Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Amnesty calls for blocking German-owned ship carrying arms components bound for Israel

LRB: i think it says a lot about the priorities of the 501Cs that put themselves forward as "the resistance" (though no longer using that label the way they did in 2017). their priorities are rightward alliances, and ever more so as they sink more & more resources into their commitment to the Dems.

kind of interesting that we aren’t seeing any protests rise up against this obvious big step toward absolute censorial repression of any and all political enemies, both real and perceived www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

a sequel: cis people on the skyline are genuinely more distressed by the trump-kennedy center than the fact that congress said a second time in 2 days, “no, really this kind of child’s healthcare should be banned & criminalized” & 46/47 non-GOP senators won’t commit to “i will oppose this.”

The New School owns about a billion dollars worth of art, most of which is not on display. They could sell the two Warhols they own and raise $100 million tomorrow. But they’d rather close academic departments.

"3.5% rule" "60% of nonviolent protests succeed" You may have heard these cited as fact. But they stem from a single dubious source. In the first in a series @thefreeradical.org debunks these, showing how they're propaganda to erase the power of militant, riotous revolt and peddle passive protest:

Syllabi in systems like UNC are going to go form where they are as overloaded contracts to vague vibes What’s publicly available will be general whisps What’s on the LMS like Canvas (data surveillance, extraction) will be what ppl go by Thus the rw state policy enabling privatization

Today is Décadi the 30th of Frimaire in the year 234. Frimaire is the month of frost. Today we celebrate shovels.#JacobinDay More information on shovels

when people use "we" about something horrendous that they did not participate in, advocate for, have any control over or influence on, most of the time it actively gets in the way of understanding who specifically did it, who helped them, and why – which protects the people who did it.

Ken Paxton has launched a snitch line to gather reports of supposed violations of Texas' transphobic bathroom policing law. Please do not abuse this snitch line. Please do not fill it with faff and nonsense. Please do not attach huge, unwieldy and irrelevant documentation to any reports.

“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...

Go help trans people get housing, go help trans people get hormones, go help trans people get money and food and jobs and everything else we need to not just survive but to thrive Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Breaking: Members of Gullah Geechee community on St. Helena Island urged Court to restore access to sacred cemetery blocked by private landowners. Residents requested an injunction against landowners; court denies landowners’ motion to dismiss the case. ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...

thread about abuse of long covid patients by researchers

Rosa von Praunheim :( If you haven't seen City of Lost Souls, you should. It's like if The Faggots and Their Friends had a sharper, more cynical edge and also was a diy musical. Angie Stardust and Jayne County are in it!

More info and ideas for solidarity actions: prisonersforpalestine.org

Our members at @propublicaguild.org are fighting to protect their journalism and their jobs while @propublica.org management wants the right to replace our members and post slop content with no labels. Readers deserve better and so do our members! #NewsNotSlop

R.I.P. Rosa von Praunheim, truly one of the great queer filmmakers whose work is more urgent and timely than ever

fyi the walgreens on flatbush near 7th ave has paxlovid, delivers, and has the “good” hold music

Massachusetts prisons no longer use restrictive housing units, or RHUs, following a 2018 law limiting solitary confinement. But inmates and their advocates say that newly formed BAUs and SAUs continue the practice — “they just changed the acronyms.”

For the second time, the Coast Guard is downgrading swastikas and nooses from overt hate to "potentially divisive. By @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social Gift link!

***REPOST FROM SAMEER PROJECT*** 🚨🚨WE NEED YOUR HELP🚨🚨 The rain and flooding from Storm Byron has wreaked havoc on Gaza. Families are without shelter, without warmth. The death count is now up to 14 people in the past 24 hours. Preventable deaths!! chuffed.org/project/1491...

Omar Hamad and Ibrahim are gathering donations to create a public library in Gaza after Israel’s genocidal war destroyed nearly all its existing libraries, schools, and universities. lithub.com/you-can-help...

from 2015 to April 2020, at least 3 women undergoing dialysis at Carswell died in that time period. All 3 women had been transferred to Carswell specifically to receive medical treatment, and all three developed sepsis prior to their death www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/16/w...

My latest book—CORRIDORS OF CONTAGION: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration—is 40% off till Jan 2nd

GAZA IS DROWNING IN RAIN WATER AND THEY ARE ALL IN TENTS AND ISRAEL IS STILL FIRING ON PEOPLE AND THIS ISN'T A MAJOR NEWS STORY BECAUSE OF RACISM

LRB: if you vote to increase the Democratic Party's power in congress, this is what you are voting for.

So they handed them a legislative win for nothing

LRB: tell me again about how progressive mayors change everything?

NEW from me: the cook county sheriff's office missed a state-mandated deadline to report that, from april 2024-march 2025, it owned and used 10 surveillance drones. it's the second time in as many years that a chicago-area police agency has violated illinois’ drone surveillance law.

Another US airstrike in Somalia happened yesterday, near Kismayo. AFRICOM released no casualty figures or other information beyond saying it "targeted" al-Shabaab. This is by my count the 87th strike or series of strikes announced by AFRICOM this year, by far the most ever in a year in Somalia.

Report on ICE agents entering NYC shelters (without warrants, as almost goes without saying, not that warrants would make it okay) in open violation of NYC policy. gothamist.com/news/ice-ent...

The Guardian is not an impartial source, and not a charity. You should not be giving your money to them. Give money to literally any random trans person instead. www.buzzfeed.com/patrickstrud...

factcheck/counterpoint: all those people – and many more – started doing exactly this in 2021-22 when they caved on Covid safety and concentration camps to back the Dems. in nyc, however, it was in 2018-19 when they backed the BdB/lander/williams jail-building plan.

thinking tonight about the École Polytechnique massacre, december 6, 1989, which targeted women studying engineering. it is the model, alongside white supremacist mass murders (from mankato to tulsa, omdurman to amritsar to bentinck island to gaza), for contemporary mass shootings at schools.

Today is Quintidi the 25th of Frimaire in the year 234. Frimaire is the month of frost. Today we celebrate crickets.#JacobinDay More information on crickets

An ICE Air flight carried migrants from Alexandria, LA, to the US Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay today—the first migrants held at GTMO since October 17.

Got this shit from people close to me after the attack in Manchester a few months ago. Desperate to find a way to make attacks on Jewish people living Jewish lives some kind of anticolonial resistance. Absolutely get fucked.

insanely fucked up to see a mass shooting on a hanukkah event and claim it’s because the country it happened in recognized palestine as a state but that is what israeli politicians are doing

You betcha!

I refuse to let this era be defined by the sick villains and spineless cowards. We are surrounded by everyday heroes and they will keep emerging.

My thoughts are with all those affected by the horrific antisemitic terror attack on a Hanukkah event in Australia in which at least 11 people were killed. Seen below is Ahmed al Ahmed, a 43-year-old Muslim father of two who risked his life to disarm one of the gunmen and was also shot and injured.

Today is Quartidi the 24th of Frimaire in the year 234. Frimaire is the month of frost. Today we celebrate sorrel.#JacobinDay More information on sorrel

Brooklyn Navy Yard finally managed to get off the paint sprayed on its facade in protest against its hosting of companies supplying the IDF, only to get sprayed again—a whole lot more. Per communique, the redecoration preceded a board meeting & coincided with the First Intifada.

If you are in LA and want to interrupt criminalization in the context of care, join organizers in the streets tomorrow at 10 am to say ICE & cops out of care and get one of these gorgeous signs based on art by @monicatrinidad.bsky.social for @interruptcrim.bsky.social’s toolkit - or make your own!

🚨 US House of Representatives are voting on two anti-trans bills next week in an attempt to severely restrict gender affirming care for youth. HR3492 would criminalize parents and providers charging them with felonies if they even attempt to access care. Join us next week and fight back! Link ⬇️

remember: this is what the organizations telling you to vote for "progressive" Dems are helping with. and that's true even when they're not shilling for pols who've voted their entire careers for more cops and more jails (which they usually are).