Cindy Barukh Milstein

📰 PRESS RELEASE: CLDC secures win in activist subpoena fight against ICE - we filed suit to quash an ICE administrative subpoena, another attempt to expand its power. ICE subpoenaed Meta, seeking records related to activist Facebook and Instagram accounts.

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Boy Apparition by mk zariel — Vinegar Press There are two transmasculine genders: the butch anarchist, and the tiny atemporal gremlin who really needs a hug. In BOY APPARITION, mk zariel tackles both. This chapbook is full of love letters to th...

👻✨ BOY APPARITION is alive! my #transmasc #anarchist #poetry #chapbook —full of love letters to the #BashBack tendency, feral #boyhood chronicles, and lipstick-mirror #gender devotions—is up for preorder from Vinegar Press: www.vinegarpress.org/store/p/boy-...
🏳️‍⚧️❤️‍🔥 support your local chaos poet

(pink book cover) BE GAY DO CRIME Everyday Acts of Queer Resistance and Rebellion

I see your Half Price Books haul and raise you an online PM Press order:

Apple removes ICEBlock app from App Store Apple on Thursday removed the immigration enforcement tracking app, ICEBlock, from the App Store, citing "safety risks."

There's nothing illegal about ICE block. This is solely about Apple appeasing the Trump regime.

With Google removing sideloading next year, these companies will have total control over what runs on your phone.

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Cindy Milstein (they) (@cbmilstein@kolektiva.social) Attached: 1 image Zines as Social Media Language matters; it shifts our perceptions and practices. For instance, in the early days of the pandemic, the powers-that-be admonished us to social distanc...

Zines as Social Media

“Why have we let ourselves cede terrain on the term ‘social media’? Quite to the contrary, zines are social media—for starters, they exist in three-dimensional life and lead to face-to-face social interactions.”

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What Liberals Get Wrong About Trump's Executive Order on Antifa Liberals dismiss antifa as just an idea. That opens up the activists, researchers, and organizers to a real risk of persecution.

"If we are going to foster a thriving, powerful movement equal to this dangerous moment, we must not surrender “antifa” to Trump’s whims and the worst fantasies of our opponents. The health and safety of our friends, family, and society may depend on it." theintercept.com/2025/09/27/t...

Cindy Milstein (they) (@cbmilstein@kolektiva.social) Attached: 1 image Zines as Material World I almost laugh, out of amusement as much as joy, every time it happens: when a teen or youth, most of whom have grown up in cyberspace, meets the material w...

Zines as Material World

“Zines humbly remind us that cyberlife, all-too-real in terms of its impacts, isn’t actually a life—or life. Simple pieces of paper can unfold into something of our own creation that exists even if the power grid goes down.”

@cindymilstein

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Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts detained by ICE agents The superintendent of the largest school district in Iowa has been detained by federal immigration officials. Superintendent Ian Roberts of Des Moines Public Schools was detained Friday morning, accor...

What the fuck?

Rest in power, Assata Shakur.

Cindy Milstein (they) (@cbmilstein@kolektiva.social) Attached: 1 image Zines as First-Aid Though I haven’t done scientific research to affirm my theory, innumerable hours of “fieldwork”—including laying out a blanket on the grass in a park or front ya...

Zines as First-Aid

Beyond zines helping to “heal” folks from liberalism and assist them on the path toward anarchic well-being, zines are “first-aid” in a deeper sense. They’re often just the “medicine” needed to cope with a world that’s sick.

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Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE                THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Trump just signed an illegal executive order designed to target his political opposition by designating them terrorists and using the DOJ, IRS, FBI, and the JTTF to investigate and charge liberal organizations, funders, members, and protesters.

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Cindy Milstein (they) (@cbmilstein@kolektiva.social) Attached: 1 image [Please reshare!!] Call for contributions to my next curated zine aimed at countering this christofascist era: “Politicians Won’t Fix This: Friendly Anarchist Tips for Breaking Fr...

Call for contributions to my next curated zine:

“Politicians Won’t Fix This: Friendly Anarchist Tips for Breaking Free of the Liberal Box”

Length: prose, approx. 75 to 250 words
Due: by or before Oct 1
Email: cbmilstein [at] yahoo

Full “call” @cindymilstein IG or

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Cindy Milstein (they) (@cbmilstein@kolektiva.social) Attached: 4 images It never ceases to amaze me how even if one is wholly unprepared for ritual, ritual is prepared for you. Try as I might in the lengthy lead-up to the “days of awe” that begin with...

It never ceases to amaze me how even if one is wholly unprepared for ritual, ritual is prepared for you.

#RitualAsResistance
#RitualAsResilience
#DefendingTheSacred

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Cindy Milstein (they) (@cbmilstein@kolektiva.social) Attached: 1 image Serendipitously, my comp copies of #BeGayDoCrime (@pmpress) reached me a few days ago just when I happened to be cat sitting in the Midwest town where the trans anarchist teen I quo...

I’m honored to have contributed the foreword, titled “An Amulet, a Rose, and a Dagger,” to the freshly published “Be Gay, Do Crimes” (PM Press)! For my full post about getting my comp copies in the mail, see @cindymilstein on IG or

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Book: pmpress.org/index.php?l=...

WANT TO VOLUNTEER FOR THE AUTUMN EDITION OF THE MONTREAL ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR? If you’d like to offer some helping paws before and/or during October 18, we’d love to have you join us! Email us at info@salonanarchiste.ca

(Art : Akira Auger @akira_auger_art)

Google Secretly Handed ICE Data About Pro-Palestine Student Activist Google handed over Gmail account information to ICE before notifying the student or giving him an opportunity to challenge the subpoena.

use another search engine

Cindy Milstein (they) (@cbmilstein@kolektiva.social) Attached: 2 images There are so many things I fear for that are out of our control as liberatory-minded antifascists. And I get how that can make for a deep, felt sense of powerlessness during a peri...

“I want us [anarchists] to (extra) aspire to be each other’s soft ground—for each other’s sake and to sustain the hard fight ahead.”

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The Montreal Anarchist Bookfair returns this year on October 18 for a one-day event under the theme “Preparing for the Darkness: Taking Care of Each Other for the Times to Come.” Stay tuned for more details soon!

Artwork : Akira Auger @akira_auger_art
Layout: Alexandre Gauthier @alex.e.gauthier

Meghan Blanco, an attorney who represented Mojica, said it was significant that jurors did not believe the statements of such a senior official. “These jurors had the opportunity to listen firsthand to the CBP officer overseeing enforcement nationally and could not have found his testimony to be credible,” said Blanco, a former federal prosecutor. “It is a bad sign for the federal government. They are doing everything they can to try to legitimize their prosecutions, and thank God the jury and the public are seeing right through it.”

underneath all the doom and hideous stuff happening at the top of our country is a more inspiring story: regular Americans are not buying all this crap. and they're still willing to call the government out on it.

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Cindy Milstein (they) (@cbmilstein@kolektiva.social) Attached: 1 image Four days ago, while on my daily #FuckFascism stroll amid the gorgeous natural beauty of a progressive US city where cutesy-expensive homes have “Black Lives Matter,” “trans rights ...

“‘We are all antifascists’ should be on the lips and embodied in the practices of everyone (who isn’t a fascist), or else you’ve implicitly chosen a side: the wrong, hateful, authoritarian, deadly one.”

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Cindy Milstein (they) (@cbmilstein@kolektiva.social) Attached: 1 image Four days ago, while on my daily #FuckFascism stroll amid the gorgeous natural beauty of a progressive US city where cutesy-expensive homes have “Black Lives Matter,” “trans rights ...

“Listen liberals: solidarity is our best weapon. It can look as simple as not buffing out antifascist slogans, or as hard(er) as emotionally, materially, and/or ethically loving your neighbors enough to defend them from fascism—even if you’re discomforted.”

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Municipal Adhesives (@municipaladhesives@kolektiva.social) Attached: 1 video We are pleased to inform our many Super Soldiers that we are designating ANTIFA STICKERS & STENCILS ON A MAJOR DISCOUNT. We will also be strongly recommending that those slapping ...

“We are pleased to inform our many Super Soldiers that we are designating ANTIFA STICKERS & STENCILS ON A MAJOR DISCOUNT. We will also be strongly recommending that those slapping ANTIFA stickers up in their neighborhood”

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I’m a Primary Care Doctor. My Patients Are Scared to Show Up Due to ICE. How am I supposed to adequately care for patients who are being constantly terrorized by immigration police?

I’m a primary care doctor for adults. Half the patients I see don’t have any insurance and don’t have the documentation they would need to get it. Patients are scared to come to their health appointments because they don’t want to be kidnapped.

Page 1: Flyer from The Heritage Foundation Oversight Project titled “Transgender Ideology-Inspired Violent Extremism (TIVE): Background and FAQs on Need for an FBI Domestic Terrorism Designation.” The page defines “Transgender Ideology” and “TIVE,” outlining beliefs allegedly associated with them. It claims such ideology justifies violence against opponents or frames opposition as violence. The text references the alleged assassination of Charlie Kirk, urging the FBI to classify TIVE as domestic terrorism.

Page 2: Continuation of flyer with a section titled “Recent Instances of TIVE-Motivated Acts of Domestic Terrorism.” Lists multiple violent events from 2018 to 2025, attributing them to transgender ideology. Includes mugshots of two alleged attackers. Followed by a “Frequently Asked Questions and Key Terms” section, addressing whether transgender people are terrorists, comparing TIVE with “Nihilistic Violent Extremism,” and discussing FBI designations.

Page 3: Flyer continues with questions about Antifa and FBI terrorism classifications. States that Antifa and TIVE are separate categories. Lists ways the FBI classifies domestic terrorism and identifies typical characteristics of “TIVEs,” such as targeting Christians, mental illness, and online radicalization. Includes images: a “Trans Antifa” logo, a pink-blue-white-striped slogan image reading “Protect Their Right to Exist,” a photo of Audrey Hale with a firearm, and a close-up of a magazine with the words “Where is your God?”

Page 4: Section titled “Terminology Used by TIVE.” Defines terms including cisgender, deadnaming, Gillick competence, misgendering, “Right to Exist,” “Trans genocide,” and a phrase “You either have a live boy or dead girl, you choose.” Each is presented as terminology used in or associated with TIVE. Page layout is text-heavy, no additional graphics.

Heritage Foundation has released an absolutely insane policy proposal to label all trans people as domestic terrorists. It uses completely made up instances of terrorism and made up statistics but facts don't matter to them.

They want us all eradicated.

Absolutely baffling to me that people are still out there hoping Democrats are going to help with anything.

A Brief History of Anti-Fascism As long as the ideology has threatened marginalized communities, groups on the left have pushed back with force

“I wonder how long this article about #Antifa, that positively portrays the movement, will be allowed to remain on the Smithsonian magazine's website.” ~ Franklin López

a classic piece by @jamesstout.bsky.social

Reposting so I remember to submit.

We're 7 months in and Trump and the oligarchs have completely seized control of the media. If you criticize them, your show will be pulled from the air.

This is what dictators do. Fascism isn't coming, it's here.