Remember when y'all made this thread on Paulina Borsook go viral? Well, that resulted in her getting a deal to re-publish her book in the USA, the UK & Commonwealth, Belgium, France, and Switzerland! Coming Sept. 15—with a foreword by some guy named Gil Duran. Pre-order! www.cyberselfish.com

What I do know is this: the crisis this book describes is not an accident. It was built—policy by policy, decision by decision, over decades. And what's been built can be dismantled.

I don't quite have words yet. I'm stunned, grateful, disoriented. My deepest, deepest thanks to the five families without whom this book would not exist. It has been the honor of my life to know and learn from you.

The Trump administration is closing the office responsible for investigating misconduct and abuse in the immigration detention system, per an email obtained by HuffPost

More than 100 Brookfield Zoo employees represented by Teamsters Local 727 went on strike Monday morning, citing “nearly a dozen different unfair labor practices” and urging the public not to visit the zoo while the strike is in effect.

"A new bipartisan bill" Democrats continue to be useless

@schiff.senate.gov, please directly address the reports that LLMs have encouraged kids to kill themselves and shoot up their schools AND that "A.i." decreases cognitive abilities AND the companies are run by right wing billionaires AND the environmental and economic damage the industry causes.

If you can move on from societal disdain for mass pedicide - from Sandy Hook to Gaza - then truly anything is possible.

“Ongoing sea-level rise and the rampant erosion of wetlands in southern Louisiana will swallow up the New Orleans area within a few generations, with (a) new paper estimating the city ‘may well be surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico before the end of this century.’” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

...for any of 'em

he's been rushed to johns hopkins landscaping

His first wife turned out to be his cousin. When he was leaving his second wife (mother of his kids) for his third (who used to kill puppies in a med device demo) he stayed with two gay guys, before dedicating himself to demonizing gays. His NYPD was a TERROR force which killed Black ppl w impunity

Con artists posing as ICE agents and immigration officers are using WhatsApp and fake court hearings to bilk vulnerable people out of their savings with empty promises to fix immigration problems. As mass deportations continue, scam complaints soar.

Atari 2600 Space Invaders youtu.be/opru6qPsPa4

The Fugitive Slave Act was signed into law in 1850. Today's horrors are not permanent. We can & will struggle together for a better world - today and tomorrow and each day after that. #Agitate #Educate #Organize #LiberationForAll #AbolishRacialCapitalism #DismantleWhiteness

People often focus on Du Bois's point that the Civil War was the first and largest Black workers' strike. To me, I am struck by his point that Chattel slavery was actually growing in 1860 and it was profitable. It wasn’t going away.

The structural whiteness of the legislative branch cannot be undone by whatever rights-focused proposals are being promoted by liberals & Democrats - and they know it.

Israel has no right to exist as the genocidal apartheid state that Zionism requires it to be. #BDS #StopArmingIsrael #FreePalestine #AbolishZionism #DismantleWhiteness

On this day in 1963, hundreds of Black children began a movement peacefully protesting racial segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, as part of the Children's Crusade and faced intense police brutality, sparking nationwide outrage.

Reports of missing children and 'evaporated' bodies reveal a widening pattern of erasure in Gaza, where entire families are killed, lost under rubble or reduced to biological traces

Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon have killed at least seven people and wounded others.

Shout out to bassist Henry Thomas

Contrast Biden welcoming the incoming fascist regime with what the GOP does in a similar situation. That "when they go low, we go high" civility-mongering nonsense does nothing but aid & abet fascism. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

re: The Screening Room - several episodes are available to rent via Vimeo: vimeo.com/search?type=... & a set of 24 DVDs is available for institutional or home purchase: store.der.org/screening-ro... Essential viewing for anyone interested in poetic cinema.

Always a must-see when screened on film, esp in 70mm

To learn how you can help disrupt the ICE machine, see our toolkit—updated monthly! www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it

We can all thank the @aclu.org for fixing the LAPD 🙄

The president of Cornell backed his car into a student and a recent grad after a campus debate on Israel-Palestine. Then he lied about what happened in an email claiming he'd been the victim of harassment. Then, magnificently, Cornell's student newspaper found a video of the incident

Top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only— Golden Girls Homicide: Life on the Street Moonlighting Carol Burnett Show Soul Train Mr Rogers' Neighborhood Cosby Show 😬 Twilight Zone ('59-64) Night Music/Sunday Night Rockschool Pee Wee's Playhouse Columbo Screening Room ('72-81) Portlandia Muppet Show

ICE reportedly spent at least $25 million on AWS during the second Trump administration. Amazon Web Services also holds contracts with Palantir, the surveillance-tech company behind much of ICE’s deportation operation. Now, the company's workers are organizing against America’s deportation machine

A New School professor allegedly hit a student involved in the Students for Justice in Palestine chapter. New School admin suspended SPJ for posting about that. The professor was found to have acted in violation of school conduct. SPJ is still suspended. www.newschoolfreepress.com/2026/04/29/n...

Israel's strikes continue, with more than 2,600 killed since March 2, despite an ongoing ceasefire.

“We will demand the one thing that’s worth fighting for in this life: respect.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The march is underway. Thousands of people, led by Sombrero Music de Severiano Salas, are now marching and dancing toward Chicago's Union Park, where further May Day festivities are set to take place.

Death, Taxes, and white supremacists in the former Confederate States disenfranchising Black Americans with the blessing of the Supreme Court

BREAKING: Activists with @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social are blockading every entrance and exit at the New York Stock Exchange in lower Manhattan in protest against billionaires and fascism for May Day, International Workers Day. Security was extremely aggressive at first and NYPD has so far detained one.

Now: Chicagoans, mostly workers with SEIU along with other community groups and disability rights advocates, are blocking an Amazon distribution center in Pilsen. #MayDay

“This is showing the extent to which the resources of the FBI were put at the disposal of Immigration and Customs Enforcement contrary to the intent of Congress, and the abuse of the funds that Congress grants the FBI to accomplish its mission.”

NEW: Trump diverted >9,100 FBI personnel to work on immigration during the first 9 months of this term, per public records I obtained. He multiplied them by a factor of 23 - from 279 before he took office to >6500 by September. theintercept.com/2026/05/01/f...

Happy May Day from Chicago. There's a lot of events planned around the city today; right now interfaith leaders are gathering with activists outside 1 S. Dearborn Street, the Chicago HQ of Highlands REIT, a real estate investment firm planning to lease a vacant jail in Colorado to ICE.

Happy May Day Hit the streets today Wealth tax 2026 and forever www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/confiscate...

Spirit Airlines is preparing to shut down after a $500 million government bailout fell apart, WSJ reports

"If we are going to ever defeat Trumpism, modern fascism, and wage a viable challenge to gendered racial capitalism, we must revive the old IWW slogan, 'An injury to one is an injury to all.'" www.bostonreview.net/articles/not...

Good morning and happy May Day, Chicago! Already - hospital workers, members of SEIU, dropped banners over multiple expressways, including this one over 290.

RIP, Kiyoshi Kitagawa 💐 "Spring Night" (2025) youtu.be/WWyWjiaIB_Q

The structural whiteness of the legislative branch cannot be undone by whatever rights-focused proposals are being promoted by liberals & Democrats - and they know it.

I sincerely hope YA librarians are asking HarperCollins WTF about this now and also when we see them at Annual Because WTF

#AbolishPrisons #DismantleWhiteness

The fascist bulldozer will continue moving forward until it is stopped. #AbolishICE #AbolishDHS #AbolishPolice #DismantleWhiteness

#NeverForget how Democrats helped the GOP kill ACORN, one of the largest community organizing groups that helped register low-income voters 🙃 www.huffpost.com/entry/2009-a... bsky.app/profile/nath...