Joe Hall

sweeping up lead paint chips in a wildfire smog
i wish this was a metaphor

Hoping progressive institutions & networks take this as a cue to intensify their own media operations & plan for when a new revolutionary state(ish) formation can start nationalizing (& de-Nazifying/de-white-nationalizing [I can't believe I have to type this]) fascist compatible corporate platforms.

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"It is not a civil war. It is a people defending themselves against a fascist government, which you are defending" - Kanafani on Palestinian resistance against Jordanian government in 1970 interview "A Conversation Between the Sword and the Neck"

Read this very carefully: *One quarter* of all the people who have died of starvation in Gaza over the past 22 months have died in the past *3* days.

🚨WAWOG media pressure campaign to get the horror of the famine in Gaza on the front page, where it might actually move policy
www.writersagainstthewarongaza.com/statements/f...

Hulk Hogan died, huh?

One less scab. Unionize your workplace, brothers (and sisters, and siblings).

gaza humanitarian foundation (gunning down aid seekers) is such a heinous repetition of christian fascists aiding genocide (see Shatila and Sabra massacres in Lebanon) -- except this time those Christian fascists are from the U.S., backed by the administration, contracting ex-CIA

“No allegiance but to the people. No pleasure but in love. No reproduction but in destroying the destroyers. // No flag will ever represent us. / We Insist Always On Life.” – Cornum, Lou --“Desiring the Tribe, Part II” in Pinko #2, July 2020

Child Amputees, Aid Massacres, Mass Starvation—the Israeli War Crimes NYT Covers Less than Mamdani and 'Globalize the Intifada' Theoretical, third order, speculative violence must be condemned while actual, real world mass violence, that actually exists in reality, is seen as normal and unworthy of sustained coverage.

In the past month NYT has published 32 articles that mention Mamdani and “globalize the intifada", 13 that mention Israel's fake "aid" agency that's killed 800+, 5 on Israel's starvation campaign and two that mention, in passing, child amputees in Gaza. I argue this is makes no sense and is depraved

it's really clear don't know fuck all about my town or the politics of the people living and working here.

whew, yeah, turns out they don't want a smoking hole in the ground where the cultural infrastructure was. hope it turns around.

Oof. That's rough. My friend recently sent me a picture of Purdue demolishing its English department. Felt like his alma mater was saying don't come back.

Right! It's like George Jackson said--the U.S. is an accomplished fascist state. It's only when that fascism is contested that the boot comes out again (the long 2020 backlash). That governor thought--gross. What state is that?

(& debt slavery.) Terrorizing specific immigrant communities, beating up the most vulnerable segments of the working class, driving race as a wedge between us, is a part of that. Before then, we gotta start on extirpating ICE & the people & systems that gave rise to it.

Context: I was struck by member of business class admitting in post the existing segregation in his sector that characterizes highly racialized hierarchy of labor in U.S. Ultimately, I think the long goal of the fascists and capitalists is to formally return the U.S. to apartheid codified in law.

eat shit. buffalo didn't vote for this.

yeah, they're busy bombing churches in gaza.

&, of course, fuck & then abolish ICE.

Latinos and roofers are ICE's prime targets in Western New York ICE Buffalo has primarily targeted Latinos and roofers. Most have no criminal history.

“There’s not going to be any skilled labor left to do roofs,” one roofing company owner said. “Five percent of the crews out there are white and they suck.” // some bracing realism about race, labor, & economics in this IP article
www.investigativepost.org/2025/07/17/l...

hosted several poets this summer. slumlord house next door did not catch on fire causing me to barge in on those poets sleeping at 5 am to flee the house. improvement.

Statement by the Jerusalem Patriarchate on the Church of Holy Family in Gaza - Jerusalem Patriarchate - News Gate Jerusalem Patriarchate  July 17, 2025   The Patriarchate of Jerusalem expresses its deepest condemnation and denunciation of the strike that targeted the Catholic Church of the Holy Family in Gaza Cit...

just the entity shelling churches and wounding priests, just christian zionists based in Boston running a massacre zone that's open ten minutes a day to distribute aid as a means of sucking people into south Gaza and killing them
en.jerusalem-patriarchate.info/announcement...

well put!

one of my favorite lines from Larry Mitchell on what to do w/reactionary impulses (quietly process them): "To make his dreams real he lives quietly through his reactionary emotions."

100% metabolize slight complexity! you can do it!

<ngl, I often did too until I was 23-24 (in 2006)--part of that was intransigence but part of it was still not having access to other ways of thinking about the world around me and still working thru what I learned in college>

Here's books I'm loving right now: Ghassan Kanafani's selected Political Writings, Jake Reber's Gloom series, Stuart Hall's Selected Writings on Marxism, Sara Lefsyk's We Are Hopelessly Small and Modern Birds, Amy De'Ath's Not a Force of Nature

been cool to see so many young writers writing about class & culture; discouraging that so many of them are white dudes unable or unwilling to connect class to gender, race, sexuality, or imperialism.

where you been the last ten years?

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THIS IS FUCKED

amen