Lisa Birk

“Pramila Jayapal's Special Edition Resistance Lab: Boycott the Billionaires” -I have to miss this one. Hope you can go! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

Great questions, @markey.senate.gov. I look forward to your response, @icegov.bsky.social, Director Todd Lyons.

Today, thousands of people came out to events all across NYC—picking up and handing out materials to defend their neighborhoods from ICE. There were whistles kits & know your rights cards. People went to hundreds of businesses hanging signs of solidarity. Incredible feat by @handsoffnyc.bsky.social.

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This is so insane. #MedicareForAllNOW

🚨 Immediate Action—Call TODAY All in favor of stabilized healthcare costs AND living in NV, IL, ME, PA or NH? Please call your Senators. open.substack.com/pub/thepeopl...

The Consumer Product Safety Commission just scrapped a table saw safety rule that could have prevented amputation injuries and saved over $2B in healthcare costs a year. This comes months after Trump fired all three Democratic CPSC members. "Make America Safe Again."

(from the inbox) Bikes were essential to ICE watching and rapid response on the north side today, helping people better locate feds in traffic. In this anonymized video, cyclists tail masked agents in a white Denali with Georgia plates through Rogers Park:

I know that there are people outside Chicago who are paying attention and seeing these videos but there are no words for how it feels when the videos show everyday places in your neighborhood, places that are part of your routine. The sense of violation is profound.

Looks like we are about to see a significant increase in snatch-and-grab operations around the Bay Area 408-290-1144 is the hotline for the Palo Alto/Mountain View area www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

In Speaker Johnson’s district, people would see their health care premiums skyrocket $2,284 per month if Republicans refuse to protect health care. Republicans are making their own constituents poorer and sicker.

This is some vile stuff. And these aren't teenagers. Many are Republican staffers. At least one works for Trump. "Epithets like “faggot,” “retarded” and “n--ga” appeared more than 251 times combined."

Oh hey, check this out. They talk the same way in their private chats as they do on Twitter www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Can’t make the protest? Here are other ways you can resist: • Get connected to the resistance: fiftyfifty.one • Get trained on noncooperation: nokings.org/rise • Get engaged in politics: pol-rev.com • Get started: Choosedemocracy.us

Shake your groove thing #NoKings, Saturday, Oct 18 www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

"Ari" is working in the poblano chilis in Santa Clara County. He explains how workers harvest the chilis, then take their full buckets over to a conveyor belt & dump them on it. The conveyor belt goes up lifting the chilis & "Ari" then directs them into different bins. #WeFeedYou

“Show me your hellhole.” I love it.

"A Chicago Heights Catholic priest began a 50-day pilgrimage in support of immigrant children, from Pope Leo’s boyhood home in Dolton, IL to New York ... 'This is not only a physical act of endurance, but a spiritual act of solidarity, a prayer in motion'..." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/06/c...

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

The Trump administration is escalating its surveillance of tens of millions of *legal* immigrants, forcing them to refrain from expressing opinions that someone might deem “anti-American.” It’s a clear attack on free speech and the First Amendment. bit.ly/4823Brc

This is the dumbest poll question ever. Try polling the question, "Should the Republicans shut down the government in order to make sure families' insurance premiums go up by 75%?"

Demanding fairness will not get easier or less costly. Trump escalates his cruelty. Now is the time to hold our politicians to account. Stand up on Oct 18. Find a NoKings.org near you.

The President gets no special new powers during a shutdown. He can't eliminate agencies. He can't use federal funds to punish his political opponents. As Trump's illegality grows during the shutdown, Democrats' spines should stiffen to oppose his corruption.

When they use helicopters and flash-bang grenades at 1am to roust people from their homes, zip-tie them, some of them naked, some of them children, it is time to stand up. Attend a NoKings.org protest near you. Oct 18.

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BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

Since the launch of the 2nd #NoKings mobilization, the Trump regime has escalated their authoritarian agenda. We won’t back down. On Oct. 18, we’re telling this wannabe dictator: America belongs to us. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. app.sosha.ai/s/1PUASjTZ

They’re baaack. 🤣 Repairs and all…

Here are three more factual statements: 1. 25,000 of Mike Johnson's constituents are about to lose health care 2. 27,000 more are about to have their premiums skyrocket. 3. A 60 year old couple in his district would pay $19,000 more a year.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Except it doesn’t bend on its own—it bends because we pull it in the direction of justice. What keeps me hopeful during times like these is being surrounded by people who are doing just that.

Thank you, @govpritzker.illinois.gov Thank you, Chicago, Illinois.

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My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

Thank you so much, @jtforward2.bsky.social, for video-ing. Has that man been freed?

As you can see, this man is as cool as a cucumber, knows his rights, and is confident that he is here legally.

#Disney #MAGA #Trump #Epstein #JimmyKimmel New Disney parody from Lubach just dropped, and it's hilarious. Take a moment if you've got it, these Dutch comedians have the right stuff.

Even the Dutch are calling out the regime over here for the blatant attack on our 1A, and the personal 1A attack on Jimmy Kimmel. Enjoy this clip of Dutch comedian Lubach! #SheShed

Good view of ICE license plates. Grateful to the videotapers.

Pritzker: When did we become a country where it's okay for the president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything, especially something we don't want? Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?

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Boston is out for Labor Day: workers over billionaires!

The crowd gathering for Labor Day “Workers over Billionaires” march at the Boston Common.