The coin-operated presidency.

@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/5481...

The arrest of labor leader David Huerta in Los Angeles has put unions on the leading edge of resistance to mounting authoritarianism. inthesetimes.com/article/davi...

Poster: Ricardo Levins Morales

Surrealist type painting with a central standing female figure in a long pink dress holding a Mexican flag with buildings and machinery behind her to the right and ancient Mexican artifacts and iconography to her left

Self-Portrait on the Border Line between Mexico and the United States, 1932, Frida Kahlo #womensart

For @technologyreview.com, I'm writing about the rise in citizen-created ICE watch platforms + other digital community defense. I've got a few on my radar, incl Stop Ice Alerts + People Over Papers.

Who else I should talk to? Any scholars that study this?

DMs open, Signal in bio.

playing the cops against ICE is actually kind of awesome. Keep calling 911 on these fucking goons

Rob Brezsny's excellent recent Instagram post, plus an easy-to-navigate PDF containing additional facts: sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/itep/ITEP-Ta...

#fucklamigra
#fuckice
#powertothepeople

Whatcom County labor activist who was detained by ICE agents transferred to Tacoma facility Hundreds of people protested the arrest of activist and union organizer Alfredo (Lelo) Juarez Zeferino, who is now being held in Tacoma

www.bellinghamherald.com/news/politic...

Article here, it's free: https://substack.com/@sarahkendzior/p-157285080

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Unfathomable

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the fascist mindset insists that a social hierarchy is a natural one, and demands that any and all violence be brought to bear to maintain that “natural” state. its greatest fear (and threat) is freedom, which is why fascists hate trans people, who have dared to choose to be free

YouTube video by Haymarket Books The Corporate Coup in Global Context: An Emergency Town Hall

If you missed tonight’s town hall with @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, and @keeanga.bsky.social on resisting the shock and awe politics of the far right and their billionaire enthusiasts, you can watch the video here:

The Craftsman I was going to make a noose, but instead I made a basket.

laugh
"A loom is an ideal apparatus if you feel like murdering people but also making an appealing placemat."
or cry
"Pushing the pedals of the loom, I felt eight years old again. Deciphering another ancient instrument, oblivious to a world that wants to kill me."

Read @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

This is also why I don’t think journalists should allow people to use “woke” without forcing them to provide a specific explanation of what is meant. Too much focus on racial justice? Too much focus on LGBTQ tolerance? Make them say it. Because to be blaming marginalized folks for what’s happening…

Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.

Literally. There's no reasoning with the right when the right looks like this. No more wasting time.

Motto for a new(er) left: another world is possible. We're so close. Let's just fucking take it.

Dying in a hideous plane crash because the world’s most racist and unlovable nerds couldn’t handle a 45 minute HR training.

cancel culture has gotten way out of hand. polio deserves a second chance.

Organized marching drills and the notion of disciplining and/or honing oneself for the nation's benefit are also not new.

All share a belief that a small group of people have been chosen to survive the catastrophes they are deliberately deepening.

It's a vision of the Rapture, sometimes religious but often secular.

We need to understand the story they are telling so that we can battle it with own. More soon

According to Frankels model of Nazi governance, the "normative" segment of a fascist regime continued to apply the law according to due process, and officials in that sector were recruited and promoted according to bureaucratic norms of competence and seniority. In the "preroga-tive" sector, by contrast, no rules applied except the whim of the ruler, the gratification of party militants, and the supposed "destiny" of the Volk, the razza, or other "chosen people." The normative state and the prerogative state coexisted in conflict-ridden but more or less workmanlike coop-eration, giving the regime its bizarre mixture of legalism!2 and arbitrary violence. Hitler never formally abolished the constitution drafted in 1919 for the Weimar Republic, and never totally dismantled the normative state in Germany, though he himself refused to be bound by it-refusing, for example, to have a euthanasia law drafted for fear of having his hands tied by rules and bureaucracy. I3 After the Reichstag fire, as we saw in the last

not to freak anyone out or anything but I’ve been reading the Anatomy of Fascism by Robert Paxton and I think the concept of fascism as a model of government featuring a normative state and a prerogative state is potentially going to be useful for thinking about DOGE

"The real money is dark money, untraceable, but you can still see oligarch names on campaign contribution lists. They like to show proof of purchase."

"The 21st century's most desirable currency is impunity. Impunity, the sadist's conception of freedom, mainstreamed and marketed as the new American Dream."
www.sarahkendziorbooks.com

Winning a debate with a conservative who goes ThErE aRe OnLy TwO gEnDeRs by launching into my teaching lecture about how gender is best understood not as a static feature of a person but as a set of social processes that happen between people, shaped by surrounding conditions like race and econo—

In light of this deeply illegal activity at NSF and the ongoing attack on American science, I'm posting the slides from my 2017 talk at the American Physical Society about the Nazi take over of German physics/why German is no longer science's lingua franca 🧪

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Deleted Amazon. Accounts closed. Yay. Never WholeFoods, never Audible, never Prime. Never next day delivery. Let workers benefit in collective bargaining. I do not need anything I do not need. Buy local in your neighborhood. Meet people. Know what’s in your fifteen block radius. Thrive together.

How is geopolitics functioning. These dispatches sound like they come from the amoeba that ate through the man's brain stem. Even that is a more plausible, reasonable theory than whatever is going on in this trash heap of a reality

It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.

Doge v USAid: How Elon Musk helped his acolytes infiltrate world’s biggest aid agency Takeover of USAid agency by Doge operatives seen as a pilot for a large-scale overhaul of the federal government USAid security personnel were defending a secure room holding sensitive and classified data in a standoff with “department of government…

Doge v USAid: How Elon Musk helped his acolytes infiltrate world’s biggest aid agency