William Gillis 🏴

WSJ reporting that the U.S. used Claude for the air strikes in Iran. Centcom has been using Claude "for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios" www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

It drives me mad that third world women are such a fucking prop to Westerners. Your bloodthirsty warmongers paid lip service to 'liberation' once or twice and now every sin of the imperialist regime is laid at the feet of "feminists" as though feminists direct the US army.

Have some shame.

It is good that Khamenei is dead and anyone who cared about Iran would be celebrating with them. That doesn’t mean you can’t also advocate for stopping further bombings.

It’s normal to feel a sense of dread at what will happen now, but any Western “Leftist” posting weepy memorials to Khamenei or tirades about how it’s bad that we killed a dictator, as Iranians are dancing in the streets, should immediately cut off all of their fingers so they can never type again.

What a very sweet review! Always a treasure to have long-form engagement with one's text. There's some little things I'd contest or correct re wording -- eg I don't equate science and anarchism quite to the degree you present -- but it's very nice.

Realism in Revolt - New Politics Daphne Lawless recommends William Gillis' work Did the Science Wars Take Place?, which analyzes and critiques anti-scientific, obscurantist tendencies common in the left today.

All right, hippie scum and @rechelon.bsky.social, here it comes

newpol.org/review/reali...

He should have been killed by us.

May every dictator die at the hands of those they oppress.

Not to stan too hard for my friends, but this remains a top-of-all-time anarchist banner:

Sup chat this is Slouching Towards Bethlehem with your boy The Rough Beast, and it looks like today’s stream could be a big one, as some of you might’ve already seen there are rumors going around social media that the hour has come round at last, so we’re gonna get right into it

This is disgusting. Rationalizing the bombing of a school that reportedly killed 108 girls.

But since she asked,

"Currently, 161 public schools operate on military installations across the United States."

www.militaryonesource.mil/education-em...

If this is true, it’s very clear that we want to destroy the possibility of a genuinely democratic opposition taking power, because we want to install that dog Reza Pahlavi as Shah

Florida just cut off HIV meds for 16,000 people.

"There are valid concerns and criticisms to be had about immigration."

No there aren't. Fuck you. Don't concede that absurd shit. Abolish every border. Let hundreds of millions in. Why are you justifying violence to keep folks out? Why are you pretending like nations aren't moral atrocities?

Spare a thought for the poor centrist UK columnists, torn between their kneejerk hatred of gauche Trump and his antics, but oh! The glorious realpolitik of foreign locales on fire!

Hell yeah, brother

In the days that followed, Cundiff became something he does not quite know how to inhabit: a hero. "It's weird," he said. "I just did something that I would think anyone would do. What do you mean you would watch a stroller and a baby just sink?" The shock of the cold didn't fully register until afterward. After emerging from the lake, an ambulance transported him to the emergency room. At the hospital, doctors monitored him after his cardiac enzymes spiked to more than thirteen times the normal level, a marker sometimes associated with heart distress. He stayed about twenty-eight hours. He was not allowed to eat, in case doctors needed to perform a heart catheterization. "I was so sad," he said. "I love to eat." When he was discharged, he went straight to Redhot Ranch for the cheeseburger he'd been craving. "I just experienced some trauma. I wanted this cheeseburger," he said.

"'I was so sad,' he said. 'I love to eat.'"

there's nothing this walrus-faced fuck wants to see more in life than dead iranians and even when trump jams him up on bunk charges as payback for criticizing him, he falls all over himself to praise his illegal war

you can be against the Iranian regime, the US regime, the Israel regime, and the Cuban regime, all at once. you can be against the whole fucking thing.

Kirsten offers her insight and humorous historical anecdotes to emphasize the important role juries play in convicting the guilty and exonerating the innocent. Kirsten Tynan is Executive Director of the Fully Informed Jury Association, a nonprofit, educational organization that empowers jurors to up Jury Duty is for Heroes | Kirsten Tynan | TEDxHieronymusPark

If you know someone who is summoned for Jury Duty and looking to get out of it, send them this talk by FIJA's Kirsten Tynan on how big of a difference a single person can make

A baby goat stands on a cracked military helmet containing a partial skull. Beside the goat there is a line from a song by the Mountain Goats. It says "you can arm me to the teeth you can't make me go to war"

I will never fight for a country no matter what @themountaingoats

"Oh but there were some early utopian zionists who..." don't fucking care. You can find guileless idealistic hippies pushing other nationalisms and statist marxisms back in the day, they were all fucking utterly wrong because those ideologies are evil at core and will always bear the same fruit.

Me? I fucking oppose zionism itelf, because well look at the fucking bloodsoaked history of zionism and Israel and I will die before I budge and allow in some backdoor of "actually we've got to tolerate this one nationalism because how else will a historically oppressed people protect themselves"

Anyway, I find this tabooing of valid descriptive terminology of our enemies so fucking deplorably slimy and underhanded.

Instead of tabooing us saying "zionism" have the fucking spine to stand in public and say that you think there's some valid form of settler colonial ethnonationalism you support

"Oh no no no ever saying 'abuser' would be stigmatizing and imply it's an unchangeable fixed property of someone." Motherfucker, sometimes it functionally is. I'm not going thru some "person who did harm" smol bean olympic contortions to talk about a DV homicide or Guantanamo torturer.

Similarly I titled that one essay "bad people" because like the goddamn tabooing of any negative descriptive term had gotten so fucking batshit that folks legitimately wanted to make it impossible to say anything like that, instead only using some wishy washy shit like "person who did harm."

I was similarly apoplectic about the "well they call us nihilists so we might as well identify as such" move around 2010 that abandoned once common anarchist critiques of epistemic and moral nihilism. To deny us a word for shit we oppose denies us the ability to enunciate the critique of it.

It always makes me so fucking mad when folks try to taboo any usage of a term that describes a real thing that we should oppose. "Oh but some random shitty libs use 'tankie' to describe all leftists." Don't fucking care. To strip away our ability to name bad things impairs our ability to oppose them

Yes, "zionism" has been widely used by antisemites as functional shorthand for jews, but denouncing only "Netanyahu's government" is fucking deplorable weaksauce that runs cover for the evil of nationalism and Israel.

Anarchists cannot afford to cede proper descriptive terms of what we oppose.

This is a photo of a sticker of a drawing I did of a raccoon holding a monkey wrench and saying “Anything you can do to undermine the US war machine is justified and morally right.” The sticker is slapped up in the street for all to see.

This is a photo of a sticker of a drawing I did of a raccoon holding a monkey wrench and saying “Anything you can do to undermine the US war machine is justified and morally right.” The sticker is slapped up in the street for all to see.

This is a photo of a sticker of a drawing I did of a raccoon holding a monkey wrench and saying “Anything you can do to undermine the US war machine is justified and morally right.” The sticker is slapped up in the street for all to see.

This is a photo of a sticker of a drawing I did of a raccoon holding a monkey wrench and saying “Anything you can do to undermine the US war machine is justified and morally right.” The sticker is slapped up in the street for all to see.

Slapping up some of my art stickers throughout town.

Call me a raving radical but I literally do not care whether your imperialist massacre of children is “constitutional” or not.