Joby Gelbspan
@outgrained.bsky.social
Strategic research & finance for anti-oppressive movements & communities. Consultant: https://corporateaccountability.org/, Treasurer: https://resist.org/, Member: https://www.idha-nyc.org/. Personal acct, she/her, Philly. Words: https://www.outgrained.com
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"Vast majority of men are only willing to engage in public violence if they feel like the people around them will approve of — and reward them for — that violence. ICE Watch works because it surrounds men seeking approval with people loudly expressing their disapproval."
www.ms.now/opinion/minn...
www.ms.now/opinion/minn...
January 17, 2026 at 4:51 AM
"Vast majority of men are only willing to engage in public violence if they feel like the people around them will approve of — and reward them for — that violence. ICE Watch works because it surrounds men seeking approval with people loudly expressing their disapproval."
www.ms.now/opinion/minn...
www.ms.now/opinion/minn...
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crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours.
please keep sharing with your networks.
please keep sharing with your networks.
Stand With Minnesota
A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation
www.standwithminnesota.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:24 PM
crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours.
please keep sharing with your networks.
please keep sharing with your networks.
I was feeling demoralized about men’s domination of public space after several patriarchal micro aggressions on my walk today. Then I passed this masterpiece & my mood lifted. Art is powerful.
January 15, 2026 at 11:56 PM
I was feeling demoralized about men’s domination of public space after several patriarchal micro aggressions on my walk today. Then I passed this masterpiece & my mood lifted. Art is powerful.
“When we lose our fear, they lose their power” mask by @rlmartstudio.bsky.social was the perfect outer layer to protect my N95 from the rain while protesting at the detention center in Philly this morning.
January 10, 2026 at 7:51 PM
“When we lose our fear, they lose their power” mask by @rlmartstudio.bsky.social was the perfect outer layer to protect my N95 from the rain while protesting at the detention center in Philly this morning.
Another win for organizers isolating ICE from the corporations it needs to carry out its violence! After public pressure & a boycott, Spotify announces they are no longer running ICE recruitment ads: variety.com/2026/digital...
Spotify Confirms ICE Recruitment Ads Are No Longer Running on Platform
Spotify has confirimed that ICE recruitment ads are no longer running on its platform following criticism from last year.
variety.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Another win for organizers isolating ICE from the corporations it needs to carry out its violence! After public pressure & a boycott, Spotify announces they are no longer running ICE recruitment ads: variety.com/2026/digital...
Avelo Airlines is ending its contract to carry out ICE deportation flights after months of sustained grassroots pressure. Organizing gets the goods by shifting the cost-benefit ratio: increasing the costs and reducing the profit from abuse. www.theledger.com/story/news/2...
Avelo Airlines will end DHS deportation flights by end of January
The budget carrier faced harsh criticism and widespread national protests over its participation in the deportation flights.
www.theledger.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Avelo Airlines is ending its contract to carry out ICE deportation flights after months of sustained grassroots pressure. Organizing gets the goods by shifting the cost-benefit ratio: increasing the costs and reducing the profit from abuse. www.theledger.com/story/news/2...
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if you're out of state and looking for ways to help, here are some groups in minneapolis that are organizing ICE watch and resistance (non-exhaustive!) that could surely use more resources:
www.miracmn.com
monarcamn.org
unidos-mn.org/blockxblock
www.miracmn.com
monarcamn.org
unidos-mn.org/blockxblock
MIRAC - Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee
www.miracmn.com
January 7, 2026 at 8:09 PM
if you're out of state and looking for ways to help, here are some groups in minneapolis that are organizing ICE watch and resistance (non-exhaustive!) that could surely use more resources:
www.miracmn.com
monarcamn.org
unidos-mn.org/blockxblock
www.miracmn.com
monarcamn.org
unidos-mn.org/blockxblock
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In prison, as in occupied Palestine, the spectre of death is a constant, whether sudden or slow, sought out or fought against. Available in EN, ES, PT-BR, DE, FR, IT, AR, HI and RU.
Death and Resistance: A Dispatch from HMP Low Newton
An incarcerated activist draws a powerful parallel between the slow violence and denial of autonomy within UK prisons and Israel's tactics in Gaza.
buff.ly
December 11, 2025 at 8:04 AM
In prison, as in occupied Palestine, the spectre of death is a constant, whether sudden or slow, sought out or fought against. Available in EN, ES, PT-BR, DE, FR, IT, AR, HI and RU.
Too many insights here to pull forward a single quote. Marc Lamont Hill interviews Tarana Burke on the state of sexual & gender-based violence, what the #MeToo movement has accomplished and what work remains: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuGD...
MeToo Founder on Epstein and sexual violence: “survivors are easy to sacrifice” | UpFront
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
www.youtube.com
January 2, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Too many insights here to pull forward a single quote. Marc Lamont Hill interviews Tarana Burke on the state of sexual & gender-based violence, what the #MeToo movement has accomplished and what work remains: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuGD...
Happy new year! The vet just cleared this pair of kittens I rescued during the recent polar vortex, so I’m entering 2026 with a joyfully enlarged family.
January 1, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Happy new year! The vet just cleared this pair of kittens I rescued during the recent polar vortex, so I’m entering 2026 with a joyfully enlarged family.
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Every bit of this:
"I do understand: you want permission. ....You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you."
EVERY time, someone is like "I just use it to" "I mean otherwise X sucks SO much..."
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
(h/t @jacquelyngill.bsky.social)
"I do understand: you want permission. ....You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you."
EVERY time, someone is like "I just use it to" "I mean otherwise X sucks SO much..."
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
(h/t @jacquelyngill.bsky.social)
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
December 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Every bit of this:
"I do understand: you want permission. ....You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you."
EVERY time, someone is like "I just use it to" "I mean otherwise X sucks SO much..."
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
(h/t @jacquelyngill.bsky.social)
"I do understand: you want permission. ....You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you."
EVERY time, someone is like "I just use it to" "I mean otherwise X sucks SO much..."
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
(h/t @jacquelyngill.bsky.social)
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DHS said that accusations of abuses in Camp East Montana are “clickbait.”
But 911 emergency calls from the massive detention center I obtained paint a different picture, with emergency being made for life-threatening illnesses and acute mental health crises.
My story:
But 911 emergency calls from the massive detention center I obtained paint a different picture, with emergency being made for life-threatening illnesses and acute mental health crises.
My story:
Exclusive: 911 calls from migrant detention center highlight dire conditions
About 90 emergency 911 calls have been made from the Camp East Montana immigration detention center in El Paso, Texas, during the 15 weeks since it opened.
www.elpasotimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:20 PM
DHS said that accusations of abuses in Camp East Montana are “clickbait.”
But 911 emergency calls from the massive detention center I obtained paint a different picture, with emergency being made for life-threatening illnesses and acute mental health crises.
My story:
But 911 emergency calls from the massive detention center I obtained paint a different picture, with emergency being made for life-threatening illnesses and acute mental health crises.
My story:
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The Groundings Podcast, S3 E5: "The Anti-Black Pinnings of Ableism" feat. Dustin Gibson
Audio: groundings.simplecast.com/episodes/abl...
Transcript: groundings.simplecast.com/episodes/abl...
#IntroDisabilityJustice #BlackDisabilityPolitics #DisabilityJustice
Audio: groundings.simplecast.com/episodes/abl...
Transcript: groundings.simplecast.com/episodes/abl...
#IntroDisabilityJustice #BlackDisabilityPolitics #DisabilityJustice
December 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The Groundings Podcast, S3 E5: "The Anti-Black Pinnings of Ableism" feat. Dustin Gibson
Audio: groundings.simplecast.com/episodes/abl...
Transcript: groundings.simplecast.com/episodes/abl...
#IntroDisabilityJustice #BlackDisabilityPolitics #DisabilityJustice
Audio: groundings.simplecast.com/episodes/abl...
Transcript: groundings.simplecast.com/episodes/abl...
#IntroDisabilityJustice #BlackDisabilityPolitics #DisabilityJustice
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Take ACTION: Tell President Noboa to reject this unjust award and stand with the people of Ecuador, not Chevron
- the corporation that poisoned them! #CleanUpEcuador amazonwatch.org/take-action/...
- the corporation that poisoned them! #CleanUpEcuador amazonwatch.org/take-action/...
Tell President Noboa: Do Not Pay Chevron a Single Dime! | Amazon Watch
Tell President Noboa to stand with the people of Ecuador, not a corporation that poisoned them!
amazonwatch.org
December 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Take ACTION: Tell President Noboa to reject this unjust award and stand with the people of Ecuador, not Chevron
- the corporation that poisoned them! #CleanUpEcuador amazonwatch.org/take-action/...
- the corporation that poisoned them! #CleanUpEcuador amazonwatch.org/take-action/...
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December 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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This is a poem I wrote in 2021 as part of this essay on the vaccine apartheid. It is so depressing how in more ways than we can count, for more and more people, this earth is deliberately being made a mass grave. One day, "some will die" may become "all must die".
folukeafrica.com/the-vaccine-...
folukeafrica.com/the-vaccine-...
November 24, 2025 at 11:14 AM
This is a poem I wrote in 2021 as part of this essay on the vaccine apartheid. It is so depressing how in more ways than we can count, for more and more people, this earth is deliberately being made a mass grave. One day, "some will die" may become "all must die".
folukeafrica.com/the-vaccine-...
folukeafrica.com/the-vaccine-...
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Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
Donate - Native Organizers Alliance
Supporting organizing and advocacy initiatives for Indigenous justice.
nativeorganizing.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
Love to see the appetite for action against the corporations facilitating US fascism. But slapping your own, weaker, demands on a handful of companies already under boycott is not the way. E.g. the Target boycott demands investment in Black biz & HBCUs, and Dell is a target for Palestinian BDS.
A Gen Z-led advocacy group announced a boycott campaign targeting major corporations “that enable, profit from, or directly collaborate with ICE.” Beyond the Ballot launched “Not With My Dollars: ICE Out of My Wallet” just days before Black Friday kicks off.
Boycott Campaign Targets Companies Tied to ICE Ahead of Black Friday
The Not With My Dollars campaign takes aim at Amazon, Whole Foods, Dell, Microsoft, Home Depot, Spotify, and Target.
truthout.org
November 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Love to see the appetite for action against the corporations facilitating US fascism. But slapping your own, weaker, demands on a handful of companies already under boycott is not the way. E.g. the Target boycott demands investment in Black biz & HBCUs, and Dell is a target for Palestinian BDS.
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"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
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“Nearly one hundred people had just one item on their list as they entered the Home Depot in Monrovia on Saturday: a small ice scraper worth a little less than a dollar.”
Day laborer organizers protest Home Depot, pressuring it to "scrape ICE out of their stores."
Over one hundred community members gathered at the Home Depot in Monrovia Saturday to pressure the company to stop the immigration raids taking place at its locations.
www.latimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:14 AM
“Nearly one hundred people had just one item on their list as they entered the Home Depot in Monrovia on Saturday: a small ice scraper worth a little less than a dollar.”
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Oh wait! Figured out how to get rid of the garbage Gemini button in Chrome:
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
November 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Oh wait! Figured out how to get rid of the garbage Gemini button in Chrome:
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
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I saw this on Maddow the other day. This campaign needs to go national. Boycott AT&T until they rescind their ICE/CBP contracts. Petition here --> actionnetwork.org/petitions/at...
November 19, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I saw this on Maddow the other day. This campaign needs to go national. Boycott AT&T until they rescind their ICE/CBP contracts. Petition here --> actionnetwork.org/petitions/at...