NO COOPERATION, END THE OCCUPATION

Residents are finding all sorts of ways to fight ICE: They're recording and reporting. They're wheatpasting and sharing know-your-rights materials. And they're stepping up to care for each other, from delivering groceries to walking kids to school. 51st.news/dc-residents...

Trump's DC takeover runs into resistance in courthouse. A grand jury refused three times to indict a woman accused of assaulting an FBI agent and a magistrate said an arrest followed the "most illegal search I’ve seen in my life" @rizzotk.bsky.social Mike Laris www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Grand jury laughs off felony for ‘Sandwich Guy’ after 'unhinged' Trump admin response A D.C. grand jury refused to indict the man accused of throwing a sandwich at a federal agent in D.C. @chrislhayes.bsky.social has the latest.

In a statement responding to @mayorbowser.bsky.social’s comments today on the ongoing presence of federal agents in the city, @freedcproject.bsky.social says: “D.C. needs these federal forces out immediately. Every hour that they are still here is an hour that people in D.C. are in danger.”

New: Stephen Miller says Trump's focus on DC is meant to help Black residents. But people living in the city's historically Black wards don't want this kind of help So what could the feds actually do for wards 7/8? I asked and a federal police takeover didn't make the list: wamu.org/story/25/08/...

This is the DC police choosing to collaborate with the feds. Not being forced. Choosing too. Like they have consistently chosen to work with them for decades. Because there is no daylight between them, their tactics, or their violent goals.

"In interviews with Spectator, 16 current and former administrative staff across seven schools and academic centers [at Columbia] described a climate of fear, isolation, and institutional neglect." www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/08...

Fresh off bribing Trump, Columbia is now taking a sledgehammer to its graduate programs. If this succeeds, only grads independently wealthy enough will remain. I’m sure Chris Rufo knew some schools would cave easily, but I doubt he anticipated that one would enthusiastically take his side.

SWC is not the only union targeted by Columbia during contract negotiations. We are appalled at Barnard’s firing of 77 workers, including union siblings of UAW local 2110. The mass layoff impacts the livelihoods of workers as well as Barnard and Columbia's educational mission.

In 1968, Columbia suspended 73 students for protesting Columbia’s investment in war and theft of Harlem land. More than half the suspensions were reversed. Public pressure WORKS! We can do it, too. tinyurl.com/cupopuni-let...

Columbia just expelled or suspended 80 students for protesting in favor of Palestinian rights. Suspended students can only be readmitted if they "apologize"--otherwise the suspension converts to an expulsion. www.axios.com/2025/07/22/c...

if you're an academic—especially if you're in the NYC area—please read and sign this open letter, a pledge against replacing union labor at Columbia. the university has a frustratingly long, lurid history of union-busting; take no part in it.

At a moment when the problems our world is facing feel insurmountable, I found a lot of inspiration in this. My friend and reporter Allison Herrera sat down with recently freed Leonard Peltier, one of the longest-serving political prisoners in the U.S.

@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social on universities and the pro-Palestine movement: www.thedriftmag.com/we-will-not-...

We win together. Don’t let them divide you.

Columbia is attempting to expel SWC members for joining a teach-in on Palestine honoring Basel al-Araj, a Palestinian revolutionary and teacher at the Popular University in the West Bank. Stand with student workers fighting to keep their jobs. tinyurl.com/cupopuni-let...

Activists say the City University of New York is escalating its repression against Palestine activism by suspending a student leader and terminating the positions of four faculty members who have been active in protesting Israel's genocide in Gaza. mondoweiss.net/2025/07/cuny... #Palestine #Israel

it's an interesting theory and international-comparative research design, I recommend giving it a read. it is a nice counterweight to the consensus view among many quantitative social scientists (the answer to high rates of interpersonal violence is hiring more cops)

Which is what identity politics as coined by the Combahee River Collective, was intended to do. Be the center of a critical politic that builds solidarity within and across identities that share that questioning of power, not a replacement for that critical politic.

There's a lot to be said about identity, solidarity. But a simple place to start: the people who are willing to fight for their neighbors when their neighbors have different problems have a very, very good chance of having neighbors to fight with when you all share problems

Honored to write with this group about addressing mental health effects of historical and contemporary racism through Black-led grassroots community healing efforts, including ABPsi’s Sawubona Healing Circles Every circle is a reminder: “We are each other’s medicine” psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

“it ultimately matters little whether violence is meted out by the police, the hospital, or both working in concert. Then, as now, the challenge is in building the political consciousness and systems of care necessary to move towards a healthier social order.”

“They’re not going to call the police to defend them, they’re going to call us.” The incredible story of community members organizing effectively against ICE. lataco.com/union-del-ba... By @theglutster.bsky.social cc: @uniondelbarrio.bsky.social

“[Black Panthers] job was not only to offer care… that’s important… but their job was also security. My problem with contemporary politics is y’all disappeared the security aspect… you’re just doing the social worker aspect.” Joy James and @girlcloudnine.bsky.social lux-magazine.com/article/joy-...

“….this struggle has two faces. Care and militancy.” RIP Joshua Clover

Social movements are more likely to have success when three factors are present: elite conflict, shifting public opinion, and elite blunders. Mass collective action can create the conditions for these factors to emerge and deepen.

The claim that social movements should adopt slogans the right can't weaponize overlooks how the right's political project relies on distorting & weakening any language that threatens power. I mean, they've banned words like female, bias, historically & political. www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...

Despicable. Mahmoud Khalil was kept from the birth of his first child because he stood up for Palestinian freedom. ICE refused to even grant a temporary release. Mahmoud’s wife, Dr. Noor Abdalla: “I will continue to fight every day for Mahmoud to come home to us.”

Mahmoud Khalil addressing the judge today: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The doctor’s role in liberation: an interview with Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta “what medicine allows you to do…to reach into people’s lives…to see up close…and politics allows you to see what you’re looking at. That’s what shapes…medical liberation ideology” mondoweiss.net/2024/03/the-...

“offloading the threat of fascism onto Trump extremists who yearn overtly for a Third Reich ignores the fascistic features of liberal democracy + racialized state violence it enables… to obscure + legitimize the mechanisms underlying the problems they purport to solve” proteanmag.com/2025/01/20/t...

Dr. MLK Jr. addressing the American Psychological Association, 1967 “You who are in the field of psychology have given us a great word. It’s the word maladjusted… But… I’m sure that we recognize that there are things in our world to which we should never be adjusted.” www.apa.org/topics/equit...

“I’ve had students lose their lives to gun violence and it’s a whispered conversation but this is being yelled from the rooftops because you know they have to protect their baby — tourism” “When we see more police, it doesn’t usually turn out OK, but we hope for the best — that’s what we always do”

“As long as we think that we should get Mississippi straightened out before we worry about the Congo, you’ll never get Mississippi straightened out.” – Malcolm X, 1964

“You have made progress” “You are not a danger to yourself or others” The denial letter from Geneva Moore’s insurer directly contradicted her therapist’s words. Cut off from her treatment program, Moore slid into a months long downward spiral www.propublica.org/article/ment...