10.000 neue Mitarbeitende wurden eingestellt und Haftkapazitäten massiv ausgebaut. Auch an Geld für ICE und die US-Grenzschutzbehörde mangelt es nicht: Im Juni billigte der Kongress weitere 70 Milliarden Dollar. 5/6

Jannis Grimm & @becomingothers.bsky.social for @merip.bsky.social: "Whether the university emerges as a site that resists carceral logics or as an institution that helps normalize them will depend on the ability and the will of scholars and students to keep holding the line."

when straight people join bluesky:

"Safety" as pharmakon *and* poisonous injunction. Elsa Dorin's conceptualization of safety raises the question of how we can collectivize protection without reproducing the governing rationalities through which safety disciplines political life

We have a new article out: ”Theorising the violence-resistance-nexus in the context of Gaza: towards a situated research perspective“, co-authored with Jannis Grimm and @hfranzki.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Open access!

An inspirational source and practical guide on how to defend public libraries through collective organizing is @librariesftp.bsky.social www.librariesforthepeople.org

To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.

“What this analysis shows is that trans people’s wellbeing & public attitudes towards trans people have worsened since 2017, in conjunction with the rise of an organised GC movement.” New analysis by Amnesty International exposes how UK media enable transphobia. media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Li...

The Israeli army committed a massacre on Saturday in the town of Qennarit, in the Saida district, killing at least seven people and injuring 13 others, including five children, according to a preliminary toll released by the Lebanese Ministry of Health. 🧵

Who and what is really behind what's been happening in Belfast? Marisa asked me to explain what's been going on

Britain will use AI to assess ages of asylum seekers in a world-first, with other countries likely to follow suit But our investigation, based on a leaked report and our own algorithmic audit, finds the technology is deeply unreliable

I’m very grateful for this special recognition from @apsamena.bsky.social for Jannis Grimm’s and my article! Thank you! Here’s the link to read it (open access) direct.mit.edu/daed/article...

I just finished Hannah Proctor’s ‘Burnout - The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat’. Next on my reading list for soothing troubling thoughts while remoting between cities is this book by @manuelaz.bsky.social 📚🚃

Don’t miss this book.

this week has been so colorful 🍄‍🟫 these lemon and pink oysters grew at home, and ‘chicken of the woods’ in Grunewald

Und da ist die Polizeigewalt nicht mit einberechnet

Interview with Saidiya Hartman “on insurgent histories and the abolitionist imaginary” by Catherine Damman. www.artforum.com/columns/said...

NEW: The Palestine Test for German Universities For our Campus Politics issue, Jannis Julien Grimm and Lilian Mauthofer @becomingothers.bsky.social examined how campus occupations and repression are reshaping university life in Germany. buff.ly/xKWJazC

I’m very grateful to be part of @merip.bsky.social’s new special issue on Campus Politics: Palestine and the New University Order. You can read Jannis Grimm and my article ‘The Palestine Test for German Universities’ here: www.merip.org/2026/04/the-... @interactfu.bsky.social

One of the first US labor actions against apartheid came in 1970, when Black workers at the Massachusetts-based Polaroid protested the film’s use in “passbooks”. The ‘Polaroid Revolutionary Workers’ Movement’ successfully forced Polaroid to end business in South Africa in 1977.

Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic

Berlin, 26.03 save the date 🎞️ My collective Queer Analog Darkroom was invited to take over Spätschicht, Rirkrit Tiravanija's untitled 2025 (Waiting Room), at Gropius Bau Berlin x C/O Berlin, accompanying the exhibition by Peter Hujar / Liz Deschenes: Persistence of Vision. tinyurl.com/589hx6su

Our new joint article in Middle East Critique is out (open access), with @thaddaea.bsky.social and Jannis Grimm “‘If Gaza Burns, Berlin Burns’—Transregional Solidarity Between Appeal, Accountability and Belonging” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

the last two days I learned about seed preservation practices in Lebanon’s mountains 🌱

“(…) conflicts increasingly appear in direct form as disputes over entitlement – who may dispose over shared conditions of life, and who must adapt. Those who have the power to take and defend property with force increasingly shape the future of the planet.”

»Frontex will israelische Drohnen und Überwachungstechnologien gegen Migrantinnen und Migranten einsetzen, die auch während des Genozids in Gaza zum Einsatz kamen«, schreibt Jacobin Editor Bafta Sarbo.

RWG: “Many people think if they just stay off the radar in some way, whatever way that is, that they will not be caught up by the trouble. And certainly Alberto Toscano’s book [Late Fascism] and other books show us again and again that there is no outside. And therefore there is no time to lose.”

Fanon is the opposite of this (he was close to Lacan in his psychiatric writing too), and that’s why he is one of the people that can guide our fight against this new iteration of fascism.

Two queer women with a 6 year old in school today stopped to film ICE and for their bravery ICE agents murdered one before the other’s eyes. The grief in the survivor’s voice is a knife to the gut. Destroying people and their bonds is what ICE has always done.

Innerhalb weniger Tage kündigen Sparkasse Göttingen und GLS-Bank alle Konten der Rote Hilfe e.V. Der Grund: US-Druck über SWIFT. Auch DKP, ABC und weitere linke Organisationen sind betroffen. Das ist kein Einzelfall. Das ist politisch. Jetzt ist Solidarität gefragt. rote-hilfe.de/meldungen/ko...

Heute wurde in Berlin eine Novelle des Polizeigesetzes verabschiedet. Sie erlaubt so ziemlich alles, was an digitaler Überwachung möglich ist: Verhaltensscanner, Gesichtersuche, Palantir-artige Datenanalysen, Staatstrojaner. Ein Kommentar. netzpolitik.org/2025/neues-p...

Ist nur mir nicht aufgefallen das Baden-Württemberg Rosa Listen für trans Personen ab 1.11.2026 verordnet hat Bei Anmeldung der Vornamens und Personenstands Änderung sollen in Zukunft alte und neue Daten an örtlich Polizeidienststelle sowie das Landeskriminalamt weitergeleitet werden @dgti.org

good morning with @thefunambulist.bsky.social 🌸

Please join us in Berlin for this workshop on Anti-Palestinianism in four weeks:

In #Bochum ist eine Zwölfjährige bei einem Einsatz von der Polizei angeschossen und lebensgefährlich verletzt worden. Wieder einmal Taser und Schüsse gegen eine junge Person ... Meine Gedanken sind bei ihr und alle Menschen, die sie lieb haben.

Read this in the foreword by Angela Y. Davis for “The Great Refusal: Herbert Marcuse and Contemporary Social Movements” (2017) Ad student protests

Our Queer Analog Darkroom Calendar 2026 is out with beautiful photographs on celebrating queerness and sport; donations go to @ouryjalloh.bsky.social and Hope and Haven who are supporting Sudanese refugees; Order via tinyurl.com/3dtyxthe

Man könnte heute so viel schreiben, so viele Biografien erzählen, stattdessen inszeniert man sich wieder und spricht vom 9. November als "Schicksalstag der Deutschen"

It’s biscotti’s first birthday today and I feel so much gratitude because I couldn’t have asked for a better companion in life 🌹 with @flexuebel.bsky.social

Auf dem Weg nach Erfurt, um über die Studierendenproteste an Berlins Universitäten zu sprechen – und darüber, wie die Repression, der die Studierenden ausgesetzt sind, in breitere Tendenzen der Versicherheitlichung des öffentlichen Raums eingeordnet werden kann. @interactfu.bsky.social

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." This James Baldwin quote is hitting harder than ever.

Against imperialist, anti-Black narratives of “civil war” and “failed state” in Sudan, a movement resource on imperialism & counter-revolutionary war in Sudan, and how we can act in engaged solidarity with people in El-Fasher, in Darfur, and across Sudan. www.weavingourworlds.ca/beyond-sloga...

Für unsere Arbeit bei @interactfu.bsky.social habe ich zahlreiche Videos zu den Palästina-Solidaritätsprotesten in Berlin zwischen Oktober 2024 und Mai 2025 ausgewertet. Unsere Daten bestätigen die Kontinuität von Polizeigewalt, die in diesem Artikel von Anselm Mathieu beschrieben wird.

Die Menschen, von denen #Merz spricht, posten hier kaum, werden nicht gebeten, Artikeln zu schreiben, werden nicht interviewt – es ist an uns, ihre Geschichten zu finden & ihre Stimmen lauter zu machen. Sie müssen keine Ärzt*innen oder Reinigungskräfte sein, um unsere Solidarität zu verdienen 1/7

Um besser zu verstehen, wie diese Form des Femonationalismus mit dem staatlichen Sicherheitsverständnis zusammenhängt und in dessen Logik verankert ist, empfehle ich das Buch A Feminist Theory of Violence (dt. Eine feministische Theorie der Gewalt) von Françoise Vergès

and here’s the morning soundtrack to it m.youtube.com/watch?v=jIe8...

What makes something a heist as opposed to a theft? Is it simply how cool it is?