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.

Made a sticker for @redemmas.org. Fuck ICE.

New stickers are in. F*ck ICE.

Me, late last night helping finish the @redemmas.org annual inventory: "Does our radical bookstore really need to stock all this ancient Greek philosophy?" Me, this morning: "Fuck, I guess we do because Plato is now crimethink."

All the people I know doing amazing work to make the world a better place are scrounging for donations at the end of the year while billionaires are accumulating tens of thousands of dollars more hoarded wealth every minute without lifting a finger.

We need your help. We're still $5k away from hitting our fundraising target for this year. Make a tax-deductible donation now at redemmas.fund

@lfelizleon.bsky.social: “When union leaders like O’Brien signal that immigrant workers are expendable, it erodes the power of the entire working class.” lowerfrequencies.substack.com/p/the-teamst...

If we can raise $1k in the next three days, we're going to get another drum for our risograph so we can give away free posters and zines printed with a color that's not just red or black (as much as we love red and black of course). Donate now: donorbox.org/red-emmas-2025

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

@quinnslobodian.com: “While the MAGA grouping uses its power to stage a Gramscism from the right…the response of its targets is simply to ask for something softer; to try to meet them halfway in a foggy and nebulous language of community, storytelling, and place.” lpeproject.org/blog/post-ne...

COPA!

"Wherever the agents appear, even when they lean idly, chatting, we see the cold threat of violence and the fragility of freedom. And in the brave crowds who gather to confront them, scrambling their illusion of total control, we see the power of solidarity..." hammerandhope.org/article/ice-...

New Data shows at least 3,800 children, including infants, have been put in detention since Trump took office. Many were held for long stretches. “There is no other way to describe it; it’s a jail for children," one parent said. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/17/c...

"Starting off with that initial $10,000 loan just over five years ago, BCI recently passed the $3million mark in non-extractive capital deployed: there’s a lot of cooperatives getting on their feet in the DC region with BCI’s help." seedcommons.org/projects/org...

📣 What next for community wealth building in Scotland? Our new report asks what it’ll take to turn ambition into action. By our Co-Director @miriambrett.bsky.social, and @neilmcinroy.bsky.social, Global Lead for Community Wealth Building at @democracycollab.bsky.social. 1/13 🧵👇

Wrote a little piece on the work PODER Emma is doing in Asheville, NC around a resident-led research and development program for a green transition in affordable housing—figuring out how to make mobile homes in their co-ops more energy efficient and resilient: seedcommons.org/posts/giving...

Pleased with this shot: no effects, no compositing, just a nice reflection

I've been helping Seed Commons, a national co-op raising non-extractive capital and deploying it through its local members into worker & community owned businesses, w/longform profiles of its members: The latest is of Beloved Community Incubator in Washington, DC: seedcommons.org/projects/org...

Baltimore says

Cyber Monday flash sale! 20% off online on all in stock books, today only. Use the code CYBER at check out. Shop now, save, and support radical space in Baltimore: redemmas.org/books

Thanks @katearonoff.bsky.social for this thorough post-mortem of Biden-era climate policies, especially the failure to catalyze real political momentum around ambitious plans for "climate, jobs and justice": newrepublic.com/article/2027...

The @redemmas.org book swap is tempting me already

We did the math, and over 1% of the Mamdani transition team has either done a book event at Red Emma's, or is scheduled to do one in the near future.

I understand the reasoning behind zeroing in on ICE & DHS abducting citizens. But when you lead with what's perceived as your most sympathetic cases, you cede the moral high ground & make arguing for others harder. It is wrong for armed, masked gestapo to grab people - doesn't matter their status.

The Federal government, along with the state of Texas, continue their crusade against the Prairieland Defendants. Des is only one of the 18 protesters that the Trump administration is attempting to paint as an “antifa” terrorist group.

Sad to hear of Peter Watkins death. Never met him, but did organize a screening of his loooong masterpiece La Commune back in 2002 at Filmhuis Cavia in Amsterdam, with many of the people involved in making that film in attendance. Apparently I also cooked dinner for the intermission.

This is going to be especially fun in the wake of Mamdani’s victory last night…come through and talk about what might be possible with a socialist mayor in the largest city in America!