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We’re a movement journalism and media org reshaping culture toward liberation. Based in Chicago. Subscribe to our flagship podcast AirGo: pod.link/1016530091

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NBC News poll

Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.

NBC News poll Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.

Truly a perfect news alert

10.03.2026 15:39 👍 17117 🔁 3476 💬 306 📌 237
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Danez Smith on the cycle of breaking and building during the 2020 uprising in Minneapolis.

One Million Experiments: In the Field interviewed two Minneapolis organizers including Kandace Montgomery. Hear them talk about how Minneapolis was changed by the uprising.

Watch: youtu.be/-rvfBbG8ix4?...

09.03.2026 18:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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02.03.2026 23:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries! In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...

We need NYC-based authors/writers to use their skills to share the importance of public libraries in the 21st century. If this is you, write things and post them to all of your networks.

Also sign a letter to the City Council: actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

24.02.2026 00:35 👍 241 🔁 117 💬 1 📌 0
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NYC public libraries face a combined $345M in unfunded capital needs & $44.8M expense budget shortfall for Fiscal Yr '26, threatening branch infrastructure, operating hrs & programming

BUT MEGA EXEC SALARIES WILL BE PAID FROM NYC TAXPAYERS...no matter what...see #990 Filings!

20.02.2026 18:44 👍 46 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 0
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Squirrel Hill Lunar New Year parade canceled amid fears of ICE in Pittsburgh’s Asian community In lieu of the public event, organizers invite residents to write their New Year’s wishes on red tags, and tie them on trees throughout the neighborhood.

Abolish ICE www.wesa.fm/identity-com...

02.03.2026 22:59 👍 82 🔁 27 💬 0 📌 4
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While at UCLA, we shared Mariame Kaba’s message about acknowledging the folks who show up to do the work.

One Million Experiments: In the Field is about how people create safety without policing and prisons.

Full episode: youtu.be/0uDzr1_II5Q

@prisonculture.bsky.social

02.03.2026 18:07 👍 46 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 3
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AirGo Society & Culture Podcast · Updated Weekly · Subscribe on Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091 Since 2015, a podcast reshaping culture for the more liberatory and ...

Angela Davis. Mariame Kaba. Bill Ayers. Jamila Woods. Zohran Mamdani.

Name another show with that guest list, and then 383 other great conversations with culture-shifters and revolutionaries! Subscribe to AirGo and get in tune with this living archive!

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

12.02.2026 14:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Incantation bowl with an Aramaic inscription around a demon. From Nippur, Mesopotamia 6th–7th ce

Incantation bowl with an Aramaic inscription around a demon. From Nippur, Mesopotamia 6th–7th ce

My contribution to Super Bowl Sunday is this Jewish Aramaic incantation bowl with a demon on it. From Nippur, Mesopotamia, circa 6th-7th century CE.

Truly a super bowl.

08.02.2026 17:03 👍 1024 🔁 237 💬 26 📌 21

Okay, I laughed.

29.01.2026 15:54 👍 610 🔁 85 💬 11 📌 1

very well then. send as many men as you can spare. and fresh horses for all of them
(covering the phone and leaning over to talk to my wife, the queen) an egg fell. off a wall

06.01.2026 15:36 👍 443 🔁 149 💬 0 📌 0

I would like to underscore this part: "People are in the streets in greater numbers than the first Trump term." Elite pundits and opinion are extremely resistant to this fact and it has trickled down to regular people. But it is demonstrably TRUE. Ask why they are so resistant? Who does it serve?

16.01.2026 13:13 👍 1311 🔁 404 💬 11 📌 0

One of the stories that makes me the saddest out of this ICE invasion is one out of the Minnesota Star Tribune today about ICE agents eating at a little Mexican restaurant in the small town of Willmar, Minn, —and then, when they were done, arresting some of the workers.

16.01.2026 00:56 👍 7247 🔁 2223 💬 392 📌 489

this is absolutely part of the equation. Look at how virulently angry they are at Renee Good and her wife.

13.01.2026 18:16 👍 1780 🔁 350 💬 14 📌 0

a major american city is being forced to close schools because armed government agents are raiding and pepper spraying and terrorizing children and teachers for social media content

08.01.2026 13:53 👍 9167 🔁 3883 💬 170 📌 94
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In Detroit we honor our radical roots and pay homage to Jimmy and Grace Lee Boggs.

In the Field travels all across this land to explore experiments in prison and police abolition.

Watch here: youtu.be/ckhn1KILcis?...

30.12.2025 18:02 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Tonight's the night! 🥂

Damon & Daniel ask questions that linger for days. They have a gift for making deep work feel both accessible and possible.

This is a rare space where brilliance meets humility, and real solutions feel tangible.

Where we hope and dream together.

I hope you can make it! 💚

18.12.2025 17:30 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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You shouldn’t have to be like, “I am a social justice headass” to be down with living with integrity.

Richie Reseda is a brilliant cultural organizer, creative director, and music, film, and content producer who was freed from prison in 2018.

Check out our full interview: youtu.be/5EMprtjGfMk?...

17.12.2025 19:37 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Respair Production & Media Respair Production & Media is a movement journalism and media hub reshaping culture toward liberation.

Tomorrow marks the final watch party for One Million Experiments: In the Field, an incredible abolitionist travel show exploring community-based safety beyond police and prisons.

It's been amazing to attend these past few weeks with @respairmedia.bsky.social, but I can't make the last one! Can you?

17.12.2025 14:46 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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In Detroit we honor our radical roots. Come join us virtually to watch the premiere of the episode on Dec 18th at 7pm CT.

In the Field travels all across this land to explore experiments in prison and police abolition.

Register to watch here: bit.ly/watchinthefield

10.12.2025 23:24 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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In Seattle we cover the remarkable story of a duo, bound by deadly violence, who chose healing through transformative justice.

In the Field travels all across this land to explore experiments in prison and police abolition.

Watch the episode here: youtu.be/G_6tWf3CRMo

09.12.2025 17:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

People love rich people and want to be rich themselves. Rich people have nothing to fear from the public and they know it.

06.12.2025 22:23 👍 187 🔁 26 💬 11 📌 0

Join us tonight!

04.12.2025 19:10 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Rats gnawing on the necrotic tissue of a dying empire

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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

01.12.2025 11:09 👍 27741 🔁 10812 💬 549 📌 931
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“Maintain optimism of the will.” Powerful a cappella by Damon A. Williams.

Watch our newest episode live: bit.ly/watchinthefield

Ep 4 | Transformation in Seattle
In Seattle we cover the remarkable story of a duo, bound by deadly violence, who chose healing through transformative justice.

01.12.2025 23:19 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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In Seattle we cover the remarkable story of a duo, bound by deadly violence, who chose healing through transformative justice.

Come join us virtually to watch the premiere of the episode on Dec 4th at 7pm CT.

Register here: bit.ly/watchinthefield

26.11.2025 20:53 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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You can walk away. Before the shame follows you home. #StopICE

25.11.2025 21:36 👍 840 🔁 409 💬 34 📌 64

"The lesson Rosenbaum took from their Jewish heritage, they said, was, “(a) Be in solidarity with the other people who are getting picked on because you’re going to need their help, but (b) keep a bag packed and your eye on the exit.”

26.11.2025 16:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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FEMA’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year Internal turmoil and delayed aid expose the agency's fragility under Trump.

FEMA’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year

26.11.2025 16:38 👍 36 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 1