🗓️January 29 + February 5, 2026 at 6-7:30 PM ET: Join us for a 2-part "Radical Unlearning" study group with IC Fellow @lewispants.bsky.social to discuss, explore, and build skills and community focused on cultivating unlearning in our own lives! www.interruptingcriminalization.com/events/all/r...

"The antidote to billionaire-dictated media is alive already in the form of grassroots, independent publications that build their work in line with the values of justice, equity, and the pursuit of liberation. ... Grassroots-funded journalism isn’t just a theoretical aspiration; it’s a practice."

Start from the beginning and read the entire series here: objectivejournalism.org/the-case-for...

ICYMI: How can journalism create hope and shift narratives? The last of @lewispants.bsky.social's column on movement journalism offers some clarity: objectivejournalism.org/2025/12/move...

“We’re about political education for everyone. And *everyone* includes folks who are currently incarcerated.”

Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program

If you're a provider of gender-affirming care, please check out The Good Health Project's Know Your Rights update/memo. Trans health care care is still lawful under federal law. static1.squarespace.com/static/686eb...

Join a webinar to learn more tomorrow at 4ET - details at link 👆🏼

“It is critical to note that none of the proposed regulations or measures announced today change the current state of the law. It remains completely legal under federal law to provide gender affirming care to trans youth where not prohibited by state law.”

The Trans Youth Emergency Project will continue helping families of transgender youth across the country locate providers and supporting the cost of travel to appointments. Learn more and get support: transyouthemergencyproject.org

Today, several new federal rules impacting healthcare for trans youth were proposed. We want you to know that these rules are not yet finalized or in effect. We also want you to know that despite these attacks, gender-affirming care for youth remains accessible at many clinics.

My latest, with @juliametraux.bsky.social, on the Trump admin's continued offensive against transgender Americans, their doctors, and the people who love them:

One parishioner who lacks legal immigration status "learned about his rights for the first time at a freedom school and shared his new knowledge with his landscaping colleagues and neighbors, telling them not to open their doors during a warrantless raid.”

Looking for ways to plug in to efforts already in motion in your community and across the country to protect our families and neighbors—or to start your own? Check out our Block It! mini-toolkit. It's regularly updated, so check back often for new resources, ideas, and opportunities for action:

"More and more people who have never engaged in anything like these actions before are purposefully running toward the trouble. As much as their resistance can appear organic and spontaneous—and some of it is—it’s supported by deliberate effort, an infrastructure..."

My latest, about @siembranc.bsky.social and how they organized in North Carolina to counter Operation Charlotte's Web and Border Patrol's latest anti-immigrant crackdown, co-published in @thenation.com and @southernstudies.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/poli...

insurance companies literally kill people

"The polling comes as the U.S. is sending record amounts of military assistance to Israel as it commits genocide in Gaza. At the same time, the Trump administration is carrying out ... policy changes that researchers estimate will lead to tens of thousands of preventable [US] deaths each year."

U.S.-based contractors are already vying for lucrative contracts to rebuild Gaza under the Trump-backed ceasefire deal. A new investigation found that the company behind “Alligator Alcatraz” has been involved in rebuilding plans spearheaded by Trump’s so-called Board of Peace.

“A child in the Nuseirat refugee camp died after triggering unexploded Israeli ordnance. And Doctors Without Borders said Thursday a 29-day-old baby died of hypothermia at Nasser Hospital, the latest Palestinian to freeze to death” #GazaGenocide www.democracynow.org/2025/12/19/h...

Ceasefires are fragile political phrases, and only exist on paper. In reality, Palestinian families continue to be erased in moments justified by vague and unverified “security concerns.” https://prismreports.org/2025/12/18/israel-is-still-killing-palestinians-including-14-of-my-relatives/

It’s concerning that we’re enabling a police and surveillance state of unprecedented scale at the same moment when the veracity of any textual or visual document has become structurally suspect

“‘The extreme show of force here — seven armed agents in facemasks — was to intimidate staff so they could arrest our client in contravention of city law,’ Molly Lauterback, an immigration attorney with Brooklyn Defender Services, said in a statement.”

Teamsters Local 705 just confirmed that Bovino went with armed CBP agents to a Mauser picket line in Chicago this morning and "interrogated and laughed at our members while they were on the picket line." These workers went on strike to demand protections for immigrant workers, among other things.

For months, I've been talking to providers and researchers across the country to understand how the Trump administration's immigration policies are impacting reproductive health. The story is out today in @rewirenewsgroup.com. I hope you'll give it a read: rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/12/17/i...

New analysis shows at least 3,800 children and infants have been booked into ICE detention since Trump took office. At least 1,300 were detained 20 days or more, the court limit for how long children with families can be held: www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/17/c...

I've been reporting on the criminal justice system for over a decade and have lived in an authoritarian country overseas, but I've never seen anything like the police presence in ICE-occupied Memphis. Here's my dispatch: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

For folks curious re the news re gender affirming care for trans youth I wrote a quick summary in the BDNH newsletter It’s NOT a national ban. it creates no new civil or criminal penalties, it is a proposal to wield the power of the purse to discriminatorily deny care mailchi.mp/interrupting...

If you're a provider of gender-affirming care, please check out The Good Health Project's Know Your Rights update/memo. Trans health care care is still lawful under federal law. static1.squarespace.com/static/686eb...

Join a webinar hosted by the LGBTQI+ Health Policy Roundtable tomorrow, December 19 at 4 pm ET to learn more about the proposed changes and their potential impacts on gender affirming care for trans youth - link in the newsletter.

If you're concerned or have questions about the latest proposed regulations (attacks) on gender-affirming care, our Beyond Do No Harm Network just sent out a newsletter that has some helpful clarifying points and resources: mailchi.mp/interrupting...

To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care: I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.  Your health care is still legal and protected.  I'll always fight for you.

Frost: If you want to protect children, why don't you ban assault weapons instead of health care?

Shockingly, this bill would have failed were it not for the 3 Democrat defections.

This is why you never give an inch to the bigots. All those centrists dems (Newsom, Mayo Pete) claiming there are concerns around trans kids, you're complicit in this. This doesn't get rid of trans people, it just makes them suffer unbearably. Get your head straight: trans rights are human rights.

SCOOP: American Academy of Pediatrics loses HHS funding after criticizing RFK Jr. Research included reducing sudden infant deaths and identifying autism early. Me and @Paigecunningham.Bsky.Social www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Looking for ways to plug in to efforts already in motion in your community and across the country to protect our families and neighbors—or to start your own? Check out our Block It! mini-toolkit. It's regularly updated, so check back often for new resources, ideas, and opportunities for action:

"From workplaces and schools to houses of worship and courtrooms, everyday people from all backgrounds have been choosing to stand with their immigrant neighbors...In state after state, outraged and concerned community members organized emergency trainings and warning networks..."

Another student walkout happening now at Beaverton School District schools in Oregon demanding proactive protocols for ICE activity near schools. The walkout last week had a massive turnout and even resulted in some students from one of the middle schools who participated being suspended.

In the 90 minutes since I posted this, I've gotten two more death notifications. ICE has a responsibility to take care of these people, something they are clearly disregarding. This is beyond horrifying. We must ensure dignity and humanity for detained people in this country.

Currently watching CBP agents intimidate Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss in a Home Depot parking lot.

On Monday, ICE agents violently restrained a woman in Minneapolis, dragging her in the snow and pinning her face down as onlookers shouted the woman was pregnant. In response, one agent fired a taser into the crowd. “Who wants more?” he taunted, according to a WCCO reporter. trib.al/vdWc3qj

Pritzker, Johnson, and Biss are gaslighting us about solidarity on immigration, while the cops they control are running interference for Trump’s goons.

Border patrol under command of Greg Bovino running a checkpoint at the exit to the Uber lot at O’Hare airport in Chicago, asking drivers for proof of valid residency in this country

Evil shit.

This tracks with my experience. DHS made up stories like this in Chicago, too. Every story ICE told about being attacked by community members was debunked in court. To assume anything they say is even potentially credible is irresponsible and out of touch with reality.

"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-...

I am so proud of the small group of people that has been grinding on this project for 10 years. Looks like there will finally be a ground-breaking in 2026 - thetriibe.com/2025/12/chic...