Howard Zinn: "There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people."

Great review of the special issue of @radhistreview.bsky.social on "Feminists Confront State Violence" by @resmyth.bsky.social, which includes my article "To Repulse the State from Our Uteri" (among many great pieces!). www.lectitopublishing.nl/Article/Deta...

If Donald Trump is the "Peace President," it brings to mind the old slogan from the protests against the Vietnam war: "bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity."

Michael Parenti: "Fascism is a false revolution. It cultivates the appearance of popular politics and a revolutionary aura without offering a genuine revolutionary class content. It propagates a 'New Order' while serving the same old moneyed interests."

Before Russia invaded Ukraine four years ago, a coterie of voices on the left insisted that Putin would never invade because it would be wrong and stupid. For most, there has still been no reckoning with the core problems of their analysis that led to being so completely mistaken.

The Luddites were right and we've been lied to about them for over 200 years. Read the great historian Peter Linebaugh's account in "Ned Ludd & Queen Mab: Machine-Breaking, Romanticism, and the Several Commons of 1811–12" from @pmpress.bsky.social pmpress.org/index.php?l=...

Nietzsche: "To be sure, we need history . . . we need it for life and for action, not for the easy withdrawal from life and from action . . . We only wish to serve history to the extent that it serves life."

Marx: "If the product of labour does not belong to the worker, if it confronts him as an alien power, this can only be because it belongs to some *other man than the worker.* If the worker's activity is a torment to him, to another it must be *delight* and his life's joy."

Remember when One Battle After Another came out and conservatives scoffed at the Hollywood fantasy of federal troops violently occupying a city against a scrappy "woke" resistance defending undocumented immigrants? Well, *gestures broadly.*

"Antifa are the real fascists" they repeat, as they send masked paramilitary forces door to door to terrorize and ethnically cleanse the nation.

I hope the seven House Democrats who voted to fund ICE this week are haunted by the shame for the rest of their lives.

Conservatives, you don't have to support masked federal agents executing people in the streets and going door to door terrorizing people in their homes. You know in your hearts it isn't right, and it's time to say it. It's not too late.

In the 1960s, the right called MLK a race-baiting communist who hated white people. After he was killed, they spent a few decades pointing to him as a model of protesting "the right way." Now, they're moving back to branding him as a race-baiting communist who hated white people.

"Antifa are the real fascists" they repeat, as they send masked paramilitary forces door to door to terrorize and ethnically cleanse the nation.

At Texas A&M you can no longer teach woke anti-Western ideology like ...*squints*... Plato.

So many people's lives are getting measurably so much worse because of health insurance costs skyrocketing. Republicans and centrist Dems have no real solution. It's such a perfect time to push Medicare for All, a hugely popular policy that would transform everyone's lives.

At this point, it's hard to see January 6th as anything but a 21st century Beer Hall Putsch. First as tragedy, then as farce.

The developing line on Venezuela in some online MAGA spaces is that this regime change effort will work because--unlike Iraq and Afghanistan--there are no Muslims there. Truly incredible justification of a new war by the "peace president," no notes.

Learning about the history of US imperialism in Latin America radically changed my understanding of our country. I think most Americans truly have no idea, in part because it is completely ignored or whitewashed in school. Violent regime change has been the norm for a long time.

Looking forward to the panel I'm on at the American Historical Association conference in January, "Spaces and Places of Convergence in 20th-Century American Radicalism"! I'll be talking about a series of anarchist gatherings in the 1980s that helped build a continental movement.

I don't need Spotify wrapped to tell me that my top genre this year was, once again, White Dudes Yelling About Their Big Feelings.

When Eugene Debs met Emma Goldman: "Debs expressed views which Emma Goldman found very much like her own. Finally she exclaimed, 'Why, Mr. Debs, you're an anarchist!' Debs then clasped her hand and said, 'Not Mister, but Comrade; won't you call me that?'"

You might think from the headline that this is a story about a trans kid suffering medical consequences from a large drug dose but nope! It is just an interview with an estranged father who is angry that his child happily transitioned. archive.ph/Tmthz

Why in the world is Verizon texting me trying to get me to open a high yield savings account? Something seriously funky is going on with financial institutions in this country.

Howard Zinn: "Civilization has failed on two counts: it has perverted the natural resources of the earth, which have capacity to make our lives joyful, and also the natural resources of people, which have potential for genius and love."

Blatant extortion.

*Radical Histories of Palestine and Palestinians* – A new Call for Proposals from Radical History Review. Abstract proposals due November 30, 2025: www.radicalhistoryreview.org/radical-hist...

Everything is getting worse and worse and worse and it's not gonna get better and boy does that suck.

literally fuck off

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

So sick of an internet dominated by bots, ads, and AI. Everything feels like a scam. It wasn't always this way. It could be different. The problem is that the internet is set up to extract value from users rather than provide a service. Which is to say, the problem is capitalism.

Making literature of any kind illegal is one step towards being able to manufacture evidence that your perceived enemies are much more vast and dangerous than they are . This is a floating signifier of sorts that will be used to target anyone the fascists see as a threat to their power.

So. How many of you are in trouble? interc.pt/3KhNsEp

it's wild to watch this happening in a situation where we've had no prior military engagements with the country or recent attack to even drum up a public desire for vengeance. nothing at all is going down but Trump is clearly trying to push Iraq 2.0 on the country.

Everything is awful but the saving grace is the rise of early-mid 2000s culture nostalgia.

What in the world

Happy birthday, Alexander Berkman! Born in 1870, "Sasha" was a Jewish emigre from the Russian Empire to the US and major figure of the anarchist movt. He tried to assassinate magnate Henry Clay Frick, was deported under the Anarchist Exclusion Act & became an outspoken critic of Soviet repression.

"No General but Ludd Means the Poor Any Good" Found in Peter Linebaugh, "Ned Ludd & Queen Mab: Machine-Breaking, Romanticism, and the Several Commons of 1811–12"

Personally I think a sitting president calling for the execution of members of Congress is A1 scream headline news, but what do I know

"To confront this wave of gender fascism, we need a transformative framework to describe what we’re fighting for. Most advocates use a rights discourse to explain their opposition to this wave of oppressive policies. We propose a different framework: gender self-determination." 1/3 @crimethinc.com

Mikhail Bakunin: "Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the bootmaker; concerning houses, canals, or railroads, I consult the architect or the engineer. 1/2

my yearly reminder (to myself mostly) that The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) was formed by 6 (SIX!!) people, on this day, November 17th, 1983.

The federal government is in overdrive trying to arrest people for speech online. Anarchists snd other left varieties are getting hit all over the site the last couple days with these it appears. This is like the fourth account I have seen posting something like this since last week.

Yeah. We went through this last time there was a big Epstein splash in the news. Trumpists do not really care about women or girls and the topic may only be hot right now because novel info keeps trickling out. Hope I'm wrong. bsky.app/profile/spen...

Not damned by their failures, damned by their goals

I think some people who are against AI for other reasons rely on the environmental impact because it is an easier argument to make. But what happens if/when better tech mitigates the impact? If you're against AI, argue against it on its own merits, not secondary ones.

The thing is that I'm against AI irrespective of its environmental impacts (which are also devastating, of course).

A dangerous new policy requires a campus President's approval for profs to teach race & gender topics in Texas. "It strikes at the heart of what education means...which is circulate the exchange of knowledge without fear of retaliation.” — Rana Jaleel, AAUP Chair of Committee on Academic Freedom

My strongest niche non-political opinion is that 1.15 is by far the best line spacing option.

I still have no idea when to use "that" and when to use "which." Everything I read about it just confuses me further! This is why I try not to ever judge people (let alone non-native English speakers) for small grammatical errors. Language is hard.