medicaid, while also codifying massive tax breaks for wealthier individuals and major corporations. The devastation in Texas, then, became the first major disaster to expose the grave effects of Trump’s extensive disinvestment from disaster resilience programs — and his administration’s newest food and hunger policies."
https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-funding-cuts-force-food-banks-to-ration-meals-for-texas-flood-survivors/

2025-07-15 19:22:31 GMT

"Early Tuesday morning, federal authorities and the Spokane Police executed arrest warrants on at least nine Spokanites who were part of the June 11 protest at Spokane’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office.
Archer’s arrest represents a real escalation by the US government to pursue federal charges against someone who had no local charges pressed. It’s not clear what charges they are being held under."
https://rangemedia.co/spokane-activists-arrested-federal-agents-ice-protests/

2025-07-12 09:04:19 GMT

"An injury to one, is an injury to all."
Jamie Garcia, murdered by ICE.
"My uncle Jaime was just a hard-working, innocent farmer. He was chased by ICE agents, and we were told he fell 30ft.
They took one of our family members. We need justice."
Support fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/f/jaime-alanis-farm-worker-glasshousefarms
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2025-07-12 08:07:51 GMT

"On Thursday federal immigration agents joined by National Guard soldiers carried out two brutal immigration raids in Carpinteria and Camarillo, California, which left at least one worker dead and several others hospitalized. Reports indicate as many as 200 people have been taken by the immigration Gestapo.
In a post on social media, the United Farm Workers union confirmed that a “farm worker” died of injuries “sustained as a result of yesterday’s immigration enforcement action.”
In a GoFundMe, Yeseni Duran said her uncle Jaime Garcia, “was chased by ICE agents and we were told he fell 30 [feet].” In an interview with ABC 7, Garcia’s family confirmed he had broken his neck and skull.
Duran wrote that her uncle lived in Mexico with his family but worked in the US to help provide for them. “He was his family’s provider. They took one of our family members. We need justice. We are still investigating what happened. More details to come.”
In an expression of the massive anger the fascist raids have provoked among large sections of the population, less than 24 hours after the GoFundMe for Jaime was established it has already exceeded its $50,000 goal.
The UFW confirmed that several farm workers were “critically injured” during the raid and that “US citizens, remain unaccounted for.
Pointing to a massive government cover-up, the UFW reported that “Many workers- including US citizens, were held by federal authorities at the farm for 8 hours or more. US citizen workers report only being released after they were forced to delete photos and videos of the raid from their phones.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/12/dvzx-j12.html

2025-07-11 19:40:59 GMT

New statement posted to legal fundraiser for those arrested in #Texas at anti-ICE rally:
"We do not know what happened at the Prairieland Detention Center on July 4th, but we do know that 11 people were arrested and still sit in jail without legal representation. The framing of the case by the federal government should be concerning to all of us. The glaring inconsistencies in the official narrative and the alarmist accusations are a clear attempt to bolster the Trump administration’s claims that the United States is on the verge of chaos, warranting a dramatic increase in militarized police action. This, in turn, will almost certainly be used as a justification for broader expansion of repression not only of popular movements but all political activity in opposition to Trump and his regime. As such, what is happening to the 11 people connected to the Prairieland Detention Center protest should be a concern for anyone who does not want to see this country descend further into authoritarianism.
The Trump administration has consistently shown that it lies and distorts facts to advance its political narratives. In particular, they created news and propaganda that seem to confirm the far-right conspiracy theories that have fed Trump’s rise to power. Time and again these narratives have been proven false and dangerous.
These 11 people are some of the first arrested under this unbelievable narrative, but we should expect this sort of repression to spread further and wider. Trump does not distinguish between these defendants, Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Socialists of America, 50501, or anyone else standing against him. They are coming for undocumented migrants, they are coming for supporters of Palestine, they are coming for those protesting ICE’s violence.
The first months of this administration have been a disaster. People have been kidnapped in broad daylight by masked agents and sent to hellish prison camps in other countries, with detention centers like Prarieland as stopping points along the way. Natural disasters have killed hundreds with little warning or care from the government, and even now we’re still trying to count the losses from flooding in North Texas. Decades of advancement in public health have being eviscerated: measles killed more children in Texas in the last month than in the last 30 years. Transgender people are being erased from our society. US-made bombs are slaughtering millions around the world. The list goes on. People see the nightmare that is unfolding, and the state is furiously looking for ways to distract, confuse, immobilize, and terrify. In this context, it should be clear that these recent criminal charges in Alvarado, Texas, are a dangerous and unconscionable stunt in service of this goal."
Read full statement here: https://www.givesendgo.com/supportdfwprotestors
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2025-07-10 21:31:25 GMT

"In prisons across the country, people experience mental and physical health impacts from indoor environmental conditions unique to incarceration, including mold outbreaks, arsenic and radon exposure, Legionnaires disease, Valley Fever, sewage leaks… In a case I studied, a prisoner in Michigan documented a rare blood poisoning condition connected to prolonged exposure to methane from a sewage leak near his cell. A lot of us, I think, have either lived in houses or know people who lived in houses with indoor pollution, like black mold. But people don’t generally think about what it would be like to be stuck in a room full of black mold, with nowhere to go.
Everything in prison is just incredibly intensified. Take extreme heat. Some people might think that not having air conditioning is, like, a first world problem. But try going without air conditioning when you can’t get out of the building. In states like Florida and Texas, where prisons don’t have air conditioning, people are getting sick or dying from the heat."
https://itsgoingdown.org/panagioti-tsolkas-on-alligator-alcatraz-and-the-fight-against-toxic-prisons/

2025-07-10 21:19:05 GMT

Community members are bravely standing up to ICE troops attempting to conduct a mass raid on a cannabis greenhouse in Camarillo, CA.
People on the ground reporting that federal troops have continued to attack crowd with tear gas: https://www.instagram.com/p/DL8SP_DgfAa/
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2025-07-10 20:19:53 GMT

Mutual aid groups are mobilizing in the wake of massive flooding in North Carolina. Check out https://www.trianglemutualaid.org/ for more info.
For info on how to drop off supplies at the Raleigh United Mutual Aid Hub (RUMAH), go here: https://www.instagram.com/raleighunitedmutualaidhub/.
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