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Restoration of torn-down Confederate monument will cost $10 million over 2 years, military says A U.S. Army official says restoring a memorial to the Confederacy that was removed from Arlington National Cemetery at the recommendation of Congress will cost roughly $10 million total.

there's a difference between remembrance and memorializing
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An Historical Analysis of Three-Way Fights - New Politics Javier Sethness critiques authoritarian tendencies in Marxism, and calls for a politics based on anarcho-populism such as the Russian narodniks.

An Historical Analysis of Three-Way Fights @anarresproject.bsky.social @anarchistagency.bsky.social newpol.org/issue_post/a...

Actor Dean Cain, who played Superman in the '90s, reveals he joined ICE Dean Cain, who starred in "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman," made a recruitment video for the agency Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

what the fuck is this timeline

A new print run of Anarchy Works just came out from @detritusbooks.bsky.social and it's on sale!

Capitalism and the State are dragging us into an abyss of multiplying catastrophes, telling us we can't exist without them. Guess what? We already have and we can do so again!

'What Could Possibly Go Wrong?': Trump's ICE Is Now Recruiting Teenagers | Common Dreams "ICE opening up recruiting to teenagers because they can't find enough adults willing to be their racist storm troopers is some real dystopian shit," said one critic.

Perfect for recruiting blind obedience www.commondreams.org/news/ice-lif...

Kriegskartografen Scher und Van Den Hoek: "Zerstörung in Gaza schlimmer als in Dresden 1945" Ein Forscherteam kartiert mittels öffentlicher Satellitendaten und Radarwellen die Schäden in Kriegsgebieten. Europas Weltraumbehörde hat das Team jetzt in Wien ausgezeichnet

"Our latest estimate shows that over 60 percent of all buildings in the Gaza Strip are damaged or destroyed. Even the bombing of Dresden, often considered the epitome of destruction, with 54 percent of buildings damaged, was below what we see across Gaza today."
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Saito’s Degrowth Communism - New Politics Paul Messersmith-Glavin positively reviews Kohei Saito's work on degrowth communism, as a political project that will expand the realm of freedom.

A great review by that considers the question of what it means for the Left to move forward given the realities of climate change and impacts on nature. newpol.org/issue_post/s...

Most U.S. adults stressed by grocery costs: poll Just 14% said the price of groceries was not a source of stress.

New polling shows that 53% of Americans consider the price of groceries to be a major source of stress.

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This is true public service.

"Reed College is investigating why its director of community safety [Gary Granger] reportedly disclosed information about alumnus Robert Jacob Hoopes to the FBI without a subpoena or warrant."

ACAB includes campus cops

Zapatista "Gathering of Resistances and Rebellions" opens in Chiapas - Freedom News Indigenous leaders and international delegates meet “to resolve and organise against capitalism and all pyramids” ~ Mateo Sgambati ~ The gathering is being hosted in Chiapas by the Zapatista Army of N...

“We are all Palestinian children,” said Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés at the opening event. “Today, in one of the small parts of this land, the capitalist system is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. We cannot forget, we cannot set aside”.
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YouTube video by Anarres Project for Alternative Futures Building Latinx Futures Through Storytelling/Alexandro Gradilla

Dr. Alexandro Gradilla @ajgradilla.bsky.social talks about how the idea of Latinx futurism informs the work he does teaching students to build alternative futures through the art of storytelling. #latinx #latinxfuturism #afrofuturism #indigenousfuturism www.youtube.com/watch?v=uemj...

Art of Politics Cassy Steuerwald’s art installation was titled “We Tried Throwing Them a Dinner Party.” It consisted of a small dining table with a pink tablecloth and place settings for University of Oregon Presi…

An example of the kinds of struggles going on at non Ivy League universities around protest and freedom of expression. More and more, the default position of universities is punitive.
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Murray Bookchin, who died this day in 2006: "If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable."

Billionaires like Elon Musk don’t just think they’re better than the rest of us – they hate us | Zoe Williams The ultra-wealthy talk about solving the climate crisis or ending inequality. But what they’re really interested in is outliving or escaping anyone poorer than them, writes Zoe Williams

Seems more and more correct and bears repeating:
"When you add in their dreams of living for ever, of siring scores of children, the picture is even clearer: they hate us."
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How a Group of Lesbians Provided Lifesaving Care During the AIDS Crisis Amid abandonment and fear surrounding the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, a group of lesbians became a lifeline for AIDS patients.

Between 1983 and 1992, the Blood Sisters hosted 12 blood drives, demonstrating sustained commitment for nearly a decade. ⤵️

If Mamdani and Fateh Become Mayors, Will Dem Elites Still Collude to Sink Them? Parts of Fateh and Mamdani’s platforms would be difficult to execute without cooperation from their city councils.

Mamdani and Fateh both have an excellent chance at becoming mayor-elects of two large U.S. cities come November. If elected, they’ll collectively be representing 9 million Americans, by far the largest population ever to be directly governed by socialist electeds in U.S. history.

Why do so many students turn to AI these days in higher education? Part of the reason is that universities have adopted the neoliberal message that education is job training.

Part of our discussion with @ajgradilla.bsky.social about Latinx futurism coming soon.

Luke Farritor. Portrait of a Young DOGE Coder Dismantling America’s Institutions

NEW investigation: DOGE-Pilled

The full story on the transformation of 23 year-old Luke Farritor and how he ended up at the Department of Government Efficiency--slashing, dismantling, undoing--wielding a résumé that "didn’t pass muster”

NO PAYWALL!

www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Israel Detains, Chokes, and Beats Up Amazon Union Leader Chris Smalls Meanwhile, there’s not a peep from mainstream media in the U.S.

The Israeli Defense Forces surrounded, beat, and choked American labor leader Chris Smalls, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition announced

US to allow federal workers to promote religion in workplaces Federal employees may discuss and promote their religious beliefs in the workplace, the Trump administration said on Monday, citing religious freedoms protected by the U.S. Constitution.

But we bet if you tell your religious co-worker to screw off you will be disciplined or fired.
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I don't think most Americans realize how hard tariffs are about to hit them. The combination of 1) escalating tariffs, 2) companies slowly passing the cost to consumers, and 3) the repeal of the de minimis exemption in the Big Beautiful Bill, a lot stuff will be more expensive in 2027.

Ursula Le Guin: “A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. 1/2

probably even more than we know

the internet has been good for some things

Protest at Lane County Fair over controversial Alcatraz shirts draws county response Protestors gathered Saturday at the Lane County Fairgrounds to oppose the sale of a controversial shirt, drawing a response from Lane County Fair officials.

Just because the fair can't shut it down doesn't mean there can't be an informational picket or other action around the booth. Just sayin.
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No surprise that Texas and Florida lead the way in this
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Pioneering Latino sci-fi novelist wins inaugural literary award Michael Zapata wrote the acclaimed 2020 novel "The Lost Book of Adana Moreau"

Looks good. Anyone read this one yet?
www.axios.com/2025/07/26/l...

A colleague has to meet with the university’s Office of General Counsel who want edits to their program’s website that basically amount to deleting every instance of the word “Black”

"Being poor is actually a full-time job and being broke is like a full-time job with the amount of paperwork and the time going from office to office proving what you have done. . With Universal Basic Income all that would be eliminated with the time liberated to do something socially productive." – David Graeber

In many ways its the knock-on benefits of UBI that make the policy so important.