#OtD 1 Jan 1994 the Zapatista uprising began, when indigenous people in Chiapas, Mexico rose up and took control of their communities, redistributing power and organising new, directly democratic ways of running society. Learn more about the Zapatistas: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

There were 220 murders in Philadelphia in 2025 and 133 in Baltimore. Those are the lowest murder counts since 1966 and 1965 respectively in those cities.

#OtD 1 Jan 1804 Haiti became an independent republic, the culmination of the Haitian revolution abolishing slavery and freeing itself from French rule. It began as a rebellion of the enslaved in 1791. Learn more about this and other Black revolts here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/a-h...

Happy New Year! May 2026 be a year of triumph over fascism and a new dawn for liberation of all oppressed people.

May 2026 bring freedom, justice, and a defeat from which fascism cannot recover. Nothing is inevitable, so much is possible.

A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive. One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy. Another collapsed and had seizures during labor.

Health, Life, Joy, Peace, Good Cheer, Hope Υγεία, Ζωή, Χαρά, Ειρήνη, Ευθυμία, Ελπίς 4th-century mosaic from Halicarnassus (modern Bodrum) at the British Museum

In today’s depraved beyond belief news, Israel is banning MSF (Doctors Without Borders) from Gaza.

"The anti-Trump coalition must be huge" - yeah and I can see how you could have a "big tent" that includes liberals and leftists and centrists, formed into a temporary alliance, but you don't invite the Mrs Satan, do you. The enemy of your enemy is not necessarily your friend.

Holland is definitely one of the designers whose words have had the greatest impact on my own game design over the past couple of years. Even if I never publish any of my games, her work has certainly had a clarifying effect on my own.

I always tell students if you ask a good question the article will write itself

December 29 is the anniversary of the 1890 #WoundedKnee massacre, when US soldiers slaughtered more than 300 Lakota people - children and elders, women and men. War Secretary Pete Hegseth recently said that the soldiers deserved their medals and he would not revoke them.

Here’s a drawing of the font’s upper ornaments, made in 1876 by Olof Sörling) now in the Antiquarian-Topological Archive in Stockholm: pub.raa.se/visa/dokumen...

This Nazi passed a bill to imprison trans kids' parents two weeks ago.

Still unreported, should be investigated: ICE shot Richard outside a mall. I visited mall security office. Guard said ICE and LAPD came in, used thumb drive to copy mall’s video footage, and THEN DELETED THE EVIDENCE from mall’s local drives. He showed me the missing timeline part saying “no data.”

I was just reading Edward Said who pointed me to Martin Bernal's Black Athena, a pioneering study of how racist scholars systematically erased and ignored references to African and Asian influences on Greek culture, which were very numerous. 1

Palantir. Sauron. CyberDyne. Blackrock. Mr Beast Inc. Cerberus. Blackwater. Anduril. Citizen. Citadel. Gilead. Bain Capital. Darktrace. Oracle. Umbra.

I think it’s bad that rape simulator tech is now the primary engine of our economy. I think it’s also bad that we’re destroying entire communities with massive resource hog data centers to operate the rape simulator tech

All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.

In 2025, Israel kidnapped, killed, starved, tortured, and forcibly displaced countless Palestinian children every single day. In 2026, we have a responsibility to push our leaders to end Israel’s systematic violence ow.ly/r44x50XMAkN

An industry is 100% white: nothing to see here An industry becomes 99% white: grab the rocket launchers, file the lawsuits, make up the imaginary white men who are being discriminated against otherwise we will all die

ICE is coercive. borders are coercive. the police are coercive. even for US citizens and even when there’s a democrat in the white house!

helping people is cool and good. why are we even discoursing about it 😭

Visited the Sunken Treasures exhibit at the Fernbank Museum in Atlanta it included a number of incredible artifacts from the ancient Mediterranean, including the ram of a ship lost during the first Punic war. The dedicatory inscription was even still legible!

URGENT: Melisa is a MD resident who was working full-time in Hampstead and living in Westminster. At a routine immigration check-in, Melisa was detained on 12/15/25. In order to pay for an immigration attorney, Melisa needs funds ASAP: gofund.me/e5d3e5a2b

#OtD 27 Dec 1831 the Christmas rebellion in Jamaica escalated as 60,000 enslaved people rose up and went on strike. Causing £50 million damage, the uprising helped lead to slavery being largely abolished across the British Empire within two years stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9888...

Hagia Sophia was inaugurated by Justinian on December 27, 537

This guy was murdered by the government for absolutely no reason, and this fact will be lucky to get a fraction of a percent of the coverage given to dead squirrels and uneaten house pets.

For some of you, it's still Christmas—this is a way to help numerous families in Palestine survive winter, health emergencies (like lupus and hepatitis), malnutrition...infancy! Not a metaphor! Every ounce helps, especially if you click "weekly": chuffed.org/project/hope...

reportback on ICE's mass raid of Canal st on Saturday November 29th that was “bamboozled” (i love this word) by rapid response / icewatch groups. learn how communities respond to better protect your neighborhood.

a very happy The Fellowship Sets Forth from Rivendell Day (December 25) to all who celebrate

Old man Potter, the evil billionaire from It’s a Wonderful Life calls the working families of Bedford Falls “a bunch of garlic eaters.” The oligarch class has always tried to squeeze in new slurs to keep the rest of us down. Merry Christmas to all of us garlic eaters. There are no rich men in heaven

Hello from the @worcesterartmuseum.bsky.social, where we are spending a lovely Christmas Eve looking at medieval and early modern armor from Mughal India, Sudan, and medieval Europe in the newly reopened armor galleries. Truly, this is the way. ⚔️

Merry Yuletide to all, may the light beat back the darkness!

theres a pretty rich Western Tradition regarding why asking these questions two hours before christmas is Bad

New red sketches so we don't forget these families today 🕊️ Palestinian Christians have cancelled Christmas festivities for the third year in a row. It's on us to answer their call to action today and every day. Support Palestinian life. Six families & a camp: chuffed.org/project/hope...

a lot of people don't realize that Christmas carols and traditions are actually folk memories of suppressed pre-Christian events, namely the end of the Third Age and the Fall of Sauron.

"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."

concentration camps.

📢The Confederacy and its history are rooted in hate — not heritage — and do not tell our entire shared story! Revisit the SPLC's #WhoseHeritage report here: https://bit.ly/3qe3f8T

it's sometimes crazy that we made cops the ones in charge of enforcing the laws. extremely questionable decision.

It's Trump policy that U.S. tech must be globally dominant. It's also US policy that its tech corps must be free from: Regulation. Taxation. Fact checking and monitoring for hate lies, disinformation. All are now being treated as attacks on the U.S. itself. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The only "male loneliness epidemic" I acknowledge is the Ents who lived for thousands of years without the Entwives because of Sauron. Yet unlike modern incels and misogynists they didn't turn into predatory ghouls, and even ended up defeating Saruman..

I just want my movies about antiquity to have some damn color and a smidge of accuracy in costuming. We need to return to the sword and sandal style.

Visited the Haymarket Martyrs Memorial and gravesites. We didn’t realize a lot of other comrades are buried here — Voltairine De Cleyre, Emma Goldman, Ben Reitman, & of course Lucy Parsons. Very cool to see folks still leaving offerings, we left some of our own. Solidarity forever 🏴

From GDH Cole, The Simple Case for Socialism.

"Each dot here represents the movement of someone arrested or deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement this year." • 67,000 transfers per month • 23,000 removals per month www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes