📽️ Watch videos of the July 4 noise demo, shown at Prairieland trial! They challenge the state's narrative! We review below 👇 https://prairielanddefendants.com/press-release/recently-unsealed-trial-evidence-contradicts-governments-account-of-events-during-fourth-of-july-prairieland-noise-protest/

“This summer, Tisha B’Av seems to be happening to me, whether I was initially aware of it or not when the ‘three weeks of grief’ on the Jewish calendar were set in motion, leading up to the 9th day of the month of Av …” Full post on IG @cindymilstein or kolektiva.social/@cbmilstein/...

Cindy Milstein (they) (@cbmilstein@kolektiva.social)

Attached: 1 image This summer, Tisha B’Av seems to be happening to me, whether I was initially aware of it or not when the “three weeks of grief” on the Jewish calendar were set in motion, leading up...

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New State Department report on foreign "subversion" is a virtual government blacklist that names 43 Americans + domestic orgs, including: - Mamdani - DSA - Hasan Piker - Amy Goodman Full list: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/after-poli...

After "Political Terrorism" Event, U.S. Names 43 Americans + Groups

Rubio report on Cuban "subversion" names Zohran Mamdani, Hasan Piker, Ben Cohen + orgs like DSA and Amazon Labor Union

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Call for contributions to my next zine of collective voices: “Side by Side: Tips for Solid Anti-Repression Work”—intended for young/new/inexperienced folks. Length: 100 to 350 words Deadline: by/before Aug 1 Email: cbmilstein [at] yahoo Full post @cindymilstein IG kolektiva.social/@cbmilstein/...

Cindy Milstein (they) (@cbmilstein@kolektiva.social)

Attached: 3 images Take two: Call for contributions to my next zine of collective voices on sticking “Side by Side: Tools and Tips for Solid Anti-Repression Work”—intended for young/new/inexperienced...

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Support the Prairieland Defendants and the MN 15! When you pay full price for select titles thru 7/25/26, we’ll donate 40% of each sale to legal aid for the defendants. Shop all titles at pmpress.org.

If you use Signal to work with sensitive contacts, it’s not a “set it and forget it” app. You do need to maintain the safety of your account. Our digital security team walks through foundational account security settings to help.

What journalists need to know about Signal account safety

There are a few straightforward steps you can take to make your account and identity much more secure

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Mari, like her codefendants Benjamin “Champagne Song” and Zachary Evetts, is being held in segregation. She has faced extensive violating strip searches, excessive surveillance during meetings with lawyers, and was forced to breathe in pepper spray chemicals 5 times across (1/3)

I’ve said it a million times: “Solidarity is our best weapon.” And I’ll likely say it a million more. But it’s true. It’s not just true. It’s beautiful. It’s not just beautiful. It’s what gets us through the hardest of days, … Full post on IG @cindymilstein or: kolektiva.social/@cbmilstein/...

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Attached: 1 image I’ve said it a million times: “Solidarity is our best weapon.” And I’ll likely say it a million more. But it’s true. It’s not just true. It’s beautiful. It’s not just beautiful. ...

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Snitching doesn’t come out of nowhere. This is not to excuse those who cooperated with the police+prosecution in Prairieland; not at all. It’s to add another layer: collective responsibility, & not just when state repression hits. See full IG post @cindymilstein kolektiva.social/@cbmilstein/...

Cindy Milstein (they) (@cbmilstein@kolektiva.social)

Attached: 2 images Anarchist practices are inseparable from anarchist ethics and aspirations—and vice versus. They offer a “directionality.” Not a linear one, but in the sense of continually moving t...

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A statement from Eric King, an anarchist and former political prisoner who spent nearly a decade behind bars, about one aspect of the Fire Ant Movement Defense statement we published earlier this week discussing the Prairieland verdicts. crimethinc.com/NoWayHome

No Way Home: An Anarchist Ex-Prisoner’s Response to Fire Ant Movement Defense

A statement from Eric King, an anarchist and former political prisoner who spent nearly a decade behind bars, in response to the statement from Fire Ant Movement Defense.

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@blackspokecollective has been doing fundraisers for @free.des.revol for about a year, and recently created a design as part of that in honor of Des, with his love of possums in mind: a T-shirt proclaiming, “All we have is each other.” Post: @cindymilstein IG or kolektiva.social/@cbmilstein/...

Cindy Milstein (they) (@cbmilstein@kolektiva.social)

Attached: 1 image Trust. That word has popped up a lot the past couple of weeks. Not merely “Who can you trust?” Or “What can you trust in?” The world is a fraught, dangerous, uncertain terrain. I...

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Non-fiction: Anarchy Works by @petergelderloos.bsky.social Deciding for Ourselves: The Promise of Direct Democracy edited by @cbmilstein.bsky.social Constellations of Care: Anarcha-Feminism in Practice edited by @cbmilstein.bsky.social

In April 2025, I asked anarchists to share their compass points—& made a zine. My dear friend @free.des.revol contributed a piece. Three months later, he was arrested. Two weeks ago, he received 30 years behind bars—for a zine. His words are here: kolektiva.social/@cbmilstein/... @cindymilstein IG

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Attached: 3 images Someone recently called me a militant anarchist, and when I asked them what they meant by “militant,” they said “strongly guided by your ethics”—as if that were a problem. Under f...

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“There is much to worry about these Christofascist days. … “Our bodies seem way too small a vessel to take in so much grief and trauma, and not shatter. … “Care isn’t a luxury; it’s one of our greatest weapons.” Full post: @cindymilstein on IG or kolektiva.social/@cbmilstein/...

Cindy Milstein (they) (@cbmilstein@kolektiva.social)

Attached: 2 images I’m a worrier. In that (my) Jewish father’s sort of way. Which is another way of saying: in that ancestral trauma sort of way. I’ve been slowly, like an inch worm, working my way ...

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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS for my next zine of anarchist(ic) voices on the topic “Side by Side: XX Solid Anti-Repression Tools and Tactics” Length: 80 to 250 words Deadline: July 15 Email to: cbmilstein {at} yahoo For details, see post @cindymilstein IG or kolektiva.social/@cbmilstein/...

Cindy Milstein (they) (@cbmilstein@kolektiva.social)

Attached: 1 image CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS (new+improved) for my next curated zine of various anarchist(ic) voices on the topic “Side by Side: XX Solid Anti-Repression Tools and Tactics” Length: 80 to...

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This week Tucker Carlson platformed another hardline antisemite-- a pastor who told Carlson 'the Jews killed Jesus' and whose writings rail against 'international Jews'. But unlike last fall's interview with Nick Fuentes, this time the media hardly noticed. My latest at @religiondispatches.org:

Tucker Carlson's Latest Foray Into Far-Right Antisemitism Flies Under the Radar

On Tuesday, Tucker Carlson hosted Jordan Daniel Hall, a Christian nationalist blogger, for a wide-ranging interview criticizing the fundamental tenets of Christian Zionism. Carlson, who recently trade...

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Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”

‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison

Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility

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@breen.tech, @prisonculture.bsky.social, @octoberk.bsky.social, and probably a bunch of people I'm forgetting - thought you might be interested in this call for submissions for a collaborative zine about anti-repression/prison solidarity work:

Cindy Barukh Milstein@cbmilstein.bsky.social · last mo.

“Call for contributions” to the next zine in my curated series, “Side by Side” — sparked by my rage, horror, and grief at Tuesday’s cruel and sadistic sentencing of 30 years for my beloved friend @free.des.revol and 50-100 years for other Prairieland defendants. Cont’d in comments

“Call for contributions” to the next zine in my curated series, “Side by Side” — sparked by my rage, horror, and grief at Tuesday’s cruel and sadistic sentencing of 30 years for my beloved friend @free.des.revol and 50-100 years for other Prairieland defendants. Cont’d in comments

This is the second zine-related arrest I’ve read about this week.

Cindy Barukh Milstein@cbmilstein.bsky.social · last mo.

We, the Free Des Support Committee, remain steadfastly by Des’s side. We’ve been there from the beginning, & we’re not going anywhere, until he & the other Prairieland defendants go free. Zines are not a crime. Solidarity is not a crime. Free Des Revol. Free them all. freedes.net @free.des.revol

I wrote about the Prairieland defendants and the urgency of opposing the extreme sentences handed down on Tuesday. And they likely will not be the last.

The Prairieland Sentences Are a National Emergency

A federal court has punished Texas ICE demonstrators with decades in prison. This is dark news not just for them but for anyone who may want to register political dissent.

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Cindy Barukh Milstein@cbmilstein.bsky.social · last mo.

We, the Free Des Support Committee, remain steadfastly by Des’s side. We’ve been there from the beginning, & we’re not going anywhere, until he & the other Prairieland defendants go free. Zines are not a crime. Solidarity is not a crime. Free Des Revol. Free them all. freedes.net @free.des.revol

this is a genuine cause! Free Des Revol, and all political prisoners!

Cindy Barukh Milstein@cbmilstein.bsky.social · last mo.

We, the Free Des Support Committee, remain steadfastly by Des’s side. We’ve been there from the beginning, & we’re not going anywhere, until he & the other Prairieland defendants go free. Zines are not a crime. Solidarity is not a crime. Free Des Revol. Free them all. freedes.net @free.des.revol

Free Des! ✊ Free all the detainees! ✊ #FreeDes #FuckTrump

Cindy Barukh Milstein@cbmilstein.bsky.social · last mo.

We, the Free Des Support Committee, remain steadfastly by Des’s side. We’ve been there from the beginning, & we’re not going anywhere, until he & the other Prairieland defendants go free. Zines are not a crime. Solidarity is not a crime. Free Des Revol. Free them all. freedes.net @free.des.revol

Zines are little books/pamphlet of any topic you like. For the art of it, for fun, for politics. Literary the rock of freedom of expression.

Cindy Barukh Milstein@cbmilstein.bsky.social · last mo.

We, the Free Des Support Committee, remain steadfastly by Des’s side. We’ve been there from the beginning, & we’re not going anywhere, until he & the other Prairieland defendants go free. Zines are not a crime. Solidarity is not a crime. Free Des Revol. Free them all. freedes.net @free.des.revol

Flavio Pessoa did an amazing job showing a selection of the files, like photos of Liz Soto and her husband Ines, a fellow defendant, tabling with their Emma Goldman Book Club. the Sotos had a printing press in their garage. the FBI came for it while they were in jail. that’s in the files, too.

‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison

Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility

theguardian.com

examples of what the FBI included as evidence of "Antifa terrorism" in the Prairieland case: -Narcan spray -Anarchist tattoos -a highlighted copy of Emergent Strategy -a zine made of a 2019 review of Hereditary and Midsommar from @reproutopia.bsky.social -First Aid Kits -seeds for garden vegetables

among the 22 defendants are Des Revol, Champagne Song (pictured with partner Rowan Gibson, an unsentenced defendant) Autumn Hill (pictured with wife Lydia Koza), Savanna Batten, Dario Sanchez (unsentenced), the Sotos, and Meagan Morris (pictured with Hill). 8 were sentenced to a combined 450 years.

the DOJ's counterterrorism messaging named "Antifa", "Anarchists" and "pro-trans extremists" as major threats. nearly a third of the 22 Prairieland defendants are trans. Autumn Hill and Meagan Morris, sentenced to 50 yrs each, have been held in men's prisons, even denied hormones in the last year.

‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison

Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility

theguardian.com

“and so it’s almost like a confession – as though the words on the pamphlet are: 'We worship the devil, signed, antifa’.” @reproutopia.bsky.social quoted in @lexmcmenamin.com's incredible new story

‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison

Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility

theguardian.com