For the Monday morning crowd! My take on THE MASTERMIND and the politics of the heist film for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/rebe...

Trenchant analysis AND a haram theme song?? Be still my heart

For @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social I wrote about Kelly Reichardt's THE MASTERMIND, and what her riff on the heist film has to say about labor, art, and entitlement lareviewofbooks.org/article/rebe...

Mamdani needs a mandate, so if you've got even a couple of hours today, please sign up for a poll site visibility shift! I know we all live in a world where politics dominates everything, but so many NYers just need a reminder today is the ACTUAL LAST DAY! www.zohranfornyc.com/gotv

Someone give Lex $2 million so they can launch a politics version of Teen Vogue. Do it now. No strings attached.

I am so upset. Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

NYC, today is the last day of early voting. Go out to vote today and save yourself the stress of Tuesday voting.

Want to organize around NYC public libraries to secure stable & expanded funding? @nycplan.org ’s next meeting is November 16 from 2 to 4:15 pm in Brooklyn. If interested, email [email protected].

It’s the first of the month. That means tenants in Los Angeles have officially been on utility strike for 6 months. They are refusing to pay their RUBS (ratio utility billing system) utility bills while they demand transparency for their high monthly bills.

NYC folks, please take a minute to send a message to your city council members asking for the funding our libraries need - more info at nycplan.org actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

Good morning everyone. It's me again here to ask NYC residents to please send a letter to your City Council person in support of allocating 0.5% of the city expense budget to our local public libraries. Thank you. It will only take you 90 seconds. This time with the correct link:

Rahm Emanuel covered up the murder of Laquan McDonald by Chicago police

This is going to be terrific. Tell any 14-17 year olds you know in NYC about the opportunity. Free and food will be provided.

Have you ever gone to pay your rent and there's a $3 fee on top of rent? Or maybe it costs $10 to pay with a credit card? Yeah. So that convenience/junk fee is actually illegal in several states. Landlords do this all the time — but it's often illegal and makes the lease void.

2 virtual events happening on 🗓️Tuesday, November 4th, featuring each of our 2 co-founders: ⏰ 5-6:30 PM ET: Love zines? Join the Avery Research Center for a virtual conversation with @prisonculture.bsky.social about zines and her archival orientation to pull from the past to make a better future:

On her birthday, Mariame Kaba @prisonculture.bsky.social is raising money for EVLovesNYC. I was able to donate 100 dollars. Please join me. evloves.networkforgood.com/projects/224...

In the lead up to my birthday (Sunday), I am raising funds for @evlovesnyc.bsky.social - evloves.networkforgood.com/projects/224... - please support if you can. Also they welcome volunteers if you are in NYC.

John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry began on October 16, 1859.

*Rally against the #Compact - Friday, October 17 at noon at the Rotunda. #UVA DO NOT SIGN! DO NOT FOLD!

Free them all, papers for all, care not cops, a better world is possible.

they do this all of the time. They beat people and arrest them for celebrating.

#tdih 1972 DC prisoners led jail uprising. Demanded: -- juveniles be housed separately from adults -- decent food -- overcrowding addressed. At their request, U.S. Rep Shirley Chisholm, D.C. School Board Pres. Marion Barry, & others met with them. See ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/dc...

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

I donated some copies of Let This Radicalize You for distribution at an ICE watch training for folks who want to join school patrols in a nearby neighborhood. Not everyone got a copy, because 120 people showed up for that training tonight. I am endlessly proud of Chicago.

Prisons censor staggering numbers of books and other reading materials, not just for their content but for a stunning range of capricious reasons including the size of a book or the color of mailed wrapping paper.

None of us can do everything but each of us can do SOMETHING.

Solidarity Against Sadism Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, and @keeanga.bsky.social for an emergency town hall on the Trump administration's authoritarian war on the Left. Tuesday, October 14th at 6 PM ET RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

Please sell us the debt we promise to do the right thing [cancel it]

The October edition of my newsletter will go out tomorrow: prisonculture.substack.com

If you’re based in NYC consider becoming a member of the Francis Kite Club, a really special cultural and political bar/space in lower Manhattan. We need grassroots uncensored spots that are actually a pleasure to be in! & if you’ve never been, check it out. www.franciskiteclub.com/kite-members...

Hi from northern Italy where all the trains are canceled or very delayed. Free Palestine!

We made a reading list for you.

BREAKING: Union in Italy has announced a general strike on October 3, as per their promise if the Gaza flotilla was attacked, as it has been now.

BREAKING: Israel has begun intercepting the Global Sumud Flotilla, which is carrying 500 people from around the world seeking to bring aid to Palestinians starved by Israel's siege. The crew includes 24 Americans, EU Members of Parliament, Nelson Mandela’s grandson, and Greta Thunberg.

new on @carceralhistory.bsky.social: what I'm reading, featuring a raft of new articles, pre-orders, and more carceral-history.ghost.io/what-im-read...

Keep your eye on this. A decade ago, Debt Collective launched a student debt strike. Mainstream media scoffed and laughed. Then billions got canceled. We’re repeating that playbook with back rent debt: strike, shift moral culpability, target bad actors, change consumer protection law for the better.

New: We're sparking a coordinated form of economic resistance that has never been done in the housing space. We're organizing a debt-strike. Rental debtors around the country will refuse to pay their back-rent debt to a giant corporate landlord. And we're going to win.

Want to learn more about REBUILD? We're kicking off now: Zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We're recruiting NYC residents who are willing to set up a meeting to speak with their City Council member by the end of January 2026 to get them on record about supporting a 0.5% allocation of the operational budget for public libraries. If interested, sign up here & we'll be in touch.

Important tenant strike+victory here - solidarity with all renters facing off against corporate landlords! @debtcollective.bsky.social @lapublicpress.bsky.social lapublicpress.org/2025/08/la-t...

We don't know what's going to happen so might as well fight for better. That's really my basic political orientation.

Thank you darling! My humble offering to the (mostly) loud and excitable music of my youth - www.nts.live

Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.

“People around the planet, in all kinds of configurations, in the face of many different kinds of challenges, are being historical protagonists, which is to say they are not only the victims of history. And that’s what matters to me more than anything.” @rwgilmoregirls.bsky.social