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My painting CANOE LANDING

Black and white sketch drawing of a woman knight in armor, her sword on her right shoulder, cuts and blood on her face This was done as a study of a pic, for the pose and armor

bloody knight

Last week the far right started peddling a narrative that the outrage over Epstein is a moral panic. Today, like clockwork, a more polite version of that narrative appears in the Atlantic.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Battle brothers had so many enemy types, and since the game was relatively simple it wouldn't be difficult to create more. Now I imagine they have a lot more to consider per faction.

Rebel armies have a slightly higher threat level than pirates. I like all three so far. Currently wondering what else the game can throw at me.

The pirates throw more vehicles and actual threats now. A lot less chaff that can't hold a line.

Menace, by the dev team that made Battle brothers, is extremely good even at the start of early access. Fighting alien bugs starts off scary but becomes a cakewalk.

Screwston Antifascist Committee, I should note, mostly hands out food and zines at local anarchist fairs and shows up at protests + counter protests in the Houston area. They table at DIY shows. A paramilitary group this is not.

Happening Now: 20+ law enforcement vehicles, including a Minneapolis Police SWAT Bearcat, are staged on SE Beacon St as a noise demo has started at the Graduate Hotel. This is the 4th noise demo at the Graduate and one of multiple noise demos tonight outside hotels housing ICE agents in Minneapolis.

Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left.

It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too

The Washington Post Is No Longer Useful to Jeff Bezos In a kleptocracy, there is no reason for a billionaire to own an adversarial news outlet.

"Bezos could fund The Washington Post well past his own death, but he clearly has zero interest in doing this. The news business is hard, but we simply cannot keep relying on the idea that journalism can be funded by billionaires whose personal interests are at direct odds with accountability work."

The Steam Machine has been delayed because stupid little babies can't stop using AI to write their emails:

aftermath.site/steam-machine-...

The videos of the abduction today in heavy traffic in Columbia Heights is truly one of the most dystopian things I’ve seen since Alex’s murder.
Ice surrounded a vehicle in heavy traffic boxing it in and then pulled everyone out of the car while other people were honking and then they just took off.

Save the date poster with a black cardboard cutout of a cat with the text HOUSTON ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR 2026 text in sharpie above it reads (MORE DETAILS TBA SOON) Text in cursive on top says: “Mark your calendars! Coming to Houston on April 4th”

SAVE THE DATE: The Houston Anarchist Bookfair is back and better than ever on April 4th! We’ll have zines, live music, workshops and more. More details to come so stay posted! If you’re a distro, mutual aid org, anarchist crew/org and are interested in tabling please hit us up!

Really enjoyed being part of this story!

Will Stancil skeeting “i mean I’m gonna get back in even if they don’t know it, so it’s fine” showing the man doesn’t understand consent OR community safety practice.

This is the stuff that marks someone as a danger.

Not even just that he intends to sneak back into an organizing space where he’s been told that he’s unwanted; the need to publicly brag about it, and make sure everyone knows.

You cannot do collaborative work with someone who only centers himself.

Judge Censored an ICE Agent’s Face Over “Threats.” His Info Was a Google Search Away. After a judge agreed to keep an ICE agent’s face out of the court record, a simple internet search revealed his name and location.

An ICE official told a judge that showing his face would put his life in danger. Turns out his face was on his LinkedIn profile.

It's a "clear example" of the false pretexts used to shield officials from accountability, FPF's Seth Stern writes in @theintercept.com.

Identifying the problem is step one. Step two is the program. Here is the NYC-LSC platform for a more democratic, militant, and bottom-up DSA. ⬇️

dsa-lsc.org/2026/02/03/n...

"NYC: The Battle for the Left" explores the high-stakes internal debate over NYC-DSA’s strategy, electoral independence, and the movement's future.

dsa-lsc.org/2026/02/03/n...

A Day for Gaza Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.

We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

BREAKING: Upon reviewing the fine print of @governor.ny.gov's proposal, we were stunned to discover that the prohibition on "287g" mass deportation agreements would EXPIRE in three years.

Governor Hochul, this is NOT leadership. 1/

A measles outbreak at an ICE family detention center means not only risk of serious and very infectious disease, but also complete lockdown conditions akin to solitary confinement. Awful.

Very different behavior when they don’t have a gun.

He’s been through so much. They shouldn’t have made him fly the plane too.

Started reading about the Spanish civil war and the decisions made by the CNT, the FAI prior to and during the war. Interesting stuff. Zaragoza Bound so far is pretty great. Little depressing though. The author critiques a lot of the decisions made at the beginning, reflecting on things in hindsight

I know people mostly don't know the etymology of esoteric left ideas but "wrecker" was a word used by the NKVD to justify purging anarchists, union leaders, social democrats and other opposed socialists, and I don't trust anyone who uses the word, which only persists in ML cult-party formations

Smart Guy: I gave 44 rocks of OpenCrack to my Claudeswarm to regulate my breathing but Gurpsqrl pinged every 1.5s asking “is it time to inhale yet” and smoked all 44 rocks in 12 minutes, after which I started suffocating.

Me: I just breathe naturally.

Guy: lol enjoy using 2% of your brain Luddite

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here.

(clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)