"Prisons are deathmaking institutions." — our cofounder @prisonculture.bsky.social.

Fighting Cancer Has Given Me New Insights on the Anti-Fascist Challenge We Face To resist authoritarianism, our work must be deeply relational. We must act even in uncertainty. Nurturing builds power.

Fighting cancer has sharpened Amisha Patel’s understanding of what the present moment demands: resist isolation, move even without certainty, tend to trauma, and build for the long haul.

Anti-fascist struggle must be deeply relational.

The tenth issue of Hammer & Hope is now live!

This issue features 18 stories that offer our readers insights into a wide range of prescient political and cultural topics, from the community resistance in Minnesota and Ohio to the enduring legacy of D'Angelo and more.

Read here: hammerandhope.org

We need reparations for ICE victims.

Anything short of that is setting the stage for a massive wealth grab from people of color that will re-entrench racial disparities for generations.

4th Circuit Rules That States Can Compel Trans Adults To "Appreciate Their Sex" Via Care Bans They ruled that states "encouraging citizens to appreciate their sex" through care bans is a constitutional goal, affirming West Virginia's Medicaid ban for trans adults.

1. Horrifying ruling out of the 4th Circuit.

An all-Republican 4th Circuit panel has just ruled that states can compel trans adults to "appreciate their sex" by enacting care bans.

It even directly says that trans adult care bans are legal in the ruling.

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Digital illustration by Olly Costello on a gray background. The text reads, “uproot tendencies toward policing others that exist inside you.” A person pulls a light blue leafy plant from their leg, its white roots embedded in their skin like constellations.

Digital illustration by Olly Costello on an olive green background. Light green text reads, “ask yourself: are my actions grounded in cultivating safety or control?” A person stands with their hands outstretched as two sunflowers grow beside them with deep purple leaves. The words “safety” and “control” appear on either side of their jeans.

Important & evergreen reminders from Olly Costello @ollycostello.bsky.social 🌌🌌

Revolutionary Abolitionism Against Cops & Capitalism Join authors and organizers brian bean and Shanice Octavia McBean for a discussion on the integral role of policing and state violence in upholding capitalism, and how abolition paves the road toward…

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Revolutionary Abolitionism Against Cops & Capitalism

Join brian bean and Shanice Octavia McBean for a discussion on the integral role of policing and state violence in upholding capitalism, and how abolition paves the road toward revolution.

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There are no quick fixes for fascism - our charge is to confront and uproot the criminalization that underlies and drives it within and beyond borders.

Olly Costello Creative Practice on Instagram: "S❄️I❄️N❄️T❄️E❄️R❄️I❄️N❄️G Drinking in words from Leanne Betasamosake Simpson in her book Theory of Water; Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead which came ou... 664 likes, 10 comments - olly.costello.art on February 4, 2026: "S❄️I❄️N❄️T❄️E❄️R❄️I❄️N❄️G Drinking in words from Leanne Betasamosake Simpson in her book Theory of Water; Nishnaabe Maps to the Times A...

On IG, @ollycostello.bsky.social has a really wonderful set of illustrations about @biidaasamose.bsky.social's writing about sintering (from her wonderful book "Theory of Water"). www.instagram.com/p/DUWOcBFFh2...

Thanks Jonathan! 🩵❄️

When liberal politicians frame ICE bloodthirst as a training problem, they are continuing a broader historical pattern wherein righteous political unrest is used to justify increases in police capacity.

Yesterday, Minneapolis gave us hope. That’s what they’re trying to kill: the will of a people who are willing to fight them.

Minneapolis’s 2020 Uprising Laid an Abolitionist Groundwork for ICE Resistance The George Floyd uprising laid foundations for the politicized networks of care that are organizing against ICE now.

“How can we ground our work in abolition in a way that radiates outward, that extends the care we are building for immigrant families to all our neighbors, with no exceptions?”

This fucking piece of paper doesn’t “authorize” ICE to do anyfuckingthing it is a pure power grab

They are simply claiming authority they don’t currently have.

Yes, the law is not real & the Constitution will be interpreted in ways that serve power and also let’s not do the coup for them please.

I've been thinking about this a lot, for months: Gaza was a breaking point between verifiable reality and liberal governance. "AI" sparks fears ppl will believe things that aren't true, but Gaza SHOWED things that WERE true—& western governments, universities & news outlets pretened they were not.

I think a common misconception about abolitionalist politics is that abolition means destroying something.

If you read the books on this list, you'll come to understand abolition as deeply, challengingly, life-givingly creative. Abolition is about creating new worlds & ways of being.

We Can Honor Renee Nicole Good’s Life by Abolishing Death-Making Institutions Those of us who see ourselves in Renee Good can take this moment to deepen our solidarities with all who are policed.

"We must defame, defund, and abolish these systems. We must empty all the cages, kick dirt over made-up borders, and fund the things that help us thrive, imagine, create. Free us all."

- @holidarity.bsky.social

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The Cost of Staying Human Remarks from a vigil for Renee Nicole Good

“They want us to scatter in fear, to give up hope, and to give up on each other. But we will hold more tightly to one another, plan more strategically, and care even more deeply.”

- @mskellymhayes.bsky.social

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I want people to realize prosecuting the police is always a long shot and even when successful that it hasn’t produced any observable change in behavior from the police in general.

A vertical scan of a screen print design shows winter trees and five human figures of various ages and heights standing on a shore line silhouetted against a purple sky with bright green norther lights glowing. Words read “The grief is immense. Our movements grow. May the joys we tend sustain us.”

The grief is immense.
Our movements grow.
May the joys we tend sustain us.
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My “Sustain Us Solstice” design for this year. Wishing you all an easeful and nourishing winter solstice! 💚

Yay!! 😆

Thank you so much Meredith!!

Thanks Diana 😊

I’m running an Early Winter Sale this weekend through Monday! Enjoy 15% off calendars, cards and everything in my shop ❄️💞✨

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Reaching out, connecting and coming together with others, and committing to collective care and action. There is no other way to navigate what we are experiencing.

Art by @ollycostello.bsky.social

In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together "Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.

“When the raids hit, & I see my community out en masse, I feel myself transformed by the bravery, innovation & determination of my neighbors to keep each other safe & defend our shared belonging.” @ollycostello.bsky.social in @mskellymhayes.bsky.social’s latest.

11/5, 7 pm: The in-person launch for READ THIS WHEN THINGS FALL APART with @mskellymhayes.bsky.social, @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social and Atena O. Danner. Preorder the book before 11/4 and receive a special letter from Kelly!
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The Resilience Arts Fest will showcase stories from prison and beyond this weekend: "Art humanizes people." blockclubchi.co/4qlUzfh