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You Can Just Do Things | Patrick Blanchfield As ever, the horrors Trump embodies implicate more than just his singular odious person. His “habit of abusing power to force his will upon an uncooperative world”—in David Frum’s formulation over the...

my latest column in @nplusonemag.com: on Iran, the Millennium Challenge of 2002, why no one wants to learn anything, and how the repressed returns regardless www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

02.03.2026 22:27 👍 99 🔁 45 💬 3 📌 12
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Prison-Style Free Speech Censorship Is Coming for the Rest of Us The outcome of a court case could decide whether the Trump administration can criminalize simply possessing political literature.

Learning from the resistance and fortitude of our incarcerated comrades, who have long operated under authoritarianism, offers us both strategies and hope
theintercept.com/2026/02/16/d...

17.02.2026 21:31 👍 183 🔁 80 💬 1 📌 0
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DHS Expansion of Immigration Detention into Warehouses This is a live toolkit and will be updated as needed. Table of Contents Introduction & Background Warehouses in Context Impact on Communities National Expansion Map and Status Core Campaign Demands f...

Came on here for a minute to look for something and immediately got waylaid, LOL. Before I log off, I did want to share this excellent toolkit by @detentionwatchnetwork.org with all of you who want to take action re: Federal warehouses: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

20.02.2026 13:55 👍 212 🔁 165 💬 0 📌 0

Your occasional reminder: @jesspish.bsky.social wrote a vital book on the dangerous right-wing politics of law enforcement.

Also, @alixabeth.bsky.social has written a must-read on the lawlessness of our border security regime.

Read the two books together and become *very* angry.

12.01.2026 22:02 👍 25 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0
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(1/3) Hoy @sigloxxiesp.bsky.social publica «El saqueo de las élites. Cómo los poderosos se apropiaron de la política de la identidad (y de todo lo demás)», el maravilloso ensayo de @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social que he tenido el placer de traducir e introducir.

18.11.2025 12:35 👍 19 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 1
Budget Justice: On Building Grassroots Politics and Solidarities by Celina Su

Budget Justice: On Building Grassroots Politics and Solidarities by Celina Su

Celina Su

Celina Su

Tomorrow (Nov 12) at 6:00 pm EST, join the @humanitiescuny.bsky.social in helping Celina Su launch her book, Budget Justice! Su will talk with Liza Featherstone and Kesi Foster about how communities can solve our cities' most pressing problems.

Register for this free event: buff.ly/5ChNqR9

11.11.2025 17:05 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 3
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Indie bookstores merge activism and literature for collective care Charis Books, Red Emma’s, and other booksellers serve as intellectual and cultural hubs during rising authoritarianism

“How we’re going to survive is taking care of each other and being in community,” -Taylor Morgan, worker-owner at Red Emma’s

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11.11.2025 22:50 👍 120 🔁 48 💬 0 📌 1

a helpful starter pack to find stuff you may be interested in and/or is local to you

go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

03.11.2025 21:17 👍 190 🔁 110 💬 3 📌 16
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Reconsidering Reparations: Author Talk with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò - Teaching for Change Join us on October 22 at 6:30pm at Busboys and Poets (14th & V) to hear from author Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, in conversation with Jenice L. View, on his book, Reconsidering Reparations: Why Climate Justice ...

Friends in D.C. area.

Join us tomorrow eve to hear from @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social about his timely @haymarketbooks.org book on reparations & climate justice.

Order dinner & drinks from menu while learning in good company at @busboysandpoets.bsky.social.

www.teachingforchange.org/reconsiderin...

21.10.2025 23:02 👍 66 🔁 24 💬 0 📌 0
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How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

Bertrand Russell once received letters from Sir Oswald Mosley, the founder of the British Union of Fascists, inviting him to a debate. Russell not only declined but replied quite generally that “nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us.” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

26.09.2025 19:39 👍 440 🔁 153 💬 7 📌 15
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Why Protests Should Be Promises Modern movements that aim to advance racial equity should withhold and promise, rather than perform, writes Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

“…for protests to succeed, they must be backed by movements with the ability to promise to withhold—labor, debt payments, rent payments, or consumer support—and to follow through if demands aren’t met.”

@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social‬
www.yahoo.com/news/why-pro...

22.08.2025 17:47 👍 39 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 1

we're prepping our weekly newsletter, & this week, it's REALLY packed with info.

Election results you may have missed.
Under-the-radar bills we break down.
Voting rights lawsuits & restrictions.

if you're into criminal justice, voting rights, local politics, sign up!

Here: boltsmag.org/newsletter

07.05.2025 14:25 👍 36 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
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EveryLibrary Condemns the Trump Administration's Termination of IMLS Grants as an Attack on Libraries, Museums, and Archives Everywhere. State Library Agencies and other grant recipients across the country began receiving official notices from the Acting Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services terminating their grants,...

NEW — After putting all Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS) employees on administrative leave Monday, I'm told DOGE is canceling congressionally-appropriated grants to state libraries across the entire country. Libraries are getting notice that funding was canceled as of 4/1.

More here:

03.04.2025 16:31 👍 2113 🔁 1238 💬 57 📌 152
Reconsidering Reparations

Join @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social and @ashdashlee.bsky.social for a discussion about justice, racism, the legacies of slavery and colonialism, and climate change.

Streams live at 5:00 pm ET

RSVP to attend: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/haymarketbooks/1636978

Reconsidering Reparations Join @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social and @ashdashlee.bsky.social for a discussion about justice, racism, the legacies of slavery and colonialism, and climate change. Streams live at 5:00 pm ET RSVP to attend: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/haymarketbooks/1636978

Tonight!

Reconsidering Reparations

Join @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social and @ashdashlee.bsky.social for a discussion about justice, racism, the legacies of slavery and colonialism, and climate change.

Streams live at 5:00 pm ET

RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

31.03.2025 16:53 👍 93 🔁 25 💬 0 📌 2

A professor and organizer I know at CUNY, Celina Su, said she'd be happy to look into spaces for you there, if one still needed?

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