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Faith leaders have chained themselves to the doors of San Francisco's immigration courthouse, blockading the building in the predawn hours.
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missionlocal.org/2025/12/fait...
Faith leaders chain themselves to S.F. immigration court doors
Predawn action draws 100 or more interfaith leaders to blockade San Francisco's main immigration courthouse
missionlocal.org
December 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Faith leaders have chained themselves to the doors of San Francisco's immigration courthouse, blockading the building in the predawn hours.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/fait...
missionlocal.org/2025/12/fait...
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"The dominant narrative of reentry, measured narrowly through recidivism and framed around individual responsibility, fails to reflect the lived realities of those returning from incarceration."
Reentry Never Ends - B. Arneson & Bridget Conley - Inquest
When reincarceration rates are treated as the sole measure of success, we undervalue the work formerly incarcerated people do to heal and confront their traumas.
inquest.org
December 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
"The dominant narrative of reentry, measured narrowly through recidivism and framed around individual responsibility, fails to reflect the lived realities of those returning from incarceration."
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“It’s simple,” Marshall said. “We are a toy store that believes in social justice, and what ICE is doing, what Trump is doing in the Twin Cities is immoral and illegal.”
www.minnpost.com/metro/2025/1...
www.minnpost.com/metro/2025/1...
How whistles became a 'tool of resistance' against ICE raids
Twin Cities activists have distributed hundreds of whistles to help warn neighbors about federal immigration enforcement.
www.minnpost.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
“It’s simple,” Marshall said. “We are a toy store that believes in social justice, and what ICE is doing, what Trump is doing in the Twin Cities is immoral and illegal.”
www.minnpost.com/metro/2025/1...
www.minnpost.com/metro/2025/1...
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My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.
December 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.
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It's vital to continue seizing every moment to build lasting pro-democracy movement power.
December 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
It's vital to continue seizing every moment to build lasting pro-democracy movement power.
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The FBI is coming after those of us with "political and social agendas, including opposition to law and immigration enforcement; extreme views in favor of mass migration and open borders; adherence to radical gender ideology, anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, or anti-Christianity..."
FBI Making List of American “Extremists,” Leaked Memo Reveals
Are you on Trump's naughty list?
www.kenklippenstein.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:58 PM
The FBI is coming after those of us with "political and social agendas, including opposition to law and immigration enforcement; extreme views in favor of mass migration and open borders; adherence to radical gender ideology, anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, or anti-Christianity..."
“When you read about trouble on the border always discount the stories by one half. The demand for war in many of the American newspapers and especially in Texas is caused by speculators who want to make fortunes furnishing war supplies.” -Ernst Kohlberg, 1877 www.bostonreview.net/articles/pro...
Profiting in Nowhereland - Boston Review
The sordid histories behind Texas's industrial-scale immigration detention center.
www.bostonreview.net
November 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
“When you read about trouble on the border always discount the stories by one half. The demand for war in many of the American newspapers and especially in Texas is caused by speculators who want to make fortunes furnishing war supplies.” -Ernst Kohlberg, 1877 www.bostonreview.net/articles/pro...
“The right wing suppresses Black history because it ignites social movements. Black history transforms rage into activism by putting racist events into a larger story of struggle against oppression. It shines a light on a hidden past. It exposes the hypocrisy of MAGA.” truthout.org/articles/bla...
Black History Has the Power to Ignite Movements. That’s Why the Right Fears It.
The administration’s preemptive assault on history is a desperate attempt to stop new social movements from starting.
truthout.org
November 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
“The right wing suppresses Black history because it ignites social movements. Black history transforms rage into activism by putting racist events into a larger story of struggle against oppression. It shines a light on a hidden past. It exposes the hypocrisy of MAGA.” truthout.org/articles/bla...
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Mapping the shift from shock to the beginnings of mass action over the last 10 months of the anti-authoritarian struggle in the U.S.
We’re entering a new phase of the resistance
Mapping the shift from shock to the beginnings of mass action over the last 10 months of the anti-authoritarian struggle in the U.S.
wagingnonviolence.org
November 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Mapping the shift from shock to the beginnings of mass action over the last 10 months of the anti-authoritarian struggle in the U.S.
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Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
Donate - Native Organizers Alliance
Supporting organizing and advocacy initiatives for Indigenous justice.
nativeorganizing.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
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Home Depot on defense for their horrific enabling of ICE crimes. That means Ain't Buying It boycott is already working and it's not even Thanksgiving yet!
www.newsweek.com/home-depot-i...
www.newsweek.com/home-depot-i...
Home Depot speaks out about ICE involvement as boycott calls grow
The retailer's premises have become a key target of immigration enforcement activities in recent months.
www.newsweek.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Home Depot on defense for their horrific enabling of ICE crimes. That means Ain't Buying It boycott is already working and it's not even Thanksgiving yet!
www.newsweek.com/home-depot-i...
www.newsweek.com/home-depot-i...
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Great disruption in Monrovia, California
November 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Great disruption in Monrovia, California
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Authoritarians claim the power not just to tell all of our stories but to select the definitive story that says who we are, what our nature, why we're here, in order to cast themselves as both forever hero protagonists while also endlessly victimized.
November 23, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Authoritarians claim the power not just to tell all of our stories but to select the definitive story that says who we are, what our nature, why we're here, in order to cast themselves as both forever hero protagonists while also endlessly victimized.
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www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/22/c... [gift link]
Chicago activists share blueprint for resisting Border Patrol: ‘Chicago clearly is front and center’
As President Donald Trump’s ramped up Border Patrol action hits city after city, Chicago’s immigration-focused community organizers are following.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/22/c... [gift link]
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Maryland showing that our safety comes from looking after each other and refusing to comply with regime orders to commit their crimes against humanity. #BraveOfUS
www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/ne...
www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/ne...
DHS fires back as Maryland pushes bill to limit immigration enforcement
Tension is continuing to grow between some states and the federal government over ICE involvement at the local level, and that includes here in Maryland.
www.cbsnews.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Maryland showing that our safety comes from looking after each other and refusing to comply with regime orders to commit their crimes against humanity. #BraveOfUS
www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/ne...
www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/ne...
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Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.
November 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.
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"A citizens group in Ontario, California is spearheading an effort to make the community aware of incidents involving federal immigration agents.
They're placing signs at the locations that read, 'ICE stole someone here'..."
abc7.com/post/ontario...
They're placing signs at the locations that read, 'ICE stole someone here'..."
abc7.com/post/ontario...
Immigrant rights group placing 'ICE stole someone here' signs in Ontario
A citizens group in Ontario is spearheading an effort to make the community aware of incidents involving ICE agents detaining and arresting undocumented immigrants.
abc7.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:38 AM
"A citizens group in Ontario, California is spearheading an effort to make the community aware of incidents involving federal immigration agents.
They're placing signs at the locations that read, 'ICE stole someone here'..."
abc7.com/post/ontario...
They're placing signs at the locations that read, 'ICE stole someone here'..."
abc7.com/post/ontario...
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For Charlotte friends who want to prepare, we made our little whistle station with a plastic planter (drainage in the bottom in case it rains), zip ties, and no-heat lamination paper
November 15, 2025 at 11:34 PM
For Charlotte friends who want to prepare, we made our little whistle station with a plastic planter (drainage in the bottom in case it rains), zip ties, and no-heat lamination paper
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Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
November 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
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A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50.
I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
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I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
wapo.st/49WOdx1
Alice Wong, disability rights advocate and wordsmith, dies at 51
Alice Wong, a transformational leader for disability rights and justice, who founded the Disability Visibility project to magnify disabled culture, died Nov. 14.
wapo.st
November 16, 2025 at 12:22 AM
A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50.
I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
wapo.st/49WOdx1
I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
wapo.st/49WOdx1
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The idea that Trump built a durable, multiracial working-class coalition was always overstated. trib.al/lRrKDF5
Exit polls from New Jersey and Virginia show the GOP lost overwhelmingly among all three voting blocs: voters under age 30, Black voters, and Latinos.
Exit polls from New Jersey and Virginia show the GOP lost overwhelmingly among all three voting blocs: voters under age 30, Black voters, and Latinos.
The Young Voters and Minorities Who Backed Trump in 2024 Hate Him Now
Political analyst Michael Podhorzer discusses why the Republican candidates in New Jersey and Virginia came nowhere near matching Trump’s 2024 support among voters of color and young voters.
trib.al
November 16, 2025 at 3:57 AM
The idea that Trump built a durable, multiracial working-class coalition was always overstated. trib.al/lRrKDF5
Exit polls from New Jersey and Virginia show the GOP lost overwhelmingly among all three voting blocs: voters under age 30, Black voters, and Latinos.
Exit polls from New Jersey and Virginia show the GOP lost overwhelmingly among all three voting blocs: voters under age 30, Black voters, and Latinos.
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Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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The shutdown fight revealed that when tested, Democratic leadership chose the path of least resistance over using leverage to win.
Authoritarians don’t stop because you’re reasonable. They stop when you make the cost of continuing too high. antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/yes-this-w...
Authoritarians don’t stop because you’re reasonable. They stop when you make the cost of continuing too high. antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/yes-this-w...
Yes, This Was a Betrayal
Democrats Are Bringing Facts to a Fight For Power
antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The shutdown fight revealed that when tested, Democratic leadership chose the path of least resistance over using leverage to win.
Authoritarians don’t stop because you’re reasonable. They stop when you make the cost of continuing too high. antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/yes-this-w...
Authoritarians don’t stop because you’re reasonable. They stop when you make the cost of continuing too high. antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/yes-this-w...