William C.

Thinking From Black: A Lexicon by Practicing Refusal Collective | Penguin Random House Canada "A monumental reflection in time, through blackness into light." Steve McQueen, acclaimed filmmaker and artist “Thinking from Black performs the unworlding needed for alternate futures. It emancipates...

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This is exceedingly bad news.

Tenants Call on Minneapolis City Council to Override Mayor's Veto on Eviction Protections - UNICORN RIOT Minneapolis, MN — During a press conference on March 12, 2026, near eviction court in the Hennepin County Government Center, renters, tenant union members, and elected officials gathered to speak abou...

NEW: Tenants Call on Minneapolis City Council to Override Mayor's Veto on Eviction Protections
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Ms Rachel talking to Deiver Henao, a 9yo in an immigration detention center

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What a world

Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2026 The big picture on how many people are locked up in the United States and why

The number of people detained by ICE rose by an astonishing 58% (25,200) between 2025 and 2026; expanded immigration detention accounts for virtually all of the growth in mass incarceration since our last report. www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2...

Pleasure was all mine and I hope we get to chat again soon!

A Businessless Person: William C. Anderson on Thich Nhat Hanh’s Zen Battles Podcast Episode · Reading Writers · March 11 · 1h 5m

Today is Reading Writers' season finale, and I’m honored to have on @williamcson.bsky.social, who brought us the conversation of my dreams. Buddhists, anarchists, anyone yearning for liberation—this one’s for you.

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The Lingering Threat of Black Zionism In this text, William C. Anderson critiques the idea that Black liberation can be achieved through nation-states. Tracing the history of Marcus Garvey’s “Back to Africa” campaign and prior projects of...

"Identity is not enough in a world shaped by capitalism to offset what will be repeated every time we tell ourselves that our motivations won’t produce the same results that those with colonial underpinnings always do."

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"Part of the problem here is that so much of what we think we deserve is based on a sense of ownership, territorialization, and property that has nothing to do with defeating capitalism."

argues that state power, by definition, reproduces hierarchy, violence and settler logic.

"All of this history and more make it perplexing, especially in the midst of present-day escalated genocide against Palestinians, that the notion of a Black nation-state based on exceptionalism still thrives."

William C. Anderson critiques the idea that Black liberation can be achieved through nation-states. Tracing the history of Marcus Garvey’s “Back to Africa” campaign and prior projects of the kind from North America and the Caribbean to Liberia and Sierra Leone, he draws parallels with Zionism and

A Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit Is Now in the Hands of Foreign Spies and Criminals A highly sophisticated set of iPhone hijacking techniques has likely infected tens of thousands of phones or more. Clues suggest it was originally built for the US government.

A highly sophisticated set of iPhone hijacking techniques has likely infected tens of thousands of phones or more. Clues suggest it was originally built for the US government.

March 8, 1971: FBI's COINTELPRO Exposed A cab driver, a day care provider, and two professors broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, and stole more than 1,000 classified documents.

#tdih 1971

A cab driver, day care provider, and two professors broke into FBI office in Media, Penn.

They removed docs that exposed COINTELPRO campaign to disrupt & destroy a wide range of activist groups, especially civil rights orgs.

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“The hour of the barbarian is at hand. The modern barbarian. The American hour. Violence, excess, waste, mercantilism, bluff, conformism, stupidity, vulgarity, disorder.”

Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism

At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

Israel Intensifies Attacks on Lebanon and Orders Mass Displacement in the South Far right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich threatened to destroy areas of Lebanon as Israel did to Gaza.

Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has threatened to turn areas of Lebanon into another Gaza in a video shared on social media as Israel orders the entire population of southern Lebanon to flee.

All of us are in danger as long as the empire stands As people across the U.S. left react to attacks on Venezuela, Iran, and Cuba, canned rhetoric and sectarianism remain the priority

What we have witnessed U.S.-based fascism accomplish in a very short time should lead us to reassess *everything.* All of us are in danger as long as the empire stands, argues @williamcson.bsky.social in his latest ‘Another way out.’

March 6, 1857: Dred (and Harriet) Scott Decision The Supreme Court declared in horrific Dred Scott v. Sandford ruling that “Any person descended from Africans, whether slave or free, is not a citizen of U.S.”

#tdih 1857 SCOTUS declared in horrific 💔 Dred Scott v. Sandford ruling that:

"Any person descended from Africans, whether enslaved or free, is not a citizen of the U.S."

Lerone Bennett Jr. called it one of the decade's “three ominous developments.”

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Another way out: All of us are in danger as long as the empire stands As people across the U.S. left react to attacks on Venezuela, Iran, and Cuba, canned rhetoric and sectarianism remain the priority.

"We do not know what's best for the rest of the world just because we're from the U.S., and hegemony makes our output and opinions hypervisible."

Authority "comes from praxis, not leftist identity, followers, and proselytizing."
#USA #Venezuela #Iran #Cuba #Media #Military

The most familiar emblem of Tehran.

The Iranian warship that was bombed by the US was unarmed

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I have to specify even further:

The Israelis are even telling people which roads to take. That’s why there are two colours.

There is mass panic

Israel is announcing that the entirety of Dahieh is being ethnically cleansed a day after announcing that the entirety of South Lebanon is being ethnically cleansed.

“Save yourselves and evacuate immediately”

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"We have failed to stop the genocide in Palestine. We have failed to build a liberatory society at home..We have failed to have substantive solidarities that provide more than rhetorical aid...We have to be able to hold failure in order to learn from it"

@williamcson.bsky.social asking more from us

All of us are in danger as long as the empire stands As people across the U.S. left react to attacks on Venezuela, Iran, and Cuba, canned rhetoric and sectarianism remain the priority

"In the shadow of the Cold War, we find ourselves in what the Zapatista Capitán Insurgente Marcos..once described as a “Fourth World War”...in which tech rules, and, since the state-socialist projects of the Soviet era have been defeated, “humanity is now the enemy”

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Polymarket Takes Down Betting on Nuclear Detonation After Backlash The betting market on war is “worse than insider trading,” one lawmaker said.

Polymarket has taken down a bet on whether a nuclear weapon would be detonated by the end of March, June, or the end of the year. Before it was taken down, users had placed over $800,000 worth of bets on the question, with users predicting a 22% chance that one would be dropped by 2027.

All of us are in danger as long as the empire stands As people across the U.S. left react to attacks on Venezuela, Iran, and Cuba, canned rhetoric and sectarianism remain the priority

Factions of the US left should learn from failures. Instead, many are preoccupied with being an authority on other people's global struggles while neglecting to beat back empire at home. I wrote about changing this cycle or facing destruction for @prismreports.org.

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"What’s baffling to see is factions of leftists determining from their armchairs what uprisings are or aren’t real elsewhere globally, while failing to foment the one needed to topple the empire they reside in."