Yesterday, the Day of the Forest Defender, in honor of Manuel "Tortuguita" Terán—murdered by Georgia State Troopers two years ago while defending Weelaunee Forest—people took over a billboard on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. From a statement:

"The writers of this message took over a billboard on one of NYC's largest highways, used by 130,000 vehicles daily. We covered a CopShot police billboard that recruits informants with a $10,000 bribe. In the context of a city that spends $29 million dollars a day on policing, off the side of a highway that displaced thousands of families, we replace the state's cowardly propaganda with a commemoration of land defenders' sacrifice and struggle. Collective memory animates our will to destroy this empire that is killing us and our planet. As the US funnels billions into building Cop Cities across the country in its latest attempt to repress us, they concede what we already know—that rebellion is inevitable."

"Viva Tortuguita And All Land Defenders."

Donald Trump is threatening to begin his second presidency with a new round of gratuitous violence targeting undocumented families.

In 2017-2018, people around the US blockaded airports, freeways, and ICE facilities. There were school walkouts and demonstrations and barricades.

There are things we can do to resist. Let's stand up for each other.

https://crimethinc.com/ICEage

While some wring their hands about the return of Donald Trump, others are getting organized to resist and defend each other.

Read reports from Festivals of Resistance that drew hundreds of people to dozens of events around the United States this past weekend.

https://crimethinc.com/festivals2025

We can do this!🏴

Elon Musk made the Nazi salute twice at Trump's inauguration.

Musk bought Twitter to reinstate Nazis. He supports the German fascist party AfD. He has spread antisemitic "replacement" rhetoric.

Yet the ADL is making excuses for him because, like them, he supports the genocide of Palestinians.

Unsurprisingly, fascism looks a bit different this time around than it did a century ago. But it already has its Henry Ford, its autocrats, its scapegoats against whom to direct anger, its sacrificial violence.

We should have no illusions about what we're up against.

https://crimethinc.com/sacrificialviolence

You may have seen this image of Elon Musk's Nazi salute projected onto Tesla's Gigafactory in Berlin.

But you may not know that last year, anarchists occupied the adjacent forest to block the expansion of the Gigafactory and used direct action to shut down electricity to it.

Read all about it:

https://crimethinc.com/TeslaGermany

There are concrete things we can do to resist. 🏴

Trump's immigration policy is performative violence intended to pacify restless white people. But it won't actually improve their lives—only raise their relative status by ruining others' lives. It is the perfect distraction for a billionaire determined to concentrate wealth and power in his own hands at everyone else's expense.

What Trump does to the undocumented today will eventually be done to many more people. If the rest of us do not act in solidarity now, we cannot expect others to act in solidarity with us when we are the ones being arrested and herded into detention centers.

Solidarity is self-defense.

https://crimethinc.com/borders