“One thing I have learned is the most effective strategy at all times…is centering your heart with the most vulnerable people…and then relentlessly telling the truth about what you see.” #amreading Alec Karakatsanis’ excellent COPAGANDA. #booksky @thenewpress.bsky.social @equalityalec.bsky.social

I'm the daughter of an Army paratrooper who refused orders during our illegal invasion of Vietnam back in the day. He went to LBJ military jail. Dad taught his girls this: "Just following orders" is NEVER any excuse for anyone who's complicit in war crimes. You MUST refuse heinous orders.

Are you ready for the biggest day of mass protest that America has ever seen? Across all 50 states and dozens of countries, millions of people will gather tomorrow to reject Trump’s brutality at home and abroad. Please join us for a historic No Kings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

Machiavelli, quoted in Gene Sharp's FROM DICTATORSHIP TO DEMOCRACY: "The prince...who has the public as a whole for his enemy can never make himself secure; and the greater his cruelty, the weaker does his regime become." #booksky #NoKings #Resist #dumptrump

My (real) husband & I were on Third Ave today when he said, “Look, there’s your husband.” pbqmag.org/b-g-firmani-... The (real) Philip Glass withdrew his "Lincoln" symphony from the Kennedy Center, finding the values of the center today "in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony." Good man

As the U.S. Senate prepares to vote on a Trump-backed voter ID bill known as the SAVE Act, millions of citizens who lack easy access to its required forms of documentation are now at risk of disenfranchisement.

Palestinian activist Leqaa Kordia was released on bond Monday after more than a year in ICE detention.

I read the “Save America Act,” so you don’t have to. Most of the media apparently *hasn’t* read it because, if they had, they would be sounding the alarm about the provision in Point 1, below, which almost none of them have even mentioned. I hope this summary helps raise awareness. 1/

Tell Congress: Stop Trump's War with Iran act.indivisible.org/sign/no-iran...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/te...

I'm attending MoveOn's event, “Iran in Focus: Stop Trump's War” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/workingfamil...

#amreading I, TITUBA, BLACK WITCH OF SALEM (1992) by the great Maryse Condé, translated by Richard Philcox. A #novel full of wit, canny inventions, post-modern dash, and also funny, deeply moving, intimate. #booksky

"Malaparte had a light touch in a dark time." Superb discussion of the life and work of slippery but fascinating shape-shifter Curzio Malaparte by @racheldonadio.bsky.social in @nybooks.com #booksky www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

#amreading Kate Simon's BRONX PRIMITIVE: Portraits in a Childhood (1983). Was drawn to this because of the comparison to Mary McCarthy's (beloved) MEMORIES OF A CATHOLIC GIRLHOOD but this #memoir is ultimately much darker despite Simon's snappy prose, the mood more dissonant, unreconciled. #booksky

Great exhibit at the #NYPL main building until 3/8, small but mighty "Niyū Yūrk: Middle Eastern and North African Lives in the City." Short clip of Edward Said talking about #Gramsci plus fascinating archival docs about writers, artists, composers absolutely new to me. www.nypl.org/events/exhib...

#amreading AN ANTONIO GRAMSCI READER: Selected Writings, 1916-1935, David Forgacs, ed. (Schocken, 1988). #Gramsci plants ideas in the reader’s mind and bids one contemplate those ideas and nurture them – it’s up to the reader to engage. He's excellent on, of all things, the study of #Latin. #booksky

Stay strong & share this w/anyone who needs a dose of #solidarity! #AbolishICE #IceOut #iceoutforgood #love #buildtheresistance

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

Love this. "Italian dressing?! In America? Just say you love illegal invaders!!" #PamBondiRESIGN

They are losing. All they have are lies and insolence, under which is their real mounting fear. We are at the part of the game where the once-favored team realizes that the underdogs are realizing that they can win. It's flop sweat time, and he knows it. Time to pile on.

Pamela Jo Bondi coldly ignoring the Epstein survivors as she memorizes her next irrelevant lie to protect one of the main perpetrators.

"Kordia was moved to protest against Israel’s war due to personal loss. Since the start of the war in October 2023, Kordia said, more than 200 of her relatives have been killed." #FreeLeqaaKordia www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/... actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

Group show, "(Shed) My Skin," at the #gallery ArtCake in #Brooklyn with work by my old friend from *high school*, the #artist Katee Boyle: www.kateeboyle.com Reception on Friday, February 6 at 5:00 pm at ArtCake, 214 40th Street Brooklyn, NY, 11232 artcake.org/events/2025/...

"A gripping moment came when Trump made it clear that the invasion of a nonbellicose country had not much to do with human rights or freedom or anything else with no monetary value." As the news cycle rolls on, an excellent piece by Alma Guillermoprieto. @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

#amreading INSURRECTO (2019) by Gina Apostol. Veering from absurdist humor to indignation + hopscotching among multiple timelines, this rich, many-layered narrative has as its core the massacre of 30,000 Filipino freedom fighters by American troops during the Philippine-American War #booksky #litfic

"We resist the tyranny of the quantifiable by finding a language that can value all those subtle phenomena that add up to a life worth living." Excellent article by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte... #HumansNotAI

Standing up, fighting back with my friend @advocate.nyc.gov in Foley Square. ICE out of NYC - NOW.

NYC From: The People's Forum 📅 Fri Jan 30 🕡 4pm 📍Foley Square Join us this Friday, Jan 30 at 4pm in Foley Square to say ICE out of everywhere!

Jenn Budd worked as a Border Patrol agent from 1995 to 2001. Since then, she has become an outspoken immigrants' rights activist. "The management of the Border Patrol has been corrupt for many generations," says Budd.

Every time I read of strutting #spaccone Bovino’s vicious ways I think, doesn’t #FascistBro know his history? #ItalianAmericans were the Brown people of the past. Great article: chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog... @josephsciorra.bsky.social @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social @bylaurenfitz.bsky.social #DHS

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

to the extent that there is a “carrot” to trumpism it is the same carrot that slaveholders offered to lower class white men: “you can be an overseer”

"There are more mysteries in language than are dreamt of in linguistics.” Beautiful piece on @teacherscollege.bsky.social website of Clifford A. Hill. Professor Hill was a generous man, a teacher of Hausa at #ColumbiaUniversity, father of my dear friend Sarah. www.tc.columbia.edu/articles/202...

I'm attending No Kings's event, “Eyes on ICE: Document and Record” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

📆 TUESDAY, 1/27 ⏰ 5:30PM 📍 FOLEY SQUARE The New York Alliance against Racist and Political Repression (NYAARPR), and NYC ICE Watch are calling for an EMERGENCY RALLY: "JUSTICE FOR ALEX PRETTI!" ICE OUT OF EVERYWHERE! HANDS OFF OUR CITIES!

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Article on @truthout.org that helps one find out corporations collaborating w/ ICE: truthout.org/articles/her... And GOODS UNITE US tracks political donations of companies so that you can decide who gets your cash: www.goodsuniteus.com/einstein-wou... #AbolishICE

Tell your senators to rein in ICE NOW act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

Thank you @surj.org for the training call last night, your committed + passionate people + inspiring words from THE POLITICS OF NONVIOLENT ACTION by Gene Sharp!! Another call next Tues, 1/27: www.mobilize.us/surj/event/8... #AbolishICE #Resist #ICEOut #FascistsBoundToLose #BuildTheResistance

MLK Day Special: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in His Own Words

Evening viewing recommendation? On Watch GIRL WITH HYACINTHS (1950) in our Nordic Noir collection! 🖤 One of the most acclaimed Swedish films of all time (heralded as a masterpiece by no less than Ingmar Bergman)

I'm attending Showing Up for Racial Justice's event, “Solidarity Mobilizations: a 2-part training on showing up for immigrant communities” - sign up now t www.mobilize.us/surj/event/8...

Mubashir and his family came to the United States as refugees from Ethiopia when he was a child, and they all became naturalized citizens in 2019. Despite being a U.S. citizen, Mubashir was targeted by ICE, assaulted, and detained. Listen to his story:

May we have a fraction of this man’s courage and integrity www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/w...

🚨"This is nuts! What the f*ck is going on, this is insane! ICE is just trying to scare people; they tell you it's only immigrants—it's f*cking anybody!" -furious Minneapolis resident tells our @zdroberts.bsky.social after ICE shot a man in the leg tonight. LIVE NOW ⬇️

On Jan 20 we walk out everywhere. Resistance doesn’t need permission. It needs to confront power. A year into Trump 2.0, billionaires and big oil win. Midterms will limit MAGA so 2026 is the cash-out. We refuse. On Jan 20, feminists pull labor, money, consent. See you in the streets. #FreeAmerica

At nearly 1,200 events across all 50 states and DC, Americans honored Renee Nicole Good and mourned all the lives ICE has taken and destroyed. #ICEOutForGood