#OtD 11 Feb 1813 Harriet Jacobs, a Black woman who escaped slavery and went on to write Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, was born in North Carolina. month Read more about her important autobiography, first published in 1861, here: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8284...

The worst mass shootings in Canadian history were done by a cis misogynist, a cis islamophobe and a cis possible RCMP informant. Never forget.

When the Center for a Stateless Society (C4SS) is to the right of Nathan J. Robinson on an issue.

"Native activists set up prayer camp outside Minneapolis ICE detention center"

Loved ones say they were 'stonewalled' by immigration agents as Leqaa Kordia rushed to hospital from detention centre.

Leqaa Kordia was recently hospitalized after a seizure as she approaches a year in government detention. Her family and attorneys say she is being subjected to worsening conditions as punishment for her Palestine activism and her faith. mondoweiss.net/2026/02/the-... #Palestine #Israel

On this day in 1861, the US House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution declaring non-interference with slavery in the slave-holding states. 7 had already seceded. Lincoln, in his Inaugural Address in March, tried to appease them, saying he had no legal right to interfere with slavery.

#OtD 11 Feb 1940 USSR made an agreement with Nazi Germany to export hundreds of thousands of tonnes of oil, grain, manganese and rubber. Ironically, these goods enabled German forces to invade the USSR later stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8290...

"Both the means of production and consumption goods must be expropriated and put at the disposal of the whole community." The Abolition of Property, by Marie Louise Berneri (1944), from ‘War Commentary: For Anarchism’

"Tuckerism stands for private property, which absolutely requires all the machinery of the law and governments to protect it. [...] when Tuckerism proposes to abolish government, it is like the man in the tree sawing off the limb he is sitting on between himself and the tree." W. H. Van Ornum (1899)

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The Yên Bái mutiny was an uprising of Vietnamese soldiers in the French colonial army on 10 February 1930. This took place in collaboration with civilian supporters who were members of the Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng.

This story of police violence hasn’t received enough media coverage. In 2024, BIA police shot Cody Whiterock in the face, back and chest after chasing him for over an hour in the snow. Whiterock, who is Shoshone-Paiute, was unarmed. Native men face the highest rates of police...

killing in the U.S., but their stories rarely receive national attention. Whiterock’s family has filed a lawsuit. ictnews.org/news/lawsuit...

"The rare victory represents the Native American’s proud resistance to the loss of their traditional homelands, and it represents defending the lives-and-way of life of their people."

released from the hospital. still hasn’t been able to speak w her family or lawyers. statement here: docs.google.com/document/u/0...

"Sand Creek Massacre Foundation alleges ICE actions echo the federal government’s treatment of Native Americans"

B.C. cancelled its drug decriminalization pilot, saying it hadn’t “delivered the results” they wanted. Its results: fewer drug users arrested and traumatized by cops. @desmondcole.bsky.social explains that when governments cave to moral panic, we lose good policies. breachmedia.ca/decriminaliz...

Hussam Qassem made a drum set from plastic, wood, and metal scraps. Video shows him playing the drums and singing to his forcibly displaced family in their tent in Gaza while children around him sing and dance.

Let's keep the politics out of tongue twisters please

Is this good or bad?

Someone should have told Winston Smith that Big Brother was just trying to help him find his dog. "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a dog licking a human face—forever," isn't quite as chilling though, I'll admit.

If your argument is that the US is more akin to the other countries of the Americas than to those of Europe then you need some explanation for why it opposed the Haitian Revolution after having just supported the French Revolution.

#OtD 10 Feb 1918, Black @IWW activist Ben Fletcher was arrested by the FBI in Philadelphia on bogus charges of sedition for allegedly disrupting the war effort. He was convicted along with dozens of others, fined $30,000 and jailed for 10 years. workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e73-...

If only people pointed out that Carney’s Davis speech was self-serving bullshit and not accurate to his principles.

video here if you’re not familiar or want to learn more about the struggle at Gustafsen Lake. RCMP literally tried to blow him up for defending Sun Dance & asserting sovereignty. If you can help him and his family out now would be a good time to donate www.aptnnews.ca/investigates...

What's your favourite Canada fact? Mine is that the RCMP bombed an oil site in Alberta in 1998 "with the full support of the energy company that owned it" and blamed a farmer for it.

China has been a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation since 1963. They have a national team that competes in international tournaments www.iihf.com/en/associati...

That is 100% incorrect. It is not a part of the United States it is property of the United States. open.substack.com/pub/freepuer...

Remembering that time on @anarchistn3wz.bsky.social when someone commented on an anti-Lenin article that didn't even mention Luxemburg at all by saying "Pretty wild to side with Lenin over Rosa on this," clearly indicating that the commenter hadn't in fact read the article before commenting.

It would be funny if it wasn't sad that leftists have sunk to the level of saying 'our country can't be racist because there are non-whites living in it'

There's no contradiction between being a huge multicultural multilingual country and being a white ethnostate. Look at Israel and Canada (which are in part reflections of the US), they're both at the same time. Nations and states aren't the same thing, otherwise 'nation-state' would be redundant.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Was Thomas Paine the original outside agitator? Born in England on this day in 1737, once he got to America he complained that his fellow Brits had "equalled and in many cases excelled, the savages of either Indies" and had "stirred up the Indians and Negroes to destroy us..."

Is it anti-American to hate Native ppl too? Because if so, the founding fathers would be anti-American, & you sort of lose hold of the fact that the US is a social construction, built by statists w/ a state for a specific purpose. The US isn't just an accidental geographic proximity melting pot.

And then you also still have the weirdly-shaped border between BC and Alaska that is due to the particular style of Russian colonialism.

Fun fact: The Americas are not just the US and Canada plus Latin America. There are a bunch of other former or current British and Dutch colonies in the Caribbean and South America.

a lesser known one today. especially inspiring to me as someone whos close family member died as a result of nuclear exposure. Indigenous peoples are on the frontlines of resistance to industries that cause irreparable harm to all life itself. we celebrate their work today and every day

On this day in 1987, a wave of unrest across Palestine begins when demonstrators from the Balata refugee camp in the West Bank, protesting the siege of the Palestinian Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon by the Amal Movement, clash with Israeli soldiers. anticolonialhistory.com/event/351/

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

I also learned that ads for AI and for Jesus look exactly the same.

Bad Bunny technically didn't name every country (or colony) in the Americas but it did sound like he shouted out the Antilles and Guianas as groups.

Bad Bunny is the first international figure to recognize Quebec as part of Latin America.

This is extra funny because the moon is even less inhabitable than Mars due to the lesser gravity.

I watched the game to learn about American culture and now I understand that you love AI and weight loss drugs.