Special shoutout to @jeremyfcohen.bsky.social for going above and beyond, naming his price for my album on Bandcamp! awkword.bandcamp.com/album/world-...

awkword is a(n) political, nonprofit and digital strategist, 30-year organizer and activist, union journalist, Hip Hop artist and co-founder of TEN DEMANDS, an abolitionist collective focused on education and action. www.youtube.com/live/qrSl2ns... @awkword.bsky.social @kellyscaletta.bsky.social

Taylor Fairbank is co-founder and director of development of Distribute Aid, a nonprofit organization that creates and maintains supply chains for grassroots and refugee-led organizations. truthout.org/articles/gra... @borderless.bsky.social @truthout.org

Scott Campbell is a member of the collective behind El Enemigo Común, as well as an acclaimed anarchist educator, writer, translator and journalist for Al Jazeera, The Jerusalem Post, ZNet, It’s Going Down, and more. itsgoingdown.org/igdcast-scot... @susurros.bsky.social @igd.bsky.social

Alex Mingus is an abolitionist organizer, harm reductionist, self- and community-defense educator and youth worker in Minneapolis. He went viral for embarrassing the St. Paul police during a live TV press conference. youtu.be/llClMhkusaY?... instagram.com/alex_does80 @awkword.bsky.social

Eric King is “an anarchist, a father, a poet, a brutal scrabble player, an adoring Swiftie and an undying anti-fascist.” He was wrongly incarcerated for nearly a decade and released in 2023. unicornriot.ninja/2023/eric-ki... instagram.com/supportericking @unicornriot.bsky.social

If you’re not on TikTok, donate to @eji.org directly eji.org

Bryan Stevenson, EJI:

This is so important as this administration builds prisons and concentration camps across the nation!

Imagine if we spent this money on education rather than targeting black and brown bodies

We’re crowdfunding for @eji.org, a charitable org dedicated to “ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society.” tiktok.com/@thisisawkword

Let me just say that, in this extraordinary moment, I’m proud to be part of team anti-fascist.

Booked an extraordinary set of expert guests: @awkword.bsky.social @dzuidijk.bsky.social @susurros.bsky.social @ironstache.bsky.social @aselrod.bsky.social @borderless.bsky.social @mgouldwartofsky.bsky.social + Alex Mingus instagram.com/alex_does80 Eric King instagram.com/supportericking

The best Pun Panel yet!? 🎥 WATCH NOW or ON-DEMAND: Defending Democracy / Dethroning Donald With… @benjaminpdixon.bsky.social @kennedytcooper.bsky.social @sethcotlar.bsky.social @lindseyboylan.bsky.social @fisherdanar.bsky.social @pamkeithdc.bsky.social + awkword youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I went on The Pun Show to talk about Democrats and Republicans, extremism, the difference between Black Lives Matter protests and the J6 insurrection, and how we can organize locally in defense of democracy @kellyscaletta.bsky.social

I'm still figuring out the guest list, but on Wednesday, I'll be talking to people who are "antifa" (small a on purpose) to talk about Trump's EO. I hope you can join as noon Central time. youtube.com/live/r74rlqR...

As our ultimate goal isn’t traffic, but to educate, inspire and empower, we’re sharing all the contents — hundreds of books, articles, toolkits, research, interviews, and more — from our resource library, here, with direct links 🧵 Are Prisons Obsolete? [Free PDF] By Angela Davis

“As the government seems more and more willing to reject and ignore the rule of law, we are seeing that some of the most frontline individuals affected are reporters, and particularly immigrant reporters.” — @attorneynora.bsky.social @freepress.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/u...

from EyesOnICE subreddit: “Alligator Alcatraz is beginning to look more like Auschwitz” why yes it appears folks got our memo, @awkword.bsky.social www.reddit.com/r/EyesOnIce/...

EVERY president since the 80s has demanded Cuba return Assata Shakur to the US for trial. Trump offered to END the embargo if they returned her. The Cubans told every president for decades to eat shit and that she will always be welcome to live her life in peace on their land. Rest well, legend

My latest @theguardian.com: "Fifa banned Russia from international football. Now it must do the same for Israel." As Israel inflicts untold misery on Palestinians, it is time for soccer’s governing bodies to stand by the principles they claim to uphold www.theguardian.com/football/202...

You know how fascism requires a smaller and smaller ingroup as it develops? Well so does neoliberalism. Palestinians, trans people, disabled people...they become acceptable losses who must be sacrificed to "save democracy." The only way to defeat fascism is to leave no one behind.

Heathcare is a human right. Along with education, it should not be a for-profit endeavor.

My new book, POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT, comes out 10/7 and I'm going on a book tour in SF, LA, Baltimore, DC, NYC, and ATL! 10/07, SF: City Lights w/ Daphne Muse 10/09, LA: Skylight w/ Elizabeth Hinton 10/16, Baltimore: Red Emma's w/Judy Richardson 10/18, DC: Politics & Prose w/Judy Richardson

The Street Vendors Association of Chicago is raising emergency funds to support vendors who can't safely work right now. They have a significant goal of $300k for impacted workers + families. GFM is here: www.gofundme.com/f/chicago-st... Instagram account: instagram.com/streetvendorsofchicago

"As we saw with the death of Jordan Neely, racism and ableism — that is, discrimination based on disability — against those we perceive as visibly mentally ill can even result in politicians and media outlets celebrating your death at the hands of a vigilante." !!!

ICYMI from his interview with @awkword.bsky.social, Christian Smalls, founder of Amazon Labor, is an abolitionist.

Thought the Amazon settlement might’ve been for murdering their workers. But alas.

people were correctly concerned about the safety implications of starter packs as a tool for tagging people for engagement without their knowledge. it's not good that bluesky has made it much easier to add people to starter packs and still hasn't addressed the safety concerns. especially now.

Instead of giving us locked accounts, they decided to tinker some more with the worst feature of this website

“They do not want you to know that… it is all right wing. This is a pretext to decimate liberty.” - @muellershewrote.com

Please take a few minutes &!read this post from @awkword.bsky.social on why the Justice Dept scraped a study that despite this administration’s claims showed right wing extremism is responsible for majority of violent acts committed.

Just as these systems of white vigilante violence continue to work in tandem with white conservative state violence & repression. Absolutely none of this is new.

Remember that new study? Yeah we been knowing. 96% of BLM protests were peaceful; same for 99% of the pro-Palestine protests… And while I saw lots of reports on the study, I can’t say the same for the bigger news: That Trump scraped the study from all government websites — like it never existed!

*taps mic* Is this thing on? The algorithm isn’t malfunctioning—it’s doing exactly what it was built to do: hide the truth. Meanwhile, disinformation about reproductive health? Constantly going viral. Help @rewirenewsgroup.com fight back. Donate now and let's make truth go viral too.

I’m excited by the attention on free speech issues now. But we’d be remiss if we focused just on Kimmel. Or even the FCC chair Carr. The entire environment is retaliatory, affecting the most vulnerable who have the least infrastructure for support. That’s why speech for all matters more than ever.

the UN or brooklyn navy yard. go to one or both.

A reminder that Antifa panic was created by Microchip, who pled guilty to attempting to get Hillary voters to text their votes in 2016 and who also described helping to make the John Podesta files go viral by creating bullshit controversy.

Last Friday, I was on the air (radio) in Washington, D.C., talking about the media whitewashing Charlie Kirk's racism and bigotry. We brought receipts. open.substack.com/pub/extremea...

He was bulldozed to death when Atlanta cleared his homeless camp. Will there ever be justice? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

My friend and colleagues report called "Raiding the Genome: How the United States Government Is Abusing Its Immigration Powers to Amass DNA for Future Policing" is out now: www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...

Kyle Rittenhouse is free. Daniel Penny is free. Bernard Goetz served 8 months. Darren Wilson is free. George Zimmerman is free. Oscar Grant’s killer served 11 months. Breonna Taylor’s killer served 1 day. The state and the people it deputizes kill with impunity. www.kqed.org/news/1205727...

And it shouldn’t even matter how many of them have a criminal history. Everyone is a human deserving of rights, including the right to not being imprisoned.

🚨 1,200 immigrants held at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’… ARE NOW MISSING! Family members can’t find them and their names disappeared from ICE's online database And this is why I always referred to them as “disappeared” and not “detained”. trumpfile.org/ice-loses-mo...

atrocities of ethnic cleansing were historically committed abroad in Bosnia, Croatia and elsewhere. but Donny’s regime is owned by mass-murdering Putin so those crimes are now “imported” to America “disappeared” is the correct term. bsky.app/profile/awkw...

Donald Trump said he would "run the country like a business." Now we see what that means: censorship, sycophancy, despotism—just like in a workplace. Wasn't it the capitalist economy that put power in the hands of these aspiring autocrats in the first place? Hate Trump? You should hate capitalism.

It’s so bizarre to hear my own actions be lied about. No, I wasn’t storming the facility. I was trying to help a protester who was about to be run over by a car. Yes, I was wearing a mask. We were being gassed + shot w/ pepper balls. Ofc that doesn’t matter to Laura Ingraham but it’s still weird.

Building alternatives to 911 must be rooted in prison abolition, anti-capitalism, & radical autonomy, esp for BIPOC communities. Otherwise, you're reproducing the same coercive, paternalistic, anti-Black, ableist systems under the guise of "community care," and gaining some capital along the way.

Incredible. Italy brought to a standstill as Italians descend to the streets to protest for Gaza. No business as usual. Schools closed. Businesses closed. Shameful on the rest of us. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...