AI is best thought of as a claim rather than a thing
I had two organizing meeting this weekend and it remains true that organizing is an antidote to despair. It's always miraculous when people take time out of their lives to fight FOR something with others. I am grateful for these opportunities and for the chance to enlarge my circle of comrades.
Absolute Queen behavior from the Zamboni Rider today at the Minnesota Frost game.
No ICE
No War
No Kings
No Fear.
My friend Jocelyn, one of the Broadview 6, saw her charges dropped today. It was such great news, but her first thoughts were about people who are still facing charges here in Chicago and in Texas for resisting ICE, and of course, the many people who are still being held in detention.
Zines — fucking zines — are not a crime.
Black clothes and op sec are not a crime.
A noise demo is not a crime. It’s solidarity with incarcerated people.
my take on birth rate discourse: If the only way our species can keep going is by forcing the half of the population born with Unlucky Organs into reproductive slavery, we should go extinct, and good riddance
It’s another version of projection. The right argues that woke was like the Cultural Revolution (despite zero evidence) but once in power their actions cause mass harm (thinking of USAID here).
I am genuinely confused by what the governments argument was in the Prairieland case. The guardian article says that the antifa elements did not matter (quoting the judge), simply the material support matters. But all of the evidence of so-called material support were basically antifa coded.
if the Justice Department and federal judges are willing to set the bar for “providing material support to terrorists” this low—an encrypted group chat, auto-deleting messages, wearing black, possessing zines—what the Praireland defendants have been through will likely be just the beginning
Rest in power Breonna Taylor. Today, we mourn six years without her, and six years without justice or accountability.
To the point that @prisonculture.bsky.social was making yesterday: high school students continue to walk out EVERYWHERE, but there is no mainstream media coverage of it.
montclairlocal.news/2026/03/mont...
this person analyzes American politics for a living
This feels like the outcome of the disingenuous post-liberal theorizing (eg. Patrick Deneen). The post-liberals argue, without evidence, that liberalism's logic has been to deregulate all of social life. Never mind the evidence to the contrary, they just say it.
Aside from the federal trial happening right now, did you know there are four other non-cooperating Prairieland defendants in state custody right now facing state charges? Janette is one of them and she has a hearing on Monday!
Today is the 36th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl and disabled people are still fighting for basic rights in a society that's actively working to undermine them, surrounded by systemic disablism.
(This is a corrected thread TY to the person who flagged that I said 26th, not 36th!)
📆 Join DWN and partners on March 18th at 4pm PT / 7pm ET for an overview of the federal government’s plans to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers. We will share strategies communities are using to push back against these projects!
🔗 bit.ly/318detentionwarehousescall
The main grassroots, highly organized orgs of the 2024 movement against genocide were SJP and JVP (among others). Both of those orgs looooong predate October 2024 and both orgs continue to do the work as do many other organizations. They're out there doing work if you choose to see it.
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It's BS to go around saying 'where are the mass protests' as if organizers can summon mass demonstrations through willpower. That's a bullshit way of thinking about movements. People in movements have to shift and adapt to the terrain. 3/
Most of organizing is NOT during an upsurge - just doing day-to-day organizing work. When an upsurge wanes organizers often shift into what feminist theorists call "abeyance structures". This is like going into a holding pattern so that your movement & your analysis survives to the next wave. 2/
I see that someone is doing the 'where are the campus protests now' argument. Sigh.
There are so many reasons why this is wrong but the very biggest one is that the upswings of social movements (the part that non-participants see) are unpredictable. 1/
So @asanews.bsky.social emailed its membership its refusal to put a petition to Boycott, Divest, & Sanction Israel up to a vote, one that already had 438 signatures. This undemocratic decision, they wrote, is because they're worried about membership dropping.
Well do I have news for you.
Pains me to say it, but the world should definitely boycott the World Cup. Would be great if U.S. soccer players and institutions took the lead in calling for this.
#BoycottWorldCup
Incredible set of readings I'd love this class!
UPDATE: A tense, day-long standoff outside a South Burlington house ended Wednesday night with federal immigration agents removing three people inside and a series of violent clashes between police and hundreds of activists who tried to impede the apprehension.
www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...
Donations have fallen off, everyone is exhausted - volunteers are burning out and not showing up.
Our neighbors still need us.
I don’t know how much more we can do, but we can’t give up.
We can’t let our neighbors become homeless.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-mi...
This points to one possible dimension of the post Trump global order: a regime of extraterritoriality for US-headquartered businesses. The same treatment that Europe imposed on the weaker states of the South in the 19th century, but now applied by the US to the whole world.
Knowing who to be mad at is part of the work. Always.
