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“I thought Slazinger had said some things which were worth considering, but that, on the whole, he had made the country sound a lot worse than it really was, and that ours was still far and away the best one on the planet.

What do I myself make of that reply nowadays? It was an inane reply.” (4/4)

“. . .’Being an American means never having
to say you're sorry.’" (3/4)

“. . .He talked about bridges falling down and water mains breaking because of no maintenance. He talked about oil spills and radioactive waste and poisoned aquifers and looted banks and liquidated corporations. ‘And nobody ever gets punished for anything,’ he said. . .” (2/4)

“He predicted, I remember, that human slavery would come back, that it had in fact never gone away. He said that so many people wanted to come here because it was so easy to rob the poor people, who got absolutely no protection from the Government. . .” (1/4)

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Heyy I just quoted some Carol Becker nonsense in my recent bsky thread. I haven't read up on the lawsuit but kudos to you for standing up to her. Out of curiosity, can you countersue for defamation and wasting your time with a frivolous lawsuit?

The front and back cover of the zine "Make Ready: Safeguarding Our Movements against Repression." The back cover reads "Everyone who is against fascism is an anti-fascist. In seeking to target everyone who opposes fascism, Trump is biting off more than he can chew—provided we don’t roll over and let him win." There is also a CrimethInc. logo.

Donald Trump is trying to criminalize opposition to fascism. What are the real threats—and how can people prepare for them?

We've prepared a zine version of "Make Ready: Safeguarding Our Movements against Repression."

Please print these out and distribute them widely!

crimethinc.com/MakeReadyZine

What's the game? Looks fun.

This year we are in chains. Next year may all people be free.

everything so their neighbors' children might be a free people in a free land.

I hope each one of us can help those future ancestors look back and say "I know altruism is real because people risked everything to dismantle the system that would have erased my heritage and future."

But some of us will survive; in time, descendants of survivors of this genocide will know they're also around because even in the face of terror and seemingly overwhelming strength (the entire developed world backing and bankrolling a colonial mass atrocity), many more stood up and risked

but what came to mind for me is "if that was true, I wouldn't be here." My Yiayia survived the holocaust because brave people risked their lives to do what's right, with no chance of personal gain.

Millions have died from choosing to do what's right and stand up to fascists.

Carol Becker, Minneapolis conservative crank and (I think) landlord, once told me that a human right to housing (or any economic need) couldn't possibly work because humans are not naturally altruistic.

This idea is demonstrably false from history to evolutionary biology;

us not healing harm from centuries of racist psychological warfare, and not addressing the violence that created the property regimes billions now suffer under.

This is why fascists try to erase history and social progress, as Trump is doing now.

the idea that Jews can only be safe if they terrorize their neighbors from a violent ethnostate is one of those absurd contradictions that, once you pull it apart, starts to unravel bigger lies in our society. the greater international system of extractive racial and colonial capitalism relies on

To quote RLM, the empire shows us its weak spots. The blockade, and the places of violence and cruelty, are some of them. Keep shining a light into the darkness. Keep hope.

The whole system of extractive colonial capitalism relies on lies and violence and the hypocrisy,

Deeply moved by Tadgh Hickey's last vid before his abduction by Israeli forces. The abuse, tactics of psychological and total war, employed against the activists of the flotilla are terrifying. Their bravery and willingness to face torture for what's right is truly noble youtube.com/shorts/OmBJ8...

a right to the city, specifically by creating new structures that let us realize a human right to housing. If you wanna talk about how transforming our housing (and especially it's ownership models) to respond to polycrisis and climate crisis and create flourishing urban communities, hit me up!

I'm a tenant organizer, among other things, in a masters degree about Urban Management studying how to decommodify housing and create housing commons instead of extractive, destructive housing systems we have now; I'm a certain kind of expert on this one aspect (re-commoning urban land and creating

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Straight up. Everyday heroes saving an innocent from being trafficked into slave labor. We all need to do and see more of this.

How the agents cover their faces and abuse the poor man is awful too. Hopefully more videos exposing this shit will chip away Trumps' approval from ~41% to much less.

3. The JG creates a mechanism for setting wages and working standards across the whole economy. If the JG implements living wages, a 35 hour workweek, workplace democracy, etc., the private sector will need to match these standards if they want to retain staff. This also dramatically improves workers' bargaining power.

A jobs guarantee also creates a mechanism for setting wages and working standards, from shorter workweeks to workplace democracy. It has potential to be truly transformative for society while helping us make critical economic changes for human survival in the face of polycrisis.

2. The JG creates a mechanism for *reorienting* labour toward socially and ecologically beneficial activities and *increasing* production where necessary (renewable energy development, public transit expansion, regenerative agriculture, ecological restoration, care, etc.), so as to accelerate social and ecological progress. There's a lot of work to be done to build a just and ecological society, and we cannot wait around for capital to decide it is profitable enough to employ people to do it!

A jobs guarantee could prevent unemployment from downscaling harmful industries while reorienting labor towards socially and ecologically needed work.

Instagram post by Dr. Jason Hickel reads: "1. The JG creates a mechanism for *preventing* any unemployment that may arise from downscaling ecologically destructive and socially unnecessary industries (eg fossil fuels, SUVs, fast fashion, etc.) Thereby allowing us to undertake such downscaling without the social consequences that currently make this politically undesirable."

Thinking about degrowth and a Jobs Guarantee, and what steps to address climate change, meet human need, and build economic and social democracy, I so appreciate @jasonhickel.bsky.social 's communication and thinking around this. Here are snippets of an Instagram post.

And understanding that organizing and learning has led me too over 32 years on out planet. Check out Cool People who Did Cool Stuff on a podcast platform and read or watch/ listen to RLM's 8 beautiful lessons for liberatory organizing here:

www.rlmartstudio.com/product/tend...

Illustration of tree roots connected via mycelium underground with a fruiting body (Mushroom) above the ground. Superimposed on the image it says "Yo why are they sharing resources with no profit incentive"

Recently learned a bit about Russian Prince Peter Kropotkin and evolutionary biology from the lovely podcast Cool People who Did Cool Stuff and @margaret.bsky.social

That and Ricardo Levins Morales' "Tending the Soil" lessons for organizing zine are giving me life and helping me clarify wisdom

ownership and economic models? Bsky is a satisfying start!

We must build commons and structures for sharing and maintaining them for all key ecological and social infrastructures, from housing and forestry to social media.

I really dislike the Twitter- style format but goddamn do we need a digital commons for discourse and connection. I hope the Fediverse, or other open source projects, can become that.

Where can I get the functionality of fb or Instagram in common, not enclosed and extractive

I gotta learn how to thread posts together with this super short text limit... ah well. Sentiment of those past 3 posts is consistent and I will repost in proper threaded form when i learn how

(3/3) housing and land must be restored to common ownership for common good. Commodification and enclosure of our most fundamental needs has been a disaster for people and planet.