As the Department of Education is further dismantled, the US political elite vote to condemn what they and the overwhelming majority of the US public cannot define: socialism.

“Americans are, of course, the most thoroughly and passively indoctrinated people on earth...and they certainly know little or nothing of the complexities and contradictions comprised within words like ‘socialism’ and ‘capitalism.’”– Stellan Skarsgård

Dear god.

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

After bringing white South Africans to the United States as refugees earlier this year, the Trump administration has now granted protection to members of far-right European parties.

This plan, which recently became official, makes the country's refugee program into a tool for white nationalism.

At the food pantry I volunteer at we were absolutely swamped today and by many first timers. We ran out of whole categories of food. Please donate cash to your local organization if you at all can.

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Today seems like a great day to re-up my slides from 2017 about the Nazi takeover of German physics, in part because in my estimation, a lot of American physicists in 2025 are confused about whether "agreeing to work with them" is resistance (it's not) and whether it works (it doesn't) 🧪⚛️

All charges brought against protesters at Broadview today must be dropped. When cops and agents attack crowds without provocation, they make shit up to justify their attacks (in his case, an attack waged on a cooperative crowd to produce fascist social media content). These charges must be dropped.

The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.

Last night, about 60 Chicago activists and organizers gathered to discuss Trump's threatened military occupation of our city. Our convo centered around a worksheet that some friends and I put together this week—a tool that can help us build and strengthen local networks of support and protection.

All around us are examples of people trying to do what they can, including experimenting or getting involved for the first time, to politically resist what's happening. I'm inspired.

Again, as Octavia E. Butler said, “We don’t have to wait for anything at all. What we have to do is start.”

I hope one thing leftists all take away from Mamdani’s campaign though is that it doesn’t matter how chill and wholesome you are, the dinguses are going to smear and trash you in increasingly unhinged ways anyway, so you might as well shoot for the moon and campaign on what makes your heart sing

People do this thing regularly online: "this word is just made up" and it's always so funny to me because every fucking word is made it. That's language. It changes all of the time. That's why the dictionary adds words REGULARLY.

There are so many factors contributing to our stress and anxiety right now but imo the breakdown of consensus reality is an under-discussed one.

For the second night in a row, DC locals heckled officers participating in Trump's crackdown.

As the federal government consolidates a police state, our best hope is to direct so much loathing at these mercenaries that they cannot recruit enough scum to fill the streets.

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Black August is a time to commemorate and honor Black political prisoners and all who have struggled for Black freedom and liberation, and to reflect on the ongoing fight against oppression. We've put together a list of suggested resources here: www.akpress.org/featured-pro...