a general strike shut down italy on monday in support of palestine & now this is happening. international worker solidarity still has power!!

Holy shit. Italy has sent a naval frigate to a flotilla of boats attempting to bring aid to the Gaza Strip www.dw.com/en/italy-sen...

As a work of fiction, I think it avoids a lot of the pitfalls of other works. I think the tendency to look for prescriptive works from the past can be problematic, in that now is not then. What we need most now are internal mental changes, allowing solutions to current conditions to emerge.

Actually, the book I've been handing out lately is "Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052 - 2072" by M. E. O'Brien ( @genderhorizon.com ) and Eman Abdelhadi ( @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social ) www.commonnotions.org/everything-f...

Rogue state behavior www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Morning Spew for Night Owls—Eric Adams Embraces Transphobia, the Last Recourse of Desperate Losers

"From Milan to Palermo, Italians poured on to the streets in at least 75 municipalities across the country. In Genoa and Livorno, dock workers blocked ports over concerns that Italy was being used as a staging post for the transfer of arms to Israel." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Anarchists and antifa have been threatened with terrorist designation at least 5 times in the last decade: terrorism is an enhancement mechanism for charges that has been largely ineffective against decentralized movements, most recently Stop Cop City where terrorism enhancements have fallen apart

I’m going to Denmark and giving a bunch of talks about abolition, speculative fiction, family and related themes.

Are you in Copenhagen and unable to make to Aarhus in time for @genderhorizon.com's keynote talk? Then Frida Sandström got your back with these great events in Copenhagen! artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/research/glo... dukop.dk/da/event/me-... artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/research/oik...

We wrote a thing about AI, fascism, and why framing this as "hype" is too apolitical www.liberalcurrents.com/deflating-hy...

In his rush into fascism, Trump has over-extended and not consolidated any regime stability. Things could unravel quickly, and it doesn’t seem like any other forces are prepared to fill the potential political vacuum

They need you to be actively afraid because they no longer feel confident in your consent or your tendency to do what they need you to. This is a turning point in the class struggle and we need as many bold, brave people as we can get, taking care of one another, fighting, living, imagining better

The total attack on encampments and firing anyone going against the line on Gaza was the beginning of this red scare, the habits of thought and action are now being applied to Kirk, both repress speech and build authoritarianism, but while institutions continue, societal support has collapsed

University administrators, Democratic politicians and employers welcomed this fascist moment with their attacks on the Palestine solidarity movement

“In the West Bank, Israel has grabbed wide swaths of land, installed hundreds of new checkpoints and destroyed refugee camps. Emboldened extremist settlers have rampaged through remote villages. Hundreds of Palestinians have died.” 1/2

“.. They’re being extorted and bullied individually, but in private discourse, they’re really upset,” said Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a Yale management professor who organized the event .. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/business/ins...

This seems to be the only analysis I've seen so far that actually is based on the limited facts known rather than insistent speculation about his motives.

My latest for @thenation.com is an interview with veteran Nepali journalist Kunda Dixit about the stunning turn of events there in the past week. Did Nepal just have a revolution? www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Hell yeah!

If everything in the horizon you can see right now is terrible, you need help imagining that a better world is possible even so. You need to think about the new generations that will come along to fight within that world who need people alive now to fight for and then with them.

You should pay to get a physical copy of this book. archive.org/details/ever... (Also, some community theater should record a version of the interviews with different actors for each chapter for a better listening experience.) But if you need hope right now amid the horrors, this is a quick way.

And then, you know, get to work. Talking to people, planning and sharing information, being kind. Think about the sort of world you want to make possible in 2052, and what needs to be done until then, even with the horrors we know coming our way. Things will be terrible. And we'll still have to be

A Israeli soldier who was attached to the GHF "relief" operation, and was ordered to shoot at the crowd: "The officers would shout at me: take them down, take them down. I shot 50-60 bullets per day, I stopped counting the kills. I have no idea how many people I killed, lots. Children". Haaretz.

The fix is in. Get your COVID vax THIS WEEK, friends. Do not wait if you can avoid it.

Ah I had switched over to the Discover feed. My mistake. Grim terrain out there

I’m disturbed by the dramatic uptick in people using hash tags on this website

Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.

I'm currently reading @genderhorizon.com - @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social 's Everything for Everyone ❤️ and Gerald Horne's The Counterrevolution of 1776! Kinda struggling to finish the latter but it's really good historical research...

Anson Mount trolled Justin Amash, a Palestinian American conservative who has lost a lot of family in the genocide, and is now lecturing people about words and violence? Whew

Looks like the ICE presence in Chicagoland—and I emphasize the “land” part—is purposefully operating in a way as to avoid media coverage. By grabbing people here and there on city edges, outskirts & random suburbs, they don’t attract activity that generates coverage, let alone protest.

“leftists have an infighting problem” buddy you should see what they’re doin to each other on the far right

Being online leaves us much more vulnerable to the one place they are strongest and loudest. Not that things aren't scary or that it's easy for all of us, nor trying to say "being online is bad" unequivocally. We just need to start intentionally practicing different sociality whereever possible

Just intentionally not settling for texting: it could be facetiming/ video calling, or gaming together, anything live to keep us from doom scrolling while they terrorize the news cycle, it is self- harming and it is not in fact necessary at all to keep up with their every round of hate

Trans ppl need to intentionally check in on one another in ways that involves getting each other off the internet, call it phone calls, picnics, dates, we could call it going to the movies, going for hikes, making time for one another, I'd ask cis ppl to invite their trans friends to things but

Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today. https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia

Look I think valuing human life is a phenomenal, wonderful, fantastic idea and also that’s why everyone opposes the genocide in Palestine and the colonial violence in Haiti and Sudan and Congo right? Oh oh you didn’t mean those lives I see

Maybe this will finally dispense with the ludicrous claim the far right maintains a level of strategic unity and disciplined collaboration the left should learn from

Right this moment, the Israeli Occupation Forces are raiding the home of Basel Adra in al-Tuwani. Basel is the Oscar-winning filmmaker of "No Other Land." Just weeks ago, an Israeli fanatic murdered Awdeh Hathaleen, also on the staff of the Oscar-winning film. Save Basel Adra!

I'm not sure if people have really absorbed this week's lesson of how the mainstream political establishment is ready to justify and go along with a massive crackdown on any left political expression.

I am ridiculously excited about this

Last year I wrote about Nick Fuentes’s AFPAC in Detroit, and all the groypers in the GOP who went to his various events.

like this is the most irresponsible level of hysteria i’ve ever seen. most of these people are either paid by the republican party, or are high level advisors and allies. this is insane

I’m here right now! Come by the table anytime this weekend. I’ll personally be around tomorrow afternoon too

I'll be tabling this afternoon and tomorrow afternoon, if anyone wants to come by, buy books, flirt, issue threats, glower, say hi, chit chat, etc.

Mostly, but not only, I think city politicians are terrified of their local police department