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Friday morning, I was gardening when I checked my phone. A request had gone out for help. For 25+ hours, ICE had been laying siege to a quiet neighborhood in Frederick, MD. Community members were afraid, some didn’t want to leave their homes. ICE vehicles seemed to be lurking on every corner.

🕯️ This Sunday, Nov 1, 6pm: a vigil at Patterson Park (SE corner) for all who've suffered and died at the hands of ICE and Border Patrol. Hear from community leaders, sing with the Baltimore Rapid Response Choir, and stand together in solidarity and remembrance. RSVP: www.mobilize.us/charmcityind...

A 22-year-old Somali asylum seeker with no criminal record was snatched by DHS and flown to Gitmo with 11 other Somalis. @motherjones.com got him on the phone. youtube.com/shorts/nVRFE...

10/24+25/2026 Chicagoland ICE activity update: Saturday, rapid responders reported agents travelling between SE Chicago & NW Indiana. Sunday, ICE agents were videotaped detaining a man in Chicago's Brighton Park area. Unclear if he was let go or taken. One ICE vehicle also observed in Homewood, IL

Today is Intersex Awareness Day. I am intersex – and did not find out until I was 26! Intersex people are also impacted by the decision in FWS, but this is much less talked about. Intersex people continue to be subjected to non-consensual medical interventions. Intersex rights are human rights.

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

Ohio candidate for governor Republican Vivek Ramaswamy is attempting to reframe his controversial ad featuring Democratic opponent Dr. Amy Acton’s estranged mother as protestors have started gathering at his events. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/25/r...

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RIP to this man. This is a really powerful 62 seconds of video.

The Student List had no party machinery. It operated through university assemblies, protests and hiking between cities & towns. They had 2% of national TV political advertising airtime vs 93% for Vučić. This is one of the most remarkable grassroots democratic victories in modern European history.

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

Armed agents at your door asking if you’re registered to vote? That’s not fighting election fraud. That’s intimidation, plain and simple. www.cbsnews.com/news/federal...

@jendurbent.com HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! 💖

With midterms approaching fast, we are canvassing near York, PA to help elect Janelle Stelson who is running to flip PA-10 and turn the House blue. This race is close and every conversation counts. Please sign up here, www.mobilize.us/sspa/ for more canvassing and phone banking opportunities.

Trucks seen at East Potomac Park on Thursday had their license plates and the name of their business covered, in apparent violation of local and federal transportation law. https://www.washingtonsun.com/metro/east-potomac-park-trucks-covered-license-plates

Early this year, I visited Ingram, a TX town of ~1,900, to check out a tip. The area was starting to recover from its worst flood in a century. But as Latino workers drove to jobsites to help rebuild, the tipster said, a cop in a black Dodge Charger kept stopping them ... 🧵

ICE said Antonio Moreida jumped onto the hood of their vehicle. Now a local police investigation concludes that an ICE agent struck him with his SUV. The routine lying by ICE is the result of the example set by leadership of the Department of Homeland Security.

U.S. citizen Ricardo Gonzalez was brutally detained by ICE in Long Beach while he yelled for help and said his arm was broken. This is a pattern of abuse and violence from ICE. No one is safe and our communities are being terrorized. We need ICE out.

A big fist bump between Signature Aviation's fueler and the Eastern Air Express captain flying yesterday's ICE Air flight at MSP. They took away 24 shackled migrants from their homes around the Twin Cities. If a loved one may have been aboard, full video is here: youtube.com/watch?v=1-xmZiNEhC4

New video from Yasmany Moreno. This man says the trip lasted 28 hours, shackled the whole time, AND that they were shackled 6/7 hours before the plane even left. (I have heard similar many times.) FWIW, he also gives v different number for the new TCNs: 40 Cubans, inc. 7 women, & two Venezuelans.

🔴 LIVE - Surrey Trans Pride The last trans pride of 2026! A few dozen people have gathered here in Woking so far, with more people and organisations including @transparentaction.bsky.social on their way.

Did you know this is an actual picture of JK Rowling’s mansion? Anyway I need $100 by Sunday night or I’ll lose the Motel 6 I’m living out of as I get on government aid #HomelessSky #mutualaid #helpsky #fundsky #transcrowdfund #helpfolkslive2026 #maboost #urgent 💕💸🏳️‍⚧️

Petition denied. 40 more minutes til Friday beer (non-celebratory)

Hands Off NYC says community defenders mobilized and stopped ICE from engaging in any abductions, noting the presence of 25 ICE vehicles, plus agents who ran over and maced people. Reports from yesterday say ICE was located staying at a Hampton Inn at Ditmars & 102nd in Queens.

HOLY SHIT. In a sworn statement yesterday, an ICE agent told a federal judge that an ICE flight to Equatorial Guinea had been cancelled and so couldn't be used to bring Ahmed Soliman back to the United States. The plane just landed in Equatorial Guinea. prospect.org/2026/10/23/t...

Goddammit, this looks great.

Menacing workers with a baseball bat Threatening to call ICE Workers peeing on themselves Women on their period not allowed bathroom breaks Those are just some of the horrors of working at HelloFresh Read about it in my latest for @documentedny.bsky.social 👇 documentedny.com/2026/10/22/h...

ICYMI, LA Taco has parted ways with two of its most fearless ICE reporters, Memo Torres and Izzy Ramirez (@eltragon.bsky.social and @izzymirez.bsky.social on here). Neither says why, but it sounds like it was sudden and involuntary.

Links to fundraisers to help Memo and Izzy get on their feet with independent coverage. Memo: solo.to/eltragon Izzy: gofund.me/d7bae7f56

Where is our humanity? How is this keeping anyone safe? Trump and ICE are traumatizing our children, ripping apart families, and terrorizing our communities. The cruelty is the point.

Tuesday's Memphis City Council meeting was eventful: in a 9-0 vote with one abstention, the council voted on a non-binding resolution calling for the Tennessee National Guard and ICE to leave the city.

BREAKING: Citing noncompliance concerns and highlighting problems with the declaration submitted Monday, Judge Hinderaker orders *daily* reports that include a declaration from someone with "personal involvement" in effectuating the court's order to facilitate a deported gay man's return to the US.

Today, while protecting Palestinians, Brad Lander & a group of American rabbis & others were taken by the IDF. Releasing Brad isn't enough, the Israeli govt must release them all.   If this is how they treat Americans, imagine how they treat Palestinians. Trump & Rubio's silence fuels this impunity.

Another U.S. citizen was assaulted and injured by ICE. This time in Long Beach, California. Congress must refuse to fund this lawlessness and hold Trump’s rogue militia accountable.

Happy Ace Week! 🖤🩶🤍💜

#TeslaTakedown Rockville MD #Vote #VoteEarly #NK4

today I procrastinated by making a witch hat for my budgie

Hey friends! Do you speak Spanish? We need your help! We’re looking for volunteers to call voters. You don’t have to be fluent, just willing to help! Every call matters. This is how we WIN elections! Tell your family and friends, too! More info and sign-up 👇🏾

She was murdered by transphobia 😥😥😥

A 56-year-old Mexican man held at a federal immigration facility in Laredo was found dead in his cell Saturday morning. His family says the center would not give him medicine for diabetes, high blood pressure and a heart condition. He is the 7th person to die in ICE custody in Texas this year.

Another successful distro! Got supplies out to neighbors in NoMA, Union Station, & on the metro ride down! Hygiene supplies, thermal socks, Halloween candy, & other snacks all very appreciated Help us keep rolling & stock up on winter supplies: CashApp $RemoraHouseDC or givebutter.com/remorahouse

Thank you to everyone who joined us for #NoKings4.0 yesterday! This was another historical day!! Was wonderful to have so many of our friends with us and meet so many new people! @indivisible.org @50501movement.bsky.social @teslatakedown.com

I think a lot about how in January, an SUV driving recklessly crashed into an electrical pole across the street from my house, then four armed & masked men tumbled out of the car, tear gassed my street, and then disappeared, leaving their totaled car blocking the intersection, and MPD never showed

In LA, police and federal agents are shooting out the eyes of people protesting ICE. I detailed the accounts of 5 young men who lost their eyes after protesting for @capitalandmain.bsky.social capitalandmain.com/he-went-to-d...

Duran: This is the planned site of the Triumphal arch. What triumph is there in continuing to position our military against their own people? He said he wants snipers on there. Who are they meant to be looking at through their scopes?