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RIP: Jerry Butler::

When you're too fascist for the French fascists...

¡Ya basta! Trade Agreements and Capitalism, Colonialism & Climate Crisis March 10 at 6 pm. Light meal/ iftar around 7 pm Tariffs. Taxes. Trade. What does this have to do with our lives? www.weavingourworlds.ca/2025/02/13/y... Masks Required & Provided. Childminding. ASL. Wheelchair accessible

Barcelona::

Francesca Albanese cites "Hope is a discipline":::

New book from @reproutopia.bsky.social ::

As it turns out, when you incarcerate more & more people for longer & longer sentences for various offences, it can lead to an overcrowded prison system.

São Paulo // 20 Fev::

"O metrô de Nova Iorque funciona hoje como uma mistura de austeridade e racialização. De um lado da catraca estão banqueiros, políticos e policiais que, por meio da aplicação da lei e de políticas específicas, defendem a austeridade e 👇🏾

It's going to be more important than ever to avoid police when people are in crisis. Here's a useful list that includes crisis hotlines and warm lines that do not contact police: translifeline.org/resources/co...

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CA Gov Newsom to veto bill that prohibits the state prison system from turning people being released from prison over to ICE for deportation. 1/

A hard thing about this time that doesn't get talked about enough is seeing many people act as if everything is unprecedented when it's not. These are issues that movements have worked on for so long. It can be frustrating, even as welcomed sincere outrage builds. Find support amongst your people.

300 more cells. €30 million in construction costs. ++ a bigger budget and staff for the PSP:::

FU Berlin cancels a discussion with Francesca Albanese:::

was trump und musk gerade machen, ist kein angriff auf den staat als ganzes, sondern vielmehr die eskalation dessen, was ruth wilson gilmore den "anti-state state" nennt: demontierter sozialstaat + verschärfter strafstaat.

Great review of Mohammed El-Kurd's Perfect Victims. @haymarketbooks.org "To constantly appeal to @nytimes.com , to beg them to see us distracts us & exonerates them from their responsibility in facilitating this genocide & the daily violences Israel unleashes against Palestinians."

Bologna::

My latest for @inquest.bsky.social ...and yes, we can ultimately win, if we are willing to work in transformative ways. It will require the best we have in ourselves, but along the way, we may become quietly courageous in ways that will surprise and energize us. inquest.org/this-is-how-...

For those who are already taking social/political action & would like a low-stakes space to connect with other activists and organizers while catching up on your work. I'm hosting a zoom space last Sunday of the month: www.eventbrite.com/e/1215881607...

San Diego:::

episodes.fm/1653309103/e... RWG & me & Toshio Meronek on @sadfrancisco.bsky.social

revistacult.uol.com.br/home/liberda...

You may be familiar with the many grave harms of solitary confinement. But what processes lead so many ppl to be routinely tortured by isolation? We explain this (and more) in our new in-depth report on the petty and absurd systems of prison discipline: www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/disc...

This is the most 2025 heist that has ever 2025’d.

NYC//Feb 28:: Come plot with us. ID required.

NYers:: Feb 25 // 6-7:30. Come hear Sónia Vaz Borges talk about her new book::

This weekend, Tom Homan spoke at the National Sheriffs Association Conference and said that the Trump admin would lower jail standards for ICE detainees so more jails could qualify. (This happened in Trump 1.0 as well) www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

NEW, the abbreviated (and punched up) @RollingStone version of my story today about Elon Musk's efforts to take control of the Treasury's payment system. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfIX...

RIP: the great Susan Alcorn::

“A decision to take summer water from local farmers and dump it out of these reservoirs shows a complete lack of understanding of how the system works..."

NYers: Don't miss this::

The LA Sheriff's Dept violated privacy rules in searching law enforcement databases 6,789 times in 2023 alone. How much of that info was leaked to fascist militias?

déjà vu:: building a moral panic about shoplifting:: "...retailers said the uptick was down to organised gangs stealing to order. They said retail had been seen as a soft target since the 2014 law change ... which has meant those stealing goods worth less than £200 are usually spared any jail time."

Ruptures in the Afterlife of the Apartheid City. Yousuf Al-Bulushi with Ruth Wilson Gilmore & Richard Pithouse, & Wednesday February 5 9am California Time (PST), 7pm South Africa Time (SAST) Zoom link: uci.zoom.us/j/98106779459

shall i do a thread about the whole package of reported stories and essays we ran last summer about exactly this?

1965::

Today in Milan, a student activist group hung a trash-filled effigy of Musk upside down on a gate outside of piazzale Loreto, where Mussolini's body was displayed in 1945. They left the message: "C'è sempre posto a piazzale Loreto, Elon" (There's always room in piazzale Loreto, Elon)