"The effort was meant to “urge gubernatorial candidates to grow a spine and stand up for the rights of immigrant, trans, and working class Californians,” according to the group."
The student protest in Quakertown, #Pennsylvania was peaceful until the #police showed up -- Including the police chief in plain clothes -- and started grabbing students and tackling them to the ground. The chief put a young girl in a choke hold.
A grown man -- the local police chief -- holds a teenage girl in a choke hold on the ground. Nearby are dropped protest signs and other student protestors, one of which is trying to pull the police chief off of the girl he's choking.
Nach der Niederschlagung der Massenproteste im Iran geht die traditionelle 40-tägige Trauerzeit zu Ende. Bei Gedenkfeiern gibt es nun offenbar wieder Proteste. An einer Uni in Teheran gerieten Regime-Kritiker und -Anhänger aneinander.
An OR family is mourning the loss of their father shortly after they say he was deported. Detained:➡️caught Covid & pneumonia in a cold cell➡️deported➡️hadn’t lived in MX for >30 yrs➡️💔died alone there. The family blames #ICE. Given his treatment in #detention➡️deported while sick:➡️warranted.
The fed govt is committing #CrimesAgainstHumanity in its quest to deport millions of ppl. Imagine the 10s of 1000s💔of #immigrants who’ve met similar fates‼️
"WSJ🚨warns Trump’s billionaire tax cut is hurting the US economy"
Even Murdoch's WSJ⚡agrees that the 1% should be taxed at higher rates to save the #economy.
Journalists see the irony: "Notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich."
-P Gourevitch
"A look at who picks up the tab when #billionaires🚨scrimp on taxes, & how wealth concentration is affecting the wider #economy *issue:⚡not going away."
"What does unite those indicted as part of the “#antifa cell” is opposition to President #Trump. They form a version of “antifa” that a prosecutor in the case described as an “anti-President Trump and anti-#ICE movement,” but that experts warn tips dangerously toward an attempt to prosecute based on ideology."
For those of you happy to read some more legal analysis here's Prof. Mark Elliott on why despite the High Court finding that the proscription of Palestine Action was unlawful, there remains considerable uncertainty about the status of the proscription unit the Appellate Court has had its say....
In other words, although ruled unlawful the proscription remains active until that judgement as been subject to appeal & further legal argument.
«#Protest gegen US-Regierung — Ministerium für Homeland Security jagt ICE-Kritiker in sozialen Netzwerken:
Das Ministerium hat #Google, #Meta und Co. laut »New York Times« Hunderte Auskunftsanforderungen geschickt, um #Daten von Nutzern zu erhalten, die die Einwanderungs- und Zollbehörde #ICE kritisieren. Die #Konzern'e kamen einigen Anfragen nach»
Wer hat nichts zu verbergen und welcher Qualition gehören die US Tech-Giganten an?!??
"Rubio resembled the asst to a torturer *hands the delinquent a glass of water after he's been forced to walk over hot coals🚨-defended Trump’s tariff policy & imperialism🚨-advocated policies geared solely towards national ints +called the ‘rules-based world order‘ an overused term. What distinguishes Rubio from Trump & Vance:🚨cloak ruthless power politics in polished language.”
“Well said.🚨The problem is that the leaders of the US government and the people around them are more interested in their ability🚨to profit from the resources of Ukraine and business deals in Russia than a🕊️lasting peace for Ukraine and Europe.”
My 13-year-old son just said, "Mum, I think I have a good idea. The people in America protesting ICE should call themselves LAVA -- Local And Very Angry. And lava melts ice. You should post that and see if it's a good idea."
We're about as far away from the United States as you can get, here in Perth, Western Australia. But I hope the people over there know that even a young boy on the other side of the world can see when something isn't right.
Hi all, just sending this as a final reminder, I would also be really chuffed if you would share it
WHAT: Rally against militarism and the Australian military establishment
WHEN: 18th of February at 4:30
WHERE: Outside the Hyatt hotel
Australia's most senior representatives of the defence establishment will gather at the Hyatt hotel to complain Australia is not spending enough money on murder. They'll be talking about vital topics like supporting imperialism - Australian, American and Israeli - and the need to spend $350,000,000,000 (about 32,000 dollars per Australian household) on nuclear submarines. We want to put on a reception to give them some feedback about how we feel.
We'll be meeting at 4:30 on the 18th at the bus stop outside the Albert Hall. Your attendance would be greatly appreciated, but any help you could give us in building the rally would be tremendous - texting friends and spreading this message on to further chats [Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal etc.] would all be an enormous help.
On Friday, Feb. 6, 2026, students at Bellaire High School in Houston, Texas, walked out as part of a coordinated regional effort involving several area schools, including Cypress Falls and Conroe High Schools, to protest operations by #Immigration and Customs Enforcement (#ICE) amid fears that its agents will be allowed onto school property to detain students and their families.
The Houston Chronicle article reproduced below on the Bellaire walkout conveys important developments in the fight to oppose #deportations across the United States.
The widespread high-school student walkouts on January 30 are now being followed by new and similar grassroots initiatives at schools around the country.
#DHS🚨has sent Google, Meta & other cos 100s of subpoenas for info on accts that track or comment on #ICE.
The tech cos have said they review govt requests before complying. Some of the cos notified the ppl whom the govt had requested data on & gave them🚨10 to 14 days to fight the subpoena in court.
“The govt🚨is taking more liberties than they used to” -S Loney, ACLU of PA. “It’s a whole other level of frequency & lack of accountability.”
More on the Palestine Action proscription judgement in the High Court yesterday. Following on from Mark Elliott's analysis (just re-posted) here is
@davidallengreen take on the issue, focusing on the over-reach by both the previous & this Govt.
As DAG points out, while the Govt. will likely throw everything at the appeal, this is a high risk stagey likely to prompt further political humiliation.
"When KS🚨did a version of the #SaveAct, it purged ~40 ineligible voters - & stopped 31K legal citizens from registering to vote (12% of all applicants). That's 775 legal voters lost for every 1 ineligible voter."
-J Reidl
"Are you one of nearly 70M American women who changed their names when they got married? 🙋♀️
Republicans in Congress want to make it harder for you to vote."
-H Clinton
Tom Homan lied. The fascist paramilitary invaders are still in Minnesota. Don't stop until ICE is abolished. Patrol, Observe, Support, and Stay Viigilant. (2/12/26)
Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here. Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone
So while the proscription remains in place to allow some further legal argument & a possible appeal by the Govt. for now the High Court has concluded (on two out of the four counts raised) that Palestine Action's proscription was unlawful.
The proscription did not fully follow the Govt.'s own rules on proscription & the proscription also failed by contravening, Articles 10 & 11 of the ECHR.
So uh, what stage of "you can't call it fascism!"TM is it when Downmarket Mussolini sends the immigration Gestapo that pretty much answers to only him, to unlawfully arrest student protest leaders who legally in the country, and disappear them into the labyrinth of the American migrant carceral complex?
Ice arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia protests, lawyer says
"Mahmoud Khalil was at his university-owned apartment, blocks from the private Ivy League university’s main campus in New York when several Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents entered the building and took him into custody, his attorney, Amy Greer, told the Associated Press.
One of the agents told Greer by phone that they were executing a state department order to revoke Khalil’s student visa. Informed by the attorney that Khalil, who graduated last December, was in the United States as a permanent resident with a green card, the agent said they were revoking that too, according to the lawyer.
The arrest comes as Donald Trump vows to deport foreign students and imprison “agitators” involved in protests against Israel’s war in Gaza."
As the story goes on to mention, Khalil, who is Palestinian, is in the United States on a legally-issued Green Card, which cannot be revoked by either ICE Gestapo pigs or our fascist State Department without the order of an immigration judge; which makes this an unlawful arrest and detention. What the story doesn't discuss however is that Khalil's wife, who is eight months pregnant, is an American citizen. I mention these things not because it would somehow be "okay" for the fascist Trump regime to snatch up a student leader for the (not illegal) "crime" of protesting a genocide if he only had a student visa, or his wife wasn't a U.S. Citizen, but to point out that clearly the administration and its security forces do not give a flying fuck about any of the rules they're violating or laws they're breaking to punish dissent. Furthermore, reports posted on social media by a person identifying themselves as Khalil's lawyer, indicate that the Department of Homeland Security has already moved Mahmoud, possibly as far as Georgia, and thus he does not have access to legal representation. If this were Middle Eastern country with oil reserves, our establishment would rightfully note that the regime has thus effectively "disappeared" what amounts to a political prisoner.
Folks, I don't want to sound like a broken record here, but like I've been telling you (even long before Trump was re-elected) the fact is that fascists don't give a fuck the about laws, rules, or standard operating procedures. If the law can be used to justify seizing power, eliminating civil rights, and punishing enemies they're happy to employ it. But if not, they'll replace or simply ignore any rule that gets in the way of the attempts to purge the opposition and transform society into the full on fascist dictatorship of their dreams. You don't get to let this one slide because "he's not an American," you don't care about Gaza, or you've been taught to hate student protestors by your media and the larger ruling class establishment. If Americans (including the nominal opposition in the US establishment) stand by and watch this happen to folks like Mahmoud Khalil, then it is an absolute historical certainty that it is only a matter of time before Trump is sending jackbooted thugs after anyone who won't goosestep along with the fascist order - and that includes figures in our complicit media and political classes. A whole bunch of affluent liberals have spent the past couple of years tossing around historical warnings about how Nazism and the Holocaust happened in Germany; now its time to prove you understand the lessons those words were trying to teach you about resisting the slide into overt fascism before it goes far enough that you can no longer stop it - because I assure you, if you tolerate this then (you and) your children will be next.
Within days of Trumpenreich shadow chancellor Stephen Miller's ominous Fox News appearance, during which he openly declared the government's intention to criminalize political opposition to Trumpism, the regime began laying the (quasi) legal groundwork to turn Miller's threats into a reality. First Trump signed an unhinged executive order declaring "antifa" a domestic terrorist organization; despite having no power to do that, and antifa being a term for antifascist protestors, not an organization.
Trump Signs Order Designating “Antifa” a “Domestic Terrorist Organization”
"Yesterday, Trump signed an executive order designating antifa — the decentralized movement against fascism — a domestic terrorist organization, although the U.S. does not have a federal domestic terrorism law.
“[Antifa] uses illegal means to organize and execute a campaign of violence and terrorism nationwide to accomplish these goals,” the order states. “This campaign involves coordinated efforts to obstruct enforcement of Federal laws through armed standoffs with law enforcement, organized riots, violent assaults on Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other law enforcement officers, and routine doxing of and other threats against political figures and activists.”
“Because of the aforementioned pattern of political violence designed to suppress lawful political activity and obstruct the rule of law, I hereby designate Antifa as a ‘domestic terrorist organization,’” the order continues.
The order directs the federal government to investigate and prosecute “those who fund [antifa] operations.”
As the article notes, the Trump regime went out of their way to hold up anti-ICE protestors, and folks who publicly identify masked Gestapo goons, or even "political figures and activists" (on the right, of course) as part of Trump's made up "antifa" organization - which may go a long way towards explain why, months later, ICE and CBP goons were prepared to treat half the city of Minneapolis like a terrorist threat. Of course Trump was widely mocked in the media because this executive order is legally meaningless, but as we'll discover later on in this thread it doesn't really matter if Trump is just making up new powers for himself out of thin air, so long as the rest of his fascist government is prepared to pretend and act as if his word is the law. Regardless, Trump had just defined working to oppose the Trumpenreich's ethnic cleansing operation as terrorism, in writing.
Of course, the Swine Emperor's outrageous executive order only hinted at how broadly the label of "antifa," and thus terrorist, would be applied against his political enemies. The domestic terrorism memo Trump signed soon afterwards, would however make it abundantly clear that he means the more than half of the country that didn't vote for him, and doesn't want him to be America's Hitler.
Trump “Domestic Terrorism” Memo Focuses on the Left, Ignores Right-Wing Violence
"Part one of the memo attempts to explain, though very ambiguously, what it means to be “anti-fascist.” In defining what constitutes supposedly “antifa” beliefs, the memos lists “anti-American,” “anti-capitalist,” and “anti-Christian” views. However, it doesn’t specify whether it will target groups based on actual incidents of violence or simply for professing a certain ideology. It also describes “anti-fascists” as being “extreme” on issues of “migration, race and gender,” but doesn’t provide a definition of “extreme.”
It further states that people who are generally hostile “towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality” may be considered “antifa.” Earlier this week, the president issued an executive order designating “antifa” as part of a broader domestic terrorist network, despite having no legal basis to do so."
Please keep in mind that even this unhinged list of "antifa" beliefs has to be filtered through the lens of fascist right wing newspeak. Being anti-American, might just mean opposing US imperial violence. Do you think billionaires should pay a wealth tax to support the communities they pillage? That may sound like anti-capitalism to our fascist police state, who can say? Furthermore Trump pretty much said the quiet part out loud anyway when he noted that people who are "generally hostile" towards MAGA nazis, "may be" considered antifa too. "Be nice to us or we'll put you in Gitmo!"
Look, I just want to be clear - this is the fucking President of the United States, declaring in writing, that more or less 60% of the country either is a terrorist, or could be considered one if it suits the Trump regime's purposes. And as we'd learn in the months that followed, grandpa Dealz didn't just forget to take his meds that week - these were and are statements of intent for the Trumpenreich itself.