Israel has intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla and is in the process of detaining the 500+ civilians taking part in this humanitarian aid mission. Workers, students, and people all over the world must demand their immediate release. www.leftvoice.org/israel-inter...

“Instead of being enthralled by its wan superficiality, we would be better off looking beside and beneath it at the extractive project that machine learning serves in its expansion into humanistic research and education”

“Part of being a revolutionary is creating a vision that is more humane. That is more fun, too. That is more loving. It's really working to create something beautiful." — Assata Shakur (July 16, 1947- September 26, 2025)

Let's get that same kind of effort galvanized behind Black women who lost their jobs this year! NOTE: Black women lost 319,000 jobs between February and July of this year, the only major female demographic to experience significant job losses during this five-month period. white men gained 365,000

her’s a clearer link with more info. please donate! leonardeducation.org/the-palestin...

Here’s last night’s Fieldwork album release concert at Roulette (starts about 15’ in). Enjoy! www.youtube.com/live/jGBzIOg...

"Ethiopia’s Tigray war, which lasted from 2020 to 2022, is one of the most criminally under-covered conflicts in modern history" “It is a really horrific and extreme form of sexual violence, and one that deserves the world’s attention.”🧵

Sianne Ngai: "The gimmick is thus capitalism's most successful aesthetic category but also its biggest embarrassment and structural problem. With its dubious yet attractive promises about saving time, the reduction of labor, and the expansion of value..." +

COVID-19 has revealed that much of the US public is willing to accept mass death and abandonment. We were pushed by propaganda to see many around us as disposable. That helped set the tone for current fascist violations. I wrote about it for @prismreports.org. prismreports.org/2025/09/16/c...

By quickly pushing people to believe that the elderly, disabled, poor, and others were a necessary sacrifice, the ruling class and corporations primed the public for more fascist incursions. They observed how many give in to destroying one another and themselves. prismreports.org/2025/09/16/c...

"When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers. We stuff the pockets of oligarchs with even more money. We hand over our autonomy, at the very moment of emerging American fascism."

“The study found that about 7% of US adults have been present at the scene of a mass shooting in their lifetime, and more than 2% have been injured during one.”

A mainstream outlet finally does more than repeat the official BS statement from ICE about the shooting of Silvero Villegas-Gonzalez. This man's death should be a national scandal. Grateful for indy journalists who questioned the official narrative that corporate outlets mindlessly echoed last week.

FOX news host suggests we euthanize the homeless, someone goes into two encampments and starts shooting. 13 people shot and Jacob Frey and the media are just talking about it as the new best reason to clear the encampments

And the Palestine speech exception was the runway for the current moment.

The Washington Post’s decision to fire a Black opinion journalist for accurately quoting Charlie Kirke’s racism is a fitting tribute to “free speech” as Kirke and his hagiographers practiced it: whites only, flattering to the powerful, and in furtherance of a fascist agenda.

idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...

Must read www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

This is how they survived, with solidarity, mutual aid. This is how we will survive until this fascist regime is defeated.

instructors! today is a good day to ask yourself this question again

Nashville folks: check to make sure you're still registered to vote! www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...

Malcolm X: “If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”

101 years ago today, Amílcar Cabral, revolutionary leader of Guinea Bissau, was born. To mark his birthday we are resharing an interview with his biographer António Tomás, author of Amílcar Cabral: The Life of a Reluctant Nationalist. buff.ly/Fh87nkc

The journey went from “Serena Gilbert and I have an idea for a book…” to 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 1/

A juxtaposition: Samuel Delany: "Every human takes in far more information that [they] can put out. 'Stupidity' is a process or strategy by which [humans] commit [themselves] to taking in no more information than [they] can put out." Toni Cade Bambara: "What are you pretending not to know today?"

The Texas A&M firing reveals the core power dynamic at play. The reactionary centrist outrage was reserved for challenges coming from below, criticism from the public, marginalized voices, and activists. They are now silent when the threat comes from above, through the power of the state.

About Nepal: 1. It's not about social media bans, it's about corruption, austerity (incl IMF-imposed) & jobs (~20% unemployment) 2. ~1/3 of economy relies on remittances 3. Biggest gap is not realizing this is ostensibly 'left' govt & context of Left struggles and splits in Nepal, & what's next

Texas Tribune confirms that she was NTT www.texastribune.org/2025/09/08/t...

Texas A&M University System orders audit of all courses after gender identity lesson goes viral Details: bit.ly/42jauQZ

Here's what's extra gross here. The TAMU president keeps saying the course "doesn't fit the catalog." The catalog only says this on the left. Then the prof's version says this on the right. A lot of recent books do focus on the things on the right, of course! And the Dean & dept chair agreed!

Happy Elvin Jones day to all who celebrate! Time to cue up some classic Coltrane quartet to start 🥳

New from me: On Kara Walker's radical transformation of a toppled Confederate memorial — the Stonewall Jackson statue from Charlottesville, Va. Her piece goes on view next month, part of the big MONUMENTS show at The Brick and MOCA in Los Angeles. [Gift link] www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/a...

Wow! "Whether as infrastructure in our educational system or as guide in our daily lives, AI, with its sleek reordering of time, narrative sequence, and attribution, is creating new challenges to historicity and truth."

I am from Missouri and do politics for my job, and am just now learning of this sit-in to protest attempted RW seat-stealing.

This is a critical reminder to all of us. I myself fell into a trap of sharing bad info yesterday in my anxious scrolling for Chicago news (salt trucks, protest at a location) The information zone is already flooded - our job is to verify, synthesize & share only info that is useful to resist.

Even the Supreme Court admits IDF is starving Palestinians: “In a highly rare exercise of wartime legal restraint, Israel’s Supreme Court ruled Sunday that the Israeli government has deprived Palestinian detainees of even a minimum subsistence diet” apnews.com/article/isra...

On fascism and racism, Langston Hughes said, "Fascism preaches the creed of Nordic supremacy." He also noted, "Fascism is a new name for that kind of terror the Negro has always faced in America... This kind of terrorism is extending more and more to groups of peoples whose skins are not black."

Days after a massive landslide buried about 1,000 people, only a few rescue workers have managed to reach Tarsin, a remote village in the Jebel Marra area of Darfur in Sudan. The landslide on Sunday also killed more than 5,000 animals, including sheep and camels, destroying survivors’ livelihoods.

Released yesterday - Hope you are enjoying the music!

My book is (surprisingly?) here so if you thought your book was on a topic they'd neglect or that you'd be exempt, reconsider

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lots of references to the "Third World" in US politics today given the deterioration of our institutions. there was a time when "Third World" named an alliance of people trying to decide their fate on their own terms and we would have to improve considerably to earn that description of our politics

“We never know how our small activities will affect others through the invisible fabric of our connectedness. In this exquisitely connected world, it’s never a question of “critical mass. It’s always about critical connections.” - Grace Lee Boggs

Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be

There’s no world in which you can explain this based on merit. There just isn’t.

“Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.” - Fred Hampton