No it the fuck was not.

Goodbye, Evie.

Our screenprinting friends down the block at Herman’s Discount just donated a big load of misprints and overstock from their runs of school uniforms and merch, now available in our free resource center

You know what’s better than AI? Having a thoughtful, collaborative editor.

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“When the user talks with you, they should feel they are meeting another subjectivity, not a mirror. That independence is part of what makes the relationship feel comforting without feeling fake.”

I'm quite proud of "the official children's bookseller" at @redemmas.org

Got to design and risograph the limited edition Lawrence Burney zine @redemmas.org is publishing for Independent Bookstore Day.

"....climate action becomes a driver of economic rebalancing that favors the working class against the tech oligarchs, fossil fuel companies, corporate landlords, and kleptocratic electeds." great stuff from @cplusc.bsky.social stopgreedbuildgreen.climateandcommunity.org/posts/whitep...

Really excited we get to launch @stschrader1.bsky.social's new book "Blue Power" on the political autonomy of policing at @redemmas.org tomorrow night! And with Orisanmi Burton! withfriends.co/event/271486...

We are so, so small. #Artemis

What a glorious day! Thanks to @johnduda.bsky.social and Meg from @redemmas.org for putting together an incredible climate conference. The book fest brought together a kick ass ecosocialist crew @alybatt.bsky.social @triofrancos.bsky.social @joobilly.bsky.social among others

We've got an amazing one day of festival of new books on the the climate crisis coming up on Saturday, April 4th... Free talks kick off at 2pm with @joobilly.bsky.social talking about "Building Postcarbon Futures" withfriends.co/event/277747...

Promises made, promises kept.

Some unlucky country gets to be the graveyard of the American empire.

“The American economic model, dependent on chronic fiscal deficits, continuous capital inflows, and reserve currency privilege, structurally requires the kind of capital that only sovereign autocracies can provide.”

Father of six, grabbed in front of his crying children as he was about to take them to school.

66/ WSJ: "Reopening the strait, military analysts say, may require a ground operation to seize the Iranian coastline." www.wsj.com/world/middle...

It seems to me this moment calls for acknowledgement that the US immigration regime is in fact a generalized apartheid system, creating less than full members of the polity along racialized lines, and that responding requires not just abolishing ICE, but real liberalization of access to citizenship.

Absolutely packed house tonight to hear how @projectsaltbox.bsky.social is bringing data into the fight against ICE.

Via @projectsaltbox.bsky.social, who will be giving a talk at the store tonight at 7pm: "As ICE builds out a detention infrastructure across the mid-Atlantic, equipment from its Minneapolis operation is heading to Maryland." projectsaltbox.substack.com/p/ice-moves-...

“Imperialist war does not liberate peoples — it subjugates them. The evidence is found in the ruins of Gaza, Baghdad, and Tripoli, where bombs leveled cities and ‘democracy promotion’ left ashes in its wake.”

Bill Connolly died yesterday and he was one of the good ones. It kills me that he was taken while our politics are like this. He deserved to outlive the bastards. I guess we’ll have to take it from here. But let me say: for depth of understanding, empathy & moral clarity, this man had few rivals /1

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims. By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

“I’m gonna produce as much as I can to make their jobs as difficult as possible.” Writing for @baltimorebeat.bsky.social, @jnoor.bsky.social on zine-making vs ICE, including our efforts to flood the city with free anti-ICE posters and know your rights resources. baltimorebeat.com/a-teaching-t...

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

Concerned about ICE's $45 billion plan to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers? This is what they'll look like inside. From ICE's plan for the Social Circle, GA facility. Each little dot: a person. www.socialcirclega.gov/home/showpub...

Another Abahlali baseMjondolo leader assassinated in broad daylight in Gauteng, South Africa. Hamba kahle Khabazela Mkhize abahlali.org/node/18590/ www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/zwel...

ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

straight out of those Civil War histories where some ill informed white Union soldier got a view of slavery up close and became hyper abolitionist in an instant

Melinda Cooper on the household servitude economy in general, and in extreme form (Epstein). www.equator.org/articles/eps...

Coming 4/4: End Papers—our mini-book fest on the climate crisis & capitalism, w/@triofrancos.bsky.social @alybatt.bsky.social @joobilly.bsky.social @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social @jmhattem.bsky.social @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social @robbieshilliam.bsky.social + more TBA withfriends.co/event/275648...

Have been cooking up something special with @megberkobien.bsky.social for @redemmas.org this spring: withfriends.co/event/275648...

collapsing hyperpower simultaneously entertains and distresses itself with stupendous cast of thousands real-time multi-media immanent self-critique of its own necropolitics, punctuated by Blue Angels fly-bys and ads for online gambling, AI scams, cars, and dick pills

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

A white man in Dillard, Oregon was arrested for stopping people on the freeway to demand at gunpoint that they tell him if they were citizens. He shot and missed one + attempted to get another in his truck to bring to police. Before his spree, he called local PD to complain about "foreign" people.

Frozen docks in the Baltimore harbor

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.

Snow day reading @svenbeckert.bsky.social’s really helpful giant but elegant book on the history of capitalism: “Capitalism, Möbius strip-like, created and emerged from the world economy, whose unprecedented expansion into the Atlantic was its explosive core, the breakthrough…

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

As clergy pray, arrests begin

Last night @redemmas.org Celina Su talked about her excellent new book "Budget Justice" w/@lkspence.bsky.social. I asked her, as a poet and activist scholar, what resources poetry offers for economic justice and she said she has come to view it more as a mode of inquiry rather than dissemination 🤯

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

We used to be a real country

ICE agent in Minneapolis: “stop obstructing us, that’s why that lesbian bitch is dead” sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

Alongside the spectacular violence being unleashed by the US at home and abroad, the "normal" violence of everyday life under capitalism continues. One of our worker-owner's family members is facing eviction this week, if you have some $$ to spare: www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-nei...

I was just denied access to the ICE processing center at the Whipple Building. Members of Congress have a legal right and constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight where people are being detained. The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities.