Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age." She was 78.

the latest Sumud vessels from @freedomflotilla.bsky.social has been attacked for the tenth time on its current mission including using chemical irritants and flares

VVD: Een keffiyeh = antisemitisme. Een 🍉 = antisemitisme. ‘From the river to the sea’ = antisemitisme. ‘Free Palestine’ = antisemitisme. Een Hitlergroet? Ook VVD: ‘Laten we niet te snel iedereen een neonazi noemen.’

“This isn’t the metaverse of science fiction—it’s a way of getting around the fact you, an adult, live in a small room in an expensive flatshare without the space or money for a large television.”

An underemphasised aspect of this is that you also had to disconnect your phone taking you out contact and setting a time limit

The far-right majority in the Dutch parliament (BBB-FvD-JA21-PVV-SGP-VVD) has just designated “Antifa” a terrorist organization. This is a dark day for Dutch democracy and the final nail in the coffin of the VVD as a serious liberal democratic party.

Prisons are necessarily places that use concentrations of human beings in terrible conditions to punish. A prison can never be green, it can only use eco language to continue the tighten the ratchet Heat deaths, propensity to infection, and exposure to pollutants are part of the program of jail

Given that Melvyn Bragg is stepping down from In Our Time I really hope that the BBC is able to see the success of intellectual programming and choose someone with intellectual heft rather than more dumbing down of the programming

I think Ursula le Guin really hit the mark in articulating what a lot of the problems of modern America are about with this quote

@hankgreen.bsky.social Is there a reason that we cannot invent dental sticks for humans like dogs have?

This aged extremely poorly from the NYT

Please join us for the workshop on property and its afterlives @brightonuni.bsky.social next week (Sept 19-20) with @ksuenamu.bsky.social @danielloick.bsky.social @talboto.bsky.social @viktoriahue.bsky.social and others

US fascist now openly advocating for the killing of disabled people

If you see this, repost with a vampire that's not Dracula.

People hate when abolitionists say this. But it is correct.

How now? Where’s the King?

🚨COMRADES!🚨 It's finally time to register for the 10th Danish conference for marxist studies on oct.10th-11th through link below! This year the theme is on "Abolition" and we are so 🎉HYPED🎉 for this year's line-up which includes our great keynotes @genderhorizon.com and @brosef-stalin.bsky.social 🔥

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Wet of geen wet, kraken gaat door!

People love to go on about Gordon brown calling that woman a bigot but it’s impossible to understand our current moment without reference to the bullshit about Emily thornberry’s flag tweet www.bbc.com/news/uk-poli...

Sally Rooney ❤️👏👏👏

It's no coincidence that this is happening the same time Axon is pushing AI that writes police reports. Policing has always been about violence, but we're truly casting off 100 years of pretending cops are scientists and sociologists and reverting to the 1880s where cops were basically just boxers.

There's a REALLY quick and easy survey for the public consultation on the Basic Income for the Arts scheme - it only takes a few seconds, anyone can fill it in, and it could make a huge difference to arts workers in Ireland. Take a few ticks to places a few ticks here: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

Abolition is not wishing away conflict or pretending it does not exist. That’s actually how we tend to deal with problems now. It is the idea that state violence cannot resolve personal violence, and that putting people cages or shooting them in the streets is something to reject without conditions

it could be both, we don't discount the possibility of organizational socialization effects. in the appendix, based on some assumptions, we quantify the proportion of ACAB that is because AC starts as B relative to C makes B, and find selection explains 41-50% of B.

PhD supervisors:

There's blood on our servers.

My grandmother’s plant bloomed

You can find my review of Melyana Kay Lamb's 'Philosophical History of Police Power' in the new Radical Philosophy @radical-philosophy.bsky.social It's a really interesting book, but I have some issues with the level of abstraction it takes towards police power.

Rachel Kushner on prisons & writing & prisoners. On Balzac, Jack Henry Abbott, Foucault, RWG. & delightfully, for me, letting a little air out of M. Kakutani's reputation::

Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.

A spokesperson for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition tells me: “Chris Smalls is still in Givon Prison and despite repeated requests to meet with the U.S. Embassy has been ignored by his country after being abducted by the IOF in international waters.”

Starmer's announcement re:Palestinian statehood is perfectly calibrated to piss everyone off, is totally incoherent and is a great example of the racist cunt trying to have his cake and eat it. Get fucked.

Amazing that he’s managed to adopt the most aggravating and instrumentalist position possible. Disgusting rhetoric from a weak and unprincipled person.

ACTION · Emergency Call Despite what leaders would like you to think, you are not powerless. We all have the responsibility to immediately stop the deliberate starvation, killing and torture that are used to control and wipe out entire populations. Tonight […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Heel fijn om de nieuwe editie van @jacobinnl.bsky.social in handen te hebben — inclusief mijn artikel over abolitie en straf! Nu te lezen

Juist de mensen die wél hun stem verheffen tegen dit leed, worden systematisch geconfronteerd met een groeiende muur van repressie – een repressie die aantoont hoe selectief deze gekoesterde liberale grondrechten worden toegepast wanneer ze de gevestigde orde uitdagen. jacobin.nl/de-palestina...

A brave piece from Huw Lemmy and @lrb.co.uk The proscription of Palestine Action is wrong and authoritarian

Call me baby the way I’ve got an ear infection and I don’t sleep through the night

Looks like a really great event!

It’s David chase’s world, we’re just living in it

‘I believe that damaging and destroying weapons of war is one way of waging peace: I can only conclude that for the British government, the waging of peace is terrorism.’ Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action. Online early from our next issue. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

When I hear people complain that life is so hard, I wonder: compared to what? - Kierkegaard

Just saw two of the new Met police bullet proof vehicles and I can’t emphasise enough how stupid they are

This should be deeply embedded into everyone’s understanding: the pursuit of EU migration policy and the equivalent law-enforcement & surveillance agencies consistently violate the EU’s own laws. wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...

Areeba Hamid, a co-executive director of Greenpeace UK: "The fact that police are routinely dragging protesters off the streets for a crime they almost always fail to charge them with amounts to an abuse of their powers and an assault on the right to protest." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

A must read, devastating, Report by Francesca Albanese (UN Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967) on the global economic foundations of the Palestinians' genocide: THE ECONOMY OF GENOCIDE. Please share! www.ohchr.org/en/documents...

I find it bizarre how little we hear about climate change at the moment. We hear endlessly how Russia is an existential threat it’s worth spending billions to prevent. But the existential threat of climate change? Background noise; mentioned in paragraph 6 if you’re lucky.

I’ve seen enough, abolition is the centrist position