Justin Jacoby Smith

God I'm still so green on here I boomerpost constantly

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Love a sci fi war comic that includes grain graphs

As far as we know, these are not yet death camps, but they follow the camp's logics. Zones of exception, where the Law is equally unapplicable to the detainees or the sovereigns who organize the terror. Where political beings are transformed into bodies of bare life.

@evangaylion.bsky.social ahem

Sir

One with Mom

My favorite comment on the FT story

Sandwich man leaving court

I will certainly investigate!

An old Camel ad. Joe Camel is leaning against his car smoking. His henchman Mel Camel is offering me a cigarette. It's clear that they intended only to teach me a lesson, not to hurt me. It's okay that they hit me with their car. Just look at that sunset. God, I feel more alive than I have in years.

Cool photo I took a few seconds after waking up when Joe Camel hit me with his car

In the span of about 4 minutes Mom just asked me successively to define anarchism, Marxism, and communism, so it's going great

convinced that our society's addiction to extremely didactic YA literature is the blame for this.

Lol. Lmao

How Volunteer Patrols Are Working to Protect San Diego Immigrant Communities From ICE In response to mass deportation threats and mixed messages from county leaders on federal cooperation, San Diego organizers are taking action to inform residents of ICE activity.

A group in San Diego has been patrolling neighborhoods to identify potential ICE presence. They keep watch for vehicles that may belong to federal agencies, and use livestreams, radios, and social media to keep communities informed.

Screenshot from evening update from NOAA's National Hurricane Center regarding dire impacts from Melissa in Jamaica and Haiti.

This evening's update from the U.S. National Hurricane Center on #Melissa is ominous, and explicitly mentions: "catastrophic and life-threatening flash flooding...extensive infrastructural damage...and potentially prolonged isolation of communities" in both Jamaica & Haiti.

We’re generating too much content for Adam Curtis to sort through

“And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche.”
Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘father of English literature’, author of The Canterbury Tales, died #OTD 1400; buried at Westminster Abbey.
British Library

first children, second children,

Always take sentences using “the Cloud” or “the Internet” and try replacing those phrases with “A shed in Virginia” to see how they hold up. “Our service is fully based in a shed in Virginia”; “All my files are in a shed in Virginia”; “A shed in Virginia was designed to survive a nuclear war”, etc.

Rabbi Waskow, wearing a rainbow yarmulke, holding a plant.

Rabbi Arthur Waskow (1933-2025), זכרונו לברכה ("may his memory be for a blessing").

A trailblazer and champion of the religious Jewish left for decades. A thinker and activist who put his body on the line many, many times for other people and for our non-human relatives and the earth.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Also it was my mom's first protest. I'm working her up the ladder of engagement. Next time she wants to march and play drums.

Obviously there's a perspective that says "build your mass org, not everything needs a reaction" is the only viable action in the face of the fascist cliff, but the sense of national precipice is feeling severe, and to refuse to build on unprecedented mass action strikes me as real folly.

Terrorism Charges Against Antifa ‘Cell’ Show Administration’s Focus on the Left

“The indictment brought against the men — Cameron Arnold and Zachary Evetts — appeared to be the first time that terrorism charges had been filed against anyone said to be associated with antifa…”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

never forget

To-nite

I did it