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Flier with text: MASS BLOCK PARTY COAST GUARD ISLAND BRIDGE Friday, Oct. 24, 2025 7 a.m. Picket and hold the line! Noon - Melt ICE rally and BBQ! We stay until they flee the Bay Border patrol are on Coast Guard Island staging for an operation in the Bay Area. We know what they can do if they deploy from the island and we will not allow it! Organize your friends and neighbors, build art, gather supplies, prepare food, bring instruments, plan a skill share. Let's make a home by the water and give these pigs an East Bay welcome. - your neighbors

tomorrow morning!

Will Zohran Mamdani Win Over Black New Yorkers? Five people talk about their experience of the Mamdani campaign — from the inside and the outside.

Progressives have a long history of having poor relationships with Black voters (See Bernie Sanders's campaigns). This is a fascinating piece about how Mamdani's campaign saw this gap... and fixed it. Honestly a template for future progressive campaigns.
hammerandhope.org/article/zohr...

Earlier today, Mother Jones talked to Bay Area faith leaders about what brought them out to protest ICE. Here's what they had to say.

I have been cursed this day
To learn
About eating ortolans

Regrets

Yeah good point. And it's also a notable difference to cave to the regime vs choosing to support the regime

it's true that it sucks

and it's true that they were paying a legal settlement.

Chicago cyclists are buying out tamale carts to keep vendors home and safe from ICE. blockclubchi.co/42KQ57O

Remember, brown 13-year-olds are hardened menaces to society, but 30-something Republican Hitler afficionados in positions of power are just li’l guys.

In the New Trump Era, the Proud Boys Are ‘Not Apologizing Anymore’ To hear him tell it, Gavin McInnes’ recent return to the site...

This story ends with some of the first concrete indications right wing extremists are responding to DHS' ICE recruitment drive. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/in-the-...

Please share this as widely as possible. ICE kidnapped a 7th grader in Everett, Massachusetts and sent him to Virginia. Help bring him home now!

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

thanks so much for this recommendation, their selection is pretty sweet!

Saturday in Ambridge PA! It’s going to be a nice one for one of the last outdoor shows of the season!

JUST NOW IN MEMPHIS — Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social announces his run for Congress: “Believe in me, because I believe you deserve the best. It’s about US.”

Full: www.facebook.com/share/v/1A8A...

more importantly, is it ethical?

Senator Jim Banks V @SenatorBanks Follow g.. The 2020 Census was a fraud. The Biden admin used a shady "privacy" formula that scrambled the data and miscounted 14 states. It included illegal immigrants and handed Democrats extra seats. Americans deserve a fair count and l'm fighting to fix it. Zinited Statcs SScnate MASHNORON DEYNN October 6, 2025 an. Thow arewutn Socretary U.S. Department of Commerce Washington, DXC 20230 Dear Secretary Lutaick: I urge you to investigate and correct erroes from the 2020 Census that handed disproportionntd political power to Democrats and illogal alicns. The Census Burcau adoptod a now and opaque voting districts. As preparod by the Biden administration, the 2020 Censas roports miscountod the population of fourteen states, ' wrongly allocating six congressional scats aod Electoral xx conwuu tmora uy, toc taroro tu mot đoo tnn Cunu lc pung t imber of votine districts. And the reoorts de aniovety inchaded ilecnl nhens widhout track those aliens' citiz enship status, If left uncorrected, these erroes will coetinue diluting the political power of American citizens. Consus data plays a crucial role in allocating political roprescntation and goverment funding Under the Constitution, cach state gets Congressional represcotutives and Electoeal College votes- based on "the whole number of persons" within the state." The number of persoes is in tum clabaabod by a consttubocalty-mandalcd dcccacaal ccavas. Pcual agcco nely on census data to allocate billions of dollars in federal funding, much of which hinges ee opulation. And states use consus data to deaw congrossicnal and voting districts, »hich the The it eiy of tie soaren alie n tor dur at ce hor inc ae oam toy ee n nght wilbout statsica ly signilicant ciroo. Diffcrcntial privacy is opaque and liable to mistakcn count totals. Sure cnough, the 2020 Ccnsus ovarocunted the noculation in cicht states and undercounted it in six." Tihe most extrcmi andercount was Arkansas, at 5.04%, and the larg…

“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time

The fortification of Broadview in defense of free speech continues. Workers are placing more barricades on 25th.

Stephen Miller in prison for the rest of his life should be a Top 10 priority of any future administration.

Oh hey, looks like it's time for an urgent training mission outside of Peoria. Get your guys on it right now, @govpritzker.illinois.gov
and send the State Troopers with them

the term "five alarm fire" at this point is as meaningless as "unprecedented" since it doesn't matter how many alarms there are if the firefighters just stand around and take cell phone videos

We are clean on opsec sticker

Today so far feds in Chicagoland have:

Attacked & arrested protesters at the Broadview detention center w/the help of the ISP other agencies

Tear gassed a street in Logan Square that has a grocery store & elementary school on it, among other things

Violently handcuffed an Alderperson

It's 3pm

In your local community, build your networks of mutual aid. Build an Underground Railroad. Safe houses. Build a food co op. Barter, share, donate, reuse, repurpose market. Build stores of supplies. Build communication networks. Warning systems. Take the lead. Be pro active. Build the community.

they're the ones who suck, why should i be the one to leave?

I have parents, cousins, siblings, niblings that I couldn't bear to face if I didn't stick around to defend them. I bled for this godforsaken country in stupid wars that I barely understood. If I bleed for her again, it will be for values that deserve my blood, sweat, and pain #DefendTheDolls

Telegram is still on the App Store after being linked to multiple mass shootings.

A Bullet Crashed the Internet in Texas A ‘stray bullet’ 25,000 people offline near Dallas.

"The internet can be more physically vulnerable than you think."

WATCH: He’s bragging about fucking you over. #TrumpShutDown

Thanks for responding to my strange late night overly-meta thoughts 🫡