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Organized Plunder

By Elias Rodriques and Clint WilliamsonJuly 27, 2022
In the absence of the tax dollars city governments rely on, American are now funding themselves by fining the poor instead of taxing the rich.
Features

Lonely Letters

By Elleza Kelley and Ashon T. CrawleyJune 15, 2020
A conversation between Ashon Crawley and Elleza Kelley
Features

Redistribution and World Building

By The New Inquiry and K AgbebiyiJune 10, 2020
A conversation with K Agbebiyi, creator of the Disability Justice Mutual Aid Fund
Shines Like Gold

What nudists do during a lockdown

By imp kerrJune 9, 2020
Super-flexible woman can look at her own butt from behind
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Assets

Vol. 76 | July 2022

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Features

A Mask and A Target Cart: Minneapolis Riots

By Aren AizuraMay 30, 2020
The liberal attachment to previous movements as peaceful, nonviolent, and respectable obscures the historical efficacy of riots, blockades, and looting as legitimate forms of revolt.
Features

Final Fantasy

By Elena Comay del Junco, Sean Ford, Diarmuid Hester and Quinn RobertsMay 28, 2020
Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts in the time of social distancing
Shines Like Gold

'Anything can happen, but it usually doesn’t.' —Robert Benchley

By imp kerrMay 26, 2020
Your face mask selfies could be training the next facial recognition tool
Shines Like Gold

the effect of wind speed on social distancing

By imp kerrMay 19, 2020
A single cough releases about 3,000 droplets and droplets travels at 50 miles per hour
The Austerity Kitchen

Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of May 19, 2020)

By Christine BaumgarthuberMay 19, 2020
A deep dive into the causes of food shortages, food handling myths debunked, and 8 million pints of beer poured down the drain.
Essays & Reviews

Twilight of the Mentors

By Anna E. ClarkMay 19, 2020
Or how I learned to stop worrying and love my gatekeeper
Shines Like Gold

Tear gas flavor ice cream

By imp kerrMay 17, 2020
The two drivers of the spread of the disease are close contact and crowding in closed spaces
Shines Like Gold

How this moment will be misremembered

By imp kerrMay 14, 2020
It is unclear whether infected dogs can transmit the virus to other animals or back to humans.
Shines Like Gold

messing with AI models

By imp kerrMay 12, 2020
Herd immunity is the only realistic option. The question is how to get there safely.
Features

Reimagining Networks

By Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Jorge CotteMay 12, 2020
An interview with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
The Austerity Kitchen

Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of May 10, 2020)

By Christine BaumgarthuberMay 11, 2020
Dining on murder hornets, a Dali of Wheat Thins, and hard times ahead for food trucks.
The Austerity Kitchen

Pyttipanna (Links for the Week of May 3, 2020)

By Christine BaumgarthuberMay 6, 2020
Killer home-brew, disappearing cheese, and food banks on the brink of extinction.

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Bail Bloc 2.0

Our work on immigration, ICE, borders, and detention

Features

Liquid Border

By Annalisa Camilli and Eleanor PaynterAugust 20, 2019
An excerpt from The Law of the Sea by Annalisa Camilli
Features

United States v. Scott Daniel Warren

By Liz KinnamonJune 27, 2019
The criminalization of humanitarian aid at the border enacts a fantasy of desolate individuation. Scott Warren’s felony trial reiterates the necessity to keep reaching out.
Essays & Reviews

Abolish the ICE Prison Complex

By Cesar Cuauhtemoc Garcia HernandezMay 16, 2018
A recent Supreme Court decision reminds us that the law has no interest in lifting the veil that covers immigration prisons
Essays & Reviews, Features

Border Theories

By Marcos Santiago GonsalezNovember 13, 2017
What would it look like to put a power structure on trial? Interweaving visual narratives of the Mexico–United States border show the uneasy relation between objects and people.
Essays & Reviews

Soft Borders

By Jack GrossSeptember 15, 2017
The soft patriotic trust in Canada's softly administered border is fully compatible with the logic of restriction.
Essays & Reviews

Fash at Sea

By Mohammed Harun ArsalaiSeptember 15, 2017
The end of Defend Europe’s fascistic campaign to block migrants’ boats in the Mediterranean doesn’t mean the threat is over
Essays & Reviews

Operation Streamline

By Brandon ShimodaMay 3, 2017
The border’s dream is for undocumented immigrants to be its most reliable missionaries. But the immigrant who crosses the border is the affirmation of a life that transcends it.
Essays & Reviews

In the Water

By Karla Cornejo VillavicencioJanuary 18, 2017
An immigrant in the water is a story or a lesson, but an immigrant on land is our responsibility--they might become our neighbor
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Cross-Border Operations

By Angela Mitropoulos and Matthew KiemNovember 18, 2015
It is no longer plausible to describe the state’s borders as geographically fixed or the state as distinguishable from capital or “markets.”
Essays & Reviews

Empire Records

By Darryl LiMarch 25, 2015
Guantánamo Diary's missing passages connect it with the US empire's deeper history of far-flung capture and detention networks
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