I am begging: Do not learn how to do activism or organizing from social media influencers. Do not join massive unvetted Signal groups promoted by “revolutionary” influencers. If you want to be an activist, you need to be embedded in local community with people you know and trust. I am BEGGING here

Unfortunately opting out of the Ugandan election has not taken away my angst about it.

Excellent work as always from @upstreampodcast.bsky.social 💜 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/u...

war criminals, pedophiles, and neonazis spent new year eve eating caviar, drinking champagne, and dancing at maralago. a few days later they bombed venezuela and kidnapped its elected leader so that they could continue living in opulence while the rest of us fight over scraps

She is aggressively trying to turn the wheel AWAY from the ICE agent. It is her very last action. They provoke her, surround her, then kill her in cold blood. I have barely slept since this happened and I don't think I'll ever stop being angry about this.

lmao machado is so desperate to get trump to install her as venezuelan president she’s offering to give him her nobel peace prize now. nothing says peace like invading a country, kidnapping its leader, and installing a new one to do your bidding!

Wait, there’s a new season of Industry out? A reason to live!

Sending love to the imprisoned Palestine Action hunger strikers in the UK, whose well-being and survival I am deeply worried about. In Let This Radicalize You, @prisonculture.bsky.social and I wrote about the escalating repression in the UK. For those who aren't aware, the situation has worsened.

AI is finishing off a foundational part of the social contract. You cannot trust that anyone or anything is what it appears to be. The only remedy is to bypass digital media by forging in real life networks of trust. Digital media is cooked.

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies. For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

This poem by Gwendolyn Brooks continues to be an anchor on hard days.

Lots of people in Venezuela are hoping that we will stop our government and capitalists from stealing their resources.

We can hold compassion for the range of emotions Venezuelans may be experiencing — including positive emotions — and also be clear that regime change by a fascist superpower is dangerous, destabilizing, and sets precedents that will not stop at Venezuela. Those aren’t contradictory positions.

Meanwhile, on Elon's site...

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

Our last episode of the year is a conversation about what resisting ICE has looked like in Chicago, what we've learned, what it's cost, and where we go from here. I'm so grateful to Gabe Gonzalez, Rey Wences, and Jocelyn Walsh for this convo. This one is special to me. Audio + transcript:

Today's quick update [Jan 4]: - RSF drone strike on a power station in ElObeid, North Kordofan (red) has caused significant damage and power outages. - RSF drone strike attempt on Kenana Airbase in White Nile State (blue). #KeepEyesOnSudan

The people yelling at you on the internet also don't know what to do. That's because these problems are much bigger than individual people. You always have to keep that top of mind & act accordingly. Humility is a virtue.

It's a new year! Are you doomscrolling? There's a lot going on in the world right now, but that doesn't mean you need to keep looking at your phone more than you planned for. Is there something else you need to do or an offline activity that would be more relaxing? How about going to bed early?

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2025 is coming to a close — and that means it’s time to wrap up the biggest stories and worst people in tech! This week @jathansadowski.com and @bcmerchant.bsky.social join @parismarx.com to give their insights on the past year. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/308_...

Fine I’ll admit it. I miss New York 😭

There's no reason that the administration can't send out a quarterly SCORECARD to all New Yorkers informing everyone about progress on each of the campaign promises. This is SIMPLE TO DO. They should do it. Also share it on YouTube with Zohran updating.

They already started on cable news this AM. They are saying that the campaign promises are unlikely to be met. Based on what? Nothing. It's extremely important that the administration create its own direct line of communication to voters. Brandon J did not do this & it has been a major problem.

it's a real symptom of widespread anti-progressive media bias that an explicitly progressive candidate is expected to feel a need to be apologetic about being progressive.

Perhaps not THE highlight of the whole thing for Mr. Mayor, but man, how satisfying when the end of your lease lines up so nicely with a new and much nicer place to live suddenly coming into your possession.

omg he's drinking iced coffee in the dead of winter. one of us! one of us!

If you're going into Zohran's term thinking he's going to "give you what you want" and not thinking of this time as one in which it'll be easier to organize for what you want. . . I'm afraid you will find yourself very disappointed

Whew. That Mamdani has an exceptional speechwriter and is one of the most compelling politicians I’ve seen.

It's 2026 & @nycplan.org wants you to join us in getting every City Council Member on the record re our demand to increase & stabilize public library funding. We could use your help in two ways: 1. Send a letter: actionnetwork.org/letters/city... 2. Follow up with a call: nycplan.org/actions/call...

Jan 1: this is the year of new Me Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital

“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.” In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.

Millennials Are( @makcapitalism.bsky.social )Killing Capitalism Live! "Give Warmth to Gaza This Winter Season with Hala Sabbah from The Sameer Project" Jared( @jaybeware.bsky.social )Ware #makcapitalism www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVAE...

Perhaps 2026 will be the year when everyone who thinks they can do something better than what's on offer will just go ahead and do it themselves.

deadass?

This is truly the worst argument. I’ve had to scrub clauses like this out of syllabi and literally tell students ‘please just talk to your friends about your ideas.’ considering our historical moment, telling students to talk to friends and share work might be the most radical pedagogy i do.

Another US airstrike in Somalia happened yesterday, near Kismayo. AFRICOM released no casualty figures or other information beyond saying it "targeted" al-Shabaab. This is by my count the 87th strike or series of strikes announced by AFRICOM this year, by far the most ever in a year in Somalia.

We’re so focused on the negative impacts of capitalist tech platforms on young people, but not nearly concerned enough about the screen dependence of older people.

For many weeks, I really felt like being laid off again was my fault. It confirmed so many of my fears and anxieties. So many friends had to remind me the layoff wasn't a reflection of my skills, my hard work, or everything I had fought to learn with little to no resources. But it's still hard.

Another way to restart the world’s idea machine is to restore funding and grants to universities, researchers, and artists.

One thing you need to know about me is that I never skip the credits on a Bojack episode.

Close enough

I did my Duolingo last night, in a room full of queers (including my lover) with no ability to hear or speak. I’m dedicated to learning Spanish fr 😭

I would be soooo interested in reading a long essay by Ta-nehisi Coates or Eve Ewing about what happened on the way to Kirk's attempted canonization. To me this was one of the most interesting things of the year on multiple levels. It's rich text starting with calling his killing an "assassination."

The thing about AI is that it is so obviously not reaching the level of adoption that the ruling class had hoped for. Sure, it's still successfully wreaking havoc, but MOST regular people HATE AI and are having it forced on them by their jobs and social media. We should never forget THAT truth

Tupac was so correct it hurts

….see how many people Diddy stepped on to become a billionaire? Remember how they say there is no ethical way to be a billionaire?

Also, back to the Diddy documentary, I could not get over Capricorn not reporting being KIDNAPPED by Diddy because she didn't want to bring a Black man down and thought Diddy was moving the culture forward. Can that kind of thinking please end now?

Today's quick update [Dec 9]: - RSF drone strike reported on Um Ruwaba, North Kordofan (red). - SAF drone strike kills 7 tribal leaders and a number of RSF forces near Heglig, West Kordofan (blue). #KeepEyesOnSudan