State Department explicitly mentions "blacklists" and "McCarthy-era investigations" as effective tools at destroying the radical left. Full story: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/after-poli...
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
@keeanga.bsky.social
historian, co-founder of Hammer & Hope, @NewYorker, DEI hire https://www.keeangataylor.com/
New virtual event! 250 Years of Resistance Join @brianjoneseducator.bsky.social and @keeanga.bsky.social for a conversation about the inspiring history and extraordinary capacity of ordinary people to resist and organize for a better world. Friday, July 3rd Live from Chicago Get tickets:
Register now – 250 Years of Resistance: Brian Jones and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor in Conversation – National Public Housing Museum (919 South Ada Street))
250 Years of Resistance: Brian Jones and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor in Conversation – National Public Housing Museum (919 South Ada Street)), Fri Jul 3, 2026 - Take a break from the bizarre and depressin...
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"The working class is not waiting in a pure room somewhere. It is fragmented...Some of these spaces are politically confused. Some are compromised...But they are where politics is happening. A left that cannot engage contradiction cannot lead." africasacountry.com/2026/06/the-...
The left does not need priests of purity
If the South African left cannot engage the messy, contradictory spaces where working class politics are actually happening, then it cannot lead.
africasacountry.com
Sure looks like Republicans redrew the map in Tennessee to stop Memphis from sending Justin J. Pearson to Congress, who is/was poised to win the primary after fighting like hell against Elon Musk's methane-spewing data centre monstrosities in South Memphis. Craven, desperate and racist as hell.
Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3mo agoPowerful speech by Justin J. Pearson You spoke truth to power until power had no choice but to listen.
In 1964, when my father was 20 years old, he went to Mississippi to register voters as part of Freedom Summer. NPR interviewed us in 2021: www.npr.org/2021/07/14/1...
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Democrats all over the country regard their party’s leaders as feckless in the face of Trump’s blustering authoritarianism,” Michelle Goldberg writes. “A Democratic version of the Tea Party is emerging as voters seek to upend a system that they believe has failed them.”
Opinion | A Democratic Version of the Tea Party Is Emerging
No one should underestimate the white-hot fury of the party’s voters.
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How We Get Free Join @keeanga.bsky.social for a virtual conversation with Ula Y. Taylor about Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective Thursday, April 23rd at 5:00 pm ET RSVP to attend:
Register Now – How We Get Free: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Ula Y. Taylor – YouTube
How We Get Free: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Ula Y. Taylor – YouTube, Thu Apr 23, 2026 - Join Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Ula Y. Taylor as they celebrate the new edition of How We Get Free: Black Femi...
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The death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who was found on a Buffalo street in February — five days after Border Patrol agents left him at a doughnut shop — has been ruled a homicide, authorities said Wednesday. https://to.pbs.org/3NZGHsz
Death of a refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicide
The Erie County Medical Examiner's Office didn't reach any conclusions about responsibility for Nurul Amin Shah Alam's death.
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"The ghosts of Oakland’s Black past are remembered and mobilized by different constituencies for different political ends, as the vampiric appetites of gentrification feed on the blood and bones of culture and infrastructure." @drbrandi.bsky.social, on the specter of Blackness haunting Oakland, CA:
Oakland and the Ghosts of Urbicide
A specter of Blackness haunts Oakland, California, lingering palpably in cultural and material landscapes that have been shaped by generations of Black Oaklanders.
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@keeanga.bsky.social offers a sharp-eyed, historically rooted assessment of white supremacy's evolution under the Trump White House (tinyurl.com/2xf8csmn) and Khury Petersen-Smith contextualizes this current era of U.S. militarism within a broader history of U.S. imperialism. (tinyurl.com/j2ywj8sp).
I have been waiting for this story (because it's the story of my region and the wealth inequality therein) and I'm so happy that Hammer and Hope did it. Not just as news, but as a broader story of why they sicced DOGE on the feds.
What Happened to the Black Women Trump Purged From the Federal Work Force?
Over a year later, they are struggling to find financial footing and make sense of the racist backlash that displaced them.
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"The day of no work, no school, no shopping on Jan. 23 was the culmination of all the work that the unions had been doing before..." Marcia Howard, president of the teacher chapter of Minneapolis Federation of Educators Local 59 spoke to @lfelizleon.bsky.social hammerandhope.org/forums/minne...
Why Was Minnesota’s Resistance to ICE the Strongest Yet?
We asked five organizers to take us inside the Twin Cities’ response.
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The tenth issue of Hammer & Hope is now live! This issue features 18 stories that offer our readers insights into a wide range of prescient political and cultural topics, from the community resistance in Minnesota and Ohio to the enduring legacy of D'Angelo and more. Read here: hammerandhope.org
I wrote about white supremacy in the White House for the new issue of Hammer&Hope...
White Supremacy in Donald Trump’s White House
The administration’s crude vilification of anti-discrimination policies is meant to erase the radical promise of the Black freedom struggle.
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“Let us end the economic system that devours the people we love.” @keeanga.bsky.social
On the Origins of Genuine Intersectionality in Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s How We Get Free
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective was published in December 2017, less than one year into Donald Trump’s first term as President. At this p…
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Another great episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social talking about Minneapolis resistance organizing overcast.fm/+AAFPlzpzXhY
Minneapolis Fight Back w/ Emilia González Avalos, Greg Nammacher, JaNaé Bates Imari — The Dig
Featuring Emilia González Avalos, Greg Nammacher, and JaNaé Bates Imari on how Minneapolis achieved its fight back against ICE/Border Patrol occupation. A decade building aligned mass movements has ma...
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Out now from @haymarketbooks.org in DRM-free ebook format: How We Get Free (Updated 2nd Edition): Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective By @keeanga.bsky.social.
How We Get Free (Updated 2nd Edition)
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"God Bless America:" then he lists most of the countries in the hemisphere starting with Chile I think? this rules
In honor of Black History Month, here's a thread with one book recommendation a day.
NEW: Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon announced “we’re going to have ICE surround the polls come November,” and told Democrats they’re not going to “steal the country again.” The comments come amid rising concerns that Trump is plotting to interfere in this year’s midterms. https://bit.ly/3O6AIBY
This is absolutely insane: DHS claims the right to subpoena your emails and to send investigators to your house. In this case, because a retiree sent the mildest possible criticism to a prosecutor. No judges involved. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon
Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has weaponized administrative subpoenas to attack free speech, according to privacy and civil rights groups.
washingtonpost.com
U.S. immigration officials have imposed quarantines and stopped all movement inside a family detention facility in Texas after two measles cases were confirmed among detainees there, a DHS official said on Monday.
Measles Hits ICE Family Detention Center in Texas
The Department of Homeland Security has imposed a quarantine on a family detention center in Dilley, Texas, after two detainees contracted the disease.
nyti.ms
NEW: @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social is calling for Dilley Immigration Center to be “shut down immediately.” Dilley released Liam Ramos. But hundreds of children who remain in the facility are facing a measles outbreak. The highly contagious disease can be deadly. thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/02/h...
Hundreds of Kids, Including Infants, Are Still at the ICE Facility That Released Liam Ramos. Now There’s a Measles Outbreak.
Rep. Joaquin Castro, who visited last week, is calling for the facility to be “shut down immediately” after measles outbreak.
thebarbedwire.com
Congrats to Hakeem Jeffries. He’s worked so hard for this victory.
"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo agoHoman: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."
University of Arkansas–Little Rock professors withdrew from a lecture series due to censorship concerns after administrators proposed changes to programming on race and racism. Administrators were worried about riling state lawmakers. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
Lectures on Race Canceled at Arkansas-Little Rock
Professors at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock have nixed plans to participate in history lectures on racism and racial equity, due to censorship concerns, the Arkansas Times reported.
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