No. 6

One of Trump’s most avid supporters and donors from Oregon is a militant anti-vaxxer. His wife (a doctor) refused to get the vaccine and then died of Covid. Instead of changing his mind about the vaccine, he instead blames the Chinese Communist Party for murdering his wife with Covid.

Vaxxed?

Honestly this kind of freaks me out a little

CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.

findmeatherapist.org

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation. A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

Reskeet with a frog to scare ICE

Just announced at NYCC: I’m writing a KNOW YOUR RIGHTS comic with artist @davidhahn.bsky.social in partnership with @nycschools.bsky.social #civicsforall comics program, covering and explaining student rights when it comes to immigration enforcement.

Good for you.

Everyone else: Watch DS9. Let the Bell Riots radicalize you.

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

Poll: Platner Best Positioned Maine Dem to Defeat Susan Collins After respondents were shown short biographies for both candidates, Graham Platner leads Sen. Susan Collins by 14 points, while Gov. Janet Mills leads Collins by 8 points.

NEW: Democratic oyster farmer Graham Platner is the candidate best positioned to defeat Susan Collins in Maine's Senate race, according to a poll of likely voters conducted by Zenith Research for More Perfect Union.

“Why don’t we tattoo a Star of David on the forehead of every terrorist we have to release?” - My daughter Proud father.

There is no need to editorialize. Just quote.

DHS top lawyer says 'no legal barrier' to actions officers can take to defend federal property In a memo obtained exclusively by The Handbasket, Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers were given free rein.

EXCLUSIVE — DHS Acting General Counsel sent out a memo Wednesday to all Federal Protective Service staff (the sub-agency that guards federal buildings) letting officers know they could take any action necessary "in the vicinity" federal property to protect themselves.

The Handbasket reports:

The Answer to Trump’s Anti-Worker Shutdown Is Solidarity and Labor Militancy The GOP’s assault on federal employees amid the government shutdown is far more extreme than Reagan’s PATCO union busting. The labor movement needs a more effective response this time.

“The labor movement’s survival — and any hope of a wider revival — depends on rediscovering the militancy that once fueled its most transformative victories.”

Conor Lynch writes about the collective action and solidarity needed in this perilous moment.

@natepowell.bsky.social’s COMICS ARE READING poster is always a big hit at New York Comic Con!

Absolute Batman choking out an ice agent by Daniel Warren Johnson

Daniel Warren Johnson rules

ICE Boasts Zero Murders Committed By 5-Year-Olds Since Child Detainments Began

ICE Boasts Zero Murders Committed By 5-Year-Olds Since Child Detainments Began https://theonion.com/ice-boasts-zero-murders-committed-by-5-year-olds-since-child-detainments-began/

A patch that says police on the bottom and has a figure with a lance on a white horse above the word police. There are words above the horse image, but I do not know what they are.

A cop clad all in black with a helmet and mask on and a gun. On his uniform, there is A patch that says police on the bottom and has a figure with a lance on a white horse above the word police. There are words above the horse image, but I do not know what they are.

Cops clad all in black with helmets and masks on and guns. Their helmets have right Shields over the front. This is outside the Broadview, Illinois ice facility. One of the cops also has zip ties.

Cops clad all in black with helmets and masks on and guns. Their helmets have right Shields over the front. This is outside the Broadview, Illinois ice facility. One of the cops also has zip ties.

I went to Broadview ICE facility again today. They blocked off 25th, a lot of sheriffs police, local cops& Illinois state police. Around noon, riot police w/ weapons, helmets, zip ties came out. All in black & I cannot figure out what this patch says. The word on the bottom is police. Anybody know?

ICE continues its relentless assault on Chicago street vendors. Rapid response teams in Pilsen and Little Village confirmed a street vendor was taken on Cermak and Troy and also on Damen and Cermak. These are on two major Latine commercial corridors.

Sen. Rick Scott introduced a bill (S. 2998) to rename a D.C.-owned street for Charlie Kirk.

Oh, hell no!!! # FreeDC

They make up lies about paid agitators doing violence, and attach them to the name of a prominent Jewish person. This is antisemitism, and it infects every part of the GOP.

The first graphic novel I ever drew just had a release party at NYCC and I wasn’t invited. Months ago I asked the publisher if they were going to attend the con and they said they had no plans. Then like 3 weeks ago they asked if I was going, they were doing an event.

(Cue that famous Kirby quote)

I deserve the Eisner award. That's why I'm introducing this internet post today that will honor me with the Eisner award.

Some clergy are begging to be allowed closer to the detention center to perform communion.

"You are preventing our religious freedom," someone in the crowd shouts.

Irish novelist Naoise Dolan has been abducted by Israel. Naoise Dolan, one of Ireland’s most acclaimed young novelists, was earlier today abducted and detained by Israeli forces after the aid flotilla on which she was traveling to Gaza was intercep…

Irish novelist Naoise Dolan has been abducted by Israel.
lithub.com/irish-noveli...

Donald trump can still win the Nobel Peace prize if Mike Pence has the courage

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

As y'all have probably heard, there has been a lot of ICE activity on the North Side of Chicago today. At least four people were kidnapped by ICE in the Rogers Park neighborhood. Folks mobilized throughout the day to do ICE Watch and Rapid Response work.

Rural Republicans quite literally killing off their own constituents.

How do you read stuff like this and not feel like our democracy is being swallowed whole by billionaires?