Essential reporting. The fascist crackdown on immigrants is a crackdown on the right to organize itself.

A beautiful acknowledgement of the ongoing devastation and heartbreak in Gaza. Thank you @thenation.com

I had the conversation I wish more people would have about the Epstein Files last week with @shannonperezdarby.bsky.social and @chanellegallant.bsky.social. convergencemag.com/podcast/prev...

"Opportunistic politicians, sensationalist media outlets, class action attorneys—residents affected by the 2023 Norfolk Southern train derailment and chemical disaster have been exploited by everyone and helped by hardly anyone." via @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social

some photos from portland and 34th today. we'll have a story up on racket soon. they gassed us, they knocked folks to the ground, and i watched agents ram a white pickup into a group of protesters, if you're wondering who was actually doing car violence.

The focus on training misses the mark. Yes, many federal agents are sloppy and unprepared, but years of organizing against police violence have taught me that more training doesn't stop violence. It just makes the death-making more respectable (sometimes) and more expensive.

Our round-up of some 2025 stories on the news that stuck with us, featuring picks from @hashtagjames.bsky.social, @catachresis.bsky.social, @gabemschneider.bsky.social, and @alexip718.com (plus other anon community members): objectivejournalism.org/2025/12/the-...

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

Join us for a way to celebrate the beautiful game and denounce authoritarianism ourcup26.org

Nothing gives me bigger heebie jeebies these days than promoting my own shit, which is wild considering I literally host a livestreamed podcast almost every Friday. But we are piloting a new fellowship program in 2026 and raising $10k this month to fund it. convergencemag.com/elbaum-fello...

This #GivingTuesday, give to an org that refuses to stand down. For 2 decades, About Face #veterans have been at the front lines against #military occupation, and we remain firm in our dedication to justice and freedom. 📷Donate at aboutfaceveterans.org/donate to support our work!

🚨HERE IS OUR SOLUTION ➡️ My colleague @mayaschenwar.bsky.social at @truthout.org and I argue that it is time for progressive philanthropy and left philanthropy to make a serious, wide-ranging investment in journalism–and stick with it for the long haul. prismreports.org/2025/11/19/p...

NEW: As immigration enforcement continues across North Carolina, communities are mobilizing--inside and outside formal organizing networks--to protect their neighbors:

🧵 The elimination of Teen Vogue’s entire political desk and layoffs of their Black, brown, trans, and queer workers is part of a devastating mainstream media landscape. prismreports.org/2025/11/19/p...

Exclusive: India’s largest far-right Hindu organization hires U.S. lobbyists for congressional influence campaign, @meghnadbose.bsky.social & Biplob Kumar Das investigate. Squire Patton Boggs lobbied U.S. lawmakers on behalf of the RSS, a group linked to discrimination & violence against Muslims.

This is also how I feel about it. We aren't living through a moment where we can depend on any accountability mechanisms that may have ever existed in the first place (which they may not have tbh)

When people ask “so now what?!”: show up at JFREJ’s mass call & learn how to make Zohran’s agenda real for NYC.

This is what we mean when we say that abolition is a survivor led movement - survivors of sexual violence deserve more and better than this: prismreports.org/2025/10/09/d...

This is such a silly little thing but @kimmiedearest.com set up a storefront for @convergencemag.com on @bookshop.org and there's a list of books by everyone who's been on the pod so far and it's so neat! bookshop.org/lists/block-...

If someone needs a book on this, that links it to the nature of capitalism, class, the role that knowledge and technology play in history, and what power has to do with that... we've got you covered, of course hagenblix.github.io/wwfai/

FYI the list of confirmed companies airing ICE ads - Spotify - Pandora - YouTube - Hulu - HBO MAX - Peacock - Telemundo - Univision bit.ly/cancelspotify spread the word

“They literally ushered us into the street to protest and immediately after started beating the shit out of us.” This is 100% an accurate description of how this started. Broadview PD mishandled the situation from the start, then unleashed ISP to beat the protesters they’d led into the street.

With Chicago in the ICE crosshairs right now, here are some independent and nonprofit media orgs to read, follow and support. Unraveled: @unraveledpress.com Block Club Chicago: @blockclubchi.bsky.social Chicago Reader: @chicagoreader.com The TRiiBE: @thetriibe.com WBEZ: @wbez.org

Re: "narrative infrastructure for narrative power," I had a great conversation with @catachresis.bsky.social -- of the fantastic @convergencemag.com -- about creating enabling spaces and permission structures to think of new ways of being. Listen here: convergencemag.com/podcast/cont...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Just been thinking about this great article from January by Emma Tai in @convergencemag.com. No reason. convergencemag.com/articles/occ...

As easy as it is to dunk on the acetaminophen announcement today, I just can't stop thinking about how all this claim of a "cure" for autism plays into a fundamentally eugenicist way of looking at the world. Those who diverge are to be cured or purged.

“The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.” - Nemik's Manifesto. #BoycottDisneyABC

Media crackdowns are a core part of the fascist playbook. As more repression looms, @neginowl.bsky.social & I write, those of us in media need to ground ourselves in our own power, seeking creative ways to raise our voices and rooting ourselves in our solidarities. truthout.org/articles/jim...

Just a friendly Friday afternoon reminder from your friendly neighborhood lawyer to keep your doors phones & computers locked don’t let anyone in you don’t know & ask anyone who claims to have a warrant to slide it under the door first! Make sure address is correct & it is dated & signed by a judge

Super grateful for Sam's reporting on this story. If you haven't heard about Mario Guevara, please check this out. h/t @freepress.bsky.social for bringing Mario's case to my attention in the first place, and for being part of his support network

This was such a massive failure at the congressional level. The misguided and widely criticized attempts to ban TikTok only empowered Trump and his conservative media allies in the end—like many critics of the ban legislation feared it would

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

My only note is that it's probably more like, brought to you by Coinbase, BetMGM, and BlueChew, but yeah.

A Black man and a homeless man were found hanging from trees in Mississippi yesterday, for those who haven’t seen yet because it’s barely made it out of local news.

AFSC’s Kerri Kennedy joins @catachresis.bsky.social on the Block and Build podcast (@convergencemag.com) to discuss how Trump-era deportation policies eroded civil liberties, normalized state violence, and what we can do to protect our communities. Listen here:

As a swatting survivor I can tell you that you can wind up with PTSD even without a single shot being fired. I'm lucky that I was able to access the support in the days and also years after that experience. I've processed it in a big way but I can't say I'm the same person I was beforehand.

look at this bullshit.

This week's #BlockAndBuild with @mediajustice.bsky.social's @myaishahayes.bsky.social, @nodesertdatacenter.com's Vivek Bharathan, and Memphis Community Against Pollution's @keshaunpearson.bsky.social was a complete banger. convergencemag.com/podcast/orga...

Just leaving this here. For reasons. www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk...

1. Great news out of a federal court in Maryland this morning. A judge has ruled that Trump's trans passport ban is likely unconstitutional, blocking it for the plaintiffs. Importantly, it rules that it is likely unconstitutional at ANY level of review. Subscribe to support our journalism.

#Breaking news from Atlanta - Judge Kevin Farmer just tossed the RICO case against the 61 #StopCopCity defendants after finding the Georgia Attorney General didn’t have proper jurisdiction to prosecute them under state law. Great news. Solidarity with everyone that continues to fight 🖤🫡

Thanks to the Supreme Court, any and I mean ANY brown person I.C.E. agents in Los Angeles witness speaking Spanish, can legally be detained. To be clear, I can personally confirm that I.C.E. was already doing this. The Supreme Court has now okayed it.

“We don’t have state-controlled media,” Saeed said, “but there’s something so much more tragic about a free press that voluntarily enmeshes itself with the state and protects its interests without being asked.” prismreports.org/2025/09/09/j...

Thanks to Zeitschrift Luxemburg for inviting me to write about #BlockAndBuild in the summer print issue! Pleased to join Anglophone comrades incl @sarahljaffe.bsky.social & @billfletcherjr.bsky.social to provide reporting/analysis for the German left. zeitschrift-luxemburg.de/artikel/bloc...

@mskellymhayes.bsky.social & I also discuss the role of criminalization & “law & order” here: truthout.org/audio/the-tr... Also, a conversation with @catachresis.bsky.social on Block & Build podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

If you want to dive into the role of criminalization in this moment join our friends @politicaleducation.bsky.social’s #FightingFascism series Sep 10th! The 1st session features Rachel Herzing & Robin D.G. Kelley on how criminalization is fundamental to the fascist program: bit.ly/FightingFasc...

What is deemed to be “crime” has more to do with criminalizing specific populations i.e. Black and poor people (and not others). Even when something is labeled a “crime,” cops choose to focus enforcement on some while ignoring others, e.g. shoplifting baby formula is punished; wage theft is ignored.