Andrew Lee

Get your head out of The Clouds

Oh wow, thank you for sharing 🖤

"In the wake of my adoptive family fallout, I was left with a lingering scepticism about the concept of family in general.

And then I met my cousin."

On adoption, family, empire, and belonging:

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Baby Heists For the last half century, the international adoption of orphans has been used to cast imperial warfare and extraction as humanitarianism

I've written about the politics of empire and adoption previously for @thenewinquiry.com.web.brid.gy thenewinquiry.com/baby-heists/

"Even learning these facts as an adult felt dirty, subversive, like a kind of intellectual ingratitude. And there is nothing worse for an adoptee to be than ungrateful."

My latest, on family, adoption, and belonging.

psyche.co/turning-poin...

The only way out of our current crises is mass mobilization through community organizing. But what even is it, and how can we get started? My latest piece breaks down a liberatory, participatory vision of community organizing for real collective power. instruggle.substack.com/p/what-is-co...

I just don't think you get to 2025 in the US with people openly and nakedly questioning capitalism with 2/3 of younger Americans supporting socialism without occupy. I'm also aware Occupy didnt come out of a vacuum but it was an inflection point.

Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal — the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in “austerity” measures

keep Andrew’s guides available & searchable at short notice.

this one’s on collective self-defense from police munitions including tear gas, pepper spray & bean bag rounds.

A guide on best practices to respond to ICE terror available at instruggle.substack.com/ice

Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover

thank you for the outpouring of support!

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

Important to remember that none of these W. Era neo-cons ever redeemed themselves, they just demonstrated their own lack of basic foresight in their horror at Trump's exploitation of the mechanisms and narratives they championed

Teen Vogue Is Folding Into Vogue.com According to Condé Nast’s announcement, the outlet will keep its “unique editorial identity and mission.”

Condé Nast finally achieved its dream of wrecking Teen Vogue and killing its politics section.

www.thecut.com/article/teen...

Truly fucked up. Huge thanks to the politics editors for running my explainer on gentrification back in 2020. www.teenvogue.com/story/what-i...

It’s time for a labor org like NDWA to live up to their values.

We will not allow retaliatory & union busting layoffs.

We are ready to do everything it takes to win a fair contract, equitable layoffs & SAVE UNION JOBS.

These Dallas Residents Are on the Front Lines of Trump’s War Against “Antifa” If convicted, people who showed up to a protest could face “decades of prison time,” the National Lawyers Guild says.

If convicted, people who showed up to a protest could face “decades of prison time,” the National Lawyers Guild says.

These Dallas Residents Are on the Front Lines of Trump’s War Against “Antifa” If convicted, people who showed up to a protest could face “decades of prison time,” the National Lawyers Guild says.

“The conditions that she’s in in jail are causing her excruciating pain."

My latest for @truthout.org on first ever antifa terrorism charges in the US. truthout.org/articles/the...

For Metropolitics, I analyzed our multi-year fight against the gentrification of Philadelphia Chinatown, the campaign's apparent defeat, and its subsequent total victory. metropolitics.org/An-Unexpecte...

IGD: 2015 – 2025 About a year ago, we announced a hiatus on this project. Due to an outpouring of support, we pushed ourselves to continue, and over the last year, we’re proud of the interviews and roundups we’ve been...

RIP @igd.bsky.social!

Long Live IGD!

The antifascist movement would be far weaker without you. Thank you for a decade of hard and principled work.

itsgoingdown.org/igd-2015-2025/

There is no more middle ground. If you care about public health, you have to become a revolutionary. If you care about medical research, you have to become a revolutionary. If you care about climate change, labor conditions, the well-being of children in warzones, there is nothing else for it—you have to become a revolutionary. There is no going back to the way things were, to the future that we once anticipated. The old world is in flames around us.

If you care about public health, you have to become a revolutionary. If you care about medical research, you have to become a revolutionary. If you care about climate change, labor conditions, the well-being of children in war zones—you have to become a revolutionary.

crimethinc.com/becomeananar...

A flyer for "Books Through Bars" promoting Banned Books Week. It encourages buying a book from their wishlist with matched donations. Event dates: October 5th-11th, 2025. Bookshelves appear in the background.

Books through Bars Philly is looking for book donations which will be matched this week: bookshop.org/wishlists/c8... #BannedBooksWeek

@jimmykimmel.com A reminder that we should all hold our 'hot takes' on days like this till we have full information on motives, politics, etc.

Politicizing every shooting or terror act from the get-go is reckless and dumb.
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Eat. Sleep. Exercise. Nurture the relationships that sustain you. Protect your health. Find joy. Don't mistake any of these for the resistance itself. Joy isn't resistance, neither is rest. But you need to be whole to resist for a lifetime.

Recognition of State of Palestine by Canada, France, UK etc is not only performative it is dangerous.

It doesnt commit to ending genocide or implementing arms embargo and sanctions.

Plus, explicitly calls for demilitarization of Palestine and disarming resistance.

Reviving Oslo is not an option!

Make Ready: Safeguarding Our Movements against Repression Donald Trump has declared that he is designating “Antifa” a “terrorist organization.” What does that mean? How can we prepare to weather the storm?

Make Ready: Safeguarding Our Movements against Repression

crimethinc.com/Safeguarding

Donald Trump has signaled that he is expanding his offensive against immigrants to target critics of his regime as well.

Everyone should read this guide spelling out concrete steps we can take to prepare.

Sweatshop Communism: An Infantile Disorder

Karl Rove, CEO of ANTIFA

The total violence exhibited with only a few weeks left in semesters was a sign of authoritarianism but also a sign of strategic weakness. A ruling class that can no longer tolerate dissent is a ruling class terrified and wracked with shame and guilt. They are both more dangerous and more fragile

reporter whose whole Thing is covering protests: no it’s not, it’s a very basic safety recommendation as we see an increase in nonprofits/501c3s using signups to add people to email lists which can easily be subpoenaed or seized by the state.

this take scans as pretty manipulative tbh