“Local communities are making it clear from coast to coast,” said @detentionwatchnetwork.org 's Stacy Suh, “they don’t want detention centers of any kind, and they will fight tooth and nail to block ICE and ensure all people are protected and safe.” @bdolinar.bsky.social

"An entire class, a noxious minority radicalised in the fanatical defence of its privileges, and now ready to do anything, is literally installing the far right in power." -- Frédéric Lordon

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H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

Highly recommended::

BOICOT AL MUNDIAL DE FÚTBOL EL RIESGO CRECE www.baskultur.info/kultur/sport...

@eoaproject.bsky.social just published a new "Emergency Call" with an activist in Russia, reporting on their struggle against authoritarianism on the ground. Check out our website for a collection of calls with activists all around the world. emergencies-of-authoritarianism.org/emergency-ca...

“En pleine vague de contestation post-électorale au Brésil, une émission d’analyse des luttes sociales au Brésil depuis 2013 & du néo-fascisme bolsonariste comme « révolte dans l’ordre » à partir de Incêndio, Trabalho e Revolta no fim de linha brasileiro” sortirducapitalisme.fr/emissions/lu...

'The violent media campaign orchestrated by the fascists against me, spearheaded by the New York Post, has now taken a turn towards art criticism to denounce my public art piece, Phoenix Ladder: Monument to the people of the Bronx.' -- Shellyne Rodriguez

"Plans for a proposed federal immigration detention facility in New Hampshire were scrapped by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Tuesday after hundreds of protesters took to the streets over the weekend in protest." www.rawstory.com/ice-26753150...

Desde la tradición abolicionista del sistema penitenciario y policial, Cordero da pistas sobre las posibilidades de poner en marcha otra forma de relacionarnos, de reparar los daños y de hacer justicia.

#Actividad Presentación libro "Políticas de castigo. Una anatomía del auge punitivo" @levantafuego.com  Con su autor, Alberto Cordero; Diego Ruedas y Ricci Galiano Jueves 26FEB  19hs Duque de Alba 13 Una exploración a la evolución y el auge de este fenómeno  https://acortar.link/fMbzUn

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

The continued drain of personnel from the already strained immigration court system has contributed to depleted staff morale, mounting case backlogs — and floundering due process. n.pr/3OmZD4F

Now unlocked: we speak with Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Craig Gilmore about the rapid escalation of police forces and carceral logics on US streets and why abolition is the only way soundcloud.com/deathpanel/t...

What do you call a warehouse full of human beings?

Without Bob Sheldon, there wouldn't be a Firestorm Books. 35 years ago today, Bob was assassinated outside Internationalist Books in Chapel Hill, NC. We still don't know who killed him, but the shooting took place in the shadows of the Greensboro Massacre and the Shelby gay bookstore murders. 1/

On the latest assassination -- Zweli Mkhize, known as Khabazela, in the eNkanini Occupation in Allandale, near Midrand in Gauteng

Just in time for your 4:20 break I wrote a theoretical supplement to my post about libraries from Wednesday, featuring my fave Gramsci. What do libraries have to do with socialism? Click and find out. No paywall, if you like please subscribe!

with links for online trainings, information sharing, meetings::

Sarah Huckabee Sanders' plan to build a huge mega-prison in rural Arkansas has drawn major opposition, with some residents saying it's made them think differently about incarceration in the face of organizing. Now that's bleeding into a local election, as candidates vow to fight the governor. NEW:

"Democrats pushed forth training and oversight alongside short-lived lip service to Black Lives Matter as the pragmatic answer to stopping police-perpetrated killings." "We cannot let that happen again." "'Abolish ICE' is the floor, not the ceiling." #USA #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Here's an incredible toolkit for people working to stop ICE buying or leasing warehouses to convert to concentration camps. From the amazing gang at @detentionwatchnetwork.org Please circulate::

RWG: “What we can see over and over again are how the forces of organized violence appear and aggrandize to manage those who are not content with having been abandoned”

I talked with @andreapitzer.bsky.social about why we should understand the Trump administration as a concentration camp regime, and what it means to fight back.

I wrote about how much I love the public library, and how upset I am that Zohran Mamdani is not only breaking his promise to increase the library budget, he’s actually threatening to CUT the library budget. Includes action items for New Yorkers! No paywall.

People my age growing up in California knew people who'd been locked in these camps

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The biggest beneficiary of prison labor isn't a private company. It's the prisons themselves:

ICYMI tonight’s livestream is now available in our public feed Death Panel x @haymarketbooks.org present ABOLISH ICE, ABOLISH THE BORDER Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social Silky Shah @silkys13.bsky.social Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social soundcloud.com/deathpanel/a...

Teaser here: soundcloud.com/deathpanel/t...

Essential reading from the great Marie Gottschalk:: "For anyone seeking to stem state violence and mitigate the brutalities and injustices of the existing order, understanding how the criminal legal system and immigration enforcement have been braided together is essential." 1/2

Jesse Jackson visiting the Krome Detention Center in 1981. He exposed the racist policy of mandatory detention of Haitians who were deemed "economic" refugees not worthy of asylum. Image from @tinashull.bsky.social's book Detention Empire.

“Reading, writing, or sharing zines is not a crime.” "In plain language, Sanchez Estrada is facing up to 20 years behind bars for allegedly moving a box of anarchist zines from his parents’ house to another residence in his hometown of Dallas."

These guys had game. RIP

"a community convinced that its financial survival depends on locking people up. It’s not a new phenomenon. In this iteration of the classic prison town... "Trump needs these towns, and he needs local officials who are willing—and sometimes eager—to sign deals...."

Shannon McChristian’s opposition to a new prison in her Arkansas community has changed her thoughts on incarceration generally. “As I’ve come to know more and more, I’ve just been horrified about our entire prison system.”

How and why police actually support the federal invasions—I have been working on this article for ~6 months, trying to make sense of Trump’s nationwide surge of DHS officers, how it has evolved, what brought us here, and what will remain after it ends.

“DHS is expanding its efforts to identify Americans who oppose ICE by sending tech companies legal requests for the names, email addresses, telephone numbers and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize the agency” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

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"Ebenso wie Amazon versucht, den kuratierten Überblick zu ersetzen, den eine Buchhandlung bietet, um jeden Kunden algorithmisch zum nächsten passenden Kaufklick zu treiben, will die Washington Post ihre Leser offenbar von allen Büchern fernhalten, deren Thematisierung nicht sowieso erwartet wird"

There have been hugely successful campaigns to fight prison and jail construction across the country, especially in rural areas. These bring together hunters, environmentalists, Indigenous people, prison abolitionists, and immigrant advocates as well as people concerned about land use.

A great article on efforts to resist warehouse sales in rural America. Watch their substack for future nationwide Zoom meetings to discuss what is working and what you can do to resist the expansion of these detention processing centers.

"We need to act before the administration has the personnel and the detention facilities to broaden the scope of its actions. It’s up to us to break the existing momentum on this front."

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