Britta Love

guy said, “Do you like Marx?” I said, “I haven’t met him.” Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.” “Wow, what happened?” “No, no, he died long ago.” I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?” “No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.” I said, “Sounds amazing.” I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx. BS: The FBI. MM: The FBI. Then, of course, I took a class on Marx. Couldn’t just get Marx out of the library. But,

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

just wanted to re-post this messaging that helped win an election

Excellent!!!!

So happy and grateful to see this and so depressed to think that even Tom Hanks hasn't been told to upgrade from a surgical if he's trying to avoid Covid on the subway with one way masking. Wow.

This is genuinely terrible news. The politics section of Teen Vogue has been a bright spot in this dark time for journalism and politics. Ty for all your work @leximcmenamin.com

So many reasons to be masking these days.

I think a lot about the chance we had at the start of COVID to finally become a more compassionate, collectivist nation, and how profoundly we were failed not only by the sociopathic greed of the ruling class but by each other.

It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.

Illustration of hands sewing with red thread, surrounded by pink and purple flowers, with a quote by David Graeber: "The ultimate, hidden truth of the world, is that it is something that we make and could just as easily make differently.

"The ultimate, hidden truth of the world, is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently." —David Graeber

Art by Kate DeCiccio (Imagination Card - www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...)

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

Imagine believing the danger is the border and not the regime.

This whole thing is incredible, but look how his hand is shaking when he points at the guys who are being hassled. He's scared, he's angry, he's pounding with adrenaline, but he's maintaining control of himself and not backing down. He's taking a stand, whatever the cost.

Gentle reminder that polls don't gauge what is ethical or just. A poll about how "most Americans" feel about trans healthcare is simply a way to understand how effective media and religious campaigns have been in their transphobia.

Agreed - just taking up physical space, exercising free speech and seeing a crowd in our rural red area was a deep breath of relief. Our NK in July was about 20 people - over 100 today.

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Making people afraid to be affiliated with antifascism—making people afraid to be associated with groups and people that actively oppose fascism—is some bleak shit.

Let's annotate:
1. Who did it? Clearly assigns blame.
2. Why did the culprits do it? Motive.
3. What must be done in response?

another way to say this: fascism isn't about rules people follow, it's about categories people are in

if you're in the right category nothing you do is bad
if you you're in the wrong category nothing you do is good

it's not about what you do, it's about who you are

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us.

We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again.

That's the revolution.

Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him

It’s not a double standard this *is* their standard.

Speech for them not for us.
Violence for us not for them.

The sooner we understand this the better.

praise for Kirk from liberal pundits is one of the clearest distillations of how ill-equipped they are for this fascist moment, & how devoted they are to a West Wing fantasy of a respectable right/conservative movement that does not exist, and which - like Kirk - almost never operates in good faith

Charlie Kirk's death has truly laid bare just how fascist the USA has become, and by extension, the Empire.

The sycophantic ass kissing, the immediate deference to cops, the pivoting to whatever issue people want to push over the corpse of a fascist.

Hook, line, and sinker, fascism is mainstream.

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

It takes a lot of courage to organize. It also takes a lot of humility. To say, I can’t solve this problem or challenge this system by myself and I gotta work with others. And we don’t know if this is gonna work, but it’s worth trying.

you can't stop fascism by sacrificing the poor the disabled trans people migrants or any other marginalised because that is just you doing the fascism yourself.

This is why disabled people have been saying that masking is resistance. They can see it on most people's faces now that personal comfort matters more than vulnerable lives.

What will you do today to contribute to the efforts to stop the regime from harming people?

[No need to respond - it's a question for you to answer for yourself]

"The fascists want us depleted, numb, and cynical." - I keep this top of mind daily and I actively refuse.