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Nonstop Metropolis by Rebecca Solnit, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro - Paper Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

www.ucpress.edu/books/nonsto...

The Antisemitism Post (tm) Gotta get the history to know where the tropes live in the discourse today.

I think it’s time to put this one back out into the ether, friends

Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…

Chat, is it a good sign when the Atlantic's Thanksgiving take is "cabbage is affordable"?

In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.

In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.

🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

“let me invite Isaac Chotiner to investigate this further, I’m sure it’ll go well”

you gotta read these things back before you hit post man what are you doing

San Francisco police step up late-night drug raids to appease Trump Officials say the crackdown is linked to the president’s threats to deploy the National Guard and ICE.

Several weeks ago, I warned that Lurie would intensify his war on the poor and use Trump's threat to justify it. This is exactly what he's done.

so if i understand this correctly, gaines has made her career by publicly calling trans athletes predators and threats to women while completely failing to ever mention even once that her mentor/college swimming coach was sexually assaulting and harassing women on the team while she was there?

My unpopular opinion is that we don't really know any more about foreign accounts manipulating U.S. politics on Twitter than we did before this update. There's no way of knowing who specifically used a VPN and who didn't. It's obvious that this is a problem but we don't have better data on it now.

if i've learned one thing from doing union stuff while also doing other forms of organizing, it's that you're better off with people you disagree with who are nevertheless trying to do the same thing as you than with people you agree with who aren't trying to do anything

not always easy to tell which team has recruited you: people will usually at least mention real goals. but pay attention. if the actions of the people you are around are oriented around maintaining a particular kind of posture, correctness, or rather than some tangible sort of victory, leave

there are people content with their political line existing as a subculture, are indifferent or even hostile to attempts to move beyond that. maybe that's fine, even, but they certainly don't need your help! go where help is needed - and those will be places that are trying to accomplish something

nobody at the level of power we say we're aiming to contest - who could launch an ICBM, capital strike, or planetary scale disinformation campaign - is worried about the fine details of our lil critiques, or precisely what kind of socialist/anarchist/anti-imperialist is frowning at them. be serious.

another curmudgeonly thread for the many of you who will be entering organizing spaces.

all other things being equal, when confronted with one team of people recruiting you to Be a Thing and another team recruiting you to Do a Thing, please give serious thought to joining the second.

DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it

Make like a tree and grow.

God it's so cool that so much of British and European nationalist politics has broadly been shaped by warehouse clickfarms rented by guys in South Asia running "how to make money from racist old people" workshops, and that this has had more influence on media and politics than any grassroots group

actually you not only can but SHOULD claim that a hugely important Persian poet came to you in a dream and told you to publish your own work under his name

like

it's basically mandatory

I'm just glad that Pulitzer Prize winner Ed Yong caught the last chopper out of The Atlantic because what the hell is this

‘Nauseated’: S.F. supervisors demand action after alleged mass strip search of women in jail Supervisors want action after Mission Local reported that women held in a San Francisco jail were allegedly strip searched en masse.

women in an SF jail were forced to strip while sheriff’s deputies watched and filmed on body cameras missionlocal.org/2025/11/sf-s...

Americans can't even manufacture their own consent any more smgdh

Luckily nothing bad will happen to Ash ever!

we have reached "The Blood Queen got lost in the time hurricane on The 100" levels of bonkers

You literally do not have to hand it to her.

The concept of weaponizing poetry against machines fills me with a dark and bloody joy.

I think it’s bad that ai allows people to pretend to live in completely separate realities so they don’t have to process news and events that make them uncomfortable. I think that is bad for the health of society!

I closed social media for like three hours and the Pope threw a rave, MTG resigned, and Trump endorsed Mamdani before Chuck Schumer did? Now accepting bribes to close social media for all of next week

it’s not a nazi tattoo, but if it is, he didn’t know it, and if he did know, he didn’t mean it, and if he meant it, he’s grown since then

no, fuck you

Just city after city where they roll in expecting to be greeted as liberators. On the day of Dick Cheney's funeral let's just remember that that never works.

🕯️ today is Trans Day of Remembrance. 🕯️

spend some time with the loved ones we’ve lost.

www.transremembrance.org/in-memoriam

Whew, that political violence conversation didn’t last long at all!

Almost like SOME PEOPLE never really meant it at all.