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Art Mendo
@zanshinart.bsky.social
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Artist. Organizer. Badger. Mendocino County. See also https://www.indivisibleukiah.org/
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ICE is back in OC grabbing people off the streets. 3 people confirmed taken already.
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🚨🚨 PRESENCE NEEDED IN STOCKTON 🚨🚨
many immigrants in the Stockton area have gotten notifications to report to the Stockton ERO office this weekend.

mobilize your people in Stockton or drive there yourself if you're looking for a way to plug in.

603 San Juan Avenue
Stockton, CA 95203
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Tear gassing random residential streets is just absolutely psychotic behavior.
Video from today's first gas attack.

Saturday morning in Chicago.
Slowly but steadily; each day brings a new "minor milestone." Thank you for asking!
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Trump’s USDA is pretending it can’t use emergency funds for food stamps.

So Americans will go hungry 🚫 🍽️
while Democrats fight for healthcare 🏥
and Trumps tears down the White House 🧨

Yup, that tracks.
Exclusive: USDA says it won't use emergency funds for food stamps
States also won't be reimbursed if they cover SNAP expenses on their own, the memo says.
www.axios.com
He's not ashamed. He's SHAMELESS. No need to lie about it.
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A 🧵 to ponder.
Let's be clear about a few things
- he's building/renovating/updating the bunker that sat under the East Wing
- the ballroom is a cover story, just like the original East Wing
- he lied and continues to lie about this
- because he doesn't plan on leaving
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Yep. Some of us DON'T hem and haw or make statements into questions! I'm no orator but it's not a hard skill to learn.
Our goal @indivisible-ukiah.bsky.social is a spreading network of allyship and mutual aid for #resilience & #resistance - this cart + more = over 85 high protein single serving meals for the Little Free Pantry outside the #ukiahlibrary thanks to our generous cash donors.
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"History has already shown us how this story unfolds. Fascism is not built only in the camps and cells. It is built in the shrug, the silence, the insistence that life can go on as if nothing has changed"
Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...
Normal Times in Dire Times
Fascism does not break normal life, it feeds on it.
frederickjoseph.substack.com
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Mind you, early voting is TOMORROW.
The rain should hold off til later so start your weekend off with a nice shot of #Community bolstered with a dose of #Resistance!
#ukiah #nokings
Don’t open the door. Don’t answer questions.
We're at the point in the story where the FBI is showing up at a dude's house because he attended a protest. Without suspicion of a crime, agents ask important questions like who produced signs for the event.

And it had an impact--he decided not to go back to the streets to voice his opinions.
I obtained video of two FBI agents visiting an anti-ICE protester not charged with any crime.

While the media continue to mock Trump's war on "Antifa" as legally impossible, the FBI is quietly implementing it with investigations like these:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/video-fbi-...
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Honestly, you can’t make this shit up.
Leavitt: At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.
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The whataboutism on Gaza really rankles, especially for those of us who have spent our careers reporting on the crises Israel's defenders cynically invoke as so much worse than Gaza. I wrote about how it actually compares, and what the true toll may be. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...
Opinion | What Happened in Gaza Might Be Even Worse Than We Think
www.nytimes.com
As soon as my hand recovers enough from surgery I’ll finish a nearly done portrait from a series of homeless shelter participants in my art workshops.
The newest collage in my Exploding Log Cabin series.