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Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

A Congresswoman calls for everyone like me to be locked up. The world's richest man proposes I be subject to a Nazi medical experiment. I no longer flinch at the sight of the soldiers with assault rifles on my commute. A billboard for AI tells me "keep thinking." One cold brew with oat milk, please

ICE is using a "staging facility" in Louisiana to hold people for days and deporting them before they can call a lawyer to defend their rights.

“Louisiana is where people go to be disappeared,” said Nora Ahmed of the ACLU of Louisiana.

We can have better.

We can have universal healthcare.
We can have tuition-free college.
We can have universal childcare.
We can have affordable housing.
We can have livable wages.
We can have affordable food.

We have to stick together & demand better for the working class.

If we don't do something they can easily leverage, they'll make something up, lie and say we did, or weaponize something that has nothing to do with us. That's why the respectability policing—and thinking that if everyone moves and talks just so, they won't be able to escalate—is magical thinking.

"I once studied under a lamp. I read books. I dreamed of life. Now, the glow of my phone makes me flinch. A candle is a target. A match, a betrayal."

Abdullah Hany Daher writes from Gaza.

jewishcurrents.org/the-betrayal...

Fascism is here. We are not “getting closer” or “in danger of.”

This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over.

Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.

#ICYMI: We obtained internal data showing the Trump administration knew at least 197 of the men it sent to CECOT had not been convicted of crimes in the U.S.

Nearly half were whisked out of the U.S. while in the middle of their immigration cases, which should have protected them from deportation.

"Knowing what we know today, and provided the field remains the same, Zohran Mamdani is the next mayor of New York City," says Amit Singh Bagga, one of the strategists behind the a new poll that sees the democratic socialist winning the mayoral race handily.

This war in Gaza must end NOW.

Call your reps to demand they:
-- pressure the Trump admin to negotiate a sturdy ceasefire
-- work to ensure the urgent, safe delivery of aid to Palestinians
-- support resolutions blocking arms sales to Israel

Script here 👉 5calls.org/issue/gaza-p...

these camps are going to be as bad as anything in our country's checkered history

Read my latest:

A worker was killed. Dozens detained.

Dr. Jonathan Caravello, A CSU faculty member and US citizen, was brutalized & disappeared by ICE for observing.

Trump’s ICE thugs are escalating terror in our communities. Release them ALL.

seiuca.org/press-releas...

paywall is down now

BREAKING: Massive ICE raid ongoing at a farm in Camarillo, Ventura County, CA.

Local news reports that an unknown number of workers have been detained.

Almost 20% of US strawberries come from the county. US food supply at risk from Trump’s fascist thugs & Stephen Miller’s quota.

Israel is planning to force Gaza’s entire population into a concentration camp. Once in the camp, Israel plans to attempt to forcibly transfer Palestinians to different countries.

That is genocide and ethnic cleansing.

Feds just threw tear gas at protesters so they’d clear the road for a US Marshals bus carrying people they arrested at the farm

This is an absolutely critical read. Truly urge everyone to take ten minutes and read this. It adds so much context to where we are now, with strategy and vision for how and why we must not give up hope.

"Take my hand. We can do this."

ICYMI: Elon Musk's xAI’s gas turbines get official approval from Memphis, Tennessee, even as civil rights groups prepare to sue over alleged Clean Air Act violations.

"Over 1,000 people submitted public comments demanding protection and got passed over for a billionaire’s ambitious experiment.”

UN expert, Francesca Albanese, urges countries to cut trade, financial ties with Israel aje.io/65i9x7?updat...

I wrote about the budget bill, police-state measures intensifying, Himmler's defense of camps, the dangers of mirroring Putin's Rosgvardia, Trump's wish for a multistate network of concentration camps, and a long list of things you can do right now to fight ICE.

Two new prints for the Socialism Conference in Chicago this weekend!

Organizing to keep ICE out of your workplace - Keith Robertson
https://libcom.org/article/organizing-keep-ice-out-your-workplace-keith-robertson