Jack Lewis

Before ICE Shooting, Immigration Agents Repeatedly Used Deadly Force The killing of a Minneapolis woman is latest by ICE and Border Patrol officers in recent months. Others have been wounded or threatened with guns.

We have been keeping track of how many people have been killed by federal immigration agents since Trump took office. Today that number has risen to 5 with another shooting in Minneapolis.

Below is more on the history of shootings in the last year.

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ICE vs. Everyone | Erin West What we’re doing now is this: The trainings have evolved into street medic workshops on protecting yourself from chemical weapons and lessons on digital security; there’s a meet-up to sew reinforced u...

“Minneapolis learned a lot from the George Floyd protests and it shows. Well before Kristi Noem announced DHS operations in Minnesota, the neighborhood got ready.” New: a dispatch on mutual aid in South Minneapolis.
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#AbolishICE to end a specific evil agency + forward the long struggle to unmake a world that wields borders & police as violent tools of social control

Baltimore says U.S. out of everywhere!

Baltimore residents demand end of private police force at Johns Hopkins University Baltimore residents and students rallied at War Memorial Plaza on Dec. 15 to demand the abolition of the Johns Hopkins Police Department (JHPD). Activists called on the Baltimore City Council to halt ...

Proud of everyone who "braved frigid temperatures" to demand the abolition of the JHPD. The fight continues in 2026!

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If We Want Mamdani to Beat the NYPD, the Left Must Build Power We won’t be able to push Mamdani, or anyone else, to undermine police power unless we become a force to be reckoned with.

Zohran showed that a socialist can take City Hall—but the ruling class still forced him to keep Jessica Tisch at the NYPD. For Zohran to fight the police unions and win, the Left has to build power beyond the ballot box.

New from me for The Nation:
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Students, faculty, and community groups say the Johns Hopkins private police force intimidates union members and suppresses protest. They’re demanding the City Council hold the first public hearing into the department’s powers. baltimorebeat.com/hopkins-poli...

After the Genocide, the Genocide | Saree Makdisi As the Western media and politicians breathlessly celebrated the return of the final Israeli prisoners, a number of them soldiers captured in combat, Israel began returning hundreds of captives it had...

“What we have isn’t peace. What we have is a continuing genocide, albeit one that has shifted gears and has—for now—moved into the slow lane.” New: Saree Makdisi on the ceasefire in Gaza. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Baltimore media outlets may be exacerbating overdose crisis Experts say coverage in Baltimore has spread misinformation and steered a city struggling with the overdose crisis toward police crackdowns.

News outlets in Baltimore have spread dangerous misinformation about drugs/those who use them, steering the city away from public health-centered solutions and toward fear-driven police crackdowns.

Read my debut article for @objectivejournos.bsky.social ⬇️

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UMD graduate workers march for collective bargaining rights, union recognition Graduate Labor Union leaders said striking is a possibility if the university refuses to meet their demands.

UMD remains hostile to its workers, so we're escalating the fight

The WNBA Is at a Breaking Point Napheesa Collier went scorched earth on Cathy Engelbert for a reason. The players are fed up—and the firestorm is here.

I wrote about Napheesa Collier's power play, Cathy Engelbert's puppet leadership, a changing ownership landscape and how the next commissioner should take a collaborative approach to the WNBA entering its player empowerment era:

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Large Language Muddle | The Editors The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

Stigmatization is a powerful force, and disgust and shame are among our greatest tools. Put plainly, you should feel bad for using AI. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Fascist Police State w/ Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader Featuring Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, and military repression. What does this all reveal about MAGA’s fascist and authoritarian project—and about the...

New ep: Trump’s intense police, ICE, military repression w/ Alberto Toscano and @stschrader1.bsky.social. What does this reveal about MAGA’s fascist authoritarian project—and about the illiberalism immanent in carceral and imperialist state? FIRST in 2-part series www.thedigradio.com/podcast/fasc...

To Outlive Tyranny - Dissent Magazine Flesh and blood alone cannot halt the advance of iron and steel. To stop the tanks, we need people to place blocks on the road and throw sand into the gears.

So grateful to write for @dissentmag.bsky.social's Fall 2025 issue "Authoritarianism and Resistance." I drafted the piece in June with the new school year in mind, as an immigrant scholar severed from her homeland: What can we teach the young about how to exist and persist at this historic juncture?

Someone asked me what victory against the forces seeking to occupy Chicago looks like. Obviously, those forces being repelled is the goal, but there are layers to what success looks like in these deteriorating conditions. The first is to successfully resist the normalization of military occupation.

A banner advertising the UMD Graduate Labor Union Majority March on October 1st, 2025 at 1PM. The text reads: UMD Grad Workers demand job security + neutral grievance procedure + parental leave + international grad protections + subsidized healthcare + livable wages + disability justice + childcare subsidies + subsidized transit + equitable workplaces + paid vacation time + enforceable contracts + just cause protections - Collective bargaining Now! Underneath is a stylized image of grad workers picketing along McKeldin Mall.

UMD admin are still ignoring our democratic demand for union recognition while our working conditions are actively getting worse. On October 1st, 1-3PM, grad workers all across campus are marching to show that we’re not backing down – we want RECOGNITION NOW! RSVP here: forms.gle/jocuj9awDCtT...

BPD is left unscathed after City Council members lambast behavioral health systems during hearing on crisis response systems City council members spent most of a special hearing on the city’s crisis response system focused on the shortcomings of crisis response providers rather than the extremely well-funded police…

BPD is left unscathed after City Council members lambast behavioral health systems during hearing on crisis response systems
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Graphic featuring the cover of the resource “Block & Build: But Make It Abolitionist” by Interrupting Criminalization, angled on a black brick background. The cover is brown, with the text in white and black. White text is above and below the cover, with the URL “bit.ly/blockbuildic” on a brown bar at the bottom. The text reads: “A free resource offering an abolitionist take on strategic frameworks for fighting Right-wing, authoritarian, and fascist agendas and regimes. Written by Andrea J. Ritchie. Also available in ‘zine format! We hope you share and use this tool in your community conversations, meetings, study groups, organizations, or anywhere people are asking themselves: what can we do?”

White text on a black brick background: “Asking yourself what you can do amid the ongoing, mounting attacks across multiple fronts? ‘Block & Build: But Make It Abolitionist’ is a resource to help you figure out and consider what strategic approach(es) you're best positioned to move forward in this moment — blocking, blunting, breaking, bridging or building — and where you might have power, influence, and opportunities to act to move that strategy forward. It is also a way to understand and situate abolitionist organizing projects and campaigns within broader multi-tendency, multi-strategy united fronts in current political contexts It is an invitation to expand our collective resistance beyond strategies that rely solely on and legitimize the carceral state, toward abolitionist visions for liberatory futures.”

Amid so many attacks across multiple fronts, it is helpful to consider and figure out what strategic approach(es) you're best positioned to move forward in this moment, and where. But how do you get started doing that?

Here's a resource: Block & Build: But Make It Abolitionist: bit.ly/blockbuildic

Think I'll remember the last 17-ish years of Orioles baseball as the Adam Jones era followed by the Cedric Mullins era. As this one ends, thinking about how much I've loved watching him play CF 🧡

Abolitionist Lessons from the Prison Belts - Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Craig Gilmore, Judah Schept, & Lydia Pelot-Hobbs - Inquest In a six-part series that revisits the landmark insights of ‘Golden Gulag,’ we explore what prison abolitionists can learn from the history of carceral expansion in California, Appalachia, and Louisiana.

Introducing a new 6-part series revisiting the landmark insights of Ruth Wilson Gilmore's 'Golden Gulag', exploring what prison abolitionists can learn from the history of carceral expansion. With RWG, ‪@craiggilmore.bsky.social‬ @lydiajean.bsky.social‬ & Judah Schept inquest.org/abolitio...

Pro-Abolition & Pro-Palestine politics, I think, help us organize ourselves around different visions of the world and intervene at a critical spot during the global rise of fascism. Free Palestine and Free Them All!

In crisis, rulers are organizing/investing in death-making capacity (literally more bombs & cages but also expanding label of criminality) and abandoning/divesting from us ('anti-state state' means austerity for people & abundance for police)

Feeling angry but also thinking about how RWG's 'organized abandonment' continues to be a very helpful framework for me!

All my fellow scorecard sickos go crazy for F9-5

“It is important not to misread the structural as also somehow inevitable.” - @rwgilmoregirls.bsky.social

A Crisis Deferred | Nick Hill My students didn’t volunteer much about the intervening six weeks, except that they had been grateful for all the reading. Time in prison is always slow, counting down, and for the prisoners, the stri...

“‘Things have never been so bad’—on this, at least, prisoners and guards in the prison where I teach agree.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

‘The Sum of This Man’s Life’: People protest the police shooting of arabber Bilal Abdullah
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From Rebellion to Reaction w/ Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Asha Ransby-Sporn Featuring Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Asha Ransby-Sporn on 2020’s summer of mass protest and rebellion sparked by the police murder of George Floyd. As Keeanga puts it: “The pressing question is how w...

We're entering another mass movement moment. We must learn from what went right and wrong in 2020 so we can organize durable popular power necessary to defeat fascism and transform the world. @keeanga.bsky.social & @asha-rrs.bsky.social on @thedigradio.bsky.social www.thedigradio.com/podcast/from...

When We Are All Enemies of the State - Boston Review A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney—and why fascists fear ideas.

“Today their legacies demonstrate the imperative of organic intellectuals to confront authoritarian nationalism and forge global solidarity.”

@jordantcamp.bsky.social introduces a previously unpublished 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney, who was assassinated 45 years ago tomorrow:

#AbolishICE to end a specific evil agency + forward the long struggle to unmake a world that wields borders & police as violent tools of social control