A forest floor is blanketed in small shiny oval leaved plants with tiny pink and white flowers that hang like bells from thin red stems, called twinflowers

A carpet of wildflowers for the #bloomscrolling 🌱

Unbearable world.

Thank you Bisan. We will never give up. Day of action: this Thursday, July 24.

YouTube video by John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke U. Left of Black | A World Beyond Policing with Celeste Winston on Black Maroons

Marronage as a Guide to Police Abolition

On the latest episode of #LeftOfBlack, critical geographer Dr. Celeste Winston joined me to discuss her book,'How to Lose the Hounds: Maroon Geographies and a World Beyond Policing' (Duke University Press)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W0A...

UK lawmakers vote to ban Palestine Action as ‘terrorist’ group Amnesty slams move as ‘unprecedented legal overreach’, puts protesters against Gaza war on a par with al-Qaeda, ISIL.

Amnesty slams move as ‘unprecedented legal overreach’, puts protesters against Gaza war on a par with al-Qaeda, ISIL.

Footage has been shared on social media showing Israeli air attacks using ‘bunker busters’ to strike what the Israeli military said was an underground Hezbollah site. At least one person was killed and 20 people were wounded, say authorities.

What is the law? Goodnight ya’ll. Think on that!

Hey remember when the Israeli military fired live rounds at international diplomats including Canadians and Carney did fuck all

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, giant of African literature, dies aged 87 Kenyan writer’s death announced by his daughter, who wrote: ‘He lived a full life, fought a good fight’

Rest in peace Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Why has Elon Musk quit Donald Trump’s administration? Elon Musk steps down from his government efficiency role after clashing with Trump over US federal spending policies.

Elon Musk steps down from his government efficiency role after clashing with Trump over US federal spending policies.

The compounding absurdity of it all.

Israeli forces kill 84 in Gaza; Canada, France, UK threaten sanctions UK, France and Canada say they will take ‘concrete actions’ if Israel doesn’t end ‘intolerable human suffering in Gaza’.

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

happy birthday to the brilliant and beautiful and kind Sylvia Wynter!

U.S. Troops Are Being Attacked Every Other Day in the Middle East As Trump talks of a ceasefire with the Houthis, soldiers in the Middle East have faced steady and seldom discussed attacks.

"The attacks on Yemen have continued with Israel and the United Kingdom joining in the bombardment. More than a month after Trump’s bellicose boasts, however, the Houthis have continued to strike at U.S. military personnel, just as they and militant groups across the Middle East have done"

These days I have to consistently lean into curiosity when I feel judgement creeping in. Why might this person who I respect have a different assessment than I do?

It's a holiday in Ethiopia

Join Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Garrett Felber for the virtual release event for the long-awaited biography of Martin Sostre—the revolutionary political prisone... A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre

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A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre

Join Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Garrett Felber for the virtual release event for the long-awaited biography of Martin Sostre. Organized with @akpress.org

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The truth is the election shows that Canada is incredibly conservative and right wing. “Lefts” will have to tell a better and more persuasive story if Canada is to survive not tipping over into authoritarianism next election. That is the story today for me.

The parsing of words: a terrorizing event vs a terrorist attack. (The West keeps getting caught).

The Soviets and Abolition - Sudan Solidarity Collective May 5, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm - Click Here to donate and sign up for a workshop

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Sudan Solidarity Collective launched a fundraising workshop series called Workshops4Sudan.

Ruth Wilson Gilmore will be giving the next Workshop on Monday, 5 May at 12 noon (EDT) entitled “the soviets and abolition.”

www.sudansolidarity.com/events/the-s...

Everyone who hasn't already read this book should run to read it. You will be transformed by it.

Those of us who grew up as lawyers in the post 9/11 period may have a hard time detecting the differences btw this and the extraordinary rendition program (apart from the National Security claims that existed there and do not appear now).

By Chemerinsky and Tribe

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...

Exclusive: Official creditors grant Ethiopia more time to pay debt, no write-down Ethiopia's official creditors expect to finalise within months a draft debt restructuring that gives the government more time to pay but stops short of an outright haircut, the co-chair of the group told Reuters.

"Bondholders have firmly rejected the country's proposed 18% haircut."

"Under its current IMF programme, Ethiopia must reduce its debt service by $3.5 billion until 2028 in order to make its debt 'sustainable'."
www.reuters.com/world/africa...

it was never about the money economy. MAGA wants segregation and slavery