Dylan Flesch
@dylanflesch.bsky.social
Organizing with For the People Leftist Library Project and NYC PLAN. Day job in the archives at New York Public Radio. Views my own. He/him.
Please take 30 seconds to send this letter. It's @nycplan.org's campaign targeting City Council members to increase and stabilize public library funding. We'll see if our demand is incorporated in the Preliminary Budget to be released by @mayor.nyc.gov on 2/17...
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City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
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February 14, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Please take 30 seconds to send this letter. It's @nycplan.org's campaign targeting City Council members to increase and stabilize public library funding. We'll see if our demand is incorporated in the Preliminary Budget to be released by @mayor.nyc.gov on 2/17...
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
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The current book ban movement is, at its core, a movement to defund the public good.
The necessary bigotries were a feature of that, not a bug.
The necessary bigotries were a feature of that, not a bug.
“But Josh, aren’t schools and libraries secondary to the fight for democracy, not actually part of it?”
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February 14, 2026 at 5:59 PM
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Breaking news: ICE expects to spend $38.3 billion on its plan to acquire warehouses across the U.S. and retrofit them into immigrant detention centers that can hold tens of thousands of people, according to agency documents.
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.
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February 13, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Breaking news: ICE expects to spend $38.3 billion on its plan to acquire warehouses across the U.S. and retrofit them into immigrant detention centers that can hold tens of thousands of people, according to agency documents.
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She wrote a global history of concentration camps. Now she has a warning for her own country.
In a better world, Andrea Pitzer would be delivering this warning on 60 Minutes.
But you need to listen to how we can stop these systematic atrocities being committed in our name on Next Comes What.
In a better world, Andrea Pitzer would be delivering this warning on 60 Minutes.
But you need to listen to how we can stop these systematic atrocities being committed in our name on Next Comes What.
What do you call warehouses full of humans?
Podcast Episode · Next Comes What · 02/12/2026 · 27m
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February 12, 2026 at 5:44 PM
She wrote a global history of concentration camps. Now she has a warning for her own country.
In a better world, Andrea Pitzer would be delivering this warning on 60 Minutes.
But you need to listen to how we can stop these systematic atrocities being committed in our name on Next Comes What.
In a better world, Andrea Pitzer would be delivering this warning on 60 Minutes.
But you need to listen to how we can stop these systematic atrocities being committed in our name on Next Comes What.
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Here’s a great starter toolkit for those new to this work. We could use an update on tactics specific to the Feds buying warehouses.
Here’s a great starter toolkit for those new to this work. We could use an update on tactics specific to the Feds buying warehouses.
Stop a Jail in Your Town
If you’re wondering whether your county really needs more jail cells – or if you’re already determined that it doesn’t, we have put together some…
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February 13, 2026 at 10:11 PM
curbprisonspending.org/tools/stop-a...
Here’s a great starter toolkit for those new to this work. We could use an update on tactics specific to the Feds buying warehouses.
Here’s a great starter toolkit for those new to this work. We could use an update on tactics specific to the Feds buying warehouses.
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There have been hugely successful campaigns to fight prison and jail construction across the country, especially in rural areas. These bring together hunters, environmentalists, Indigenous people, prison abolitionists, and immigrant advocates as well as people concerned about land use.
February 13, 2026 at 5:28 PM
There have been hugely successful campaigns to fight prison and jail construction across the country, especially in rural areas. These bring together hunters, environmentalists, Indigenous people, prison abolitionists, and immigrant advocates as well as people concerned about land use.
What’s the best bookstore in Brooklyn to buy cheap old magazines for a zine making event? I’m having a zine-themed birthday party and forcing my friends to make me zines, but I need cheap source materials before Sunday.
February 13, 2026 at 10:17 PM
What’s the best bookstore in Brooklyn to buy cheap old magazines for a zine making event? I’m having a zine-themed birthday party and forcing my friends to make me zines, but I need cheap source materials before Sunday.
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Five years ago @ashoncrawley.bsky.social posted a thing about care that feels really timely again. www.facebook.com/ashon/posts/...
February 13, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Five years ago @ashoncrawley.bsky.social posted a thing about care that feels really timely again. www.facebook.com/ashon/posts/...
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Immediate Reinstatement of Fourth CUNY Terminated Adjunct Faculty Member and Defense of Academic Freedom. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/imme...
Immediate Reinstatement of Fourth CUNY Terminated Adjunct Faculty Member and Defense of Academic Freedom
Send a Letter to Brooklyn College President Michelle Anderson, Brooklyn College Provost April Bedford, CUNY Chancellor Félix Matos Rodríguez, and CUNY Board Chairperson William Thompson.
Three of the...
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February 13, 2026 at 2:31 AM
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Immediate Reinstatement of Fourth CUNY Terminated Adjunct Faculty Member and Defense of Academic Freedom. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/imme...
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WHP EVENT! 🌈 APR 30, 7pm. @dorothyjberry.bsky.social will be in conversation about her book The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities at good neighbor, Baltimore. More info coming! www.weherespace.org/news/8v131ua...
Dorothy Berry in Baltimore and Other Appearances — we here
Public and private events where you can hear Dorothy Berry talk about her book The House Archives Built.
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February 12, 2026 at 8:13 PM
WHP EVENT! 🌈 APR 30, 7pm. @dorothyjberry.bsky.social will be in conversation about her book The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities at good neighbor, Baltimore. More info coming! www.weherespace.org/news/8v131ua...
@nycplan.org is hosting our 3rd Public Library People's Assembly. Join us to learn how to advocate for increased public library funding, hear about the services that NYC's libraries provide, and get involved to have a positive impact on their future. nycpublicassemblymarch2026.eventbrite.com
NYC Public Library People's Assembly
Join us on March 21 for a discussion about our visions for NYC libraries.
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February 13, 2026 at 12:57 AM
@nycplan.org is hosting our 3rd Public Library People's Assembly. Join us to learn how to advocate for increased public library funding, hear about the services that NYC's libraries provide, and get involved to have a positive impact on their future. nycpublicassemblymarch2026.eventbrite.com
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The Parker administration is failing so many of our most vulnerable neighbors while hanging our overworked, underpaid library workers out to dry www.inquirer.com/news/philade...
Library warming centers strained workers and left people without help for complex issues, staff say
Library workers and volunteers say people in mental-health crises, struggling with substance-abuse issues, and requiring wound care are coming to the warming centers and they have no backup.
www.inquirer.com
February 11, 2026 at 7:06 PM
The Parker administration is failing so many of our most vulnerable neighbors while hanging our overworked, underpaid library workers out to dry www.inquirer.com/news/philade...
“Where negotiations for facilities are underway, fight the leases, fight the purchases of the facility by getting the word out on the ground and demanding response from elected officials at every level.” degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/building-t...
Building the camps
The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.
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February 11, 2026 at 1:57 PM
“Where negotiations for facilities are underway, fight the leases, fight the purchases of the facility by getting the word out on the ground and demanding response from elected officials at every level.” degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/building-t...
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ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:56 PM
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
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I'm upgrading my "Abolish ICE" position to "Abolish the Democratic and Republican Parties"
February 10, 2026 at 10:29 AM
I'm upgrading my "Abolish ICE" position to "Abolish the Democratic and Republican Parties"
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Libraries are good, LGBTQ+ characters for kids are good, concentration camps are not.
Under a new Georgia bill, librarians could be arrested for allowing a minor to read a book with LGBTQ+ characters or storylines.
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Georgia librarians could face criminal charges for ‘harmful materials’ • Georgia Recorder
Librarians and education advocates are warning that a bill moving through the state Legislature could cause Georgia’s librarians to self-censor controversial materials and lead to more challenges on b...
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February 10, 2026 at 3:26 AM
Libraries are good, LGBTQ+ characters for kids are good, concentration camps are not.
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We live in a moment when so many people in this country share the moral clarity that ICE endangers us all—only for the heads of the “opposition” party to try to quash this clarity with meaningless reforms, and to give ICE more money and power. 2020 never ended.
February 10, 2026 at 12:48 PM
We live in a moment when so many people in this country share the moral clarity that ICE endangers us all—only for the heads of the “opposition” party to try to quash this clarity with meaningless reforms, and to give ICE more money and power. 2020 never ended.
Here’s a small roundup of links to GoFundMe pages for families with members abducted by ICE. Most of these are from families in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Please donate if you can.
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NYC fundraisers for ICE victims - Comix Action
To donate to a group that’s providing a range of direct aid and services to immigrants targeted by ICE, check out Mi Tlalli. And here are some GoFundMes for families with members abducted by ICE, most...
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February 8, 2026 at 11:04 AM
Here’s a small roundup of links to GoFundMe pages for families with members abducted by ICE. Most of these are from families in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Please donate if you can.
comixaction.com/nyc-fundrais...
comixaction.com/nyc-fundrais...
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: The Los Angeles Public Library Should Not Censor Palestinians!. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/the-...
The Los Angeles Public Library Should Not Censor Palestinians!
The Los Angeles Public Library organized an author talk with award-winning children’s book authors Jenan Matari and Nora Lester Murad. Library administration abruptly cancelled the event because they...
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February 6, 2026 at 3:35 AM
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: The Los Angeles Public Library Should Not Censor Palestinians!. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/the-...
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Every course I taught in the @ischool.uw.edu started with Fobazi’s Vocational Awe article, to get MLIS students to interrogate their relationship to the information profession: her truth-telling and brilliant voice will be much missed.
February 5, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Every course I taught in the @ischool.uw.edu started with Fobazi’s Vocational Awe article, to get MLIS students to interrogate their relationship to the information profession: her truth-telling and brilliant voice will be much missed.
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If you're near Minneapolis on Saturday, please consider coming out to the Twin Cities Zine Fest, where we'll have 80+ zinesters sharing their #zines & free workshops! tczinefest.org/tczf-2026/ #TCZF2026
If you're elsewhere, please send good vibes, we could use some fun.
If you're elsewhere, please send good vibes, we could use some fun.
February 6, 2026 at 12:37 AM
If you're near Minneapolis on Saturday, please consider coming out to the Twin Cities Zine Fest, where we'll have 80+ zinesters sharing their #zines & free workshops! tczinefest.org/tczf-2026/ #TCZF2026
If you're elsewhere, please send good vibes, we could use some fun.
If you're elsewhere, please send good vibes, we could use some fun.
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This is the most important one thing to know about NY politics in 2026.
Even though Hochul will win the primary + the general, and many of our Left electeds will endorse her, the rank + file Left must campaign hard and vote against her in the primary to shift the balance of power in the state.
Even though Hochul will win the primary + the general, and many of our Left electeds will endorse her, the rank + file Left must campaign hard and vote against her in the primary to shift the balance of power in the state.
I usually avoid sharing what feels like "inside baseball" political analysis here, but this merits an exception because of the stakes + scale involved.
Zohran isn't "wrong" to endorse Hochul; he has no choice. But for primary voters to back Hochul would definitely be unwise. Let me explain why. 🧵
Zohran isn't "wrong" to endorse Hochul; he has no choice. But for primary voters to back Hochul would definitely be unwise. Let me explain why. 🧵
NEW: Mayor Mamdani is set to endorse Gov. Hochul’s reelection run this week, providing her a critical inroad with progressive voters, per four sources.
It deals a near fatal blow to Antonio Delgado's campaign.
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
It deals a near fatal blow to Antonio Delgado's campaign.
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
February 4, 2026 at 10:16 PM
This is the most important one thing to know about NY politics in 2026.
Even though Hochul will win the primary + the general, and many of our Left electeds will endorse her, the rank + file Left must campaign hard and vote against her in the primary to shift the balance of power in the state.
Even though Hochul will win the primary + the general, and many of our Left electeds will endorse her, the rank + file Left must campaign hard and vote against her in the primary to shift the balance of power in the state.
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Your lack of attention to Hochul's child care record prior to Zohran's election does not make it true that he has significantly pushed her left on child care. I'm really sorry, but he has not.
February 4, 2026 at 11:21 PM
Your lack of attention to Hochul's child care record prior to Zohran's election does not make it true that he has significantly pushed her left on child care. I'm really sorry, but he has not.
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Absolutely serious real talk: join the DSA and the Working Families Party if they have chapters in your towns, friends. They're not built up as strongly everywhere, but without them, we would not have Mamdani in NYC right now. Key orgs in this movement.
Lifelong Democrat and I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think we need a Tea Party-style takeover of the party. People forget that the "Democratic Party" isn't just the folks holding office, it's the people who elected them that are the party. The folks in Congress seem to have forgotten that.
February 5, 2026 at 4:33 AM
Absolutely serious real talk: join the DSA and the Working Families Party if they have chapters in your towns, friends. They're not built up as strongly everywhere, but without them, we would not have Mamdani in NYC right now. Key orgs in this movement.
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I usually avoid sharing what feels like "inside baseball" political analysis here, but this merits an exception because of the stakes + scale involved.
Zohran isn't "wrong" to endorse Hochul; he has no choice. But for primary voters to back Hochul would definitely be unwise. Let me explain why. 🧵
Zohran isn't "wrong" to endorse Hochul; he has no choice. But for primary voters to back Hochul would definitely be unwise. Let me explain why. 🧵
NEW: Mayor Mamdani is set to endorse Gov. Hochul’s reelection run this week, providing her a critical inroad with progressive voters, per four sources.
It deals a near fatal blow to Antonio Delgado's campaign.
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
It deals a near fatal blow to Antonio Delgado's campaign.
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to endorse Gov. Kathy Hochul
The endorsement, expected this week, gives Hochul a critical inroad with left-leaning voters.
www.politico.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:09 PM
I usually avoid sharing what feels like "inside baseball" political analysis here, but this merits an exception because of the stakes + scale involved.
Zohran isn't "wrong" to endorse Hochul; he has no choice. But for primary voters to back Hochul would definitely be unwise. Let me explain why. 🧵
Zohran isn't "wrong" to endorse Hochul; he has no choice. But for primary voters to back Hochul would definitely be unwise. Let me explain why. 🧵