“Certain calls to abolish ICE are in reality a means to stabilize, not dismantle, the violence of immigration enforcement.” Now online from our Spring issue, @harshawalia.bsky.social on what we've learned from two decades of abolitionist organizing:

“My films are trying to take people through a journey where you think the world is this, but it’s actually this other thing.” In a new interview with Boots Riley, he discusses his latest project, ‘I Love Boosters’ and how his background as an organizer influences his work.

Tech Policy Press fellow Petra Molnar highlights the AI Resist List: a global database documenting acts of resistance to the AI industry. From legal challenges and worker organizing to artistic interventions, the project seeks to challenge the “scale at all costs” development of AI.

Boston University costs said to be over $100k, but workers aren’t getting fair wages www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/20/b...

FUCK ICE NOW AND FOREVER

"The capitalists and authoritarians who run this world are perfectly happy to replace us all with robots that fuck up all the time—because they’d rather accept shoddy work than pay people. It’s bad, and I’m mad, and you should be mad too."

The college grads in open revolt against pro-AI speakers is a reminder that this isn’t about a failure to adopt technology. These students are the first generation to have had language models throughout their college experience. No one wants it. They want an education, not a four year sales pitch.

The American Masters biography of the scholar and civil rights pioneer airing on PBS could hardly be more timely.

What so many have experienced personally has been confirmed by a new study: AI has been a disaster for working artists.

Bookstores can be more than retail. @leftiecowboy.bsky.social writes that cooperative bookstores are democratically governed spaces where readers, workers and communities build something together—against Amazon, rising rents and “spoon-fed corporate mush.” inthesetimes.com/article/coop...

My book FOR THE LONG HAUL: HOW TO STAY IN THE FIGHT FOR A BETTER WORLD is now available for pre-order! In the U.S., order from @akpress.org. In Canada, order from @btlbooks.com. It will be out in September! Find all the info at www.writingwithmovements.com/long-haul/

Join me next Tuesday! So excited to bring Cristy to my neighborhood

my latest from @us.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Leon Botstein resigns as Bard College president - www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley... [gift link] - looks like Bard students won.

Happy May Day! Save the date! 🖤 art by @sampaolini.bsky.social

I wrote a piece about the origins of may day a few years ago. About the immigrants and a formerly enslaved woman who built a movement to abolish their oppressors: the state and capitalism. www.tangledwilderness.org/features/hur...

“They got money for wars but can’t feed the poor.” - Tupac Shakur Today, millions are striking from work or school and taking to the streets for May Day with that message. Instead of spending billions on bombs, fund healthcare and good jobs at home. More from our ED: vist.ly/42k37

Happy May Day comrades!

happy may day! every right you have as a worker was written in blood ❤️

May Day started in Chicago. Not as a holiday, but as a fight for the 8-hour day and basic dignity at work after the Haymarket Massacre of 1886. That fight didn’t end, it went global as International Workers’ Day. This May Day: Strike. Boycott. Disrupt.

I talked with @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social about hope, backlash, political memory, and how history can help us understand our own power.

It really is substantially more likely that some guy wanted to shoot some people (or one man in particular) than that the government staged a false flag attack. Running towards conspiracy thinking is naive and you should be embarrassed. Is it possible? Sure. Is it likely? No.

#WHCA is the Perfect Storm for deepfakes and disinformation. Double check your sources before sharing.

NEW: After years operating in almost complete anonymity, the top content producers of Canary Mission have been identified. www.dropsitenews.com/p/canary-mis...

Please read my piece with @nathaliemarechal.net in today’s @bostonglobe.com Age verification mandates are a gift to dictators and a death sentence for dissidents. Non-paywall link: fftf.link/globe

"And I have hope, because I truly believe that we are witnessing the death rattles of colonialism, the death rattles of white supremacy, the death rattles of everything that tries to keep us separate from each other." 🔥

Did you know I went on Dean Spade's podcast to talk about war resistance, looting, rioting, transness and liberation? It was a really great needful conversation when I was having a hard day!

25 years ago, in April 2001, at the high point of the movement against capitalist globalization, anarchists from around North America converged in Québec City to oppose a summit intended to establish a “Free Trade Area of the Americas” (FTAA). A blow-by-blow account of the resulting confrontations:

Last week, a 20 year-old man threw a molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's mansion; two days later, people fired a gun at it. Earlier that week, someone fired gunshots into an city councilman's house who approved a data center. Why the AI backlash has turned violent:

Whatever happens in the Hungarian elections this weekend, it's important to understand that Hungarian democracy has served to concentrate autocratic power in Viktor Orbán's hands for decades. Even if Orbán concedes power without a fight, the system itself is the problem. crimethinc.com/democracy

Orban was a cornerstone of the international anti-trans movements. Hungarian trans people were among the early targets of his authoritarian regime. It'll take a long time to come back from it all but I hope Hungarian trans people sleep slightly better tonight.

After sixteen years in power, Hungary's Trump- and Putin-aligned strongman has conceded defeat.

Interview with Jessica Lawless by James Tracy "We Won’t Get There If We Stop. Cultural Capital Doesn’t Pay the Rent: A Queer Memoir" razorcake.org/interview-wi...

One year after our original Guardian essay, Naomi Klein and I are excited to reveal the North American cover of our forthcoming book END TIMES FASCISM - and the Fight for the Living World. It will be on bookshelves on September 15th and is available for pre-order. More details below. bit.ly/4cbLfEr

"Why don't Americans..." they do. There's brave acts happening out of sight everyday. Why don't YOU support them when they get arrested or provide material cover for them?

My book tour starts *gulps* in two days, lmao, and I've just published the tour schedule on @caw-shinythings.bsky.social These are the first batch of East Coast dates, but I'm hoping to be on the West Coast in June or July. Anyway, come thru!

1000 stories to be honest. People are in motion everywhere. Folks in Minneapolis continue to hold each other thru this moment - every day I see comrades raising thousands to keep neighbors houses. A friend adopted a class at her local elementary school & throws monthly parties for kids, no fanfare.

THREAD: The Massachusetts House just advanced a draconian and unconstitutional social media ban bill. "This legislation would have kicked Greta Thuneberg off social media before she organized her first climate protest. How does that make kids safer?" www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-04...

“The importance of an abolitionist education is to break apart what we call hegemony, a common sense understanding of how the world works.” Philadelphia’s Abolition School taps the ‘radical potential’ of political education, @adryancore.bsky.social reports.

@bcmerchant.bsky.social: "Every Pew poll I’ve seen over the last couple of years has found basically the same thing. The more people use AI, the less they like it, and the more concerned they are." www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/its-open-s...

I talked to the brilliant Kathi Weeks about her new book, Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures, about Angela Davis, Shulamith Firestone, and Donna Haraway, and about abolishing work, the prison, and the family

No Kings, No Masters On March 28, millions of people around the country will participate in the third day of No Kings rallies. We are calling on everyone to engage with these rallies as an opportunity to build towards more concrete forms of organizing and action. Choose from an array of options:

Make “No Kings” into “Lotsa Zines, No Fascism” day! If you want a folder full of zines related to #EverydayAntifascism,” DM me your email—or better yet, email me at cbmilstein {at} yahoo—for FREE readable and print-ready PDFs, just in time for you to print & freely share by the 100(000)s tomorrow!

Seven foreign doctors and aid workers who volunteered in Gaza described a perverse situation in which Israel permits doctors into Gaza but not medical equipment—even months into a supposed ceasefire—prompting several to smuggle medical supplies in, even as they treat new casualties of war.

This is the way

We've prepared an array of handbills for distributing at the No Kings rallies—introducing anarchism, the case for abolishing ICE, and the Prairieland case. Please print these out and distribute them! And make your own! crimethinc.com/NoKingsHandb...

🔥 COMING SOON 🔥 "I’ve heard my father’s stories about being a part of political movements for my whole life and have been able to touch history through them. His experience was larger than life and a huge thing to live up to." —Boots Riley Preorder now: www.akpress.org/civil-rights...