@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!

This is a good speech www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/n...

Electing Zohran Mamdani today will be a huge step forward for advancing a populist socialist agenda at the municipal level, which is great—but that victory is also going to make the Trump regime look weaker, which is also great.

This Wednesday, I'm excited to join Daniel Wortel-London @redemmas.org to talk about his important book "The Menace of Prosperity"—a sweeping history of NYC's urban political economy, and a powerful case that "we cannot afford to finance progressive policies through taxes on a regressive economy."

This Death Ship cover goes so hard. (Please someone come buy this before I talk myself into it.)

The eighth issue of Hammer & Hope is now live. OUR NATIONAL NIGHTMARE. The reins of government power, technology, and the press tighten and tangle in a few white billionaires’ hands. Where is this American cabal going next, and how deep will it drag us with it? hammerandhope.org/article/nati...

Excited to launch my latest paper on a federal offshore wind authority. Trump is decimating OSW. But it is a *critical* decarb industry employing hundreds of union workers. When we have our next chance for federal action, we have to be ready to supercharge OSW buildout. Here's our plan:

Abundance!

Takeaways from Mike Casiano's book launch @redemmas.org: 1) The Baltimore Police Department was literally a slave patrol from its 1857 founding through 1864.

Excuse me ” In a US buffeted by extreme weather, disaster spending is becoming a key driver of the economy.” www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Will be at @redemmas.org with Ho-fung Hung this Wednesday. In Baltimore? Come on down!

You can’t call the police on fascism.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Started in on @alybatt.bsky.social’s “Free Gifts” in anticipation of her event on 10/9 at @redemmas.org w/ @pmbigger.bsky.social. (It’s really good so far!)

@govpritzker.illinois.gov owns every arrest and act of violence against protesters this morning. He is aiding and abetting Operation Midway Blitz by allowing state cops to do this. He tells us to film ICE. His cops have shoved me around for filming this morning.

A little obsessed with the archives of the Public Broadcasting Laboratory americanarchive.org/special_coll...

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

"Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday he will join Italy in sending a military warship to protect an international flotilla seeking to deliver aid to Gaza after it was attacked by drones off Greece." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Devastated to hear that Bluestockings is closing. They will be missed. bluestockings.com

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Great piece from @brentcebul.bsky.social and Michael Glass on the limits of subsidy-driven housing development www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/add...

birds/roof

Helpful for thinking through this possibility in Baltimore!

Our schedule for the Baltimore Book Festival is packed with free talks and panels across three different stages on Saturday 9/13 and Sunday 9/14....

Built a new massive shelf for @redemmas.org to house our expanding quantities of comics, graphic novels, and manga. So many new bins to dig through now.

Any computer program is, no matter how large and complicated, fundamentally just a number. What ChatGPT has shown us is pretty terrifying: there are numbers that are demons.

It's almost time for the Baltimore Book Festival! Here's a peak at our schedule on the 32nd St. Stage just for day 1 of the festival, Saturday 9/13, kicking off with something for the kids: Tourmaline presenting her new book "One Day in June" about Marsha P. Johnson! withfriends.co/event/266732...

Fresh off the risograph! Grab some free posters and let ICE know they aren’t welcome here (or anywhere)