Scott Winterstein

Sarah Schulman on “feeling safe,” from Conflict Is Not Abuse:

“It is used by the dominant to defend against the discomfort of hearing other people’s realities, to repress nuance, ignore multiple experiences, and reject the inherent human right to be heard.”

gosh all it took was one muslim socialist mayor?
if i had known...

6.2 Resistance Tactics - Museum of Protest How to undermine illegitimate authority without open confrontation.

some kind of clandestine market sabotage

I thought this was a pretty good list, but what you are describing isn't on it:
museumofprotest.org/guides/guide...

just a guess but...basic human decency?

YouTube video by The New Yorker "Rovina's Choice" Shows How The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands

turn Elon Musk over to the Hague, clapped in irons, and give them some extremely meaningful looks www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj0P...

lol

Inside Gaza, BBC sees total devastation after two years of war With endless rubble and destroyed streets as far as the eye can see, any plans for Gaza's future are a far cry from where it is today, writes Lucy Williamson.

You don’t raze entire towns and cities street by street with controlled demolitions and bulldozers for any military objective. You do it because the aim is to wipe those places out of existence forever, and it’s not like they’ve been hiding this.

Democratic party leadership has been on autopilot for ten years, they weren't losing to fascism, fascism isn't popular enough for them to lose to fascism, they were allowing it to fill the void where their leadership should have been. Tonight we're seeing that we have other options. They should too.

Israel has been caught disguising bombs as toys to kill Palestinian children Gaza children are being killed by exploding toys — a horror Israel has been perfecting for over 30 years now and counting

www.thecanary.co/global/world...

What happens now is that every dropped piece of trash, every inch of graffiti, every broken down subway train, every disappointing sandwich, every rat in Central Park, and every single crime gets blamed on Zohran Mamdani... by racists who never go near NYC.

My tip as a Londoner. Shrug and carry on.

It's in the interests of the far right to terrify the population.

They think panic will breed hatred, and that will allow them to ethnically cleanse the country - and build an authoritarian state.

But it's based on lies.

Lies and hatred - the eternal basis of the far right.

Marx's misfire is in knowing the cost, but not the value of the coat: warmth and protection against the elements.

I have to say, in the long history of “Marx failed to consider” takes by internet reply-guys, “Marx failed to consider the use-value of warm coats” should win its own category of award

This person took this when they called the race

“It is clear to anyone with a glimmer of intellectual honesty that we have to rebuild our brand and move to the center if we ever hope to win red and purple seats ever again,” Legacki said.

Caitlin Legacki is a Democratic "strategist". These people need to be ridiculed and permanently ostracized.

✅socialist
✅Muslim
✅brown skin
✅practices politics of joy and hope
✅listens to people's actual needs
✅has specific policy proposals with proven histories of success
✅normal human who has not been braised in dark money by a coven of political consultants

Obviously deeply problematic.

1. You were in command of forces that tortured, raped, and murdered thousands of innocent people.
or,
2. You are a socialist.

Israel bans ICRC from prisons — they're terrified of witnesses Israel claim ICRC visits could “harm state security” — when you torture and rape prisoners, Red Cross visits are the last thing you need

www.thecanary.co/uncategorize...

Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.

Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.

When you see Mamdani looking all normal doing normal person things—petting bodega cats, riding public transport—you realize just how bizarre and estranged our average candidate for public office is. Rich martians in flesh suits

CULTURE TRENDS SNAP beneficiaries threaten to ransack stores over government shutdown One mother claims taxpayers must feed her children as SNAP benefits face cuts By Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi • Fox News Published October 31, 2025 2:16pm EDT

So there were some AI-generated videos that purported to show Black women ranting about SNAP benefits, and... Fox News is reporting on this like these are real people. They're not! They're AI!

This is truly insane. Total unreality. www.foxnews.com/media/snap-b...

THEY FOUND THE ANTIFA HANDBOOK! IT'S THE CONSTITUTION!

Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

We don't cast off one segment of society to save ourselves. It's a betrayal of everything we're trying to defend. It's a cowardly kind of self-preservation.

If your plan for escaping this bank robbery involves deliberately killing a few of our fellow hostages, maybe sit this chat out for a while?

this far more explicit than "let them eat cake" and if I recall my history right, that didn't go over very well

"Just my experience knowing Gen Z kids"

sure, Jake

I’ll give someone $1000 if they can find one factually correct statement in this post

This is so common in most cultures, everyone you know is semi-mapped into a family relationship based on relative age and gender, mostly for honorific purposes.

I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”

It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”