I talked with my friend @shaneburley.bsky.social about Nick Fuentes' recent rant about putting women in gulags. How seriously should we take Fuentes, culturally and politically? And what does rhetoric like this reveal about the broader trajectory of the movement he’s trying to shape? We get into it.

Really touched by this recommendation of Read This When Things Fall Apart from Makkah Abdur Salaam at Black Garnet Books in St. Paul. ❤️

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

“my ‘we’re not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process’ shirt is raising a lot of questions that are answered by the shirt”

Circling back to this one: If you haven’t listened, do. If you have, listen again.

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

Since I introduced this pin in the fall of 2021 I've sent out more than 1800 of them, including a few to folks involved in the making of Star Trek. 139 of those have been in the week and a half since I posted this. Thank you so, so much! I hope they help you find your people.

just an update from when we talked to the reporter: we’ve now successfully connected over 100 families for direct, peer to peer rent adoption. we’ve collected and immediately distributed…a lot. it is a drop in the bucket, but all of this is. everyone is just doing what they can.

RIP James Van Der Beek. I adored his meta douche bag portrayal of himself in Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23. That wasn't even a great show, but his commitment to the bit won me over so completely. I hope he had as much peace and comfort as possible at the end.

renewed my library card and checked out a book the book is fantastic and if you're doing any kind of movement work, i highly recommend it thank you, @mskellymhayes.bsky.social

Evidence shows feds lied about Marimar Martinez's shooting in Chicago, attorney says @chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Totally normal democracy we have here, 10/10, no notes thehill.com/homenews/med...

His GoFundMe is here: www.gofundme.com/f/support-le... - I donated a few days ago.

“That ‘Fast Car’ can be passed down through generations without requiring explanation is both a songwriting triumph and a grim indictment of America.”

My latest: Applauding community defense is not enough. We are organizing resistance to a concentration camp regime. The front lines are everywhere. (Plus resources and my must-reads list!)

Writer's parents own 200 units in the city and have racked up many, many violations.

"DHS might be more than happy to wear cameras because they know video won't actually bring [DHS victims] justice ... [DHS] is going to distribute any potential footage it finds exculpatory and withhold any footage that may be damaging. That's a problem that some minor policy adjustments can't fix."

I talked with three Minneapolis organizers, including Andrew Fahlstrom and Susan Raffo, about community defense in Minneapolis, the social fabric of collective care under federal occupation, and how people around the country should be gearing up for the long struggle ahead. Audio + transcript:

these people hate us lol straight up do not like us

“CBS News’ newest “star” contributor Peter Attia once chose to meet with Jeffrey Epstein—ignoring his wife’s plea to come to the hospital where their infant son was being treated.”

Just a reminder that when you become a @truthout.org sustainer, you not only support Truthout's independent journalism but also the Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism, which is helping to cultivate and maintain the ecosystem of indy journalism we need in these times.

A new edition of the 1 Million Experiments zine is here! It’s terrific as usual and includes a new zine which is a treasure. To jump-start neighborly relations, try one of the 50 (mostly untried) ways to meet your neighbors. Get into some Porchside Abolition. open.substack.com/pub/millione...

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.

Apparently there was a city meeting in Hutchins, Texas, tonight. Hutchins is the location of DHS's newly announced 10,000-person concentration camp. What I've been told is that city officials were unanimously and adamantly opposed to it. Unfortunately, I'm seeing this nowhere online.

Lots of regular degular, never-done-an-activism folks have been activated in recent months and are working alongside a bunch of seasoned, die-hard, been-tired-for-ten-years-or-more organizers, and you don't know all of those stories bc most people are moving with a bit of discretion in these times.

10/10 ICE protest sign

"I am so proud to be in the struggle with people who are embracing their kinship across time and space, across imagined divides, in spite of the isolation this system would impose upon us. Our enemies never imagined that their actions would bring us together this way."

I was supposed to speak at a neighborhood assembly tomorrow, but I'm still sick and can't risk exposing my neighbors. So I wrote up my remarks and put them in my newsletter. Now, back to bed.

One of the greats.

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

I cannot emphasize enough how important it is that we get rid of Miller. His race war fantasies have informed the vision behind the federal assaults on US cities, as I discussed here.

ICE just showed up at our house for the second day in a row. Four cars yesterday, today five. They rolled up slow, then got out to taunt us, and take pictures of the house. They want fear to overwhelm us, to project a fantasy of power meant to intimidate, isolate, produce obedience—not happening.

Reminder that, in recent days, children have rallied and protested for their freedom inside an ICE detention center where water has been described as "putrid" and meals reportedly contain “bugs,” dirt, and debris. This is where the kidnapped 5-year-old Liam Ramos is being held.

Folks we don’t need to choose. Bovino is literally walking around dressing himself like a Nazi, of course we should look to *his* inspiration for what the fuck he is up to. Is it his only inspiration? No. It’s a both/and situation.

more money for training will not fix this

Image credited to Garrett Peterson, CRNA colleague of Alex Pretti, of his colleagues at the VA hospital where he worked.

Can we all take a second to appreciate how bitch-made all the far right commentators are who think noise demos like this are violence

"As many as 30,000 people could have been killed in the streets of Iran on Jan. 8 and 9 alone, two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health told TIME—indicating a dramatic surge in the death toll." time.com/7357635/more...

No words “As the Michigan-based attorney walked toward his car…he heard what sounded like “100s of children” shouting, with voices he described as "high-pitched" and "urgent.”…he could see children streaming from dormitory areas behind a chain-link fence and chanting “Libertad." shorturl.at/yOXfh

Purchase it here: bookshop.org/p/books/read...

If you make training the primary issue, you will get a more professionalized Schutzstaffel.

It is of course not an exhaustive read of the abolitionist groundwork sticking out in this moment, but we tried to recognize a lot in a cohesive way, from Minneapolis and from other cities. (@mskellymhayes.bsky.social's wonderful words about Chicago, where people also ran towards ICE, are linked)

Honored to see that Read This When Things Fall Apart is number six on this list and that Let This Radicalize You is number 24. ❤️

"What we are witnessing is the conjuring of war by people whose imaginations have been corroded by race-war fantasies and myths about white-genocide. In this worldview, the death of the “complicit” is not a tragedy, but a warning — an attempt to discipline others into submission."

"In Minnesota, our siblings in struggle are lighting the way, and giving us a glimpse of what’s possible. They are creating a story we can live together, if we refuse the unpersoning of our neighbors and defend our collective humanity." Thanks for this, @mskellymhayes.bsky.social!

My latest: How Renee Good's murder and paramilitary assaults on US cities reflect longstanding right-wing race war fantasies and Stephen Miller's fixation with a novel about white genocide. I also talk about the stories we tell and live in opposition to these narratives and share a must-reads list.

BREAKING: Whistleblower disclosures reveal a formal ICE policy to ignore the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution.  Every American should be terrified by this secret ICE policy authorizing its agents to kick down your door & storm into your home. 1/

"I’ll add right up front that nobody sane now thinks the answer to abuses at Dachau was to give the guards more training." Essential reading from Andrea Pitzer, and while you're at it, also read her book ONE LONG NIGHT: A GLOBAL HISTORY OF CONCENTRATION CAMPS.