If you've seen the Juneteenth flag, but don't know its history or what it means, you can read about it in the words of Ben Haith, the man who designed it. Happy Emancipation Day! ✊🏽 #Juneteenth capitalbnews.org/juneteenth-f...

I had the great honor of interviewing @gerardshannon.bsky.social and talking about Liam Lynch and Rory O’Connor #irishhistory #historypodcast open.spotify.com/episode/3e65...

I just posted the last episode of season three! It talks about the Irish National Army Mutiny of 1924 and the inquiry that followed. #irishhistory #historypodcast podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

Again, the idea of hundreds of thousands of missing migrant kids is MADE UP. This whole thing came from a misinterpreted DHS OIG report that said that from 2019 to 2023 (half Trump, half Biden), ICE failed to start removal proceedings for 291,000 unaccompanied kids — not that they were "lost."

Mullin wants to be quiet about it, which means the rest of us need to be a lot louder. 18 people have died in ICE custody since January 1st — more people died in ICE detention in the first 4 months of 2026 than any full calendar year from 2007 to 2019.

I’m going to bed now and I BETTER wake up to obituaries for a certain former mayor tomorrow or I’m going to super fucking grumpy.

If y’all are keeping track, the United States is now transporting people abducted by ICE in shackles during suffocating air plane rides of over a day or more to deposit them in random spots in the world with no relation to where they come from. Land of the free! Shackling & trafficking since 1619.

I’m uninterested in having a Platner debate here so don’t @ me; what I do want to highlight, however, is how stunningly ignorant @mattyglesias is (and many more) about the methods and ideologies of the white supremacist movement. 1/17

It's May Day in Chicago and across from the United Center, labor and immigrant advocacy groups are gathering in a local park ahead of the afternoon's planned marches and rallies. Atmosphere is very festive; people are getting down to Dolly Parton's "9 to 5."

Maine has a problem in that the senate race is going to be between the perpetually concerned-before-voting-the-GOP-party-line Susan Collins and Graham “my Nazi tattoos are raising a lot of questions that I would rather not answer” Platner. The solution is simple: Draft Stephen King.

I said having a prominent voice of pro-Palestine politics in the US be a guy who had a Nazi tattoo and appeared on a neo-Nazi podcast will make it harder for me to convince wavering family members that pro-Palestine politics are not all antisemitic, and I got, "Oh, so your family are all genocidal?"

Legit: Democrats / blue states can revitalize their state guards and assign state employees to polls to confront and document anyone causing trouble. They don’t need to be armed.

BREAKING: Israel and Max Makoka, the brothers who were waiting for their school bus when ICE arrested them, are headed home after the arrests galvanized their Mississippi Gulf Coast community. "It’s a blessing to be around a community who cares about you,” Israel Makoka, 18, says.

The Illinois Accountability Commission has released its final report on Operation Midway Blitz. The report looked at evidence suggesting a federal effort to suppress dissent, finding "DHS used paramilitary tactics to occupy and impose control in Chicagoland." Full report here:

i think we do ourselves a disservice when we are allowed to forget that every piece of civil rights legislation was written with the blood of martyrs. a few drops of the blood used to write the VRA was viola liuzzo’s. she was murdered by klansmen after the march from selma to montgomery.

Trans rights are inextricably linked to other groups rights. You cannot remove or attack trans rights without undermining an entire history of activism which has seen rights defended and progressed for others. There's a very good reason for the saying "Trans rights are human rights".

the more i write about what racists were doing in the 60s & 70s the more i realize that story can't be told without placing it in the context of mainstream conservatism & ambient racism of the time. this victim of a nazi serial killer was in the first integrated class in loudoun county, VA.

i write about white supremacist violence for a living. i’ve been writing a lot lately about white supremacist violence during the years of the civil rights movement and placing these things in context together has really changed the way i understand that history.

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

It is a truly terrible thing to witness and be subject to this undoing.

Jim Crow was in my dad's lifetime. Mass incarceration and the drug war continue in mine. The Interstate highway system and urban renewal destroyed -- and continues to destroy -- billions in heritable black wealth. And that's just the most prominent, state-endorsed, institutionalized stuff.

The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis—and then called her a “fucking bitch” moments before she died in her car—was only placed on three days of administrative leave and continues to work for the agency in another state. trib.al/C3bEEAM

I will say it again: Louisiana started beta testing Project 2025 in 2023. It is a testing ground for national political fuckery. I hope more people understand that.

I’d give credit if I knew who made it.

They're really having fun with it on tiktok.

This is brilliant

The exhibition on the 1926 Irish census is open in our central London building until 15 May (other than today due to the marathon). No booking required so do check the timings and then pop in!

I love this essay very much!!!!

I have two pitbulls & most of my day is spending being knocked over by my angel dog who never does anything wrong but has no spatial awareness (usually when I have hot tea in my hands) & wondering how & when my chaotic gremlin dog learned to juggle lit sticks of dynamite while riding a unicycle

I went to the Chicago Palestinian Film Festival this weekend and wrote a review on the Palestinian comedy Thank You for Banking With Us for my friend @intheirownleague.bsky.social intheirownleague.com/2026/04/21/c...

My episode on Kevin O'Higgins during the Irish War of Independence just went live on all podcast platforms. Take a listen and learn how he nearly drove poor Cosgrave to a mental breakdown (jk...sort of) #IrishHistory #IrishWarofIndependence podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Maryland has, for now, stopped ICE from converting a warehouse designed to hold commercial products into a warehouse used to hold people. Similar lawsuits have been filed against ICE's warehouse detention camp plans in New Jersey and Michigan.

Black folk in the US are still angry over what many of us see as multiple betrayals. People focus on Harris, Booker, and Jeffries. Yes, sure. But look at Bowman, Bush, and now Crockett. Al Green, censured twice. Black SES & life metrics, cratering. Silence re: Ed Blum & AA attacks. We all we got.

The Warsaw Ghetto uprising and the Great Palestinian Revolt in Palestine both began on April 19th.

I absolutely adore Harry Clarke's work. I saw his stain glass for the first time during a trip in Dublin and instantly fell in love.

Love it

“In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political, I must listen to the birds. And in order to hear the birds, the warplanes must be silent” - Marwan Makhoul

Palantir is an evil fucking company that needs to be destroyed.

Today, a lot of people will be talking about the manifesto that Palantir released. In addition to pouring over what those words mean, I invite you to ground the conversation in what Palantir has already done. Its work with Israel and ICE show us exactly what it stands for.

There are a lot of points in this manifesto you can point to and say “This here is the sign.” But this right here, this is THE SIGN that these fuckers are just openly fascist and imperialist.

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

Today, there are a number of mobilizations happening across the world in solidarity with the people in Lebanon. Here are some photos from the vigil in Washington, DC. The group is calling for a permanent ceasefire, an arms embargo, and accountability for war crimes.

THE HOUSE JUST VOTED TO EXTENDED TPS FOR HAITI!!! Thank you, Rep. Ayanna Pressley for your leadership on this. Proud to help co-lead this effort for our Haitian brothers, sisters, and siblings. What a day.

I just posted my new episode on Kevin O’Higgins on my Patreon. Listen to the episode a week before everyone else. www.patreon.com/posts/155051...

As Giorgio Agamben wrote, the whole point of concentration camps and similar is that they are a zone where law does not operate (more precisely, where inmates are stripped of all legal protection and are “outside” society.)

A worker died in a Amazon warehouse in Oregon. For more than an hour the workers in the facility were ordered to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker tried to help, but a manager told him “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work.“ EVIL.