#OtD 15 Nov 1987 1000s of factory workers in Brasov, Romania walked off the job in protest at the Ceausescu government's debt reduction plan which aimed to cut wages, food and energy consumption and eliminate 15,000 jobs in the city stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8725...

Epstein isnt a foreign conspiracy preying on america. Epstein is america.

“Don’t forget the real business of the War is buying and selling. The murdering and the violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals…. The true war is a celebration of markets.” www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Remember how the rw was all "pedophilia," had pizza-gate, made false accusations of pedophilia on the left, and tried to say they were protecting children during drag Queen story time? Nobody on the right remembers. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-lawyer...

What abolishing the state meant to anarchists in the past.

There's a reason no ethical lawyer will ever sleep with a client whether or not there is apparent consent. The power gradient is just too steep. No consent can ever be truly freely given. Enthusiastic, informed consent cannot be freely given if there are even implied consequences for saying no.

Power gradients can be so steep that NO consent is ever possible.

Bill Clinton was the most powerful man in the world, and Monica Lewinsky was an intern and his subordinate, and in any other workplace that would be called sexual harassment, and if you don't take power dynamics into account when you talk about things like this, you don't actually understand consent

Multiple times in the past week I have heard and seen people talking about Epstein and say that he's why trans people need to be restricted and FFS WHAT DO WE HAVE TO DO WITH ANY OF THIS?!?!?

I stfg if people are more disgusted at a man giving a blowjob than being a multiple rapist and, at the very least, facilitating a conspiracy to traffic very young women and girls to be raped, I am going to lose what little of it I have left.

Big nap for my lil boy after a long walk this morning 😇😌

Anyways I spend my time slowly replaying videos of ICE shootings so I can figure out what's going on and report on it and also the government is trying to make it illegal for me to have healthcare and my apartment's toilet breaks about once a week so................. Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

I have very little patience for the 'Russia is behind the far right' narrative because whilst, yes, they have definitely provided cash - so have American Evangelicals, plenty of home grown billionaires and other capitlaists. It's a global movement. You can't pin it on any one person, even Putin.

#OtD 15 Nov 1936 the Battle of Ciudad Universitaria began during the Spanish Civil War. Working-class people defended Madrid against Nationalist forces, while British volunteers in the University City of Madrid used books as bullet-stopping barricades stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8722...

Some of you are too young to remember the "Monica Lewinsky Scandal" and how everyone lost their fucking minds over it. Monica was harassed for years and years and it was gross. Hillary didn't help as she closed ranks with Bill. I remember how fucked it was ... and I was in the UK!!!

Best thing he's ever been involved in.

These ppl are so evil!

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If we want to remove them from institutions, we must first remove them from the streets. We know that this implies repression, that they will persecute us, but we must be forceful in this and prevent them from becoming strong. Antifascism must belong to the community, not be a weekend pastime."

Those most threatened by fascism must also be in the struggle. It must be a social, popular, and broad response. But we are also very wrong if we think that fascism can be stopped with ballots every four years. Fascism has the ballot box because it first had the streets.

"We have always understood that we should practice anarchism for non-anarchists. The same is true of antifascism. Anti-fascism must be transversal. It must be adopted by all groups, especially those who suffer most: LGTBI, migrants, racialized people...

All of the people I have watched on YouTube who I thought were kind of anti capitalist during the Palestine moment are now flag waving for reformist candidates! People don’t seem to Recognize that aipac is not the only massive lobbying firm! All politicians get lobbied! You are just compromising !!

😭😭 but nazi tattoo bro just made one tiny mistake!! Stop purity testing!!😭

Indivisible refuses to break ties from this fucker, who was one of Epstein’s pals. Indivisible’s supporters also are not asking for it (many do not know too).

Idk, what that pedophile is going to do to help, especially since the UAE is cool with him. The UAE is responsible for ai much death and genocide in Sudan, along with their partners the RSF. www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-a...

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"Death Death To The IDF" Betty Boop sticker seen in Istanbul, Turkey

We can live in a moneyless society. In fact, it is the only thing that makes sense.

this baby jumped on board a photographer's boat to escape killer whales and omg the look on its face as it speeds away lmao

Imagine looking around at everything happening in the world right now and deciding that the most pressing problem we face is trans people existing.

So we are going to bring forth a world where anyone who wants to be a lone wolf is welcome to walk into the woods without a single damn thing a global community made for him, and perish howling at the moon. The rest of us will live in a society.

We are a social species, and we have always prevailed through cooperation. Caring for our sick. Raising children we didn't sire or birth because they were part of our village or extended family. We are not breeders and predators, we are communicators and survivors. We evolved to UNITE.

I am tired of scrolling through YouTube shorts and seeing beefy conspiratorial clowns declare cooked food and vaccines and the very presence of a foreign person to be anathema to their delusional vision of a perfect, homogenous, walled-off society. We did not evolve to be ALPHA CHADS, actually.

The modern conservative panic is fueled by juvenile tantrums, of people clinging to hierarchies until their fingernails are bloody because they're too contemptuous towards undesirables and offal acquiring even a shred of humanity and dignity. But it's inevitable, and the clock will not turn back.

We are going Super Social Justice Blue Hair and Pronouns. We are calling things "gay" and "queer" as compliments and honorifics. We are proudly being buzzkills and harpies and feminine and vegan and giving a sincere fucking shit about the environment and climate and well-being of the community.

"my least woke opinion is---" That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania. Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.

On the heels of Democrats' electoral victories and spineless capitulation ending the government shutdown, the decision to target a city in a swing state suggests that the Trump administration is not concerned about electoral blowback. In other words—they don't intend to leave power voluntarily.

ICE crackdowns have not been popular with the general public or good for the economy. Kidnapping laborers who work for disproportionately low wages is bound to interfere with profits. Trump has focused the crackdowns on cities controlled by Democrats as a means of making life worse there.

Like LA, DC, and Chicago, the previous targets of ICE crackdowns, Charlotte has a Black mayor and is majority non-white. These crackdowns are meant to normalize using federal forces to terrorize people of color. What's new is that Charlotte is in a swing state. Let's explore the implications. 🧵⬇️

millions of people have been killed and disabled in the name of trying to return to a long dead pre-pandemic “normal” and it was people with power who made the decisions to do it - social murder. yet it is an extreme rarity for me to see an abled person call for justice on this front

not really a pivot if it's been their stance all along tho

L to R: • Genocidal slave owner • Slaver, rapey pedophile • Indian killer, eugenicist • Racist, executed 38 Lakota White terrorist state. Exactly who we've always been.

Yes, Trump is evil. But he's not uniquely so. He's not unprecedented. And we shouldn't pretend otherwise.

Andrew Jackson made reins out of human skin and committed genocide. Thomas Jefferson was also a child rapist. Jefferson, Washington, Madison, Monroe, and Jackson (among others) thought owning humans was cool. Richard Nixon and George W. Bush both have seven figures worth of deaths on their heads.

Societies for the upholding of principles ! Societies for the maintenance of lost traditions ! Committees for revolutionary ethics ! These things should be formed! Opportunists have no ethics and no consistency! Parliamentarians do not have principles besides the pursuit of power! Neither do capital

Indigenous people’s humanity and rights are a central part of the fight against climate change. These are not secondary issues that “distract” from “greater”issues. This guy advised the Ukrainian state. Imagine I downplayed the effect the war has on the environment? If Fascist Russia took over?

#OtD 14 Nov 1927 central bodies of the Soviet Communist Party recommended the expulsion of Leon Trotsky, thus consolidating Stalin's power. This was helped by Trotsky's previous actions undermining workers' democracy in favour of the bureaucracy stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8611...

> sexual violence in the ancient world (rome) "makes masters" as much as it "makes slaves." (this is actually an extremely common consensus among roman historians! sexual violence was INCREDIBLY important to the roman social hierarchy, encoded in the law as such)