Unless those Americans are Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

💥 Il semblerait que ce soit le jour J. Apocalypse Nerds sort aujourd’hui en librairie. Fierté teintée de fébrilité ; il est entre vos mains désormais. @nastasiahadjadji.bsky.social @divergences.bsky.social

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to lift

Some of us have been saying for a good few years now that replacing international organisations / institutions was a main goal of the billionaires / grifters behind Brexit and Trump. From the “Sovereign Individual” books of William Rees-Mogg, through attacking the EU, & installing Trump, Musk, etc.

The Tories and Labour colluded on a nationwide rollout of free zones not long after Brexit. 12 Freeports - 8 in England, 2 in Scotland, 2 in Wales. 74 SEZs - 48 in England, 18 in Scotland, 8 in Wales. 5 AI Growth Zones Thread/Explainer open.substack.com/pub/european...

New book - festschrift for Kevin Middlebrook

Read along the archival grain….

@letsgomathias.bsky.social is always killing it. His book To Catch A Fascist is a must own to be sure. Over on @halftheanswer.bsky.social via @liberalcurrents.com, @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and I had the pleasure of speaking with him about it and the state of the nation not too long ago as well.

Reminder that Francesca Albanese is not being targeted for a sentence twisted and lifted out of context in a speech. She is being targeted for daring to name the names of giant companies complicit in the crime of genocide. They would rather destroy international law than be accountable to it.

Today and tomorrow: $5 books are back! We will be donating a portion of our weekend sales to the legal defense of those engaged in acts of resistance to ICE. www.pmpress.org

So glad you asked! You can order these stickers here for the price of production and postage alone: store.crimethinc.com/collections/...

Excellent thread.

ICYMI

every day ask yourself what you can do to Bring Back Shame

Concerned about drones from cartels, the US military shot down a "party balloon" (www.foxnews.com/politics/us-...). Keep that in mind when the Pentagon executes people while claiming without evidence they're blowing up cartel boats.

Seasteading has always had that creepy and aggressive underside that characterizes so many “exit” and “freedom” projects. The 1970s Republic of Minerva project “president” Bud Davis declared residents on the private island would be able to do whatever they wanted, and he gave examples….

Medical anthropologist Emily Mendenhall considers how the medical establishment has frequently ignored chronic but often invisible illnesses like long Covid and long flu, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Lyme disease. kpfa.org/episode/agai...

Oh there’s an idea, putting responsibility where it actually belongs: perpetrators, not kids

Can’t over-emphasize how good Against the Grain is. Some of the very best interviews on new work you can find.

Love this! LR; WI. Two faves: Osvaldo Bayer, La Patagonia Rebelde Emilia Viotti da Costa, Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood

Seasteading has always had that creepy and aggressive underside that characterizes so many “exit” and “freedom” projects. The 1970s Republic of Minerva project “president” Bud Davis declared residents on the private island would be able to do whatever they wanted, and he gave examples….

No surprises here. Brock Pierce all over the files too.

I wrote about some recent historical parallels. What's good and bad in them.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/historical...

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I want to laugh at it but sadly it’s true.

This is exactly on the mark. Thiel, Musk, and the various tech-utopian types started life as beneficiaries of state largesse, on all fronts. They privatized the results of publicly-funded research and knowledge.

“Pet idiot” is the best description yet—and will stand the test of time—for Curtis Yarvin.

The work of journalist @gilduran.com is also invaluable on this topic. He's broken more stories about the network state nutbars than almost anyone else. Also invaluable: Cornell historian @raycraib.bsky.social's "Adventure Capitalism"--does a great job of tracing the 60yr history of this insanity.

“When the far right talks about freedom of expression, what they are really demanding is a free pass to discriminate. Examples: Trumpism or President Kast when he denies Pinochet's state terrorism,” argues historian Federico Finchelstein. www.eldiario.es/sociedad/aba... @eldiario.es

Tim Draper “is perhaps best known politically for his persistent interest in splitting California into several states because he believes California is too large to govern effectively.” My latest article on Zonification is on Substack. Please read and subscribe💚 open.substack.com/pub/european...

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

No surprises here. cc: @europeanpowell.bsky.social @shanley.com @davidgura.bsky.social @gilduran.com @ebharrington.bsky.social @jennycohn.bsky.social @astra.bsky.social

So what's really behind Trump's threats against Greenland? Free Cities aka ZONE FEVER is the main goal of tech millionaires and billlionaires, Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Balaji Srinivasan. Thread www.youtube.com/watch?v=07sK...

I made this thread into a shareable web page: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...

Holy shit, this moment is exactly what I've been talking about.

Yeah, I don't know how you write a piece that features Niall Ferguson of all people and then pretend "they wanted a university without cancel culture"

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This is what it’s always been about, me thinks.

The President of the United States is now doing sloppy seconds. Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado: “I presented the president of the United States with the Nobel Peace Prize”.

“The language immediately drew damning comparisons to the Nazi Germany slogan ‘Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer,’ which translates to ‘One People, One Realm, One Leader,’ as even noted by X’s AI chatbot Grok…” www.huffpost.com/entry/labor-...

"a well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State".... yadda yadda yadda.

DHS Secretary Noem

Here’s the new version bsky.app/profile/jenn...

Sighs! There's a forum piece I have a short contribution in, but talks about the charter cities more generally if of interest, Ray! As always, your book the #1 go to on these things www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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