lisa lowe

also great discussion here

Zohran didn't win by relying on standard turnout patterns. We had to fundamentally transform the Democratic electorate.

I was part of a group of NYC-DSA members that applied lessons from our previous campaigns to design the “universe” of voters to talk to. Here's how we won 🧵

I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible

I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi

FEMA to send states $608 million to build migrant detention centers FEMA is starting a “detention support grant program” to cover the cost of states building temporary facilities, according to an agency announcement.

FEMA is preparing to send $608 million to states to construct immigrant detention centers as part of the Trump administration’s push to expand capacity to hold migrants.

Israel says hundreds of truckloads of aid are waiting to enter Gaza. Why can't the UN bring them in? The United Nations and experts say that Palestinians in Gaza are at risk of famine, with reports of increasing numbers of people dying from causes related to malnutrition.

Israel says hundreds of truckloads of aid are waiting for pickup on Gaza's border for the U.N. to distribute. But the U.N. says it’s unable to bring in enough aid to Palestinians as it is hindered by Israeli military restrictions and a breakdown of security.

Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest Video from Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the Trump administration’s ambitious enforcement targets

Given ICE brutality, it's unusual to get video evidence of how they operate. But here's chilling documentation that shows the indiscriminate and violent approach that ICE takes to arrests - here, including a US citizen: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Our Reporter Got Into Gaza. He Witnessed a Famine of Israel’s Making. The people of Gaza face starvation under the joint U.S.-Israeli food distribution system run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

The people of Gaza face starvation under the joint U.S.-Israeli food distribution system run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

UK ban on Palestine Action is an abuse of power, high court told Intelligence assessment before proscription found that vast majority of group’s activities were lawful, court hears An intelligence assessment before Palestine Action was banned under anti-terrorism laws found that the vast majority of its activities were lawful, a court has heard. Raza Husain KC, appearing for Huda Ammori, a co-founder of the group, said Yvette Cooper’s decision to proscribe the group on 5 July was “repugnant” and an “authoritarian and blatant abuse of power”. Continue reading...

UK ban on Palestine Action is an abuse of power, high court told

Book Review Forum — Juliet Nebolon’s “Settler Militarism: World War II in Hawai‘i and the Making of US Empire” - Antipode Online Desiree Valadares (UBC), Kawena Elkington (UH Mānoa), Haylee Makana Kushi (UH Hilo), Kelema Lee Moses (UC San Diego), and Laurel Mei-Singh (UT Austin) on Juliet Nebolon’s Settler Militarism: World War...

Book Review Forum — "Settler Militarism: World War II in Hawai‘i and the Making of US Empire" by @julietneb.bsky.social antipodeonline.org/2025/07/11/s...

Vincent Brown · What Universities Owe When challenged to justify past investment in slavery – or current investments in, say, fossil fuel extraction or arms...

‘Weren’t all Black people owed something for the dispossession that accumulated over generations? Or was the university’s primary function only to pursue knowledge about the history that gave rise to these questions?’

Vincent Brown reviews ‘Yale and Slavery’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

“I get arrested at 26 Federal Plaza. Pretty rough arrest as everyone could see in the video, and they take me back in a hallway, and then they take off their masks. The first guy is a Pakistani Muslim immigrant who lives in Brighton Beach. The first ICE officer, and the second guy is an Indo-Gaianese immigrant who lives in South Ozone Park. And one guy says, yeah, my wife really wants me to quit my job. I don't know how I'm going to pay the mortgage. And then the Pakistani Muslim guy says, what's Mamdani like? He's been to my mosque a couple of times, and I'm thinking of ranking you guys. And I'm just like, I don't know what to make of this. I mean, there's a whole broader issue. Like these guys were not born brown shirts, but Donald Trump and the times that we're living in are making them brown shirts.”

A remarkable moment from an interview with Brad Lander on the Jewish Currents podcast: two ICE officers who arrested him are immigrant New Yorkers, one of whom was considering voting for him and Mamdani

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Mamdani has spoken out against antisemitism more than any politician in my lifetime while also providing real solutions to help.

Mamdani isnt an antisemite. He’s a Muslim. And to a certain sect of people, those are the same thing. He’ll never be able to appease them.

Central Californians Are Using Their Bodies to Stop ICE Raids and Deportations Organizers in California's Central Valley are calling attention to the plight of the region's 300,000-plus undocumented migrants.

How organizers in California's Central Valley are putting their bodies on the line to fight ICE raids and deportations.

Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/organi...

I am sitting in front of flower garden holding a copy of my new book, BORN IN FLAMES.

First book, first garden! Just got my author copies of BORN IN FLAMES, out from @wwnorton.com on August 19th.

congratulations, Bench! 🎉can't wait to read it!😍

What, to the American Incarcerated Person, Is Your Fourth of July? In the spirit of Frederick Douglass’ historic speech, 20 currently and formerly incarcerated Americans explain what Independence Day means to them.

In 1852, Frederick Douglass asked: “What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?”

Inspired by Douglass’ famous question, 20 people ensnared in the sprawling US criminal legal system answered this variation: “What, to the currently or formerly incarcerated American, is your Fourth of July?”

How Zohran Won w/ NYC DSA Featuring NYC DSA co-chairs Gustavo Gordillo and Grace Mausser on how Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic mayoral primary. NYC DSA spent years building an electoral juggernaut that has now made history ...

New Dig: @socialists.nyc co-chairs Gustavo Gordillo & Grace Mausser on how DSA & @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social campaign won this historic victory. A behind scenes look at how DSA built most powerful socialist org in USA—and how we replicate the victory everywhere. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/how-...

congrats, you two!

Civil rights groups warn that the decision involving birthright citizenship will create chaos.

Democrats, legal advocates and civil and immigrant rights groups on Friday delivered a full-throated rebuke of the Supreme Court’s decision in a case involving birthright citizenship, saying it would create chaos and a dangerous patchwork of rights across the nation.

The Supreme Court's Birthright Citizenship Ruling Is a Five-Alarm Catastrophe In Trump v. CASA, the court hands the president yet more unaccountable authority—and yanks us into a neo-Confederate legal nightmare.

Make no mistake, the SCOTUS decision about birthright citizenship IS ALSO ABOUT *birthright citizenship.*
The Court is using nationwide injunctions as the tail, wagging the dog, to take us back to an Antebellum view of citizenship.
That way led to war once.
My latest in @thenation.com

The United States Is About to Embark on a Terrifying Experiment in Mass Statelessness This scenario, until recently, might have read like a dystopian projection. But after the court’s decision on Friday, it is no longer hypothetical.

"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."

the many-headed hydra!

Zohran’s victory is an earthquake. The left everywhere must dedicate itself to an insurgency against Dem incumbents. The Dem establishment has lost credibility w/ its base in the face of fascist threat. The base is looking leftward for new leadership. We are the opposition party.

Zohran Mamdani just defeated Andrew Cuomo in the NYC mayoral primary.

A socialist, BDS supporter, and son of immigrants just toppled a pro-Israel machine politician.

Trump: US dropped bombs on Iran's Fordow, Natanz, Isfahan nuclear sites WASHINGTON — The US military joined the Israel-Iran war on Saturday by launching strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites in an unprecedented escalation between Washington and Tehran. In a post on Truth...

UPDATE:
• US bombs Iran
• Trump announced 7:46 pm ET
• Hit Natanz, Fordow, Isfahan☢️
• US bombers in & out
• US official: No more expected
• No indication of ground troops
• Coordinated w Israel
• Did not target Khamenei
• 4:14 am in Iran www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...

This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.

Mahmoud Khalil is pictured speaking into microphones on a road. Headline reads: "Mahmoud Khalil Is Released on Bail After Federal Judge’s Order." Photo credit: Annie Flanagan for The New York Times.

Mahmoud Khalil walked out of the detention center in Louisiana shortly before 7 p.m. local time Friday.

“No one is illegal — no human is illegal,” Khalil said. “Justice will prevail no matter what this administration may try.” trib.al/dZtYU0u

Jelani Cobb, Dean of the Columbia Journalism School, draws a historical comparison to the Fugitive Slave Act and that of the ongoing ICE raids.

The Fugitive Slave Act brought our country to the precipice of the Civil War.