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Greetings! A large immigration operation and subsequent protest in Paramount, CA has led to a large amount of gas and “less lethal” munitions. Situation ongoing. Will update as I can.

now they are denying it was even an immigration action and acting like they didn't come with three massive armored vehicles and enough zip ties to make mass arrests.

get out there and make their job miserable. love to my minneapolis people who brought megaphones and stood out there in the rain.

TL;DR an angry young white man's legitimate hatred for the US empire gets hijacked by disinformation targeting the Western left (which we STILL aren't talking about realistically in radical spaces). He moves to Russia, signs up to "fight fascists in Ukraine," and the FAFO is as cruel as you can imagine.

The tragedy of a tankie revolutionary. Move to Russia to fight fascist America, get swallowed whole by the reality of Russia's fascist military. That Gloss was put in a unit of racialized cannon fodder shock troops is ... like straight up I don't know what to say. He was a very confused young man. There are many like him. I know one of them. Luckily he's too lazy and depressed to do anything at all with his misdirected rage.

There are very serious consequences to bad ideas and dogmatic ideologies. Shame on the monsters who radicalized Michael Gloss. In the case of my friend, it was his own mother who started him down the batshit tankie path and helped him arrive at the same set of beliefs as Gloss after the 2016 US presidential election. This made the disinformation campaigns of that year very real to me, losing a friendship over whether the White Helmets were "CIA-backed head-chopping terrorists" or not.

My friend grew up in a rich southwest Minneapolis family. His mom who I mentioned was a leading organizer in a prominent antiwar activist group. I didn't realize she was herself on the racist conspiracy theorist fringe of boomer lefties addled by Russian fascist war propaganda until I wrote her directly to express concern about behaviors her son had been exhibiting. She basically called me a state department spy and told me to go fuck myself. I'd known that family since the fourth grade.

The story of Michael Gloss who died fighting for Russia led Ed from antidotezine.com to reflect on a friend of his and he gave me permission to share it below from Mastodon.

Story: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Ed's Mastodon thread: spore.social/@edsudden/11...

This is how it’s done!

FRIDAY: South Park, San Diego, neighbors weren’t having it. When ICE rolled up on an Italian restaurant in unmarked cars and started grabbing workers, the community hit the streets.
(Sound up)

Microsoft workers say they've been fired after 50th anniversary protest over Israel contract Microsoft has fired two employees who interrupted the company’s 50th anniversary celebration to protest its work supplying artificial intelligence technology to the Israeli military.

Microsoft has fired two employees who interrupted the company's 50th anniversary celebration to protest its work supplying artificial intelligence technology to the Israeli military.

😳😳😳

Two fundraisers for the Earthquake emergency in Myanmar that I am certain won't funnel aid through the Junta are:

This one by Advance Myanmar:
www.advancemyanmar.org/myanmar-eart...
&
This one by @betterburma.bsky.social & @insightmyanmar.bsky.social

#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

Prize #6 Writing consultation with Jane Shi Receive written feedback on 10 pages of your work (poetry or creative non-fiction only!). Available May-June 2025. Value: $250 About Jane: Jane @pipagaopoetry is the author of Leaving Chang'e on Read (Rahila's Ghost Press, 2022) and echolalia echolalia (Brick Books 2024), a CBC Best Book of Poetry 2024. $15/entry! Enter at bit.ly/raffle4nur Background is of various gradients of blue and green in a mountain formation; image of Jane in a blue denim vest in a park

It's my friend Nur's bday today and her friends have helped to organize this cool raffle fundraiser for her ongoing cancer treatment.

please wish her a hbd and consider getting a raffle, for which i am doing a poetry/CNF writing consultation. <3 :)

tickets are only $15USD!

bit.ly/raffle4nur

First time the Kurdish New Year is celebrated in central Damascus
Newroz Pîroz Be 💚

🚂 "La guerre suivait son cours, et j’ai alors décidé que si je n’y arrivais pas depuis le ciel, il fallait agir au sol. L’infrastructure ferroviaire, c’est le système sanguin d’un pays belligérant."

danslabrume.noblogs.org/post/2025/03...

In Germany, outside Berlin, some anarchists occupied the adjacent forest to block the expansion of the Tesla Gigafactory; other anarchists used direct action to shut down power to it.

bsky.app/profile/did:...

"L’aboutissement logique de la pleine expérience du deuil est la guerre sociale, un rejet en bloc de l’existant comme forme de vie quotidienne." danslabrume.noblogs.org/post/2025/01...

HTS does not have popular legitimacy in Syria. It doesn’t even have popular legitimacy in Idlib and there have been numerous protests against them there. The fact that ppl supported them getting rid of a brutal dictatorship does not mean everyone suddenly became fans.

This is great. They’re telling ppl not to put up the photo of Sharaa (Jolani) everywhere as the ‘sanctification’ of people is against their principles and it’s what the Assad regime did

Syrian cities are being liberated from the Assad regime's rule, and so too are inmates from regime prisons. Hundreds of thousands have passed through these prisons, and tens of thousands have been killed within their walls. Here the IPM explains the background.
www.isisprisons.museum/en/articles/...

Civilians are looting the Central Bank in Damascus at Sabaa Bahrat Square.

Prisoners liberated from Deir Al Zour Central Prison

Prisoners liberated from Sweida prison today
One has been their 8 years. Another says "Syria is ours, not for Russians or Iranians"

... on to Sednaya!

Helicopters evacuate senior officers in #Assad's militia from the city of #Homs to the capital #Damascus, coinciding with the approach of the revolutionary factions to the city.

Good morning world.

Historic moments: The toppling of Hafez al-Assad’s statue in the center of the liberated city of Hama.

Hama Central Prison has been liberated. Thousands of political prisoners were held, tortured & killed here. Some since 'the events' in the 1980s
These are people the so-called left never raised its voice in support of - shame on them.

In solidarity with the free Syrian revolutionaries, a spontaneous demonstration took place in the vegetable market in #Tripoli, #Lebanon.

History Made on the Ground You know the multiverse theory, that there are many parallel universes, and that they may contain alternate versions of ourselves and our conditions in this universe…. Well, the last couple of days…

I've written a summary/ initial analysis of what's happening in Syria. qunfuz.com/2024/12/01/h...

PSA:

There are 20 or so episodes of The Fire These Times @thepodcast.bsky.social on Syria.

Topics range from war crimes denial, the forcibly disappeared, Assad's destruction of Yarmouk Palestinian camp, class analysis, prison literature, and more.

Here they are from oldest to newest.

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Revolution in Every Country Comic Series: Episode 1 - Syria: Erasing an Inconvenient Revolution - UNICORN RIOT Episode 1 takes a look at aspects of the Syrian Revolution that have been erased, from Omar Aziz and local councils to the Douma 4 and more.

So a lot is happening right now in Syria, but this didn't start yesterday. Here's a thread of resources to understand the Syrian context that centres Syrian revolutionary and liberatory voices. First up, humbly, I made a comic a couple years ago on this very thing!
unicornriot.ninja/2022/revolut...