Federal harassment is an expected response, and people shouldn’t live in fear or paranoia. Be smart, be prepared. Trump and his goons want us to stay quiet, scared and isolated. Being brave is easier when all of know every will have our backs.
This is a portrait I painted of one of many heroes of mine from the Civil Rights movement. The Rev. James Zwerg, circa 1961. He was one of the Freedom Riders, along with John Lewis, William Barbee, Catherine Burks, and many others, who pulled into Montgomery, AL on a bus May 20, 1961.
He volunteered to step off first.
The mob was waiting with baseball bats, chains, and clubs. They beat him until three of his vertebrae cracked, his nose broke, and every tooth in his head was fractured. They beat him unconscious on the pavement. A Black stranger in coveralls walked up and said, “Stop beating that kid. If you want to beat someone, beat me.” And they did. He saved Zwerg’s life.
White ambulances refused to take him. He lay in the street for over an hour. That is the moment I painted. Bloodied suit. Head bowed.
At Martin Luther King Jr.’s urging, Zwerg later went to seminary and was ordained in the United Church of Christ.
Rev. Zwerg is now 86 and lives in Tucson, Arizona. His courage and conviction, alongside that of countless others, helped save this nation. These are the people I celebrate as we near our 250th anniversary as a nation.
This is fascinating to me. Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill reports that midway through indirect talks to end the war, Tehran’s negotiating team added two senior psychologists to help craft messages to Trump. They were experts in the fields of cognitive impairment and anti-social behavior, and they were added to manage what an official described as "the American President’s psychopathic behavior pattern.” See follow-up tweet.
We are living in the second age of McCarthyism. MAGA influencers are Feds. None of them are genuine and they only exist to get people that oppose Trump arrested.
@AndrewMercado Unfortunately half the country is too stupid to know what McCarthyism is and at this point would probably be all for it. Scary ass times, stay safe my friend.
VIA~~~Charlie Thornton
Let me tell you why I'm with the Brown folk and queer folk and the women folk - somebody just reminded me of this - I was born and raised less than 10 miles from where I live right now. I'm a white dude, a southern dude, I own a gun, I have a job, I vote,  I drink beer, I fish, I pay my taxes, I grew up raising hell and listening to the Allman brothers ....
But the flag-waving Uber-patriots still come at me foaming at the mouth and telling me I'm not American enough, not straight enough, not man enough to be part of what they think belongs in "their America." Literally happened completely unprovoked about 10 minutes ago.
Now, if these crazy jackasses come at me??? - when I have a redneck pedigree that goes back to the Civil War.... how much more are they gonna try to persecute people that aren't like me? I'm literally everything they say they want, except I won't vote for institutionalized racism and a war on women and queer folk.
Screw them!
Persecuting people and hating people is no way to go through life. Miss me with all that
I'll be hanging with the womens and the queers and every color that the Good Lord made us in. And we will be looking better and eating better and having hell a lot more fun.
Bet on that.
El equipo nacional de Irán llevó mochilas escolares al campo del #2026WorldCup para honrar a los 175 niñas asesinadas en la escuela por Estados Unidos e Israel en Minab.
No solo están jugando futbol, están llevando un mensaje, uno que EE.UU no quiere escuchar.
🚨 "YOU KEEP F*CKING PUSHING US, WE'RE GONNA F*CKING PUSH BACK EVENTUALLY!" 🚨
An ICE agent calls a woman protester an "idiot" outside Delaney Hall.
Moments later, another protester explodes — accusing agents of shoving his wife and warning that people are reaching their limit.
Day 24.
@JTCestkowski + @JonFarinaPhoto ⬇️
🚨 ICE ATTACKS PROTESTERS DURING DELANEY HALL SHIFT CHANGE 🚨
ICE agents shove the crowd and detain one person as multiple agents pile on top of him outside the Newark ICE prison.
In the background, protesters continue chanting:
"We're here for the people on hunger strike. We're here for the people we love."
Day 24.
@JTCestkowski and @JonFarinaPhoto ⬇️
Kathy Griffin got her ANTIFA Gold Card with myself on it! 🦒💙
And you can too by visiting https://t.co/9KXqeaXKTZ and making a donation for the cause! Even if you can't attend 7 Days In DC which is gonna be the SXSW of Activism June 28th til July 4th you can still make a donation and support good counter culture Activism and get a cool looking gold card!! 🦒💙 And if you do go to DC remember Chelsea Gods and I host at show at The Black Cat July 2nd so grab tickets! We storm Applebee's after! 🦒💙
@kathygriffin
#DC #KathyGriffin #Activism
@RepJackKimble It was the evil extreme left wing antifa communist cabal. I saw them, they had huge barrels of green dye they keep in stock for their hair.