Imperial expansion is a key concept in fascism. Mussolini invaded Ethiopia, Hitler plowed across Europe for "Lebensraum." Trump is continuing that long fascist and American tradition. Remember, Manifest Destiny inspired Hitler. He said, "The Volga is our Mississippi."

The US is a rogue state and should be treated as such by the international community. www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/01/...

Congress please do your job. Impeach. Remove. Convict.

Tax billionaires into millionaires

✊✊✊

This is extremely exciting. Time to build political efficacy from the ground up www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

Another shot of Rama Duwaji and her date.

"While many...have..self-care rituals, few have conflict-resolution skills. Frankly, it is often easier to be dangerous to the state systems that we confront than it is to be tender with each other. Working collectively to nurture care & healing within liberation work is not easy." 🔥 -HW's Afterword

Happy Zohran Mamdani is the Mayor of New York City to all who celebrate 😭❤️

For 12 hours, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social sat and listened to New Yorkers as they shared their concerns about life today, and their dreams for our bright future tomorrow. I am very excited we will have a Mayor who actually listens in a few hours.

Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance’s friend & ideological influence, ended 2025 by claiming “only Hitler spoke the truth” about “too many subjects” & “Hitler was a genius.” Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.

Orcas we beg you

The American failure to protect its children sinks to new lows

Every major city oughta have their own book review. Well done.

If I were actually a free thinker who questioned everything I might get to wondering why my government tries to make me mad at Somalis every time something new comes out about Epstein

The nuance here is that the IRT Company went bankrupt, and its subway lines survived because the city took them over under the leadership of the socialist Fiorello LaGuardia.

100% agree with all of this. I remember it quite clearly from my childhood.

This article by Matt Seriff-Cullick is the best I’ve read on whiteness, antisemitism & Zionism.

“Feeding white supremacy’s domestic warfare against U.S. Black communities and on Black insurgency, the Black antisemitism trope posits the figure of the vulnerable Jew as a stand-in for whiteness under attack.” criticalzionismstudies.org/jcsz-how-whi...

sincerely, if you're in wargaming i strongly recommend getting very good at spotting which people play the black templars because of the "templars" part, there's a lot of fash hiding behind the fandom in some spaces

Meanwhile this is *machine learning* and what it is *good at*. Not generative AI bullshit, actual useful predictive statistical models. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

As you begin to build your 2026 reading lists (which is a thing I assume some people do), consider adding my really very short book on AI and Eugenics. Disabling Intelligences:Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI has a lot in under 50k words. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Since everyone is overlooking racism for "animal rights", I will once again point to how often colonialist language is used in "animal rights" circles. "Adopt don't shop" is a perfect example of this. Circles that uphold the saviour complex/white saviour tropes are CLEARLY going to be racist.

In this essay, I will explore the animal-rights to far-right pipeline among #NiceWhiteLadies … www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

💯 "Bardot became a militant animal rights activist and then veered to the far right, making disparaging remarks about the LGBTQ+ community, Muslims and immigrants that led to five convictions for inciting hatred." Also her new book "contain[s] derogatory remarks about gay and transgender people."

Adam Raine’s life hurtled toward tragedy soon after he began talking with ChatGPT about homework. Analysis of his ChatGPT account shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.

Rest in peace Thomas Sayers Ellis www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I did this year-end art-therapy reflection exercise & found it quite helpful: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8yxu6Qm/

God this.

In case you need a positive reminder: How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

There is something incredibly touching about reading ancient Roman funerary poems for dogs or reading Victorian headstones and realizing how our shared love for our dogs and their fidelity and fierce love for us in turn, echoes through time. Yes, I’m totally sentimental about it.

Artist friends, check out a fun paid opportunity!

[screaming at the top of my lungs, once again] the fundamental technology of humanity is care

“it is illegal for you not to like me”

Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.

We should ask why it’s so easy for terms and concepts like “Heritage American” and “Western Chauvinism” are met with earnest analysis and exploration while academic theory produced by Black scholars are summarily dismissed by people reading introductory texts if that.

“Social media platforms with infinite scrolling, auto-play and algorithmic feeds will be required to display warning labels about their potential harm to young users’ mental health under a new law, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Friday.”

December 26th, 1862. In Mankato, Minnesota, after the military trials of the Dakota War, President Lincoln orders the execution of 38 Dakota men.

DO YOU KNOW HOW BAD THINGS ARE WHEN JAZZ MUSICIANS DECIDE *NOT* TO SHOW UP FOR A GIG?

Did you know that our "modern Santa" was created as a Pro-Union antislavery character? Much like Thanksgiving, our modern Christmas celebration is birthed from antislavery sentiment. Thomas Nast created the modern Santa as an anti-confederate icon supporting the Union cause

“Desk Set” (1957) is a fun xmas rom-com with a tech theme (Tracey introduces “Emerac” computer to Hepburn’s research office) youtu.be/FPpniugKdpc?...

Media consolidation + regulatory leverage is a dangerous mix. This is the exact playbook Putin used in Russia. First, oligarchs consolidate media. Then, the state applies pressure through regulators, courts, and licensing. Critical journalism doesn’t get banned outright, but just quietly disappears.

we, collectively, aren’t good at accountability & repair whether in one-on-one, small groups, or as nations.

“‘public safety’ violence”

The U.S. has normalized road fatilities. 40,000 killed each year—the equivalent of 110 jumbo jets crashing—and we just think it ia normal. We build our cities and towns for dumbass trucks and SUVs rather than kids and families, and call it "freedom."

A war on empathy is vital to racial authoritarianism & a reactionary tactic against racial justice. In South Africa resentful whites tried to delegitimize the Truth & Reconciliation Commission (& its traumatic testimony) by calling it the "kleenex commission." oar.princeton.edu/bitstream/88...

Pro-Palestine academic Randa Abdel-Fattah cleared of wrongdoing after investigation into research grant www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

it requires an absolutely staggering lack of self awareness for chatterton to complain that he has lost elite opportunities because he has anti-woke views.

Nice grift.

Only people who've never been incarcerated by psychiatry think it's the solution. Only them. The doctors, the family members. That's what they tell themselves. People who go through it, maybe they're even grateful it stabilized them, mostly agree that it is a terribly inhumane experience.