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if you flush your toilet on NYE at exactly 11:59:51, the final remnants of the year will exit the bowl at the stroke of midnight.

The No Kings protest against Trump and his fascist authoritarian regime in Atlanta, Georgia. 🙌💪👏✊️🇺🇸👇

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago (RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

They want violence. They fear mockery.

Meghan Blanco, an attorney who represented Mojica, said it was significant that jurors did not believe the statements of such a senior official. “These jurors had the opportunity to listen firsthand to the CBP officer overseeing enforcement nationally and could not have found his testimony to be credible,” said Blanco, a former federal prosecutor. “It is a bad sign for the federal government. They are doing everything they can to try to legitimize their prosecutions, and thank God the jury and the public are seeing right through it.”

underneath all the doom and hideous stuff happening at the top of our country is a more inspiring story: regular Americans are not buying all this crap. and they're still willing to call the government out on it.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Judge orders Georgia's prisons to resume gender affirming care The Georgia Department of Corrections was ordered to disregard SB 185 and resume offering medically necessary hormone replacement therapy.

Victory! A federal judge has temporarily halted Georgia Senate Bill 185, calling the ban on gender-affirming care a violation of the 8th Amendment—a major win for incarcerated trans people in GA who deserve essential healthcare!

Read from @atlpresscollective.com @ bit.ly/gasb185. 📸: Getty Images

Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.

You can’t build a coalition of people you’re sacrificing.

some rare good news: a Georgia judge has dismissed the Cop City domestic terrorism charges against Jamie Mariscano in DeKalb County, noting that the "Attorney General's Office appears to have delayed this matter in order to gain a tactical advantage over the defense."

timothy_thelen 7h Follow Them - You can't throw sandwiches at ICE Agents. Grabs a hot dog. "I guess we'll finally answer the old question."

Experimental philosophy

Octavia E. Butler said, “We don’t have to wait for anything at all. What we have to do is start.” Word.

"Where did all the protests go??"

“But the fact that agents felt comfortable apprehending a man on church property — and were willing, Lopez says, to raise a weapon at her even after she identified herself as a pastor — left her shaken.”

Presumably written bc Duncan is running for Governor as a Democrat, after personally presiding over Georgia’s passage of a 6-week abortion ban in 2019.

Repeating the phrase “loving our neighbors” over and over in a policy op ed does not undo this legacy.

www.ajc.com/opinion/2025...

Purdue student detained by ICE and taken to troubled Louisiana holding facility Yeonsoo Go, 20, was detained after her immigration hearing in Manhattan and taken away by ICE agents.

Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center.
www.wthr.com/article/news...

Wrong album, but I just want you to know that I revisit "The Holdo Manuever" frequently when I'm mad at ~current events~ 💖

I want to be clear: this is what American prisons are like.

I spent years posting about the humanitarian crisis in U.S. prisons. The criminal legal system consigns Americans who are incarcerated to live like this FOR YEARS. DECADES.

Sex Workers Are Being Abducted by ICE — and Abandoned by Respectability Politics Sex workers targeted by ICE need the migrant justice movement’s full solidarity.

“Protecting migrants also means confronting whorephobia, racism, and criminalization... Defending the rights of migrant sex workers is essential to a broader movement for immigrant justice.”

- Kate Zen & @chanellegallant.bsky.social

truthout.org/articles/sex...

This is terrible and could describe many prisons and jails in this country. It shouldn't happen anywhere.

After Trans People, Trump Now Erasing Bisexual People From Stonewall National Monument The "History and Culture" page no longer includes bisexual rights.

1. Earlier this year, Trump erased transgender people from the Stonewall National Monument webpage, digitally burning the history we helped create.

Now, he's doing the same to bisexual people.

No marginalized group will be safe from the admin's moving targets.

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we often say "the cruelty is the point" regarding the past few years of transphobic policy onslaught, and it is, but it's important to understand that the point of the cruelty is because *they know they have lost*. they're pulling every lever down for a hail mary, but people will keep transitioning.

DeKalb police hand journalist Mario Guevara over to ICE DeKalb commissioner calls for his release, but county CEO stays silent

Free Mario Guevara!

The fascists are cowards who will immediately fold to pressure so keep pressuring them

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Mario Guevara, the metro Atlanta-based Spanish-language reporter who built a mass audience with his coverage of immigration raids, could be deported following his arrest at a protest over the weekend, according to his attorney. A lawyer for Guevara told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged what is known as a “detainer” against the journalist, which is often the first step in deportation procedures.

ICE is attempting to deport an Atlanta-based Spanish-language reporter from El Salvador who has been covering their immigration abductions. He has legal work authorization and a path to a green card.

This is pretty obviously an assault on the free press.

www.ajc.com/news/2025/06...

No Kings Day was one of the largest days of protest in US history. From deep red small towns to our largest cities, millions of people turned out to make it clear that the American people will not bow to fascism. #NoKings

Georgia grandfather's death in ICE custody leaves family in shock 68-year-old Abelardo Avellaneda-Delgado died while en route to ICE's Stewart Detention Center. Now, his family wants answers.

Abelardo Avellaneda-Delgado was healthy when he entered Lowndes County Jail. He died while en route to ICE’s Stewart Detention Center less than four weeks later, leaving his family in shock.

Medical experts question the initial timeline of Avellaneda-Delgado's death given by ICE officials.