"It was pretty sad," she said, "because for the first time I found how stupid people could be. It sort of made me feel alone in the world. The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it."

“To say we are frustrated or angry would be an understatement,” said Robert Phillips, First Nations Summit leader, at a news conference Friday. “This is a historical moment for First Nations and we will not back down.” #bcpoli

Anarchism teaches us that it's impossible to be against two things at once & that capitalism & class struggle have nothing to do with imperialism. We can never prioritize anything, we can only abstractly oppose everything. Example of someone who would consider Malatesta a tankie if they read him.

#OtD 14 Apr 1816 using the temporary freedom from work and cover of permitted gathering for festivities, enslaved people in Barbados rose up on the night of Easter Sunday in what became known as Bussa's rebellion stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8535...

On this day in 1715, the Yamasee War begins, a conflict between the Yamasee peoples and allied tribes on the one side and the settler colonial Province of Carolina on the other. anticolonialhistory.com/event/42/

“So much for Freedom under Democracy… So much for the real aims of the Allies.” “What Are We Fighting For?”, by Vernon Richards (1939) historyiswhat.noblogs.org/post/2026/02...

#OtD 13 Apr 1919 the Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place when British troops in Amritsar, India, opened fire on a crowd of predominantly Sikh pilgrims, but also with many Hindus and Muslims, murdering up to 1000 or more people and injuring many more stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8446...

New: Why Was the Prairieland Jury Persuaded to Convict Given the Government’s Weak Case? Questions linger about a “loud uproar” in the jury room on the day of the verdict as juror misconduct is alleged in a post-verdict motion seeking a new trial. unicornriot.ninja/2026/why-was...

“I'm certain that we will teach and we will help people unlearn their baloney because, my gosh, those racist tropes and generalizations about us are alive and well in Canada.” #Indigenous #FirstNations #film #documentary #PowellRiver #BC

The Trump administration has fired two judges who ruled against them in their cases attempting to deport pro-Palestine student advocates Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi, as officials seek to reshape federal immigration courts to speed deportations.

An anti-technology letter to the editor of Freedom: A Journal of Anarchist Communism, way back in 1901. “…one may fairly say today we have more work under machinery than ever we had before its advent.” Steam, the Tyrant, by Philo Palhomo historyiswhat.noblogs.org/post/2026/04...

Today's anarchists would (wrongly) call Malatesta a campist/tankie if they actually knew what his stances were. This is because their anarchism is more of an aesthetic than anything else. There's the tankie aesthetic & the anarchist one, like subgenre music fans who don't get along.

Ukraine helped invade & occupy Iraq in the 2000s, then sold arms to Saudi Arabia as it attacked Yemen and bought Israeli arms for itself in the 2010s to '20s. Now it's enthusiastically helping Israel & the US commit genocide in Palestine, Lebanon & Iran. Aggression is good when by the right country

"Israeli forces kill three Palestinians in Gaza, arrest dozens in West Bank"

"A baby born in a Beirut displacement camp now struggles to survive"

Attacks come as Israel says it is close to taking over a major town in the south, and before peace talks in the US.

On this day in 1975, the Lebanese Civil War began when "unidentified gunmen in a speeding car fired on a church [...], killing four people, including two Maronite Phalangists. Hours later, Phalangists [...] killed 30 Palestinians [...] Citywide clashes erupted in response to this 'Bus Massacre'."

On this day in 1873, a mob of hundreds of armed white men attacked the Grant Parish courthouse in Colfax, Louisiana, killing an estimated 150 Black people, many of whom were trying to flee.

#OtD 12 Apr 1920 workers in Ireland launched a general strike in support of pro-independence prisoners who were on hunger strike in Mountjoy prison, Dublin. After two days, the British government caved and released all the prisoners stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8363...

On this day in 1999 in Serbia, the crew of a US F-15E fighter jet twice hit a civilian passenger train with missiles, killing as many as 60 people. NATO's "emphasis had changed to strategic and economic targets such as transport links, particularly major bridges."

Is he saying he wants workers to have deepfake porn to watch while on the job? Because that's pretty messed up.

Oh, wow! Who else did he meet with?

"The inhuman, lustful compulsion to become the greatest and mightiest nation in the world is comparable to the frantic, superhuman exertions of a delirious patient, who rallies all his temporary energy, only to fall back again, utterly exhausted." Bakunin (1870)

#OnThisDay in 1854, a lynch mob hanged two Snohomish Indians in Seattle's Pioneer Square. A third man was saved from the mob by Sheriff Carson Boren. historylink.org/File/3521

Society of the Spectacle

And this is the Houthis flexing their muscle amid reports of a Trump Hormuz blockade

On this day in 1678, the First Treaty of Casco is signed after settlers in Maine are defeated in the First Abenaki War, or the Northern Theatre of Metacom's Rebellion (King Philip's War). anticolonialhistory.com/event/41/

"That Governors in different Colonies have declared protection to slaves, who should imbrue their hands in the blood of their masters."

‘Everything is gone’. Israel is a terrorist state, now carrying out genocide in Lebanon, systematically destroying entire villages, rigging homes with explosives, and obliterating them in massive remote detonations. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

They arm Israel through their subsidiary in the US. So that's something.

Let them stay.

"Fairy Dust and Toxic Waste" now on the library for easier access/reading: theanarchistlibrary.org/library/igna...

I switched from the Ukrainian courage of invading Iraq to the ethics of invading Iraq, apparently. LOL.

Apparently I smeared Ukrainian soldiers by not mentioning how valiantly they fought against the Iraqis whose country the Ukrainians were occupying. LOL. Are you gonna talk about how valiant the Russians occupying Ukraine are next?

#OtD 11 Apr 1981 in London, after rumours of police brutality against a young Black man, youth in Brixton, both Black and white, turned their anger on the police, leaving 280 injured in what would be one of the iconic urban riots of the Thatcher years stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8270...

Sure, those Artemis crew members may have taken lives in Iraq. They probably also took the health of the survivors. But you took my whimsy about space travel. So who's the real bad guy here?

Before NASA missions existed, nobody wondered about space.

Marx also wrongly thought that other animals' minds couldn't conceive of plans for anything, so maybe we shouldn't just base everything on what he rejected.

I expected them to not invade Iraq and kill Iraqis ("expected" as in ethically not naively). But given that they went ahead and did it, the least I expect of other people is to not cover up or justify their military career.

Me: *Makes a factual reference to real life events such as the war on Iraq and two of its veterans being on the Artemis crew. Ian Coldwater: Umm, this is giving off major internet vibes, like, maybe touch grass or something. The Iraq War is like a meme or something.

You: Haha, look at this nutjob who thinks that Artemis has something to do with the war on Iraq. Stars & Stripes: Salute our brave Iraq War vets for their space mission! You: Keep it down!

#OtD 11 Apr 1871 women in the Paris commune set up the Union of Women for the Defence of Paris. They organise to defend the commune, care for the wounded, and abolish gender inequality. They later fought government troops. Learn more about the commune: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/voi...

Sure, they took part in the invasion of Iraq and left behind a humanitarian catastrophe. But have you considered they also went around the moon? It all evens out in the end.

Ukraine was one of the coalition of the willing countries to invade and occupy Iraq in the 2000s. However, Iraqi insurgents defeated the Ukrainian forces and caused them to flee the country.

Oh, you're against militarism? You must hate outer space then.