Iranian music teacher's farewell to his school 💔

Happy Birthday to Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and a massive thank you to her for inventing rock and roll

She was born on March 20th, 1915

Remember: Octavia Butler wrote we should save seeds to plant, pick up skills like sewing and carpentry, learn how to shoot guns, practice how to fight, and create the futures we need, even as we look to the stars.

The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “ille...

DHS repeatedly said that an aggressive apartment raid in Chicago last fall was prompted by intel on a gang takeover.

Documents show the real story behind the raid was to target alleged squatters — with the landlord's blessing.

Israeli-US war of aggression on Iran: High time for the global majority to stand up to the might-makes-right order High time for the global majority to stand up to the might-makes-right order.

The massacre of at least 165 Iranian schoolgirls and their teachers, largely ignored or sanitized by the genocidal western media exposes the real objectives of this aggression by two rogue nuclear pow,ers. bdsmovement.net/news/Israeli...

Today, US & Israeli forces bombed the Gandhi Children’s Hospital in Iran’s capital of Tehran.

Nurses supposedly risked their lives carrying newborns to safety from the rubble.

I’m having trouble finding more reporting about this, but here is at least a blurb from Reuters:

How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change

This is incredibly cool, a story told in English where every paragraph steps back in time to an older form of English. I am super proud I got to 1000 before it was entirely incomprehensible
www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

Ofelia Torres, Teen With Cancer Who Fought For Father's Freedom From ICE, Has Died Torres, 16, died Friday. Her father was arrested in October, the day after she returned from more than a month at the hospital for cancer treatments. She shared her family's plight, and her was father...

This young girl was battling stage 4 cancer when ICE agents took her Dad.

Ofelia leveraged social media to fight for her Dad’s release.

To call out the cruelty of ICE.

She won.

A judge ordered him released on compassionate grounds & they spent her last month’s together.

Renee Good's widow shared this statement with us today. It's absolutely heart-wrenching. 💔

"you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free...."

Talked with a friend yesterday who was down from Minneapolis for a few days and she emphasized the huge amount of unseen, unglamorous work and security behind the scenes, which all activists know is what enables the visible work. She's part of an amazing network. Minneapolis is the best of us.

Minneapolis Community Defense Is “Riding on the Learning Edge of a Whirlwind” “We are becoming the people that we always knew that we needed to be,” says Minneapolis organizer Andrew Fahlstrom.

I talked with three Minneapolis organizers, including Andrew Fahlstrom and Susan Raffo, about community defense in Minneapolis, the social fabric of collective care under federal occupation, and how people around the country should be gearing up for the long struggle ahead. Audio + transcript:

I know I've been fangirling about this channel a lot lately, but seriously, their essays are some of the best stuff on YouTube. I became a patron recently and I think y'all should too! Let's help out the Cooks!

“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.”

― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay

High school students marching against ICE this afternoon in Detroit, Michigan

The thing is once you have massive participation ICE defense decentralized response networks on a block by block basis those groups could do eviction defense in much the same way...

BREAKING: Tenants across Minneapolis and Saint Paul have just launched a Twin Cities tenant union, citing the fact that their cities are under siege, and saying they need to band together to protect one another.

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a general strike will require planning in your immediate circles to sustain. bulk buy shelf stable foods, begin scheduling childcare and meal shifts, organize protest safety/medic training. the fascist scum will only keep us precarious and dependent on murder otherwise!!

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:

“I don't mean to paint too rosy of a picture... but if then can stay united people here can write history."

A very inspiring thread.

Banner with Portrait hung on overpass. Text reads: Forest Defender Executed by Cops 1/18/2023 TORTUGUITA Vive Manuel Esteban Paez Teran 1996-2003

Portrait. Text reads: Forest Defender Executed by Cops 1/18/2023 TORTUGUITA Vive Manuel Esteban Paez Teran 1996-2003

Early this morning, we placed a banner commemorating Tortuguita, the young forest defender murdered by the Georgia State Patrol on this day in 2023.

TORTUGUITA VIVE
LA LUCHA SIGUE

Via @atlantaantifa.bsky.social

ICE agents only do this because they are extremely well-trained and experienced with the situations they are creating

I've read most of the scholarship about US policing since the early 20th century. What you learn from this is that violence is inherent. You cannot "separate" out violence from policing. Police in the U.S. are violence workers.

Four Oglala detainees located, three still in ICE custody - ICT The four Lakota detainees were reportedly sent to a former concentration camp used during the Dakota Wars

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars.

ictnews.org/news/north-c...

Lmao someone threw an open bottle of piss into an ICE vehicle that was driving by

800 people at Whittier International Elementary right now to coordinate ICE resistance. EIGHT HUNDRED, at one little school.

Recall there are only 2,000 ICE agents in the entire metro. Puny!