Disaster imperialism in full effect in Jamaica according to family there who tell me there is now a strong US military presence under the guise of aid including military planes, drones and helicopters. Please continue to support grassroots & mutual aid hurricane recovery efforts as you are able.

I wrote this essay in the current Sudan issue of Transition Magazine titled "The Politics of Hunger" which argues that the current hunger crisis has been decades in the making. It begins with Nimeiri and looks at US engagement over the decades. transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/the-politics...

This Unruly Witness is a collection of bold, tender, and illuminating writing on June Jordan’s multidimensional legacy

Wendy Brown: "[T]he three schools of neoliberalism [Friedman, Hayek, Ordoliberals] share a rejection of robust democracy and of the expansive notion of the political on which democracy rests." Hope this helps.

W.E.B. Du Bois said, “Mass capitalistic control of books and periodicals, news gathering and distribution, radio, cinema, and television has made the throttling of democracy possible and the distortion of education and failure of justice widespread. It can only be countered by public knowledge...”

Evidence of mass killings by RSF in El-Fasher, Sudan, are chilling. They must be a wake up call for the rest of the planet too. Countries must be pressured to stop sending weapons into their proxy war in Sudan. It starts with acknowledging the horror.

Staggering atrocities in Sudan. Following the mass slaughter of nearly 500 men, women, and children at a maternity hospital, UN officials say: "The situation is simply horrifying... El Fasher, already the scene of catastrophic levels of human suffering, has descended into an even darker hell."

"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity." - CLR James, "The Black Jacobins"

The one call to action people could amplify is a trade and arms embargo on the UAE until they stop arming and supporting the RSF. The UAE is one of Canada and the US’ biggest trading partners in the MENA region. #KeepEyesOnSudan #KeepEyesOnDarfur

This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true. _This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure. https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

Against imperialist, anti-Black narratives of “civil war” and “failed state” in Sudan, a movement resource on imperialism & counter-revolutionary war in Sudan, and how we can act in engaged solidarity with people in El-Fasher, in Darfur, and across Sudan. www.weavingourworlds.ca/beyond-sloga...

You want to democratize "going to therapy"? Make it "free" as in paid by socialized healthcare. You want to democratize "making art"? Give people money and free time to express themselves.

The RSF in Sudan is the Janjaweed militia that was convicted of genocide in Darfur. It is the armed group that European governments funded in the name if reducing African migration to Europe. It is the group that the United Arab Emirates is funding in exchange for illegal gold mining.

Melissa has strengthened into a major Category 5 storm. Here's what that means.

We're all we've got. But that's a lot more than many of us think.

1/ Was proud to be among 300 former NYT opinion contributors who pledge to boycott writing for the New York Times opinion section until our demands about Palestine are met www.boycottdivestunsubscribe.com/opinion-boyc...

From the Chronicle daily briefing, Vanderbilt and Wash U. continue to show themselves as authoritarianism curious.

One of my top picks in the @dukepress.bsky.social sale is the new book by Ron Radano tracing the history of race & capital in the US through ongoing white attempts to own the liveness of Black music which always exceeds & escapes capture. Ron talks w Anthony Reed at @intellpublics.bsky.social 10/27!

Put this in the same frame with the knowledge that many people are supplementing with protein shakes to deal with rising grocery prices. So they can afford to have kids. Q: Elevated lead levels probably have no effect on the development of sperm, eggs, embryos, fetuses, or nursing babies, right?

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

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In response to recent severe storms, including Typhoon Halong, that devastated Alaska's western coast, local community organizations and regional partners have come together to establish the Western Alaska Disaster Relief Fund, housed at the Alaska Community Foundation. www.kyuk.org/alaska-state...

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation Depraved. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

Sign. Join. Go to the meeting. The first instinct is to keep your head down, get the work done, hope someone louder or smarter or whatever helps. But that's the coordination problem of fascism: if you, yes you, ordinary person who's never done this before, do nothing then we all lose.

cornell alums sign and share and fight and then some docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

“There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you.” --Amiri Baraka (10/7/1934-1/9/2014) (blurry photo by me)

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

Vanderbilt AAUP: "The Compact is a threat. It aims to control nearly every aspect of university operations. Reject this Trump loyalty oath." vanderbiltaaup.org/2025/10/06/s...

Israel has killed or injured more than 10 percent of Gaza's population over the past 24 months.

My latest reprinted in @truthout.org.

I know people on here are scandalized that someone might classify a public school teacher as "working class" because she might have a masters or even PhD in education but can we agree it's at least as weird to call the guy who owns the local Wendy's franchise "working class" because he has a GED?

The UN OCHA has issued a list of the latest catastrophes facing Palestinians in Gaza as Israel intensifies its bombardment and siege ⤵️ 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/qngd86

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.