The New York 4 All negotiations are going in a catastrophic direction with Hochul attempting to cement a system where local cops can send Trump's fascist goon squad after anyone born abroad, while pretending she's protecting immigrant New Yorkers.

Such a nightmare. This is what white Christian nationalism produces.

🚨BREAKING: Syrian Protester In Dara’a Says “The Syrian Border Will Ignite” Mass demonstrations all across Syria now, as at least 2 groups declare war on Israel. All in support of Palestinian prisoners.

When you combine this case with Skrmetti, the Supreme Court has initiated a regime where states can ban medical care to affirm trans youth while states cannot ban efforts to engage in conversion therapy on trans youth. This court is such a joke.

We need creativity and nourishment more than ever. I invite you to join us for both at the 3rd annual Black Zine Fair on May 9. Neta, Tash and I are excited to share space with over 100 exhibitors, dozens of volunteers, and all of you who join us. RSVP → withfriends.events/event/WFzHwJ...

Settlers in the West Bank are doing vigilante ethnic cleansing & mass displacement of Palestinians. Meanwhile, a veto-proof majority of New York's City Council is voting to further criminalize people protesting sales of the land stolen through that vigilante violence. Sickening.

The fact that mandatory death-by-incarceration (AKA "life without parole") for felony murder existed in PA is & was an atrocity—but it's great news that PA has held that scheme unconstitutional moving forward (under PA's state constitution ie SCOTUS can't fuck it up) www.pacourts.us/assets/opini...

hi, cis folks! it’s been a little over a month since the 2 biggest private hospitals in NYC ended trans youth care. some folks thought this was resolved with a judge’s ruling or a letter from the NYAG. care has *not* resumed! there’s a simple ask ⬇️ for you, if you’re willing to fight with us. 🧵

The NYPD preliminary expense budget for FY27 is $6.7 billion but really the budget all told will be over $11 billion. We are trying to get them to fund the public libraries at $635 million.

Scoop: 13 US airports will see ICE agents at Transportation Security Administration checkpoints on Monday, a source with knowledge of the plans told CNN. www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

BREAKING: Federal Court Finds Columbia U May Have Acted as Government’s Instrument to Suppress Palestinian Advocacy – in Violation of the First Amendment www.cair-ny.org/news/3/19/26...

The ICE Warehouse Tracker now has two new data layers — ERO Field Offices and Sub-Offices/Hold Rooms. Some sites overlap. Best viewed on laptop/desktop. tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

ICE heavily relies on agencies of all kinds to fuel the deportation machine, but over the past decade they've increasingly relied on the police-to-deportation pipeline to do so. Read the growing list of reported cases of law enforcement collusion with #ICE in NY state: bit.ly/NY-ICEwatch

This case is a true horror. First and foremost, it's a personal tragedy for these 9 people who spoke out against ICE's barbaric violence. More broadly, it will serve as an invaluable resource for fascists' use of the legal system to persecute political opinions & criminalize dissent.

Federal terrorism convictions based on zines, wearing bloc, using Signal, attending a noise demo, amorphous "antifa" bogeyman. This is catastrophically bad. Beyond canary in the coal mine—this is paving the way for a new front of fascistic lawfare. www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/v...

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The new Whole Pie has landed, as ever the best overview of who's caging people in the USA along with 10 myths about the system. An essential resource:: 🧵

The pioneers of pinkwashed, feminist genocide have now firmly established the "right to rape" (at least as to Palestinians).

The federal government is explicitly arguing that "wearing black clothes" at a noise demonstration is "enough to convict the eight defendants accused of material support" for terrorism. The outcome of this trial cold be catastrophic.

"By the time DHS publicly disclosed the existence of Mobile Fortify, it already had been used more than 100,000 times since its launch, according to court filings". #facialrecognition www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

JUDGE GRANTS TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER, HALTING PROGRESS ON WILLIAMSPORT, MD. DETENTION WAREHOUSE.

I agree with this and it's something for which community groups should already be developing concrete plans. I think reparations are already due.

We need reparations for ICE victims. Anything short of that is setting the stage for a massive wealth grab from people of color that will re-entrench racial disparities for generations.

When sex work is criminalized, police are encouraged to disregard the abuse and assault of sex workers as a crime, but instead an extension of policing—a punishment that comes with the job. (I am so sick of writing this sentence. My whole book about it turns TWELVE in three days.)

A few bitter thoughts reading this: to start, Queens DA Katz narrowly won her seat after an anti-sex work scare campaign, when her opponent Tiffany Cabán supported sex workers rights, sex work decrim, and investigating police harassment and abuse of sex workers. And then DA Katz let these guys walk.

This is just astonishingly great reporting. All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them. And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.

I don’t think people who aren’t regularly covering the reproductive rights beat realize how common it is for women to be incarcerated for miscarriages.

You can let the Mayor know what you think about him breaking his promise. www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

The Islamophobia of the US public is grotesque and vicious, and re-asserts itself literally daily.

This is what ecocide looks like.

Weaving our Worlds has compiled resources and diverse left perspectives from and on Iran. Rather than reduce Iran to various intra-left ideological debates, these provide analysis based in the context, specificity and history. www.weavingourworlds.ca/iran-resourc...

IceBreaker is a free online resource that maps the activity of ICE within NYC. It provides key info such as time, date, the # of agents on sight and the number of people detained. nycicebreaker.cargo.site

motivated by offline events but maybe relevant for some: never stops boggling my mind how some are able to rationalize the toxic ways they navigate internal org disagreements - functionally punishing the urge some people have to step up to roles of responsibility in these orgs

If you support the Zionist entity, you support genocide, Islamophobia, annihilation of children, imperialism, settler colonial domination, & other unspeakable barbarities. There is no version of supporting it that is liberal, progressive, or just. It’s a country committed to deathmaking.

It's day 2 of 48-hour flash matching fundraiser i'm running to support Migrant Workers Action in Lebanon With renewed escalation by Zionist entity, domestic migrant workers (undocumented or under Kafala) are among most displaced & vulnerable. Goal is 6K by weekend, just $800 away. contribute/share

The Israeli regime is fascist and genocidal. The population supports the regime's actions at more than 80% in most polls. You don't have to argue with people online when these are facts.

If other people's children are fair targets in war, then so are yours.

i wonder if the marxist-leninists or the anarchists will win the IG infographic wars

My latest piece runs the rule over the NYPD's *operational* reality under Tisch - in particular, the unabated stop & frisk program, overtime bloat, lax or nonexistent discipline for violent cops, & more. It's quite clear that she takes zero direction from Mamdani thebaffler.com/latest/cedin...

Does no one remember when Obama led 7,000 bombing runs against Libya to destroy Muammar Gaddafi's government in 2011 (with catastrophic consequences)? One example of many—just a particularly salient one today. Anyway, it's not just Trump & it's not just Israel. This is the U.S.

new from me at @curbed.com: everyone ICE did business with in New York City last year www.curbed.com/article/ice-...

This is a poignant film.

The christo-fascists who run the US government feel (and are) unconstrained. Reminder there are more evangelical zionists (many of whom believe genocide and ethnic cleansing in Palestine is a prerequisite to the rapture) in the US than Jews. This clash of civilizations BS still structures US policy.

"Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman made multiple private phone calls to Trump over the past month advocating a U.S. attack, despite his public support for a diplomatic solution, the four people said." MBS is as predictable as Bret Stephens.

free note to everyone: you can just say we shouldn’t be bombing Iran rather than pretending this would be fine if Trump explained himself better

I see people are still deluded into thinking pointing out hypocrisy is a way to score political points. Oppose evil things because they’re evil, not because an evil person once opposed them and now supports them.

The US has long been the greatest threat to the world. Decades of unchecked rigging of elections, fomenting/orchestrating coups, funding rightwing opposition, etc. has now ripened into the unbridled assertion of authority to kidnap or murder any world leader the US dislikes. Unspeakable barbarism.

This is first and foremost a world-ending and life-ending catastrophe for real human beings, most of them in Iran, who are being targeted by bloodthirsty imperial powers. Remember the US war in Iraq killed 1 million Iraqis. Unfathomable barbarism, this time as it is every time.