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We’re officially cancelling the “guilty” part of guilty pleasures. Do not feel guilty about that cringy early 2000’s TV comfort show. Do not feel guilty about that spicy book. Do not feel guilty about that smooth smooth yacht rock or that 90s sitcom with 127 episodes a season. You’ve all earned it.

I just heard a Trump supporter say "Epstein had his own island so he could make his own rules."

Several people have been killed and injured during the recent anti-immigration crackdown, leading to protests across the US, including in Minneapolis, New York and San Francisco. Here’s a look at the US anti-immigration operations ⤵️ #Infograph

Hear me out: A show about the secret love affair of competitive 80s stock brokers called Pleated Rivalry.

that vacation feel

I don't think moderates should be proud to be the very people MLK called a greater obstacle to racial equity than the KKK.

If I were communist dictator of USA, I would put anyone who puts up Christmas decorations before Halloween straight to gulag. They can die in jail for all I care, I'm not joking. There are two holidays in between, both with decorations. Once again I would like to reiterate that this is NOT a joke.

Civility is simply how well you tolerate your own death and the death of others.

Hot off the press #dc

Opinion | Charlie Kirk's blood is on the hands of Democrats who failed to convince their Republican colleagues to support gun control.

Armani, not Agamben.

Calling all gender outlaws! Leslie Feinberg—self-described “working-class, secular Jewish, transgender, lesbian, female, revolutionary communist” and the first theorist to advance the marxist concept of “transgender liberation”—was born today in 1949.

serving Kant

It's an error of modern European thought to believe that religion, politics, and economics are distinct and separable domains. Each always includes and implies the others.

The temptation to read Derrida as a polemical writer misses his deeply constructive and affirmative "project."

the Kamala to Cowboy Carter pipeline

Destiny’s child Bootylicious straight into nickleback’s how you remind me in the airport bar. This flight delay is reaching dangerous levels of vibe

No cis man under 35 should be allowed to read Nietzsche unsupervised.

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"I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight." -Malcolm X

went from Capital to The Gay Science just to feel something

Georgia Abortion Ban Forces Family to Keep Pregnant, Brain-Dead Woman on Life Support

Our world is too at ease with mass death.

Ocean Vuong is a treasure

"The advance of capitalist production develops a working class which by education, tradition, and habit looks upon the requirements that mode of production as self-evident natural laws... The silent compulsion of economic relations sets the seal on the domination of the capitalist over the worker."

America is not worth dying for.

Happy birthday to daddy Karl! (Illustration of Engels and Marx published in the Gay Liberator no. 42, December 1974)

Fuck America

"Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by the products of his own hand." -Marx, Capital

BREAKING: Palestinian activist and Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi walks out of ICE detention after a Vermont judge ordered his release. "I am saying it clear and loud to President Trump and his Cabinet: I am not afraid of you," he said.

Reading through Capital, Marx has an ambiguous framing of slavery: on one hand, it's not a properly capitalist mode of production, on the other hand, the capitalist mode of production tends toward the bondage of the wage-laborer.

Me and who?

The Art of the Deal

The US has bombed Yemen's Hodeidah port & airport 13 times today. Meanwhile, Israel has killed more than 92 Palestinians in Gaza in the past 48 hours. US terrorism inflicted on the Yemeni people in order to defend a holocaust.

Read Lenin's "The State and Revolution" (1917): www.marxists.org/ebooks/lenin...

allergy season with a fresh septum ring

"Create emergency contingency plans within your organizations and networks, remember you have the right to remain silent at all times, and build networks of legal and communal defense protocols that anticipate the level of repression that is our reality."

#joshuatree #palmsprings

Rover Dangerfield, anyone?

So, this debate did not endear me to Gabriel Rockhill. But it was still worthwhile. youtu.be/Ai_Sig3AQqA?...

#necropolitics #achillembembe

Today: A march for Palestine, a protest against the Trump-Musk takeover, and a mutual aid pop-up. Find more ways to get involved in our civics roundup!