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We are about 30,000 whistles away from having shipped THREE QUARTERS OF A MILLION whistles out to anyone that asks. To give you a sense of scale and speed, we hit half a million A WEEK AGO. This rag-tag band of whistle printers is incredible, fast, and ready to get you whistles. linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
It's a sequence of poems written as answers to questions that children from Gaza asked the staff of the Palestine Trauma Centre (UK)
Boston es un hogar para todos. Conozca sus derechos y ayude a mantener su comunidad segura. Encuentra más informacion en miracoalition.org/KYR.
Cyclamen in the Crimean snowy forest
Bahahaha
Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
FINALLY! Someone found out where to go to get paid for protesting!
there are people going out in the freezing cold and literally putting their lives on the line in defense of their communities and the multicultural secular society they believe in. not interested in what some online wannabe dnc consultant type wants to tell me what is and isn't possible now
Publishers Marketplace Deal Report January 28, 2026 Scholar and author of BLUE-COLLAR EMPIRE and NO NEUTRALS THERE Jeff Schuhrke’s SHUT IT DOWN: A GENERAL HISTORY OF GENERAL STRIKES, an account of general strikes across centuries and continents, arming a new generation of workers with the knowledge they need to leverage their power and transform the world, to Charlotte Heltai at Haymarket.
Seems like an appropriate week to announce that the new book I'm working on is a history of general strikes around the world. Coming soon via @haymarketbooks.org (maybe not soon enough but I'm trying my best!).
Evidently that $50k wasn’t spent on denture glue.
I couldn’t understand a word he was saying. Maybe he can buy some denture glue with those bags of cash.
They can’t eat in restaurants where they abduct the staff after the meal!?!?
Poor dears. War is hell.
my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
Scenes from the Alex Pretti vigil tonight in Minneapolis.
“Tyranny is labeling the dead a "threat" so the state doesn't have to explain why someone's life just ended in the street.”
Amen.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz: "I call on all Americans to see the decency that this state is exhibiting and the horrific cruelty, unprofessional absolute abomination that is passing for what these ICE agents are doing on these streets."
My guild is part of the CWA and I couldn’t be more proud of my fellow union members today.
For the first time in a hundred years, there is a general strike in America: www.iceoutnowmn.com
I stand with the Minnesotans protesting these lawless assaults, kidnappings and murders.
Ordinary Americans are not going to let democracy die. We need politicians in Washington who will be as brave.
"I know that speaking up is essential to prevent people from ending up in a state of screaming fear."
In her own words, Rümeysa Öztürk writes about her hopes that one day, no one will have to scream like she did when she was unlawfully arrested by ICE, or endure ICE's horrific detention conditions.
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.
These Democrats voted to confirm Kristi Noem:
Sen. John Fetterman (Pa.)
Sen. Maggie Hassan (N.H.)
Sen. Tim Kaine (Va.)
Sen. Andy Kim (N.J.)
Sen. Gary Peters (Mich.)
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.)
Sen. Elissa Slotkin (Mich.)
Oh, yes please!
Talked to a Somali man today who said his mosque last night was surrounded by neighbors ready to protect them against ICE if needed. Made me feel proud to live in this city.
"They drag people out of their houses at any hour of the day and night…families are torn apart. Men, women, & children separated…children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
- Anne Frank, 1942
Never forget. 🇺🇸
We've published deeply on Cuba, Venezuela, and US policy toward Latin America, and as these issues return to the headlines, history matters more than ever. Authors: if you’ve written on this topic, drop your book title + link below and let's build a thread that helps make sense of this moment.
Happy New Year from the OUP USA Guild. Looking ahead to 2026 with hope and solidarity 💚
