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Seventh student picked up or attempted to be picked up by ICE 👇

I have been predicting this for four years—the national security state weakens the labor movement. Strategies for building labor power (local v central, choke points, etc) are all moot as long as US foreign policy remains militarist because any threat to the capitalist class’s

This is the single largest attack on American labor in the last 80 years. We’re talking hundreds of thousands of people.

How has journalistic sensationalism helped lay the groundwork for the Trump administration’s current assault on civil liberties in the name of combating terrorism? Associate Editor Saliha Bayrak revisits Rozina Ali’s 2021 Drift essay “The ISIS Beat.” newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/reporting-on…

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Today in our newsletter we have Malcolm Harris talking to lyra about his new book and why it's still relevant under the reign of Trump and Musk newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/preparation-…

Thanks to lyra for talking to me about my new book for The Drift newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/preparation-…

“The Trump administration has melted down the DOJ we once knew and used the raw material to forge a sleek machine.” In our first Issue Fifteen preview, Piper French takes stock of the contradictions, past and present, of the Department of Justice. thedriftmag.com/unified-purpos…

“Doing this research while firefighting had the effect of flattening time,” Jordan Thomas told shreya chattopadhyay in a Q&A about his book, “When It All Burns,” and the historical roots of megafires. “On the fireline, these forces intersect in your body.” newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/one-edge-of-…

For the new issue of The Drift, I wrote about whatever the hell is going on with the DOJ - especially the civil rights division, which is being repurposed to torpedo our civil liberties:

Highly recommend Jordan Thomas’s excellent book on wildland firefighting in the climate crisis, WHEN IT ALL BURNS - out today! I’ll be talking to him about it tonight at 7 Community Bookstore in Park Slope, organized by the good people The Drift Come! 🔥

What words are left to say? Israel is opening fire on defenseless people it starved after luring them with promises of aid.

New Dispatch from Mitch Therieau on the White House’s surreally evil memes thedriftmag.com/agit-slop/

For The Drift , I wrote about the aesthetics of the White House’s grotesque deportation memes: thedriftmag.com/agit-slop/

Agit-slop strikes again thedriftmag.com/agit-slop/

Even if we can go on like this, I simply do not believe that we should.