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@applzeed.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Protecting Solidarity: Countering Attacks on Mutual Aid Funds - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
The recent arrest of three bail fund organizers in Atlanta reminds us that opposing the carceral state is not easy. But retreat is not an option.
nonprofitquarterly.org
💅🏼just destroyed my twitter & landed here.
i'm an organizer and researcher of how leftist movements fund themselves. here's a piece i co-authored w/ @julianakilrose.bsky.social last year that feels increasingly relevant: nonprofitquarterly.org/protecting-s...
i'm an organizer and researcher of how leftist movements fund themselves. here's a piece i co-authored w/ @julianakilrose.bsky.social last year that feels increasingly relevant: nonprofitquarterly.org/protecting-s...
And it's not just congressional staffers. As Matthew Sitman points out, many legal clerks are much farther right than our current Federalist Society-picked judges.
I can't stress enough how young staffers working for Republicans are basically all groyper Nazis now. The leaked texts yesterday saying "I love Hitler" and now swastikas on congressional offices.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office
An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.
www.politico.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM
And it's not just congressional staffers. As Matthew Sitman points out, many legal clerks are much farther right than our current Federalist Society-picked judges.
the way he uses the bike lane for the escape 💘
U.S. Border Patrol agents tried and failed to detain a man in downtown Chicago (via Christopher Sweat)
September 29, 2025 at 1:32 PM
the way he uses the bike lane for the escape 💘
Trump signs an EO declaring Antifa (not a real organization) a domestic terrorist organization (not a real legal category).
Designating Antifa as a Domestic Terrorist Organization
Section 1. Antifa as a Terrorist Threat. Antifa is a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States
www.whitehouse.gov
September 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Trump signs an EO declaring Antifa (not a real organization) a domestic terrorist organization (not a real legal category).
This also puts leftists in an awkward position of defending liberal institutions that we're accustomed to critiquing (e.g. the Ford Foundation), but nothing less than a united front of solidarity is needed right now.
The whole 'this foundation didn't actually fund the organization Vance is vilifying' defense reminds me of "but is crime really up [in this city Trump wants to run a military invasion of]"—it zeroes in on something that just can't be the bottom line if we're going to wage a real fight.
September 16, 2025 at 12:27 AM
This also puts leftists in an awkward position of defending liberal institutions that we're accustomed to critiquing (e.g. the Ford Foundation), but nothing less than a united front of solidarity is needed right now.
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Amid Israel's blockade on Gaza, death can come from the lack of food -- or from trying to find food.
In Gaza, Famine is the Weapon — and So Is Aid
Amid Israel’s blockade on Gaza, death can come from the lack of food — or from trying to find food.
interc.pt
May 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Amid Israel's blockade on Gaza, death can come from the lack of food -- or from trying to find food.
Trump just signed a memorandum targeting ActBlue.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump Signs Directive Targeting Democrats’ ActBlue Platform
President Donald Trump signed a memorandum targeting ActBlue, accusing Democrats’ online campaign donation platform of violating federal election laws and calling on the US attorney general to take ac...
www.bloomberg.com
April 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Trump just signed a memorandum targeting ActBlue.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Reading this is wild; the level of ineptitude of these people is jarring. Trump's EPA knew the significant legal risks of freezing $20B in environmental justice funding.
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Quest to retake $20B in climate money puts Trump agencies at ‘significant’ risk, attorney warned
The Trump administration's effort to regain control of $20 billion in already-distributed funding could expose the agency to billions in damages, a career lawyer wrote in an internal message obtained ...
www.politico.com
April 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Reading this is wild; the level of ineptitude of these people is jarring. Trump's EPA knew the significant legal risks of freezing $20B in environmental justice funding.
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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This is it, folks. Far larger than Harvard itself, as large as Harvard is. Every nonprofit from the center leftward is on notice for potential destruction.
The IRS is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard University, CNN reports
IRS making plans to rescind Harvard’s tax-exempt status | CNN Politics
The Internal Revenue Service is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard University, according to two sources familiar with the matter, which would be an extraordinary step of retaliat...
www.cnn.com
April 16, 2025 at 9:14 PM
This is it, folks. Far larger than Harvard itself, as large as Harvard is. Every nonprofit from the center leftward is on notice for potential destruction.
great reporting from @jewishcurrents.bsky.social on the doxxing industrial complex.
jewishcurrents.org/canary-missi...
jewishcurrents.org/canary-missi...
Canary Mission’s Newest Funders
Two Jewish American philanthropists supported the group in 2023, including the foundation of a board member of the Washington Institute for Near East…
jewishcurrents.org
April 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
great reporting from @jewishcurrents.bsky.social on the doxxing industrial complex.
jewishcurrents.org/canary-missi...
jewishcurrents.org/canary-missi...
for real though: a lot of strategies the left needs to win *are* cringe (e.g. people's assemblies, knocking on doors, literal relational organizing, etc).
March 30, 2025 at 12:31 PM
for real though: a lot of strategies the left needs to win *are* cringe (e.g. people's assemblies, knocking on doors, literal relational organizing, etc).
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“Fascism thrives on disorder, forcing those who resist to waste energy on chasing clarity instead of building power... But engineered chaos does not have to define how we move through it. Refusing to be trapped in this spiral will be crucial.”
-Nadine Naber
liberateyourresearch.com/refusing-eng...
-Nadine Naber
liberateyourresearch.com/refusing-eng...
Refusing Engineered Chaos & Higher Education’s Collapse -
Universities are under siege—and they are complicit in their own destruction. Higher education is unraveling by an even more deliberate, calculated force than before. Websites deleted. Students and fa...
liberateyourresearch.com
March 28, 2025 at 2:14 AM
“Fascism thrives on disorder, forcing those who resist to waste energy on chasing clarity instead of building power... But engineered chaos does not have to define how we move through it. Refusing to be trapped in this spiral will be crucial.”
-Nadine Naber
liberateyourresearch.com/refusing-eng...
-Nadine Naber
liberateyourresearch.com/refusing-eng...
"Where do we go from here? ...democratizing higher education institutions, and finding solidarity with other pro-democracy movements, will be central to the long and hard fight before us."
- @jpygold.bsky.social @veenadubal.bsky.social @sbagen.bsky.social @sshermanstokes.bsky.social & more
- @jpygold.bsky.social @veenadubal.bsky.social @sbagen.bsky.social @sshermanstokes.bsky.social & more
Eight Legal Experts on Trump’s Assault on Higher Education
Recent executive orders have targeted federal grant funding, trans students, non-citizen students, DEI efforts, and pro-Palestinian activism. Eight legal experts explain what these orders purport to…
lpeproject.org
March 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
"Where do we go from here? ...democratizing higher education institutions, and finding solidarity with other pro-democracy movements, will be central to the long and hard fight before us."
- @jpygold.bsky.social @veenadubal.bsky.social @sbagen.bsky.social @sshermanstokes.bsky.social & more
- @jpygold.bsky.social @veenadubal.bsky.social @sbagen.bsky.social @sshermanstokes.bsky.social & more
Give @us-neweconomy.bsky.social a follow!
Hey BlueSky 🦋 We're The New Economy Coalition 🌻 We're a network of 150+ organizations building #SolidarityEconomy around the U.S. We're all about powering change that puts people & planet before profit 💸
Check out how we do it www.neweconomy.net
#AnotherWorldIsPossible
Check out how we do it www.neweconomy.net
#AnotherWorldIsPossible
Home - New Economy Coalition
We’re a coalition of 200+ organizations building the solidarity economy in the U.S. and showing that another world is not only possible — it’s already happening.
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March 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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All of the myths and fantasies we’re hearing about protesters being terrorists, immigrants invading & fentanyl being a WMD should be understood in the context of a pending report from the DOD & DHS (due April 20) about whether Trump should invoke the Insurrection Act. These people want martial law.
March 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
All of the myths and fantasies we’re hearing about protesters being terrorists, immigrants invading & fentanyl being a WMD should be understood in the context of a pending report from the DOD & DHS (due April 20) about whether Trump should invoke the Insurrection Act. These people want martial law.
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The decision regarding Energy Transfer v Greenpeace about the activism against the Dakota Access Pipeline is out. Not only will the decision likely bankrupt Greenpeace US, but it will set a precedent that could limit free speech by climate groups & other NGOs.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Greenpeace ordered to pay Dakota Access Pipeline operator hundreds of millions in defamation suit
A North Dakota jury awarded damages to Energy Transfer, the company that runs the Dakota Access Pipeline, after finding Greenpeace liable in a high-stakes defamation case.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 19, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The decision regarding Energy Transfer v Greenpeace about the activism against the Dakota Access Pipeline is out. Not only will the decision likely bankrupt Greenpeace US, but it will set a precedent that could limit free speech by climate groups & other NGOs.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Gutting. @julianakilrose.bsky.social & I covered this case back in 2023, citing how Energy Transfer Partners CEO Kelcy Warren said the quiet part out loud in an interview where he declared he was “absolutely” trying to stop Greenpeace from receiving funding as rationale for their case.
March 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Gutting. @julianakilrose.bsky.social & I covered this case back in 2023, citing how Energy Transfer Partners CEO Kelcy Warren said the quiet part out loud in an interview where he declared he was “absolutely” trying to stop Greenpeace from receiving funding as rationale for their case.
This is such disingenuous and unserious reporting from @gabekaminsky.bsky.social
Nearly every social movement in the U.S. (left & right) is propped up by big funders: the question is how to use money power strategically. 1/
Nearly every social movement in the U.S. (left & right) is propped up by big funders: the question is how to use money power strategically. 1/
Families Over Billionaires -- like many of the Resistance 2.0 pop-up groups -- is funded by a dark money network backed by liberal billionaires, @gabekaminsky.bsky.social reports for The Free Press.
Inside the Trump Resistance, Funded by the Ultra-Wealthy
Anti-Trump groups like ‘Families Over Billionaires’ present themselves as grassroots campaigns for ordinary Americans. The truth is very different.
www.thefp.com
March 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
This is such disingenuous and unserious reporting from @gabekaminsky.bsky.social
Nearly every social movement in the U.S. (left & right) is propped up by big funders: the question is how to use money power strategically. 1/
Nearly every social movement in the U.S. (left & right) is propped up by big funders: the question is how to use money power strategically. 1/
"local elected officials and municipal attorneys need to adopt a movement-oriented approach to governing and municipal law" - @ajpeddakotla.bsky.social
Why Local Officials Need to Embrace a Movement-Centric Ethos
In attempting to fill the policy voids created by recent federal retreat, local governments face a significant constraint: the increasing use of state and federal preemption.
lpeproject.org
March 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
"local elected officials and municipal attorneys need to adopt a movement-oriented approach to governing and municipal law" - @ajpeddakotla.bsky.social
was really hoping for a future where Europe just takes the L and fades into an agrarian hinterland of cafés & public squares, but it looks like we're in for revanchist rearmament.
@katemac.bsky.social @70sbachchan.bsky.social an.bsky.social
@katemac.bsky.social @70sbachchan.bsky.social an.bsky.social
Europe Enters Its Metal Era | Kate Mackenzie & Tim Sahay
What kind of Europe survives a fractured transatlantic military alliance?
www.phenomenalworld.org
March 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
was really hoping for a future where Europe just takes the L and fades into an agrarian hinterland of cafés & public squares, but it looks like we're in for revanchist rearmament.
@katemac.bsky.social @70sbachchan.bsky.social an.bsky.social
@katemac.bsky.social @70sbachchan.bsky.social an.bsky.social
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This is some sick shit. Heritage Foundation lays out their case that slashing higher ed and gutting public K-12 will increase fertility (for certain desirable populations, of course).
March 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This is some sick shit. Heritage Foundation lays out their case that slashing higher ed and gutting public K-12 will increase fertility (for certain desirable populations, of course).
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The only scientific research fascists want pursued is work they control, that serves their interests, and reinforces their narratives. Everything else, they seek to destroy. Knowledge that doesn't serve them is a threat, just as the truth is a threat.
UMASS IS RESCINDING ALL GRAD POSITIONS FOR THIS YEAR
March 13, 2025 at 4:10 AM
The only scientific research fascists want pursued is work they control, that serves their interests, and reinforces their narratives. Everything else, they seek to destroy. Knowledge that doesn't serve them is a threat, just as the truth is a threat.
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The FBI is moving to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration.
newrepublic.com/post/192660/... via @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/post/192660/... via @newrepublic.com
Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups
The Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant.
newrepublic.com
March 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
The FBI is moving to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration.
newrepublic.com/post/192660/... via @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/post/192660/... via @newrepublic.com
"Palestine Legal has received an avalanche of over 3,500 requests for legal support since October 2023, many from students facing censorship of events, and absurd accusations and sanctions for protests typical of student activism".
Mahmoud Khalil’s Abduction Is a Red Alert for Universities
Schools across America have a choice: Defend their students against Trump or be complicit in his crimes.
www.thenation.com
March 12, 2025 at 12:45 AM
"Palestine Legal has received an avalanche of over 3,500 requests for legal support since October 2023, many from students facing censorship of events, and absurd accusations and sanctions for protests typical of student activism".
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We saw the same broad pushback against the nonprofit killer bill. This is the pro-democracy coalition that can provide a sturdy bulwark against fascism if we don’t give in, don’t comply in advance, stay united & principled even across disagreements
March 11, 2025 at 12:10 AM
We saw the same broad pushback against the nonprofit killer bill. This is the pro-democracy coalition that can provide a sturdy bulwark against fascism if we don’t give in, don’t comply in advance, stay united & principled even across disagreements
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Socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani wants to hike corporate taxes to pay for loads of freebies
Socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani wants to hike corporate taxes to pay for loads of freebies
The Queens state assemblyman said his plans for his socialist utopia involve subsidizing free transit and childcare with higher taxes on corporations and establishing city-run food stores, freezing rent for millions of New Yorkers and creating a new safety plan for the city.
nypost.com
March 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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