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.

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.

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.

Begging senior professors to stop writing op-eds about how they think students using AI for everything is ok, actually.

I really want someone (for whom graphic design is their passion) to make an "Anti-AI Action" flag in the style of "Anti-Fascist Action."

Top headline on r/politics: "Epstein claimed that Donald Trump ‘knew about the girls’ in private emails" Top headline on r/conservative: "Jeffrey Epstein: Trump 'asked Ghislaine Maxwell to stop' recruiting girls from Mar-a-Lago Spa" People live in completely different worlds.

Like I KNOW I shouldn't expect anything from the Dems but I still get so pissed ugh.

Is it just me or has Instagram's comments algorithm changed to prioritize "controversial" right-wing comments? Seems to be the case very consistently just starting sometime in the past month or two.

Cornell just announced its agreement with the Trump regime to restore federal research funding. It includes Cornell paying $30 million directly to the government "as a condition for ending pending claims that have been brought against the university." Capitulation to extortion.

With apologies to the family abolitionists, my experience is that being married fucking rocks.

As a bookstore that sells pamphlets and magazines, the criminalization of such materials feels pretty close to home. So let's take a closer look at the materials the federal government is claiming tie readers to "antifa terrorism." We can pick out six titles in these grainy photos. 1/

The quintessential aesthetic of fascism

The feed today. (Full disclosure: I am enjoying the treat.)

I don't think I can resist including this in a talk on the historical movement from Marxism to anarchism in the late 20th century.

They just gutted Teen Vogue which had top notch political journalism. The media is continuing to purge any sort of political dissent to Trump and the oligarchs. www.vogue.com/article/teen...

Don Hamerquist: “The essence of anti-fascist organizing must be the development of a left bloc that can successfully compete with such fascists, presenting a revolutionary option that confronts both fascism and capitalism in the realm of ideas and on the street.”

"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity." - CLR James, "The Black Jacobins"

Lockjaw from OBAA and obviously channeling the SS. I think there is a MAGA faction that is testing the waters to be open with their Neo-Nazism. Look for trial balloons like "Hitler was misunderstood, just protecting Europe from communists and degenerates," etc. It's already happening on the fringes.