“They’re using facial recognition, every advanced tool that they have to try and identify protesters and squash what we’re doing.”
The DHS is using Mobile Fortify, an app that allows officers to photograph a person’s face and immediately query DHS databases for matches on protestors.
A poster showing a masked individual with a stick about to damage a security camera. The headline reads "First Annual Security Cam Hunting Contest—Because surveillance cameras will not destroy themselves."
Over the past two decades, from Greece and Slovenia to Hong Kong and the United States, a rebel undercurrent has pushed back against surveillance infrastructure, seizing upon the prevalence of surveillance cameras as yet another vulnerability in the system of control.
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"Now, when I see a camera, I immediately begin evaluating the best way to remove it."
In this narrative, an anonymous researcher wages a personal war against surveillance infrastructure.
Relevant as people around the country engage in grassroots resistance to Flock cameras.
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Masked activists hold signs reading "Bring the Heat, Melt the ICE" in the Twin Cities on February 27, 2026.
A bucket drum painted to read "All you fascists bound to lose."
Anti-ICE activists meet inside a gallery on February 26, 2026.
A street is blockaded with a banner reading "Abolish ICE."
These actions and workshops served to bolster the resistance to the ICE occupation in Minnesota and to teach activists from all over the country how to export the Twin Cities’ rapid response model to their hometowns.
The fight against ICE continues.
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Love is liberation.
& Abolition is Love.
Prisons were not used as government-issued punishment until 1865. When the 13th Amendment of the US Constitution reformed slavery to only being legal as punishment for a crime, the $3.5 Billion dollar US slave industry changed into the now $10.5 Billion dollar prison industry (estimates).
I wish I could visit my wife as a child. To let em know nothing is wrong with em, that eir queer self is beautiful and wonderful, that ey don't deserve to be treated as ey were.
I wish we could do that for each other.
Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
US-Israeli strikes killed paramedics in Shiraz attack, Iranian media say - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/us-israeli-strikes-killed-paramedics-shiraz-attack-iranian-media-say
Living constantly in survival mode changes everything drastically. Whether you are driven by fear or dignity or likely some combustible of the two it changes the whole structure of your world.
The bombing on the school in Iran was a double tap
Noem is giving the most bizarre speech, talking about DHS as though she's starting the job, rather than getting fired. She was explaining how the department works at one point (like what it includes), and now she's talking about how she's going to talk to sheriffs about how they can "work with us."
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“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
James Baldwin
Here are the latest death toll figures from the US and Israel's ongoing attacks on Iran and Iran's retaliatory strikes.
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More than 3,400 flights were canceled Sunday across 7 airports in the Middle East, according to flight tracker Flightradar24.
Airports in Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain were among those closed.
“They want me to hide or leave or disappear, not to be visible and active in public society."
Republicans invalidated Avery Rowland’s drivers license, along with hundreds of other transgender Kansans. Here’s how she’s fighting back.
war abroad, war at home
The U.S. government on Wednesday shut down a vital resource for keeping tabs on what powerful spying tools its agencies are buying, making it harder to reliably find out how agencies including ICE are spending taxpayers’ dollars. www.404media.co/the-governm...
The idea of bombing children as a form of “self-defense” is nonsensical and grotesque, but nonetheless it’s the argument the U.S. and Israel have been relying on for years and years. It shouldn’t be hard to take a stance against slaughtering children
"The US and Israeli attack on Iran is morally repugnant. It is calculated only to benefit an elite of racist, Islamophobic warmongers. It will not benefit Iranians or ordinary people anywhere on earth."
Sharing this interview again, as protesters in Iran make clear that continued US led massacres will do nothing to improve the lives of ordinary people fighting on the ground.
We share this piece by @madycast.com with some frequency, because it's a reminder of the power of trans sruvival and strength even in the bleakest of times.
Earlier this year, the Syrian transitional government invaded the semi autonomous Kurdish led enclave of Rojava, capturing up to 80% of it's territory in two weeks. A renewed ceasefire has largely held as tense negotiations over Kurdish autonomy resume.
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Simultaneously telling us we are unwanted and making it preservation of autonomy and the ability to leave seem impossible.
Thousands of people will lose their ability to drive today. Those people risk arrests if they do not comply with this cruelty.
