this article is the reason he won the Nobel, they told me over the phone

Congrats to friend of the mag László Krasznahorkai for winning the Nobel Prize in Literature -- a well deserved award for someone whom real heads have known for years as a master of neo-modernism. @jakeromm.bsky.social wrote about him for us in 2023. strangematters.coop/chasing-home...

Issue Five is in production and will be coming soon to our website and the doorsteps of our subscribers! IMPORTANT: Are you an SM subscriber who's moved since the last number came out? Make sure to log on to our website and *change your address* so the issue arrives where it ought to!

one of the reasons i cover such a broad scope of topics - e.g. gaming, politics, protest/movement journo, genocide, sports, technology, just to name a few - is because these issues aren't independent of each other, at all every issue is interconnected. here's why that should give you hope. 🧵

this manifests in me taking it to it logical conclusions in anarchism & the theory that informs it. i know many MLs may roll their eyes at that (i implore you to read anarchist theory, especially anarchist economic theory - see @strangemattersmag.bsky.social), but its the truth of my views.

I do feel a bit bitter at people who were like, "oh it's not fascism if you can say it's fascism." Now you can't. yay?

Walk into any bookstore and the #book #titles aren’t just bad, they’re outrageously bad; and they’re not just outrageously bad, but outrageously bad in very much the same way. strangematters.coop/pulitzer-bai...

Very, very bad stuff coming from leading right-wingers

Federal immigration agents were seemingly forced to retreat from a roofing job site in Rochester, NY, after being confronted by more than 100 protesters The workers stayed on the roof and agents drove away in a Border Patrol SUV on four flat tires, which had been slashed

Labor day 2021 was a breaking point for me, I am still working on building myself back up to a fully functional human being 😅 strangematters.coop/socks-al-wri...

I liked this profile by Mary Steffenhagen in @strangemattersmag.bsky.social of @iwriteok.bsky.social strangematters.coop/robert-evans...

appreciate yall so much <3 - i have an even bigger project im part of with @transnews.network that yall may be interested in checking out ;) go support Gazan oomfs www.gofundme.com/f/providing-...

So exciting to see one of our writers launch a new and urgent publication. Congrats @thefreeradical.org! You can read Mira's account of trying to unionize a McDonalds with the IWW in Issue 2: strangematters.coop/mcdonalds-un...

Everything you think you know about money is wrong strangematters.coop/history-of...

you read this article yet? strangematters.coop/frederic-s-l... it’s one of my favorite talking points now

Great discussion, looking forward to digging into @htwvmag.bsky.social and placing it on my shelf next to @strangemattersmag.bsky.social and Long Haul (longhaulmag dot com)

One thing about the post-Covid crash in legitimately popular (if niche) small businesses & third places: it's an easy guess they went out of business because of external pressures rooted in the blank-brained, greedy demands of the rentier class & possibly also unhelpful regulations & tax schemes.

More people need to read Quinn Soutar's essay "The Socio-Material Lens" in Strange Matters @strangemattersmag.bsky.social

got a bunch of more or less explicitly antifascist poems up at Strange Matters, including one on Webern and this short piece below. strangematters.coop/noah-berlats...

‪ What does Jewish identity mean to Jews -- along w/ the Holocaust, fascism, & modernism -- in light of the ascent of authoritarianism & the genocide in Gaza? @nberlat.bsky.social has brought the full force of his mordant, piercing poetry to bear on the matter. strangematters.coop/noah-berlats...

Tbh I kinda expected this, I think it’s a way bigger indictment of the military leadership that there has been zero resignations or statements

People who entered the US legally and have no criminal charges are being held in the Everglades camp, according to records obtained by the Miami Herald. Maybe that’s why the government won’t release the names of those being detained. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

my “not the gestapo” shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my shirt and if you don’t stop asking them, i’ll have you disappeared.

The Department of Homeland Security is reversing last week’s pause on immigration enforcement actions at agricultural and hotel worksites, per my colleague Gabe Gutierrez.

CONFIRMED ICE accuses Lander of assaulting law enforcement and impeding a federal officer

theres other forms of anarchist economics as well! recommend checking out @strangemattersmag.bsky.social and some works on their site that go into this in great detail

Stephen Miller says they are “actively looking at” suspending the writ of habeas corpus, which is only allowed when the US has been invaded or during an insurrection, which would not allow people to challenge their incarceration in court if they are arrested and detained.

Our big win made it into the headlines across a few different publications! In this new piece from @huffpost.com, we see some inspiring words from our coworker Megan at REI Union Durham as they reflect on what our victory means for REI green vests nationwide: www.huffpost.com/entry/rei-me...

Our GoFundMe to assist our former colleagues at @polygon.com is now live! Please support them if you can, and share widely even if you can't! Thank you all for the kindness and care you've shared with Polygon and the union over the last 2 days — it means the world to us all. gofund.me/a21cbbdc

BREAKING: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez has been released. This is the moment he reunited with his mom.

🚨BREAKING: Judge finds flying migrants to El Salvador after orders not to "demonstrate a willful disregard for its Order, sufficient for the Court to conclude that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt." Visit www.democracydocket.com for full details and analysis.

Chinese refiners are importing record amounts of Canadian crude after slashing purchases of US oil by roughly 90% amid escalating trade tensions

No. We are not living beyond our means. We have simply been denied the means to live.

Unfortunately for social scientists and humanists especially, there are no foreign university systems with capacity to absorb US-based scholars.

The bodies of more than a dozen aid workers have been recovered in southern Gaza from what a United Nations agency described as a "mass grave," a week after they went missing following attacks by Israeli forces.

@vickyacab.bsky.social Hi there! We're big fans of your work and were hoping to commission you for our forthcoming issue (due out in spring/summer of this year). If you're interested, please DM us!

Sending my thoughts and love to Eastern European/Balkan comrades❤️ Hungary, Serbia, Romania, Georgia are all in the streets protesting against their shitty regimes! Solidarity forever!🔥

By now it's clear to everyone: Bidenomics didn't work. We were told it was "left-wing" policy. It wasn't. Bidenomics didn't go far enough. Bogus as a green transition, it was nowhere near the industrial policy we need. Rebekah Diski's ecosocialist critique: strangematters.coop/failure-of-b...

This e-mail went out a little prematurely, but we guess the cat is out of the bag. We've significantly reduced the cost of running Mirlo, which opens up a whole host of exciting possibilities. mirlo.space/team/posts/2...

@superunlikely.bsky.social Hi there! Sorry for the random message (not sure what the etiquette is on here), but we're a worker cooperative magazine that's trying to make the transition from Twitter to Bluesky. Is there any chance we could be added to your list of Independent & Worker Owned media?

According to some, Egypt was the third country -- after Britain & France -- to adopt motion picture technology. By the 1940s, their movie industry gave birth to a pantheon of singing, acting divas. Rami Soudah tells the story of this Season of Starlets. strangematters.coop/egypt-film-i...

The good people over at Strange Matters wrote a very long profile of him that I mostly agree with Moreover, ICE must be destroyed strangematters.coop/wesley-yang-...

The best thing written on Wesley Yang: strangematters.coop/wesley-yang-...

By now it's clear to everyone: Bidenomics didn't work. We were told it was "left-wing" policy. It wasn't. Bidenomics didn't go far enough. Bogus as a green transition, it was nowhere near the industrial policy we need. Rebekah Diski's ecosocialist critique: strangematters.coop/failure-of-b...

In THE BLACK UTOPIANS (@fsgbooks.bsky.social), Aaron Robertson weaves together memoir & history to tell the story of Black radicals who built pockets of egalitarian collective living. Today's extract concerns Glanton Dowdell, a painter adrift in the 1930s. strangematters.coop/the-black-ut...