A beloved workers' rights organizer in Minnesota, known for *successfully* fighting against wage theft and labor trafficking, has been detained by federal immigration agents and is now locked up in New Mexico. His family is calling for his urgent release. inthesetimes.com/article/work...

I hope this happens every day for the rest of his miserable life lasvegassun.com/news/2026/fe...

Library workers, library patrons, students of all ages, moms and dads and grownups of all kinds, have been organizing against book bans in this district for years, some of the most inspiring people I’ve met.

What are you reading this weekend?

Cops were frequently getting caught planting drugs in 2017 because body cameras were new and many of them didn't understand how the technology worked. When cops hit "record" it saved the 30 seconds from *before* they hit the button. Eventually, they figured it out.

‘HOPE IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS,’ EMILY DICKINSON famously wrote, and that often leads to pictures of doves sitting quietly and looking sweet, but what if hope is an albatross that can soar for years without stopping, or an osprey that can haul a thrashing salmon out of rough waters?

Todd Miller and Melissa Del Bosque on why just abolishing ICE missing the point @mdelbosque.bsky.social www.theborderchronicle.com/abolishing-j...

Recommend reading: dawnmena.org/perfect-vict... #booksky #Palestine #news @haymarketbooks.org

I had the honor of moderating this brilliant (and important) panel on the threat of AI, featuring Ray Acheson, M. V. Ramana, and Roger Peet. @haymarketbooks.org @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social @justseeds.bsky.social @toosphexy.bsky.social @rayacheson.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWIy...

I’ve watched this about 20 times already

We have updated DetentionReports.com with the most recently released data from ICE. Many people have asked that we add a map to the home page. We have added this feature. Click one of the blue icons to proceed to the report of the corresponding detention facility. detentionreports.com

A dispatch from Surprise AZ where residents gathered to protest plans for a warehouse concentration camp in their community by @azrww.bsky.social “Despite this evidence of authoritarian power, it is possible for even the most local form of government to take a stand in the name of the people.”

I'm thinking again about the need for robust jail and prison moratorium campaigns in every state. I wrote a couple of years ago about a brief history of jail moratorium campaigns in the US: open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu... - this is a good time for a revival.

Black History Is For Everyone @jessehagopian.bsky.social interviews @brianjoneseducator.bsky.social for @rethinkingschools.bsky.social

After a month and a half break from print, the Reader makes its debut as a monthly. Thank you to everyone who supported the paper last year when we were scraping by week to week, and all the ups and downs before then. Thank you to everyone who picks up a new issue, it means the world.

On IG, @ollycostello.bsky.social has a really wonderful set of illustrations about @biidaasamose.bsky.social's writing about sintering (from her wonderful book "Theory of Water"). www.instagram.com/p/DUWOcBFFh2...

“Political organizer @jbethiejean.bsky.social connects her Appalachian upbringing to her career in social justice, in this deeply felt debut... A refreshing, clear-eyed chronicle of a political awakening.” SONGS FOR A HARD-HIT PEOPLE coming in April

honored to contribute to this @npr.org It's Been A Minute Swoletariat episode — we talked about the history of the Turners and goin' to the gym socialistally ⤵️ www.npr.org/2026/02/04/n...

I talked with three Minneapolis organizers, including Andrew Fahlstrom and Susan Raffo, about community defense in Minneapolis, the social fabric of collective care under federal occupation, and how people around the country should be gearing up for the long struggle ahead. Audio + transcript:

unraveled is *two* people, doing work that much bigger newsrooms aren't

“If illiteracy was a key form of oppression, then books were a pathway to freedom. No wonder, then, that Black-owned bookstores have been a central rallying point for Black resistance throughout US history.“ @prisonculture.bsky.social on D. Ruggles Books, the first Black bookstore in the US

“For this crisis of our time, the slow workings of American reform, the limitations on protest and disobedience and innovation, are simply not adequate.” —Howard Zinn

‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’

🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US. Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records. Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

What a useful resource for organizing.

Last year, I emailed Chicago’s chief homelessness officer, Sendy Soto, as well as spokespeople for both Soto & Mayor Johnson, six times. I wanted to understand their approach to evicting unhoused Chicagoans from the shelters they build to survive. No response. chicagoreader.com/news/housing...

Eric Huntley, who has died aged 96, was the co-founder with his wife, Jessica, of the radical publishing house Bogle L’Ouverture, set up in London in 1968 to showcase black writing talent.

This week on “Unite & Win” with @haymarketbooks.org, @kimkelly.bsky.social talks power in numbers with Grace Reckers and Phoebe Gilpin. They’ll take you through the ins and outs of planning a successful collective action. 🔗👇

My friend and one of the co-authors of Read This When Things Fall Apart, Stevie Wilson, will be released from prison in less than a week. Stevie has done tremendous work as an incarcerated organizer and has plans to continue doing important work on the outside. Let's help him make a new start.

LIVE NOW! Reading Frantz Fanon Join us for the first session of a hybrid political education collaboration between Haymarket Books and @abolitionschool.bsky.social Stream:

LIVE NOW! Join @rayacheson.bsky.social, @toosphexy.bsky.social, M.V. Ramana, and @joshuafrank.bsky.social as they explore the harms of AI. With @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social, @justseeds.bsky.social, and @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social. Stream:

heartbreaking to see public health people people get as far as “ICE detention is a driver of disease” only to call for increased funding for ICE medical services not “free them all for public health”

It’s like you’re almost there, but the correct answer is “abolish ICE and let everyone go” not increase funding to DHS via the carceral medical industrial complex. @victorialaw.bsky.social’s ground breaking book Corridors of Contagion should be required reading

This is civic action. Surprise, Arizona. Pop. 167,000. Huge crowd shows up to the City Council meeting to oppose DHS recent purchase of ginormous warehouse. Meeting + overflow room filled and hundreds more gathered outside. 130 people sign up to speak. 128 opposed to ICE warehouse.

This is tremendous. Take the time to watch it.

The meeting is adjourned. Mayor Kevin Sartor ended the long meeting by saying “We hear you, we have a lot to consider and your voices are impactful and powerful.” Surprise showed tf up. The overflow room filled + hundreds outside. It ended with only 2 speakers in favor of the ICE camp.

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The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody

London! Join us next week with ESEA Sisters at Reference Point, the Strand, for a long-table discussion on Black & Asian feminist solidarity chaired by Lola Olufemi. Full lineup coming soon! events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...

Today, as Gaza continues to be stuck in a bloody limbo, we are turning our website over to Gaza and its people in an initiative we are calling “A Day for Gaza.” There will be no pieces published on our website today that do not come directly from Gaza.

This is a deeply important piece. "A tool meant to make D.M.V. data sharing frictionless for law enforcement agencies also acts like a privacy Trojan horse, because agencies don’t need just cause or a warrant to look at it."

For #BlackHistoryMonth we're offering 40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation

New book from @haymarketbooks.org ! I joined the book club! And you should, too!

It’s hard to put into perspective how truly massive the warehouse is that was recently sold by the Rockefeller Group to the Department of Homeland Security for $70 million to build a concentration camp in Surprise, AZ. Across the street is a huge neighborhood and a school. It’s 400,000-square-feet.

i had imposter syndrome trying to talk about fascism alongside Alberto Toscano, but i'm glad i did coz it was an incredibly generative conversation that helped distill & crystallize my own thoughts about fascism worldwide today & it's differentiations from the past. www.tni.org/en/article/l...

Marimar Martinez, shot by federal agents in Chicago, testifying in Washington today:

yes, yes, you need more. this is your sign to buy *all* of the books from my fave, Haymarket Books!

I wasn't going to buy any new books (other than anything book club related) but there are some titles I've had my eye on and now might be the time.

This week’s lesson from “Unite & Win” with @haymarketbooks.org covers collective action and escalation. When do you go public? What if you don’t have a majority? How can you turn the tables on your boss? Listen today. 🔗👇

"the best of these kinds of books reject the bootstraps myth that individuals “escape” grinding poverty via personal merit, and those who remain simply haven’t worked hard enough. Jettisoning these myths is a step towards confronting the real violence of a class society"