Charles Idelson

ICE and other paramilitary federal cruel behavior is intentional. It is evident in the streets where agents have shot two dozen people, killing six of them. It is apparent in 239 ICE detention centers where the death toll has reached 59 during Trump’s second term. My blog via @commondreams.org

Justice for Johan! Justice for Lorenzo! #AbolishICE protests across the country today. Oakland

Will Oakland City Council members commit to a police union contract that curtails abuses & protects the city budget? They passed a budget that defunds independent oversight while putting enough fat in the OPD budget to pay for a raise not yet negotiated. oaklandside.org/2026/07/02/o...

My tribute to the late Wilson Riles Jr., a towering voice in progressive activism and politics in Oakland for more than five decades, via The Oaklandside oaklandside.org/2026/06/01/o...

"“It’s possible that we’re starting to see the consequences of severe and sudden cuts to global health programs that have eroded surveillance and allowed deadly viruses to spread undetected...” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/w...

Vital read from @jamellebouie.net - the Voting Rights Act the white supremacists so hate is the symbol of what should be the essence of a real democracy, not the flawed one devised by the founders, or the warped dismantling by Trump, the Court and red states followers www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/o...

California voters: Ballots are coming in the mail this week. Here's why the state's largest organization of nurses supports, and hopes you'll vote for @tomsteyerhq.bsky.social for Governor www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/califo...

May Day in Oakland’s Fruitvale Plaza

Though the Affordable Care Act did little to contain corporate price gouging, it's biggest selling point was sharply reducing the crisis of the millions of uninsured Americans. That crisis is escalating, fast. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/b...

This should be a test for all the countries/teams that have qualified for the World Cup. They should all announce a global boycott of the Cup games in the U.S. This bully action by Trump should not be allowed to stand.

If you don’t know about this, you need to read up. It’s the single bloodiest massacre in the history of Reconstruction, and it was perpetrated to overthrow the results of an election. It was emblematic of the sabotage of Reconstruction. And SCOTUS nullified the prosecution of those responsible.

We cannot be silent or stop protests in the face of a global cataclysm.

We cannot be silent or stop protests in the face of a global cataclysm. The people have bravely stopped or slowed the U.S. war machine before — from Vietnam to Reagan’s mercenary interventions in Central America, to Bush’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. My blog cidelson.medium.com/we-can-count...

The real "state of the union" artfully described by @jamellebouie.net - and it won't waste 2 hours of your life to get through it www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/o...

News flash, the @nytimes ten years later has made a major discovery about the Dear Leader, Il Duce, Der Fuhrer. Did you miss the size of his name on his buildings even before he was first elected? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/u...

Love this. Fans of Irish history will recognize the song about the hated British paramilitary Black and Tans she's adapting for Minnesota www.facebook.com/reel/8258167...

Message from @nationalnurses.bsky.social #AbolishICE

Nurses march to Alameda County Board of Supervisors in Oakland #AbolishICE - that money needs to go back to our communities

The violence has escalated as Trump, Miller, Vance, and Noem seek to secure and expand their power through what they believe will intimidate and force consent for their authoritarian rule. But they are also afraid of the growing popular resistance. My views via @commondreams

If Trump is indeed pulling the odious Greg Bovino out of Minnesota, that should only be beginning. We all need to continue to step up the campaign to #AbolishICE and end its terror campaign and the escalating dictatorship. My views: cidelson.medium.com/weve-crossed...

The ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good and Trump's colonial invasion of Venezuela. The terrifying week, and the response. My thoughts cidelson.medium.com/in-a-truly-t...

Minnesota officials should issue an arrest warrant, seek an indictment and prosecution, despite federal obstruction and the coverup scheme to exonerate the ICE killer. This compelling video alone, added to multiple eyewitness testimony ought to be enough to present a case to a judge and the public

NEW: Senate advances a bipartisan resolution to block President Trump from using military force “within or against Venezuela” unless he gets prior approval from Congress. The procedural motion sets up a full Senate vote on the measure next week and is expected to pass.

"NNU continues its demand to remove immigration enforcement agents from communities and demands justice for her death." www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/union-...

It's going to last for years... "We’re going to be using oil, and we’re going to be taking oil." - A classic description straight out of the 19th century of imperialism and colonial rule. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...

Trump's escalating racist policies are tied to the vision of a Make America Great Again movement that fantasizes a return to eras of Jim Crow segregation, even antebellum, policies in a nation more dominated by white, Christian populations - my blog cidelson.medium.com/trumps-crusa...

The SS in Nazi Germany had no boundaries in their repression and attacks on civilians. Their spiritual copycats in Trump's secret police share the same devotion to brutality, inhumanity and indifference to law and the Constitution.

The U.S. cultural revolution under RFK Jr. and Trump - "Let a Thousand Childhood Diseases Bloom"... “Any changes they do make could be devastating to children’s health and public health as a whole,” Sean O’Leary, American Academy of Pediatrics. Indeed, Make America Sick Again

Arguably the most racist immigration policy proposal in U.S. history, even beyond the rabid 1882 Chinese Immigration Act and 1924 Immigration Act. And just a Trump fiat, no Congressional vote? Absolutely insane

Everyone ready for our regime change war on Venezuela? via @washingtonpost - "President Donald Trump said Friday night that he has 'sort of made up my mind' about how he will proceed with the possibility of military action in Venezuela". Chilling. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Military aggression, covert action, and dreams of regime change in the hemisphere are the “oldest moves in the American foreign policy playbook” - my views

Trump says he’s more popular than ever. Apparently not, even compared with right after Jan. 6. Via @maddow.msnbc.com

As if I needed another reason to root for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. Bring it home New York!

Good analysis on Trump's foreign policy linking a lot of things foreign and domestic atrocities together www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/o...

Big San Francisco march to protest the Trump ICE/Gestapo invasion threat is gathering

Only 3 days until #NoKingsSF! We’re honored to have CNA leaders Puneet Maharaj, Cathy Kennedy, RN and Sandy Reding, RN on stage — representing California union nurses fighting for our patients, our democracy, and our future. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. ❌ 👑

What does the future hold? A forewarning could be found in perhaps the world’s most chronicled famine in Ireland... Famines, especially those driven by political or military policy, have often produced persistent calamitous consequences for the survivors. My blog via @commondreads.bsky.social

Ireland's history with famine, and what followed, shows some common experiences with Gaza, and what might lie ahead. My thoughts cidelson.medium.com/gaza-and-ire...

Democracy is not for sale @calnurses.bsky.social

Corporate greed has got to go @calnurses.bsky.social

Nurses march in San Francisco @calnurses.bsky.social

My thoughts. Trump's new comments this morning that he "couldn't care less" about ignoring political violence by the right because "the radicals on the right oftentimes are radical because they don't want to see crime" - only makes this Reichstag moment threat greater

Trump's Reichstag moment appears to have arrived. My blog cidelson.medium.com/with-charlie...

The persecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, first sent to a Salvadoran terror prison by a mistake admitted by a DOJ attorney, symbolizes the vile cruelty and inhumanity of the Trump/Miller deportation crusade. Their desperate obsession to punish him with false charges and endless threats is pure Nazism

More from the #WorkersOverBillionaires march in Oakland 2/2

What’s the proper way to celebrate Labor Day? Collective action on a march. Joined one in downtown Oakland today 1/2

The most racist U.S. President since Woodrow Wilson ordered segregation of the federal workforce in 1913 deepening racial income inequality must be proud of this- Black women lost 319,000 jobs in the public and private sectors between February and July of this year- www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...