“The nationwide Christmas boycott recommended by the executive board of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is a singularly inappropriate device for promoting civil rights or protesting the killing of six Negro children in Birmingham.”

Going to shut it down for the week... Hope that everyone can find a way to stay grounded and to fight where you are. Take care.

This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

(From her excellent book “King of the North,” in this chapter about King’s efforts for many years in NYC)

In 1963 MLK supported a nationwide boycott of Xmas shopping. @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social notes that the NYT editorial board wrote a piece slamming the effort called “Strike Against Santa Claus” which they said would “put civil rights activists on the same level as those who did the church bombing.”

Please take 2 minutes to take action on the police budget increase of $93.8 Million dollars even in the midst of a corruption scandal. Anothertoronto.ca

Yes to this call from @everylibrary.bsky.social! One action is to get involved in your local #FriendsOfTheLibrary group! Learn how these groups can help strengthen & protect #libraries at our Feb 19th Friends & Foundations Network Open House! www.librariesforthepeople.org/events/ftp-f...

First, I feel terrible for all of the victims and survivors. Second, I guess I was really not aware of how far reaching this all was. This is what has surprised me.

I wondered what the reference to torture videos in the released files was all about. yikes.

Jesus.

We murdered two more people in a boat today. One apparent survivor.

The strategy for elections cannot be landslides to prevent them from being stolen. That makes no sense at all.

Shocked to learn that TPUSA paid bots to increase the size of the "views" for Klanchella. Fascists are always on the up and up.

Ramadan always interrupts necessary ass kicking of people who deserve to have their asses kicked.

This made me laugh out loud because it's so real. IT IS ON... time is of the essence, lol

Neighbors packed a Southwest Side coffee shop to show support for its anti-ICE stance. blockclubchi.co/45SmrPx

Struggle is not the goal. It’s the method. To get free. Too many people imagine struggle is the goal, so any acts of worldbuilding that prefigure freedom are dismissed as incidental, as distractions.

The radical preacher of Broadview just got his charges dropped...

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

ICE officials, under a judge’s order to clean up overcrowded and squalid conditions inside holding cells at 26 Federal Plaza detained migrants on a separate floor where they decided the the ruling didn't apply. The revelation comes in a hearing today: www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/09/2...

Miami police shot and killed a woman experiencing a mental health crisis this weekend after her 12-year-old daughter called for help. No mental health crisis should turn deadly by those called to help. Our hearts are with the family as they await answers.

Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says. The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp... By Julianne Le

I distinctly remember this emergency protest. Seeing how quickly folks mobilized was inspiring. www.cambridgeday.com/2025/03/26/t...

Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.

“Today, I breathe a sigh of relief knowing that despite the justice system’s flaws, my case may give hope to those who have also been wronged by the U.S. govt," said Rümeysa Öztürk. "When we openly talk about the many injustices around us ..., true justice will prevail.”

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

this is injurious to moral, social, and all human life

Ebo Taylor, who did for Ghanaian music what his friend Fela Kuti did for Nigeria, has been called the greatest rhythm guitarist in history. His son Kweku Taylor: “The world has lost a giant, a colossus of African music, leaving behind an unmatched artistry legacy. Dad, your light will never fade.”

"During the next year, Sostre repeatedly emphasized that 'the same oppressive and repressive forces exist outside as well as in,' calling the world on the outside 'minimum security' and connecting it with the 'maximum security' of incarceration." (2/2)

"On February 9, 1976, Martin Sostre left prison for the last time. When he returned to New York City, he was almost fifty-three years old and had spent most of his adult life inside." (1/2) -Excerpted from A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre by Garrett Felber (2025)

Hell yes. Protest the hell out of Eloy. The place broke me and I wasn't even detained there, just visiting my clients

Another classic post-Homan day where around school dismissal time we get a flurry of ICE vehicles all across our neighborhoods. Today one vehicle led an observer to their own home and pointed at it. This is a sick game to them, but we won’t be intimidated and we won’t stop until DHS is abolished.

Prosecutors have dropped charges against nearly two dozen people arrested during a clergy-led protest outside the Broadview ICE facility last fall.

i fucking love this place i’ll never leave

Y'ALL it's been ONE YEAR since #TeslaTakedown started. THIS SATURDAY #FEB14, make time for a protest near you. Tell #ElonMusk & fashy friends that we won't forget the brazen corruption and myriad crimes. If you're in the #Baltimore #Maryland area, check out @teslatakedownbmore.bsky.social #3E

Quick reminder: The deadline to change your party affiliation is February 14. If you want a voice in the June 23 Democratic primary, you need to be registered as a Democrat. Check your registration and make sure you’re good to go: elections.ny.gov/voter-regist...

My initial reaction social media posts made it into a bunch of stories on the Amazon Ring Superbowl commercial, including this one from @truthout.org

Our ability to compartmentalize and also to frankly lie to ourselves are survival mechanisms as human beings. Because if we truly let ourselves consider how unhinged this man is and how he could end up blowing everyone up on the planet, we'd never sleep again.

Another resistance quilt finished this week. The eye is my own design, the letters are a fpp pattern by QuiltByNight, the rounded corners and black binding are meant to resemble the phones we the people are using to document the horrors and disprove the government’s lies about what they are doing.

nearly a year of working on this wonderful project of archiving and digitizing my found photo collection of 20th century black life. to be a caretaker of something, someone is an extreme honor and privilege. grateful as the work stretches on another year.

interesting. never heard of him before.

love always Wanda Coleman

Breaking: Trump told Palm Beach police chief 'everyone' knew about Epstein and 'evil' Maxwell www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

Today’s flower 🌱 #1340 Sunflower

Most of these flowers are fully open now. Cymbidium Splendid Doris #orchid #flower #gardening #bloomscrolling #photography #naturephotography 🌱🌴🪴sky

A glimpse of sunshine and the naturalised Crocus tommasinianus started to open. @gardenshour.bsky.social #GardensHour #Garden #Gardening 🌱

Ended a teach-in recently with this advice for people outside of Mpls -- “Go to an ICE watch training, print whistles, get connected with your neighbors, and prepare to be the next city.” For a summary of the event, see: krieger.jhu.edu/chloe/2026/0...

For a faction that says The Groups are the problem, they sure do love creating groups. More money poured into yet another think tank to tell activists they're messing things up for the Democratic Party. Good luck with this strategy. www.axios.com/2026/02/08/c...

An economist you all should be following yesterday is @trevondlogan.bsky.social: Economic historian, one of the smartest people I know, and a genuinely interesting researcher. One of my favorite studies by him debunks the myth that white women were passive observers of slavery. #blackhistorymonth