I've been trying—slowly, for months—to write something on what I'm calling 'holy racial class war', the long trajectory that creates the conditions for the present...to try to help us interpret it all. But the manifestations of it won't stop reproducing daily. Chill out for 1 min plz! Too much!!

To June Jordan, Toni Morrison said, “You know there's always been a fascist strain, here: It's not even political in the sense of this party or that. It's like a virus that can attach itself to Democrats or Republicans… And we know it's around. We can tell because black people are the nexus.”

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Christian martyrs are killed for their faith and/or while testifying about their faith. We can look to the words on his lips during that event + the many that preceded it to discern the contents of the "faith" he proclaimed. From that, we learn about the "faith" of those celebrating him as martyr.

It's very bad but it isn't eternal. And the way to make it not eternal is to take action where you can with the people also taking action around you, or starting action and inviting people to join you. Even just relationship-building and saving numbers with neighbors—critical for today + beyond.

It's simple. They see themselves in him. They do not see themselves in his targets.

Federal immigration agents were seemingly forced to retreat from a roofing job site in Rochester, NY, after being confronted by more than 100 protesters The workers stayed on the roof and agents drove away in a Border Patrol SUV on four flat tires, which had been slashed

Activists Sabotage Equipment in German Weapons Factory That Supplies Arms to Israel https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/9/headlines/activists_sabotage_equipment_in_german_weapons_factory_that_supplies_arms_to_israel

The city is still reeling from ICE’s May operation. But with another surge expected, education and advocacy campaigns soldier on.

Rory also had some advice for soldiers who are being ordered to participate in Trump's aggression. organizingmythoughts.org/what-do-we-s...

This is such an important interview about an important front line in the fight against fascist and authoritarian consolidation. "By every moral or ethical standard it is the duty of soldiers to refuse orders to “defend” the US from migrants. History will look kindly upon those who do."

As the war on Gaza becomes more severe, with more men, women and children dying everyday, Palestinians in Nashville feel the rebounding effects and encourage their communities to show support. ✏️: @ejturner02.bsky.social

"Major Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems has reportedly shut down a U.K. facility after it was repeatedly targeted by Palestine Action activists, in a major victory for the group that was recently banned by the U.K. government." #England #UK #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide

Over 19,000 children killed in Gaza by Israel as genocide marks 700th day - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/over-19000-children-killed-gaza-israel-genocide-marks-700th-day

If the problem is overcrowding in jails, the solution is to reduce the number of people entering & staying. That means reducing criminalization & that requires reducing police power. The sheriff or someone will propose the false solution of a bigger & better jail. We cannot & will not let it happen.

Might be a good time to know that there is a GI Rights Hotline that can counsel people trying to get out of the military. girightshotline.org

Nashville folks: a great way to plug in with valuable work organizing people to create new systems of safety, housing, participatory democracy, and community. Join us! bit.ly/npbcinterest

A helpful case study of the mechanics of the normalization of christofascistic ideas. "The political winds are shifting,” Haymes said. “And it’s happening fast.”

This was one of the most meaningful books I read last year, I keep bringing it up in discussions. Scroll down his thread for links to excerpts and interviews (I echo his praise of the MAKC ones). And of course there's the sale code he offers below.

Add to the list of christofascist media-makers in Middle Tennessee

MY BOOK TURNS 1 TODAY! Currently 60% off at @nyupress.bsky.social! Enter code NYU60 at checkout. TLDR: the eurochristian aspiration to become God gives rise to whiteness + property and ultimately to police power as the pseudo-divine power to exile nonwhite/dispossessed trespassers to carceral hell.

This is such a great read. I had to pause part way through because I was laughing too hard.

"Flock admits federal immigration agents have direct access to tracking data, despite previous claims" "Flock said it has a pilot program, giving Border Patrol a Flock account, which can request 1:1 access from local law enforcement agencies" www.9news.com/article/news...

MY BOOK TURNS 1 TODAY! Currently 60% off at @nyupress.bsky.social! Enter code NYU60 at checkout. TLDR: the eurochristian aspiration to become God gives rise to whiteness + property and ultimately to police power as the pseudo-divine power to exile nonwhite/dispossessed trespassers to carceral hell.

Settler colonial *culture* is in a period of mass revival—here's documentation of it at a bull riding event in Nashville.

Mason resident Darryle Dowell said he worked for the prison when CoreCivic, then called the Corrections Corporation of America, was promising $20 an hour. He said he only received $10 an hour despite a promotion. “I don’t see no prison,” Dowell said. “I see a concentration camp.”

I made a poster with words that are true and art that is interesting and you can get your own for $15.

But...guardrails!

Last week a person next to me @ the coffee shop saw my @nashpplsbudget.bsky.social shirt + asked me about the vote the previous night on up-zoning (adding housing density) in West Nashville. It had passed 2nd reading. He lives there + opposes it vehemently. Most notable thing to me from the convo...

I think about this lecture from Tamara Nopper on the politics of crime data all the time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0tE...

Crime data grew as part of Progressive Era efforts to control Black people and involved the police, philanthropy, and social sciences. Ida B. Wells-Barnett and W.E.B. Du Bois were early critics of the political functions of crime data. A function is to legitimize policing. Crime data is copaganda.

hey can we try something? lifeline4gaza.com is incredible. since some aid seems to be coming in, prices have dropped. this is a great time for ppl to try to get food. can everyone donate $10 to 1 family, and then post a message like this to your acct? we could do some good if many ppl participate ❤️

The state of Tennessee tortured and murdered Byron Black yesterday. I’m trying to find words to understand and explain why it happened and what it all means. This is how I'm thinking and feeling my way through it. 🧵

The state of Tennessee tortured and murdered Byron Black yesterday. I’m trying to find words to understand and explain why it happened and what it all means. This is how I'm thinking and feeling my way through it. 🧵

Hind Rajab was killed at 6 years old. She spent her final hours trapped in a car, surrounded by the bodies of six relatives. A Red Crescent operator stayed on the phone, comforting her as an Israeli tank approached. Twelve days later, she was found dead. wapo.st/3UCiAjn

we don't actually know what's going to *work* so we need to try many different kinds of things and that means that a lot of what people are trying will not be your choice of action.

Middle Tennessee Christians for Justice in Palestine, Nour Nashville, PSL Nashville, and the American Muslim Advisory Council invite people of faith and conscience from across Middle Tennessee to join us to take action against Israel’s active genocide and forced starvation of the people of Gaza.

I'm helping organize a low-risk action with others in support of Gaza. Folks who also want a free Palestine are coming out of their holes to throw 💩 saying it's too "symbolic," ineffective. Engaging one of them, it's clear the secondary trauma of watching genocide is leading some to lash out.

Remember when Peter Thiel hesitated when asked if the human race should live on?

Classic Thin Blue Line political theology. From DHS on Twitter: "TO EVERY CRIMINAL ILLEGAL ALIEN IN AMERICA: Darkness is no longer your ally. You represent an existential threat to the citizens of the US, and US Border Patrol's Special Operations Group will stop at nothing to hunt you down."

BBC News: Do you think you were a witness to war crimes? American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.

Wow—the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named after Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide) says plainly: "No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT." "HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."

Please donate to the Sameer Project. The situation is unfathomably dire.

Yes. And. If prisons are a "social safety net" they're the kind of net that entraps. The "safety" they generate is safety for existing order: "capitalism saving capitalism from capitalism" as RWG puts it. They're sold as safety — even salvation — for all of us, but they create hell instead.

Important thread. The idea that prisons exist because of the profit they supposedly generate is a very widespread myth even on the left that obscures our ability to understand that their purpose and function exceed profit generation and have to do more with the need to contain surplus peoples.

As an abolitionist and real tornado survivor living in Nashville, I hate this www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZKJ...

I wonder how many of the everyday non-abolitionist folks who opposed the kidnapping of their neighbors in the 1850s became abolitionists through the experience of seeing their neighbors kidnapped. How can we facilitate such conversion—of hearts/minds, politics, and, by extension, conditions—today?