Reposted by julian francis parkSam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 03/07/2026This 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. 011
Reposted by julian francis parkjulian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · 02/07/2026For 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...brooklynrail.orgOn DHS, or Defeating Homeland Security: The Movement Against Deportations in the US, 2025–26 | The Brooklyn RailOver 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... 197
Reposted by julian francis parkCominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Mattick in China brooklynrail.org/2026/07/fiel...brooklynrail.orgEditor’s Note | The Brooklyn RailLike 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 ... 0105
julian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · 02/07/2026For 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...brooklynrail.orgOn DHS, or Defeating Homeland Security: The Movement Against Deportations in the US, 2025–26 | The Brooklyn RailOver 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... 197
julian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · 29/06/2026In 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. 030
Reposted by julian francis parkThe Oaklandside @oaklandside.org · 23/02/2026If teachers walk out, it would be the third open-ended strike since 2019. The decision to go out would require 48 hours notice.oaklandside.orgOakland teachers union votes to authorize strikeIf teachers walk out, it would be the third open-ended strike since 2019. The decision to go out would require 48 hours notice. 052
julian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Homan 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. 010
julian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · 07/01/2026A 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. 120
julian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · 28/12/2025There 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. 120
julian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · 21/12/2025Ashbery by the ambient light of the airplane. "It seems we were going home." 000
julian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Often 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. 000
Reposted by julian francis parkHeatwave Magazine @htwvmag.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Here'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! 1126
julian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Recently 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? 010
julian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · 04/12/2025I 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 010
julian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · 03/12/2025I 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. 000
julian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Yeah 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. 020
julian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · 03/12/2025This 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.oaklandside.orgMeet the sword-wielding man hired to kick squatters out of empty Oakland homesA squatter removal cottage industry has grown out of California’s housing crisis, catering to property owners who don’t want to go to court. 120
julian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Last 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. 110
julian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · 30/11/2025I 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... 010
julian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · 28/11/2025The 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. 100
julian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · 22/11/2025You 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) 020
julian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · 22/11/2025May 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. 000
julian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · 22/11/2025Hearing 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... 010
Reposted by julian francis parkKeri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 21/11/2025NEW: 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-...propublica.orgAs Federal Prisons Run Low on Food and Toilet Paper, Corrections Officers Leave in Droves for ICEMany 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. 30441227
julian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · 20/11/2025This 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. 010
julian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · 07/11/2025A 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. 000
Reposted by julian francis parkGhostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 08/10/2025The 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 101092306
Reposted by julian francis parkPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18/09/2025As 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:truthout.orgRaids, Retaliation, and Radical Solidarity in Chicago“History shows us that repression always breeds resistance,” says Chicago organizer Miguel Alvelo Rivera. 1297158
Reposted by julian francis parkIt's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 21/09/2025Far-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...kunc.orgEvergreen school shooting suspect posted online about mass shootings and neo-Nazi views, report saysExperts 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... 220780
julian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · 19/09/2025To defend the center/left from political & institutional collapse they would need to borrow tactics from left movements or to rally masses of people to themselves, both of which would require some degree of center/left hegemony. That's gone, largely by their own hand. 110
Reposted by julian francis parkLindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Antifa is not an organization, it's an orientation. Anyone can be antifascist. Everyone should be. 1450198
Reposted by julian francis parkjournalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Online SRT lab is in an hour! QR code in the original poster was broken. ZOOM LINK HERE 👇🏽 purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/9206239251... 023
julian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · 04/09/2025I'm not much of a novel reader anymore but an incredible thing about them can be the demonstration that everyday people's conversations are beautiful. Perhaps listening to novels, as I mostly do now, even emphasizes this. The task is to carry this recognition into daily life. 100
Reposted by julian francis parkIt's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Labor unions and other organizations organized a march to demand the end to the military occupation of DC today. 116254
Reposted by julian francis parkOakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 29/08/2025BREAKING "Several purported detainees at the Alligator Alcatraz migrant prison, and their families, contacted Noticias 23 to report that riots were taking place at this migrant prison in the Florida Everglades." www.univision.com/local/miami-...univision.com“Muchas personas sangrando”: migrantes denuncian supuestos disturbios en Alcatraz de los CaimanesVarios supuestos detenidos en la cárcel de migrantes Alcatraz de los Caimanes o Alligator Alcatraz, y sus familiares, se comunicaron con Noticias 23 para denunciarque en esta cárcel de migrantes en lo... 19858
julian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · 28/08/2025As further national guard deployments loom, along with ongoing DHS human snatching ops, I keep thinking about this sentence from T Derbent (who came to my attention as the author of a history of The German Communist Resistance against fascism). 110
julian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Lateish last night I completely killed the vibe hanging out in the kitchen with my partner when I accidentally went into exhaustive detail recounting the plot of the film Barbarians which I had then just watched and which had thoroughly struck me with dread. 000
Reposted by julian francis parkProPublica @propublica.org · 24/08/2025Many of the men deported to CECOT said they are permanently changed: struggling to sleep, drink water or leave their homes. One man broke into tears describing how he had a panic attack the first time he walked down a busy Venezuelan street. propublica.orgWhat I Witnessed as I Photographed the Disappearances and the Homecomings of My CountrymenOver the past four months, a photojournalist documented the lives of five families whose sons had been imprisoned in El Salvador, including their long-awaited reunions. CECOT left a mark on the men, t... 9231031368
Reposted by julian francis parkKeeanga-Yamahtta Taylor @keeanga.bsky.social · 15/08/2025My latest in the new edition of Hammer and Hope. 03617
Reposted by julian francis parkmadeline lane-mckinley 🍉🍉🍉 @lalouverouge.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Just turned in my final round of proofs. Guess this is happening for real now. Out November 4th: 1143
julian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Trying to think about the present relevance of Mike Davis's Prisoners of the American Dream, I slid into a detour thru his late writing. It reminded me that when he passed, I'd hoped someone would assemble a bibliography of his uncollected work. Here's my contribution. Let me know what I missed.jfprk.wordpress.comMike Davis’s Last Years, A Bibliography in Progress: 2020-2022With some comrades, I am reading Mike Davis’s Prisoners of the American Dream (1986), as a way to understand the pre-history of our present. Doing so has reminded me that after the great Marx… 010
Reposted by julian francis parkMelinda's century of humiliation @melindamagpie.bsky.social · 11/08/2025“The reason is the organized resistance: the people who literally went to war with them in Paramount, in Compton, in Bell and Huntington Park,” said Ron Gochez, a member of Unión del Barrio, an independent political group that patrols neighborhoods to alert residents of immigration sweeps. 015575
Reposted by julian francis parkSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Two things can be true: 1) The President has legal authority over the D.C. police and the D.C. National Guard that he doesn't have *anywhere else* in the country; & 2) Even if this doesn't set a legal precedent, it sets an ominous *political* precedent for pretextually overriding local government. 399115562810
julian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · 11/08/2025When the nat guard/feds kill someone in DC, probably, it's going to go down. Some have called Trump 2.0 a revenge tour for the 2020 Rebellion, seems more correct today (tho not the whole story). Seems at least likely, that he's hoping to provoke, so he can crush, an uprising. 010
Reposted by julian francis parkNick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 07/08/2025What Court Order? Federal Agents Keep Raiding LA Workplaces Despite Ban theintercept.com/2025/08/07/i...theintercept.comWhat Court Order? Federal Agents Keep Raiding LA Workplaces Despite BanBorder Patrol agents used a Penske moving truck to storm a Home Depot, despite a court order barring ICE raids at workplaces. 46850
julian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · 06/08/2025I learned a lot in Nelson Lichtenstein's "The Marxism of Mike Davis," which seems to have been slept on when it dropped last week, perhaps because it was in Jacobin lol. Particularly interesting was the stuff on his NLR era & his course away from a more structural Marxism.jacobin.comThe Marxism of Mike DavisHistorian Nelson Lichtenstein on the life, influences, and “sophisticated yet lucid brand of Marxism” of the late, great writer Mike Davis. 120
julian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · 05/08/2025What I hate most about "Home" isn't that it's a bad song but that it's a perfect artifact of the culture industry of 2010—folksy nostalgia covering lack of depth. If I listen without thinking, it might move me to tears—like an Obama speech from that moment & so much else. 000