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@rechelon.bsky.social

go to mastodon Anarchist "exuberant." Really into exploring the roots of things and expanding degrees of freedom. Incurable woke moralist. Floating metal sphere. β€œRadically uncool.” https://humaniterations.net/

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You say that liberal politicians aren't doing anything, but what about this?!!! *points to an example of a liberal politician saying things rather than doing things*

03.03.2026 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Stop Trump's Plan to Clearcut Western Oregon Forests - Oregon Wild

Info on how to make comments against Trump's plan to clearcut what little remains of Oregon's old growth forest not on Substack
oregonwild.org/action/stop-...

03.03.2026 05:54 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We need to do what we can to protect our loved ones and put an end to the Islamic Republic at the earliest opportunity, while at the same time preventing the seizure of the revolution by foreign forces and their servants.

01.03.2026 03:24 β€” πŸ‘ 96    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

This kind of thing has been standard policing since Marsha P Johnson's dead body was found in the Hudson River following an argument with some transphobes and was immediately ruled a suicide and left uninvestigated by police

03.03.2026 12:17 β€” πŸ‘ 665    πŸ” 243    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4
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U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for β€œArmageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been β€œinundated” with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

03.03.2026 01:54 β€” πŸ‘ 11491    πŸ” 5818    πŸ’¬ 1124    πŸ“Œ 3880
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Fox host says he 'hasn't washed hands in 10 years' Harvard and Princeton graduate Pete Hegseth says germs don't exist because he can't see them.

Just a quick reminder that Pete Hegseth was also the Fox News host who said he never washes his hands, because he doesn't believe in micro organisms as he can't see them. Of course we're all fucked

03.03.2026 02:48 β€” πŸ‘ 330    πŸ” 91    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 8

Because she was working with a federal task force, she was considered a federal officer, and thus protected by SCOTUS rulings making it all but impossible to sue federal cops, even for egregious abuse.

Now consider what this means for Trump's immigration thugs.

Democrats had two years to fix this.

03.03.2026 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 930    πŸ” 383    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 9
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Check out this week's conversation about increasing social resistance to DHS detention and violence from Minneapolis to El Paso

thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2026/03...

03.03.2026 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Unfortunate early lightning strike! Pittman has ruled in favor of the government’s motion to bar self-defense arguments and echoed the government’s Branch Dravidian comparisons

03.03.2026 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ“’πŸ“’πŸ“’ The zines have entered the court πŸ“’πŸ“’πŸ“’

03.03.2026 16:45 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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a person is laying on the ground in a dark room with a window . ALT: a person is laying on the ground in a dark room with a window .

Heads up! If you have Parent PLUS loans the GOP is trying to trap you in a higher payments. If you have Parent PLUS loans you should consider consolidating them now to get lower payments & the possibility of cancelation. studentaid.gov/loan-consoli...

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02.03.2026 23:04 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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New Torch network just dropped

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28.02.2026 23:22 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œYou bitches screamed too loudly and now you got bombed, you happy now?” is actually not an expression of feminist values. It’s an expression of patriarchal disciplining.

01.03.2026 01:04 β€” πŸ‘ 223    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So much of discourse about Iran relies on the false binary of β€œbeing victimized by IR vs being victimized by western imperialism”. When the majority of people are fucking both.

01.03.2026 01:02 β€” πŸ‘ 213    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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fatima bhutto - @fbhutto X.com Where are all those feminists so concerned for Iranian women? Press TV @PressTV β€’6h Almost 20 female volleyball players martyred in a US-Israeli airstrike in the Iranian city of Lamerd PRESSTV BREAKINGNEWS 12:25 PM β€’ 2/28/26 β€’ 56K Views 49 L71.4K 3.6K 58

Those feminists you’re mad at are actually currently getting bombed. The feminists you’re mad at might have been in that very volleyball team actually. This is antifeminism cloaked as feminism.

01.03.2026 01:01 β€” πŸ‘ 229    πŸ” 49    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

I dunno if they're just stupid or set on trying to install the Shah's son, but they also demonstrably have no issue with the secret police or the state apparatus that oppresses Iran's populace, because they're not striking fucking police, they're hoping they can just shift control over them.

02.03.2026 23:47 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

I've heard folks speculate that they were having AI compile lists of targets and then were surprised at who they killed, but I think the more plausible explanation is that the they gave the command to take out all potential leadership alternatives, including relative moderates.

02.03.2026 23:45 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

What the actual fuck is going on with people sympathizing with Ahmadinejad and other so-called political opposition in Iran.

Motherfucking campism is rotting your brain.

Fuck you all, sympathizing with murderers and painting that bullshit as righteous

We would have killed them if we had a chance

01.03.2026 20:04 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Immigration Detention, Low Intensity Warfare and Popular Resistance to the Ubiquitous Border | The Final Straw Radio Podcast

An interview with our friends about border enforcement across the country and counter-insurgency in the southwest borderlands. Give it a listen here!

02.03.2026 22:37 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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or how Paula Ben-Gurion (his wife) was originally an anti-Zionist anarchist from NYC since her teens. All
nationalism (but especially settler or imperial nationalisms) is a fascistic singularity, inevitably bending all ideologies towards fascism like a black hole bends light toward itself.

02.03.2026 22:55 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This just begs the response:

"There will be future generations?!"

02.03.2026 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I remember when my uncle from Philly called my dad to see if Philly had made the Canadian news. My parents were positive he was drunk, cuz no way the govt drops a bomb on a city and it’s not all over everyone’s news shows. We were all so dumb.

02.03.2026 16:34 β€” πŸ‘ 149    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

I don't care if Congress authorizes War on Iran. NO WAR ON IRAN. I want people to fucking reclaim their morality.

02.03.2026 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2651    πŸ” 676    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 0

We all stan Lisa, and I would say she's been extraordinarily functional in a ton of contexts, but yeah being instinctively wedded to "participatory democracy" and without a more mathematical/LWMA critique of collective decisionmaking... things can go sour.

02.03.2026 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh the grumbling I did. Yeah, not saying there weren't organizationalist misuses of consensus within the anarchist movement, particularly with spokescouncils at summits. But at least there had usually been some points of unity, vetting and social filtering of participants.

02.03.2026 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, this to me was always the biggest fundamental break between Occupy and anarchism. Two completely different approaches to consensus, and so it's particularly annoying that normie libs and socialists walked away with this wild ass fucking perception that Occupy was anarchist.

02.03.2026 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
In fact, Amodei already answered the question: if nuclear weapons were developed by a private company, and that private company sought to dictate terms to the U.S. military, the U.S. would absolutely be incentivized to destroy that company. The reason goes back to the question of international law, North Korea, and the rest:

International law is ultimately a function of power; might makes right.
There are some categories of capabilities β€” like nuclear weapons β€” that are sufficiently powerful to fundamentally affect the U.S.’s freedom of action; we can bomb Iran, but we can’t North Korea.
To the extent that AI is on the level of nuclear weapons β€” or beyond β€” is the extent that Amodei and Anthropic are building a power base that potentially rivals the U.S. military.
Anthropic talks a lot about alignment; this insistence on controlling the U.S. military, however, is fundamentally misaligned with reality. Current AI models are obviously not yet so powerful that they rival the U.S. military; if that is the trajectory, however β€” and no one has been more vocal in arguing for that trajectory than Amodei β€” then it seems to me the choice facing the U.S. is actually quite binary:

Option 1 is that Anthropic accepts a subservient position relative to the U.S. government, and does not seek to retain ultimate decision-making power about how its models are used, instead leaving that to Congress and the President.
Option 2 is that the U.S. government either destroys Anthropic or removes Amodei.

In fact, Amodei already answered the question: if nuclear weapons were developed by a private company, and that private company sought to dictate terms to the U.S. military, the U.S. would absolutely be incentivized to destroy that company. The reason goes back to the question of international law, North Korea, and the rest: International law is ultimately a function of power; might makes right. There are some categories of capabilities β€” like nuclear weapons β€” that are sufficiently powerful to fundamentally affect the U.S.’s freedom of action; we can bomb Iran, but we can’t North Korea. To the extent that AI is on the level of nuclear weapons β€” or beyond β€” is the extent that Amodei and Anthropic are building a power base that potentially rivals the U.S. military. Anthropic talks a lot about alignment; this insistence on controlling the U.S. military, however, is fundamentally misaligned with reality. Current AI models are obviously not yet so powerful that they rival the U.S. military; if that is the trajectory, however β€” and no one has been more vocal in arguing for that trajectory than Amodei β€” then it seems to me the choice facing the U.S. is actually quite binary: Option 1 is that Anthropic accepts a subservient position relative to the U.S. government, and does not seek to retain ultimate decision-making power about how its models are used, instead leaving that to Congress and the President. Option 2 is that the U.S. government either destroys Anthropic or removes Amodei.

Ben Thompson making a full-throated case for fascism here stratechery.com/2026/anthrop...

02.03.2026 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 454    πŸ” 63    πŸ’¬ 58    πŸ“Œ 49

MOAR

02.03.2026 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I mean I respect and like much of Spencer's work on antisemitism, but during zionism discourse he kept complaining that he had an position he was keeping secret that would get him canceled and I was like okay put up or shut up do you think israel has a "right to exist" and he did not like that

02.03.2026 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Occupy is widely talked about within anarchist spaces as the deathknell of the counter-globalization era, where for the first time in a decade the big thing *wasn't* anarchist. The point where we were eclipsed and drowned by libs. Completely at odds with the narrative that occupy was our apex.

02.03.2026 09:55 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0