🚨Ian Austin, 6-tour combat veteran, shows us his injury after NJ state police struck him with a projectile outside Delaney Hall ICE prison. "We're willing to f*cking die here!" he shouts at police. WE'RE LIVE ⬇️

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In the last 48 hours, The New School has fired almost two dozen colleagues in humanities and social sciences, many of them tenured faculty of color, and multiple staff members, including in social justice.

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ICE is targeting press outside Delaney Hall

🚨 “HOLY SH*T… SOMEONE IS GONNA GET KILLED.” 🚨 @jordanchariton.bsky.social is live outside Delaney Hall as agents push protesters into the street with trucks passing by. A protester says: “They pushed us into the cars pretty much… yesterday they pushed like three people into a semi.” WATCH LIVE ⬇️

More of this, please

Special limited time offer for rich people looking to buy an election: Don't miss out on Dan Goldman's Matching Funds Program! 💰

🚨 BREAKING CHAOS OUTSIDE DELANEY HALL ICE PRISON 🚨 “GET THE F*CK BACK!” ICE agents scream as they rush protesters with batons in the middle of the street on Day 5 of the hunger strike. WATCH @jordanchariton.bsky.social LIVE ⬇️

@foodcoop.bsky.social GM Joseph Szladek is now arguing that a boycott of Israeli products will financially destroy the Coop because too many members will leave. 🙄 It's like the bogus "If we tax billionaires, they'll leave" argument. Also, there's always a long list of ppl waiting to join the Coop.

Even if this @foodcoop.bsky.social boycott vote accomplishes nothing else, at least it has finally forced our co-op to *try* to learn how to run an online meeting. We deserve 21st century democracy at the Coop!

Upon rereading, the transcript for my police brutality trial against LAPD is nuts. At one point, after LAPD’s fascist proxies had threatened to lynch me mid-trial, LAPD’s attorneys suggested I hire private security if I “felt uncomfortable.” Even the Bush appointed federal judge found this absurd.

Video via @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social shows the silhouette of a person detained inside Delaney Hall as others unseen flash lights on and off, a sign that they can hear those outside, as a blockade of hundreds successfully stopped the transfer of a strike organizer. www.instagram.com/reel/DYvhDIM...

dnc autopsy: in conclusion, america is a land of contrasts

Dear Brooklyn trans and queer family, Please share and turn up next week to honor Eryka Caldwell. No more stolen siblings. Wednesday, May 27, 8 to 9 p.m. Corner of Cooper and Knickerbocker in Bushwick

CALL YOUR SENATORS NOW

this was HR 2616 which also bans books by or about trans and nonbinary people from schools START CALLING YOUR SENATORS NOW CIS FRIENDS TRANS KIDS NEED YOU

This ad goes hard

“We said to the people don’t worry, they can’t detain more people,” said Father Fabian Arias, among the volunteer court observers inside 26 Federal Plaza. “I can’t believe now — 20 minutes ago, it was in seconds. I was absolutely surprised.”

If you enjoy miserably hot and humid weather, you’ll LOVE Kathy Hochul gutting NY’s climate law. If you don’t enjoy 90+ degrees, please take a moment if you’re in NY to call your state reps. Demand they VOTE NO on the sleazy budget deal taking shape.

If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

This is a tragic example of why Mayor Mamdani's proposed >800% budget increase for non-carceral hate crime prevention is so necessary bsky.app/profile/jfre...

Glad to see so many candidates out here, bringing attention to the ongoing horrorshow that is NYC's carceral system: @bradlander.bsky.social @claireforny.bsky.social Conrad Blackburn @shahanafrombk.bsky.social

“The City should be shuttering Rikers, not funneling millions toward another half decade of its AI phone surveillance,” said S.T.O.P. Executive Director Michelle Dahl. statescoop.com/despite-ai-c...

In its current form, what is called AI – again, not reducible machine learning technologies – is a product of platform capitalism, and its large-scale implementation is used to solidify dominant and increasingly monopolistic power and property relations. Of course, this has to be rejected 5/

If you're mad at this (and you should be): Tomorrow at 1pm 120 Schermerhorn in BK Rally to demand accountability from the absolute ghouls in our courts.

Brooklynites, please spread the word: The leaders of our local Democratic Party care more about holding up their own corrupt schemes and disenfranchising you, the voter, than they do about beating Republicans. But this June, you can vote to change the party's leadership: brooklyncantwait.com

::Looks down at watch:: It’s 9 am? Sounds like a good time to call your Senators and Reps! Script below 👇

Heads up, Brooklyn:

Rodneyse—barely hanging onto power in the face of mounting scandals—has again resorted to disenfranchising voters and attempting to kick challengers off the ballot. But there are more of us, and we're better organized. We will win. 💪 This June, vote for new BK Dems leadership: brooklyncantwait.com

A general, a historian, and an economist are discussing Iran: General: Overwhelming military force is the only way to break the stalemate! Historian: Iran is extremely unlikely to relinquish the leverage which this threat gives them. Economist: Let us assume that the Strait of Hormuz is open...

The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

Here's the full video with local YIMBY legend David Modica, in case you don't want to have to Instagram. But do give @reportermatt.bsky.social a follow.

WBZ talked to the Marblehead public meeting guy and it's INCREDIBLE content

Keir Starmer has spent his time as PM advancing the genocide of trans people and imprisoning Quaker grannies. So yes, I hope he loses his job (and more), because Diet Fascism™ is still fascism.

The NYS budget deal being reported is terrible: 450k will lose health care, informal collusion with ICE still permitted, climate standards weakened. Our best path to change the budget dynamics + outcomes is to recompose the Assembly. @lydiagreenbk.bsky.social for AD-52 is a key pick-up opportunity.

You know the rule.

What's cool in this case is I believe Mamdani made the video in front of Ken Griffin's penthouse, without naming him, hoping to provoke a gross overreaction from the ultra-wealthy who can't help themselves, have no idea what they sound like, and have no one to advise them otherwise. And it worked

A must-read for every NYCer:

In the past year alone, Jeff Bezos's net worth has increased by $75 billion. That’s $205,479,452 per day $8,561,643 per hour $142,694 per minute $2,378 per second The median American’s weekly earnings is $1,235 ($64,220/yr).

Today, the day of the Met Gala, the unionized workers of the Met posted this image to their Instagram. www.instagram.com/p/DX64ioYjecG/

I'm unfollowing every single celeb attending the Jeff Bezos Gala. Yes, even the Heated Rivalry guys. Bye bye, bootlickers! Y'all are tacky as hell!

Taking an evening stroll through the park when suddenly @nycsanitation.bsky.social came by to collect compost from the new bins using an automated loader. Obviously I had to stand there and watch. 7 bins unloaded in 10 minutes, without a single scrap falling to the ground. Good stuff!

Great interview. Especially appreciated C's note on the relation of an org's power with its degree of internal democracy. I'll just add: NYC's labor will realign with its Left once labor sees that its realignment will clearly form a new majority bloc; until then, we must keep winning without them.

Appropriate for the eve of May Day:

Never speak to cops without your lawyer present. NEVER.

And @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social says he won't even attempt to impeach him 🚮