if you're in the NYS capital region, stop into Honest Weight Co-Op and pick up a free deadtree edition of its gorgeous magazine, Coop Scoop, which features an interview with me about ANOTHER WORLD ISN'T POSSIBLE conducted by @ellieirons.bsky.social & @phiffer.org

Considerable coverage of the retaliation against the EPA staffers who signed the Declaration of Dissent yesterday. www.eenews.net/articles/epa...

NEW: The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. ProPublica heard from more than 150 researchers to understand the work that’s been lost.

Oh look, tech company emissions are already up 150%, and the AI data center build out has just gotten started.

$134 million that could provide healthcare, food, and housing www.cnbc.com/2025/06/10/t...

“Remember that the LRAD beams sound in a narrow pattern, so move off to one side to get out of the main pattern”

Solidarity with the protesters who took part in the today’s actions against Avelo! Avelo Airlines has accepted a $150 million contract to operate ILLEGAL deportation flights. Learn more and join the next Avelo action at www.stopavelo.org. #PeoplesMovement #StopAvelo #50501Movement #FiftyFiftyOne

Shane Burley explains that when the administration undermines our power in the courts and Congress, we have only one option left, each other. Find out on Ep 5 (S2) – Safety Through Solidarity: How Anti-War and Anti-Fascist Struggles are Connected. Listen at fascismbarometer.org. #antiwar

Every extra hour that ICE spends facing off with activists is an hour they can't spend kidnapping other people. Every extra minute ICE has to spend contingency planning around activists and neighbors, every extra officer ICE has to put on a kidnap squad, is a drain on their efficiency.

Upstate New York has strong abolitionist roots….“fugitives who arrived in Rochester and other cities and towns in upstate New York were welcomed by organized vigilance committees, clothed, fed and found employment or, if they wished, sent on to Canada.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Hey this is extremely not cool, just in case you didn’t know.

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

Much of the IT and cybersecurity infrastructure underpinning the US health system is in danger of a possible collapse following a purge of IT staff and leadership at the Dept. of Health and Human Services, four current and former agency workers tell WIRED.

My weekly curated list of must-read articles and some final thoughts for the week. "To keep as many of us alive and free as possible, we are going to have to recognize the nature of the fight we’re waging, and we are going to have to refuse characterizations that deem some of us disposable."

The science coup within the Us Government continues. @altnih4science.bsky.social

What stage capitalism is this?

Spring Herbal Series kicks off @peopleshealthtroy.bsky.social @mediasanctuary.bsky.social on Monday! Learn to make tinctures while helping us stock the Community Apothecary. Details & registration here: www.mediasanctuary.org/event/herbal...

There was one singular person the Trump team wanted to kill. They thought they tracked him to his girlfriend’s place, presumably in a civilian apartment building in Sana’a. So they dropped bombs on the neighborhood and leveled the building. Reactions from the group: “amazing job” “Excellent” “👊🇺🇸💥”

If you live in New York, please call the governor and your state lawmakers and tell them to oppose any anti-masking laws. This toolkit from @covidadvocacyny.bsky.social has the numbers and info you need.

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I want to point out, they were doing this kind of thing in 2020.

I guess I can ask my mom if she saved that “acid rain pollution” poster I made for a school science project in fucking 1987 and post it on the wall again. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The post office is under attack! Visit the website of the national postal workers union to find a rally near you- nalc.org. graphic by Justseeds artist Josh MacPhee!

Terminated grants Various folks (including yours truly) have been trying to figure out how to track terminated grants. I recently discovered that HHS is bragging about them, posting them at taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data... 4/n

My weekly curated list of must-read articles and some thoughts on defending public libraries.

This is really important, please take a moment to fill this out and pass it around

Not in nyc? Sign the petition to release Mahmoud Khalil, for a start: actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...

FREE MAHMOUD KHALIL!!!!!

@transrigo.bsky.social responds to Iowa's disgusting attempt to strip trans people of their rights with this statement: "By taking this action, lawmakers are harming the state’s workforce, economy, and reputation—all to curry favor with Trump, who will not restore the damage this unjust law causes."

Sweden has its own back door proposal in addition to EU’s Chat Control 2.0 and Going Dark. Signal’s president Meredith Whittaker is clear as always: if you mandate back doors (i.e., vulnerabilities): no more Signal for you. www.svt.se/nyheter/inri... #Signal #E2EE

HOW YOU CAN HELP: ✅ Spend your money at small businesses, especially those owned by underrepresented entrepreneurs ✅ Share this message with your networks—word of mouth is powerful ✅ Stand together in financial solidarity to create real economic change

Tomorrow, February 28, let’s disrupt the status quo by spending ONLY at businesses that uplift our communities. That means: 🚫 No gas from corporate giants 🚫 No fast food chains 🚫 No big-box retailers (Target, Walmart, Amazon, etc.)

Since January 24, 16,647 people have died because of Trump’s freeze on PEPFAR funding for #HIV and #AIDS. 1,601 of the dead are infants. #PEPFAR #health #childhealth #healthequity

Today, the Trump administration made immediate and catastrophic cuts to funding for global health work to treat and prevent #malaria and #HIV. We do not yet have an estimate of how many people will die because of this cut, but the numbers will be heart breaking. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

“The individuals have been long-standing residents here in the U.S. between eight and 20 years,” said Bryan MacCormack, executive director of Columbia County Sanctuary Movement. “(They) do not have any criminal history, and one of them has U.S. citizen children.” www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley...

A federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement action in Kingston resulted in the detention of a person living illegally in the US, while another city resident who holds a green card was contacted by an ICE agent who allegedly said he was “with the police department.” (📝 @mariamsilva.bsky.social )

This is it folks! Let's do this! #24HourEconomicBlackout

Tomorrow, February 28, let’s disrupt the status quo by spending ONLY at businesses that uplift our communities. #50501movement #PeoplesMovement #FiftyFiftyOne #March4thForDemocracy #ImpeachTrump #NoKings #PoliticalRevolution #BuildTheResistance #EconomicBlackout @polrev.bsky.social

I support the right of public sector workers to strike, but the demand of the correctional officers to repeal the HALT Act is a non-starter. While the economic & overtime conditions for the officers are not ideal for any job, the strike is designed to uphold a racist, anti-poor carceral system. 1/2

Recently covered on @mediasanctuary.bsky.social Hudson Mohawk Mag, “Crises in NY State Prisons” listen here: www.mediasanctuary.org/stories/2025...

great resource thank you! Great to have specific # & source to refer to for local organizing/activism!!

Breaking: Trump's full trans military ban has just dropped. Quickly reading it, it appears to be a full separation from the military for all transgender military members, and states being trans is inconsistent with "honesty, humility, uniformity, and integrity." A sad day for this nation.

ALERT! It just broke that tomorrow, the Senate will attempt a procedural vote on a transgender sports ban. It will take 7 Democrats breaking rank in order to have enough votes to pass cloture. Democrats held very strong in the House and only lost two votes. CALL YOUR DEMS! (info in next post)

We’re bacccckkkkk at Common Roots in Albany for a Spring Pop-Up Market on Saturday, May 17th from 12PM - 4PM 🌈 This market’s beneficiary will be Mission Accomplished Transition Services. Apps will be open until 4/1 or until we meet our 30 vendor cap! Apply here👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I'm also open to any other data collection you think would be useful (and to collaborators if this is your thing). I'm doing this at github.com/harrisj/trum... because this is my way of writing down what is happening

Do you work at HHS? Are your career plans changing because of RFK's confirmation? Are you like "Hell no, I'm staying, it is he who sucks?" Are you thrilled with the whole thing? In any case, my username on Signal is annamerlan.30 and I would love to chat with you on non-work devices.

Here is the pre-RFK vaccination schedule for your kids. Please download it before he is confirmed and changes/deletes it. Give it to your pediatrician and say this is the schedule you want your kids on. Making this my pinned post.

Did you know that Gov. Hochul's proposed budget includes a $10 million cut to library construction aid? At a time when we need libraries more than ever? If you're in New York State, take a moment to let your reps know NO CUTS TO LIBRARIES. oneclickpolitics.global.ssl.fastly.net/messages/edi...

Chris Hedges returns to the Sanctuary for Independent Media on March 7, at 7pm to give the talk "Normalizing Genocide and the New World Order." Register here www.mediasanctuary.org/event/chris-...

Elon Musk and DOGE have made their way to the federal Department of Education. What we do know is any changes will likely harm disabled students. Check out my @motherjones.com article on Project 2025 attacks on DoE. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...