To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away.
As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other.
We honor her memory and oppose the war.
Juneteenth is this Friday, a celebration of freedom in a country still shaped by mass incarceration, voter suppression and racist state violence.
Fannie Lou Hamer’s 1964 testimony still asks the question America has never answered.
Great piece by the @minnesotareformer.com on where people arrested in Minneapolis went. I spoke to a few sheriffs who anecdotally told me they received some of these arrestees and they were largely critical of DHS for shipping people around the country.
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"What are you willing to sacrifice for the greater good—whether it’s time away from your friends, family, loved ones, or the things you love to do on a daily basis? It cost me my job six years ago, but I cost Amazon $4 billion."
ICYMI, this is the next milestone in the criminalization of dissent. If you thought DHS was trying to be lowkey post-Minnesota, they were just buying time for cases like this.
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For the past week, Albanians have protested Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner’s plan to pave a protected nature reserve and turn it into a luxury resort—a plan which, protesters say, could put the pink birds in jeopardy.
It's America's 250th birthday—so we made a list of 250 books on why that's nothing to celebrate.
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"Donald Trump absolutely ruined the Knicks' moment last night," says @edgeofsports.bsky.social. "I believe he is the reason why they lost."
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/6/9/dave_zirin_trump_sports_fifa_ufc
I wrote about shutting down Delaney Hall (with reference to the forthcoming book HOW TO CLOSE A CAMP)
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Hamer’s speech to the 1964 Democratic National Convention still rings true.
Most immigrants arrested in Operation Metro Surge were sent to Camp East Montana in El Paso, Texas, after being detained at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minnesota. Nearly half of them ...
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This is a crowdfunding campaign to raise the resources for a tw… Michael Gould-Wartofsky needs your support for Resistant Cities: Writing Residency Fundraiser
First came Prairieland. Now an indictment treats mutual aid and road-blocking as a criminal conspiracy
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There are many ways to interrupt the Trump administration’s brutal deportation campaign. Just look at what’s happening around Delaney Hall in New Jersey.
I interviewed labor activist Chris Smalls about his new memoir, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COMES, for @prismreports.org.
Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis,' dies at 56
In this Q&A with Prism, the labor organizer discusses reclaiming his narrative and why the fight against Amazon is “important to the working-class struggle”
The French-Iranian 'died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life,' people close to her said.
