Andrew Friend 🇵🇸✊🏽🏳️‍⚧️

Chicago Federation of Labor used to have a radio station.

Could work now, but back from the 1980s-2000s, an informal network of labor video producers making and sharing content weekly on public access cable TV (Labor Beat, Labor Video Project, Labor Express, Labor Start, etc) could not get a f😡😡😡ing penny from AFL-CIO, but we did from various union locals.

Your love is obvious, and with Dark Crystal playing, I think it was your *other* activity that became "background."

WHAT!?! A Jacobin article about people aping Left is inaccurate?

ICE and masked federal agents are continuing their brutal raids across US cities — targeting homes, workplaces, and public spaces with military-style force — and detaining thousands of community members including children.

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

How three terrorist groups formed the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF)

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

I'm just mad it's not a complete demolition. What a waste of a good excavator.

I'm writing an adult cartoon series about all the "more radical than thou" ultra sectarianism I navigated during 25 years on the Chicago Left, and how those sects were talk shops happy to be small and ineffective. Since Saturday, I've noticed how little has changed.

That's fine, but they come leftward with us, we don't go rightward with them. We cannot counter the right from the center.

Just saying, how about we shame the politicos & Democrats leftward instead the movement and voters rightward?

The argument for "big coalition tents" kind of falls apart when polls show the Biden voters who did not vote for Harris did so because of Democrats' support for genocide in Gaza. Single biggest issue cited. She didn't let no "purity test" hold her back, and subsequently lost HARD.

Birds aren't real

In the 1990s, we in the Midwest organized against the KKK's attempts at growth. They officially gave up after too many counter-protestors met them every time. At one of their surrender press conferences, they even cited our work, misnaming us the "Midwest Network To Kill the Klan." Antifa works.

We need to axolotl questions about them.

Jd Vance posted an AI video of trump as a king. Complete with crowned and sword. They fucking love their kings..

Really think the biggest win today aside from just numbers is negatively polarizing the regime of 12-year-olds into fully adopting #YESKINGS as their official stance.

Screenshot of a post on X from Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s verified account. The post reads: “US government officials have committed a murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters. Fisherman Alejandro Carranza had no ties to the drug trade and his daily activity was fishing. The Colombian boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure. We await explanations from the US government.”

🚨 NEWS: Colombian President Gustavo Petro accuses U.S. government officials of murder and violating Colombia’s sovereignty and says the Trump-ordered strike of a boat in the Caribbean killed a fisherman named Alejandro Carranza.

Just give Kristie some time, ok? She has important Instagram videos to make first.

Weird that I went to the other side of the planet on vacation and yet randomly ran into Chicago veteran doc filmmaker Gordon Quinn at #NoKings in Tokyo. I love this small world.

Got it, I feel ya.

I don't understand this phrasing. A /slash/ implies similarities. Yet, glorifying violence is the opposite of inciting protests. As a socialist since 1997, I'm damn proud of my desire to "incite protests." That's a legitimate push for social change.

Another world is possible

The state itself has no rights, not even the right to exist.

Self-determination is a right of people. They may form collective bodies, like States, that ensure that, but that does not extend rights to the State, which is a charter on paper.

AIPAC drone

Centrist purity rant? LOL The right cannot be countered from the center, because the compromise point becomes center-right. A center forms between right and left. A massive and popular left.
When will we finally help centrists read opinion polling?

Red poster with cops in teargas masks and amid smoke A GOVERNMENT DOESN'T ANNOUNCE THAT THEY HAVE BECOME FASCIST THEY ANNOUNCE ANTI-FASCISTS ARE ENEMIES OF THE STATE.

My Auntie Fay sez

The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years.

Pinochet was ousted with a referendum.

And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists.

Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.

Having no internet also means they can't spend digital funds to buy food. Genocide by violence and starvation.