not loving how fast the r-slur came back from the grave where it belonged

It has been 14 years now since Occupy Wall Street began, protesting the grievous disparities in wealth and power that capitalism has created. These disparities are the root cause of today's crises—autocratic control of the state, the media, and the resources we all need. crimethinc.com/Occupy2024

Which means Mamdani's bowed enough to Israel's demands to satisfy Queen Zionist Hochul. 🤨 Disappointing.

I'm facilitating a workshop on personal archiving at Communiversity next month. One thing I am going to advocate strongly is that people start journaling again using ACTUAL NOTEBOOKS [not your phones].

The last 48 hours have shown why people have stopped relying on legacy journalism and have migrated to independent journalists in droves. The benefit of legacy journalism is supposed to be “editors” and “factchecking” and they can’t even get that right in a rush to blame trans people.

Liberals understand the theory but are detached from material reality & thus don't do praxis in solidarity with their class, while conservatives do praxis but are lacking in theory. AnComs are standing between them both, screaming to please realize the context each is missing so we can get to work.

i dont think multiple democratic governors should have lowered flags to half mast for a racist who said gay people should be stoned. i dont think a democratic governor should have called for continuing "the work" of a man who said mlk was a myth and evil. is that too much to ask? ffs.

Part of being nice is being mean to fascists btw. And you know that quote that neutrality in the face of oppression only helps the oppressor? (1/)

Whenever a fascist member of the wealthy and powerful class dies, for just a little while, everyone is sooooooo close to getting it. So close. For a second I can imagine us all organized in class struggle, then somehow all that unity desolves after 1 or 2 days, & we're right back where we started. 🥲

Let's be clear what this image represents. Those skull masks were first popularized on the far right by a very specific Nazi terror movement that began on the pro-terror Ironmarch forums and entered mainstream news with the Atomwaffen Nazi terrorist murders. THAT is the reference here.

EVERYBODY TAKE YOUR MEDS! (CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP!)

People really don't consider how they go down in the history books. Imagine being one of these coppers and explaining this to your kids

Me every time SHINee's Onew smiles tbh

This is a good friend of mine and I can vouch for her. I know there's a million GFMs right now but if you can spread around this #mutualaid request it would be much appreciated: gofund.me/6121da36

THIS IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND IRRESPONSIBLE. WHAT IN THE NAME OF GOD???? They are going to kill so many people including children. What a FUCKED UP DECISION!

Everyone pls wish my widdle spud Eloise aka Ellie Belly aka Ellie B. a happy Gotcha Day! 3 years ago today we brought her home. She was so tiny. 😭

look at my creature

Once I finish the 2 books I'm in the middle of, my plan is to reread the entirety of Le Guin's works & write some essays about it from my new(ish, to me) political framework; now that I've done a deep dive into anarcho-communism, I think all of her works will hit soooo so different.

ICE obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps

People literally bled & died fighting against corporate interests, robber barons, corrupt local & state politicians, cops & hired killers, & the federal government & US military for better working conditions for the rest of us so reflect on that today for just a bit while you're doing whatever else.

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

Any technology that requires constant human oversight to make sure it isn't doing something disastrously wrong or bad could just be replaced by the humans in the first place

A speaker at an AI panel I had to attend for work said, "Students learning and memorizing things out of books is just as much cheating as them using ChatGPT." Idk what point he was trying to make - that ChatGPT isn't cheating? That we shouldn't learn from books?? But I am enraged still, hrs later.

And, this is to my colleagues in academia who think they can "play" or "work with" ChatGPT: read this. What exact benefits do you imagine you get out of ChatGPT that you cannot get from existing technologies/techniques, aside from feeling tech-savvy, and getting on the bandwagon, or perhaps, $$?

if you’re willing to throw another population under the bus to save yourself, you’re not actually willing to fight fascism. fascism isn’t a bear, it can’t be escaped by simply outrunning someone slower than you. the only way it can be defeated is through solidarity.

If people actually cared about art and artists, they'd be fighting for Universal Basic Income. That's what would actually stop us all getting burnt out.

Never fails

And this is why we were all screaming the last 2 years not to reject solidarity with the Palestinians or settle for anything less than refusing weapons sales to Israel from the Biden Harris admin. Look where we are now. Strength in numbers - we must all stand with every marginalized group.

the national Dems are mostly locking their own cash down and hustling to stay in the regime's good graces. they do not intend to oppose fascism. they intend to weather it comfortably.

Genuinely do not know how to express to liberals that browbeating trans people about how bad Republicans are for trans rights only works if Democrats do not also show at best ambivalence and at worst naked contempt for trans rights themselves

You need to dismantle this party or you will have a far right government for decades. The majority of Americans who aren't conservatives or MAGAs will not vote for MAGA Lite.

People are scared, they're grabbing on to Newsom, and frankly it's pathetic. Stand up. Have literally any beliefs or values. Meet the moment.

Me as a loser lil kid when I found out that I share a bday with that scary Mao Zedong guy I learned about in Global Studies: 😟 Me as an adult anarcho-commie MLM who broke free of the western propaganda machine, remembering I share a bday with my spiritual buddy Chairman Mao: 😎🆒️✌⚒

wei wuxian rly just said "don't get it twisted, lan zhan. gun to my head, i genuinely wanted to sleep with u earlier" huh.

Tone-policing urself depending on who ur talking to and what propagandized perspective they're coming from is an olympic sport I s2g. There should be classes about it in library school (and there would be if higher ed wasn't locked in the shackles of capitalism).

New post up for free on my Substack! Inspired by Ghassan Kanafani's lecture on "Blind Language," and Francesca Albanese's recent statements on H group: leeannkwrites.substack.com/p/the-art-of...

Having a lot of thoughts about the Tolerance Paradox + libs' accusations of "purity politics" towards leftists, essay on Substack coming soon.

Talking to some congressional insiders, it does sound like Democratic electeds, especially Senate, are incredibly opposed to working not only on weekends, but on Fridays. A massive energy disconnect between the base and electeds, and sad to see during authoritarian consolidation

Horrifying. And keep in mind, these are Democrats advocating for this authoritarian, fascist tech.

even beside my personal issues with them, newsom and buttegeig are terrible candidates because building back after trump will require someone with courage and vision and they're both dial-twisting opinion-poll addicted weasels racing to the bottom of mediocrity.

This would add administrative costs, making rent stabilization much more expensive for the city, while discouraging ppl from seeking better jobs/pay. They'd lose housing before they could afford market rate. We'd have more homelessness! More poverty! More ppl leaving the city! It makes no sense!

Pls enjoy this photo of my cat Eloise trying to steal one of the ziplock baggies I store my cross stitch stuff in. She has 4 teeth left in her mouth b/c stomatitis. Yet trying to take the bag away from her was like playing tug o war with a Rottweiler. And the whole time she looked at me like this:

Bourdain biopic should be a revisionist history inglorious bastards style where he kills Kissinger

Much of what Trump is doing has roots in the Biden presidency. Biden expanded Trump's China tariffs and didn't re-enter the Iran deal. He pushed for the hiring of 100K police officers. He deported 684K people in 2024 & illegally barred asylum seeking. He backed militarized raids of college campuses.

Why I keep begging library workers to stop trying to counter book bans with parents rights. This is extremely concerning and a direct violation of the Library Bill of Rights and Code of Ethics.

COVID is surging. Care because the research re long COVID is grim. It’s more common & damaging than you’ve been told. Care because the fascists in charge, like all fascists, weaponize illness to harm resistance movements & targeted groups. Mask to protect yourself & others. Give/get mutual aid: