My nine year old kid, obsessed with architecture, now wants to take a family vacation to Vienna to visit the Karl Marx Hof and all the green social housing.
John Duda
@johnduda.bsky.social
Research and comms for a democratic economy, plus selling radical books @redemmas.org.
Major thanks to BCP Digital, an amazing Baltimore printer with deep roots in the Black liberation struggle, for putting up with us as we figure out the tempo of publishing!
Red Emma’s@redemmas.org · last wk.We just picked up the second printing (!) of Ben Egerman’s “a gay little history of maryland” from the printers. Wholesale & retail orders will be shipping this week, and it’s back in stock at the store. Wildly we’re already preemptively doing a third printing as well. redemmas.org/titles/51654...
On the second night of our Baltimore Book Festival preview weekend, we are bringing @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social to the Parkway Theatre to talk about "End Times Fascism." Get your (free!) tickets now and preorder a copy: withfriends.co/event/287590...
9/13 - Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor present "End Times Fascism" by Red Emma's
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A letter from the mother of Alex Pretti, six months after he was murdered by ICE.
Arundhati Roy on the regime in India, but equally applicable here too: "A confederacy of brutes with no capacity to understand the history and the diversity of the country which it governs. People who only know how to hate, but have no idea how to love. Or think." thewire.in/rights/cockr...
Cockroach Democracy: Unarmed and Dangerous
Can all the people be fooled all the time? Can a country with a population of a billion-and-a-half be dragged around like a corpse forever? It cannot. The Cockroaches are out and about.
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Wtf apparently it is illegal for kids to play pinball in Baltimore?
New in @jacobinmag.bsky.social: The Mamdani administration is launching an initiative to help build tenant unions.
Zohran Mamdani’s City Hall Wants to Build Tenant Unions
A new New York City initiative, led by Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Office of Mass Engagement, will send volunteer organizers into neglected buildings to help tenants organize, testing the role government c...
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We launched Ben's book less than a month ago and we already need to do a second printing (!!)
Red Emma’s@redemmas.org · 2mo agoJust in time for Pride—it's the book collecting the first six (and a half) issues of Ben Egerman's gay little history zines, published by us and printed here in Baltimore by BCP Digital. Come help us launch this on 6/25 w/@rahnealexander.com, or swing by our tent tomorrow at Trans Pride to grab one!
Reading Talitha LeFlouria’s “In Search of Jane Crow” in advance of her event @redemmas.org in August and this sentence is messing me up: “In Maryland, where post-Emancipation slave sales seemed to occur regularly…”
Between this and the national guard in Memphis it’s kind of disturbing me (yes I know I’m a member of the media) the degree to which these killings aren’t really breaking thru rn
Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 4w ago
Had to explain to my nine-year old kid today that ACAB includes Investigators.
The American government is waging war on dissent. People who have dared to oppose the deportation machine and the camps are being targeted and punished by the state. This July 4, we stand in solidarity with them.
Baltimore City Council just dedicated $250k to converting existing local businesses to #WorkerCoops. ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥This is the public support we need to turn local jobs into dignified careers & give local workers ownership opportunities!! baltimoreroundtable.org/2026/06/pres...
Press Release: Baltimore City Budget Advances Worker Cooperative Conversion as Strategy to Preserve Legacy Businesses and Build Community Wealth
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 24th, 2026 Contact: Anna Evans-Goldstein, anna@baltimoreroundtable.org, 443-386-6795 Baltimore City Budget Advances Worker Cooperative Conversion as Strategy to Preserve…
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‼️BREAKING: Today the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in favor of the Trump admin, enabling its plan to strip Temporary Protected Status from ~350,000 Haitians & 6,000 Syrians in the U.S. & deport immigrants who are unable to safely return to their home countries.
Prism@prismreports.org · last mo.“If you do not have a green card or citizenship, the immigration system can feel like slavery all over again.” SCOTUS will soon decide if the Trump admin can deport Haitian TPS recipients, many of whom fear returning to deadly conditions in Haiti, Jess DiPierro Obert reports.
Was excited to be part of the team making this quarter million dollar investment in worker cooperative conversions by the city of Baltimore happen: baltimoreroundtable.org/2026/06/pres...
Press Release: Baltimore City Budget Advances Worker Cooperative Conversion as Strategy to Preserve Legacy Businesses and Build Community Wealth
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 24th, 2026 Contact: Anna Evans-Goldstein, anna@baltimoreroundtable.org, 443-386-6795 Baltimore City Budget Advances Worker Cooperative Conversion as Strategy to Preserve…
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If you are in Baltimore and want to share this statement offline, we have a free broadsheet version available.
DFW Support Committee@dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social · last mo.please read this statement written by Benjamin "Champagne" Song and share as far and wide as you can: https://prairielanddefendants.com/defendant-writings/statement-by-benjamin-champagne-song/
Across NY & MD, I'm counting 12 Democratic incumbents who lost (or, in one case, are trailing) to a challenger to their left. —2 congressmembers (both NY) —4 state senators (2 in NY, 2 in MD) —6 state house members (5 in NY, 1 in MD) A thread to break this down.
Got taken to Z&Z for some incredible manoushe for Father’s Day.
Juneteenth is a good reminder that while the arrival of abolition may be delayed, that doesn’t mean it is not on its way.
“These guys thought there was a giant red button marked VIOLENCE being guarded by a couple of queer studies professors, and all you have to do is smash it to subjugate countries at will.”
Vincent Bevins@vincentbevins.bsky.social · 2mo agoDonald Trump did not just fail in Iran. MAGA's top-down assault on the world system in the first half of 2026 (what I tried to call an "autogolpe imperial") has been a flop. North South Notes — Botched coup part two: www.northsouthnotes.org/p/botched-co...
So Baltimore, how do we get one of these democratic socialist mayors?
Feds just cited the phrase “we must become ungovernable” as evidence that Minnesota activists being charged are dangerous.
It's America's 250th birthday—so we made a list of 250 books on why that's nothing to celebrate. bookshop.org/lists/250-bo...
I have long admired John Cavanagh’s tireless work for justice at @ips-dc.org, honored to be in conversation with him and the equally amazing Robin Broad this Thursday evening!
Red Emma’s@redemmas.org · 2mo agoDetails from “The Water Defenders,” a powerful graphic account of the grassroots fight to save El Salvador’s water from transnational mining corporations. Join us Thursday at 7 to hear from authors John Cavanagh & Robin Broad, in conversation with @johnduda.bsky.social redemmas.org/events/robin...
No it the fuck was not.
Reign of Terror by Spencer Ackerman: 9781984879790 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2021 "An impressive combination of diligence and verve, deploying Ackerman’s deep stores of knowledge as a national security journalist to full...
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NPR@npr.org · 2mo agoDHS was originally conceived in the interest of unity and harmony — and the phrase "homeland security" was originally meant to be reassuring. n.pr/4nOx8KP