- #AltGov!
- Mahmoud Khalil Case: State Terror
- Standing Fast
- Fight for Trans Rights
- Migrants and Citizens Defy ICE
- Idaho: Sieg Heiling CEO Gets Heave-ho
- Confronting Counterrevolution
- Identity Politics Left and Right
- Pipeline Company Sues Greenpeace
- Curriculum for Reading Dangerously
By Timothy Pratt
The Guardian
After seeing Elon Musk’s X post about an email that would soon land in the inboxes of 2.3 million federal employees asking them to list five things they did the week before, a clandestine network of employees and contractors at dozens of federal agencies began talking on an encrypted app about how to respond. Within hours, the network had agreed on a recommended response.
Mahmoud Khalil Case: State Terror
Trump’s open and unabashed declaration that he won’t “tolerate” protests he dislikes and that he’ll use arrests and deportations to intimidate protesters into silence crosses a new frontier in authoritarianism. But we didn’t go from 0 to 60 when he was elected.
By Liam Archacki
The Daily Beast
The tiny government agency that blocked a group of DOGE staffers from entering its offices on Wednesday isn’t giving up the fight, even as Elon Musk’s foot soldiers race to access their systems.The young, backpack-wearing men were turned away empty-handed on Wednesday after staff at the U.S. African Development Foundation refused to let them into the office following a tense standoff.
By Sara Youngblood Gregory
Yes!
Grassroots organizers are steeling themselves to protect their communities from anti-trans policies and rhetoric. Local groups—specifically those led by and with trans people—are uniquely poised to help trans people weather the storm and challenge the policies and attitudes that harm them in the first place.
Migrants and Citizens Defy ICE
• We Need Solidarity, Not Panic By Lewis Raven Wallace, Truthout
• LA By Andrew Lopez and Alejandra Molina, LAist
• What Churches Need to Know By Heather Kimmel, United Church of Christ
• Safeguarding Medical Institutions By Tamar Sarai, Prism
• Migrants’ Narratives By Sonali Kolhatkar and Manuel Vicente, Yes!
Idaho: Sieg Heiling CEO Gets Heave-ho
Tom Hill, the chief executive of Idaho-based Engineered Stuctures, Inc., stepped down from the construction company after a video of him giving two straight-arm salutes and thumping his chest while on stage during an annual company event went viral last week.
MAGA and Beyond By Jérôme Gygax, CounterPunch
Dems in Denial By Erica Etelson, Jacobin
Identity Politics Left and Right
By Ash Sarkar
The Guardian
The right is mobilising a kind of identity politics of their own: in talking about the white working class, anger about economic inequalities is redirected into racial grievance. It’s not wealth taxes, investment in education, or strengthening collective bargaining that will help the white working class: it’s getting minorities to shut up about injustice.
Pipeline Company Sues Greenpeace
Energy Transfer Partners is seeking the last word — and $300 million in damages — on points of political contention between the pipeline company and the Standing Rock Lakota/Dakota people.
Curriculum for Reading Dangerously
New York Public Library
How has censorship affected U.S. society over the course of the 20th century? Drawing from The New York Public Library's collections, this curriculum guide is intended to be paired with Banned: Censorship and the Freedom to Read, an online exhibition exploring the history and broad impact of censorship.
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