Soft launch of something special (or rather the return of something special…) in September’s blog 🤭http://charlotteshane.com/blog/2025/9/8/september

There's a @charoshane.bsky.social line I think about constantly - 'But to fight for more than can be achieved in one lifetime is the plight of all radicals. Radicals are destined to die wanting.' And that's ok. It's in the job description www.bookforum.com/print/2502/s...

It got lost in other news, but last week President Trump reinstated the death penalty in D.C., where it hasn't been used in 70 years. For @51st.news I did a dive into what exactly Trump's policy change means, who might be impacted, and what residents can do to push back: 51st.news/trump-reinst...

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

404 Media is simply a dream come true

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

D.C. doesn’t have its own prison, so its residents are sent to federal facilities all over the country. This is a bad system that serves no one, Askia Afrika-Ber writes.

This writer is a D.C. resident currently incarcerated at USP Hazelton in West Virginia, published here via More Than Our Crimes:

i remain resolute in my confidence we will win and it will be because we stuck together. dooming and fatalism is not how any of us will get out of this mess. i’m saying this as a veteran climate journalist who is a trans woman. if i have more hope than you, think of what that says about your view

Finally, pay attention. There are people making invitations to join in their work everywhere, all the time. You really just have to take the step to accept those invitations. And the reality is that THIS is some people's main issue. They cannot join in [figuring out why that is is a personal thing].

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot.

one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support:

• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist

The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss.

A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Contra this, saw someone (correctly) describe our situation as the administration wanting to skip to the steps at the end of an authoritarian consolidation when they haven’t even managed the first ones

Respectfully disagree: 1) in fact it is unusual for a democracy w/ this level of GDP to turn authoritarian & so quickly; 2) the weakness of both institutions (congress & courts) and individuals (Schumer etc) is shocking. Would take less than 10 people in congress or 2 SC justices to stop all this.

As I’ve been saying. Nothing they’re doing changes the math on: “they simply do not have enough boots to rule this many dissenting people by force” there are too many of us in too many cities across this massive land.

they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law.

they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence.

the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear.

do not offer it to them.

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.

I never say anything like this because I want to absolve horrible people or minimize their sadistic leanings. I just don’t know why we would speak as if the odds are even more stacked against us than they are already are (which is an issue of power and amorality, not sheer numbers!)

I know we all post hastily and carelessly because that’s kind of social media’s thing, but I hate seeing people say “half of the country wants [something evil]/is crying about CK/etc. etc.” That’s just not true. There are far fewer of them (eager fascists) than there are of us (basically decent.)

two people stopped to document ice agents who'd pulled over a work van near grand/kostner in humboldt park around 6:30 this morning.

that's when they say ice agents blocked in their car, threatened them with arrest if they didn't stay put, and took photos/videos of them and their car.

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in