Amelia Abreu

A screenshot from the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/us/politics/dhs-shutdown-impact-ice-tsa-coast-guard.html) reading: “D.H.S. essential missions and functions will continue as they do during every shutdown,” the department said in a statement. “However, during a shutdown, many employees will be forced to work without pay, putting strain on the frontline defenders of our nation.” The last sentence is highlighted.

Everything we do to protect communities, we do for free, as willing volunteers. That goes for the vast majority of those who resist ICE.

Everything ICE agents do to terrorize communities, they do for money, and that money comes out of our pockets.

The longer they go without paychecks, the better.

I really feel like: Donald Trump is building a prison camp system on the scale of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao … would be a good and true headline to run every day. Advertisements across media. Speeches on the Senate. Everywhere.

throw away the ring cameras already @portlandthornsfc.bsky.social

Computer Scientists wya?

(lol ACM would never)

Fuck AI, fuck ICE, and long live a free Puerto Rico.

Love turning on criterion 24/7 just in time to watch Marcia Gay Harden’s part in “Daytrippers”

Clergy friends, your moral voice matters so, so SO much in this moment.

In the public square.

Pushing your electeds.

With congregants.

At actions.

Teaching the truths of your tradition & using the authority of your office.

& calling in all that damn social capital.

What ELSE is it FOR

If you're building a startup in 2026, you are expected to work with the world's largest venture capital firm (which is not even really a VC firm), where one partner strangled my neighbor to death for being Black, and another actively sought Jeffrey Epstein's counsel for years. This is *normal*.

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

cannot possibly convey how actually crazy-making it can feel, after spending 20 years monitoring all these orgs blaming sex workers and the internet for enabling a vast sex trafficking network, to now see Jeffery Epstein’s inbox

I won’t stan a billionaire but I can appreciate Melinda’s vibe of catholic girl who reached the conclusion that birth control and divorce are good, actually!

America’s toxic future looks like East Palestine, Ohio, today Three years since one of the worst industrial disasters in US history, politicians, the media, and the public have forgotten about East Palestine. But we haven’t.

Just got back from East Palestine. So much going on in the world, but yesterday was the 3yr anniversary of the train derailment & chemical disaster that upended residents' lives forever—I had to be there. They are getting sicker. People are dying. Please remember them
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Donate to Support Stevie Wilson's New Beginning, organized by Danielle Squillante Our beloved comrade and friend Stevie Wilson is FINALLY coming home from pri… Danielle Squillante needs your support for Support Stevie Wilson's New Beginning

My friend and one of the co-authors of Read This When Things Fall Apart, Stevie Wilson, will be released from prison in less than a week. Stevie has done tremendous work as an incarcerated organizer and has plans to continue doing important work on the outside. Let's help him make a new start.

Luigi Mangione surrounded by flames grinning with the text Repent or Perish

Westboro Baptist Church tried to make an Anti-Luigi Mangione poster but it just looks like Luigi is threatening billionaires and goes unironically hard af

The cruelty is the point

Tamil archbishop of the prairies, let's go

Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

Lots of teargas at ICE tonight in Portland. People were just standing and chanting.

Photo of Saint Brigid's shrine in Faughart, County Louth, Ireland. Landscape with trees in dappled sunlight, a stone womb shaped shrine, with three children looking at a statue. Tradition holds that Faughart, is the birthplace of Ireland’s iconic matron saint Brigid.

Happy St. Brigid's Day! Today marks the end of winter, spring is stirring. St. Brigid is Ireland's matron saint, not as famous as St. Patrick, but she could turn water into beer. And when a man insulted her, she made his eyeballs implode. Celtic goddess, patron of healers & poets.
#Imbolc #fullmoon

The ACLU wants to hear from any families with kids or anyone who was significantly impacted by the use of chemical munitions at yesterday’s protest. Please email my office so we can help connect you with their legal team.

Someone just told me that they saw multiple people passed out during the first brutal wave of tear gas when there were still a ton of children and elderly folks. There was a line of children waiting to get treated by medics

This was the kind of treatment the union activists got today from Oregon’s largest unions alongside coalitions like @jwjpdx.bsky.social. They fired projectiles and injured many demonstrators and broke out neighbors windows. Gas for a half dozen miles in each direction. #iceout

It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.

“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.”

― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay

a childlike drawing of stick figures behind bars

A drawing by a 5-year-old girl detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas with her mother Hayam El-Gamal. “I am 5 years old” is written at the top of the page. Lower down, next to stick figures, are the words “let us go.” Courtesy of Eric Lee, Lee & Godshall-Bennett, LLP

Also I wore a wool shirt and gray hoodie today so I feel personally offended

Getting out that white latinx “moderate” politician bingo card

Girl ICE is kidnapping your constituents and you fucking voted for it!

Like Ruth Wilson Gilmore said, "Public goods should never be means tested. That's the entire point of a public good!“

ICE kidnapped 5 people from my community this morning. I don’t live in Minneapolis. I live in LA County. They’re still here and their still brutalizing.