Resisting Empire: A History Podcast

We're seeing a massive institutional deportation and state violence apparatus being built and it honestly feels like people dont grasp the sheer scale of it and what already is in place. For every horrific video of masked feds kidnapping people there are so many people pushing paper to help.

I just don’t think we’re freaking out enough about this SNAP cut. I have spent my whole career working with people who rely on SNAP for food. People who work multiple jobs. Who have kids. What do you think happens when 1/8th of the population can’t buy food anymore? Everything is going to collapse.

Soooooo a concentration camp?

If you are not one of the 14.2 million people about to starve, then please look up your local food banks and see what they need: money, volunteers, donations, spreading the word etc. if you see someone taking items from a store w/o paying, no you fucking didn’t.

But don’t worry the kidnapping Gestapo will continue to get paid and the fucking ballroom that no one wants will be funded and Trump and all his bootlickers will continue to get rich.

I don’t know why this of all fucking things this administration has done is really fucking me up but the fact that we’re going to let 14.2 million people just starve…what the fuck is the point of our government this fucking rich assholes if they’re just going to let us starve?

Friendly reminder that Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir drops Tuesday and contains the truth she wanted the world to hear about those who abused her and the cost of silence.

Buy it. Read it. Give the woman some justice.

I just looked through my library and patted myself on the back for having a lot of good books. 🤣

A thread of immigrant solidarity graphics from Just Seeds. 🧵

By Jesus Barraza.

somewhere in portland, there's one person, or a small handful of people, who came up with the inflatable costume idea, and I feel like they deserve our immense respect for defining the obvious developing aesthetic of the contemporary battle against fascism

Portland ICE facility now.

pizzacakecomic o "Do you really want your tax dollars going to feed someone else's kids??" Yes! 1000% yes, 1 want my taxes to help feed hungry kids. WTF is wrong with people?

Let me go on the record: as much money I have, whatever I can spare, I will ALWAYS want the extra to go to feed children

Los Angeles, CA -

Absolute chaos resulting from LAPD charge using batons, horse mounted units, “less lethal” projectiles. Protesters going in every direction. LAPD themselves don’t seem to know where protesters or press are supposed to be.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

This is what a fascist regime looks like

“There’s no way I’m bending the knee I have left for a king in America.”

Damn. Just … damn.

Sen. Ed Markey, a white man with white hair, standing at a lectern with a dark background, and Sen Elizabeth Warren to camera right, in a black top with a red blazer. Markey wears a trans pride flag draped over his shoulders. The closed caption reads "trans people because trans righs are human rights. We" The chiron underneath reads "No Kings Rally Underway In Boston"

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) at the Boston No Kings rally today, wore the trans pride flag like a scarf draped over his shoulders and included in his speech. "Because here in Massachusetts, we stand for what is right. We stand with trans people because trans rights are human rights."

Hell yes, Pittsburgh. Love Yinz. No Kings.

Los Angeles came out in droves. #NoKings

40,00 in Pittsburgh. Five times the crowd at the first No Kings. Crowd stretches over two blocks behind these photos!

It’s really hard to watch the country rise up and not feel welcome to join in because of ableism. But do not feel guilty and do not be hard on yourself.

Our very existence is resistance.

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

Glens Falls, NY #NoKings

No Kings protests - Time Square

“They’re Not Welcome”: How Chicago Residents Are Resisting Trump’s ICE Invasion of the City As ICE wreaks chaos and violence in neighborhoods across Chicago, teams of rapid responders are protecting residents and challenging Trump’s attempted occupation by fighting fear through solidarity.

“They’re Not Welcome”

@dannypostel.bsky.social reports from neighborhoods across Chicago, where he spoke with teams of rapid responders who are protecting residents and challenging Trump’s attempted occupation by fighting fear through solidarity.

inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...

Victoria stands in a crowd next to someone in an inflatable frog costume. She’s wearing a gray cap & sunglasses & is smiling & giving a thumbs up. Her sign reads “Secret police are fascist police”

One more from No Kings in Salt Lake City, Utah! #NoKings

Today in Kent, Ohio. Yes, THAT Kent.

A psycho Trumper charged into the No Kings rally, throwing punches, assaulted a woman. He was armed. The crowd tackled him.

I considered going to Kent for the protest. It's an hour drive for me. Went to downtown Cleveland instead.

Over 1,000 gather in Oklahoma City as part of nationwide No Kings protests • Oklahoma Voice More than 1,000 people joined a No Kings protest Saturday outside City Hall in Oklahoma City, donning ponchos and inflatable costumes in the rain to rally against President Donald Trump.

More than 1,000 people joined a No Kings protest Saturday outside City Hall in Oklahoma City, donning ponchos and inflatable costumes in the rain to rally against President Donald Trump.

Thousands protest in Santa Fe, Albuquerque for No Kings day • Source New Mexico Thousands took to the streets in the New Mexico state capitol and Albuquerque to participate in No Kings day

Thousands took to the streets in Santa Fe and Albuquerque for No Kings Day on Saturday, two of nearly 30 protests planned around New Mexico.

No Kings Downtown Albuquerque, Oct. 18, 2025. Video courtesy VisionBroadcast Media LLC. I love my city. #Albuquerque #NewMexico