Fuck Porter. She's showing her colors and not a true "progressive". <sigh> I hate this timeline.

Authority is brittle. It breaks. The day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire’s authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege.

Really bummed. My first post ever here seems to be gone. It was my eco-socialist pun rating system based on metaphors of fruit from a tree. Guess I’ll have to reconstruct it in a more secure fashion.

Part of why we remain here is that most people don't interact with the actual criminal punishment system, they are stuck in Law & Order land and fantasy land.

The death toll in Lebanon is now 2,020 with 6,436 injured

If in 2026, you are STILL saying 'why didn't X survivor/victim of sexual assault go to the cops or prosecutors?' then you cannot be trusted to drive a car or live by yourself because you are ignorant.

Starting to get back into a habit of putting my thoughts out there in the world. Do people still read blogs? Maybe I'm old, but here's some thoughts. www.sylvanartsrevival.com/blog/all-tre...

"Why don't Americans—" we do. That's why many of my friends are in prison or dead.

the fantasy that they wont do something that is so obviously abhorrent to you, the fantasy that they wont do this to you, the fantasy that because you haven't been effected yet you wont be effected in the future, the fantasy that the american state is a "we", the fantasy that we have no complicity

the fantasy that what matters is the midterms, the fantasy that what matters is gas prices, the fantasy that politics are driven by popular opinion, the fantasy the market will reflect how serious this is, the fantasy that the pandemic is over, the fantasy that this is all actually about Israel

the fantasy that people who did nothing to protect gaza will do anything to protect tehran, the fantasy that people who supported genocide when biden did it have moral compunctions about violence, the fantasy that police and politicians care about the law, the fantasy that trump doesn't mean it

the fantasy that the democratic party isnt part of this regime, the fantasy that the capitalist class isnt onboard with the annihilation of Iran, the fantasy that people willing to sacrifice the entire globe's future for profit have a problem with murdering anyone not in their immediate vicinity

the fantasy that people will rise to the moment, the fantasy that people will change on their deathbeds, the fantasy that people secretly want to do good and are working on themselves when all evidence points otherwise, the fantasy that the state is anything other than this

If you were a fan of Arthurian Fantasy like The Once and Future King, Mary Stewart’s Merlin Trilogy, or the (now unreadable because she was such a terrible human) Mists of Avalon, you may enjoy @tracycp.bsky.social Once and Future Hearts series.

My friends! @mollycrabapple.bsky.social's book about the Bund is coming out tomorrow!!!! If you listen to the Revolutions Podcast you will love this book it's that simple. It's so good

The humanitarian crisis in Cuba continues. Help DSA raise $50,000 for the most-needed medical supplies: sutures and rehydration kits. Our first purchase will be May 1st! go.dsausa.org/aid

I'll never forget how the Israelis bombed al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza in October 2023 and the world was shocked and horrified. Israel denied it, saying they would never commit such a heinous crime.

What the US and Israel are doing in Iran and Lebanon is depraved beyond imagination. Assassinating scientists, journalists and medics, bombing schools, universities and hospitals, attempting to destroy society itself... we are staring evil in the face.

So utterly dismayed by the dry weather we’re having here in California. Just checked on the forecast and the storm we were supposed to get next week appears to be failing. It’s going to be an early fire season.

If the DoJ lawyers had any shame, they would be cringing right now.

Hey no fair! Iran is fighting in a way that makes them win! -AP

Well deserved.

Scientists are still discovering how crucial mutual aid is to various life forms. The kind of transactional behavior we see in capitalist society is a long-term threat to collective survival. The anarchist Peter Kropotkin documented this in Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution, composed in the 1890s.

Science: Rx fire can help combat climate change by making forests more stable and locking up carbon in the ground. Calfire: cool! We’ll help offset that benefit by flying our gas-guzzling helicopters and massive engines to the burns on tax-payer funded petrol dollars!

<has black cat, goes shopping for red bed cover>

This Saturday, join us after Santa Rosa's No Kings III and march with us to Shady Oak for Cold Ones with Comrades! 🍻🚶 ¡Este sábado, únete a nosotros después del No Kings III de Santa Rosa y acompáñanos en la marcha hasta Shady Oak para disfrutar de Unas Frías Con las Camaradas! 🍻🚶

One week from today on Saturday, March 28, join us at NO KINGS III in Petaluma and Santa Rosa! No kings, no bombs, no billionaires ✊ ¡Dentro de una semana, el sábado 28 de marzo, acompáñanos en NO KINGS III en Petaluma y Santa Rosa! Ni reyes, ni bombas, ni multimillonarios ✊

Dolores Huerta revealing that her former boss and labor co-leader was a rapist 3 days after the 2070th anniversary of the public assassination of his namesake is pretty wild. Maybe we just let that name/title die and stop naming people after one of the worst men in history.

With the abolition of the penny, my two cents fails to meet the rounding threshold for a nickel. Accordingly, my opinion is worthless. In this essay I will...

#OtD 17 Mar 1846 one of the first boats of famine refugees left Dublin for New York. During the next five years more than a million people followed and a similar number died in the manufactured famine. However, the rural poor continued to resist stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8902...

I care more about Empire being dead, than the diminutive humans who believe they are Emperors. One man can be instrumental in, but is never the sole architect behind wars, colonization, genocides, land theft, and enslavement.

#OtD 16 Mar 1921 the Russian Bolshevik party banned internal factions, in a severe blow to its democratic institutions and a move which aided the rise of Joseph Stalin to power stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8806...

When your “revolution” turns on the very people who made it possible in the first place, you’ve lost the plot. Fuck the bolsheviks forever.

Happy Tyrannicide Day! March 15th commemorates the assassination of would-be tyrants and serves as a reminder that the most powerful men cannot claim absolute immunity for their crimes.

Happy anniversary to the only time the senate stopped a dictator.

COMING SOON: the second episode of Strong Roots & Wide Branches podcast unpacking some of the unconscious assumptions we make about religion based on the cultural context of our upbringing. Subscribe at youtube.com/@polytheistlearningcommunity to get notified! #Paganism #Pagansky #Polytheism #SRWB

have you checked out @danisavestheworld.bsky.social 's newest: Art Under Empire with Io Asunder ? "I don’t think we are gonna art our way out of this, but I hope people make way more art and think creatively here at the collapse of another empire." www.cawshinythings.com/art-under-em...

Lebanon: “History Is Repeating Itself” The war that the US and Israel are waging in the Middle East is not solely directed at Iran. Israeli airstrikes are pummeling Lebanon, driving nearly 700,000 people from their homes. To understand the consequences, we reached out to @ayoub.bsky.social.

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

Post your favorite LOTR character, wrong answers only. My favorite was when “Frodo” shows up briefly in one of the Spy Kids movies as the “chosen one”, and immediately gets killed. Chefs kiss.

I guess the upshot of yesterday is that it's open season on heads of state. Can't imagine that being a FAFO thing at some point.

Another reminder that not all the activism you see is visible

I'm an annoying anarchist- it's very effective! More people should try to be more annoying about their beliefs imho.

#OtD 26 Feb 2012 Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Black teenager, was murdered by a neighbourhood watch volunteer for being Black and wearing a hoodie. After his death there were protests across the US and #blacklivesmatter was born stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9820...

I would really love for Warren to stop being a recurring disappointment.

For the first time since @projectsaltbox.bsky.social launched their DHS warehouse acquisition tracker, the number of canceled sales is higher than any of the other warehouse-related figures. We've reached a tipping point, folks. lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/b0...

Some good news.

Rojava’s Experiment in Revolutionary Autonomy Is Facing Its Greatest Threat Yet truthout.org/articles/roj...