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Minneapolis Fight Back w/ Emilia González Avalos, Greg Nammacher, JaNaé Bates Imari — The Dig Featuring Emilia González Avalos, Greg Nammacher, and JaNaé Bates Imari on how Minneapolis achieved its fight back against ICE/Border Patrol occupation. A decade building aligned mass movements has ma...

Another great episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social talking about Minneapolis resistance organizing overcast.fm/+AAFPlzpzXhY

Next week in NYC…

How We Get Free (Updated 2nd Edition)

Out now from @haymarketbooks.org in DRM-free ebook format:

How We Get Free (Updated 2nd Edition): Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

By @keeanga.bsky.social.

"God Bless America:" then he lists most of the countries in the hemisphere starting with Chile I think? this rules

In honor of Black History Month, here's a thread with one book recommendation a day.

NEW: Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon announced “we’re going to have ICE surround the polls come November,” and told Democrats they’re not going to “steal the country again.”

The comments come amid rising concerns that Trump is plotting to interfere in this year’s midterms. https://bit.ly/3O6AIBY

Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has weaponized administrative subpoenas to attack free speech, according to privacy and civil rights groups.

This is absolutely insane: DHS claims the right to subpoena your emails and to send investigators to your house. In this case, because a retiree sent the mildest possible criticism to a prosecutor. No judges involved.
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Measles Hits ICE Family Detention Center in Texas The Department of Homeland Security has imposed a quarantine on a family detention center in Dilley, Texas, after two detainees contracted the disease.

U.S. immigration officials have imposed quarantines and stopped all movement inside a family detention facility in Texas after two measles cases were confirmed among detainees there, a DHS official said on Monday.

Hundreds of Kids, Including Infants, Are Still at the ICE Facility That Released Liam Ramos. Now There’s a Measles Outbreak. Rep. Joaquin Castro, who visited last week, is calling for the facility to be “shut down immediately” after measles outbreak.

NEW: @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social is calling for Dilley Immigration Center to be “shut down immediately.”
Dilley released Liam Ramos. But hundreds of children who remain in the facility are facing a measles outbreak. The highly contagious disease can be deadly.
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Secretary Kristi Noem @Sec_Noem I just spoke with @RealTomHoman @ICEDirector @CBPCommissioner . Effective immediately we are deploying body cameras to every officer in the field in Minneapolis. As funding is available, the body camera program will be expanded nationwide. We will rapidly acquire and deploy body cameras to DHS law enforcement across the country. The most transparent administration in American history—thank you @POTUS Trump. Make America Safe Again 🇺🇸

Congrats to Hakeem Jeffries. He’s worked so hard for this victory.

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me."
--Homan in February

"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March

"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

Letter From Minnesota: We Are Going to Win Each morning, I get a Signal message counting up how many days our city has been occupied. It bears information, reminders for new members. There are estimated to be 80,000 of us in the city. The h…

Literary Hub » Letter From Minnesota: We Are Going to Win

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Lectures on Race Canceled at Arkansas-Little Rock Professors at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock have nixed plans to participate in history lectures on racism and racial equity, due to censorship concerns, the Arkansas Times reported.

University of Arkansas–Little Rock professors withdrew from a lecture series due to censorship concerns after administrators proposed changes to programming on race and racism. Administrators were worried about riling state lawmakers.
www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

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How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective Join @keeanga.bsky.social for a conversation with Michelle Alexander at @strandbooks.com Wednesday, February 18th

NYC!

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

Join @keeanga.bsky.social for a conversation with Michelle Alexander at @strandbooks.com

Wednesday, February 18th

Tickets
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Join us on Wednesday, Feb. 18, at the @strandbooks.com in New York City, where Hammer & Hope co-founder @keeanga.bsky.social will discuss the 2026 edition of "How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective" with Michelle Alexander. www.eventbrite.com/e/keeanga-ya...

Now That They’re Free, Venezuelan Men Want the World to Know What They Endured in CECOT Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration say they endured months of physical and mental abuse inside a Salvadoran prison. Though happy to be home, they say the fact that they were released ...

“The country with the Statue of Liberty deprived us of our liberty without any kind of evidence,” Leonardo José Colmenares Solórzano, a 31-year-old Venezuelan who was held in CECOT for months, said two days after he was returned to his family.

(Published July 2025)

He goes on to describe one of his officers being stopped when she was off-duty solely because she's non-white, harassed by ICE goons who slapped her phone out of her hand as she tried to record, only to be let go when she finally revealed she was a cop.

The entry to the Mexican restaurant (Don Julio) in my hometown of Forest Lake MN that closed as a result of ICE has become a shrine. Two-thirds of voters in Forest Lake supported Trump in 2024.

A CALL TO MINNEAPOLIS A NATIONAL INVITATION FOR FAITH LEADERS DR. KING PUT OUT THE CALL IN SELMA. WE'RE PUTTING OUT THE CALL IN MINNEAPOLIS. JOIN US JANUARY 22-23. MARCH MULTIFAITH ANTIRACISM, CHANGE & HEALING

If you are a faith leader, we need you to come to Minneapolis!

Amazing people are organizing this opportunity. You can find out more at MarchMinnesota.org

The Black Feminist Collective That Gave Us Identity Politics The Combahee River Collective’s 1977 statement reshaped the politics of the Black left and beyond.

“Overcoming difference is not the same as washing it away. Political solidarity is a recognition that we have a mutual interest in organizing together to create a political force that can change the conditions that we all suffer from, even if that suffering looks different based on social position.”

How We Get Free (Updated 2nd Edition)

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective (Updated 2nd Edition) by @keeanga.bsky.social

Support for abolishing ICE hits a a new high Americans have turned sharply against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and say it too often resorts to violence

more americans than ever say that ICE should be abolished www.gelliottmorris.com/p/support-fo...

Solidarity Against Sadism: An Emergency Town Hall Naomi Klein, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Astra Taylor, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Solidarity Against Sadism

Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, and @keeanga.bsky.social for an emergency town hall on the Trump administration's authoritarian war on the Left.

Tuesday, October 14th at 6 PM ET

RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor · I do not have to be you: Audre Lorde’s Legacy Lorde never had to persuade her comrades about a strategy, tactic or new idea, lose an argument in order to maintain a...

‘Like James Baldwin, she thought social revolution required a reckoning of all relationships, including the individual’s relationship to herself.’

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (@keeanga.bsky.social) on Audre Lorde: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Also in this issue:

@jamesmeek.bsky.social on what AI wants
Neal Ascherson on Asa Briggs
@keeanga.bsky.social on Audre Lorde
David Todd on Jean-Luc Mélenchon
@josephinequinn.bsky.social on Gazan antiquities
Stephen Mulhall on Charles Taylor
Yun Sheng on Chinese youth culture...

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor · I do not have to be you: Audre Lorde’s Legacy Lorde never had to persuade her comrades about a strategy, tactic or new idea, lose an argument in order to maintain a...

‘Lorde offered a politics that dealt in the realities of survival as well as the necessity of defiance: she refused to give ground to white feminists or to a Black nationalism that assumed women’s subservience.’

@keeanga.bsky.social on Audre Lorde: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Building an Opposition to Survive the Trump Era Mass protests have demonstrated a wide range of disagreement with the Trump agenda. But we need smaller local and regional networks to build a more rooted, sustained opposition.

@keeanga.bsky.social
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My latest in the new edition of Hammer and Hope.

doesn't make the headline for some reason but the Trump administration confirmed on the record that they are running an explicitly whites only refugee program, if you're wondering how things are going in the year 2025