Catherine Brown

Hurricanes Should Be Named After Fossil Fuel Executives, Climate Activist Says Jamaica remains in a state of emergency after being battered by one of the strongest Atlantic cyclones in history.

Jamaica remains in a state of emergency after being battered by Hurricane Melissa, one of the strongest Atlantic cyclones in history. Mikaela Loach, a climate justice activist, says the hurricane was “caused by the climate crisis,” and says hurricanes should be named after oil executives.

Lots of lovely folks want to cook for neighbors, fill community fridges during SNAP shutdown but are intimidated. A mutual aid group in Flatbush, Brooklyn has been feeding 80+ people every single week for a year and a half or so now. Nobody is born knowing how to cook for 80, so here's our guide!

Students walk out of Little Village schools, hold march in protest of recent ICE activity Little Village high school students walked the streets calling for an end to ICE and deportations in Chicago.

In an over 2-mile walk, hundreds of students made their way from Little Village Lawndale High School to the Little Village Arch, denouncing recent ICE action and supporting immigrant communities.

Donald Trump appeared to describe a dementia screening he underwent at Walter Reed Medical Center as a 'very hard' IQ test while speaking with reporters inside Air Force One

The NY Times and WaPo may be lost causes but holy shite look at PEOPLE out here absolutely killing it with 100% unvarnished truths 🌟

NYC Congressman Jamaal Bowman is in Seattle stumping for Katie Wilson @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social

He gave a fiery speech arguing Wilson represented hope and the future of the Democratic Party.

I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day

Did You Know?…

Working “the standard” 40 hours per week won’t cover a *two* bedroom apartment in *any* state

We’re at the Beginning, Not the End We’re at the Beginning, Not the End - How We Win by Rashad Robinson

I appreciated this analysis, which names both how racism is required by the fascist project, AND gives useful advice for interrupting harmful, passive framing of racist policies.

As ICE continues to terrorize our communities, kidnapping our neighbors, 9 cyclists came together this morning at 6am to buyout 5 vendors and donate the food to a local shelter. They went home safe, hungry ppl were fed, this is #BikeChi ✊🏽

Alabama has just executed Anthony Boyd tonight.

Lauren Gill explained so much that went wrong in his case and trial. Important to not look away.

The vibes of this account are consistently IMMACULATE. This post is just one example. Thank you.

Support the Stanford 12! Drop the charges on students! We, students, faculty, community members, and concerned organizations, demand that the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office drop the felony charges brought against twelve Stanford University ...

stanford is pushing for felony charges against 11 protestors for Palestine, and demanding hundreds of thousands of dollars in restitution. you can sign this open letter petitioning them to drop the charges (thanks @timnitgebru.bsky.social for putting this on my radar)

Known Lethal U.S. Attacks on Civilian Vessels in the Caribbean Total reported killed: 34 people Notification Date Number Reported Killed Approximate Location Notification URL September 2, 2025 11 “in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility” (later revealed as between Sucre, Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago) View September 15, 2025 3 “in International Waters… in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility”; Colombian president claimed it was a fishing boat in Colombian waters View September 19, 2025 3 “in international waters… in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility” near the Dominican Republic View October 3, 2025 4 “in international waters just off the coast of Venezuela” View October 14, 2025 6 “in International Waters… just off the Coast of Venezuela” View October 16, 2025 2; 2 reported survivors “in the Caribbean” View October 17, 2025 3 “in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility” View October 21, 2025 2 “in the Eastern Pacific” View

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death.

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Electeds like to say that budgets are statements of values. Sure feel like the fact that a 6-month-old police officer makes twice as much as a new teacher in Seattle is a statement!

Less than 2 weeks until publication. I’m still busy as hell working in concert with my community to respond to a federal invasion and regular attacks on our neighbors and their defenders. Any help getting the word out about this book, which I believe can help us all right now, is deeply appreciated.

The best time to abolish ICE would have been in 2021. The next best time is if we win in 2028. At this point, any Democrat unwilling to abolish ICE must be drummed out of the primary.

TOMORROW: Join us as we stand with Congresswoman McIver as she heads into court.

The Trump administration is attempting to silence opposition through fear, but New Jersey will not be intimidated by authoritarianism.

📍 50 Walnut St, Newark, NJ
🕚 11:15 AM | Tuesday, Oct 21

Update to Whistle protocol in Chicago:

Code Red signal (ICE is detaining someone) has been modified to continuous blast.

Transitions Magazine is coming out with an issue entirely dedicated to Sudan soon with essays, memoir, and short fiction by Rogaia Abusharaf, Jamal Mahjoub, Fatin Abbas, Ahmed Abdel Al, Wagas Elsadig, Suzi Mirghani, and David Mikhail.

One thing the AWS outage should show is that these companies are far more embedded at the institutional level than people think and that’s precisely why students were asking their universities to disinvest rather than pushing individual boycotts.

imagine if getting across town was just a totally inconsequential thing you could do without any drama or anything. nobody asks if you paid, nobody needs to see your pass, nobody bothers you at all. you get on, you go someplace, you get off.

doctor, park, work, food truck you saw online, whatever.

All politics is local.

Election Day is in a couple weeks.

That new official might be the difference between ICE coming to your community and terrorizing you and your neighbors

SHOW OUT TO OUR COURT HEARING TO SUPPORT THE NU STUDENT'S CLASS ACTION MONDAY OCT. 20 2:00 PM COURTROOM: 1719 219 SOUTH DEARBORN STREET, CHICAGO, IL 60604 THE BUILDING IS ON THE NORTHEAST SIDE OF DEARBORN & JACKSON WE INVITE NORTHWESTERN STUDENTS, FACULTY, THE GREATER EVANSTON COMMUNITY, AND THE GREATER CHICAGO COMMUNITY TO COME TO THE HEARING! TO SHOW THAT WE ALL CARE ABOUT THIS ISSUE AND THAT THIS CASE AFFECTS US ALL! [HEARING ON PLAINTIFFS' PETITION FOR A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDERI COURT ETIQUETTE • BRING YOUR ID • NO BANNERS OR DISRUPTIONS • DRESS NEUTRALLY • BE RESPECTFUL • BE ON TIME CASE INFO: HTTPS://TINYURL.COM/FILEDCOMPLAINT

Folks I know there’s a lot going on, but if you’re free tmrw in Chicago plz support NU students been banned from classes for refusing to watch Israeli propaganda. Their lawyer (& mine), Rima Kapita, has filed an emergency order demanding the courts intervene. I filed an affidavit of support. 🙏🏾

Please donate now! Every dollar you give translates directly into meals for food-insecure New Yorkers. Every Sunday, our group of friends gathers to cook more than 2,300 hot meals to share with food-insecure neighbors t...

On her birthday, Mariame Kaba @prisonculture.bsky.social is raising money for EVLovesNYC.

I was able to donate 100 dollars. Please join me.

evloves.networkforgood.com/projects/224...

political poster by me, "Obsolete" (2020) featuring a quote from Mariame Kaba - We are not abandoning our communities to violence; we don't want to just close police departments. We want to make them obsolete." - @prisonculture. The photo is of the corner of Puritan Ave & Strathmoor, the first place I was ever harassed by cops in Detroit as a kid.

Happy birthday to our beloved @prisonculture.bsky.social, whose imaginings, intentions and invitations have accompanied countless of us on our journeys towards abolition.

She's fundraising for EVlovesNYC to help feed neighbors; pitch in along with me!

evloves.networkforgood.com/projects/224...

Reminder that it is Mariame Kaba's bday and she's encouraged we celebrate by donating to www.evloves.nyc. [Thanks for the reminder, @hystericalblkns.bsky.social]

Thanks so much. Spent the past couple of hours with comrades in an organizing meeting and am happy to come back to this!

I've mentioned this before but it bears repeating. Don't leave FSA funds on the table at the end of the year. LOTS of places like homeless shelters etc... would love donations of FSA eligible items. For the past 2 years, I've used left over funds to shop here: fsastore.com - then donate the items.

Seattle School Board Foiled City’s Covert Plan To Pay Cops With Education Dollars Last week, the Seattle School Board voted 5-2 against reviving the School Resource Officer program at Garfield High School, which would have overturned one of the few, lasting policies won during the ...

NEW: The Seattle School Board voted down a pilot program to bring a cop to Garfield High School, but they also foiled an internal plan to use education dollars to pay for 15 cops at Seattle schools, according to public records. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/seattle...

Three wheat pasted posters on a wall at SE 7th and Ankeny in Portland read “don’t obey” with a frog in the center — a new take on the Shepard Fairey “obey” design.

Like the inflatable animal costumes that started at the ICE facility, a bellwether for allegorical nonviolent resistance, the “Don’t Obey” wheat paste frogs are also proliferating around Portland. The glue is still wet as the marches convene.