France finally repealed its Black Code that defined chattel slavery. Wrote a little something on my new Substack about Solitude, an abolitionist, executed for rebelling and what it means for us. substack.com/profile/2286...

Today the Supreme Court hears arguments on Trump’s Executive Order restricting #birthrightcitizenship. He declared (but he’s not king and doesn’t make law) that it doesn’t extend to children of undocumented people and visitors. But Section 1 of the 14th Amendment would like to be heard…

“A Haitian asylum seeker held for four months died Monday at a Scottsdale hospital due to complications from an infected tooth.” It seems the infection spread from his tooth to his lungs, and he developed the pneumonia that killed him. In other words, ICE allowed a prisoner to die of a toothache.

In DC 3/26 join us at Bus Boys & Poets to talk about movement lawyering and the new book Lawyering for Liberation

@velshi.com going to miss you on the weekends on #MSNow. You’re the only person left who talks about our movements and includes our voices. 😔 I know you’ll still be on but a different mission. All the best!

Power corrupts people, sometimes even the people fighting for power for the oppressed.

Did you miss State of the People TVs The Wire Live this week? Care about affordability and the war? Watch it. With guest @errinhaines.bsky.social @rashadrobinson.bsky.social @taifasbutler.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/2WzR1rm...

Thank you @algreen.house.gov! #SOTU

@algreen.house.gov thank you for walking out on the lies!!!

Brevard students protest ICE actions in Viera on Presidents Day: https://brevarddeservesbetter.com/ice%20walkout%202026-02-16/2026/02/16/brevard-students-protest-ice-actions-in-viera-on-presidents-day.html

Kudos to the Metro Louisville teens who organized and led an anti-ICE protest this afternoon on the Big Four Bridge!

The feds are ignoring all health and safety standards for immigration detention warehouses. They don’t care about the people they’re housing or local impacts. They should be sued.

If you didn’t know what you were dealing with now you do. The depiction of Black people as monkeys and apes is nothing new. The fact that it came from a sitting president of these United States should outrage everyone. It’s not a joke.

Trump Admin propaganda and lies continue with rewriting the history of the murder of Medgar Evers. So now they don’t call a Klansman racist. They’re embracing white supremacy. mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...

What a useful resource for organizing.

one thing i have noticed is a lot of folks do not seem to understand the difference between a presidential election and 435+ legislative elections. i have seen any number of people say that you could subvert the outcome this november by targeting “swing states,” which does not make any sense.

@velshimsnow.bsky.social great show as usual. Would be great to have some people of color on talking the history of resistance to facism and authoritarianism maybe check out Political Research Associates or 22CI

The charges against journalists #DonLemon Georgia Fort are the same. Now DOJ wants to silence the media for covering the dissent using those civil rights statutes that don’t apply!

Judge said DHS has violated more court orders in January in MN than “some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.” They don’t care what the courts say. They should be held in contempt. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...

Time for us to (re)read Professor Derick Bell’s work. He shaped my thinking as a law student giving me an understanding that this system readapts, litigation victories are fleeting, power matters and we must be persistent. Here’s a good piece about his work Faces At the Bottom of the Well.

The lies from Karoline Leavitt and this Administration are astounding. They claim they are only interested in immigrants with criminal convictions. So where are the warrants? Why is ICE stopping random people on the streets? Why are they going door to door? It’s a lie.

If you’re going on tv to talk about the ICE executions in Minneapolis please don’t talk about body cams as a solution. It’s all on video and the feds are still lying and cops regularly turn them off when there’s a conflict. Also the Feds refuse to be accountable. #ICE

I’m sorry. Did I miss the part where they called for DHS to remove federal agents from Greater MN as the first step to de-escalation? Cuz without that this is embarrassingly weak but on brand for every company listed.

Time to ask everyone: Whose side are YOU on?

STATEMENT FROM THE NATIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION (NBPA) AND ITS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ON THE FATAL SHOOTING IN MINNEAPOLIS BY ICE

While this is for new organizers from @prisonculture.bsky.social it’s an excellent reminder to veteran organizers. In these times (see why I did there?) we must all be grounded in the hope of what’s possible so we can continue to work for it and build it.

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc... Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

Another execution today by ICE In Minneapolis. 😡

It is an outrageous irony that the Trump Admin would use the KKK Act of 1871 meant to protect Black people from terroristic acts of white supremacists to prosecute Black women engaged in a civil rights protest Check out my piece for @therootdotcom.bsky.social www.theroot.com/civil-rights...

He’s Our Daddy? Release the Epstein files no redactions.

ICE is terrorizing communities and operating outside of the law. This is not normal. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...

Support for ICE is melting. It’s becoming clearer to Americans that ICE is a group of lawless thugs who are not going after “criminals” and are actually hurting us all.

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

So many of us continue to think the truth matters to these people. We want to believe the constitution matters to them. We want to believe they respect that we have 3 branches of government. Let’s stop. You gotta know what you’re dealing with to actually deal with it!

Gotta say it. The hashtag #ICEOutForGood was made to appease people scared to say Abolish ICE out of fear of being accused of being down with abolition. People saw the heat the defund movement took. If they’re out, where are they going?

So much analysis of the video of the murder of Renee Wood. A narrative was spun with no evidence to convince us that there was no wrongdoing. Then Vance said the ICE agent has absolute immunity anyway. The video analysis won’t change their lies nor the minds of those who believe anything they say.

The continuous reference by Vance to Renee Good as that woman shows how they have no compassion and quickly dehumanize people. It’s offensive as hell

Keep this energy for killings by cops too. The culture of policing (power driven) creates the opportunity for reckless disregard of life like what we saw today. The Trump Admin encourages this wild behavior. Remember what ICE did in Chicago? They also want to take down those who challenge them.

I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy. She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.

ICE killed a woman today. They are emboldened from the top.

Lawyering for Liberation is out! I’m a proud contributor. With 20+ movement lawyer contributors the book gives lessons learned for using the law to build power and support movements. Congrats to the editors! Buy it! www.ucpress.edu/books/lawyer...

Trying to normalize martial law.

The weak response from Can, EU and UN to Trump's flagrant crimes in Venezuela is striking. It exposes that much of the world has been cowed. Most notable exception: the Latin American left. That is why the Trump Admin has gone to enormous lengths to defeat the left across the continent. 1/3

Colonizers colonizing. The creep is real.

It’s the oil, stupid

Trump on Venezuela: We are going to run the country…

What will Congress do about it? N-O-T-H-I-N-G

Sounds familiar.this headline is not about the U.S.