Danny Spitzberg

A network of Chinese influencers projects wealth by pooling funds for common Gucci stockings and fancy hotel rooms ("consumerist coop"?). Then comes the tragedy of the commons: the stockings aren't laundered and several get a fungal infection.

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In case you were wondering, the solution to all this is NOT more neoliberalism, abundance bros, mass incarceration, meeting Nazis in the middle, deporting people, coddling billionaires, or throwing trans people under the bus.

In the kidnapping video I posted above, the young kid in the blue Walmart vest getting roughed up by ICE, is 20-year-old Adrian Martinez, a US citizen who was taken hostage by ICE for speaking up for his kidnapped coworker.

“Apparently the guards lost control of them,” Cetin said. “And they started to, you know, create a disturbance. They came back up to the third floor, where my client is. Basically, they blocked off cameras, security cameras, and some of them made their way into a housing unit with a very thin, shallow wall, and they knocked it out.”

Detainees knocked out an interior wall that led to an exterior one and from there were able to escape to a parking lot.

A different news report says that members of Congress who inspected the facility today reported the wall they knocked down was made of drywall and wire mesh.

Regressive bills BOTTOM 20% TOP 20% 2025 Current G.O.P. bill Lose Gain 2017 Obamacare repeal* Lose Gain 1997 Tax and budget acts Unclear Gain 1996 Welfare act Lose No change Progressive bills BOTTOM 20% TOP 20% 2022 Inflation Reduction Act Gain Lose 2021 Build Back Better* Gain Lose 2010 Affordable Care Act Gain Lose 1993 Clinton budget act Gain Lose 1990 H.W. Bush tax act Gain Lose Regressive, but all gain BOTTOM 20% TOP 20% 2017 First Trump tax cuts Gain Gain most 2013 Obama tax cuts Gain Gain most 2001/03 W. Bush tax cuts Gain Gain most *Not enacted

NYT found the “big beautiful bill” would be the largest transfer from the poor to the rich in a single law since at least 1990.

In fact, it would be the largest transfer *ever.*

Reagan’s low-income cuts were MUCH smaller - and his tax cuts were done separately. And before him, nothing comes close.

the question after that is why this scrutiny is directed at protestors rather than cops - who have every conceivable advantage on exactly this score (set personnel, formal responsibilities and hierarchies, etc) and who as a matter of public record consistently fail by exactly this standard

how this point interacts with the norms of commentary on protests: if it's true that *any* destruction and disruption will attract a disproportionate amount of attention, then fingerwaggers labeling protests and protestors basedon these scenes are in effect demanding blanket, total discipline

Law enforcement is violently targeting press at protests around Los Angeles, from easily recognizable "mainstream" outlets to freelancers and independents. ALL press have explicit legal protections in California. #JournalismIsNotACrime.

This evidence thread may get graphic. 🧵👇

This is exactly what I mean when I say that it is impossible to reduce friction, only to move it around.

The text-making-up machine dropped the friction of "research" to zero, but every single person downstream of that "research" who has to act upon it now shoulders a double workload.

Good news! Pre-order now open for the Radical Communicators Network anthology. Honored to have contributed a chapter with the wonderful Jen Avril on HIV and Long COVID justice movements! And check out the RadComm starter pack linked below @https://www.liberationstories.com

Seminar: What are Meetings? · Zoom · Luma What are meetings? What do they want from us? In this seminar, Danny Spitzberg will debut a new zine based on a learning club facilitated at Bathers Library in…

Join us on Wednesday May 7 at 12 PM ET for Metagov Seminar: What are Meetings?

@dsp.bsky.social will debut a new zine based on a learning club facilitated at Bathers Library in 2024, designed for you to use with your own learning club.

For details and link to join, register here - lu.ma/291lt7pf

Seminar: What are Meetings? · Zoom · Luma What are meetings? What do they want from us? In this seminar, Danny Spitzberg will debut a new zine based on a learning club facilitated at Bathers Library in…

I'm really looking forward to this upcoming Metagov seminar and zine-release party, led by @dsp.bsky.social: "What Are Meetings?" Join us! lu.ma/291lt7pf

Palestinian Student Leader Was Called In for Citizenship Interview — Then Arrested by ICE Palestinian Columbia student leader Mohsen Mahdawi was called in for a citizenship interview. Instead, ICE arrested him for deportation.

Mohsen Mahdwai, a greencard-holding Columbia student who worked to "build bridges" w/Jewish & Israeli students on campus, was just arrested by ICE.

In a cruel twist, USCIS invited him for his naturalization interview & then took him into custody.

It was a ruse.

theintercept.com/2025/04/14/i...

I have been hesitant to share my work lately b/c we are in crises, but increasingly I think we need affirmative visions & not just defensive actions.

We need a Project Now Until Liberation.

I think the two pieces I am sharing here can contribute to that. So, w/a deep breath, here they are - 1/3

Hey, speaking of stealing- stop it

Rep. LaMonica McIver: "We are at war!"

Curious how we keep hearing about people surprised by this and not the many who saw this coming a mile away.

Just received this email (received 3:25 pm ET), from the NSF director, informing that DOJ has interpreted the temporary restraining order on the funding freeze as applying to “all NSF award recipients.”

Again, I’ll shout it from the rooftops: lawsuits matter!!!!

*waves Thomas Billard's normative assumptions essay again*

politicalcommunication.org/article/bill...

(This is the third time today. I'm sorry, I will try to ration myself going forward, but *I* really am excited about this essay. In case you couldn't tell.)

For your consideration bsky.app/profile/bigb...

need a bluesky version of a swear jar but instead of money everytime you call an op ed writer a journalist you have to delete your last 10 posts

I am thrilled to share the cover of my forthcoming book, I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom (June 2025 @yalepress.bsky.social)

The stunning painting is by Haitian-American artist Ulrick Jean-Pierre (ulrickjeanpierre.com)

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A glass door refrigerator full of soda cans behind the counter at a taquera with a white Twitter bird silhouette on it

That’s cold

Okay, it's time again to talk about what the experience of having a social media account with a bunch of followers (*) is like.

(* "a bunch" of followers is platform dependent. I'm getting irritating shit at 2k on Bluesky I didn't get until 10k on Twitter.)

Jews for Abortion Access Join the Jewish movement to make it clear that Jews support reproductive freedom.

State mandated birthing causes harm. It is a violation of human rights, an abrogation of dignity, and the willful removal of agency from autonomous individuals.

We must care for each other and fight for a more just world.

Abortion access is a Jewish value.

http://jewsforabortionaccess.org

Helped break parts of this with MOzilla and Markup .. ahit sucks and nobody’s actually explaining out

I got to help a lil bit with this piece 💕 Mostly just in awe at the foresight around AI plagiarism protections that the guild is demanding

Because my actual unpopular opinion is ..

This isn’t a protocol or technical problem at all and it exposes that Blue Sky’s “protocol” first mantra is BS

Because it worked exactly as it should

this is a moderation issue

Which when it came to BLACK users

They weren’t covering

Skeet @ labnotes.org Find your Twitter/Mastodon follows on BlueSky

Periodic reminder for newbies that this works really well to find your Twitter follows on here- I rerun it every few days and always find new people. (It’s not perfect but it’s pretty good)

https://skeet.labnotes.org

For today’s international day of solidarity with the Writers Guild of America strike, read L.E.’s story about how she and 11,500 fellow union members are holding the (picket) line against AI plagiarism: