John Duda
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Research and comms for a democratic economy, plus selling radical books
@redemmas.org
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David Noll
about 9 hours ago
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.
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Eunice Cho
1 day ago
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...
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Raj Patel
5 days ago
Another Abahlali baseMjondolo leader assassinated in broad daylight in Gauteng, South Africa. Hamba kahle Khabazela Mkhize
abahlali.org/node/18590/
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ProPublica
5 days ago
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.
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“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-dilley-children-letters?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1771207205&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Gabriel Zucman
6 days ago
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
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ryan cooper
7 days ago
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
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Chica Marx
7 days ago
Melinda Cooper on the household servitude economy in general, and in extreme form (Epstein).
www.equator.org/articles/eps...
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Epstein Family Values • EQUATOR
The billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants
https://www.equator.org/articles/epstein-family-values?fbclid=IwY2xjawP9oeVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEenu-PUhTZN8X7QHaotnt0XkEXHDy92uVAbTSsI_dFCHo4f_DKQUu1eHfexjk_aem_UmD_sBfGGNuvikEOf97Qtg
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Red Emma’s
11 days ago
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...
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4/4 - End Papers: A mini-book fest on capitalism and the climate crisis by Red Emma's
Get tickets and support Red Emma's by becoming a member
https://withfriends.co/event/27564811/end_papers_a_mini_book_fest_on_capitalism_and_the_climate_crisis
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Have been cooking up something special with
@megberkobien.bsky.social
for
@redemmas.org
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withfriends.co/event/275648...
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4/4 - End Papers: A mini-book fest on capitalism and the climate crisis by Red Emma's
Get tickets and support Red Emma's by becoming a member
https://withfriends.co/event/27564811/end_papers_a_mini_book_fest_on_capitalism_and_the_climate_crisis
11 days ago
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield
12 days ago
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
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Arizona Right Watch
17 days ago
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.’”
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Marisa Kabas
19 days ago
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.
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Defendant contacted police before freeway shooting
Charles Glen Simmons, 53, of Dillard, is in the Douglas County Jail on $1 million bail after Thursday morning’s alleged crime spree. According to a press release from the Oregon
https://www.nrtoday.com/news/crime/defendant-contacted-police-before-freeway-shooting/article_3d90dd88-32a3-4cb7-82fa-a6854790a753.html
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Frozen docks in the Baltimore harbor
20 days ago
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Andy Craig
21 days ago
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.
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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…
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
27 days ago
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.
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Jack Jenkins
29 days ago
As clergy pray, arrests begin
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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 🤯
29 days ago
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Matt Novak
about 1 month ago
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."
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
about 1 month ago
🚨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.
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We used to be a real country
about 1 month ago
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ICE agent in Minneapolis: “stop obstructing us, that’s why that lesbian bitch is dead”
sahanjournal.com/immigration/...
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‘I heard screaming, I heard crying:’ Inside ICE detainment at the Whipple Building
Two U.S. citizen observers share a rare look inside ICE custody at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis.
https://sahanjournal.com/immigration/ice-citizen-observer-detainment-minnesota-whipple-building/
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Red Emma’s
about 1 month ago
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...
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Donate to Help a Neighbor Stay in Their Home, organized by Michaela Harris
Hi Neighbors! I’m your neighbor down the hall reaching out with a litt… Michaela Harris needs your support for Help a Neighbor Stay in Their Home
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-neighbor-stay-in-their-home?attribution_id=sl:17f1be69-da84-4838-925b-08f88a36a5ab&lang=en_US&ts=1768262455&utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_content=amp17_te&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=instagram_story
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Ilhan Omar
about 1 month ago
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.
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Made a sticker for
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. Fuck ICE.
about 1 month ago
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Red Emma’s
about 1 month ago
New stickers are in. F*ck ICE.
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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."
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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.
about 2 months ago
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Red Emma’s
about 2 months ago
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
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@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...
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The Teamsters Have a MAGA Problem. Here’s Why.
Militancy without politics isn't enough. We need a social reconstruction of class and politics with unions at the center.
https://lowerfrequencies.substack.com/p/the-teamsters-have-a-maga-problem?r=6k8iy&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true
2 months ago
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Red Emma’s
2 months ago
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
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Anna Bower
2 months ago
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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: “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.”
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Post-Neoliberalism is the New Centrism
At a recent convening devoted to the death of neoliberalism, what emerged was less a rupture with the past than a centrist project of status-quo stabilization.
https://lpeproject.org/blog/post-neoliberalism-is-the-new-centrism/
2 months ago
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COPA!
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
2 months ago
"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-...
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War at Home
A record of ICE’s assault on immigrants and the people’s resistance.
https://hammerandhope.org/article/ice-immigrants-war-photos
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Shannon Heffernan
2 months ago
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...
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ICE Threw Thousands of Kids in Detention, Many For Longer Than Court-Prescribed Limit
Former immigration staffers argue ICE is choosing to detain families for prolonged periods to speed deportations and compel them to leave.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/17/children-immigration-detention-dilley-ice
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
2 months ago
"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...
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Beloved Community Incubator: Organizing cooperatives, organizing the community | Seed Commons
Building power for excluded workers in Washington, DC
https://seedcommons.org/projects/organizing-cooperatives-organizing-the-community
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Future Economy Scotland
2 months ago
📣 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
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@neilmcinroy.bsky.social
, Global Lead for Community Wealth Building at
@democracycollab.bsky.social
. 1/13 🧵👇
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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...
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Giving communities the tools they need to build their own future—one mobile home at a time. | Seed Commons
Seed Commons member PODER Emma in Asheville, NC is spearheading an ambitious, community-led research and development program for a green transition in affordable housing.
https://seedcommons.org/posts/giving-communities-the-tools-they-need-to-build-their-own-futureone-mobile-home-at-a-time
2 months ago
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Pleased with this shot: no effects, no compositing, just a nice reflection
2 months ago
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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...
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Beloved Community Incubator: Organizing cooperatives, organizing the community | Seed Commons
Building power for excluded workers in Washington, DC
https://seedcommons.org/projects/organizing-cooperatives-organizing-the-community
2 months ago
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Red Emma’s
3 months ago
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
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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...
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The Quick and Shameful Death of Biden’s Biggest Policy
It was far too easy for Republicans to kill the Inflation Reduction Act. Where did those who crafted it go wrong?
https://newrepublic.com/article/202755/inflation-reduction-act-biden-biggest-policy-death
3 months ago
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The
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3 months ago
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Red Emma’s
3 months ago
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.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio
3 months ago
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.
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National Lawyers Guild
4 months ago
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.
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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.
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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!
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