150 veterans with @vetsaboutface.bsky.social and other groups held a demonstration at the Capitol rotunda, facing arrest. Photo via ‪‪@anatosaurus.bsky.social‬

It's purely a coincidence that I stopped being funny right around the time that comedy was made legal again.

If you can only like one post today, let this one be it.

Why has no one thought of saying this before?

Anarchist Black Cross chapter that celebrates a guy who said it's ok if people are put in prison for not serving in the military.

"Does this rising generation know that those who inaugurated the eight-hour day were put to death at the command of capital?" Lucy E. Parsons (1926)

"When Italy was staggering around after the war the only thing which worked was Italian Fascism and Mussolini; to deny it is like denying the existence of the first day in every month." Richard Washburn Child, A Diplomat Looks at Europe (1925)

This Saturday! Les Révoltes is the place to be for archive expo & discussion & community dinner & VHS screening (!) on the Summit of the Americas 25 years later. bibliothequedira.wordpress.com/2026/03/26/2...

"And the logical course of the class struggle is not to confuse anti-semitism with anti-Zionism. The former is reactionary, but the latter is one of the means of fighting the former." Albert Meltzer (1942)

"...Israel has only accelerated its destruction of homes, not just in Gaza but in the West Bank too, and now in its invasion of southern Lebanon."

Ukraine signs 10-year arms export deals with three Gulf monarchies allied with the US and Israel, including the UAE, which is arming the RSF as it commits genocide in Sudan.

"Canadians oppose the Middle East war. The federal government doesn’t"

"Now that same hypocrisy, which stood calmly by while men, women, and children in Colorado were murdered in the interest of a privileged property-owning class, threatens to sacrifice thousands more of American lives in a world war, as though that might atone for those already lost!"

On this day in 1895, Hawaiian scholar, author, composer, hula expert, and educator, Mary Abigail Kawenaʻulaokalaniahiʻiakaikapoliopele Naleilehuaapele Wiggin Pukui is born. anticolonialhistory.com/event/167/

On this day in 1740, the British are forced to sign a treaty with Jamaican maroon leader Nanny. anticolonialhistory.com/event/333/

If you like The Strokes you'll love Killing Hope by William Blum.

“Cultural genocide” is genocide.

In this edition of Ideas, Annie McClanahan retheorizes capitalism from the perspective of the service economy, challenging conventional assumptions about how work is waged, regulated, managed, and automated. press.princeton.edu/ideas/annie-... #economics #finance

Images show Israel building permanent military bases in Gaza as US-backed reconstruction plans stall.

No War but Class War makes sense as long as you understand that wars of national liberation are part of the class war.

is as American as apple pie: “Hence the Prince that acquires new Territory, if he finds it vacant, or removes the Natives to give his own People Room; the Legislator that makes effectual Laws for promoting of Trade… may be properly called Fathers of their Nation…” Benjamin Franklin (1751)

#tdih 1943, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Jewish resistance fighters held off Nazis for 28 days. Read words ⬇️of Szmul Zygielbojm. He alerted Allies to Nazi’s crimes against humanity and later Jewish resistance in Warsaw. Despite his pleas, Allies stood by. 💔 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/wa...

“The oppressive egoism of the civilized, of Westerners, and their freedom to use and abuse will shatter when it comes up against the brutal equality of the barbarian world." Ernest Cœurderoy, anarchist (1854) historyiswhat.noblogs.org/anti-imperia...

I'd add that if you stand against national liberation, you are taking a stance of cultural and imperialist chauvinism not far, if far at all, from this.

Another year, another flood for Peguis and Fisher River, even with cold temperatures slowing the melt: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The Israeli 'Yellow Line' in Lebanon raises fears that a temporary military zone could become a longer-term occupation https://aje.news/d2aqmr

I didn’t know this, and am embarrassed to admit that I donated money to the AAP under the impression they were anarchists. I sent money to other anarchists and other anarchist groups in Ukraine, too, but it is frustrating and upsetting to think that I inadvertently supplied neo-nazis 🫠

I didn't know that you could work with (at least) two Nazis (who were never held accountable) on a project and be morally impeccable. I thought morality had something to do with being anti-Nazi in practice and not just theory, but what do I know, I'm not a scientist or an expert.

Before he died fighting alongside members of the far-right Christian nationalist Bratstvo Battalion, Petrov publicly supported conscription by the Ukrainian state & the making of contacts with state officials. We can safely say he was no longer an anarchist. taz.de/Russischer-A...

On this day in 1988, the US Supreme Court handed down its decision against the Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association, ruling that the Free Exercise Clause of the 1st Amendment to the Constitution doesn't protect Native ceremonial sites from development. anticolonialhistory.com/event/218/

Born on this day in 1944, Kainai Nation member, Indigenous rights activist and lifelong anti-colonial community worker, Marie Smallface-Marule. anticolonialhistory.com/event/166/

Born on this day in 1925, Māori and women's rights activist, Tuaiwa Hautai Kereopa (Eva Rickard). anticolonialhistory.com/event/276/

The Israeli army struck civilians in the Lebanese city of Mayfadoun. And then, the Israelis double-tapped the medics who arrived onto the scene. And then, they triple-tapped the next wave of medics. And then, they did it one more time for good measure.

#OtD 18 Apr 2001 police in Kabylie, Algeria, murdered a young man named Massinissa sparking a nationwide uprising which became known as the "Black Spring". Protesters fought and rioted for economic demands and more rights for Amazigh people stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8954...

When you call a principled stand virtual signaling, you might be the problem.

"The Qana massacre took place on April 18, 1996, near Qana, a village in then Israeli-occupied Southern Lebanon, when the Israeli military fired artillery shells at a United Nations compound, which was sheltering around 800 Lebanese civilians, killing 106 and injuring around 116."

To Dorothy Thunder, working with Cree is a deeply powerful experience — and one that she is eager to share. "Maybe I’m feeling off balance, but then I hear the language. It just soothes my spirit all over again. I feel whole again.” Story by Deena Goodrunning.

This Prisoners’ Day, we’re sharing a selection of pieces from the institute that document, analyze, and bear witness to the realities of Palestinian imprisonment. Your weekend reading list 👇 www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1658...

#OnThisDay in 1991, Nirvana debuted "Smells Like Teen Spirit" at Seattle's OK Hotel. historylink.org/File/11002

In the hours leading up to the start of the ceasefire agreement between Lebanon and Israel on Friday at midnight local time, Israeli forces unleashed intense bombardments that killed nearly 100 people and injured hundreds more, health officials said.

⚡️Enlistment officers targeted in more than 600 attacks since start of full-scale invasion, officials say. The highest number of incidents was recorded in Kharkiv Oblast with 69 cases, followed by Kyiv with 53 and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast with 45, according to the data.

“They are kids … in jail because they raised their own flag or sang their national anthem, or spray-painted walls with messages.” Letter to the anarchist journal Reality Now about the West Bank Prisoner Hunger Strike, by Ahmad Samih Abou-Ali (1984)

Palestinian Prisoner’s Day: What happened in Palestine on April 17, 1971? https://aje.news/5nrcju

New version of the zine: Gentlemen, You Are Mad; Mankind and the State; The Morals of Extermination, by Lewis Mumford & Marcus Graham (1946-1959) historyiswhat.noblogs.org/files/2026/0...

On this day in 1946, the last French soldier left Syria. France had been awarded the colony after WWI, but uprising after uprising, and a 1936 general strike, pressured them to leave. In 1945, there was an inter-imperialist conflict between Britain and France over Syria.

"The Bay of Pigs Invasion [17–20 April] was a failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in April 1961 by the United States and the Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front (DRF)..."

Your individual anarchist donation of $5 is what put them over the top, never forget.

#OtD 17 Apr 1943 Black students from @HowardU staged a sit-in at a segregated restaurant in Washington DC. One of the organisers of this and other sit-ins in the city at the time was Pauli Murray, who identified as part male and part female stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8851...

As Gaza violence continues, activist says Israeli settlers torch vehicles, attack homes in occupied West Bank.