Tony Plunkett

Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”

There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

What's happening in the NY juvenile justice system right now is a SCANDAL? Atrocious. The young people trapped in the system need a robust organizing campaign to address all of the issues.

In honor of Black History Month, I am busting out one of my favorite series of comics from my youth. www.si.edu/object/nmaah... - Anyone else remember the Golden Legacy Illustrated History Magazine?

I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.

Foreign Interests Are Paying Millions to a Trump-Linked Lobbying Firm Ballard Partners’ foreign-interest lobbying business has boomed since Trump took office, signing up new clients from Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Albania, Uzbekistan, and more.

Trump's fundraiser's firm became the top lobbying shop in D.C. and set a new revenue record, raking in millions from foreign clients. We took a close look at who they are (including some previously unreported details) and their wins from Trump's administration.

Spiral notebook page with handwritten event info: "first aid for the people," March 7, 2026, 4–7pm at Another World, 629 Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn, NYC. RSVP at bit.ly/iaftp032026. KN95 masks required/provided. A Blue flower & four leaf clover decorate the page.

Join us on Saturday, March 7th, 4-8 P.M. at Another World for First Aid for the People, presented by the People’s Health Education Program & Philly Action Readiness Collective. Masks required & provided. Space is very limited. Only sign up if you can attend, please. cryptpad.fr/form/?fbclid...

Donate to Support Stevie Wilson's New Beginning, organized by Danielle Squillante Our beloved comrade and friend Stevie Wilson is FINALLY coming home from pri… Danielle Squillante needs your support for Support Stevie Wilson's New Beginning

My friend and one of the co-authors of Read This When Things Fall Apart, Stevie Wilson, will be released from prison in less than a week. Stevie has done tremendous work as an incarcerated organizer and has plans to continue doing important work on the outside. Let's help him make a new start.

Sojourners for Justice Press's February Newsletter is here: tinyurl.com/5n6eby6c - Of course we are focused on Black History Month and publications by Black people.

Chris did nothing but write his ass off and bring honor to his district for 16+ years. Glad to see we don’t have to wait to continue reading him

Yes of course I had to mention this at the public library :) - Send a letter: actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

A Day for Gaza Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.

We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Color headshots of Jeanne Theoharis (left) and Mariame Kaba (right) with an image of the book cover for King of the North in the middle. Image via New York Public Library.

TUES, FEB 3 @ 6:30PM EST: "Jeanne Theoharis with Mariame Kaba | King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life of Struggle Outside the South," in-person at New York Public Library AND streaming online. FREE! www.showclix.com/event/theoha... #libraries #BlackHistory #MLKJr #NYC

No need to imagine. The country incarcerates children as young as 9 years old daily in youth prisons and jails. Those children are routinely sexually and physically assaulted and also emotionally tortured. They are fed terrible food and given barely any education. This country has done this for yrs.

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ICE is ripping families apart and murdering people in the streets.

Meanwhile, Congress is paying ICE by *defunding* our health care and pushing us deeper into debt.

Join us—alongside workers, students, debtors and families—on January 30th to say ICE OUT!

NATIONWIDE SHUTDOWN.

Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza.

This is textbook censorship of the highest degree

New: 200,000 former students of predatory, for-profit colleges to receive full student debt cancelation after Department of Education misses key court-mandated midnight deadline, according to settlement agreement.

EMERGENCY RENT FUND: Support Workers in Minnesota Rent is due FEBRUARY 1st. Support our Emergency Rent Fund for Minnesotan workers and families facing eviction due to ICE Raids. We are calling for a rent moratorium, but regardless of if that happens ...

Trusted friends in Minneapolis tell me that this fund is supporting many people but does not have enough money. If you can give, please do: chuffed.org/project/1671...

I'm speaking a few places next month.

Please join @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social and me next week on Feb 3 at NYPL where we will discussing her excellent book "King of the North." www.nypl.org/events/progr...

Sly Dunbar RIP - YouTube

RIP sly dunbar - rest easy drum legend

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Normal life has for obvious reasons felt on pause here for some time so it feels strange to be back at work today, but fitting that work is on tomorrow’s episode of Death Panel — with Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Craig Gilmore, on the current conjuncture and the concept they call the “anti-state state”

National Nurses United outraged by murder of VA registered nurse by immigration agents, demand abolition of ICE NNU issued the following statement in response to the murder of Alex Pretti, RN: “The nation’s nurses, who make it their mission to care for and save human lives, are horrified and outraged that immig...

The largest union of nurses in the US calls for the abolition of ICE::

These ghouls are the future of the party according to the NY Times

Golden and Gluesenkamp Perez voted with Republicans a few years ago to block student debt cancellation too.

The long tail of the fund the police movement is killing free society.

An office building lit up in the dark with a crowd of people holding signs in front of it.

HAPPENING NOW: A massive crowd is gathered in freezing temperatures outside ICE headquarters in DC to demand ICE OUT OF ALL COMMUNITIES NOW.

“However grim, the past year has produced fictions whose rhetorical dispositions seem closer to hard-won hope. If we fight, they suggest, there’s a chance—maybe a good one—that we are going to win.”

Opposition Party | Los Angeles Review of Books In 2025, television offered a primer in principled dissent.

For LARB, I wrote about the principled dissenters of Pluribus, The Lowdown, Andor, and The Pitt, and 2025 as the year TV celebrated resistance @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/lowd...

“The answer, then, must be to take away ICE and CBP’s money, headcount, and guns…The only politically sensible way to mount this direct challenge is by dismantling the agencies, rather than accept the premise that we need to streamline them and limit their focus to going after the truly “bad guys.”