Protests and road blockades erupt in several European countries, including Italy, Germany, Greece, Spain, Sweden, and Belgium, condemning the attack on the Sumud Flotilla, with expectations of wider demonstrations.

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring. The reliably good Bloomberg Green connects the dots between AI and the war on the poor www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Today, Darryl Li examines the alarming rise in campus antisemitism investigations—inquests that are often sparked by outside complaints, lack concrete evidence, and lay the groundwork for future crackdowns and grievances.

Multiple states are jointly suing the Department of Health and Human Services and its Secretary, RFK Jr., over new rules restricting what can be taught in sexual education classes, after the administration threatened to cut funding to states that acknowledge trans people in their sex ed classes.

@aaup.org won its case against the State Department's attempt to terrorize non-citizens and deprive them of their First Amendment rights

When I say working people are being sacrificed at the altar of profit, this is what it looks like... "EPA withholds list of chemicals in Smitty's Supply fire, citing 'confidential business information'" www.wbrz.com/news/epa-wit...

Trump's memo supposedly defines what constitutes “antifa” beliefs, listing “anti-American,” “anti-capitalist,” and “anti-Christian” views. However, it doesn’t specify whether it will target groups based on actual incidents of violence or simply for professing a certain ideology.

After oil companies go bust, the state is left paying to clean up abandoned wells, tanks, machinery and sludge pits.

"history is also going to remember the cowards who definitely knew better but still let things happen—whether it was for money, convenience, or just comfort. Use ... the only phrase that can genuinely make a weak bully go away: F**k you. Make me.”" www.pajiba.com/news/john-ol...

One might think the only Jewish head of state in North America - and also the most popular Jewish head of state in the world - recognizing a Palestinian embassador and calling on Israel to end its genocide might you know, be news

BREAKING: A historic coalition of national & California labor unions led by the AAUP filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging the illegal & coercive use of civil rights laws to attack the University of California system & the rights of their members.

Important graph from the Cato Institute of all places

What's the opposite of MAHA? Mamadani. Here are some thoughts in the Boston Review on the fight for food as a public good. www.bostonreview.net/articles/mah...

Today in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

On this day in history the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 is signed into law, meant to reinforce the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 and the Fugitive Slave Clause of the Constitution of 1789, since the Supreme Court in 1842 had ruled that states weren't required to aid in the hunting or recapture of slaves.

Israel has launched strikes in six countries over the past 72 hours, targeting Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Tunisia, Qatar, and Yemen aje.io/gx7iu7x

Jodi Byrd's introduction🔥 to their forthcoming book Indigenomicon now available to download!!! (Full book available in November!) www.dukeupress.edu/indigenomicon

The Trump administration is pushing a rule change that would speed up the eviction process by providing tenants less notice.

“Overseas military strikes certainly won’t solve drug overdose deaths in the U.S., which are far better addressed through public health measures,” said Stephanie Brewer of @wola-org.bsky.social theintercept.com/2025/08/15/t...

What we are not going to do is pretend that we should be listening to Jillian Michael’s (a lesbian btw) airing lazy and incorrect talking points that shape her pathetic world view. Fuck her and the exercise mat she rode in on.

In Rural Puerto Rico, Water Systems Depend on Volunteers—and Threatened Federal Grants insideclimatenews.org/news/0108202...

NEW: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze federal funds. Then the harassment began. Pizzas sent to his home in the name of Judge Esther Salas’s murdered son, Daniel. Six credible threats to his life. More than 400 “vile” calls to his chambers—including this voicemail:

“This is yet another attempt to circumvent the Posse Comitatus Act, which normally prohibits the military from engaging in civilian law enforcement activities," @lizagoitein.bsky.social of @brennancenter.org told @theintercept.com

full frontal assault on the freedom to learn

This is Abu Ghraib redux. Jesus Christ Deported Venezuelans describe beatings, abuse in El Salvador’s CECOT

This is what Harvard is gonna do with all your resistance donations, congrats

DHS has arrested two medical personnel at a surgical center in California for demanding that the officers trespassing in their building identify themselves & provide a warrant, accusing them of another.... wait for it... ASSAULT. The case shows how DHS lies relentlessly to violate the Constitution

I think some people have trouble seeing fascism as anything other than 1940s Germany. But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.

A Quebec fisherman who was fishing 15 kilometers north of the US border was essentially kidnapped by US Border Patrol, who capsized his boat and dragged him to an American prison cell. In any normal time this'd be quite the international incident, y'know? www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

Our press has joined forces with @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social & @genderhorizon.com to build PROJECT 2052: REVOLUTIONARY DISPATCHES FROM THE WORLD OF EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE! This will be a website of speculative short fiction, visual art, and poetry, set in the world of EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE.

This is huge. apnews.com/article/musc...

posters of missing persons in Lower Manhattan inevitably conjure 9/11, but instead of terrorist attacks, this time it's our own government gleefully terrorizing immigrants for sport. @davecolon.bsky.social is in this week's issue with a dispatch from the scene downtown nygroove.nyc/lower-manhat...

Two federal court rulings allowed Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man unlawfully deported to El Salvador by federal immigration authorities in March, to be released from pre-trial detention in Tennessee without the risk of immediate removal from the U.S, reports @ashleymurray.bsky.social.

Aid groups warn of ‘mass starvation’ in Gaza amid blockade, while Israeli attacks kill dozens of others across enclave.

In "Concrete Colonialism," Diana Jean S. Martinez examines the US colonial project in the Philippines through the innovative use of reinforced concrete, a technology that dominated early twentieth-century construction. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/G9emDm4

If you haven’t listened to it, this episode of The Dig is SO GOOD!! Gabe as always is fantastic, and Asli is amazing (still can’t believe someone as smart and radical as she is a law professor) www.thedigradio.com/podcast/note...

Looking forward to having my contribution to a forum on Alberto Toscano's Late Fascism in the journal Studies in Political Economy available soon. Here's a link to prepublication version: www.academia.edu/130500526/_L...

Once the impact of Trump’s tariffs are taken into account those in the lowest 20% income bracket will not keep the $40 in benefits that Republicans have touted, but rather end up worse off by about $300.

My latest dispatch from Ruidoso for @sourcenm.com

The leaders of the Democratic Party are so well-protected they have no interest in everyone else who is, and will be, suffering under the cruelest regime in American history.

Southern California is really living an entirely different life than the rest of the country right now. Clashes between the people and military are now an almost daily occurrence. Why? To prevent our neighbors from being kidnapped and placed in concentration camps.

There are a few podcasts I listen to regularly. @doughenwood.bsky.social, 's is one, @poltheoryother.bsky.social by Alex Doherty is another. It was so nice to get a chance to talk with Alex about "Fake Work." soundcloud.com/poltheoryoth...

The new foreword and the introduction of my revised and expanded edition of Policing Black Lives with Duke University Press and Fernwood has been published on the Duke website bit.ly/3Tv16oQ now available for pre-order. Discount code in the US and worldwide is E26MYNRD

At present, mainstream NBC News, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NPR, and even Democracy Now!, and The Young Turks have not reported on this call by a racist MAGA pundit for more dead Indians… Hey, hi, newsrooms — all of you — hire more Indigenous journalists! Or any Native! Ffs. B/c we saw it. Do better.

"No one knows what will come to replace the international system that is currently collapsing around us, but any political system that prioritizes punishing those who protest against genocide rather than stopping the killing has clearly exhausted itself." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Our new issue "The Colonized & the Atomic Bomb" is out! On August 6 and 9, we will commemorate the 80th anniversary of the US nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This issue convokes Indigenous perspectives from lands that were exploited for these bombings. thefunambulist.net/shop/60-colo...