Nate Holdren

"The border is a factory for making racism and racist violence."

Listen to this!!!

Depressed to hear how many people showed up to city hall in SUPPORT of building a giant data center here. Michigan holds 21% of the world's fresh water. If we poison it, we're cooked, especially in the US. This is "destroying the Amazon rainforest" level of serious.

U.S. Southern Command @Southcom X.com On Feb. 9, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Two narco-terrorists were killed and one survived the strike. Following the engagement, USSOUTHCOM immediately notified U.S. Coast Guard to activate the Search and Rescue system for the survivor. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear UNCLASSIFIED

We murdered two more people in a boat today. One apparent survivor.

This is a very fair question because it's so small and malleable that it's pretty much imperceptible.

"don't talk to me about my own morality" while allowing fucked up shit to happen is so very Democrat, incredibly infuriating

The people who support mass deportation policies never cared about whether people have "criminal records," and I caution people who want to stop mass deportations that they should not focus on the "criminal records" either.

Unicorn Riot, along with all the other cool stuff they do, has done a great job showcasing how local cops are defending ICE agents, as the agents go around and do their little ethnic cleansing program in the state.

we won’t be intimidated because they don’t deserve our fear

“Uptick In Abductions”: ICE Ramps Up Targeting of Minneapolis Legal Observers In one 30-minute stretch, three Minneapolis legal observers were arrested as ICE ramped up its targeting of community volunteers.

In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”

'Hey guys stay calm! There's just a lot of chaos and destruction right now that we are aggessively smashing through! But, like, calmly! SO CALM!!!!'

Amazon prime, but for human beings.

Thanks! I suspect a huge amount here hangs on distinguishing explicit commitments that are 'discursive' in a 'calm exchange of reasons and speech acts' sort of sense vs implicit ones that aren't discursive in that sense. Like I agree w/ yr points re the former but the latter still involves norms etc

I agree with this but I think this itself names a kind of normative ideal (though I'd want to stress, against other positions than this one, that it's a processual ideal - a practice by the proletariat collectively over time - rather than a desired end state)

Thanks for this! (and actually I'm going to retract 'argue for' and substitute 'advocate' since I think often the advocacy is specifically not in the character of argument - thinking of Marx's quip about 'weapon of criticsm' and material force)

(as always, happy to agree to disagree and mostly am just thinking out loud!)

I think I disagree with this, and would instead say that Du Bois's point is less 'don't argue for normative ideals' and more 'don't anchor normative ideals in time, either past or future, and mostly have them be negative in character.' (And even if that's not his point it's a correct point imho!)

to read later. looks great.

as a kid I was super into Def Leppard and later Nirvana and my friends and I would often say that all we really understood were the vowel sounds.

congrats!

Thank you!

Congratulations!

a gorilla is standing in the woods surrounded by trees . Alt: a gorilla is standing in the woods surrounded by trees looking interested

Our edited collection is officially in press!

Look for

Raw Capital: More-Than-Human Business History

Spring 2027

From the University of Pennsylvania Press

I feel like Suitcase would be a good name for a pet but not sure if for a dog. Definitely for a goldfish!

brb printing this off and mailing it to my parents to show I finally amounted to something

holy randmoly!

yeah I'm very stoked. we met today to plan the event, it's sorta pitched at people who are like 'I want to make one but I'm intimidate', the hope being that they go 'I wanna do this...' and we all go 'FUCK YES THAT SOUNDS RAD' and they go 'hmm okay well I'll try it then'

"randmoly" hmm

I randmoly connected w someone at the coffee shop by my house and after chatting a bit now we're doing a 'interested in zines? thinking of making one?' event together in a few weeks and I'm SO EXCITED