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There's a great article about Muji workers in Portland (yes that Muji those pens) unionizing with the IWW recently it absolutely rocks!!!!! Moreover, ICE must be destroyed nwlaborpress.org/2026/05/work...

If I get murdered by a transphobe - and to be clear, given the number of death threats I get, that's unfortunately not out of the realm of possibility - I want you to use the fuck out of my death. Make every conversation about Black trans women. EVERY. SINGLE. FUCKING. ONE.

And now for something completely different

Today marks the 78th anniversary of the Nakba (catastrophe), during which more than 750,000 Palestinians were expelled and over 400 villages were destroyed to establish the State of Israel.

MPD does this every year and it’s literally a policy to surveil and police the Blackest parts of the city without concern for any constitutional protections.

It's always racism. Every shitty thing in the States is about racism at bottom.

on that note, you should read this essay from @juliaserano.bsky.social about how the concept of “male socialization” for trans women is transphobic pseudoscience

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#OtD 13 May 1985 Philadelphia police attacked the home of Black liberation and environmental group MOVE, then dropped a bomb on it, killing 5 adults and 6 children, destroying 61 homes in the predominantly Black neighbourhood, and making 250 people homeless.

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

"One study found that increasing the number of people who receive SNAP benefits by 5 percent could have prevented nearly 32,000 suicides over 15 years. And a $1 increase in minimum wage has been linked to roughly 8,000 fewer suicide deaths over a decade."

"Trumpism" is not a real thing. We can't "defeat Trumpism", because Trump and his supporters are ordinary garden-variety US conservatives. Trumpism was made up to pretend that Trump is an aberration, not a "real" conservative. Thus they pretend they haven't been cozying up to fascists every time

What do you call camps where people keep disappearing and dying

And it always comes back to that like metaphorical circuit breaker I've talked about before. This indoctrination is so deep that you can sometimes get people right on the edge of realizing something is fucked or believing something they don't want to like. Say I don't know that-

Lololol I Troll U isn't politics and doesn't mean anything to people with real problems or principles.

It's a mask off moment. There's sheer terror at any notion that owners of abundant capital might need to consider workers, the environment, and their role in crippling inequality. No wonder The Third Way messages for the Koch bros. theintercept.com/2019/08/13/k...

Just for starters, he wants to platform fascists. He also likes ICE and wants to keep it. (Fuck "oversight", he wants to keep ICE). He's a capitalist who wants to maintain the US as an oligarchy. He supports military expansion. The default US policy is fascist, as are those wanting the status quo

Democrats do not want more progressive policies they want to be able to label conservative policies as progressive. They are republicans in cosplay and their loyal voters believe in fucking nothing.

PSA: if you use an LLM to do your writing, no you didn’t BECAUSE IT IS NOT YOUR WRITING!! YOU ARE NOT A WRITER. You extruded some text from the plagiarism machine. YOU ARE A PLAGIARIST. YOU WILL NEVER BE A WRITER BY STEALING OTHERS’ WORDS.

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Cahokia Jazz, a very good alternate history

Happy birthday to John Brown, who knew exactly how to handle the south’s “Peculiar Institution”

You will eat, by and by When you learn how to cook and how to fry Chop some wood It'll do you good And you'll eat in the sweet bye-and-bye

imagine getting absolutely dogwalked by a dementia patient who cannot maintain a coherent thought, and thinking that the people forced to suffer the consequences of your spectacular failure give a ripe fuck what you have to say about literally anything

I have said often that white people wield the benefit of the doubt like a bludgeon. It is one of their most potent, tempting and common weapons. It extends outsized reach to bad actors, gives them leverage & is simple & effective. It has killed us many times over. So I no longer extend it.

Everything is awful. Here's a baby goat with a tiny bouquet of flowers picked right out of the lawn at The Beer Garden

A do-it-yourself guide to learning community defense skills with which you can protect your neighbors from ICE and other federal mercenaries. crimethinc.com/StopICETactics

Thinking about performative cowardice in American Politics. Specifically, if you have Been In The Shit and try to talk about it you will be called a LARPer ( which I am and LARPers are brave and cool) because no matter how many times they ritualistically intone "The Cruelty Is The Point" state

Ok, I can’t keep screaming into the void today. People don’t get how disheartening it is to beg people for help. Constant anxiety if it’s a slow day. Putting your pride aside to beg. And only getting listened to if it gets dire. It’s fucking me up bad. PayPal: @nachash358 Cashapp: $Doriangrey358

“The suit, filed by actor Q’orianka Kilcher, alleges that Cameron ‘extracted her facial features’ and ‘directed his design team’ to base the key Avatar character Neytiri on her appearance after seeing her in an LA Times advert for Terrence Malick’s 2005 film The New World.”

Exactly this. People feel like Dems are talking down to them because Dems are always telling people their problems aren't real and how they should be grateful for shitty policies.

Same, lucked into the library's first copy

the failure of reconstruction and the decision to rehabilitate confederates and slavers rather than hanging them is basically the root cause of everything wrong with the united states. the confederacy won and booth got everything he wanted.

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The Grapes of Annoyance

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This book explores how many anarchistic societies have worked, throughout different time periods and around the world: bookshop.org/p/books/anar...

Liberals think that the US Constitution is a fundamentally sound basis for democratic government, and therefore that any lack just means we're not applying the Constitution *right*. The problem is that the Constitution establishes a white supremacist oligarchy. That's what applying it gets you.

This, right here, is exactly why means testing benefits is a fundamentally bad idea, and anyone who suggests or defends doing so is a fascist who wants benefits abolished.

If you haven’t read The Manifesto of the Communist Party www.marxists.org/archive/marx... Reform or Revolution www.marxists.org/archive/luxe... Today is a great day to do that. It is also a great day to join a socialist party or organization!