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Why are progressives so alarmed that the FBI is being “weakened” or morale is being broken?
Do you even understand what the FBI’s role has been not merely undermining but flat out repressing liberation movements, often through acts of terror and violence.
Let them break the FBI.
Do you even understand what the FBI’s role has been not merely undermining but flat out repressing liberation movements, often through acts of terror and violence.
Let them break the FBI.
The biggest little scandal in Washington right now is how bad Kash Patel is at being FBI director
Kash Patel, the FBI's agent of chaos
The biggest little scandal in Washington right now is how bad Patel is at being FBI director.
www.motherjones.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Why are progressives so alarmed that the FBI is being “weakened” or morale is being broken?
Do you even understand what the FBI’s role has been not merely undermining but flat out repressing liberation movements, often through acts of terror and violence.
Let them break the FBI.
Do you even understand what the FBI’s role has been not merely undermining but flat out repressing liberation movements, often through acts of terror and violence.
Let them break the FBI.
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Every now and then we have to celebrate the everyday heroes who refuse to blink or backdown to fascist intimidation.
open.substack.com/pub/1nadines...
open.substack.com/pub/1nadines...
A Certain Kind of Hero
Tina Certain didn’t flinch, and Florida’s phony “free speech” enforcers couldn’t handle it.
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Every now and then we have to celebrate the everyday heroes who refuse to blink or backdown to fascist intimidation.
open.substack.com/pub/1nadines...
open.substack.com/pub/1nadines...
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Joseph Wilson fell in love with opera in an unlikely place: Sing Sing prison. For our Life Inside series, he writes about composing an aria for a Grammy-winning opera singer in a composition notebook from his prison cell: “No other contemporary opera composer has lived experience like mine.”
How I Became an Opera Composer in a Maximum Security Prison
I learned music theory through workshops at New York’s Sing Sing prison. I earned my stripes by singing for boisterous crowds of incarcerated critics.
www.themarshallproject.org
November 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Joseph Wilson fell in love with opera in an unlikely place: Sing Sing prison. For our Life Inside series, he writes about composing an aria for a Grammy-winning opera singer in a composition notebook from his prison cell: “No other contemporary opera composer has lived experience like mine.”
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Trump wants to make the military takeovers scary to stop resistance but the truth is the military is not large enough to control all the major cities if there is mass resistance. They'd need 600k troops at a minimum and the national guard only has ~336k. They can't actually hold cities if we resist.
August 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Trump wants to make the military takeovers scary to stop resistance but the truth is the military is not large enough to control all the major cities if there is mass resistance. They'd need 600k troops at a minimum and the national guard only has ~336k. They can't actually hold cities if we resist.
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The best, most accurate look at the DC occupation is coming from the locals: local news & local residents capturing violent arrests, peaceful protests, safe tourist spots overrun with bored troops. It's a powerful reality check on Trump propaganda.
My latest:
open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...
My latest:
open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...
August 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The best, most accurate look at the DC occupation is coming from the locals: local news & local residents capturing violent arrests, peaceful protests, safe tourist spots overrun with bored troops. It's a powerful reality check on Trump propaganda.
My latest:
open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...
My latest:
open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...
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We're looking forward to seeing a lot of people here on 9/7. Please help us spread the word.
August 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
We're looking forward to seeing a lot of people here on 9/7. Please help us spread the word.
Whining group of NeoNazis with swastikkka flags who were photographed unmasked have now been identified.
🧵Welcome to the Sunlight Hate Club!
Anthony Altick, MO/LA
Charles Anthony Wilder, NJ
Patrick Landon, IL
Zane Fenton Morris, FL
Ryan Michael Roberson, OH
Neo-Nazis from November 16 in Columbus, Ohio
1/ #BaitClub
Anthony Altick, MO/LA
Charles Anthony Wilder, NJ
Patrick Landon, IL
Zane Fenton Morris, FL
Ryan Michael Roberson, OH
Neo-Nazis from November 16 in Columbus, Ohio
1/ #BaitClub
August 17, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Whining group of NeoNazis with swastikkka flags who were photographed unmasked have now been identified.
I post a lot of poetry and journalism by inmates. Here is the haunting textile embroidery and “resistance stitchery” of Lorina Bulwer, held against her will in the Great Yarmouth Workhouse Asylum.
Image credit: Elena Kanagy-Loux
www.facebook.com/share/r/1Gub...
Image credit: Elena Kanagy-Loux
www.facebook.com/share/r/1Gub...
August 15, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I post a lot of poetry and journalism by inmates. Here is the haunting textile embroidery and “resistance stitchery” of Lorina Bulwer, held against her will in the Great Yarmouth Workhouse Asylum.
Image credit: Elena Kanagy-Loux
www.facebook.com/share/r/1Gub...
Image credit: Elena Kanagy-Loux
www.facebook.com/share/r/1Gub...
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"Lily" packs celery on CAs Central Coast. Our team of 22 packs an average of 1,100 boxes in an 8 hour day. It's very tiring work to pack so many boxes. Our arms and hands ache at the end of the day from doing so much repetitive work. #WeFeedYou
August 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
"Lily" packs celery on CAs Central Coast. Our team of 22 packs an average of 1,100 boxes in an 8 hour day. It's very tiring work to pack so many boxes. Our arms and hands ache at the end of the day from doing so much repetitive work. #WeFeedYou
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I'm going to be writing mostly about AltNPS's plagiarism for a while (there's a LOT to talk about), but eventually, I want to dig into some of their claims that I haven't had time to focus on.
What's up with the "Alt Junior Ranger Program" they were raising money for? Or the "Alt DOGE" website?
What's up with the "Alt Junior Ranger Program" they were raising money for? Or the "Alt DOGE" website?
August 2, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I'm going to be writing mostly about AltNPS's plagiarism for a while (there's a LOT to talk about), but eventually, I want to dig into some of their claims that I haven't had time to focus on.
What's up with the "Alt Junior Ranger Program" they were raising money for? Or the "Alt DOGE" website?
What's up with the "Alt Junior Ranger Program" they were raising money for? Or the "Alt DOGE" website?
Allyship training event, hosted by Disappeared in America in collaboration with a national coalition
mobilize.us/s/M3s1SZ
mobilize.us/s/M3s1SZ
#DisappearedInAmerica Talk to Your Sheriff Training · Disappeared in America
**Trump thinks he can disappear people. We’re building a movement to prove him wrong.**
In America, the government doesn’t get to grab people off the streets, skip the courtroom, and send them straig...
mobilize.us
July 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Allyship training event, hosted by Disappeared in America in collaboration with a national coalition
mobilize.us/s/M3s1SZ
mobilize.us/s/M3s1SZ
Hot hot hot! ⛓️💥
Andrea J. Ritchie & Mariame Kaba continue offering tremendous tools & visuals for activists.
Sloganeering (FTP, ACAB, Smash the State) can only do so much.
This toolkit is designed to build conversation & reflection, and sharpen your/your group’s #abolitionist vision & analysis.
Andrea J. Ritchie & Mariame Kaba continue offering tremendous tools & visuals for activists.
Sloganeering (FTP, ACAB, Smash the State) can only do so much.
This toolkit is designed to build conversation & reflection, and sharpen your/your group’s #abolitionist vision & analysis.
Abolition and the State: A Discussion Tool — Interrupting Criminalization
Our answers to these questions profoundly shape our organizing objectives and strategies, and the context in which they unfold. This Discussion Tool provides room for readers to ask and explore genera...
www.interruptingcriminalization.com
July 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Hot hot hot! ⛓️💥
Andrea J. Ritchie & Mariame Kaba continue offering tremendous tools & visuals for activists.
Sloganeering (FTP, ACAB, Smash the State) can only do so much.
This toolkit is designed to build conversation & reflection, and sharpen your/your group’s #abolitionist vision & analysis.
Andrea J. Ritchie & Mariame Kaba continue offering tremendous tools & visuals for activists.
Sloganeering (FTP, ACAB, Smash the State) can only do so much.
This toolkit is designed to build conversation & reflection, and sharpen your/your group’s #abolitionist vision & analysis.
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New starter pack.
March 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
New starter pack.
Cell soul food & love this pride. Please follow & support the Prison Journalism project.
June 29, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Cell soul food & love this pride. Please follow & support the Prison Journalism project.
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So is alt national parks fake? Lots of evidence suggests yes.
skepchick.org/2025/06/the-...
#altnationalparks
#blueanon
skepchick.org/2025/06/the-...
#altnationalparks
#blueanon
The “Alt National Park” Resistance Account is So Obviously Fake
Transcript: When I was a little kid, I was a spy. I was super into it, mostly thanks to a book called The KnowHow Book of SpyCraft, which gave detailed instructions on how to be a sneaky little guy…
skepchick.org
June 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
So is alt national parks fake? Lots of evidence suggests yes.
skepchick.org/2025/06/the-...
#altnationalparks
#blueanon
skepchick.org/2025/06/the-...
#altnationalparks
#blueanon
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We reaffirm our support for imprisoned poet Mohamed Tadjadit ahead of his June 22 hearing. Sentenced to 5 years in prison for his free expression—reduced to 1 year last month—we urge Algerian authorities to release him immediately and unconditionally. pen.org/press-releas...
ARC and PEN America Condemn the Imprisonment of Poet Mohamed Tadjadit - PEN America
ARC and PEN America urge Algerian authorities to abandon all criminal charges against Tadjadit.
pen.org
June 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
We reaffirm our support for imprisoned poet Mohamed Tadjadit ahead of his June 22 hearing. Sentenced to 5 years in prison for his free expression—reduced to 1 year last month—we urge Algerian authorities to release him immediately and unconditionally. pen.org/press-releas...
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"WE FEED YOU" - a new silkscreen print from Carlos Barberena! justseeds.org/product/we-f...
June 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
"WE FEED YOU" - a new silkscreen print from Carlos Barberena! justseeds.org/product/we-f...
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Reminder to lawmakers across the US wishing the LGBTQ+ community a Happy Pride Month: Lesbian, gay, & bisexual people are 2.25x more likely to be arrested than straight individuals.
It’s time to stop the criminalization of LGBTQ+ people.
It’s time to stop the criminalization of LGBTQ+ people.
June 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Reminder to lawmakers across the US wishing the LGBTQ+ community a Happy Pride Month: Lesbian, gay, & bisexual people are 2.25x more likely to be arrested than straight individuals.
It’s time to stop the criminalization of LGBTQ+ people.
It’s time to stop the criminalization of LGBTQ+ people.
Recent fascist gutting of federal & foundation grants brought me back to this stack, “The Poverty of Grassroots Organizing.”
Folks donate 350 BILLION annually in small donations to charities. So why are community-based nonprofits so severely underfunded?
open.substack.com/pub/theconne...
Folks donate 350 BILLION annually in small donations to charities. So why are community-based nonprofits so severely underfunded?
open.substack.com/pub/theconne...
The Poverty of Grassroots Organizing
Honest talk from veterans of progressive philanthropy and movements about how this vital work is still desperately undervalued.
open.substack.com
May 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Recent fascist gutting of federal & foundation grants brought me back to this stack, “The Poverty of Grassroots Organizing.”
Folks donate 350 BILLION annually in small donations to charities. So why are community-based nonprofits so severely underfunded?
open.substack.com/pub/theconne...
Folks donate 350 BILLION annually in small donations to charities. So why are community-based nonprofits so severely underfunded?
open.substack.com/pub/theconne...
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We need to come together & ensure the important work of protecting lands, waters, communities, & cultures continues on.
Fear-mongering tactics won't suppress the movement. It’s time to lock in & move with grounded strategy, ancestral knowledge, & an empowered purpose.
Read More: ndnco.cc/ffbftpc
Fear-mongering tactics won't suppress the movement. It’s time to lock in & move with grounded strategy, ancestral knowledge, & an empowered purpose.
Read More: ndnco.cc/ffbftpc
May 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
We need to come together & ensure the important work of protecting lands, waters, communities, & cultures continues on.
Fear-mongering tactics won't suppress the movement. It’s time to lock in & move with grounded strategy, ancestral knowledge, & an empowered purpose.
Read More: ndnco.cc/ffbftpc
Fear-mongering tactics won't suppress the movement. It’s time to lock in & move with grounded strategy, ancestral knowledge, & an empowered purpose.
Read More: ndnco.cc/ffbftpc
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Hey folks, I have a HUGE request from the Trevor Project and would appreciate help getting the word out.
Trevor is now recruiting for it's 2025 National Youth Survey. They need people 13-24, LGBTQ+, in the United States to take it.
This research is critical to LGBTQ+ rights.
Take it here:
Trevor is now recruiting for it's 2025 National Youth Survey. They need people 13-24, LGBTQ+, in the United States to take it.
This research is critical to LGBTQ+ rights.
Take it here:
To proceed to the survey, please check off the box and click the button below.
trevorredcap.trvr.org
May 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Hey folks, I have a HUGE request from the Trevor Project and would appreciate help getting the word out.
Trevor is now recruiting for it's 2025 National Youth Survey. They need people 13-24, LGBTQ+, in the United States to take it.
This research is critical to LGBTQ+ rights.
Take it here:
Trevor is now recruiting for it's 2025 National Youth Survey. They need people 13-24, LGBTQ+, in the United States to take it.
This research is critical to LGBTQ+ rights.
Take it here:
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Efforts to criminalize trans people and the medical care many trans people rely on continue to escalate at the state and federal levels. Adam M. Rhodes takes a look at what trans people, their loved ones, and medical providers can do to protect themselves: theappeal.org/trans-legal-...
Trump’s War on Trans People: A Legal Survival Guide
State and federal governments have moved to criminalize trans people, parents of trans children, and healthcare providers.
theappeal.org
May 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Efforts to criminalize trans people and the medical care many trans people rely on continue to escalate at the state and federal levels. Adam M. Rhodes takes a look at what trans people, their loved ones, and medical providers can do to protect themselves: theappeal.org/trans-legal-...
Donated to LQBTQ advocacy group? Trump EO argues that you are a national security threat.
Here's the justice department arguing that a law firm is a national security threat because they donated money to a LGBTQ org challenging the trans ban on the military.
May 21, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Donated to LQBTQ advocacy group? Trump EO argues that you are a national security threat.