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That very MUNDANE action that you don't take because you are too busy fantasizing about being a superhero instead would actually DO something for someone. Your fantasy does not.

Something that's extremely frustrating is the number of people who take people's political "beliefs" at face value. In fact, people are contradictory and also we lie about a lot because we need to save face.

Importantly learn about how YOU can be part of organizing to ensure that our libraries have necessary funding etc...

Acknowledging that we are living under a fascist regime at the Federal level is essential for figuring out how to fight. And I'm sorry but burying one's head in the sand at this moment is actually allowing fascism to be further entrenched & authority more easily consolidated.

I hope one thing leftists all take away from Mamdani’s campaign though is that it doesn’t matter how chill and wholesome you are, the dinguses are going to smear and trash you in increasingly unhinged ways anyway, so you might as well shoot for the moon and campaign on what makes your heart sing

“I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart,
who pull like water buffalo, with massive patience,
who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward,
who do what has to be done, again and again.”

-Marge Piercy, “To Be of Use”

Tommy Shelby swearing meme edited to say "NO FUCKING DEFEATISM"

Responses to the NYC result along the lines of "oh in country x, a establishment mutant would win," are entirely missing the point: the establishment mutant was unexpectedly defeated here. They can be everywhere if your game is good enough, and the game here was very good. It's time.
Fight. Win.

The Struggle is Permanent: Keep Fighting Or some notes on carrying on...

Barbara Marx Hubbard says that our task is “to hospice what’s dying and midwife what’s being born.” There’s a lot to do and a lot to grieve and a lot to organize against and there’s also living to do and beauty to behold. - from me: open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...

Comrades, if Zohran wins in Nov, please release a first 100 days Zine IMMEDIATELY. Y'all have our addresses. Hard copies mailed to us & then social media sharing. Lay out the immediate plans, the obstacles to those plans, and CALLS TO ACTION THAT YOU NEED FROM RESIDENTS especially to pressure Hochul

Gang members should not be disappeared to an unaccountable torture prison either.

I’m a scientist working on dark matter and neutron stars and I wouldn’t be who I am today without Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington, Haile Germima, Toni Morrison, Jane Austen, A.A. Milne, Errol Morris, Star Trek, Herman Melville, Lorna Simpson, Edward Lear, Tina Turner, and so many others.

"Because we need all hands on deck, and there's a lot of deck." - Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

"Community is the antidote to fascism." - Jaclyn Friedman

A fantastic resource for those who want to fight this, but don't know where to start.

A resource for ways to find/build local community:

bsky.app/profile/pris...

Israeli Director of “No Other Land” Slams Claims of Antisemitism After Berlin Film Fest Controversy We continue our conversation with Israeli journalist and filmmaker Yuval Abraham about the award-winning new documentary No Other Land, which he co-directed with Palestinian activist Basel Adra,…

The Israeli-Palestinian film "No Other Land" has been nominated for an Oscar for best documentary feature. Watch our interview with co-director Yuval Abraham.

Motherhood Made Me Even More of a Prison and Police Abolitionist In this excerpt from “We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition,” co-editor Maya Schenwar names an unexpected source of wisdom: children.

In parenting & abolition, "what works today may not work tomorrow. We dream, we plan, we ditch our plans, we do, we undo, we dream & do again."
Thanks @themarshallproject.org for publishing an excerpt from "We Grow the World Together" (ed. Kim Wilson & me)!
www.themarshallproject.org/2025/01/10/a...

Death feels imminent for 96% of children in Gaza, study finds Needs assessment by NGO reveals the huge psychological impact of the war with Israel on young people

will the horrors never cease

"Imperialism has layed its body over the world, the head in Eastern Asia, the heart in the Middle East, its arteries reaching Africa and Latin America. Wherever you strike it, you damage it, and you serve the World Revolution." - ghassan kanafani

A reminder that…

A reporter covered United Healthcare. TMZ thought he might be a killer. TMZ contacted Sean Morrow, a reporter for the nonprofit newsroom More Perfect Union, saying it had multiple tips tying him to the killing of Brian Thompson.

"If a journalist calmly and truthfully explaining the problems with an industry or the problems of a company, with no embellishment, just explaining what the problem is directly to camera, comes off as a threat or comes off as a motive, then perhaps that industry is the problem."

For people who want to fully understand the context of this (the anniversary of the disaster was Dec 3) and how people are continuing organizing today 👉 www.bhopal.net

They're our family. I'm in awe of them. They seem to possess so much life, heart, cheekiness, community, love. We treat them horribly and it makes me angry. Orang utans- I sometimes cry just looking at them. That they are called "people of the forest" , God....

UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson shot dead in Midtown Manhattan, masked gunman at large UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot near a Midtown Manhattan hotel in a potentially targeted shooting early Wednesday, according to police.

“Written on the shell casings were the words ‘deny,’ ‘defend’ and ‘depose,’ according to sources.”

How Immigration Organizers Are Gearing Up for Another Trump Era “It’s inherently a racial justice fight and economic justice fight,” says organizer Silky Shah.

I spoke with immigration organizer Silky Shah about how organizers are preparing to defend immigrant communities, and what actions we can take to prepare and respond. If you want to get more involved, be sure to check the resources in the show notes.

A photo of destroyed buildings in the al-Manera neighborhood after Israeli airstrikes in Khan Yunis, Gaza, on Oct. 25, 2024, overlaid with the headline, "Amnesty International Concludes That Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza."

“It is chilling when you put the whole picture together as this report does, and it is a stain on humanity.” https://interc.pt/4eXT9kc

Israel’s war in Gaza amounts to genocide, Amnesty International report finds Human rights group says Israel ‘brazenly, continuously and with total impunity … unleashed hell’ on strip’s 2.3m population A report from Amnesty International alleges that Israel’s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip constitutes the crime of genocide…

Israel’s war in Gaza amounts to genocide, Amnesty International report finds

The Spyware Technology the Trump Admin Could Use to Hack Your Phone We discuss the new HBO Original film Surveilled and explore the film’s investigation of high-tech spyware firms with journalist Ronan Farrow and director Matthew O’Neill. We focus on the influence...

"Surveilled": Ronan Farrow on the Spyware Technology the Trump Admin Could Use to Hack Your Phone

The barbarism of Western Europe has reached an incredibly high level, being only surpassed—far surpassed, it is true—by the barbarism of the United States.

—Aimé Césaire

You're incredible!!

The future has been closed for redevelopment

50 Years Ago Today, Police Murdered Fred Hampton. His Activism Lives On. Civil rights attorney Flint Taylor discusses the past and present fight against Chicago’s systemic racist policing.

55 Years Ago Today, Police Murdered Fred Hampton. His Activism Lives On. truthout.org/articles/50-...

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