My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has shared a big data update, covering all recorded US protests through Jan 2026. Some key takeaways 🧵:

‘In my first year at university, I had taken the bus through Gaza City every day. Now we were travelling through streets and neighbourhoods that had once been familiar to me, but I barely recognised anything.’ Hassan Ayman Herzallah eats shawarma in Gaza City. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE: Renee Good: $1,499,580 Alex Pretti: $1,289,249 Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423 Parady La: $45,848 Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991 Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640 Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538 Geraldo Lunas: $2,260 Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935

MINNESOTA NICE MEANS PROSECUTE ICE

ICE was blocked and impeded by people all the way to the Lincoln Tunnel

this is how we do it NYC! ❤️✊🏻

absolutely overjoyed to wake up in MAYOR ZOHRAN MAMDANI’S New York!

An optimistic, disciplined Left can draw centrists into the coalition—by rejecting their politics. @daniarajendra.bsky.social and @rvilkomerson.bsky.social explore how Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign has upended NYC politics—uniting voters around affordability, justice, & solidarity.

this actually made me cry.

honored my book with @alissashira “Solidarity is the Political Version of Love: Lessons from Jewish anti-Zionist Organizing” is included in this list from @haymarketbooks.org with so many other crucial titles more here: www.solidaritylovebook.org

Shana Tova, fuck ICE, and Free Palestine!

appreciate this coverage! I and others quoted here all noted that humanitarian aid often obscures culpability--in this case that Palestinians in Gaza are not just experiencing famine as a humanitarian crisis but are being starved by Israel as a weapon of genocide

it takes some serious chutzpah for the president of BARNARD, who punished STUDENTS for speaking out against a GENOCIDE, to say we need more right wing zealots on campus in the name of “nonviolent disagreement.” every word of this is hypocrisy of the sickest order www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/o...

When Andrew Cuomo has to shift (slightly) his position on the genocide in Gaza because he understands that the New York electorate simply cannot abide by standing by and letting it happen, you know times really are a-changing, at an unspeakable cost in blood. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/n...

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

charlie kirk has received infinitely more sympathy and support from liberals than every single trans person, immigrant, and palestinian combined

The “We Are All DC” March is massive. Thousands of people marching down 16th Street NW against the occupation of DC.

1/ Zohran Mamdani’s upset win in the NYC Democratic mayoral primary was powered by a massive grassroots campaign: 50,000 canvassers. Over 1 million doors knocked. A message centered on affordability across communities.

way to normalize masked men kidnapping people off the street @nytimes.com But, to answer: as American as the KKK, I guess

@daniarajendra.bsky.social and I have a new piece up at @inthesetimes.com looking at the Mamdani-Lander alliance and what it can mean for left-led coalition building, the power of principled politics, and the flow from protester to canvasser. Take a look! inthesetimes.com/article/zohr...

makes me feel slightly less insane to read this by @ahjohnson.bsky.social in @inthesetimes.com inthesetimes.com/article/new-...

this piece does something desperately needed: offers a meaningful path forward for liberal zionists beyond recent handwringing, while calling out (with receipts!) their complicity with the genocide until very recently. By @simonerzim.bsky.social jewishcurrents.org/rhetoric-wit...

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Yesterday, 12 countries announced their commitment to a full arms embargo on the Israeli government. The resolution comes out of an emergency summit in Bogota where the Hague Group gathered to coordinate legal and diplomatic action to counter the “climate of impunity” for Israeli war crimes.

Oh so the organization raising private funds for a genocidal army is having ethical problems? Shocking www.jta.org/2025/07/08/i...

extremely excellent news. the ADL is a dangerous right wing org still trying to masquerade as a civil rights group and has no place in our schools. kudos to the NEA for this decision! mondoweiss.net/2025/07/the-...

Season Highlights: Rabbi Alissa Wise + Rebecca Vilkomerson in B.C. - Solidarity is the Political Version of Love: Lessons from Jewish Anti-Zionist organizing @rvilkomerson.bsky.social @alissashira.bsky.social @avilewis.bsky.social @ijvcanada.bsky.social @mivasair.bsky.social from Jan tiny.cc/wfuo001

I ❤️ NY Thank you @mollycrabapple.bsky.social--this completely nails it, in tone and facts

got a real lesson in the political economy/climate justice of trees while canvassing in the crazy heat (ZOHRAN#1, NO CUOMO). Wealthier blocks have trees & shade & are bearable. The poorer the block the fewer the trees, the more brutal the heat. it must be a difference of 10-20 degrees

I think that if you were not familiar with the supposed political values of the Democratic Party, its performance over the last five months would lead you to conclude that they are primarily a pro-genocide party with center right economics and a fierce commitment to loyalty and gate keeping.

Khalil is now leading a march up alongside his supporters up Amsterdam Avenue and towards Columbia.

fuck the islamophobes, the dessicated and debased Dem establishment, and the craven and willfully clueless New York Times. We have a city to win! #JewsForZohran

Mahmoud Khalil is free. May his release lead to the release of all who are detained and incarcerated from the US to Palestine, in ICE facilities and in prisons. And may his courage inspire us to remain steadfast in fighting for Palestinian liberation.

Think about what it means that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is polling 2nd (of 9) among Jewish voters. Zohran endorses BDS & has been fighting fiercely against the genocide. The idea that the Jewish vote in NY is monolithic or one issue pro-Israel voters is utterly outdated (Poll from @forward.com)

LOVE MY PEOPLE

Important coverage in @chronphilanthropy.bsky.social re WellSpring Foundation punishing their grantee 18 Million Rising for speaking out on the genocide in Gaza. A particularly egregious case, but the tip of the iceberg in terms of funding cuts in last 18 months www.philanthropy.com/article/how-...

DEVELOPING: There is chatter coming out of the White House that as early as next week Donald Trump may issue as many as 5 Executive Orders targeting US-based nonprofits and civil society organizations.

"In its coverage of Jewish Voice for Peace’s Trump Tower protest, Fox News obscured the Jewish identity of protesters—while echoing antisemitic conspiracy theories and racist tropes." fair.org/home/fox-new...

sharp, fierce brilliance from @benehrenreich.bsky.social, read every word!

Momodou Taal, the Black Cornell University student targeted by ICE for protesting against Israel’s genocidal assault against Palestinians, has announced he is leaving America. x.com/MomodouTaal/...

The tactics ICE is using--thugs in plain clothes kidnapping people simply for their political views--these tactics were developed by the US and spread across the world to hunt down Leftists from Latin America to Indonesia. They've also been used locally for decades to terrorize Black communities.

The staff at this public elementary school in DC showed far more courage than an Ivy with $15 billion endowment

“This is a tale not so much of capitulation to an authoritarian leader as of collusion with him” Must read on the shameful situation at Columbia and beyond by Adam Shatz www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

I chafe against the word aid, because it erases how Gaza was blockaded from the world for decades, how it was made dependent on Israeli-controlled borders, how the infrastructure Gazans built to feed themselves even under these conditions was intentionally destroyed.

i spoke with WAMC in Albany about the genocide and our role in the U.S. in stopping it. if you’re in the Hudson Valley please join in a convo with me and Riham Barghouti at the Hudson library March 22nd, 3:30 pm sponsored by @cc4p.bsky.social and many others!

Mahmoud Khalil, from detention, “I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people” www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...