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John Duda
@johnduda.bsky.social
Research and comms for a democratic economy, plus selling radical books @redemmas.org.
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Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
January 22, 2026 at 12:05 AM
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🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!

ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
January 21, 2026 at 10:00 PM
We used to be a real country
January 21, 2026 at 1:06 PM
ICE agent in Minneapolis: “stop obstructing us, that’s why that lesbian bitch is dead”

sahanjournal.com/immigration/...
‘I heard screaming, I heard crying:’ Inside ICE detainment at the Whipple Building
Two U.S. citizen observers share a rare look inside ICE custody at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis.
sahanjournal.com
January 13, 2026 at 8:59 PM
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Alongside the spectacular violence being unleashed by the US at home and abroad, the "normal" violence of everyday life under capitalism continues.

One of our worker-owner's family members is facing eviction this week, if you have some $$ to spare: www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-nei...
Donate to Help a Neighbor Stay in Their Home, organized by Michaela Harris
Hi Neighbors! I’m your neighbor down the hall reaching out with a litt… Michaela Harris needs your support for Help a Neighbor Stay in Their Home
www.gofundme.com
January 13, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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I was just denied access to the ICE processing center at the Whipple Building.

Members of Congress have a legal right and constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight where people are being detained.

The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities.
JUST NOW: Huge mass of agents in a standoff, weapons drawn as Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig, and Kelly Morrison attempt to conduct congressional oversight at the Whipple Building, which has been HQ for thousands of ICE agents.

@zeteo.com
January 10, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Made a sticker for @redemmas.org. Fuck ICE.
January 8, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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New stickers are in. F*ck ICE.
January 8, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Me, late last night helping finish the @redemmas.org annual inventory: "Does our radical bookstore really need to stock all this ancient Greek philosophy?"

Me, this morning: "Fuck, I guess we do because Plato is now crimethink."
January 7, 2026 at 1:31 PM
All the people I know doing amazing work to make the world a better place are scrounging for donations at the end of the year while billionaires are accumulating tens of thousands of dollars more hoarded wealth every minute without lifting a finger.
December 31, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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We need your help.

We're still $5k away from hitting our fundraising target for this year.

Make a tax-deductible donation now at redemmas.fund
December 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
@lfelizleon.bsky.social: “When union leaders like O’Brien signal that immigrant workers are expendable, it erodes the power of the entire working class.” lowerfrequencies.substack.com/p/the-teamst...
The Teamsters Have a MAGA Problem. Here’s Why.
Militancy without politics isn't enough. We need a social reconstruction of class and politics with unions at the center.
lowerfrequencies.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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If we can raise $1k in the next three days, we're going to get another drum for our risograph so we can give away free posters and zines printed with a color that's not just red or black (as much as we love red and black of course).

Donate now: donorbox.org/red-emmas-2025
December 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
@quinnslobodian.com: “While the MAGA grouping uses its power to stage a Gramscism from the right…the response of its targets is simply to ask for something softer; to try to meet them halfway in a foggy and nebulous language of community, storytelling, and place.”

lpeproject.org/blog/post-ne...
Post-Neoliberalism is the New Centrism
At a recent convening devoted to the death of neoliberalism, what emerged was less a rupture with the past than a centrist project of status-quo stabilization.
lpeproject.org
December 21, 2025 at 12:16 PM
COPA!
INT 902-B, also known as the “Community Opportunity to Purchase Act,” sponsored by @cmsandynurse.bsky.social, would give qualified nonprofits a first chance to purchase certain multifamily buildings when an owner plans to sell, helping preserve affordable housing before it hits the market.
December 19, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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"Wherever the agents appear, even when they lean idly, chatting, we see the cold threat of violence and the fragility of freedom. And in the brave crowds who gather to confront them, scrambling their illusion of total control, we see the power of solidarity..."

hammerandhope.org/article/ice-...
War at Home
A record of ICE’s assault on immigrants and the people’s resistance.
hammerandhope.org
December 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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New Data shows at least 3,800 children, including infants, have been put in detention since Trump took office. Many were held for long stretches. “There is no other way to describe it; it’s a jail for children," one parent said.
www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/17/c...
ICE Threw Thousands of Kids in Detention, Many For Longer Than Court-Prescribed Limit
Former immigration staffers argue ICE is choosing to detain families for prolonged periods to speed deportations and compel them to leave.
www.themarshallproject.org
December 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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"Starting off with that initial $10,000 loan just over five years ago, BCI recently passed the $3million mark in non-extractive capital deployed: there’s a lot of cooperatives getting on their feet in the DC region with BCI’s help."

seedcommons.org/projects/org...
Beloved Community Incubator: Organizing cooperatives, organizing the community | Seed Commons
Building power for excluded workers in Washington, DC
seedcommons.org
December 17, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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📣 What next for community wealth building in Scotland?

Our new report asks what it’ll take to turn ambition into action.

By our Co-Director @miriambrett.bsky.social, and @neilmcinroy.bsky.social, Global Lead for Community Wealth Building at @democracycollab.bsky.social.

1/13 🧵👇
December 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Wrote a little piece on the work PODER Emma is doing in Asheville, NC around a resident-led research and development program for a green transition in affordable housing—figuring out how to make mobile homes in their co-ops more energy efficient and resilient: seedcommons.org/posts/giving...
Giving communities the tools they need to build their own future—one mobile home at a time. | Seed Commons
Seed Commons member PODER Emma in Asheville, NC is spearheading an ambitious, community-led research and development program for a green transition in affordable housing.
seedcommons.org
December 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Pleased with this shot: no effects, no compositing, just a nice reflection
December 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I've been helping Seed Commons, a national co-op raising non-extractive capital and deploying it through its local members into worker & community owned businesses, w/longform profiles of its members:

The latest is of Beloved Community Incubator in Washington, DC:
seedcommons.org/projects/org...
Beloved Community Incubator: Organizing cooperatives, organizing the community | Seed Commons
Building power for excluded workers in Washington, DC
seedcommons.org
December 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Baltimore says
December 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Cyber Monday flash sale! 20% off online on all in stock books, today only. Use the code CYBER at check out. Shop now, save, and support radical space in Baltimore: redemmas.org/books
December 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM