Bear Bear
🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦. Antifascist. Antiracist. Pro personal choice in all things. 🏳️🌈💙. Dogs. Gardening. Photography. Art. Cooking. We are all humans. (Well most of us!). PA10. Fibrowarrior. Chronic illness. Ex evangelical.
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- I heard an OpSec horror story today. A group of (white) women who are organizing to feed brown neighbors who are afraid to leave the house due to ICE are *filming* their food compilation efforts, *from inside a member’s home*, and *streaming it on Facebook.*
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- We know the Feds are in cahoots with Meta and that Meta is sharing information with the Feds to target people. Signal chats for organizing. Nothing else. Literally nothing else. No photos, no video, no posting to social. Full stop.
- Please circulate and share this important resource: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/09/t...
- I really think folks don’t have any idea what we’re dealing with. We are living in a surveillance state. Rapid response networks across the country are telling people to get of Meta, full stop. Flock cameras are in most towns and cities now and track not just license plates but your actual face.
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View full threadAnd just to add: it is possible to feed or help thousands without EVER posting about it on social media. It’s called building relationships of trust and it has been done in this work for centuries. Do you think Harriet Tubman took out an ad in the paper?!
- And just so people understand it: Flock cameras are often available on open sites on the internet. ICE/CBP don’t even need a warrant and Flock is notoriously hackable regardless. If this worries you, tell your city council to take down their Flock cameras. This effort has met success lately.
- Re: the recent debate about old time organizers and newbies: you can tell often who understands the risks of OpSec and who doesn’t by those who have historically had to confront undercover folks infiltrating their organizing and who hasn’t. There is a role for everyone right now AND
- Quote posts having a real "fuck no, I won't do what you tell me" moment and I am HERE FOR IT.
- Because of course they did. Cowards
- In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD. Just some facts I think bear repeating.
- Most of the footage you see from ICE observers in Minnesota comes from the core cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. I talked to observers in the northern suburbs, who say they're taking on the same mission in very different conditions. (1) share.google/ei9giIFLsuEJ...
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View full thread“There was a woman on the side of the road just bawling, & I stopped & I said, 'Are you okay? Has anything happened?' And she's like, 'I’m just terrified that ICE is here, & I don't know what to do.' “I'm like, ‘You're here, you're caring. You are doing something.’” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- ICE observers in the Twin Cities suburbs say they fear being injured or killed, but are dedicated to being on the right side of history. They say working together has brought them community and connection. And they're seeing shifts in attitudes among their neighbors. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- The suburban observers, heavily women, say they share a personality type. “Many of us have encountered bullies our entire lives...I think that turns you into somebody that, even if that bully is wearing full tactical gear, I'm not interested in laying down for you.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- “If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- Look, if they do this, it's bad. But also, the math doesn't entire math for me. Cook County alone has ~3,000 voting precincts, and some must have multiple polling stations. There are ~4,000 armed ICE agents in US. More CBP (who are lumped in w this, prob). But even if we get to 20,000 armed ppl?
- 🚨BREAKING: Steve Bannon said Tuesday that the federal government is planning to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to patrol polling stations during this year’s midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
- I’ve been working on the Lawyers’ Committee Election Protection project for more than 20 years. This kind of threat happens in almost every cycle and almost never materializes. The threat - creating fear - IS the voter suppression tool. It costs nothing so any suppression it produces is a plus.
- This is a good point, and only emphasizes that how those who resist Trump report RIGHT NOW on threats he and his supports make to election integrity matters. These threats work by being spread, creating a fear they cannot back up. DO NOT DO THEIR WORK FOR THEM.
- I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
- More specifically, he's lying that the SAVE Act is "voter ID." It creates a requirement at the time of *registration* to vote which is deliberately calculated to make traditional voter registration drives impossible. It is not what people usually think of and many states have, ID check at the polls.
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- White people are putting Mexican flag stickers on their cars to get pulled over and waste ICE's time. They call it "ICE fishing."
- The American Way!!!
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- $1.5T military budget $170B for ICE and Border Patrol (over 4 years) $100B on tax cuts for the 1% (per year) $1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet $496M to send National Guard into cities $200M for Kennedy Center renovations $200M for Kristi Noem's jets $100M for Trump's golf outings Priorities.
- Putin just disrespected Trump by unleashing one of the most relentless attacks on Ukraine in this entire war, right after Trump publicly claimed he got Putin to agree not to attack. And she has the guts to call Biden weak? Seriously?
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- Faux news is screaming " conspiracy theory!!" at online claims that the 'assassination ' was fake. C'mon that was the worst acting I've seen in years...a coward doesn't stand up during an active shooter incident.
- The assasination was fake and done for photo ops. The propaganda faux news wing always screams that, and forensic evidence shows nothing was hit. This is another attempt to disbelieve what we see or saw and to accept their conclusion
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- Any news story, blog post, or YouTube video reporting on crime should include a longitudinal view such as this. The US is a much safer place than it was in the 1990s. Source: buff.ly/8Xot3Bt
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- I am hearing folks who have never been involved in putting together a protest or protecting one talking about how silly and frivolous "opsec" concerns are, and I want to say directly: you have no idea what you are talking about. People have been killed for getting made famous by the press.
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- Again, this is FALSE. Administrative warrants are NOT signed by an immigration judge (or any judge at all). They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves with no external oversight whatsoever. Here is a blank sample warrant. Note who signs off on it; an "immigration officer."
- Hey @schumer.senate.gov, these agents are doing this on video. Not another dime for these motherfuckers. Not one more piece of equipment, no more nonsense about body cams and training. Shut it down.
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- A lot of wisdom being dropped here about deescalation. At artful protests I organized in the early 2010s, where people showed up expecting a family-friendly vibe, we sometimes had folks who were bloc'd up who I had to talk to. They always heard me out because we had mutual respect. They knew me.
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