Ben Lockwood, PhD

NO WAR WITH IRAN!

NO TO IMPERIALIST WAR, YES TO THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE IRANIAN PEOPLE! 🌹

Read DSA's statement on the US-Israeli attacks on Iran (1/5)

Post See new posts Conversation Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر @emilykschrader The Islamic regime is claiming more than 50+ “martyrs” were killed at a girls school in Minab …except they forgot to mention that the school is literally part of the Asif corps of the IRGC on base, which was targeted. Not only that, it’s also being used as an IRGC admin, command and medical facility at this time. Meanwhile, Anti-regime media has said no students were killed nor was the school itself the target.

Those school girls were soldiers and therefore deserved to be obliterated by a US/Israeli bomb, but also they're not dead but also it'd be good if they were dead

The peace will continue until morale improves

As Trump Bombs Iran, We Need to Reckon With the American War Machine We cannot afford to slip into despair. We must push back against militarism everywhere, at every turn.

Essential reading. "We in the U.S. need to reckon with the fact that so much of our state wealth, capacity, and technology goes toward burying children in rubble."

Take a break from The Horrors by sending us some different horrors to read

Email your representatives: No War with Venezuela! I just wrote a letter to my congressional representatives to urge them to oppose Trump's illegal war with Venezuela. Can you join me? https://admin.actionnetwork.org/letters/email-your-representative-...

The War Powers Resolution could come up for a vote in the House as soon as next week. Tell your representative: No war with Venezuela, No war with Iran 👇

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once again reminding everyone to funnel your emotions into organizing and building solidarity in your community and not pointless doomscrolling

Bloody backpacks. Your tax money at work.

scrawny 18-year-old about to fall out of an army helicopter over tehran: this is so epic. this is totally sigma, right babe?

AI e-girl operated by a balding intelligence officer in virginia: that's right baby, Iran is totally cringe

Can we do a regime change here at home?

Cover of the latest issue of The Eco Update

Table of contents

Letter from the editor

Screen shot of first article

Oh and did you know The Eco Update is also available as a sleek, digital magazine? Get a copy here 👇

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I think if I'd gotten away with attempting a coup, suffered no consequences for it, then won an election four years later, got away with executing citizens in the streets and foreigners in boats, and successfully abducted a head of state, I too might think I could just bomb my way to regime change

So the “anti-war” president has now threatened or engaged in military action in Venezuela, Greenland, Cuba, and Iran. Have I got that right?

Cover of Ancestors by adrienne maree brown

And in our latest Ecofiction Review, @benlockwood.bsky.social reviews Ancestors from @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social and @akpress.org

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Get your dead forests and grassland corpses ready, we open to submissions at midnight (EST)!

February 2026 — Brief Ecology Theory and Praxis

In this month's Notes from a Radical Ecologist, @jonofgreenjuice.bsky.social gives us an insight into how @nycdsaecosoc.bsky.social are bringing public power to NYC by greening schools:

"The Green Schools to Public Power Pipeline" 👇
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Chuffed to contribute to this issue on behalf of NYC-DSA Ecosoc! Check out @briefecology.bsky.social a beautiful new eco-centric mag

February 2026 — Brief Ecology Theory and Praxis

In "Defining the 'anthro' in Anthropocene", @benlockwood.bsky.social covers new research published in Environmental Humanities about anthropocentrism means in a time of ecological crisis

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February 2026 — Brief Ecology Theory and Praxis

In "Developing a Proletarian Ecology", @matthuber.bsky.social breaks down his recent paper in Capitalism Nature Socialism and discusses the importance of prioritizing the working class in the ecosocialist movement

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So the “anti-war” president has now threatened or engaged in military action in Venezuela, Greenland, Cuba, and Iran. Have I got that right?

February 2026 — Brief Ecology Theory and Praxis

Our February issue of The Eco Update is live! Read about proletarian ecology, defining the "anthro" in Anthropocene, ecosocialism in NYC, and more 🌎🌐👇

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AI destroys both labor and the environment. A singularly capitalist technology

How Brothel Workers in Nevada Just Made Labor History The courtesans at Sheri’s Ranch were staring down a horrifying new contract. So they did what workers everywhere do: They got organized.

When faced with a shockingly exploitative new employment contract that would’ve forced them to sign away their IP, their likeness rights, and their power of attorney, Jupiter Jetson and her coworkers at Sheri’s fought back—fast.

They organized a union in SIX DAYS. www.thenation.com/article/econ...

BREAKING: Protests have erupted at Columbia University after the school says DHS agents detained a student after making "misrepresentations to gain entry" to building.

At BK, we listen all day

Did you know that you could read a free ghost story in @rottingleafmag.bsky.social?
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#ecohorror #shortstory #ghoststory

Google with AI buttons

Google without AI buttons

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for
* Google AI Summaries
* YouTube Ask button & chat summaries
* GitHub Copilot
* Facebook AI chat
* X's Grok buttons
* Deviantart DreamUp
* Booru AI images
* And more

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Winter Road, Night
Illingworth Kerr
1985

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