“‘Michigan does not have a death penalty. But at Huron Valley, women, families and advocates who refer to the prison as “the valley of death” are asking whether the state has created something else: a prison where a sentence can become a health crisis…”’ 19thnews.org/2026/06/mich...

Why am I posting an article about the perception of safety/not with autonomous driving vehicles? Well, what if in the article below we substituted socialism or communism for a driverless vehicle? Suppose ”ordinary Americans” went to Cuba with Venceramous Brigades. www.noemamag.com/why-we-deman...

Malcolm X reminded us that freedom must be won “by any means necessary.” We cannot march in circles one weekend and return to business as usual on Monday while the planet burns. The heat is rising. The question is whether our courage will rise with it. countercurrents.org/2026/07/extr...

The future isn’t just something we fight for. It is something we begin living today. That is the secret fascists will never understand. People who are learning to be free throw much better parties than people who dream only of ruling others. inthesetimes.com/article/amer...

The best argument for the dignity of labor isn’t found in an economics textbook. It’s found on collection day.” —-Amy Common jacobin.com/2026/07/garb...

Since Zayd (whom I last saw when he was an infant)has made it public in his book, I now want to say: Farewell Bernardine, friend, comrade, and so much more…lost to haze Alzheimer’s…it hurts. We love you.

“This Fourth of July, while politicians wrap themselves in flags and the sky fills with fireworks over stolen land, I know where I stand. I stand with the people who never surrendered the Paha Sapa/Black Hills.” spiritofmandela.org/news-events/...

UN REPORT ON EBOLA OUTBREAK We have to stop pretending that Ebola is simply a medical problem. Ebola is a political disease every bit as much as it is a biological one. The virus spreads through ecological disruption, but the disaster spreads through imperialism. www.undp.org/sites/g/file...

The future will not belong to those who dream of returning to an imagined past. It will belong to those who dismantle the structures of domination and create something the “good old days” never offered: genuine freedom, equality, and human dignity for all. blacklodges.substack.com/p/fascism-an...

We have been forced to listen to the “Cuban exiles“ for decades. ”This white Cuban scum is still a very irritating element amid continued U.S. attacks against the Cuban people. We couldn’t be more tired of these low life roaches.“ www.abetterworld.me/blog/exposin...

Again and again, the defense attorneys asked the cooperating prosecution witnesses if they or their friends were part of an organized group called Antifa; again and again, under oath, the witnesses responded, “No...” Yet those convicted now face decades in prison thebaffler.com/salvos/the-i...

… the Justice Department hailed the case as “the first sentencing of defendants affiliated with Antifa following President Donald J. Trump’s executive order designating the group as a Domestic Terrorist Organization in September 2025…” theintercept.com/2026/06/23/p...

If they had succeeded, moral questions would fade into the hazy background of so much historical contingency. But if the Weather Underground failed, we should ask: compared to what… lareviewofbooks.org/article/dang...

The Ebola virus is not simply a biological phenomenon. It is also a political one. The ugly hierarchy of human value is one of the enduring legacies of colonialism. In fact, the USA actually make use of the disease to advance Empire and class interests. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Having lost much of their old political purpose, Loyalists in Belfast have evolved into little more than criminal enterprises draped in flags, infused with racism, and increasingly influenced by the language and methods of the international fascist movement. www.thehandbasket.co/p/elon-musk-...

The question raised by quartz countertops is the same question raised by every toxic industry: How many workers must suffer before profit loses its veto power over human survival capitalandmain.com/california-c...

“The eventual dismissal in court or quiet non-indictment by a grand jury is just paperwork stapled to the end of a campaign of brutal intimidation that already did exactly what it was built to do.” www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

“In 1806, 30 years after he inspired the taxed-but-not-represented colonial subjects of King George III to rise up against “tyrannical monarchy”…Thomas Paine was barred from voting in the last American midterm election of his revolutionary life.” www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The tragedy of Cuba…is that generations of Cubans have been forced to devote so much of their energy simply to surviving an economic war imposed from outside while simultaneously confronting the internal challenges that every revolutionary process eventually faces. sfbayview.com/2026/05/lies...

The same mentality that cages migrants cages animals. The same mentality that burns forests bombs cities. The same mentality that justifies ethnic cleansing justifies ecocide. We save one another—or we don’t. globalextremism.org/post/the-sec...

“…periods of growing political violence are often moments when people face a choice. They can retreat into private life and hope the storm passes. Or they can begin building the kinds of democratic institutions and human relationships capable of weathering it…” globalextremism.org/post/america...

Human beings were not put on this earth merely to resist. We were also meant to love, laugh, dance, sing, tell stories, make art, build friendships, and experience joy. Our goal after all was always to create a richer, freer, more beautiful way of being human. jacobin.com/2026/05/soci...

Sports have never been separate from society. The same states that celebrate Black athletes on Saturday afternoons are often the states where battles over voting rights, district maps, and racial justice remain fiercest. www.edgeofsports.com/column/dr-ha...

I have always loved crows. Not in the casual way people admire some pretty bird from a distance, but with a deeper kind of recognition.Crows feel ancient to me. Watchful. As if they move through a layer of reality human beings have mostly forgotten how to see. www.guernicamag.com/crow-languag...

When the right-wing propaganda apparatus starts publicly mapping activist networks and cheering federal investigations into political organizations, it is not entertainment. It is preparation. peoplesworld.org/article/new-...

Coyotes remind me of rebels, outcasts, survivors, and everyone who has ever refused to disappear quietly. The state hates what it cannot fully control. However, in spite of the State’s intent to silence them, coyotes continue to sing at night. centerforahumaneeconomy.org/trump-admini...

I haven’t forgotten Hurricane Carter www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgJY...

Communist theory is either a hammer forged within struggle, sharpened through praxis and wielded collectively against systems of domination, or it becomes an academic accessory through which privileged classes manage their contradictions while society burns. blacklodges.substack.com/p/on-theory

“When Elon Musk and the DOGE wrecking crew were tearing through federal systems with chainsaws and slogans, many of us warned that eventually this vandalism would come back to haunt us during an outbreak or pandemic. Well, here we are.” www.statnews.com/2026/05/19/u...

…the subpoena directs NYULH to provide information pertaining to patients under the age of 18 who received gender affirming care at NYULH between 2020-2026, as well as the names of NYULH providers and others who were involved in offering such care at NYULH.. www.thehandbasket.co/p/subpoena-t...

Not making the distinction made by the leftist Young Greens of Austria in the current climate has only one end point…and it has little to do with the liberation of the Palestinian people…and everything to do with anti Jewish hatred. www.instagram.com/reel/DYKUGtY...

We are talking about a nation whose ruling elites once marched across Asia leaving behind massacres, forced labor, military sexual slavery, and scorched earth. None of that disappears simply because contemporary geopolitics has shifted… en.people.cn/n3/2026/0513...

The real crime of Cuba, from the standpoint of empire, is that a small island ninety miles off the coast of Florida dared to say that human beings should matter more than corporations, landlords, mafiosos, billionaires, and the dictates of the global capitalist order. links.org.au/why-us-hates...

Future societies I think will stare at the speciesism we have normalized with the same horror we reserve for other institutionalized cruelty that human beings once defended as inevitable, practical and “just the way the world works.” www.linkedin.com/pulse/behind...

The historical pattern examined here deserves attention because it reminds us of a brutal truth: when movements begin threatening entrenched power, history suddenly fills with “accidents,” “lone gunmen,” missing evidence, infiltrators, and convenient silences covertactionmagazine.com/2026/05/08/l...

Project Flower was not simply a missile deal. It was a window into how ruling classes operate beneath the rhetoric. Oil, weapons, intelligence cooperation, nuclear ambiguity, regional hegemony — these were the real languages being spoken behind closed doors. www.nytimes.com/1986/04/01/w...

When power starts obsessing over a loosely defined, decentralized “enemy,” it’s usually not about that enemy at all. It’s about expanding surveillance, justifying crackdowns, and shifting attention away from the violence embedded in the system itself… newrepublic.com/article/2088...

“I’d propose that orcs register how capitalism as a system feeds on human bodies as fuel to reproduce itself and to grow. The system regards the humans who power it with disinterest.“ spectrejournal.com/orc-marxism/

“Capital comes dripping from head to toe, from every pore, with blood and dirt.” “Forests are no longer living communities of interdependence; they are reduced to timber inventories, chemical test zones, and sacrifice areas in service of capital.“ www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“Black liberation will not come from those who hover above the struggle, speaking in perfected language to an imagined audience. It will come from those willing to be accountable to real communities—messy, contradictory, struggling communities… www.blackagendareport.com/political-sn...

“Feminism involves so much more than gender equality; it involves a consciousness of capitalism, racism, colonialism, and postcolonialities.” ——Angela Davis www.ipsnews.net/2026/04/soli...

Weatherwomen understood that feminism divorced from anti-racism and anti-capitalism becomes little more than a rebranding of privilege. Liberation for a handful of white professional women is not liberation—it is incorporation. And they rejected it. www.counterpunch.org/2020/04/10/w...

“We must learn empathy. We must learn to see the world through the eyes of other beings.” — Marc Bekoff “Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is… we cannot expect things to be much better in this world.” — Rachel Carson www.wusf.org/environment/...

For decades, the women in my life… have shared (with me) the ever-present fear that comes from realizing you are always a potential target of violence, always on alert, always within arm’s reach of harm, always in the company of danger johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/women-are-...

Marx described capital as dead labor that lives by feeding on the living. It is vampiric, yes—but it is also totalizing. It reshapes behavior, suppresses solidarity, and trains people to act against their own most basic human instincts. www.jezebel.com/amazon-wareh...

Trump of Nazareth newrepublic.com/post/208979/...

the most horrifying thing about the image is Trump‘s right arm glows with an eerie white light; his left arm is pressed against the head of a man who appears dead. The picture is not only blasphemous but idolatrous. It is calling us to worship our 47th president. thelampmagazine.com/blog/is-dona...

This isn’t about theology. It’s about control. Trump’s worldview cannot accommodate any rival source of legitimacy—not the courts, not Congress, not the peope, not even a centuries-old religious institution that has itself been entangled with power and empire. www.ncronline.org/news/backlas...

“Solidarity means standing with those who heal, not those who punish. It means recognizing that a small, blockaded island has done more for global health than nations with a thousand times its wealth.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

China does not threaten war. It does not promise quick and worldwide salvation. But it continues to insist that even in an age of collapsing restraint, war is not the only script available.And sometimes, that alone is the message. www.counterpunch.org/2026/04/08/f...