If you’re still looking for reasons for how we ended up with Trump, you can look in part to the current white washing of one of the greatest war criminals of our time on CNN right now. The nostalgia for the “politically normal” times of Bush and Cheney is stomach turning. 

🚨BREAKING: A pregnant woman and many children are among at least 23 Palestinians Israel has killed in a series of attacks on Gaza City & Khan Younis, Al Jazeera English reports citing hospital sources. According to reports: ▪️ A family of 5, including a pregnant woman & her children, were killed...

My latest piece, a book review, for @thenewarab.bsky.social , on the price of neutrality in the face of #genocide 🇵🇸 “No Neutrals There: How #USA Labor Built #Israel and Ignored #Palestine.” 🔗 www.newarab.com/features/no-... #news #booksky #Gaza

A former Army Ranger wrote this in 2014—and his questions still resonate. Rory Fanning reflects on Veterans Day, the symbolism of gratitude, and the harsh realities facing veterans returning from war. inthesetimes.com/article/vete...

Dang, you are a real one @rtfanning.bsky.social "it gets clearer and clearer that “Veterans Day” is nothing more than an attempt to bury the oppressive and deadly agenda of the U.S. ruling class by celebrating our “heroes.” 🔥

Veteran and counter-recruiter @rtfanning.bsky.social reflects on the war at home, as armed thugs disappear his neighbors in the Chicago area

My annual 11/11 Occupiers Day article ✊ truthout.org/articles/ice...

Their End Is Our Beginning a conversation with brian bean about Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

“There is no honor in this mission.” @rtfanning.bsky.social talked to @mskellymhayes.bsky.social about counter-recruitment in the context of National Guard occupation

In “Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition,” Shah provides a critical discussion about the intersection between detention, the prison industrial complex, and anti-immigrant racism

80% + of Isr*eli society supports the ethnic cleansing of G*za. Net*nyahu and his far-right govt. are not outliers. They are leaders of a genoc*dal movement supported by the vast majority of the country. More Americans need to acknowledge this fact.

Song For a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Antiracist Solidarity From a Coal Miner’s Daughter will be released on April 21st 2026 from @haymarketbooks.org. In the midst of hateful divisive rhetoric, violent repression, and grifters writing elegies, let this one be a song. ❤️‍🔥 Pre-orders are open!

"Free speech advocates are sounding the alarm about a bill in the US House of Representatives that they fear could allow Secretary of State Marco Rubio to strip US citizens of their passports based purely on political speech."

Great interview by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social with @rtfanning.bsky.social. Helpful for understanding the deployment of National Guard to cities, how to respond, and how to fight ICE recruitment. organizingmythoughts.org/what-do-we-s...

Extremely important interview, thanks to Kelly and Rory for this one.

Rory also had some advice for soldiers who are being ordered to participate in Trump's aggression. organizingmythoughts.org/what-do-we-s...

This is such an important interview about an important front line in the fight against fascist and authoritarian consolidation. "By every moral or ethical standard it is the duty of soldiers to refuse orders to “defend” the US from migrants. History will look kindly upon those who do."

For my latest, I talked with counter-recruiter Rory Fanning about how we should communicate with National Guard troops deployed in US cities, and how we might counter ICE's current recruiting blitz.

Trump is a lot of bad things, but war criminal might be the mosting damning. You don’t hear that descriptor of him very often from Democrats/liberals. He could end the situation in Gaza right now; but wont. This is the Trump Administration’s genoc*ide in G*za now. Dems need to start saying so.

Trump is a lot of bad things, but war criminal might be the mosting damning. You don’t hear that descriptor of him very often from Democrats/liberals. He could end the situation in Gaza right now; but wont. This is the Trump Administration’s genoc*ide in G*za now. Dems need to sart saying so.

Still true ✊ truthout.org/articles/tru...

Thinking about this piece by Rory Fanning right now.

These are rough times. I'm reading "Learning to Live in the Dark" by @learning2live.bsky.social right now. It is helping.

"even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination..." -Hannah Arendt, 1968 @haymarketbooks.org www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2523-l...

If nothing short of revolution can salvage the possibility of a better world, and yet if a viable revolutionary-left politics is nowhere on the horizon, then what does a life of radical commitment look like in the shadow of catastrophes that will not wait? wenstephenson.substack.com/p/learning-t...

he's right and he's right to say it

No War But Class War

It's publication day for my new book, LEARNING TO LIVE IN THE DARK: Essays in a Time of Catastrophe. A few thoughts on sending this book into the world, along with an excerpt from its opening pages: open.substack.com/pub/wensteph... @haymarketbooks.org www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2523-l...

I talked with @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social about the reissue of his important book on racial and climate justice, "Reconsidering Reparations." It couldn't be more timely. No book has inspired me more in recent years. @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/envi...

Hi! Some news––our book on the Stop Cop City movement is coming out in ONE MONTH!! It features organizers, political prisoners, abolitionists, anarchists, neighbors, educators, students, media, art & more. It’d mean the world to me if you share/pre-order! bookshop.org/p/books/no-c...

My new book, LEARNING TO LIVE IN THE DARK: Essays in a Time of Catastrophe, went to press this week. I'm inexpressibly grateful to @haymarketbooks.org for publishing it and to Amitav Ghosh, Bill McKibben, Anthony Rogers-Wright, and Gus Speth for endorsing it. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2523-l...

NEWS | The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club has confirmed that another Palestinian detainee, Musab Haniyeh, has died in an Israeli prison. Haniyeh, 35, from Khan Younis, Gaza, was arrested on March 3, 2024. His family says he had no health issues before his detention.

Love and solidarity to my friend, the great Craig Hodges. And Justin Baldoni can fucking kick rocks. A story of toxic, deeply racist, white liberalism. delawarevalleyjournal.com/former-nba-s...

"Maybe if Democratic leaders pretended Elon Musk was a 22-year-old Palestinian from Dearborn, Michigan, they’d show more fight...What we need to do is, yes, pressure these Democrats at every turn to fight and fight harder."

Ethnic cleansing continues in the West Bank. Kids forced to watch their house get demolished:

THEY'RE FLYING OVER A DOMED STADIUM

This Super Bowl Sunday, here's a reminder of what real courage looks like.

"Trump’s second coming can’t be understood without turning our gaze outward, toward a broader geography of U.S. state violence." An excellent Noura Erakat essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social:

@rtfanning.bsky.social 🙏

Powerful mondoweiss.net/2025/01/we-a...

What a wonderfully historic day for the great people of Syria. Is there anything better than the overthrow of a bloodthirsty tyrant. The entire country must be exhilarated. The US must be pressured to keep its bloody claws out of the country. Syria must be guaranteed the right to self determination.

🚨 BREAKING: “Damascus is expected to fall,” three U.S. officials tell CBS News, as Syrian insurgents rapidly advance and surround the capital. The officials also reported that Iranian forces, who had been supporting President Bashar Assad, have largely evacuated from Syria.

It should be a mainstream position by now that wealth hoarding, inequality, and really capitalism are incompatible with any semblance of democracy.

The concluding (new) essay in my forthcoming book - out from @haymarketbooks.org in late spring - is about Fanon, anticolonial struggle, climate justice, and the search for human solidarity. I argue that the climate struggle needs Fanon - the actual, complicated, contradictory Fanon.

"Everyone who lives in the US has a responsibility to help ensure that soldiers know that saying "no" to their commanding officers is an option. They'll need our support when it comes to refusing immoral orders."

Economic inequality is even worse than you think. jacobin.com/2024/12/econ...

Haymarket regularly makes their books available for free. They do good work. I am totally in for supporting this and just donated.

An estimated 130,000 children under the age of 10 have been trapped in areas of northern Gaza almost entirely cut off from aid assistance, food and medical supplies for 50 days.