This is an odd way to frame a return to traditional food ways that we ought to celebrate and treat as a chance to reflect on the importance of food sovereignty apnews.com/article/shut...

The New York Times is using passive voice to protect pedophiles now.

never forget how they reported on us

The anti-trans movement is from the top down is, to put it delicately, rife with nonces and child abusers, and it's exasperating how it's ignored. I'd detail some of the shit these anti-trans ideologues are involved with, but it would make me want to claw my own eyes out before I got half way done.

Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.

I want people to understand that in my youth, a youth that happened somewhere between the youth of Epstein, Trump, Maxwell, ex-Prince Andrew, et al & that of their victims, the term "jail bait" was framed as a compliment.

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

every tiny crumb that leaks out is a career ending bombshell and we’re all just supposed to go on with our lives while our elected representatives shrug and tell us there’s nothing to be done about the president’s involvement in a child sex trafficking operation

Let’s be clear: this is class warfare. Tens of thousands of working-class Americans are going to die because of this “deal.” Real people. Real deaths. For another tax break for the rich. Those who voted for it — Republicans and Democrats — are on the side the 1%, fighting against the rest of us.

Every senator let through the unanimous consent to make the whole thing take 5 minutes. Every one of them is lying to you about their opposition

Musk wants to be a Renaissance man, but he's not even a paleolithic man. Paleolithic people made art, cared for the sick, & got together to share resources & ideas. Musk would have died alone, crying that no one saw the genius of his plan to monetize hitting yourself in the head with a big rock.

evergreen

The most Democrat consultant-brained piece of this was making it a procedural fight about ACA subsidies — that, if extended for a year, would help the GOP in the 2026 midterms anyway — instead of making it stand against Trump’s lawlessness and corruption. But that would require believing in things.

Do not help your opposition is politics 101. Do not help fascists who have turned government into a weapon against our people is human 101. So is, don't draw a line you claim represents your unwavering principles and hurl yourself across it.

Vote for harm reduction. That's one day a year. Call your reps to push them. That's accountability. If they want your time and resources, they better earn it. Anything less is magical thinking.

"Maybe if I donate another $10, canvas a lil harder in the midterms..." NO. THAT WILL NOT SAVE YOU. The time and resources you put into electoralism directly takes away from the time and resources you have available to build real power on your community or workplace.

Andor/Rogue One got a lot right, but the thing they got rightest was liberal leadership's desperate urge to surrender every chance they get

You cannot (accurately!) yell "fire, fire, fire!" as you enter a home & then not break down doors & windows to get people out. Otherwise, your cries of alarm are untrue or you're not up to leading.

We're doing a live Pathfinder game for the next few weekends on the Cool Zone Book Club (published as weekend episodes of It Could Happen Here). The great Margaret Killjoy wrote some fiction setting up our characters:

It is honestly kind of a big deal for one of our major papers to even be using the word "allegedly" when referring to an initial police statement.

Andor/Rogue One got a lot right, but the thing they got rightest was liberal leadership's desperate urge to surrender every chance they get

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

This is so fucking bleak

"If you stick a knife in my back 9 inches and pull it out 6 inches, that's not progress. If you pull it all the way out, that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. They haven't pulled the knife out; they won't even admit that it's there." — Malcolm X

Our natural instinct is to help each other! Structures of capitalism, colonialism, white supremacy, patriarchy, etc. have to exert tremendous effort to try & obliterate that instinct & isolate us from one another.

No amount of reform can cut out the infection that is CBP, ICE, and the entire culture of American policing. They need to be abolished entirely.

I'm not the biggest fan of puns in general, but I love when MtG does design puns. Tutors that tutor, Charming Prince being a charm - hook this type of stuff into my veins^^

I think it’s important to remember that you don’t get points for being a bootlicker, you just out yourself as a spineless little worm. The boot doesn’t care how well you clean it. It will still crush you.

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

The feed today. (Full disclosure: I am enjoying the treat.)

The victory of progressive candidates is a byproduct of our work caring for one another and building a better world, not the goal of our work.

Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.

if you didn't follow the VA governor race you didn't know that Earle-Sears ran like a billion anti-trans campaign ads and Spanberger didn't flinch or pull a Newsom. going all-in against trans people is a losing move, especially when the federal government has made harming and killing us a priority.

...perhaps all those centrist Dem pundits should be fired – or at the very least, taken less seriously – after such an atrocious miscalculation? juliaserano.medium.com/should-democ...

best encapsulation why everyone hates democrats despite trump being the spawn of satan

The lib moms are drawing steel and swearing terrible oaths The lib dads are wearing pride shirts and telling people “you’ll have to get through me” I overheard a grandma use the phrase “those motherfuckers“ So many nonpartisan apolitical regular folks are _mad_.

I’m coining the phrase “the centrist two-step.” Step 1 is declaring that the left needs to focus on kitchen table issues instead of social issues to win back voters and step 2 is insisting that all left-wing approaches to kitchen table issues are impossible to deliver on.

Fascism really is here at the Federal level. You are living through that if you are in the U.S. It's really actually happening. Figure out how to band with others to help make it through.

Really important advice. And if you insist on posting these things or keeping them up after you've been informed they're fake, that's going to be a quick block. "Well, it could be true!" It's not. "Well, you can imagine." Nope. "Well, they do it!" Yeah, no.

The purpose of a system is what it does. Once you realize that, everything becomes clear.

This worldview is unrecognizable and repulsive to me. Trans people, and the working class queer communities we're intertwined with, are incredibly active. We have a long history of militant resistance and keeping each other safe. We have survived literal genocides. We choose to fight.

Anarchy anywhere is a threat to tyranny everywhere. Authoritarians know this. It is why they are so desperate to crush it, because once again Anarchists are growing, Anarchism flourishes in the corpse of empires. Do not let yourself forget this. All flags burn black in a fire.

in the same way that food banks can turn $10 into enough food to feed many families, there are mutual aid groups who can turn $10 into many many years worth of hormones. if you are discouraging people from getting the life saving medicine that they need by lying to them about the cost you are Evil.

This entire "the Dems need to abandon identity and focus on economics!" discourse is being driven by rich assholes who would melt down at the slightest hint of higher taxes on the wealthy or more welfare for the poor. Look how they're treating Mamdani! It's cynical bullshit all the way down.

As Tolkien put it, "It needs but one foe to breed a war, not two .... And those who have not swords can still die upon them." Calls for peace in the face of imperialist invasion are nonsensical

Appreciate this coverage but it is hard to explain to people not in the Chicago area that THESE ARE NOT PROTESTS. This is people coming out of their homes, doing anything in their power to try to stop their neighbors from being kidnapped. It is coming for your city next, please be prepared.

We're gonna be playing Pathfinder (think D&D but better) over on Cool Zone Media Book Club for the next six weeks, and I figured why not start with a little prequel story as a teaser, complete with character art. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/the-tale-o...

I’ve said this before but white guilt is useless. I don’t want people to feel guilty for things they had no part in, and guilt easily curdles into resentment. But everyone regardless should feel an obligation to correct injustice, especially if you somehow benefit. bsky.app/profile/mich...

Organizing for and with solidarity works.

Dunno how to break it to you but we're not going to vote our way to democracy. We're also not suing our way there. As absolutely vital as both of these things are, they're necessary but not sufficient. We need people to get to their bones that we are in extraordinary times & break out of habits.