We have been keeping track of how many people have been killed by federal immigration agents since Trump took office. Today that number has risen to 5 with another shooting in Minneapolis. Below is more on the history of shootings in the last year. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/07/i...

“Minneapolis learned a lot from the George Floyd protests and it shows. Well before Kristi Noem announced DHS operations in Minnesota, the neighborhood got ready.” New: a dispatch on mutual aid in South Minneapolis. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

#AbolishICE to end a specific evil agency + forward the long struggle to unmake a world that wields borders & police as violent tools of social control

Baltimore says U.S. out of everywhere!

Proud of everyone who "braved frigid temperatures" to demand the abolition of the JHPD. The fight continues in 2026! afro.com/baltimore-ab...

Zohran showed that a socialist can take City Hall—but the ruling class still forced him to keep Jessica Tisch at the NYPD. For Zohran to fight the police unions and win, the Left has to build power beyond the ballot box. New from me for The Nation: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Students, faculty, and community groups say the Johns Hopkins private police force intimidates union members and suppresses protest. They’re demanding the City Council hold the first public hearing into the department’s powers. baltimorebeat.com/hopkins-poli...

“What we have isn’t peace. What we have is a continuing genocide, albeit one that has shifted gears and has—for now—moved into the slow lane.” New: Saree Makdisi on the ceasefire in Gaza. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

News outlets in Baltimore have spread dangerous misinformation about drugs/those who use them, steering the city away from public health-centered solutions and toward fear-driven police crackdowns. Read my debut article for @objectivejournos.bsky.social ⬇️ objectivejournalism.org/2025/11/balt...

UMD remains hostile to its workers, so we're escalating the fight

I wrote about Napheesa Collier's power play, Cathy Engelbert's puppet leadership, a changing ownership landscape and how the next commissioner should take a collaborative approach to the WNBA entering its player empowerment era: theringer.com/2025/10/02/w...

Stigmatization is a powerful force, and disgust and shame are among our greatest tools. Put plainly, you should feel bad for using AI. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

New ep: Trump’s intense police, ICE, military repression w/ Alberto Toscano and @stschrader1.bsky.social. What does this reveal about MAGA’s fascist authoritarian project—and about the illiberalism immanent in carceral and imperialist state? FIRST in 2-part series www.thedigradio.com/podcast/fasc...

So grateful to write for @dissentmag.bsky.social's Fall 2025 issue "Authoritarianism and Resistance." I drafted the piece in June with the new school year in mind, as an immigrant scholar severed from her homeland: What can we teach the young about how to exist and persist at this historic juncture?

Someone asked me what victory against the forces seeking to occupy Chicago looks like. Obviously, those forces being repelled is the goal, but there are layers to what success looks like in these deteriorating conditions. The first is to successfully resist the normalization of military occupation.

UMD admin are still ignoring our democratic demand for union recognition while our working conditions are actively getting worse. On October 1st, 1-3PM, grad workers all across campus are marching to show that we’re not backing down – we want RECOGNITION NOW! RSVP here: forms.gle/jocuj9awDCtT...

BPD is left unscathed after City Council members lambast behavioral health systems during hearing on crisis response systems baltimorebeat.com/bpd-is-left-...

Amid so many attacks across multiple fronts, it is helpful to consider and figure out what strategic approach(es) you're best positioned to move forward in this moment, and where. But how do you get started doing that? Here's a resource: Block & Build: But Make It Abolitionist: bit.ly/blockbuildic

Think I'll remember the last 17-ish years of Orioles baseball as the Adam Jones era followed by the Cedric Mullins era. As this one ends, thinking about how much I've loved watching him play CF 🧡

Introducing a new 6-part series revisiting the landmark insights of Ruth Wilson Gilmore's 'Golden Gulag', exploring what prison abolitionists can learn from the history of carceral expansion. With RWG, ‪@craiggilmore.bsky.social‬ @lydiajean.bsky.social‬ & Judah Schept inquest.org/abolitio...

Feeling angry but also thinking about how RWG's 'organized abandonment' continues to be a very helpful framework for me!

All my fellow scorecard sickos go crazy for F9-5

“It is important not to misread the structural as also somehow inevitable.” - @rwgilmoregirls.bsky.social

“‘Things have never been so bad’—on this, at least, prisoners and guards in the prison where I teach agree.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

‘The Sum of This Man’s Life’: People protest the police shooting of arabber Bilal Abdullah baltimorebeat.com/the-sum-of-t...

We're entering another mass movement moment. We must learn from what went right and wrong in 2020 so we can organize durable popular power necessary to defeat fascism and transform the world. @keeanga.bsky.social & @asha-rrs.bsky.social on @thedigradio.bsky.social www.thedigradio.com/podcast/from...

“Today their legacies demonstrate the imperative of organic intellectuals to confront authoritarian nationalism and forge global solidarity.” @jordantcamp.bsky.social introduces a previously unpublished 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney, who was assassinated 45 years ago tomorrow:

#AbolishICE to end a specific evil agency + forward the long struggle to unmake a world that wields borders & police as violent tools of social control

"What makes donors, university administrators, and the White House so anxious and enraged are the unraveling contradictions of elite institutions predicated on exclusivity that are also populated by students demanding universal human freedom, be it in the labs at Columbia or in the Gaza Strip."

Incredibly proud of this conversation with Hashem Abushama. We discuss Fanon, Stuart Hall, and Palestine as the barricade against rising fascism in the current conjuncture. Watch or listen to Conjuncture: YouTube: youtu.be/QEpCKNUzWHc Podcast: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/tri... Happy May Day!

UMD students say Boycott israel fest, Divest from the bomb manufacturers, and Free Palestine!

“Mahmoud’s detention was the stress test for the administration instrumentalizing its immigration policy to come after pro-Palestinian students.” New: Shayoni Mitra on visiting Mahmoud Khalil at the LaSalle detention center. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

With a big coalition of UMD groups we're demanding UMD President Pines provide more communication and more support for our international students who are under attack by the government. Please sign on: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

"A UMD international grad worker whose visa/status was arbitrarily revoked needs $2500 to cover expenses. UMD is refusing to provide financial support so we are raising funds for our coworker. It's up to us to support each other when UMD won't!" givebutter.com/umd-glu-intl...

My latest essay on how Sinophobia in American labor has reinforced class collaboration at different historical junctures, and how this chauvinism has relied on a certain logic consistent from labor’s support of Chinese exclusion to today’s tariffs.

‘Criminal’ is an ever-shifting govt-made label for who they decide deserves suffering, got to stop invoking it as some moral truth. We fight for ZERO disappearances Thinking again about RWG on "Mothers Reclaiming Our Children (ROC)" truthout.org/articles/how...

good god I love the orioles

On 3/19, UMD got a letter from a House committee asking for info on Chinese faculty/students and their research/funding. We expect this will be used to target our Chinese friends and colleagues under the pretense of "national security". Tell UMD: DON'T COMPLY! forms.gle/cnpvZB4GK7je... Thread:

In a letter dictated over the phone from ICE detention in Louisiana, Mahmoud Khalil said that his arrest "was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a free Palestine." "It is our moral imperative to persist in the struggle for their complete freedom."

“Prisons were transformed into a wedge that encouraged white guards to see their class mobility as tied to the criminalization of the racialized poor.” —Orisanmi Burton, author of ‘Tip of the Spear’ ( @ucpress.bsky.social ), on the deadly NY prison guard strike.

Amazing quote about this political moment, with all its suffering and possibility, from James Baldwin over fifty years ago

Happening now: in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood, students at Sullivan High School are walking out this afternoon in protest of ICE and Trump's deportation regime.

Faced with public evidence of their own murderous brutality, prison guards have organized themselves to demand legal power of solitary confinement (to once again disappear their violence). Unions everywhere have to challenge this shit + stand with incarcerated people fighting to be free!

For my latest, I talked with @ctulocal1.bsky.social president Stacy Davis Gates and artist and educator Silvia Gonzalez about how Chicago teachers are creating Sanctuary Teams to protect undocumented students and other marginalized youth from Trump's aggression. (Includes organizing resources.)

New online: Saree Makdisi on the ceasefire in Gaza. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...