Journalist, author Safety in Solidarity, #NoPasaran, Fascism Today, and Why We Fight. Bylines: NBC News, Al Jazeera, Jacobin, The Daily Beast, Yes Magazine, The Baffler, InTheseTimes others. Tweeting Jewish antifascist memes
This is my podcast of the week. Love a three hr deep dive about danger dodging independent journalists.
Jared HoltWho the Hell is Andy Ngo? We'll be joined by @socialistdogmom.bsky.social on Monday for the DEFINITIVE review of the life and career of MAGA's flagship anti-antifa social media influencer. Subscribe to Posting Through It on your podcast apps so you don't miss it. www.patreon.com/PostingThrou...
Thus Tisha B’Av is my birthday and was hard to create the solemn fast day I usually do. So I’m mixing it up a bit and taking through the weekend with it. So I’m breaking some of the rules to reach a greater Mitzvot. W/ that in mind read the Halachic Left’s T. Av reader: www.halachicleft.org/torah
Torah Publications | Discover Inspiring Torah Resources — Get Involved Today — Halachic LeftExplore Torah publications with essays, divrei Torah, and resources addressing Jewish tradition and current issues through a progressive lens. Engage with educational and advocacy materials.www.halachicleft.orgThis is an example of the further criminalization of resistance as such: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-rubio...
Leak: Rubio’s WMD Scandal Is “Far-Left Terrorism”U.S. targets "anti-tech," "pro-Iranian" & "antisemitic networks" with new three-letter designationwww.kenklippenstein.comIf you have not done so already, please donate to the Minneapolis defendants who are being railroaded by prosecutors for the same kind of organizing millions of us are doing. chuffed.org/project/1865...?
Legal Defense Fund for MN Anti-ICE OrganizersOn the morning of June 16th 2026 fifteen anti-ICE organizers were indicted on federal conspiracy charges in Minnesota, 12 of whom were arrested in aggressive raids across the Twin Cities. This fundrai...chuffed.orgNew from me: @neveragainactn.bsky.social is building an immigrant solidarity movement rooted in Jewish values and tradition.
TruthoutNever Again Action, a Jewish-led immigration justice project, brings the values of the Jewish left to support the growing movement to stop ICE’s unprecedented assault on immigrant communities, something that deeply connects with the memory many American Jews have of their own families’ histories.
New from me: I talk with organizer Nancy Kurshan about her experience building the New Left and what lessons that holds for social movements today. wagingnonviolence.org/2026/07/nanc...
The Yippies and the power of countercultureNancy Kurshan, cofounder of theatrical antiwar group the Yippies, discusses her new memoir and how counterculture can revitalize our movements.wagingnonviolence.orgI'll be at @powells.bsky.social on Monday with some other great folks, come hang out with us!
AK PressAnd if you're in the Portland area, don't miss the release event at @powells.bsky.social with @shaneburley.bsky.social next week!
New from me at @truthout.org : @neveragainactn.bsky.social is bringing the Jewish tradition of social justice into the mass movement against ICE violence: truthout.org/articles/a-g...
A Group of Organizers Is Building an Anti-ICE Movement Rooted in Jewish ValuesNever Again Action is connecting Trump’s assault on immigrant communities to experiences from American Jewish history.truthout.orgGreat, but also reporters should not ask for permission as a matter of course. Access is not worth what you give up when you stop acting as the opponents of power.
Truthout“The notion that reporters should be treated worse than baristas, short order cooks, dry cleaners, or any other civilians given access to the Pentagon surely is a perverse reading of the First Amendment,” Friedman wrote.
Mass protests ate important. But so are responsive rapid response networks that can bring people to intervene on these quiet arrests that ICE is building its mass deportation program around
Joanne Freeman“Without fanfare.” Ice raids are more sweeping. And quieter. To avoid protest. [Gift article] www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...
People are always looking for the issues that can unite the working class and bring in rural residents. Since opposition to AI is basically a proxy for hatred of the rich, this is the kind of fight the left can own and the Democrats can capitulate and turn into cowards on.
Karl BodeElon Musk is a white supremacist huckster whose business practices routinely leave poor, minority communities stuck squarely under his bootheel:
US Is Terrorizing Its Own Citizens With “Less-Lethal” Weapons, Victim Says truthout.org/articles/us-...
US Is Terrorizing Its Own Citizens With “Less-Lethal” Weapons, Victim SaysHuman rights experts condemn the increasing use of weapons like tear gas, pepper balls, and rubber bullets.truthout.orgAntifascists mobilise after racist pogroms freedomnews.org.uk/2026/06/16/a...
Antifascists mobilise after racist pogroms - Freedom NewsThe UK far-right surge builds on deep-rooted resentment and social fragmentation ~ Blade Runner ~ Antifascists on Saturday (13 June) mobilised agai…freedomnews.org.ukWhat I mean to say is that if this works she should be allowed to crash at least three (rental) cars for equality.
Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition)Watching #TheCrash. My wife has POTS, that’s simply just not how it works and the suggestion that a POTS patient shouldn’t drive fucking outlandish.
This is a British pogrom against immigrants in a country in which they are still colonial occupiers.
Eoin HigginsContext for Belfast riots
If you missed it, here’s my interview w/ @jamesstout.bsky.social about his book on the revolutionary possibilities that Spanish anarchists fought for in the 1930s and those fighting for the same in Rojava and Myanmar today. His book may be my favorite so far this year.
journalspectreICYMI: @shaneburley.bsky.social 's interview with @jamesstout.bsky.social is still live on our website.