Capitalism isn’t a thing. It is a social relation. Today that means communal alienation: we’re alone together. Check out the new series Pod Kapital w/ Sina from the East Is a Podcast as we read Marx’s Capital. Subscribe! open.substack.com/pub/nickeste...

podcast recommendation! just finished this episode today. going to be a great series from @nicke.bsky.social & @sina-rahmani.bsky.social obviously, if you have the means to support red media — also highly recommend www.patreon.com/redmediapr?u... open.substack.com/pub/nickeste...

Check out the premiere episode of Pod Kapital w/ @UrOrientalist. We start with Marx’s classic, Capital, Vol 1. Catch the first ep, “Seeing the monster,” for free. Subscribe to join the reading group and livestreams. nickestes.substack.com/p/pod-kapita...

🚨Livestream🚨 What is American Indian Studies? And why is it relevant today? Join @The_Red_Nation today at 1:30 pm CT for a discussion with American Indian Studies scholars Elise Boxer and Jerome Clark. www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7iu...

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Subscribers-only livestream next Monday on Red Scare! Sign-up now to join my conversation with Adnan Husain on Indigenous spirituality and anti-colonial resistance movements. open.substack.com/pub/nickeste...

“If you don’t have an anti-imperial analysis, an anti-Zionist analysis, an anti-genocide analysis, your politics and pushback against this particular moment in time are not going to amount to much.” - @nicke.bsky.social

My latest: Owning the words: Lessons on writing from Elizabeth Cook-Lynn open.substack.com/pub/nickeste...

Really an important read.

Great interview! After serving 50 years of hard time as a US political prisoner, Leonard Peltier has returned to his Turtle Mountain Ojibwe homelands. His spirit remains unbroken as he continues to demand justice.

In an incredible and historic interview, Lakota historian, writer, and scholar Nick Estes sat down with Leonard Peltier for an in-depth conversation— about Leonard’s origins with the Red Power movement and ultimately AIM, about the sinister tactics of the FBI, and about Anna Mae Pictou Aquash.

“Leonard Peltier’s Story Isn’t Over Yet” my interview with the Native elder in the New Yorker, fifty years after the shootout at Oglala in the Pine Ridge reservation. www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...

The MAGA-Democrat warmonger clique promoted the silliest lie of Iranian WMDs/nukes, a lie that has persisted for decades. Why? It’s not to stop Iran. It’s to prevent Iran from slowing down their bloody genocide against Palestinians.

A major dividing line in American politics is the determining who benefits from the rights of conquest and genocide. Both are blood and soil narratives.

Years of priming Americans and other dupes to hate Iran and demonize Lebanese and Palestinian resistance are paying dividends for a genocidal state’s fever dreams. Genocidal brain rot is at the core of the American system.

Last week in MN, two federal agents from ICE & CBP were charged with child sex abuse crimes. Yet news coverage has villainized a 150 lb woman “punching” federal agents during an ICE raid at a location news says was part of a drug bust, where no arrests were made or drugs seized.

Millennials Are( @makcapitalism.bsky.social )Killing Capitalism Live! "American Indian Anti-Imperialism and Red Power Internationalism with Nick( @nicke.bsky.social )Estes" Jared( @jaybeware.bsky.social ) #MAKC #MAKCapitalism www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYD2...

Feds cite Scarface posters as “probable cause” to execute Twin Cities search warrants led by agencies like ICE. The info was released in court documents related to the arrest of someone protesting a fed raid. Media is reporting this like a bad Taylor Sheridan film.

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I could give you a 300 character answer but instead, @nicke.bsky.social and @jaybeware.bsky.social had a 2.5 hour conversation that identifies a big part of the problem. Anyone saying the Dems and electoral politics are THE way should at least listen to this. www.youtube.com/live/lh-YU8m...

Check us out tomorrow morning!

Livestreaming now! Nina Farnia just brilliantly articulated how addressing US imperialism on the continent, by giving Indigenous ppl's LAND BACK and REPARATIONS for Black USians (however those communities determine is appropriate repair and restoration) will free the rest of the world, too.

Live in 30 minutes. Join us!

Also el-Kurd's book Perfect Victims analyses the way the tactics of the oppressed are critiqued instead of attacking the structures of oppression. It's been a great book for unlearning all the BS I got fed as a child and his convo with @nicke.bsky.social on Red Nation was 🔥🔥🔥

The premiere episode of the Red Scare podcast is out! Become a paid subscriber to listen. In this episode, I discuss Crazy Horse, anti-colonial resistance, and the legacy of Sicangu writer Joseph Marshall III. nickestes.substack.com/p/crazy-hors...

Join The Red Nation Podcast live for a conversation this WEDNESDAY about fascism, law, and US empire with legal scholar Nina Farnia this coming Wednesday (04/30) at 11 am EST/ 10 am CT/ 9 am MT/ 8 am PST. Click “notify me.” www.youtube.com/live/TWVrxDN...

Happy Friday. Comrade card for 4/25/2025. “The wind is your friend, pushing at your back, propelling you headlong into a future without prisons, borders, and bosses.” — @nicke.bsky.social

A tribute to Lakota writer Joseph Marshall III and a follow-up on my previous essay on Crazy Horse and anti-colonial resistance. open.substack.com/pub/nickeste...

Notes on Crazy Horse and anti-colonial resistance open.substack.com/pub/nickeste...

Very hard to read about Dakota pipeline oil spill this morning (!) after reading @nicke.bsky.social book Our History is the Future from @haymarketbooks.org. These protestors were always correct.

Yesterday, the U of Minnesota deleted the American Indian Studies’ statement on Palestine. (Also deleted was a story about Leonard Peltier’s return home and five other dept statements on Palestine.) Our expertise matters if we don’t oppose genocide. web.archive.org/web/20250322...

Judge Boasberg just shot down the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's latest attempt to halt flow of oil in the Dakota Access Pipeline. He says he already ruled on this & they have to wait for the Army Corps to issue its EIS. Meanwhile DAPL flows with NO easement storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

There’s a reason why my people banned Kristi Noem from our reservations. It’s called homeland security from settler fascists.

The group saying Water Protectors and Greenpeace committed acts of “violence and vandalism.” static.politico.com/1d/31/e55b1c...

Verdict in on energy transfer v greenpeace. Jury found Greenpeace Inc guilty on almost all counts. ET lawyer estimated total damages for Inc, Fund and International around $700 million. (Total still to be confirmed)

Energy Transfer v. Greenpeace DAY 14: Today Greenpeace Inc. called its final witness: Kelcy Warren, Energy Transfer’s chairman (video depo) When asked if he was aware that there is currently no valid easement for the Dakota Access Pipeline, Warren replied “I did not know that.” Seems weird. 1/

Energy Transfer v. Greenpeace DAY 8 ET expert estimates $75,734,733 in damages related to security, PR, & costs associated w/ buying a ranch where anti-DAPL protests took place. Costs extend from July 2016, before Greenpeace arrived, to 2019, years after they left. Read on for a cost breakdown 1/

The Red Nation Podcast w/ Nick( @nicke.bsky.social )Estes "Are you colonized? w/ Jared( @imixwhatilike.bsky.social )Ball" www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P5U...

LIVESTREAM - The Red Nation Podcast 🎙️⚡️ Join us this Wednesday, 3/5/25, for a live conversation between TRN Podcast host @nickwestes and author, speaker, and poet @m7mdkurd about his new book, "Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal" (2025). www.youtube.com/live/vmHxyvf...

I will ask! I wasn’t on the editorial board, just a special guest editor of the JAE Palestine issue.

Energy Transfer v Greenpeace Day 3: opening statements just finished ET says Greenpeace is responsible for $millions in Dakota Access pipeline delays + debt refinancing. GP says much of the lost $$ is from Army Corps denying DAPL an easement + Standing Rock tribe’s litigation vs the Army Corps

LIVESTREAM - The Red Nation Podcast 🎙️⚡️ Join us TOMORROW, 2/26/25! TRN Podcast host @nickwestes in conversation with @IMIXWHATILIKE, Professor of Africana and Communication Studies at Morgan State University. Link to livestream (click notify me!): www.youtube.com/watch?v=moJD...

I’m back on this app after a hiatus. Happy to see my favorite journalists and writers here. If you want to follow my writing, I’m putting out reflections in a research journal on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/nickestes

From @nicke.bsky.social, a reflection on his involvement with Leonard Peltier's clemency campaign: nickestes.substack.com/p/a-prayer-f...

Jury selection just wrapped in the Energy Transfer v. Greenpeace trial. By my count: 7 of 11 of the jurors have ties to the fossil fuel industry. 3 work at fossil fuel companies 3 have husbands with industry ties 1 has mineral rights I'll be here all month covering the trial for Drilled.

ep 229 of DYA: Roqayah and I welcome back friends of the show @nicke.bsky.social and @uhshanti.bsky.social to talk about the aliens and what their deal is