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Boston Anarchist Bookfair @boston-a-bookfair.bsky.social · 15h
The BABF is back on Nov 7-8 at the Camb Community Center, where we’re hosting a bookfair celebrating anarchism & its many forms Authors, publishers, organizers, punks, queers, abolitionists, & accomplices of all kinds—come through for one of the longest-running anarchist bookfairs on the East Coast
poster with text reading: boston anarchist bookfair above a circle A with a drawing of a black cat wrapped around it. text below the circle A reads: nov 7 and 8 20026, cambridge community center, bostonanarchistbookfair.org
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 06/10/2026
People in Ithaca sent a message to those who would normalize sexual assault on campus, paying a visit to Cornell’s main administrative building, Day Hall, which houses the office of the university president. If graffiti didn't change anything, it would be legal. crimethinc.com/KillPower
Day Hall at Cornell University vandalized early Monday morning, October 5, 2026, with graffiti reading "Smash the patriarchy" and "At Cornell, rapists are protected, protestors are expelled."
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Chris Dixon @withmovements.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My book FOR THE LONG HAUL is out now from @akpress.org and @btlbooks.com! I am honored that @literaryhub.bsky.social is running this excerpt on the importance of radical organizing with intention and steadiness.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I say this over and over again. It’s trans rights. It’s immigrant rights. It’s Palestinian lives. It’s always been Black and indigenous lives. No one is free until everyone is free is a warning, not a mantra!
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 21/09/2026
The Minnesota 15 Anti-Repression Committee is calling for a national day of solidarity actions on Saturday, October 3 to support all those targeted by ICE, including the 15 defendants who were federally indicted for allegedly taking part in resisting the ICE occupation of the Twin Cities.
A flier with a butterfly, reading:

DEFEND THE MINNESOTA 15

Abolish ICE!
Return the abducted and deported!
Drop the charges!

15 activists have been federally indicted for their role in the Twin Cities' historic movement against ICE. The Trump regime wants to make an example of them to stop all of us from fighting back.

On Saturday, October 3rd, the Minnesota 15 Anti-Repression Committee is calling for a national day of solidarity actions to show the regime we will not back down. Plan an action at your local ICE office or federal building!
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
With all the doom and gloom headlines about AI apocalypse, I wrote for the NYT about something hopeful: the successful and growing rebellion against Flock cameras. People do care about their privacy, it turns out. You just have to show them a viable path to reclaim it. (Gift link)
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Opinion | How Flock Cameras Became the Enemy (Gift Article)
The campaign against Flock shows that fighting to protect personal privacy isn’t a lost cause.
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City Limits News @citylimitsnews.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“A group of radical activists took over a tiny park near Wall Street and did the seemingly impossible: They got thousands of disaffected, cynical, frustrated people—including me—to believe that a better world was possible.” citylimits.org/opinion-15-y...
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Opinion: 15 Years After Occupy, We Must Remember the Power of Collective Action - City Limits
"A group of radical activists took over a tiny park near Wall Street and did the seemingly impossible: They got thousands of disaffected, cynical, frustrated people—including me—to believe that a bett...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 18/09/2026
Fifteen years after Occupy Wall Street, organizer Yotam Marom says its deepest impact was how it "changed the public's common sense about class and class struggle and inequality in this country." Marom's new book is "For Louder Days: Reaching Beyond a Politics of Powerlessness."
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James Kelly @jamesfkelly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Multimillionaires like Sheeran, who have no credible material fears for their future, are often the least principled among us." I interviewed author/musician Dave Randall about the myth of the apolitical pop star and how fans can support artists against genocide: www.plutobooks.com/blog/dave-ra...
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Dave Randall on Ed Sheeran, Macklemore, and the Myth of Political Neutrality - Pluto Press
When Macklemore was dropped from Ed Sheeran’s Loop tour for expressing solidarity with Palestine, it reignited a fierce debate about censorship, solidarity, and the cost of so-called political neutral...
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Matthew Dineen @heartsandbrains.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“We are in love with the world and enraged at those who would let it burn.” @naomiaklein.bsky.social
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor (center, right) discussing their new book End Times Fascism at the Coolidge Corner Theater in Brookline last night
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
First excerpt from End Times Fascism! So happy The Guardian went for the part of the book about the wonder of THIS world, and the people doing everything to commit to it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The end times fascists are plotting their escape from our world. Our mission is clear
An unholy alliance is working toward an apocalyptic future from which only a chosen few will emerge unscathed. It’s becoming clear how we stop them
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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Solidarity with my Rutgers comrade Noura Erakat! Free Palestine!
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Human rights lawyer Noura Erakat arrested at hearing against Israel Bonds
Palestinian human rights lawyer Noura Erakat was arrested in Florida after speaking against an Israel Bonds investment.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 15/09/2026
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor discuss their new book, "End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World."
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“End Times Fascism”: Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor on Billionaires, Bunkers, AI, Gaza & the Far Right
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor launch their new book, End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World on Democracy Now! It examines how wealthy elites are preparing for “the end of the world,” eve...
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
25 years later, I live in New York, I'm married to a New Yorker who lost family in 9/11. But I, my community, my child, are still subject to the same hateful discourse that villifies every Arab, every Muslim, that casts every demand for safety & freedom as illegitimate. 5/
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
9/11/2001 I was a freshman in high school in Alabama, I wore a hijab. In gym class my teacher wheeled in a screen. Something horrible was happening. I watched, mouth agape as the second tower hit. We were silent. As that period reached an end, my name was announced on the loud speaker. 1/
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Matthew Dineen @heartsandbrains.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"Bush, Cheney, Obama, and Biden, as well as a raft of politicians, government functionaries, and all who went along with the madness unleashed by the attacks, played key roles in helping hobble the U.S. in the 25 years since the September 11."
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 11/09/2026
As soon as the attacks occurred on September 11, 2001, we designed this poster and began circulating it. We knew the attacks on the United States didn't come out of nowhere. And as the patriots waved their flags, we knew that it wouldn't be long before there were hundreds of thousands more dead.


https://crimethinc.com/posters/your-leaders-cant-protect-you
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Fired After the Charlie Kirk Revenge Purge, They’re Still Unemployed A year after his killing, people who lost their jobs for criticizing Charlie Kirk are still suffering under the erosion of free speech. A must-read by @jesswash.bsky.social theintercept.com/2026/09/10/c...
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Fired After the Charlie Kirk Revenge Purge, They’re Still Unemployed
A year after his killing, people who lost their jobs for criticizing Charlie Kirk are still suffering under the erosion of free speech.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"We grieve the worlds we've known and what it felt like to live in them, and people are part of that. We grieve the fact that someone or something that accompanied us through the world will no longer accompany us through whatever comes next." organizingmythoughts.org/grief-is-not...
“We often misunderstand something fundamental when we imagine people are simply grieving a person they believed to be wholly good.

Often, they are grieving a kind of accompaniment.

They are grieving the way someone's music, art, words, performances, or ideas helped carry them through the world ... They are grieving a bedroom they sat in twenty-five years ago, listening to the same album over and over, or a book that knocked down walls when they were nineteen. They are grieving nights spent with friends they no longer know and conversations they can barely remember. They are grieving their own proximity to death, as marked by the disappearance of someone whose presence in the world always seemed continuous with their own, until it wasn't.” - Kelly Hayes
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Huge picket line of workers on strike outside the Encore Casino in Everett, Massachusetts. Contracts for thousands of workers expired Monday.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
As usual, @keeanga.bsky.social brings facts, seriousness and depth to the fake debates. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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Was “Defund the Police” Crazy?
A reckoning with the “woke” years.
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 02/09/2026
Milo Yiannopoulos is in the news presenting himself as a victim of the very same state violence he explicitly called for. It's a good time to revisit this text from 2017 explaining why people mobilize against Milo's efforts to promote fascism: "It’s Not Your Speech, Milo" crimethinc.com/milo
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It’s Not Your Speech, Milo
Milo Yiannopoulos maintains there is a difference between words and action. Yet his agenda is not to defend free speech — it is to legitimize the violence of the state.
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“What we found is that the only demographic of Americans that really believes that AI will both improve their lives and improve society are men 65 years old and older, which I would say is probably the cohort that owns more stocks than anyone else.” @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social of @heatmap.news
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The AI Data Center Backlash
A conversation on the groundswell of local organizing and the movement’s political shockwaves.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
is it good if Hudson News at the airport is like “we’re living in a sci fi hellscape dystopia yall”
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Boston Anarchist Bookfair @boston-a-bookfair.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Propose a workshop at this year’s bookfair! We are now accepting applications until September 21st. The form is available at: tinyurl.com/BABF2026workshops
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Encrypted Form
CryptPad: end-to-end encrypted collaboration suite
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah
An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Hundreds of youth took over the streets in #Minneapolis as part of a massive anti-Flock scooter demonstration against state surveillance. Video via @/citycasttwincities.
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 18/08/2026
Making Halloween a night of action against surveillance cameras is a perfectly reasonable idea. crimethinc.com/surveillance...
An image of a hand sticking a finger in the lens of a surveillance camera.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Wow this is huge. Rhode Island's Governor just became the first (I believe?) in the nation to call for a moratorium on installation of Flock cameras and other ALPRs www.wpri.com/news/politic...
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McKee calls for statewide pause on installing automated license plate readers
On Tuesday, Gov. Dan McKee announced that he had directed Rhode Island State Police and the Department of Public Safety to conduct a 60-day “comprehensive review” of ALPR systems.
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
“You can’t have pie-in-the-sky optimism, but an optimism rooted in fact and history and the politics of change is something all of us, particularly young people, desperately need.” A conversation with @edgeofsports.bsky.social:
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That’s How Change Happens
Dave Zirin on writing the life of Howard Zinn–and why his legacy points the way forward at the country’s semiquincentennial.
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Boston Anarchist Bookfair @boston-a-bookfair.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
just a reminder that tabling applications for our bookfair are open until 8/31 this year 🏴🐈‍⬛🖤🐈‍⬛🏴
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 17/08/2026
As the movement against Flock cameras gathers momentum, we have reprinted a sticker attacking surveillance. Flock is not the only surveillance company, and cameras are not the only form of surveillance. Put these up everywhere to identify the root of the problem. 🏴 crimethinc.com/Surveillance...
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You Are Under Surveillance 2026
As a movement against Flock cameras gathers momentum, we have reprinted a sticker attacking surveillance.
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AK Press @akpress.org · 11/08/2026
"As a Panther, and as someone who went underground as an urban guerrilla, I have put my life on the line. I have watched my comrades die and spent most of my adult life in prison. But I still believe that we can win." —Ashanti Alston, 𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘗𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘞𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪 𝘖. 𝘈𝘭𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘯
A photo of the cover of Anarchist Panther: The Selected Writings of Ashanti O. Alston, centered over a rug with floral deep purple and blue tones. "Anarchist Panther" is in sharp, slightly right diagonal upward orange text, almost like a comic book, and stands out on top of the green - black photo portrait of Ashanti. A scan of a black and white collaged page from one of Ashanti Alston's zines he made in the '90s. There are two columns of photobooth photos of Ashanti with a drawing of a black panther in a cage between them. Below them is a narrow grey portait rectangular column that reads (in Western-style font) "ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE!"
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 12/08/2026
#OtD 12 Aug 2017 32-year-old anti-racist Heather Heyer was killed and 19 injured in a neo-Nazi terror attack in Charlottesville, VA. Heather was one of many protesting a white supremacist rally when a Nazi drove his car deliberately into the crowd stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8376...
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I know everything feels terrible and doomy but I've been working on surveillance issues for most of my adult life and I have never seen so much energy, momentum, and concrete VICTORIES happening as what we are seeing right now on Flock cameras and facial recognition in venues. Keep. Going.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"Elections can change the conditions in which we struggle, sometimes dramatically. But observing and reacting to electoral events will not build the relationships, networks, skills, and forms of collective power that we are going to need." organizingmythoughts.org/resisting-to...
“Democrats appear poised to capitalize on Trump's failures without offering anything politically transformative. This is a model of politics that has already been out-wrestled by fascism. Without a larger shift in the balance of power, it will eventually be out-wrestled again. We need leftward momentum, and a level of organization and built power that the Democrats would shudder to defy.” - Kelly Hayes
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I’m seeing a lot of people hang their hopes and all their attention on the midterms. Electoral organizing matters, but full-time spectatorship won’t build the power we need. I wrote about checking in with yourself about where your attention is going and what you’re doing with it.
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Resisting Total Electoral Absorption
It may be worth checking in with ourselves, from time to time, about what, if anything, our attention is cultivating.
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Matthew Dineen @heartsandbrains.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I’m excited for this event tonight and can’t wait to read @edgeofsports.bsky.social’s new book about Howard Zinn www.harvard.com/event/dave-z...
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Dave Zirin at Harvard Book Store
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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
To commemorate today’s official book release of “The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn” I wrote the following column for @thenation.com “Liberals Are Shaming Howard Zinn’s Memory Yet Again” thenation.com/article/soci...
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Liberals Are Shaming Howard Zinn’s Memory Yet Again
Zinn saw firsthand what happened when liberals did more to fight the left than the right—they sabotaged their own power.
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 04/08/2026
"Every Flock license plate reader camera operated by the Winona Police Department has been sawed off and stolen in what investigators believe was a coordinated [act of civic duty]." Blinding the cyclops, wrecking the panopticon. crimethinc.com/blindingthec...
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All of Winona Police Department’s Flock cameras cut down and stolen
Lost cameras valued at about $24,000
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Boston Anarchist Bookfair @boston-a-bookfair.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Our bookfair will be Nov. 7 & 8 this year. Our tabling application is now live, and will be open until 8/31. Apply here: cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for... 🐈‍⬛🏴🖤🏴🐈‍⬛
a poster with a black cat. text reads: "boston anarchist bookfair nov. 7 and 8 2026"
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 30/07/2026
"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
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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
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 02/08/2026
Working with anarchist artist NO BONZO, we've made a support poster to inform people about the Minneapolis 15 case. 15 people are federally charged with conspiracy for allegedly defending their neighborhoods from ICE. Please print these out and post them everywhere! crimethinc.com/posters/supp...
A poster reading:

Support the Minnesota fifteen!

The US Attorney’s Office in Minneapolis has charged fifteen people with “conspiracy to impede federal officers,” accusing them of defending their neighborhoods from ICE.

Across Minnesota and all around the country, hundreds of thousands of people have come together to form rapid response networks and protect their neighbors from mercenaries who are separating parents from their children and brutalizing people regardless of their immigration status. As ICE agents murder people in the streets, federal authorities want to pretend that those who stand up to ICE represent the real threat to the public.

This prosecution is a part of NSPM-7, the Trump administration’s initiative to turn the War on Terror against “antifa”—which is to say, against anyone who opposes fascism. The goal of these charges is to intimidate people out of standing up for each other. Make no mistake, this prosecution is directed at all who do not welcome authoritarianism. If it succeeds, they will repeat this strategy again, targeting more and more people.

In the face of fascist violence, the only route to safety is collective organizing. Solidarity is self-preservation. The harder it is for them to capture today’s targets, the longer it will take them to target the rest of us.

Support the Minnesota fifteen!

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
AI surveillance at concerts doesn't seem as scary as, say, use by law enforcement. but here's the thing everyone needs to understand: government surveillance is built on top of corporate surveillance. If we allow facial recognition to creep into private spaces, it can and will be used for fascism
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Opinion | Taylor Swift was able to buy her privacy at MSG. What about the rest of us?
Reports that Madison Square Garden temporarily shut off its facial recognition system for Swift’s wedding expose a glaring problem with how the elite wield and control mass surveillance.
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Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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-...
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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?
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Video by @jtcestkowski.bsky.social · 1h “I believe we will win!” Protesters chant as they occupy the intersection of John Nolen Drive and Willy St. in Madison over the killing of Corey Ruiz. posted on X just over an hour ago (10 pm in Madison)
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American Worker @americanwork47.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Only a few more days until People Do Come Home—An Event for the @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social and All Political Prisoners with Matt Meyer, Ashanti Alston, Diana Block, Josh Harper, Ray Luc Levasseur, Julie Herrada. Watch live and thereafter: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhcf...
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People Do Come Home - An Event for the Prairieland Defendants and All Political Prisoners
YouTube video by Common Notions
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Matthew Dineen @heartsandbrains.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"The answer is yes. It’s all of those things. The new Red Scare isn’t aimed against one of those groups, it’s aimed at all of them. At all of us. And we should act like it."
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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Their inability to even decisively lose in Iran, the bottom falling out of the AI boom, they are turning all their attention to repression, red scare, economic punishment (Canada tarrifs) and now medicaid attacks. They are cornered, terrified and flailing. Extremely dangerous, extremely weak
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Matthew Dineen @heartsandbrains.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
#AbolishICE
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