It's normal to own one bathing suit, to use the clothes you already have for vacation, to have one coat per season that needs one, to have 1 pair of sunglasses, to have a phone that's several years old, to have mismatched pots & pans, to reuse sauce jars for pantry items & to buy store brand.

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It's normal to reuse take out containers, to mend old or damaged clothes, to use table cloths, sheets or curtains for fabric, to turn your left overs into a new meal, to have mismatched cutlery, to buy second hand & refurbished tech.

The notion that in order for our movements to be successful, we have to spoonfeed political education to white people on demand, while maintaining their comfort is racist & flawed. Solidarity is your responsibility & our communities DO produce political education & DON'T owe you comfort.

It's normal to own one bathing suit, to use the clothes you already have for vacation, to have one coat per season that needs one, to have 1 pair of sunglasses, to have a phone that's several years old, to have mismatched pots & pans, to reuse sauce jars for pantry items & to buy store brand.

Every dollar this country is investing in border security, new & expanded prisons, policing & surveillance tech, criminalization/bail "reform" under the guise of public safety is a dollar stolen from public services, social support & community infrastructure - the things that actually keep us safe.

Please hang in there, you can't let Dr*ke outlive you.

People are really sprinkling "and Sudan and Congo" onto the ends of their political speeches & social media posts like garnish. Please spare us the after thought and do the political education it takes to be a good comrade to our communities. We can see that we are an afterthought.

Nothing is funnier than people calling me & other organizers "grifters" & "paid activists" because baby, I promise you there are far nore lucrative scams. If I wanted to get paid I'd make trad wife content or sell unregulated supplements. I hate for free baby, just for the love of the game.

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Our struggle for freedom is interdependent & intergenerational, it takes more than one lifetime. As we sit in the shade of a tree that our ancestors planted, we sow seeds for a garden we will not live to see in bloom.

I've said "just cause you're new to the struggle, doesn't mean the struggle is new" precisely because it's an antidote against the nihilistic attitude of many (white) people new to movements & political education. We know what our ancestors won & what it cost them & it's a balm for our despair too.

Nothing makes me cling to life harder than these racists saying "go kys". I mean why would I when my mere existence is ruining your day? I am dedicated to being a hater & I'll outlive these fascists out of sheer spite, inshallah.

IDGAF about the Met Gala, sponsored by a genocide supporting tech billionaire & known loser, who built his empire on the exploitation of humans & climate destruction. All to raise funds for a Museum full of looted artifacts which does not pay the majority of its staff a living wage.

An abolitionist tension

It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains - Assata Shakur, Freedom Fighter & Honorable Ancestor

I don't need self-care, I need to seize the means of production.

Happy May Day to workers in fields, mines, sweatshops, kitchens, delivery bikes, factories, homes, on the street & beyond. To freedom fighters, caregivers & the ancestors who make our work possible. May we work for freedom, for a world with no rulers, no kings, where all labor & lives are valued.

Like every US president Obama is a war monger. Even with his Angelou like cadence & rebrand tour. He inherited ICE as a fledgling agency and legitimized & expanded it, increased migration detention, expanded the US drone program (10x more strikes than Bush) & dropped 92,000 bombs during his term.

These ghouls will kill us & demand that we follow their rules for how we talk about our own death. "Civility" has always given cover to white supremacy. It's absurd to bomb our homelands then tone police us about it.

We have to be wiser & let people be wrong on the internet some times. Between bots, polarization, propaganda, the literacy crisis & folks digging their heels into fascist ignorance, it's often not the right platform to engage. Lateral teaching & learning is essential but ppl have to be TEACHABLE.

The DRC signing a gold expert deal with the genocidal UAE is not surprising. In Congo as in Sudan, local political elites are co-conspirators in the demise and exploitation of human & non human life in their homelands. The most vulnerable Congolese & Sudanese people will undoubtedly pay the price.

You don't have to be a front line political organizer to push back against injustice. You can make wherever you are into a site of resistance. You can use whatever skills you have, no matter how ordinary they may seem in service of justice.

Cashless businesses punish poor & undocumented folks. They are "soft" hostile architecture. Especially places like coffee shops where historically a few dollars buys you time to sit, use the bathroom & shelter from the elements. This is part of a system designed to kill & abandoning poor folks.

We've had debilitating cuts to healthcare, education, environmental protection, Indigenous "services", youth services, public housing, harm reduction & more all while we've increased police, military & border spending. I'm not being an alarmist when I say find a political home NOW & get organized.

The Doug Ford gov't has passed its 2026 budget bill, which officially removes Ontario's right to know. How he governs, why decisions get made—we'll never know. The same bill consolidates conservation authorities. That's your democracy & your drinking water being impacted #onpoli

I am constantly struck by the absurdity of watching the people exploiting, abusing, and destroying human and non human life bring us to the brink of war & then make music videos about it using the same AI technology of their war machine while we languish in the belly of their endless crises.

So many of our comrades in Lebanon have never known life without war or the threat of it. My friends are sending me photos having tea near the rubble that used to be home. "We have to carry on", my friend Celine says; it is a cry of resistance, not of defeat. Lebanon Lives!

Those of you who are watching those AI generated anthropomorphized fruit dramas religiously should have just got on Wattpad from time

She Spoke Out About Gaza. Now She Can’t Use a Credit Card. After accusing governments and corporations of complicity in Gaza, the U.N. investigator for Palestine territories now finds herself in Washington’s crosshairs. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

Repeat after me: Having access to power under system of injustice is not the same as being free. Inclusion is a cheap substitute for freedom.

Even the worst human art is better than generative AI slop. Even a bad poem is better than the "best" an LLM can spit out. Even the worst musicians make more "generative" music than the best algorithm. Even if all it generates is failure, the road to good art is filled with bad art & courage.

Please let's use sense, all these headlines saying that whatever right wing figure is abandoning MAGA do not mean that they're breaking rank with white supremacy.

I've administered Naloxone & used my overdose prevention training 5 times in the last 6 months. I have not had to watch anyone die preventable death & for that I'm grateful. Harm reduction is integral to an abolitionist politic, this is a tangible way to practice.

Almost 4 years ago, a perfect stranger would administer Naloxone to someone I love dearly & I have thought of them every single day since.

Closing SCS & defunding harm reduction is outright murder, eugenics, racialized class warfare & colonial violence. We should treat it with the urgency that those things demand. We have to face & fight this. Please do your free overdose prevention training & get your Naloxone kits.

These ghouls are trying to claw back our hard-earned wins. Queer & trans affirming care & education, anti-racist education, harm reduction sites, cops out of schools, sanctuary city- we fought & won these battles. We have to fight like hell to keep wins paid for with lives, we can win more still.

At 18 years old I would step on a used needle at Hanlan's point & it would radicalized me towards harm reduction, drug decriminalization and further into my commitment towards abolition. This was years before the illegal overdose prevention site at Moss Park. That moment changed so much for me.

Ford's call for injunction against Al-Quds Day rally in Toronto is totally unprecedented. Policing is, ofc, always exercise of policing power. But for provincial govt to seek injunction to shut down gathering before its even begun is wild. Liberal democracies are a sham. Palestine will be free.

Canada just passed bill C-12 vastly increasing the power & impunity of immigration policing. In a country which has ALWAYS had indefinite migration detention, these ghouls now have a myriad of new surveillance powers & technologies. Many people will lose their status with the stroke of a pen.

For weeks now, I've shared information about HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS protesting ICE REGULARLY. So much so that whole states like Kansas and Texas are rolling out LAWS to sanction schools and laws to criminalize TEENAGERS. Please let's be serious.

Representation is a cheap substitute for freedom. There is no justice in seeing our faces colluding with and enabling our oppressors.

In Iran, as in Sudan, decades of economic sanctions have made it so that the country relies on its internal capacity to produce food & medicine. Bombing pharmaceutical factories & flour mills echoes death for generations to come.

Overwhelmed with survival? struggling to stay on top of laundry in the midst of global crises? struggling to stay sane in the time of multiple genocides? Comment "AAAHHHH" and I will set us both adrift at sea.

At this point the sale of weapons by Canada to the apartheid state & other oppressive actors via the US can't be called a loophole. Voting down bill c-233 No More Loopholes Act is a willful act of political support for genocide & Imperialism. Those of us with sense knew this was not an oversight.

The number of people detained by ICE rose by an astonishing 58% (25,200) between 2025 and 2026; expanded immigration detention accounts for virtually all of the growth in mass incarceration since our last report. www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2...

Now is a good time to remember that the US has 750+ military bases in 80 countries. From sprawling city-like installations to radar stations. The US war machine & military apparatus is a threat to human & non human life the world over.

No one is coming to save us. We are the ones we've been waiting for.