This Mother's Day, at least 125,000 mothers will be separated from their minor children because of mass incarceration. Today reminds us again that people behind bars are not nameless “offenders,” but beloved family members and friends whose presence—and absence—matters. #MothersDay

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

MICHIGAN: Another mass hungerstrike in ICE detention pops off "...at least four of the main male pods are involved, with an estimate of 200 detainees by Tuesday morning" www.rawstory.com/protestors-g...

An opposition party would not be on vacation right now. They would have coordinated message to the public about the fact that a President in cognitive decline is threatening more war crimes. They would be BLASTING the message on all available platforms.

Full schedule for our second Carceral Political Economy conference has just been released! NYC March 27 + 28th at the New School, with support from @inquest.bsky.social! Links to the program and registration below 1/3

meanwhile, war rages on at home.

Gogol's "Dead Souls" 2.0 (just as Alex Cox releases a film version, Gogol is having a moment)

Gift link so everybody can understand the scale at which they're about to build concentration camps www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

If the Democrats approve the unprecedented DHS and ICE funding package (3x 2024’s already record budget!) based on these meaningless and, in any event, unenforceable “reforms,” it will be among the greatest moral betrayals and strategic failures of the modern era.

Great news, and much credit to CUNY FSJP and SJP for leading on this

“Hundreds of immigrant mothers” in Texas concentration camp uprising

Hundreds of people are walking towards the federal paramilitary who *just murdered a guy this morning* with their hands raised. The courage of people who live here is stunning.

CBP agents retreat to 26/Stevens then launch several flash bangs and teargas canisters in addition to shooting people with pepper bullets

Video before it happens is showing this guy they shot in the head in Minneapolis was just standing there videoing them before and they got out to push him back and then murder him.

Police, not ICE, arrested around 100 clergy *yesterday* for participating in peaceful resistance against ICE. If Minnesota has "had it" then MN Democrats should do something about it and quit criminalizing the people willing to put their actual bodies on the line to say they've had it!

Minneapolis rn 🧵

ICE shot a man 5 times outside Glam Doll Donuts in Minneapolis in what commentators are describing as “an execution.” www.reddit.com/r/Minneapoli...

Today's actions covered many bases: 1) Economic pressure through striking 2) A HUGE rally downtown 3) Civil disobedience at the airport 4) A direct confrontation at Whipple 5) Maintaining patrols/rapid response All of this despite being the coldest day in SIX years - we've got this, Minnesota.

Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.

It’s hard to accurately describe what is happening in Minneapolis without sounding crazy. Unmarked rental vans all over the city, with people in military gear and no id jumping out of them to take captive anyone who looks nonwhite or who makes political speech they disagree with.

Pretending things were fine before current regime will not cut it. These folks recycling training and professionalization discourse need to realize this has been deployed in ways that ultimately reproduce carceral state illiberalism and racialized police terror since at least the 1950s.

Not remotely legal. Minnesota needs to arrest these thugs breaking down doors right now, before they start grabbing even more power

From the nyc protest today

I think that a lot of respectable, middle-class white people are wondering if their local cops are going to stop ICE from doing to them what ICE did to Renee Nicole Good, and I would suggest to them that they have their answer here. If I'm wrong, well, the FOP can explain why.

There’s a GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross’s legal expenses for murdering Renee Good. This violates GoFundMe’s Terms of Service. Everyone must report it. A thread on how to do that 🧵

Prison guards are flocking to ICE jobs and frankly this makes sense. Those of us who have been anti-prison organizers for decades have been saying that fascism already existed within prisons/jails. Our best teachers for how to survive fascism are incarcerated people.

Anyways, the goal appears to be to shift the window to "cops can kill anybody anytime" like how the DoD can just murder people on boats for any reason at any time. This is why it's important to understand why "criminal" is just not a fixed category. It can become so big to include everyone.

This guy is in Minneapolis standing before an American citizen in an SUV. The only reason he's brandishing an assault rifle is because he wants the people he's purportedly there protecting to feel terrorized by his presence. This is not protection. This is occupation.

yeah they’re just grabbing random people at bus stops there is absolutely no attempt to even give the pretense that this is about immigration anymore. it is absolutely just a military occupation

Please sign this petition in support of Melvin Ray aka Bennu Hannibal Ra Sun, one of the incarcerated leaders of the great Free Alabama Movement c.org/9h8cgKxdzK

👉 ICE Abusing Protesters After Murdering Driver 1/7/26 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnfi...

This is the ICE agent who murdered a woman by shooting her multiple times in the face.

When the prison guards went on strike, many inmates said they were doing so to preserve their ability to do things like this.

The NYPD is confirming its involvement in an FBI probe targeting volunteer immigration court observers, saying it was part of a “broader counterterrorism investigation" into "a range of possible criminal activities.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/21/n...

This is, of course, a stark betrayal of the New School’s storied history and animating spirit. It demonstrates something many of us know intellectually but have trouble grasping: many university leaders *do not care* about, even *actively despise*, the basic values that bring us to work every day.

Gaza saw its first major rainfall of the season today. Within minutes, people were submerged and tents holding families and children flooded. This is slow death. There is no justification for why proper shelter that can withstand the elements is not being allowed in.

we are going to win

This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility. Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.

A whole new generation is going to be reading about Eugene Debs this morning. Read him from Haymarket in his own words. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1246-t...

NEW: Footage of a US citizen in Chicago being rammed then dragged from her car on her way to work. Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours. She was later released with NO CHARGE. A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”. You decide…

All morning was spent chasing ICE out of my neighborhood in Chicago (Avondale) and meeting other neighbors who were out patrolling on foot, on bikes, and in cars. A caravan of ICE SUVs got within a half block of my house. I finally had to use my whistle. It works. It drew others out to the street.

"Man goes scorched earth on ICE agents kidnapping people in his hometown." Source: old.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...

Protesters have blocked the westbound side of Canal. They are chanting "ICE out of New York now!" and "Liberation, not deportation!"

First pass at the chaotic scene that just happened in Lower Manhattan. Military-Style Sweep Hits NYC as Masked Federal Agents Arrest Canal Street Vendors www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/21/i...

Good idea

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.