Kalaya’an Mendoza
@kalamendoza.bsky.social
Your Protest Safety Kuya
Art by: Hsiao Jung
Art by: Hsiao Jung
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An ICE agent was caught removing a sign marking an ICE kidnapping in DC last week! Do we think he did it out of anger, embarrassment, or most appropriately shame? If you think what you’re doing is right, why are you trying to hide the evidence? 👀
November 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
An ICE agent was caught removing a sign marking an ICE kidnapping in DC last week! Do we think he did it out of anger, embarrassment, or most appropriately shame? If you think what you’re doing is right, why are you trying to hide the evidence? 👀
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Join ICE Out of NY for A Court Accompaniment Volunteer Training!
📆 Sat. Nov 15
🕙 10:00AM
🛜 Hybrid
📍In-Person at The People’s Forum, 320 W 37th St.
🌐Virtually on Zoom
🔗RSVP at peoplesforum.org/nov15
📆 Sat. Nov 15
🕙 10:00AM
🛜 Hybrid
📍In-Person at The People’s Forum, 320 W 37th St.
🌐Virtually on Zoom
🔗RSVP at peoplesforum.org/nov15
ICE Out of NY! Court Accompaniment Volunteer Training
The training covers basic rights when interacting with ICE and other law enforcement and how to stay safe, organized, and effective before, during, and after accompaniment.
peoplesforum.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Join ICE Out of NY for A Court Accompaniment Volunteer Training!
📆 Sat. Nov 15
🕙 10:00AM
🛜 Hybrid
📍In-Person at The People’s Forum, 320 W 37th St.
🌐Virtually on Zoom
🔗RSVP at peoplesforum.org/nov15
📆 Sat. Nov 15
🕙 10:00AM
🛜 Hybrid
📍In-Person at The People’s Forum, 320 W 37th St.
🌐Virtually on Zoom
🔗RSVP at peoplesforum.org/nov15
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I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
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Block fascists. There's no reasoning or arguing with them, you might as well debate with spoiled leftovers. Don't let them bait you. Block fast, block often, block fascists. Let their accounts mummify.
October 18, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Block fascists. There's no reasoning or arguing with them, you might as well debate with spoiled leftovers. Don't let them bait you. Block fast, block often, block fascists. Let their accounts mummify.
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acrossfrontlines.org/protestsafety provides key safety points to remember this Saturday:
• How to prepare before a protest
• How to stay safe during a protest
• Ways to provide care after a protest
• Know your rights at a protest
• Dealing with tear gas + pepper spray
🙏 @kalamendoza.bsky.social
• How to prepare before a protest
• How to stay safe during a protest
• Ways to provide care after a protest
• Know your rights at a protest
• Dealing with tear gas + pepper spray
🙏 @kalamendoza.bsky.social
![Screenshot of the top of the webpage "Our Protest Safety Guide" by Across Frontlines, the social justice capacity-building collective.
At the top of the screenshot, in dark-blue letters against a light-medium blue background appears the following text:
"At Across Frontlines, physical, emotional and mental safety is our top priority. We have created the following resources to help you get prepared before, during and after a protest. [Paragraph break] Please stay safe out there on the frontlines! [Paragraph break] #WeKeepUsSafe
Below this centered text are 5 dark-blue "buttons" that, when clicked on, scroll down to different components of the guide. The buttons read as follows:
• HOW TO PREPARE BEFORE A PROTEST OR ACTION
• HOW TO STAY SAFE DURING A PROTEST OR ACTION
• WAYS TO PROVIDE CARE AFTER A PROTEST OR ACTION
• KNOW YOUR RIGHTS AT A PROTEST OR ACTION
• DEALING WITH TEARGAS AND PEPPER SPRAY](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qjwdvmjdkvtjffx6ju2j4fy5/bafkreihnuvegkxm7qdiigmhqpz4p24ccvjojeuv4qarntzemuws2wlffqe@jpeg)
October 17, 2025 at 3:49 AM
acrossfrontlines.org/protestsafety provides key safety points to remember this Saturday:
• How to prepare before a protest
• How to stay safe during a protest
• Ways to provide care after a protest
• Know your rights at a protest
• Dealing with tear gas + pepper spray
🙏 @kalamendoza.bsky.social
• How to prepare before a protest
• How to stay safe during a protest
• Ways to provide care after a protest
• Know your rights at a protest
• Dealing with tear gas + pepper spray
🙏 @kalamendoza.bsky.social
Need a quick refresher some some protest safety basics? I got you.
We keep us safe.
acrossfrontlines.org/protestsafety
We keep us safe.
acrossfrontlines.org/protestsafety
Protest Safety Guide — Across Frontlines
acrossfrontlines.org
October 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Need a quick refresher some some protest safety basics? I got you.
We keep us safe.
acrossfrontlines.org/protestsafety
We keep us safe.
acrossfrontlines.org/protestsafety
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“It’s a form of resistance that requires us to put aside ego, and the need for personal gratification, to become a node in a living network of care, support, and defense.”
My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."
They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.
Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.
organizingmythoughts.org
October 13, 2025 at 1:35 AM
“It’s a form of resistance that requires us to put aside ego, and the need for personal gratification, to become a node in a living network of care, support, and defense.”
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Some people might laugh but there's something actually important in this as I have heard others talk about how a fear of dying is palpable among fascists. They carry hell with them in real life.
Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."
October 12, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Some people might laugh but there's something actually important in this as I have heard others talk about how a fear of dying is palpable among fascists. They carry hell with them in real life.
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Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?
October 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?
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I read this myself, I never miss a post even if it takes me a bit, but I've also found it valuable to send this specific one to other folks in recent days.
"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.
The Emergency Is the Atmosphere
“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."
organizingmythoughts.org
October 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I read this myself, I never miss a post even if it takes me a bit, but I've also found it valuable to send this specific one to other folks in recent days.
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aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.
It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
chicago.suntimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
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CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.
findmeatherapist.org
findmeatherapist.org
Find Me A Therapist
findmeatherapist.org
October 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.
findmeatherapist.org
findmeatherapist.org
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Free speech? What’s that?
US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport
Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Free speech? What’s that?
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![Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.
There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.
What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.
It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lzlqyldh7nfc34pfffvd24ko/bafkreiap6asa64jdjb2vlv4c2sdritjrntsibvsv7baj6o4cgwcfgsjeny@jpeg)
October 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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DHS is repelling from helicopters into apartment buildings to raid them and zip tie children in the middle of the night while saying "fuck them kids." They're shooting at people on the streets and lying about it.
This is a hostile occupying force that is a threat to everyone's safety.
This is a hostile occupying force that is a threat to everyone's safety.
October 7, 2025 at 12:12 AM
DHS is repelling from helicopters into apartment buildings to raid them and zip tie children in the middle of the night while saying "fuck them kids." They're shooting at people on the streets and lying about it.
This is a hostile occupying force that is a threat to everyone's safety.
This is a hostile occupying force that is a threat to everyone's safety.
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Pick one or two lanes and keep at it. You are one person and cannot do everything or take 10 actions a day.
October 2, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Pick one or two lanes and keep at it. You are one person and cannot do everything or take 10 actions a day.
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“And in this respect, I’m coming to understand the AI hype machine as part and parcel of the fascistic project. That’s not an analogy. I’m not saying AI is similar to fascism, or parallel to it. I’m saying AI is fascism.”
October 1, 2025 at 9:35 PM
“And in this respect, I’m coming to understand the AI hype machine as part and parcel of the fascistic project. That’s not an analogy. I’m not saying AI is similar to fascism, or parallel to it. I’m saying AI is fascism.”
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“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’”
It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.
It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.
ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground
ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.
abc7chicago.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:10 AM
“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’”
It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.
It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.
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RTing because at no point this week did I see this reported on. The powers at be want us to feel alone and isolated. You are not.
"No hate, no fear! Immigrants are welcome here!"
Absolutely massive crowd at the New Yorkers Against ICE march. Blocks long!
Absolutely massive crowd at the New Yorkers Against ICE march. Blocks long!
October 1, 2025 at 4:28 AM
RTing because at no point this week did I see this reported on. The powers at be want us to feel alone and isolated. You are not.
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It really can not be emphasized enough that "exaggerating the danger of the left" is a key, central tactic of aspiring fascists. Look back at every country that slid into authoritarianism & you'll find a campaign like this preceding it. Every time. It's part of the script.
How Trumpworld inflates the perceived danger of the left
It is stipulated at the outset that there have been gruesome acts of political violence in recent months that appear to have been motivated by hostility to right-wing politics or the administration. T...
www.pbump.net
September 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM
It really can not be emphasized enough that "exaggerating the danger of the left" is a key, central tactic of aspiring fascists. Look back at every country that slid into authoritarianism & you'll find a campaign like this preceding it. Every time. It's part of the script.
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In a rare move, members of the press have organized a rally in protest against rising repression following the arrest of *yet another* NY-based photojournalist for documenting the aftermath of a protest event.
3pm - Foley Square - 10/1
#JournalismIsNotACrime
3pm - Foley Square - 10/1
#JournalismIsNotACrime
September 30, 2025 at 12:58 AM
In a rare move, members of the press have organized a rally in protest against rising repression following the arrest of *yet another* NY-based photojournalist for documenting the aftermath of a protest event.
3pm - Foley Square - 10/1
#JournalismIsNotACrime
3pm - Foley Square - 10/1
#JournalismIsNotACrime
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Long before this deal, I recommended that users audit their TikTok use. Oracle had already started hosting U.S. TT user data on its servers a while back.
I do not doubt that the platform will be further farmed for user data without consideration or consent.
Always learn more at liberationtoolbox.io
I do not doubt that the platform will be further farmed for user data without consideration or consent.
Always learn more at liberationtoolbox.io
Liberation Toolbox by YK Hong
Liberatory Strategy + Tech Justice for our expansive world
liberationtoolbox.io
September 26, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Long before this deal, I recommended that users audit their TikTok use. Oracle had already started hosting U.S. TT user data on its servers a while back.
I do not doubt that the platform will be further farmed for user data without consideration or consent.
Always learn more at liberationtoolbox.io
I do not doubt that the platform will be further farmed for user data without consideration or consent.
Always learn more at liberationtoolbox.io
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Your reminder that they cannot arrest millions of people no matter how hard they try. They lack the infrastructure, they lack the personnel, and the economy would straight-up collapse
They are going to try to scare us by making examples out of a few people, and our job is to not fall for it
They are going to try to scare us by making examples out of a few people, and our job is to not fall for it
September 25, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Your reminder that they cannot arrest millions of people no matter how hard they try. They lack the infrastructure, they lack the personnel, and the economy would straight-up collapse
They are going to try to scare us by making examples out of a few people, and our job is to not fall for it
They are going to try to scare us by making examples out of a few people, and our job is to not fall for it
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#OtD 25 Sep 1903 abstract expressionist artist and anarchist Mark Rothko was born in a working-class, Jewish town in what is now Latvia. Moving to the US, he got involved in radical politics, including attending @IWW meetings stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9785...
September 25, 2025 at 4:12 AM
#OtD 25 Sep 1903 abstract expressionist artist and anarchist Mark Rothko was born in a working-class, Jewish town in what is now Latvia. Moving to the US, he got involved in radical politics, including attending @IWW meetings stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9785...
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While some boycotts can be about accountability, these boycotts now can end Empire if we are dedicated.
Don’t stop boycotting.
Don’t stop boycotting.
September 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
While some boycotts can be about accountability, these boycotts now can end Empire if we are dedicated.
Don’t stop boycotting.
Don’t stop boycotting.