This framing makes me uneasy in our moment of renewed and escalating state violence, but this piece is rigorously researched and argued and should be read by anyone and everyone interested in defeating the current fascist regime.

julian francis park@malcontent.bsky.social · last mo.

For Field Notes, I wrote a history of the anti-deportation movement that, for now, culminated in defeating the White House's "surge" deportation operations in the Twin Cities earlier this year. This defeat halted the domestic momentum of the Trump administration. brooklynrail.org/2026/07/fiel...

For Field Notes, I wrote a history of the anti-deportation movement that, for now, culminated in defeating the White House's "surge" deportation operations in the Twin Cities earlier this year. This defeat halted the domestic momentum of the Trump administration. brooklynrail.org/2026/07/fiel...

On DHS, or Defeating Homeland Security: The Movement Against Deportations in the US, 2025–26 | The Brooklyn Rail

Over the past several years many had forgotten, or were in denial, that not only is the US a nation of immigrants but that everyone in the US relies on immigrants, directly or indirectly, every single...

brooklynrail.org

Mattick in China brooklynrail.org/2026/07/fiel...

Editor’s Note | The Brooklyn Rail

Like everyone else who has just returned from ten days in China, I feel compelled, if not authorized, to hold forth on the place. Unlike New York Times opinionizers and world-class pundits, I was not ...

brooklynrail.org

For Field Notes, I wrote a history of the anti-deportation movement that, for now, culminated in defeating the White House's "surge" deportation operations in the Twin Cities earlier this year. This defeat halted the domestic momentum of the Trump administration. brooklynrail.org/2026/07/fiel...

On DHS, or Defeating Homeland Security: The Movement Against Deportations in the US, 2025–26 | The Brooklyn Rail

Over the past several years many had forgotten, or were in denial, that not only is the US a nation of immigrants but that everyone in the US relies on immigrants, directly or indirectly, every single...

brooklynrail.org

In a couple of days, a history of the recent anti-deportations movement I wrote for Field Notes at the Brooklyn Rail will drop. I was working on this in one form or another for quite a while, so I'm pretty excited. I hope that comrades out there find it useful. Stay on the lookout.

If teachers walk out, it would be the third open-ended strike since 2019. The decision to go out would require 48 hours notice.

Oakland teachers union votes to authorize strike

If teachers walk out, it would be the third open-ended strike since 2019. The decision to go out would require 48 hours notice.

oaklandside.org

Man, what's gonna happen with the world?

Homan also says that bloodshed will continue until cities like Minneapolis end their sanctuary policies. The terror campaigns and political police murders of ICE/CBP are intended to overcome and break the policies won in previous struggles that have imperfectly protected immigrants.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo ago

Homan: "There will be more bloodshed unless we decrease the hateful rhetoric"

A stupid Marxish joke I chuckle to myself about whenever I think about that show Industry is that it is quite precisely not about industry at all, but, obviously, finance.

There are many great images of boomer political ineffectuality. One of my favorites is of someone standing solo at an arbitrary roadside location holding a cardboard political sign. Seen just now: an elder resting on their seated walker holding one reading DEI NOW.

Ashbery by the ambient light of the airplane. "It seems we were going home."

Often in life it is necessary to read or listen to the sentences that follow before deciding that you disagree with the present sentence you are encountering. I have lost much time over the years in disagreements that I imagined because I didn't finish the paragraph.

Here's a sneak peek at the Table of Contents for Heatwave Issue 2. We're excited for this issue and can't wait for you to read it. Subscribe before tomorrow (12/12) to get your copy!

Recently the focal point of my mother's free floating anxietyhas pivoted from concern about being scammed to volcano eruptions and earthquakes. I wonder if this is more or less agitating for her. At least she has gained some resilience against scammers?

I have this creeping sense that I'm forgetting to record essentials on my task list, which I have fallen way behind on maintaining, and it's got me vibrating

I just learned wikipedia has its own wrapped now, and while I love this I am even more deeply embarrassed to see the results of what I read there than I am to see reflected to me statistically what I listened to this year.

Yeah this was a weird thing, but in hindsight, it wasn't totally wrong. The thing that was wrong was to assume it would be this one product, rather than a full range of them, from hoverboards to scooters and ebikes.

Existential Comics@existentialcomics.com · 8mo ago

Younger people who didn't witness it cannot fathom the hype around the Segway. Every news station agreed it would revolutionize the entire social fabric of the Earth. That all future humans would divide history between the savage days of the past, and the soon to be new era of zoom zoom scoot scoot.

This article is a wild ride. Very thorough coverage of this vigilante squatter evicter by @natalieorenstein.bsky.social, down to sketching the range of landlords that hire Jacobs. Toward the end we get an encounter with comrade Christine Hernandez, as an examplar of squatting as reclamation.

Meet the sword-wielding man hired to kick squatters out of empty Oakland homes

A squatter removal cottage industry has grown out of California’s housing crisis, catering to property owners who don’t want to go to court.

oaklandside.org

Last Friday I attended a gathering at the apt of a friend with a passion for petty theft. When leaving the apartment later w others, we noticed near the elevators the offensive scent of a plugin air "freshener." I did my part & pocketed the plugin, tossing it a few blocks away.

I always think about this kind of project when I see public and private fruit trees unharvested, but I had no idea this was going on at this scale, pretty cool...

The Oaklandside@oaklandside.org · 8mo ago

Oakland Gleaners and Alameda’s Project Pick have had record years, redistributing a combined 11 tons of fruit to those in need.

The tragedy of Rahmanullah Lakanwal strings together blowback after blowback. Trained in CIA deathsquads in the aftermath of chickens coming home in 9/11, his family is granted asylum in the wind down, then his demons drive him to attack representatives of the war machine.

You had to have guessed that though it went unreported at first, Trump's comments about his & Mamdani's alignment on public safety/crime indicated they had come to an agreement on ICE. It sounded just like the story about SF Mayor Lurie's call with Trump. (The post cut off below so here's the tweet)

Drop Site@dropsitenews.com · 9mo ago

“We certainly were clear about our disagreements in the room, and the Mayor-elect made clear that we uphold sanctuary laws in our city and all immigrants will be safe in our city.” Elle Bisgaard-Church, Mamdani’s chief of staff, attended the meeting with Trump, and said they discussed crime and...

May have mentioned a while back. but I've been intermittently working through the Bible for my first time. So much wild stuff in there lol. Like today, I read about how soon-to-be-king David was running a protection racket in the wake of Samuel's death.

Hearing Zohran and Trump express their intent to collaborate on affordability, and Trump affirm his sense that Zohran would take on public safety and crime, brought to mind the old Comintern phrase for social democrats, "social fascism." Not defending the concept, per se, but...

NEW: Federal prison workers are jumping ship & heading to ICE for better pay + bonuses. Already BOP lost >1400 people this year, reversing all of 2024’s staffing gains. It’s an unintended consequence of Trump’s push for mass deportations My 1st for @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

As Federal Prisons Run Low on Food and Toilet Paper, Corrections Officers Leave in Droves for ICE

Many of the problems the agency is facing now are not new, but staff and prisoners fear an exodus of officers could make life behind bars even worse.

propublica.org

This story from yesterday's attempted ICE kidnapping in West Oakland somewhat implies but doesn't claim that the ability of the parent to escape had to do with the anti-ICE patrol identify the feds earlier that morning. Would be curious to hear someone's on the ground assessment.

San Francisco Chronicle@sfchronicle.com · 9mo ago

A parent dropping their child off at an elementary school was apparently targeted by ICE in Oakland. After the attempted arrest, parents and community members gathered to protest the ICE activity. Read more → www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/arti... 📸: @jachristian.bsky.social/S.F. Chronicle

A conspiracy theory I believe in is that two factor ID code numbers sent to text display potentially meaningful patterns. They give me the pleasant feeling of the flarf poetics of old school, pre-"AI" but obviously compute generated spam emails.

The fact that they can't get a random sampling of citizens from any city to indict people for interfering with ICE seems more informative than any political poll, tbh

Seth Stern@sethstern.bsky.social · 10mo ago

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

As ICE storms Chicagoland, Chicago’s organizers speak. Stacy Davis Gates, Benji Hart, Arti Walker-Peddakotla, Ric Wilson, and others discuss ongoing ICE raids, Trump’s threats to send in the National Guard, and the solidarity we need to survive these times. Audio + transcript:

Raids, Retaliation, and Radical Solidarity in Chicago

“History shows us that repression always breeds resistance,” says Chicago organizer Miguel Alvelo Rivera.

truthout.org

Far-right and neo-Nazis school shooters have carried out numerous deadly attacks this year - many influenced by and posting on, the same websites - yet the mass media and politicians focus on manufactured fantasies of left-wing violence. www.kunc.org/news/2025-09...

Evergreen school shooting suspect posted online about mass shootings and neo-Nazi views, report says

Experts say a teenager suspected in a shooting attack at a suburban Denver high school that left two students in critical condition appeared fascinated with previous mass shootings including Columbine...

kunc.org