Mark Twain, a strong supporter of the Russian Revolution of 1905. famously said of the Czarist regime, "If such a government cannot be overthrown otherwise than by dynamite, then thank God for dynamite." I wonder what he would have said of the US Government today.

Well, everything hasn't quite worked. LIGHTNING RUNES has slipped to April 16 for ebook and April 28 for dead trees. But you can still preorder. You won't be charged till it's out.

When objective conditions have sharpened society's innate contradictions to the breaking point, no one is more insane than the one crying for a "sane, middle ground."

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ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

I am so very proud of my Minnesota people right now. I wish I could be there with you. We need a political general strike, and I believe such a thing is far more realistic than perhaps many of you realize.

The people of MN give me far more hope than the largely feckless “opposition” leaders of our country or the deeply compromised and ineffectual media both-sidesing white nationalist totalitarianism.

The most well paid and rewarded part of the media establishment relies on this faux knowing perspective that seeks to find middle ground in an extreme moment and to tell the powerful they are never wrong.

There is a wonderful book by Adam Goodheart called _1861: The Civil War Awakening_. It describes in detail how a few incidents changed the general mood of the North from apathy to willingness to fight and die. We are seeing that same process unfold before us.

Should note: this is a free read on the BWG Roundtable web site.

Trump and Kennedy launch unhinged anti-science tirade in autism press conference Monday’s announcement reveals the administration’s willingness to terrorize pregnant women and families with autistic children to advance its broader anti-science agenda. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

If there is any individual whom #CharlieKirk most closely resembles, in terms of persona and political tactics, it is George Lincoln Rockwell, the leader of the American Nazi Party in the 1960s. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Sheesh. Why are so many people confused about what socialism means? It's not that hard, just ask any right-winger. It means anything capitalism does that they can't defend.

"The fight against censorship is inseparable from the fight against the system that produces it."

I am eagerly looking forward to the opportunity to write the obituary.

The bulk of the party establishment opposes Mamdani not because it fears his mildly reformist program—on which he is already backtracking—but because his primary victory reflects a radicalization of broad masses.

After adjusting for inflation, the wages of sin is now a mild head-cold.

The first computer I used was an IBM 1620. The first computer I owned was an R2E XP3--solid steel case (built for CAM), and, check it out, A FIVE MEG HARD DRIVE!!!! Shown on the dust jacket of the hardcover of To Reign In Hell.

The inability or unwillingness to accept that both of these are true causes immense confusion, frustration, and demoralization among many who fight for a better world.

Human thought is deeply conservative; it will struggle to resist any change in beliefs, attitudes, and habits. Human thought is exceptionally volatile; under the pressure of events, it can overnight undergo fundamental changes in beliefs, attitudes, and habits.

"When an international financier is held up at gunpoint, Archie, he immediately hands over not only his cash, but his pants and his shoes. Because it does not occur to him that even a common thief would draw the line somewhere." -- Nero Wolfe

We’ve been asked to believe a lot of intensely stupid narratives throughout this genocide, but “it’s actually HAMAS who’s starving Gaza” has got to be the dumbest one yet.

I salute @kenwhite.bsky.social for his principled stand. So long as academia functions within a capitalist society, intellectual honesty and integrity will remain commodities for sale. The rare exceptions deserve our respect. The rest must be opposed on every front.

The leadership of Columbia University is contemptible Vichy scum. To its professors who stay: that’s who you choose to work for, the obeisance to totalitarianism you choose to promote? To students who stay: those are your values?

The worst thing about Millennials is they always making sweeping generalizations about people based on when they were born.

I'm so old, I remember when we'd talk about the weather to AVOID politics.

I just invented a term for when the author of a fantasy series has to reread books he wrote 45 years ago: Cringefest.

If you can't treat expensive equipment properly, you don't belong in the music business. Mic drop.

"We Leftists should stop arguing among ourselves" translates to "We all agree on how the fight has to be carried out," which is false, or "it doesn't matter what we do," which is preposterous, or "find the minimum we all agree on" which is opportunistic betrayal.

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

Deliberately starving a civilian population and then setting up aid sites as a death trap to massacre starving people trying to get food is too evil to wrap your mind around. If we saw a supervillain doing this in a movie we'd think it was dumb, because it wouldn't be believable.

I haven't reposted this in a while (or ever here) and maybe some people could use a chuckle. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppeA...

Socialism is not a campaign slogan or series of reformist proposals. Even the limited social reforms advanced by Zohran Mamdani cannot be achieved without a frontal assault on the wealth and power of the capitalist ruling class.

Text Message from unknown number: Hey, Kate, what are you up to? Me: Putting the finishing touches on a computer virus that I will use to destroy the computer of anyone who tries to get me to invest in crypto-currency. What are you up to? Me: Hello?

Reposting for extra exposure. Please do share :)

The #NoKings march in Dallas, Texas is HUGE!

☠️ Emailed Unbound/Boundless one last time. If they once again fail to pay, I do intend to act accordingly. Oh, and please DO NOT BUY *any* edition of Virtual Cities. Haven't gotten a penny from the Countryman Press edition for years either.

Interesting to see the West is fine with piracy in international water too.

Protesting ICE risks escalation and Trump declaring martial law etc. We still need to do it. You don’t win a battle by giving up the high ground just cause it’s going to get bloody.

A "realist" as far as I can tell is someone who is convinced things will just continue as before under conditions where it is impossible for things to continue as before.

No no it's not genocide, Israel is just deliberately massacring civilians and intentionally destroying civilian infrastructure every day with the explicitly stated goal of eliminating the existence of Palestinians in a Palestinian territory.

We are being asked to believe that individuals becoming violently radicalized by the ongoing genocide in Gaza is of greater concern than the ongoing genocide in Gaza. No.

In fulfillment of my agreement with Jenphalian, this is my periodic reminder that I have a patreon. www.patreon.com/c/skzb

For the past several days, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address has been haunting me like an earworm. The last time the US was in a crisis this deep it was resolved by Civil War. As I consider the fight against fascism and how to move forward, the phrase, "A new birth of freedom" keeps echoing in my head.

Sorry if this is antisemitic but I think it’s wrong to burn children alive.

I've now seen right-wingers in the US urging people to start families, which is a perfect opportunity to ask them, "Who is supposed to pay for it?"