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James O'Keefe says he's never seen anything so organized as the anti-ICE movement, observers--he seems to think this term is code--everywhere he goes. Who is paying for it??? he demands to know. It's like he can't even imagine people caring for one another.

Immigrant families protest at Texas facility housing 5-year-old boy, father detained in Minnesota Dozens of immigrant families protested behind the fences of a Texas detention facility where a 5-year-old boy Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent this week after being detained in Minnesota.

protesting in the camps apnews.com/article/texa...

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

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Post Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social WOW on Pretti's denial of medical treatment "I informed the ICE agents that l am a physician, and I asked to assess the victim. At first, the ICE agents wouldn't let me through. ... But none of the ICE agents who were near the victim were performing CPR, ... None of the agents were helping him." 6. The scene was chaotic. Many civilians were screaming and honking. Over the noise, 1 informed the ICE agents that I am a physician, and I asked to assess the victim.

We are seeing ordinary citizens — a children’s face painter and a doctor — come forth with sworn affidavits to describe the killing of the Minneapolis nurse.

In case you were wondering what courage looks like.

Links threaded below

over here googling normal shit like “how talk to 6 year old about government murdering people in the street”

Mood in minneapolis right now

Worth noting that one reason you’re benefitting so fully from the Star-Tribune’s timely, extensive coverage of unfolding events is that it’s a metro newspaper that hasn’t been systematically starved to further enrich shareholders and executives.

every single one of them should spend the rest of their fucking lives looking over their shoulder for the guy who's coming to kidnap them and drag them in front of a tribunal.

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

Large brick wall with a tiny white signat the base of the wall that says "Slavery was real"

"Slavery was real"

Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.

Presidents House, Philadelphia.

what could be possible for all of us if we got help with housing? how many more potential activists, organizers, and artists could there be? I love that this feature shows us how someone could really bloom into their political work, thanks to having that resource available

Homeless to Housed: Stone's Story A room in a permanent supportive housing unit can offer safety and security, an opportunity to design a space that’s all your own, and the chance to build community.

"Having a space like this really took a burden off me," says Stone Selseth of his permanent supportive housing unit. In our latest Homeless to Housed story, Stone shares how his tiny room is "a reflection of me."
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woman on a moped absolutely BELTING “red wine supernova” pretty off-key as she drives very slowly up 16th street 👍

Hello from Portland Maine, where 88 of about 550 kids were absent from my youngest’s middle school yesterday, hiding from ICE.

Rap Shows on the Rise at Yoshi's in Oakland | KQED Yoshi’s has turned quiet weeknights into sold-out shows by Too Short, Scarface and others.

Talked with folks involved in the flood of rap shows at Yoshi's, once known for traditional jazz, and deliberately changing with the times. Yes, they have received complaints! But not many.

(Gotta say, as someone who's seen Scarface / Quik / Spice 1 and others at Yoshi's — it really works.)

Great thread

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Please help us bring Liam Adrian Cornejo Ramos (he’s only 5 years of age and is currently in pre-K. Yesterday, he and his father were kidnapped by ICE. This will help the family with legal services to help reunite Liam and his dad with their family.

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You should take a moment to check out the Oakland Syllabus from @oaklandreviewofbooks.org because:
1. I helped make it and I feel proud.
2. I *guarantee* you will discover something new, no matter how well you know Oakland.
3. It is a living document!
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Big thanks to all the students, faculty, staff and alums who called in and sent their thoughts to this show. 💔

'Why aren't they in the streets' is answered almost every day in my small town by people in the streets! Rather than asking 'why aren't they in the streets' it's worth asking 'why isn't your media showing them in the streets' and 'who is served by downplaying resistane in its myriad forms.'

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what do you MEAN Al Gore heckled Lutnick at Davos

I feel bad for all of us who have to be good at our jobs when the answer is to be sufficiently white, rich and powerful and then you can just drool on yourself and the press will be like “audiences intrigued by his unusual communication style”

clown bicycle horn

comic: when it happens I hope people ring bells and blow horns. if I'm asleep I hope to be woken. I won't mind. if I'm in traffic I hope to see revelers. If it causes a traffic jam I won't mind. I don't want to exist a moment not knowing that it has happened.

Lil' comic about hope and longing 💗

i am GOING TO get my hopes up every single time. NOT because i am gullible or desperate but because it is FUN

When it happens I'm running the headline "Jeffrey Epstein's best friend dies" in my newsletter

this is beautiful

I also keep thinking about all the obit pre-writes, and the task of adding to them and getting them pubbed while people cheer outside in the street