Sending the CIA director to meet with the new leader of the country whose president the US just overthrew and kidnapped is a blantant threat of more violence. The US calls this « diplomacy ». And their lapdogs in the establishment media just republish their press releases and call it « journalism ».

It is wishful thinking to think that it will only be « two more years of this » rather than a continued descent of the country into a worse form of barbarism. There are conditions which produced Trump, his base and his ability to take the reigns of power. If the conditions aren't addressed, then ...

Take a moment to read about my friend Emblem, a handsome green bird who I have gotten to know over the past few years. He is currently on life support and possibly requires a lung transplant. His family is raising money for this.

America is a failed project. End it and start over.

CNN : « Renee Nicole Good: Mother of 3 who loved to sing and write poetry shot and killed by ICE in Minneapolis »

For several hundred thousand years of human existence, there was nothing that remotely resembled fascism. Fascism is a modern, uniquely CAPITALIST phenomenon. If you transcend a society based on commodity production, you can transcend the conditions which give rise to fascism too.

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Wise

The beginning of any semblance of a progressive and rational stance of a citizen of the United States on the question of « their own government's » reactionary and imperialist war against Venezuela is defeatism : to long for the defeat of the United States with the passion of a thousand suns.

« I wish you in advance every happiness for the New Year. If it’s anything like the old one, I, for my part, would sooner consign it to the devil. » — Karl Marx to Friedrich Engels, London, 27 Dec. 1861

Today, like most days, I can't help but think of Gaza.

« I hold that the golden rule, « Do unto others as you would that others should do unto you », applies to all who would help others to gain their liberty. » — John Brown

« A planned economy, which adjusts production to the needs of the community, would distribute the work to be done among all those able to work and would guarantee a livelihood to every [person]. » — Albert Einstein

« Anyone who seeks for the true causes of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to gaze at them like a fool, is set down and denounced as an impious heretic by those, whom the masses adore as the interpreters of nature and the gods. » — Spinoza

Bonnes fêtes à tous, sauf aux colons et aux impérialistes.

Expropriate the expropriators. Slides from mattxiv.

Science, in its natural, social and philosophical forms, is at the HEART of what makes us human. If discussion of science is FORMALLY proscribed in its ADVANCED forms, it's lower or « common sense » forms are privileged ; but the discussion of science itself is impossible to proscribe.

Free Luigi

« I believe in Spinoza's God, Who reveals [Themself] in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns [Themself] with the fate and doings of [humankind]. » — Albert Einstein

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You don't debate fascism — you crush it. Or else it crushes you.

Scott really understands the piece.

These people are irredeemably wicked. Don't for a second let them convince you that it's you who are evil if you celebrate when they're gone.

475 people were kidnapped in a single ICE raid in Georgia today.

I love cats. You gently touch them and they just start purring like you're the best thing in the universe 😭

« Jusqu'à quand la fureur des despotes sera-t-elle appelée justice , et justice du peuple , barbarie ou rebellion ? Comme on est tendre pour les oppresseurs , et inexorable pour les opprimés ! » — Maximilien Robespierre

A new international flotilla — the Global Sumud Flotilla — is currently sailing from Mediterranean ports with hundreds of people to attempt to break the imperialist siege of Gaza. Aboard are journalists, artists, activists, actors and doctors and exclusively humanitarian supplies (food, medicine).

The zionist state murdered almost 20 people, including five journalists, in a double tap strike on Nasser Hospital in Gaza. A double tap strike is where they hit a target, wait for rescue/medical personal to descend on the scene, then « tap » them again.

« The imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural... It breaks. It leaks... And know this : The day will come when all the skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the empire's authority, and then there will be one too many. »

Medical debts will now be included on credit reports again. What a great country 🦅

Gave the skink who was trapped for a few days in a bin some water. Poor guy was thirsty. Now they're hanging out below my German thyme plant. Hope they're going to be okay.

I rooted a fig branch last summer and this summer it's giving me fruit, despite being only 60 cm tall. A mature fig tree will give you more daily fruit for a few months each summer than you'll know what to do with. If you've never had a fresh summer fig and you get the chance to try one, do it.

Over 100 trans people are missing and presumed dead after their section of Evin Prison in Tehran was flattened in a U.S.-backed zionist airstrike on 23 June, the NY Times reports.

Frederick Douglass

The main issue is not the veneer of legality (constitutionality), or the lack thereof, but the more fundamental criminality of the oppression and violence involved in the U.S. attack on Iran : its imperialist character, the added criminal dimension involved in an attack on nuclear sites, etc.

Nuclear weapons are, ofc, very dangerous But the idea that one, or even a few, warheads could pose an « existential threat » to the United States is braindead hysterics That media outlets (ABC News in this case) are repeating these claims without challenge is criminal warmongering, not journalism

They're fruiting ! 𝘚𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘮 𝘭𝘺𝘤𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘮 'San Marzano', from seed. Photo in my garden.