Laura Flanders

If “As goes the South so goes the nation”, things are looking good for Democrats. @VoteHub reports that early voting by Dems is up across GA, NC and LA. (THANK YOU Southerners!) In LA Jamie Davis is running a tightening race vs a MAGA candidate involved in a #META #datacenter corruption scandal.

Four days after Digger opened, Paramount closed its $110 B takeover of Warner Bros. One company, now called Skydance, controlled by the Ellison family, owns two Hollywood studios, along with HBO, CBS News and CNN. The execs who greenlit Digger are gone. lauraflanders.substack.com/p/digger-and...

No blood money for ICE! Please watch and share! #Nokings #NoICE #Nomassdetention #nomoneyforjail

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

I’m so sad about the sudden death of David Cobb. I don’t post here much. More on Substack and IG, but here’s David on LF&F earlier this year talking about the Peoples Network for Land & Liberation. He will be massively missed.

I found it pretty interesting to look back at Dinkins. I hope you’ll find it interesting too, perhaps even enough to subscribe so as to read the whole piece. We give a lot away for free - so please think about becoming a paid subscriber of you’re not already - and thanks!

We just won a court order stopping the merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. while our lawsuit continues.     We’re going to keep fighting to keep costs down for consumers, protect jobs, and stop this illegal merger.

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Separating labor from belonging, and work from citizenship has a long, brutal history in the USA. The Trump administration is deporting the people while exploiting the labor. But humans can’t, actually, eat stock portfolios and dollar bills. Subscribe! open.substack.com/pub/laurafla...

They will win more awards and somebody soon is sure to compare Morgan Bassichis to George Carlin with a queer anticapitalist spin - but those aren’t the only reasons to go to this show.

Here at Last Is the Formula to Defeat Authoritarianism www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/o...

Memorial Days should give us pause before we manufacture more dead to memorialize. And how about we remember not just the uniformed and honored dead, but the living who spent themselves trying to prevent more killing and dying; the wars fought, and the wars we were warned against?

Israel is running amok over international law, and poses a violent threat to all people. It is a scofflaw nation and should be treated as such. No arms. No aid. No tolerance.

“History isn’t a comfort blanket. It’s a human-made map…. The terrain changes, but the questions the Lucas workers asked, and the General Strike raised about solidarity and power and class, aren’t historical curiosities.They’re the questions on the table right now… “

This weekend, past and present converge. The Lucas Plan turns 50. The British General Strike turns 100. And Zohran Mamdani addressed the May Day crowd. The first city mayor to do so the since Fiorello LaGuardia. I watched and wrote. Why do I keep returning to history? @chenjerai.bsky.social

Just now, in Washington Square Park. Our mayor, chanting “Union strong” in front of signage reading: No War. No ICE. No Billionaires. I never thought I’d see the day. (Embarrassingly my phone was out of juice. Lucky, there’s NYC-DSA.) @socialists.nyc

Out of the Hinckley shooting came the Brady Bill and Brady Handgun Act - the landmark federal gun-control measures that ban gun purchases by people convicted of violent crimes - like the January 6th felons. Unless their convictions are pardoned or vacated, as theirs have been. What will come today?

Please Share and Support our Comrade Kali Akuno @coopjax.bsky.social @redneckgonegreen.bsky.social @democracyatwork.bsky.social: chuffed.org/project/1771...

While we shudder and watch a shaky truce, the war - and our looney energy sysetm - threatens to wipe out entire species:

“This isn’t a skirmish - it’s a coordinated effort to determine what the country — what the world — is allowed to remember about itself, and therefore what it is allowed to imagine for its future. You can’t build a different world from a history you’ve been told doesn’t exist.”

A new season of Laura Flanders & Friends kicks off this week! First up: a special conversation with artist Akinsanya Kambon. Catch the full conversation on public television and radio, YouTube and podcast platforms. #AkinsanyaKambon #Artist #BlackPantherParty

Anyone else out here, seeking fuel and memory care?

No Kings No Rape No ICE No War! #nokingsnyc

The power relations that the rich tried to obscure are visible now. “No more invisible hands.”

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Laura( @gritlaura.bsky.social )Flanders & Friends "The People's Network for Land & Liberation: Finding Practical Paths To Economic & Social Justice" Edget Betru, David( @redneckgonegreen.bsky.social )Cobb, Blair Evans www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDrS...

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Trump-pedo and Bibi the Butcher of Gaza are killing kids to distract from their rape and killing of kids.

Learn all about The People's Network for Land & Liberation on today's episode on LF&F. The consortium of six community-based organizations is building a future rooted in economic justice and local resilience — and teaching us all about the path to radical change: bit.ly/4kX9DgV

Every weapon shipped to Israel is a violation.

Focus people, focus.

PRA’s @holyshift.bsky.social and Annie Wilkinson join @gritlaura.bsky.social and @ninaburleigh.bsky.social to discuss how anti-gender politics fuel authoritarianism—and why women, femme, and queer-led movements are so powerful in response. Tune into @lauraflanders.org to watch the full episode:

"If Congress fails to prosecute the powerful and tear down this system today, they are not only failing to prevent the next Jeffrey Epstein from coming around, they are using federal policy to build and maintain his trafficking machine." - @GRITLaura.bsky.social bit.ly/4kxY9Ai #Epstein #ICEOut

With a reported “surge” in children being held in ICE detention, Congress needs to ask those in charge exactly what they are doing to stop the next Epstein trafficking ring - or accept that they are building the infrastructure for it. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

A few months ago, (open.substack.com/pub/laurafla... ) I recommended mapping federally-owned properties that could be used for DHS or ICE purposes. Wired’s showing how to do it and providing some search mechanisms to track the GSA buildings in every state: www.wired.com/story/ice-ex... (free)

My latest. Are we going to stop the next Epstein now, or build their infrastructure for them? open.substack.com/pub/laurafla...

You asked. We listened. Our guests have answers:

Today on Laura Flanders & Friends: Debunking the AI hype. As energy-sucking data centers take root around the country, communities are pushing back. @johncassidysays.bsky.social (@newyorker.com) and Faiz Shakir (@moreperfectunion.bsky.social) tell us more: bit.ly/4k5S8uu

“There are… agents provocateurs who try to push the protests in particular directions.” US-Iran scholar @valinasr.bsky.social tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social how foreign agents have been involved in the Iran protests. Watch the full conversation: zeteo.com/p/vali-nasr-...

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.

White House posts image bragging about Don Lemon's arrest that includes at top after "Lemons..." the chains used on slaves--not anything dealing with modern day law enforcement like a handcuff. The white supremacist regime is not hiding they did this for their white supremacist base.

The United States of America in 2026. Do not look away.

“The changes the White House has made over the last 24 hours are purely nominal... But nominal doesn’t mean meaningless. They show the White House saw the current situation was untenable. They couldn’t keep people in line.”

This entire thread is important. Exactly the movement analysis and reporting that our media will never do. Watch ICE, denounce fascism all you like - we’ll never build power if we don’t learn how. The Minnesotans aren’t simply “nice.” They are deeply organized.