10 to go to get to 4500. Then well be on our way to 5000!

Fascism is here and yet we insist on continuing to make things. Keep creating. It's so important. Do not let the fascists colonize your imagination or curtail your creativity.

On this day in 1965, the Great Malcolm X, el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, was assassinated. May he continue to Rest In Power. ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

From @gothamist.com : ““If you're just going to say, ‘Oh, I love the library,’ but you’re not actually supporting them, then that’s a real disappointment and, frankly, bulls---,” said Abby Emerson, a member of the NYC Public Library Action Network, or NYC PLAN. gothamist.com/news/taking-...

RWG: “What we can see over and over again are how the forces of organized violence appear and aggrandize to manage those who are not content with having been abandoned”

I hope New Yorkers will challenge Mamdani about this. Too often, people feel they need to be absolutely for or against a politician — ignoring their missteps or throwing them out with the bathwater. You can like and/or believe in someone and still challenge them to deliver on their promises.

How and why police actually support the federal invasions—I have been working on this article for ~6 months, trying to make sense of Trump’s nationwide surge of DHS officers, how it has evolved, what brought us here, and what will remain after it ends.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

What's happening in the NY juvenile justice system right now is a SCANDAL? Atrocious. The young people trapped in the system need a robust organizing campaign to address all of the issues.

In honor of Black History Month, I am busting out one of my favorite series of comics from my youth. www.si.edu/object/nmaah... - Anyone else remember the Golden Legacy Illustrated History Magazine?

I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.

Trump's fundraiser's firm became the top lobbying shop in D.C. and set a new revenue record, raking in millions from foreign clients. We took a close look at who they are (including some previously unreported details) and their wins from Trump's administration.

Join us on Saturday, March 7th, 4-8 P.M. at Another World for First Aid for the People, presented by the People’s Health Education Program & Philly Action Readiness Collective. Masks required & provided. Space is very limited. Only sign up if you can attend, please. cryptpad.fr/form/?fbclid...

My friend and one of the co-authors of Read This When Things Fall Apart, Stevie Wilson, will be released from prison in less than a week. Stevie has done tremendous work as an incarcerated organizer and has plans to continue doing important work on the outside. Let's help him make a new start.

Sojourners for Justice Press's February Newsletter is here: tinyurl.com/5n6eby6c - Of course we are focused on Black History Month and publications by Black people.

Chris did nothing but write his ass off and bring honor to his district for 16+ years. Glad to see we don’t have to wait to continue reading him

Yes of course I had to mention this at the public library :) - Send a letter: actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

TUES, FEB 3 @ 6:30PM EST: "Jeanne Theoharis with Mariame Kaba | King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life of Struggle Outside the South," in-person at New York Public Library AND streaming online. FREE! www.showclix.com/event/theoha... #libraries #BlackHistory #MLKJr #NYC

No need to imagine. The country incarcerates children as young as 9 years old daily in youth prisons and jails. Those children are routinely sexually and physically assaulted and also emotionally tortured. They are fed terrible food and given barely any education. This country has done this for yrs.

@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2059...

ICE is ripping families apart and murdering people in the streets. Meanwhile, Congress is paying ICE by *defunding* our health care and pushing us deeper into debt. Join us—alongside workers, students, debtors and families—on January 30th to say ICE OUT! NATIONWIDE SHUTDOWN.

Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza. This is textbook censorship of the highest degree

New: 200,000 former students of predatory, for-profit colleges to receive full student debt cancelation after Department of Education misses key court-mandated midnight deadline, according to settlement agreement.

Trusted friends in Minneapolis tell me that this fund is supporting many people but does not have enough money. If you can give, please do: chuffed.org/project/1671...

I'm speaking a few places next month. Please join @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social and me next week on Feb 3 at NYPL where we will discussing her excellent book "King of the North." www.nypl.org/events/progr...

RIP sly dunbar - rest easy drum legend youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Normal life has for obvious reasons felt on pause here for some time so it feels strange to be back at work today, but fitting that work is on tomorrow’s episode of Death Panel — with Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Craig Gilmore, on the current conjuncture and the concept they call the “anti-state state”

The largest union of nurses in the US calls for the abolition of ICE::

These ghouls are the future of the party according to the NY Times

Golden and Gluesenkamp Perez voted with Republicans a few years ago to block student debt cancellation too.

The long tail of the fund the police movement is killing free society.

HAPPENING NOW: A massive crowd is gathered in freezing temperatures outside ICE headquarters in DC to demand ICE OUT OF ALL COMMUNITIES NOW.

“However grim, the past year has produced fictions whose rhetorical dispositions seem closer to hard-won hope. If we fight, they suggest, there’s a chance—maybe a good one—that we are going to win.”

For LARB, I wrote about the principled dissenters of Pluribus, The Lowdown, Andor, and The Pitt, and 2025 as the year TV celebrated resistance @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/lowd...

“The answer, then, must be to take away ICE and CBP’s money, headcount, and guns…The only politically sensible way to mount this direct challenge is by dismantling the agencies, rather than accept the premise that we need to streamline them and limit their focus to going after the truly “bad guys.”

I have a piece on @lpeblog.bsky.social detailing how ICE & immigration judges are at war against federal courts. 100s of federal judges—and one nationwide class—have held ICE & IJs are breaking the law imposing blanket mandatory detention—yet they continue undeterred: lpeproject.org/blog/immigra...

Incredibly emotional to hear my poem has been turned into a song of resistance and is being sung in Minneapolis right now. Please do not give up.

I've finally put my "Find Your Organizing Home in NYC" zine online in readable form with clickable links - check it out and GET HOOKED UP and ORGANIZED, friends! gregpak.net/2026/01/17/f...

I did an interview with Robin Kelley about the murder if Renee Good — and what we know from history about strategies of resistance to armed agents of the state. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ren...

People who were actually enslaved believed that chattel slavery would end one day. I'm sorry but to me that suggests that you [who are not enslaved in 2026] can also imagine an end to the current horrors.

New: Secretary Linda McMahon says the Department of Education has decided to "pause" garnishing wages for student loans.

according to this map, the only business in charlottesville currently making millions off ICE contracts is govsmart, a company whose CEO also owns the local franchise of gracie jiu jitsu. interesting!

Awesome to see folks checking the map of their states and towns. If you appreciate this resource, please sign up as a subscriber to our two-person follow-the-money newsletter. This investigative work depends on reader support for 2026: readsludge.com/membership/ Thanks!

New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration. readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...

Happy Publication Day, @keeanga.bsky.social! 🌱 “If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free.” —Combahee River Collective Statement

Thanks for the support of the Black Zine Fair so far. We are looking to get to $15,000 by the end of this week. I am working on the fair budget & we definitely need funds. gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f...

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