Make the Goddamn meal and put it in your Free Fridge. Write the $100 check to the food bank. Ask your local school what they need for the kids and then go about trying to get that stuff.... Do these things regularly and you are making meaningful contributions to your communities.

He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.

Her husband told her that detainees at Broadview had to get up at 5am to get in line for one bathroom. He often peed himself. One time he had to wait until 2pm to use the bathroom. You could only use the bathroom once a day. He said the agents would beat you if you used the bathroom on yourself.

noteworthy context, though the disproportionate distribution of risk relative to credit still stands.

Trump's consolidation of authoritarian power is inseparable from the economic carnage he's unleashed. Tariffs, DOGE bloodbath, federal worker firings, killing of NY-NJ tunnel etc are *abuses of power* that *also* hurt the economy. Dems can say both these things. 4/

newrepublic.com/article/2027...

There’s a weird tendency in the discourse to treat attacking Trump as evading “real” issues working-class voters care about. But I looked at ads from the winning campaigns: They attacked Trump *and* they addressed material concerns. Because this is *his* economy! 3/

newrepublic.com/article/2027...

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ICE deported him anyways.

They literally put a man who was at death’s door on a plane to Costa Rica.

Doctors there found he had encephalopathy, rhabdomyolysis and the inability to eat on his own.

What happened to him in ICE custody to cause this?

He died a few weeks after deportation:

Policy pushing, law breaking, newsjacking, evil and conniving son of a bitch who convinced people torture was totally cool and would grand the west freedom from violence.

This is a new political moment NOT ONLY in the darkness and in what's happening in D.C. and Mar a Lago--it's a new political moment in the ground-level movement that is knitting us together in action. This fight is just beginning. #chicagostrong (3)

This is not what's happening in Chicago as we call to verify people for direct action group chats. Instead, people are warm, excited, grateful to each other for showing up, neighborly, and activated. People who have never done anything similar are showing up for this. (2)

We all have buttons that can be pushed, no matter how rational and discerning we believe ourselves to be

Nothing good will come from getting worked up over videos of shit that didn't happen (even if "it feels like it could have happened")

Your default response to video should be skepticism

the assumption: "*rubbing hands together evilly* when the population explodes, the divide between rich and poor will become insurmountable; the masses will take whatever crumbs we give them and they'll be too busy scraping by surviving to oppose us!"

the reality: "lol white man get new high score"