This is Alfie. He is a professional opera singer with some of the best vibrato in the industry. Some have even called him the next Paw-varotti. 13/10 (TT: thelifeofalfiee)
@jac-ques.bsky.social
"After enduring months of anti-ICE protests at its bank offices, Citizens Financial Group is parting ways with two for-profit prison operators that oversee detention facilities for the federal immigration enforcement agency." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/17/b...
Citizens Bank parts ways with two prison operators amid ICE protests - The Boston Globe
Citizens said the end of its relationships with GEO Group and CoreCivic was driven by changing financial needs of the two clients, not by protests.
bostonglobe.com
"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." -Albert Einstein
religionnews.com/2026/06/27/j...
Japanese internment camp survivors demand closure of Dilley, TX family detention center
DILLEY, Texas (RNS and Texas Tribune) — Completing a pilgrimage from the Texas site of a World War II internment camp, interfaith activists said history is repeating itself at the nation's only family...
religionnews.com
zine version of the Guardian interview with some of the Prairieland defendants historyiswhat.noblogs.org/files/2026/0...
BREAKING: #AlligatorAlcatraz is officially closed 🎉🎉🎉 We've reached a huge milestone in our fight against the mass detention center in the heart of the #Everglades: ICE announced it has removed all detainees from the cruelly named “Alligator Alcatraz,” and DeSantis confirmed it is closed.
also not lost on me that as democratic socialists are winning some elections, a new red scare targeting anarchists, antifascists, and their allies is digging in hard, and today handed down 30, 50, and 100 year prison sentences to activists and organizers
Con artists posing as ICE agents and immigration officers have used WhatsApp and fake court hearings to bilk vulnerable people out of their savings with empty promises to fix immigration problems. As mass deportations continue, scam complaints soar. (Published April)
Immigration Scams Surged as Trump’s Sweeps Lured Desperate People to Eager Defrauders
Con artists posing as ICE agents and immigration officers are using WhatsApp and fake court hearings to bilk vulnerable people out of their savings with empty promises to fix immigration problems. As ...
propublica.org
please read this statement written by Benjamin "Champagne" Song and share as far and wide as you can: https://prairielanddefendants.com/defendant-writings/statement-by-benjamin-champagne-song/
Judge O’Connor stated from the bench that he is giving maximum sentences to the Prairieland sentences because “the state wants to send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology.” Additionally, motions 29 and 33 for acquittal and a new trial were denied from the bench.
... the Prairieland sentences are a national emergency
This is the legal defense fund for the 15 anti-ICE organizers who were recently arrested in Minneapolis. Please contribute generously. They are going to have millions of dollars worth of needs. chuffed.org/project/1865...
Legal Defense Fund for MN Anti-ICE Organizers
On the morning of June 16th 2026 fifteen anti-ICE organizers were indicted on federal conspiracy charges in Minnesota, 12 of whom were arrested in aggressive raids across the Twin Cities. This fundrai...
chuffed.org
We the anti-fascists outnumber the fascists by a mile. We are surrounding them. Brighton is anti fascist
This is a painting titled “Moonrise” created in 1884 by Polish realist artist Stanisław Masłowski (1853–1926), who was known for his realistic style, and this piece is considered a nocturne landscape.
all month, @akpress.org is donating $2 from every item sold to help Marius Mason re-enter society after almost 20 years in prison for his work trying to defend the earth. This includes both both books they publish and also books they distribute. I'll link some of my own and others that I like:
Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.
This is the bizarro world the Supreme Court has created with its latest voting rights decision. Thank you Jon Stewart and & @thedailyshow.com You can watch my entire conversation with Jon here: youtu.be/SCse1FFEKLM
If you're a young leftist looking for an inspirational model for politics and can't come up with anyone better than Stalin or Mao I'm going to encourage you to read a second book.
Today, hundreds of Utahns came to the Governor’s mansion to say NO to an ICE warehouse detention center in Salt Lake City. No Topaz 2.0! No concentration camp! Not now. Not EVER! #ICEout #ICEwarehouseResistance #GTFOICE
Once again, the right is openly admitting that the entire focus on trans youth is to ultimately ban all gender affirming care for adults. All the credulous reporters and institutions that helped launder this right wing project are responsible. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Children ‘low-hanging fruit’ in fight to end trans care, official at pro-Trump thinktank says
America First Policy Institute, which boasts close ties to president, discussed transgender policy ‘reform’ at DC event
theguardian.com
Repost from Mayra There were more protesters outside the Turning Point rally in Athens GA than event attendees.
26 years old from South Sudan. He has been in the US since age 13, when he was recruited to the country for basketball. Now being discarded as if he was human refuse. Shame on Syracuse for not intervening. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/04...
Cal State Channel Islands philosophy lecturer Jonathan Caravello has just been ACQUITTED of assaulting ICE/CBP last summer while protesting a brutal Ventura County cannabis farm raid! His defense argued he threw a tear gas canister away to protect protesters. The jury acquitted him in two hours.
CSU lecturer acquitted
Government said he assaulted immigration agent
laist.com
You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.
Some good news. 73,000 acres in a remote stretch of the Upper Peninsula’s Huron Mountains are now permanently protected from future development and open for public recreation. www.mlive.com/environment/... #906Life #PureMichigan
Michigan permanently protected 73k acres in the U.P. and secured public access
$20 million conservation deal protects wolf, moose and brook trout habitat while opening the land to hunting, fishing, hiking and off-road recreation.
mlive.com
KEEP CALLING The jail falsely claimed Rowan was returned to gen pop; Rowan confirmed today they're still in med seg The jail's claim that the move was for "security reasons" violates jail standards, per Texas Jail Project; the aim is to punish Rowan. Keep asking when Rowan'll be returned to gen pop!
DFW Support Committee@dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social · 4mo ago☎️ URGENT PHONE ZAP FOR PRAIRIELAND DEFENDANTS 📣 We have 2 critical demands: 1) Return Rowan Gibson to general population 2) Provide everyone with tablet access now Tablets are critical for all the defendants who just had their federal trial because they need to communicate with their lawyers!
