Peter Jeffe

I've told this story on ContrabandCamp but it's worth sharing for BHM because it's one of the greatest stories ever.

A thread.

I'm just surprised at all the people who seem to be ignorant of the existence of anarchists, and the fact that they don't share the same goals and tactics.

Like I'm not the most well-read person around, but that seems disqualifying for anyone who considers themselves politically aware.

CULTURE How the Gullah-Geechee People Stopped Gentrification Dead in its Tracks... For Now Since 2023, an effort to raise property taxes and displace Black Gullah-Geechee residents has threatened the community's deep history. By Phenix S Halley Published January 21, 2026 A Gullah Geechee man holds up an official flag of the Gullah Geechee people at Station Creek Landing in St Helena, South Carolina, on July 11,2023. Isolated on islands scattered along the coast, ancestors of those in the Gullah Geechee community relied on the land and sea. They created their own culture, fed by their African heritage, and even developed their own Creole language. Hundreds of thousands of people are today part of the community - which is threatened by climate change, gentrification, and real estate developers circling like hawks. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

The Gullah-Geechee community should not have to pay a cent to save their home.

“The battle cost over $500,000 in legal fees …. And residents have to foot the bill once again.”

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Many such cases.

Maybe then you should just listen to what people are telling you about their life experience, and why they could never vote for someone who doesn't fully recognize their rights. It's certainly enough for me, even if he wasn't also bad on many other issues (unsurprisingly).

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes."

After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

You doubt him? After he was so careful not to say college *girls*?

This is how the "only democracy in the region" has maintained a permanently disenfranchised underclass. Any questions?

YouTube video by Elvis Costello - Topic [I Don't Want To Go To] Chelsea (2021 Remaster)

Sometimes I forget just how good Elvis was. This whole damn album man.

<chatgpt prompt> what if a Portland soyboy was also a medieval baker

"Only the brazen can say, 'I was not here'…

It never occurs to them that they live on the cumulative hurt of others.

They want to start the clock of social justice only when they arrived. But one is born into history, one isn't born into a void."

- Dionne Brand, A Map to the Door…, publ. 2001

A century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked “We should not forget the lessons of history. And the lesson is those regulations have been very important.”...

A century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked arstechnica.com/science/2026...

death by preventable disease is an inevitable and even desired outcome of concentration camps. in every era of concentration camps people have died of typhus, which is a disease of privation and enforced crowding. this illness is intentionally inflicted

No nations, no borders, but not necessarily in that order.

This month & beyond, I hope more of us stand in solidarity with the disabled community, & commit to using alt text on your media.

Black History is intertwined with disability history and the Disability Rights Movement was influenced by the Civil Rights Movement. Many of your faves were disabled.

Sorry but is it a fruit pie with chocolate in it?

If you haven't seen the documentary on Larry Krasner it's well worth it. It's a fascinating and heart-wrenching glimpse into what anyone is up against when they set out to reform the legal system.

At around 29:30, and I'm sure he goes on but I couldn't bear any more of it.

YouTube video by Simpozij O snazi evolucijske misli Robert Trivers An Evening on Evolutionary Biology An overview covering Feminism Transgender Homose

Well if you really want some insight into the man, just give his lecture a bit of a listen as he warms to the topic of reproductive organs and bottom surgery. Creepy doesn't begin to cover it.

He's so sure that he's special and he's so wrong.

Jared Kushner’s “Plan” for Gaza Is an Abomination Kushner is pitching a “new,” gleaming resort hub. But scratch the surface, and you find nothing less than a blueprint for ethnic cleansing.

From @tksshawa.bsky.social:

'The demand for gratitude is not incidental; it is part of the architecture of oppression. Gratitude is what the powerful demand when they are trying to paint coercion as benevolence, dispossession as “opportunity,” a prison as a “living community.”'

That the Democrats never bothered to convert Reagan-era permission for Haitians to work and live in the US from temporary to permanent is—I know this about them and yet.

Among many other things, I love that Mamdani proudly uses his illustrious middle name.

Lol Christakis just blocked me. I've never interacted with him and this is the only time I've ever mentioned him.

Definitely a sign of confidence when you name-check yourself and block randos who are talking about you the day after you figure prominently in an Epstein files drop.

Lol Christakis just blocked me. I've never interacted with him and this is the only time I've ever mentioned him.

Definitely a sign of confidence when you name-check yourself and block randos who are talking about you the day after you figure prominently in an Epstein files drop.

Who would have guessed that Jeffrey Epstein, of the sentence fragments and one-word replies and bizarre whitespace, composed surreal stream-of-consciousness essays as email drafts to himself?

Man Epstein looks fucked up there. I've never heard what his drugs of choice were, but if I had to guess I'd say nothing more exotic than the most expensive Scotch you can buy. Of course I could be very wrong.

All of this, Gwen nails what's so simultaneously banal and vile about Epstein writ large.