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Professor, Writer San Francisco (all views are my own)

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10 years ago, Bernie Sanders warned America of the unintended consequences that could emerge from a regime change war with Iran. Watch.

02.03.2026 21:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3855    πŸ” 1374    πŸ’¬ 139    πŸ“Œ 127

Don't look away from the continued cruelty and horrors. Please keep calling your representatives, please keep showing up to protest these horrific actions, please keep caring.

26.02.2026 02:44 β€” πŸ‘ 110    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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How much do S.F. teachers make vs. city workers? Much less. The average schoolteacher makes $20K less than the average librarian, and a whole lot less than police, firefighters, leg aides, and nurses.

San Francisco teachers will enter their 4th day on strike Thursday, unless a deal is made late tonight.

Negotiations have centered on wages, among other issues, so we asked: How much do teachers make vs. city workers?

On average, lessβ€”much less.

missionlocal.org/2026/02/sf-t...

12.02.2026 03:37 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

10.02.2026 22:54 β€” πŸ‘ 27141    πŸ” 9612    πŸ’¬ 56    πŸ“Œ 358

Do you know how many of our families cut sugar cane? For Americans to put in their cakes and tea while our cousins were forced to cultivate cotton and tobacco in their fields?

That is the story of so many of our families

09.02.2026 02:17 β€” πŸ‘ 346    πŸ” 57    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4
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Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO β€œFor 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...

Concentration camps:

β€œFor 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

08.02.2026 02:24 β€” πŸ‘ 6390    πŸ” 3550    πŸ’¬ 88    πŸ“Œ 202

It is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.

05.02.2026 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 7530    πŸ” 1843    πŸ’¬ 152    πŸ“Œ 63
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β€˜ICE conveyor belt’ illegally detaining, moving Minnesota children to Texas faster than courts can respond ICE is pulling Minnesota immigrant families with legal status out of their driveways, homes and school commutes and send

ICE is running a β€œconveyor belt” of illegally detained Minnesota families.

Agents are arresting entire families with legal status and immediately shipping them off to Texas to deny them legal representation and avoid the federal courts in Minnesota.

The cruelty is endless.

03.02.2026 01:01 β€” πŸ‘ 12731    πŸ” 6831    πŸ’¬ 566    πŸ“Œ 366

death by preventable disease is an inevitable and even desired outcome of concentration camps. in every era of concentration camps people have died of typhus, which is a disease of privation and enforced crowding. this illness is intentionally inflicted

02.02.2026 04:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3748    πŸ” 1418    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 17

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

31.01.2026 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1532    πŸ” 284    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 4
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So many high school students out there today at the ICE protests in San Francisco. Super heartening.

31.01.2026 00:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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ICE Begins Buying β€˜Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps.

This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 β€” literal warehousing of people.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

30.01.2026 16:47 β€” πŸ‘ 5738    πŸ” 3681    πŸ’¬ 488    πŸ“Œ 631

On NPR on Friday, there was a story of a 4-year-old--an American citizen--who hasn't left her house since early December, not even to play in the yard. And her 8-year-old brother recently stopped going to school, too. Their father is undocumented, and the family doesn't want to risk him being taken.

26.01.2026 03:47 β€” πŸ‘ 5848    πŸ” 1829    πŸ’¬ 53    πŸ“Œ 32
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Renee Good's Murder and Other Acts of Terror An interview with Robin D. G. Kelley on how to think about ICEβ€”and the broader history of police violence.

"Strangest of all is the liberal pipe dream that local police will stand up against ICE and CBP, when police have collaborated with ICE and been deployed to protect agents from protesters, even in so-called sanctuary cities."

An interview with Robin D.G. Kelley
www.bostonreview.net/articles/ren...

17.01.2026 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 361    πŸ” 165    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 12

Friendsβ€”I need you to connect to your rapid response in your city. Your ICE watch. If you don’t have one, start one. I’m watching Minneapolis and we need to be prepared for what comes next. Know the activists in our neighborhoods. If you don’t know your rights now is the time to learn. Have a plan.

14.01.2026 23:05 β€” πŸ‘ 626    πŸ” 272    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 34
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Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

15.01.2026 02:17 β€” πŸ‘ 44158    πŸ” 16178    πŸ’¬ 1632    πŸ“Œ 868
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A 21-year old anti-ICE protester has been left permanently blinded in California after a Department of Homeland Security agent shot him in the face with a nonlethal round at point-blank range on Friday. trib.al/V6hRQpr

14.01.2026 17:16 β€” πŸ‘ 272    πŸ” 168    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 24

β€œIf only people had voted for Kamala” is not the lesson here. What this moment shows is the desperate need to insist on different politics. Not a lesser evil but people who will abolish ICE, who won’t fund genocide, who believe in sanctity of human life. Anything short of that assures more death.

14.01.2026 01:15 β€” πŸ‘ 210    πŸ” 62    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
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Several hundred people form a human banner spelling out β€œIT WAS MURDER β€” ICE OUT!!” at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach during a protest Saturday in response to the recent fatal shooting in Minneapolis of Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration agent.

πŸ“Έ: Erik Castro/Special to The Chronicle

10.01.2026 20:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1743    πŸ” 520    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 16
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We're at the scene of a protest in downtown Minneapolis outside the Canopy by Hilton hotel, where ICE agents are believed to be staying. Photographer Alex Kormann estimates at least 1,000 people are in attendance.

10.01.2026 01:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2858    πŸ” 770    πŸ’¬ 55    πŸ“Œ 63

Not an exaggeration at all to say that the feeling in Minneapolis is that the entire metro area is being treated as occupied territory by federal agents. Impossible to overstate how overwhelmingly people here do not like it. This does not feel sustainable.

10.01.2026 01:02 β€” πŸ‘ 15758    πŸ” 3273    πŸ’¬ 288    πŸ“Œ 159

We are going to have to investigate and prosecute a lot of people. And candidates need to start talking about that.

Put people on warning for one thing.

07.01.2026 20:55 β€” πŸ‘ 385    πŸ” 83    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 1

It is clearer every single day. We have only each other to count on. Please show up, as much as you can. Remember: We are in the majorityβ€”a fact the State always tries to hide. Together we can win. Consider making every big or small gesture you can. This is it, people.

08.01.2026 15:10 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

ICE killed a member of our community today. ICE showed up at my kid’s daycare today. ICE is bragging about the number of families they’ve torn apart in a matter of days, and promising that their campaign of terror isn’t done.

07.01.2026 22:51 β€” πŸ‘ 8285    πŸ” 2412    πŸ’¬ 127    πŸ“Œ 64
Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
"They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head."
An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911

Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting "They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head." An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911

"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries.
"We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.

"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries. "We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.

This could be you.

08.01.2026 00:15 β€” πŸ‘ 44263    πŸ” 17130    πŸ’¬ 1080    πŸ“Œ 779

Every journalist should be investigating, reporting on the murder in Minneapolis, and the cover-up. Please.

08.01.2026 03:04 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good
at the site of her murder

08.01.2026 03:09 β€” πŸ‘ 14373    πŸ” 3397    πŸ’¬ 153    πŸ“Œ 130

Renee Nicole Good, 37, was murdered four fifths of a mile from where George Perry Floyd, Jr., 46, was murdered in May of 2020.

07.01.2026 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1862    πŸ” 775    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 15
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A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

08.01.2026 01:05 β€” πŸ‘ 33150    πŸ” 9053    πŸ’¬ 514    πŸ“Œ 417
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β€œRenee Nicole Good!”

March in NYC chants in solidarity with Minneapolis following the ICE killing of legal observer Renee Nicole Good. Estimated 800-1000 attendees, with march circling 26 Federal Plaza where ICE operates before dispersing.

More actions tomorrow at 8am and 9:30am at Foley Square.

08.01.2026 01:07 β€” πŸ‘ 663    πŸ” 193    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2