Tony Plunkett
@tblankets.bsky.social
Debt collectivist, aging hardcore kid. He/him
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No need to imagine. The country incarcerates children as young as 9 years old daily in youth prisons and jails. Those children are routinely sexually and physically assaulted and also emotionally tortured. They are fed terrible food and given barely any education. This country has done this for yrs.
February 1, 2026 at 2:24 AM
No need to imagine. The country incarcerates children as young as 9 years old daily in youth prisons and jails. Those children are routinely sexually and physically assaulted and also emotionally tortured. They are fed terrible food and given barely any education. This country has done this for yrs.
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ICE is ripping families apart and murdering people in the streets.
Meanwhile, Congress is paying ICE by *defunding* our health care and pushing us deeper into debt.
Join us—alongside workers, students, debtors and families—on January 30th to say ICE OUT!
NATIONWIDE SHUTDOWN.
Meanwhile, Congress is paying ICE by *defunding* our health care and pushing us deeper into debt.
Join us—alongside workers, students, debtors and families—on January 30th to say ICE OUT!
NATIONWIDE SHUTDOWN.
January 29, 2026 at 11:21 PM
ICE is ripping families apart and murdering people in the streets.
Meanwhile, Congress is paying ICE by *defunding* our health care and pushing us deeper into debt.
Join us—alongside workers, students, debtors and families—on January 30th to say ICE OUT!
NATIONWIDE SHUTDOWN.
Meanwhile, Congress is paying ICE by *defunding* our health care and pushing us deeper into debt.
Join us—alongside workers, students, debtors and families—on January 30th to say ICE OUT!
NATIONWIDE SHUTDOWN.
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Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza.
This is textbook censorship of the highest degree
This is textbook censorship of the highest degree
Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban https://aje.news/ljjuww
January 29, 2026 at 4:33 AM
Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza.
This is textbook censorship of the highest degree
This is textbook censorship of the highest degree
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New: 200,000 former students of predatory, for-profit colleges to receive full student debt cancelation after Department of Education misses key court-mandated midnight deadline, according to settlement agreement.
January 29, 2026 at 9:17 PM
New: 200,000 former students of predatory, for-profit colleges to receive full student debt cancelation after Department of Education misses key court-mandated midnight deadline, according to settlement agreement.
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Trusted friends in Minneapolis tell me that this fund is supporting many people but does not have enough money. If you can give, please do: chuffed.org/project/1671...
EMERGENCY RENT FUND: Support Workers in Minnesota
Rent is due FEBRUARY 1st. Support our Emergency Rent Fund for Minnesotan workers and families facing eviction due to ICE Raids. We are calling for a rent moratorium, but regardless of if that happens ...
chuffed.org
January 27, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Trusted friends in Minneapolis tell me that this fund is supporting many people but does not have enough money. If you can give, please do: chuffed.org/project/1671...
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I'm speaking a few places next month.
Please join @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social and me next week on Feb 3 at NYPL where we will discussing her excellent book "King of the North." www.nypl.org/events/progr...
Please join @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social and me next week on Feb 3 at NYPL where we will discussing her excellent book "King of the North." www.nypl.org/events/progr...
www.nypl.org
January 27, 2026 at 6:54 PM
I'm speaking a few places next month.
Please join @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social and me next week on Feb 3 at NYPL where we will discussing her excellent book "King of the North." www.nypl.org/events/progr...
Please join @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social and me next week on Feb 3 at NYPL where we will discussing her excellent book "King of the North." www.nypl.org/events/progr...
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Normal life has for obvious reasons felt on pause here for some time so it feels strange to be back at work today, but fitting that work is on tomorrow’s episode of Death Panel — with Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Craig Gilmore, on the current conjuncture and the concept they call the “anti-state state”
January 25, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Normal life has for obvious reasons felt on pause here for some time so it feels strange to be back at work today, but fitting that work is on tomorrow’s episode of Death Panel — with Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Craig Gilmore, on the current conjuncture and the concept they call the “anti-state state”
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The largest union of nurses in the US calls for the abolition of ICE::
National Nurses United outraged by murder of VA registered nurse by immigration agents, demand abolition of ICE
NNU issued the following statement in response to the murder of Alex Pretti, RN: “The nation’s nurses, who make it their mission to care for and save human lives, are horrified and outraged that immig...
www.nationalnursesunited.org
January 25, 2026 at 8:23 AM
The largest union of nurses in the US calls for the abolition of ICE::
These ghouls are the future of the party according to the NY Times
January 25, 2026 at 1:26 AM
These ghouls are the future of the party according to the NY Times
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Golden and Gluesenkamp Perez voted with Republicans a few years ago to block student debt cancellation too.
House Democratic yes votes on the DHS funding bill:
Cuellar, Golden, Gillen, Gluesenkamp Perez, Don Davis, Suozzi, Vicente Gonzalez
Cuellar, Golden, Gillen, Gluesenkamp Perez, Don Davis, Suozzi, Vicente Gonzalez
January 22, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Golden and Gluesenkamp Perez voted with Republicans a few years ago to block student debt cancellation too.
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The long tail of the fund the police movement is killing free society.
Most of this year's ICE budget comes from last year's reconciliation bill. House Democratic leaders discouraged its members from offering amendments eliminating that funding. Didn't want the party to come across as anti-ICE.
www.stephensemler.com/p/ice-budget...
www.stephensemler.com/p/ice-budget...
January 24, 2026 at 10:45 PM
The long tail of the fund the police movement is killing free society.
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HAPPENING NOW: A massive crowd is gathered in freezing temperatures outside ICE headquarters in DC to demand ICE OUT OF ALL COMMUNITIES NOW.
January 25, 2026 at 12:00 AM
HAPPENING NOW: A massive crowd is gathered in freezing temperatures outside ICE headquarters in DC to demand ICE OUT OF ALL COMMUNITIES NOW.
“However grim, the past year has produced fictions whose rhetorical dispositions seem closer to hard-won hope. If we fight, they suggest, there’s a chance—maybe a good one—that we are going to win.”
For LARB, I wrote about the principled dissenters of Pluribus, The Lowdown, Andor, and The Pitt, and 2025 as the year TV celebrated resistance @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/lowd...
Opposition Party | Los Angeles Review of Books
In 2025, television offered a primer in principled dissent.
lareviewofbooks.org
January 22, 2026 at 9:23 PM
“However grim, the past year has produced fictions whose rhetorical dispositions seem closer to hard-won hope. If we fight, they suggest, there’s a chance—maybe a good one—that we are going to win.”
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For LARB, I wrote about the principled dissenters of Pluribus, The Lowdown, Andor, and The Pitt, and 2025 as the year TV celebrated resistance @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/lowd...
Opposition Party | Los Angeles Review of Books
In 2025, television offered a primer in principled dissent.
lareviewofbooks.org
January 22, 2026 at 5:09 PM
For LARB, I wrote about the principled dissenters of Pluribus, The Lowdown, Andor, and The Pitt, and 2025 as the year TV celebrated resistance @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/lowd...
“The answer, then, must be to take away ICE and CBP’s money, headcount, and guns…The only politically sensible way to mount this direct challenge is by dismantling the agencies, rather than accept the premise that we need to streamline them and limit their focus to going after the truly “bad guys.”
I have a piece on @lpeblog.bsky.social detailing how ICE & immigration judges are at war against federal courts.
100s of federal judges—and one nationwide class—have held ICE & IJs are breaking the law imposing blanket mandatory detention—yet they continue undeterred: lpeproject.org/blog/immigra...
100s of federal judges—and one nationwide class—have held ICE & IJs are breaking the law imposing blanket mandatory detention—yet they continue undeterred: lpeproject.org/blog/immigra...
Immigration Agencies Are Openly Defying Federal Courts
Federal courts have overwhelmingly rejected the Trump Administration's radical expansion of mandatory detention. Despite this, ICE continues to arrest and detain tens of thousands of people each month...
lpeproject.org
January 21, 2026 at 10:42 PM
“The answer, then, must be to take away ICE and CBP’s money, headcount, and guns…The only politically sensible way to mount this direct challenge is by dismantling the agencies, rather than accept the premise that we need to streamline them and limit their focus to going after the truly “bad guys.”
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I have a piece on @lpeblog.bsky.social detailing how ICE & immigration judges are at war against federal courts.
100s of federal judges—and one nationwide class—have held ICE & IJs are breaking the law imposing blanket mandatory detention—yet they continue undeterred: lpeproject.org/blog/immigra...
100s of federal judges—and one nationwide class—have held ICE & IJs are breaking the law imposing blanket mandatory detention—yet they continue undeterred: lpeproject.org/blog/immigra...
Immigration Agencies Are Openly Defying Federal Courts
Federal courts have overwhelmingly rejected the Trump Administration's radical expansion of mandatory detention. Despite this, ICE continues to arrest and detain tens of thousands of people each month...
lpeproject.org
January 20, 2026 at 3:13 PM
I have a piece on @lpeblog.bsky.social detailing how ICE & immigration judges are at war against federal courts.
100s of federal judges—and one nationwide class—have held ICE & IJs are breaking the law imposing blanket mandatory detention—yet they continue undeterred: lpeproject.org/blog/immigra...
100s of federal judges—and one nationwide class—have held ICE & IJs are breaking the law imposing blanket mandatory detention—yet they continue undeterred: lpeproject.org/blog/immigra...
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Incredibly emotional to hear my poem has been turned into a song of resistance and is being sung in Minneapolis right now. Please do not give up.
January 18, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Incredibly emotional to hear my poem has been turned into a song of resistance and is being sung in Minneapolis right now. Please do not give up.
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I've finally put my "Find Your Organizing Home in NYC" zine online in readable form with clickable links - check it out and GET HOOKED UP and ORGANIZED, friends!
gregpak.net/2026/01/17/f...
gregpak.net/2026/01/17/f...
January 17, 2026 at 8:26 PM
I've finally put my "Find Your Organizing Home in NYC" zine online in readable form with clickable links - check it out and GET HOOKED UP and ORGANIZED, friends!
gregpak.net/2026/01/17/f...
gregpak.net/2026/01/17/f...
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I did an interview with Robin Kelley about the murder if Renee Good — and what we know from history about strategies of resistance to armed agents of the state. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ren...
Renee Good's Murder and Other Acts of Terror
An interview with Robin D. G. Kelley on how to think about ICE—and the broader history of police violence.
www.bostonreview.net
January 17, 2026 at 7:02 PM
I did an interview with Robin Kelley about the murder if Renee Good — and what we know from history about strategies of resistance to armed agents of the state. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ren...
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People who were actually enslaved believed that chattel slavery would end one day.
I'm sorry but to me that suggests that you [who are not enslaved in 2026] can also imagine an end to the current horrors.
I'm sorry but to me that suggests that you [who are not enslaved in 2026] can also imagine an end to the current horrors.
January 17, 2026 at 6:02 PM
People who were actually enslaved believed that chattel slavery would end one day.
I'm sorry but to me that suggests that you [who are not enslaved in 2026] can also imagine an end to the current horrors.
I'm sorry but to me that suggests that you [who are not enslaved in 2026] can also imagine an end to the current horrors.
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New: Secretary Linda McMahon says the Department of Education has decided to "pause" garnishing wages for student loans.
January 16, 2026 at 5:23 PM
New: Secretary Linda McMahon says the Department of Education has decided to "pause" garnishing wages for student loans.
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according to this map, the only business in charlottesville currently making millions off ICE contracts is govsmart, a company whose CEO also owns the local franchise of gracie jiu jitsu. interesting!
New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.
readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...
readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...
The Companies Behind ICE
Sludge built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.
readsludge.com
January 16, 2026 at 9:37 PM
according to this map, the only business in charlottesville currently making millions off ICE contracts is govsmart, a company whose CEO also owns the local franchise of gracie jiu jitsu. interesting!