Looks like we’re using Gitmo to imprison immigrants again. This is an ICE charter airline owned by ICE’s flight broker using the callsign they use for all their ICE flights.
Devastating reporting. "The common factor is that constraints on targeting were minimised in the interests of an open-ended mission. Since the start of the war in 2023, no Israeli soldier has been convicted of wrongful death or war crimes in Gaza operations." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
‘Guilt by association’: why seven international aid workers were killed in Israeli airstrike
Exclusive: Guardian investigation reveals targeting of World Central Kitchen convoy was result of widely used military tactic
theguardian.com
Michelle Millette’s Sherwood Forest Zine Library in Austin is part of a growing culture and community surrounding zines — self-published, easy-to-distribute booklets.
Inside the 3,000-Zine Library in a Texas Living Room
Michelle Millette’s Sherwood Forest Zine Library in Austin is part of a growing culture and community surrounding the self-published, easy-to-distribute booklets.
hyperallergic.com
If you want to hear more about the report and if you want to hear about how you can create your own local snapshot, you are invited to join @librariesftp.bsky.social on October 8 (during Banned Books Week). This is a virtual event - www.eventbrite.com/e/for-the-pe...
For The People: Public Library Snapshots
Join FTP for a discussion about our collection of snapshots that gives an overview of different public library systems in the U.S.
eventbrite.com
Good morning, @librariesftp.bsky.social's September newsletter is out and it's a good one. It features information about a new report how public library systems are funded, governed, and used by communities.+ librariesforthepeople.substack.com/p/for-the-pe...
For The People Newsletter Vol. XLIII
For everyone working to strengthen and expand public libraries
librariesforthepeople.substack.com
Top Correction Department leaders are actively working to undermine the court-appointed officials overseeing the troubled jail system, the federal monitor warned this week.
Federal Monitor Says Mamdani Jails Chief Is Blocking Rikers Island Oversight
Monitor Steve Martin told a federal judge that Commissioner Stanley Richards was butting into his communications with jail staff.
thecityreporter.nyc
NOTUS@notus.com · 2d agoHHS is canceling infant mortality and postpartum grants to focus instead on research related to what the department says are “root causes” like sperm counts and erectile dysfunction. https://www.notus.org/health-science/hhs-cancels-infant-mortality-postpartum-grants-focus-infertility
Another person has died at Delaney Hall, the second in a period of months, supposedly of an unspecified "medical emergency." His name is Edwin Lopez-Cornejo. He was just 41 years old. When we fight against ICE, we are fighting to save lives. This is urgent. crimethinc.com/DelaneyStrat...
Tactics at Delaney Hall: A Strategic Appraisal
An appraisal of the tactics that protesters have employed outside Delaney Hall with two interviews from the front lines.
crimethinc.com
Yonette Joseph@sugarcane99.bsky.social · last mo.A Salvadoran immigrant, Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo, who was being held at a troubled federal detention center in Newark, New Jersey, has died, according to the city’s mayor and Senator Andy Kim www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/n...
"Their task was simple enough: drop the items, along with school supplies, at a nearby apartment complex. Talking about it is less simple." www.decaturish.com/news/dekalb/...
Mutual aid group quietly feeds families fearing ICE
STAND, a Decatur-based mutual aid group, has been quietly delivering food and school supplies to DeKalb County apartment complexes repeatedly targeted by ICE, where fear has kept families from leaving...
decaturish.com
great article recently in @nextcity.org about this re: libraries, including some quotes from multnomah county librarians
America’s Libraries Have a New Job: Keeping People Alive in the Heat
As heat waves grow longer and deadlier, public libraries are stepping up as cooling centers and shelters – often without dedicated funding.
nextcity.org
Always read @derecka.bsky.social. that is all. ALSO, if folks are actually interested in the roots of "Defund" - @dreanyc123.bsky.social and I write about it in No More Police: thenewpress.org/books/no-mor... [for people who read more than headlines]
No More Police - The New Press
An instant national best sellerA persuasive primer on police abolition from two veteran organizers “One of the world’s most prominent advocates, organizers and political educators of the [abolitionist...
thenewpress.org
Read this yesterday and I always appreciate Kelly's insights.
Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2w agoI had some feelings to express about the "Woke 1" discourse.
“Every day I’m crying,” Renita Theus, 41, said outside her darkened apartment, where her car remained trapped under a fallen tree. “It’s hot … I walked to the dollar store and they’re all out of candles and batteries.” "She lost her cleaning job in Chicago … because she was not able to travel."
Desperation Mounts as Thousands in Indiana Endure 10 Days Without Power
Floods from powerful thunderstorms devastated Gary, where a third of residents live below the poverty line and full restoration isn’t expected until next week.
nytimes.com
Dolly did what other disaster nonprofits are too chicken shit to do — she gave the families affected by a wildfire a universal basic income. www.bpr.org/news/2018-12...
How Dolly Parton Gave $12.5 Million And Unprecedented Research To Sevier County
It’s been two years since wildfires burned Western North Carolina and devastated the town of Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Country music superstar Dolly Parton…
bpr.org
And our full conversation, where we talk about the parallel mechanisms for carrying out genocide from here to Palestine, is here on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lGT...
The 250-Year History of American Fascism
YouTube video by Jewish Voice for Peace
youtube.com
My latest republished in @truthout.org. "Florida is really ground zero for how much immigration enforcement is changing and expanding." - @silkys13.bsky.social
How Do We Sustain Momentum for the Anti-ICE Movement Over Time?
Silky Shah, executive director of Detention Watch Network, discusses how the fight against ICE has entered a new phase.
truthout.org
What borders are mostly protecting is stolen wealth and stolen land and the insecurity that comes with knowing that the theft was unjust.
Borders Are Drawn to Protect Stolen Wealth. They Are a Process, Not a Place.
From Europe to the US, politicians are expanding the violence of border policing and scapegoating migrants.
truthout.org
Quincy Institute: 17 new firms registered under FARA to work for Israeli interests in 2024 and 2025. quincyinst.org/research/the...
The Eighth Front: Inside Israel’s $1 Billion Influence Campaign
The Israeli government has spent more than $1 billion in direct expenditures on public diplomacy since the Hamas–led attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, a dramatic escalation in such spending. This represents…
quincyinst.org
🇵🇸A 15-year-old Palestinian boy remains unconscious in intensive care & may lose his right foot after Israel denied him treatment in prison as his health collapsed, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club said. Mohammed Hamid developed scabies in Israeli custody, but prison authorities withheld necessary...
Settler violence escalates, with illegal outposts and frequent attacks reported across Ramallah, Hebron and Nablus.
Palestinian children among those detained in Israeli West Bank raids
Settler violence escalates, with illegal outposts and frequent attacks reported across Ramallah, Hebron and Nablus.
aljazeera.com
Yesterday marked James Baldwin’s birthday and the beginning of Black August. In his honor, we remember his enduring words: “I am anti-Zionist. I don’t believe [Zionists] have the right, after 3,000 years, to reclaim the land with western bombs and guns.”
As Israeli military attacks continue, we refuse to look away. Tell Congress: vote NO on funding war. jvp.org/notoNDAA
Fund people, not bombs.
Congress will soon have multiple opportunities to block weapons to Israel and to oppose any more funding for the war on Iran. Act now.
jvp.org
Over the weekend, a premature fetus was recovered from the rubble after an Israeli airstrike killed its pregnant mother. In another strike, 4 people were killed in their car.
New York Police Department investigators deployed an extensive array of high-tech surveillance and investigative tools to identify the alleged vandal, according to documents from the court case provided exclusively to The Intercept.
That is why he cannot abide by the IHRA definition of antisemitism. As he states, “silence is complicity” and “never again is now.” We will not be silenced! Learn more at www.jvp.org/ViolateIHRA
"We have no choice but to disobey": Scholars Violate Discredited IHRA Definition - JVP
We have no choice but to disobey. The following scholars have engaged in an act of civil disobedience in defiance of the discredited IHRA definition.
jvp.org
Dr. Salaman Khan, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University’s Irvine Medical Center, takes his oath to do no harm very seriously.
www.jvpnyc.org/breakthebond... please sign the open letter to NYC Comptroller asking him not to reinvest in Israel Bonds fueling genocide @prisonculture.bsky.social @dreanyc123.bsky.social @markruffalo.bsky.social @maxrn.bsky.social @karenortizesq.bsky.social
Break the Bonds NYC — JVP-NYC
New Yorkers Say: No City Money for Israel Bonds! Join our campaign to stop Comptroller Mark Levine from reinvesting in Israel Bonds.
jvpnyc.org
Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities
theguardian.com
In Issue No. 11, @hadasthier.bsky.social asked more than two dozen organizers in cities around the country this question: What lessons can be learned from how the resistance in Minnesota and beyond came together? hammerandhope.org/article/ice-...
Inside the Nationwide Resistance to the ICE Invasions
The mass popular opposition to ICE “surges” led to a sea change in public opinion. Now organizers are asking: What’s next?
hammerandhope.org