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10/31/2026

"A report produced by the Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley and Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) reveals that the FN303 has been disproportionately responsible for some of the most severe injuries in recent immigration-related protests across the US. The report, titled “Charting the Crackdown,” used open-source methodologies to trace and document misuses of crowd control weapons at immigration related protests from June 2025 through May 2026. The researchers catalogued over 400 incidents of misuse, the vast majority of which were committed by Federal agents."

DHS made a record buy of the FN303, a launcher with a 23-year trail of harm.

10/30/2026

"Kroger’s $1.65 billion proposed acquisition of Giant Eagle might not only consolidate the grocery market, but also a vast surveillance network that includes Flock cameras, a new report warns."

The Kroger-Giant Eagle deal could come with lots of data.

10/29/2026

The Fine Art of Punching UP:

"...what I learned from SPY (Magazine) was that you could use humor and wit alongside fact-finding and journalism to get under the skin of people in power who were abusing their privileges.

But it only works if your barbs and critiques are directed toward more powerful people. You have to punch up, not down. Punching up is how regular people hold those who are more powerful accountable. Punching down doesn’t have a moral imperative and more often than not, it’s cruel. Increasingly, I think too many people don’t know the difference."

Punching up: why are right wingers and rich people so bad at it?

10/28/2026

R.I.P. to a Great One

She founded the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez. In early 2026, she told The Times that she had been r***d by him decades earlier. She was 96.

10/28/2026

Today's news seems to have a theme...

"Around 120 HSI agents, many drawn from specialized units across the country that have served as the leading edge of the administration’s militarized immigration enforcement operations, were assigned to the case—including 11 undercovers. They used highly invasive surveillance techniques, including the deployment of Reaper drones and Patriot Act tools usually restricted to money laundering and terrorism investigations. Undercover operatives also infiltrated churches in apparent violation of a court order."

ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations is engaged in far-reaching spying against left-wing activists that rivals the FBI and CIA crackdowns on the Civil Rights and anti-war movements.

10/28/2026

"I’d left New Orleans that morning, and I noticed there was a cop car behind me at some point. I know I was going a normal speed, but he pulled me over anyway. And he made up some excuse — that I’d been in the left lane too long.

He started asking me what I was doing, where I was coming from and going. “I’m just a girl doing a road trip,” I said, and told him I’d come from New Orleans. Then he started asking for proof that I’d been there. I showed him a pamphlet from a wh***ey museum I’d visited and said “here’s my proof.” Then he got more relaxed, and told me, “I just had to be sure because I’m not a regular cop, I’m part of the FBI, and when I scanned your plate I could see you had suspicious travel patterns,” I think is how he worded it."

Anybody is susceptible to being stopped, searched, or worse; AI makes new forms of abuse possible

10/27/2026

"WIRED spoke to a dozen people taking part in this effort, whose groups are working together to combat what they see as an existential threat to American democracy. Central to this response are training sessions run by massive national groups like Common Cause, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Indivisible, as well as local groups like Living United for Change in Arizona and NorCal Resist, that have created massive groups of people who can document and record what ICE is doing, understand voters rights, and in many cases, prepare for worst-case scenarios."

From heat maps to Signal chats to war rooms, volunteers across the US are ready to act if federal immigration agents show up on Election Day.

10/26/2026

"Texas needed it. Its rural Black schools in those years ran short terms, with one teacher for all grades, in buildings that were often churches or nothing at all. The Fund’s conditions were the lever. A community had to run a school for at least five months. A one-teacher school needed two acres. The building had to be deeded to public authorities, who then had to maintain it. A community that met those conditions forced its county to own a school it had not asked for."

What we can learn from Rosenwald schools and Jeanes teachers today

10/26/2026

The guy they just re-elected in Brazil began as a union organizer in the 1980's...

30 November 1984: The former lathe operator, now head of Brazil’s newest party, is in London calling for his country’s military rule to be replaced with direct elections

10/21/2026

What if there was a school for people to learn how to make the system work for the rest of us? Important announcement coming soon.

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