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I hope some of you actually take some joy in these pathetic images of this ridiculous and now boring military parade. It's a fiasco and everyone gets to point and laugh. More hard days ahead but for today enjoy.

Not Our Sister: Kristi Noem as an Enemy Feminist? By Peyton Bond This piece gestated as a review of Sophie Lewis’s Enemy Feminisms, though I see now it has become something a little different. The book so struck me that I quickly joined the dialog…

I used Sophie Lewis’s ‘enemy feminisms’ framing to try to situate her in line with other historical fascist women here (with the help of some of your writing, love your work): blindfieldjournal.com/2025/06/04/n...

A photograph of police vehicles on a freeway, with protestors on an overpass throwing fireworks below.

The true nihilists of our age are not those who abandon institutions, fight police, & don't vote, but those who remain invested in a society where cruelty, suffering, insecurity, & death are the norm. If any meaning survives it can only be found in the abolition of such a society.

Those concerned about violence might want to start with violence against immigrants, by ICE here, by illegal deportations to gulags and third countries, the violence against so many federal departments, against the law, the climate, the public lands, waters, civil rights, reproductive rights...

Every time they say “we can’t afford that,” remember: they could afford armored tanks, a dictators birthday parade, and enough tear gas to choke a city. They just don’t want you fed, safe, or alive.

organizers from the Gaza Freedom Flotilla has announced those aboard the Madleen have been abducted by the Israeli army, and the aid resources aboard taken

carceral realism: it is easier to imagine the end of america than the end of cops?

Huge win for the TEU which is now a P@lest!ne Solidarity Union. 🇵🇸

Best Start's mean-spirited means-testing

Comment from the University of Otago: The Best Start payment helped me continue my education – cutting it harms countless families

Otago staff/students/grads - former and current - please sign on. If you’re in Ōtepoti, please come along on May 15 12pm at the Museum lawn to adopt this Declaration together.
@uwp-aotearoa.bsky.social

THE OTAGO DECLARATION ON THE SITUATION IN PALESTINE THE OTAGO DECLARATION ON THE SITUATION IN PALESTINE We, the staff, students and graduates, being members of the University of Otago, make the following declaration. We fully and completely recogniz...

Otago alumni may want to sign this Declaration on the Situation in Palestine: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

newsrooms of the world did u know that when Rümeysa Öztürk gets out you can pay her to write an editorial, and then publish it? did u know that if all of you did this it would be a whole thing and a good one

Oh this makes me cry

Coloured screen shot: A close-up image of a brown kiwi bird standing on a dark green background. The kiwi faces forward with its long beak pointing directly at the camera, its small eyes wide open, and its feathers appearing soft and fluffy.

The Week That Was:

Under urgency, Govt rushed bills that kill kiwi, silence pay equity claims, & punish striking workers. A war on wāhine, workers, & wildlife all in one week. Meanwhile, developers laugh all the way to the bank

Hika mā!

#StopTheBill #WarOnWāhine #TePātiMāori #UrgencyAbused
#NZPol

3 helicopters fly overhead Columbia as NYC Mayor Eric Adams announces NYPD is on its way to campus

Remember that time 95% of Iceland’s women went on strike from their paid work and unpaid household labour and childcare?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Ic...

Voting rights don't stop at the prison gate

Rights are not privileges – they are rights. And history shows that when they are taken away, they are not easily restored.

Why I’ve told my principal I will not teach the new proposed English curriculum 'If the ministry is unable to provide us with something fit for purpose, it is not my job to compound the harm it will cause to my students, but to protect them from it.'...

Why I’ve told my principal I will not teach the new proposed English curriculum

Prisoner voting ban a call made in the absence of politics

From Auckland University - Opinion: Stripping thousands of people of the right to vote shows the Crown never believed in sacred democratic principles to begin with.

‘I do not care’: PM dismisses human rights concerns over prisoner voting ban The Government is banning all prisoners from being able to vote, despite criticism from the courts.

People Against Prisons Aotearoa spokesperson and UoA criminologist Dr Emmy Rākete said the total voting ban was an “attack on democratic principles”.

“The Supreme Court has already ruled that banning prisoners from voting is unlawful. The Government is spitting on the rule of law,” she said. #nzpol

The art featured in the post below is from our abolition imagination postcards project, which features beautiful quotes/art on All of the art is available for free our website. Explore, download, print, share, imagine: bit.ly/ImaginationCards

She wrote an article in the student newspaper. That’s all she did. The U.S. can’t call itself a free country if that gets you sent to jail.

This right here. Spreading "perfect victim" or "innocence" narratives is dangerous and cedes ground on the fact that *all* people deserve dignity, humane treatment, and access to due process. Feeding into perfect victim or innocence narratives isn't just irresponsible messaging, it is copaganda.

and, as @interruptcrim.bsky.social says, defunding is the basement floor - abolition is the sky we are reaching for

Excerpt from the book No More Police by Andrea J. Ritchie and Mariame Kaba: "Defunding police means investing the billions currently poured into policing and the prison-industrial complex into community-based safety strategies: meeting basic needs that include housing, health care, access to care for disabled people, childcare, elder care, a basic guaranteed income, and accessible, sustainable living-wage jobs that enable people to prevent, escape, intervene in, and transform the conditions that make violence possible. It is a process of creating, building, and resourcing tools, skills, relationships, and institutions that will create genuine and lasting safety for all. Defunding police is neither the beginning nor the end of the story. It is simply a step toward a longer-term abolitionist horizon of dismantling police departments and abolishing policing, the prison-industrial complex (PIC) that requires it, the economic system that produced it, and the social order it fabricates, while rebuilding a society organized around meeting our individual and collective needs, as well as the needs of the planet. The demand to defund is just the basement floor, abolition is the sky we are reaching for."

"The demand to defund is just the basement floor, abolition is the sky we are reaching for." — @dreanyc123.bsky.social and @prisonculture.bsky.social in No More Police: A Case for Abolition

Resources related to the book (excerpts, interviews, videos) are available for free here: bit.ly/NoMorePolice

We have allowed ourselves to believe that it's normal to have 4% of the world's population and 25% of the world's prisoners. We have allowed prisons that violate multiple basic provisions of international humanitarian law. Our prisons are filled with people being literally tortured.

abolish prisons!

*spits water all over her phone* you're telling me the same 9 people who declared everything Donald Trump does is legal also thinks this thing he did is legal?!?

I did an internship in 2015 with the Green Party and a few political leaders there are still active. Haven’t been in touch recently but could recommend some people to contact!