Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.

Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:

Capitalism requires economic crisis. Socialism with a planned economy does not.

I forgot I had a blue sky account, but anyway Chicago is under a military occupation at the moment. This is fascism. We gotta resist and keep us safe. Here are some ways:

Also,ABOLISH ICE & the national guard, they don't keep us safe, they terrorize us into submission w the Settler colonial state.

Mskwaasin Agnew (Dene/Cree, Salt River First Nation) was among the humanitarians on board Conscience that was illegally boarded by Israel in international waters.
We are asking everyone to contact the Canadian Government (email addresses & phone numbers on the poster)
#EyesOnGaza #EndGazaBlockade

For people getting ready to fill out their NYC ballots, we have a bunch of ballot initiatives again. Hard to know how to vote on these. I received this from the City Council: www.whatsonmyballot.nyc - I'll be looking to local groups to figure out how to vote on these.

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

I'm honored to share the winners of the 5th Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize, given in memory of my sister. Both essays this year reflect on the stark, inherent violence of prison, and convey a key message for our time: Where there is injustice, there is resistance. truthout.org/articles/ann...

City Council just backed a plan to set aside city-owned land for affordable housing and fund homeownership programs near the future Obama Center.

The ordinance passed within a day, after an initial draft — focused solely on South Shore — stalled for 2 years. blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/25/o...

I forgot I had a blue sky account, but anyway Chicago is under a military occupation at the moment. This is fascism. We gotta resist and keep us safe. Here are some ways:

Also,ABOLISH ICE & the national guard, they don't keep us safe, they terrorize us into submission w the Settler colonial state.

The unemployment rate among recent graduates has been increasing this year to an average of 5.3%, compared to around 4% for the labor force as a whole, making it one of the toughest job markets for recent graduates since 2015, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Yesterday, the number of people incarcerated in Cook County Jail rose above 6,000 people for the first time since March 2022.

Learn more about how State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke is driving up pretrial jailing: endmoneybond.org/2025/07/15/c...

Join us for the launch of 3 zines on Aug 29 in Brooklyn - 6 to 8 pm. You can check out the *Another World* space which exists to support political education, mutual aid and organizing.

America’s gentrified neighborhoods have lost 500,000 Black people, while gaining residents of every other race, a study finds.
capitalbnews.org/black-displa...

"Choose a lane and do what you can. That’s all any of us can do and still live our lives... Give yourself some grace and remind yourself that you can be part of building up what’s been undone, more radically and boldly."
-@prisonculture.bsky.social

prisonculture.substack.com/p/the-strugg...

Cannot express how awful I imagine it is to be a teen today. Constantly evaluated. Constantly policed. Constantly surveilled. Can't be in a messy period where you're trying to figure out how to be.

This is the second time in one year the FBI has visited me over a document I lawfully published.

If you want to know why media constantly refuses to publish things, here's why.

Mohamad Alzaqzooq, an extraordinary author in Gaza who has published widely, including in the @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social, urgently needs to evacuate with his family.

The costs are steep but he is close to covering them. Please help if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/from-war-t...

I teamed up with @mayaschenwar.bsky.social to write about why criminalization and the politics of "law and order" will not save us.