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(between images of the Spotify logo that have been crossed out) DON’T STREAM FASCISM Spotify is treating ICE recruitment like just another ad. But when you turn family separation into a marketing pitch, you're not a platform — you're spreading propaganda. • Cancel your Spotify Premium subscription until Spotify removes all ICE ads • Demand Spotify immediately terminate all ICE and DHS advertising contracts. • Urge artists and podcasters to speak out.

Spotify is running ads recruiting more ICE agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities, so we’re calling on users to stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops streaming fascism: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify

From Russia with love: Lenin’s Letter to American Workers The Centennial of the Russian Revolution November 7, 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution and the establishment of the world’s first socialist state.

TODAY IN #HISTORY: 108 years ago, on Nov. 7, 1917, workers in Russia rose up against war & hunger and launched the Great October Socialist Revolution. Did you know about correspondence between Lenin & workers in the U.S. during that time? Here's an article from our archives telling the story.

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A guy in a dystopia writes his diary; words are all misspelled. There’s coal mines, decapitated heads, cannibalism. I’m not entirely sure what the story was. I tend to read fast, and it took me too long to realize that a puppet was a puppet & other plot points, even with ample clues 3.9/10

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2 men in a psych ward talk abt movies, queerness, & esp this book, Sex Variants, which the older guy has a copy of. Not much happened but I love fiction set in sanitoriums. Felt more like a novel w/ a defined arc than We the Animals did. I liked the younger guy’s stories abt NYC & muggings 7.9/10

My collage for this @us.theguardian.com piece 👇👇
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It’s about some girls in a high school math class. They do cool, discreet things like make paper graphs on top of their bodies. One gets in a train accident. There’s a philosophical, mathematical bent to it with vibes of Invisible Cities. Got it from a Calamari Archive moving sale 6.7/10

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It's 7 stories mostly centering on houses & the people in them. My favorite kind of weirdness where nobody stops to say "wait, what's happening here is bonkers" & instead just move into the weirdness. Awesome situations & endings. Schweblin is 1 of my fav if not fav contemporaries. Viva 🇦🇷! 8/10

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It’s a handful of short stories centering on Black Women and love and queerness and family relationships. I read it for my dialogue class. Good family dynamics, features different story structures, love rivalries, The O’Jays. 7/10

When the Trump admin uses "antifa" as a boogeyman at least that's a reference from the current century but Mike Johnson is trying to get Americans scared of the Communist Party like it's 1950 lol

Israeli forces killed 11 members of the Abu Shaaban family in Gaza on Friday—the deadliest single violation of the fragile ceasefire since it took effect eight days ago. This is what 'ceasefire' means under necropolitics.

Cartoon by Carlos Latuff.

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Three sisters mind a failing, sinking hotel. I think it’s the 2nd Redonnet I’ve read but I can’t remember the last? It’s 90% style with all short punchy Beckett sentences. Hits different, not really on an emotional level & I have a feeling I also might not remember it. But I liked it 6.1/10

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Stoked to share that N Carolina’s Main Street Rag will be publishing my 1st book next year! It’s 7 sci-fi stories tentatively called ‘Skintet & Other Tales of the Brassican American Experience in Philadelphia’. Read the title story in Eclectica: tinyurl.com/skintet . I’ll share updates as they come

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It’s about 2 hoodlums who murder a family & what led up to it & what came after. I was slightly jarred when we got access to 1 of the killer’s thoughts. I wonder if this is what birthed so much trendy true crime 8/10. School Read

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It’s about a woman who observes the weather from a lighthouse & also many other things that felt like their own stories. Frigate birds, a woman w/ a broken hearing aid. A funny book where some stories connect around images like the lighthouse, & some don’t & feel vignettey 10/10

Something horrible happens to a town. The characters are pure grotesques & hate each other. Family drama is perfectly balanced. Everyone thinks sniping thoughts about the other. Subplots around the daughter I liked less. I liked how the story continued once everything got contained 10/10

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A few ppl escape a gulag & travel the world searching for medical cures. Weird but cool descriptions & s3x scenes. I’ve never read anything like it except maybe Impressions of Africa. It's good but prevents u from connecting w/ what you're used to liking abt fiction: character, plot, etc 7.5/10

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It’s 2 books you can read in any order: one of an Italian ren painter @ then the other is a girl dealing w her mom’s death. I didn’t like the historical fiction tale much, the other story was good! I get what it’s trying to do w/ echoes but the stories could’ve intertwined more 6.8

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It's about the closing of mental hospitals & the building of prisons instead. I sought this out bc I had questions why so many of the folks I serve deal w/ mental health stuff. I learned that while progressive people-power closed asylums, mass incarceration took its place 10/10

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A white girl plagiarizes. I devoured it, mostly bc I love books about race, & writers. The author does a good job making a sympathetic villain. You can see the ending coming & when it happened I was a bit disappointed. (If you say anything abt Gus's eyes & this book cover I'll hunt you down!) 7.8/10

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It's abt desire & the nature of living. Critiques of Freud feel like hot takes on the Atkins Diet or pogs in 2025 lol. But it claims the Oedipus myth makes us fear the taboo. And this is what the State wants. Instead, authors prioritize/favor breaks & randomness. Felt punk rock in its language 8/10

Unions sue to stop mass firings as Trump government shutdown begins WASHINGTON—A partial government shutdown, idling up to 840,000 federal workers, began at 12:01 am on Oct. 1, as President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans refused to budge on Democratic dema...

'In a new development in the struggle, two big unions, the Government Employees (AFGE) and AFSCME, marched into U.S. District Court in San Francisco the day before to stop the mass firings of federal workers that Trump wants.'

being afraid of the subway is so fucking funny. you mean the choo-choo train???

I hope they nationalize the banks next, lol.

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A guy w/ multiple hearts runs from a boss, cuts open a jelly-person, misses a lost love. Never read anything like it except maybe Waste by Marten or the Saladfingers cartoon. Scenes felt put together randomly; characters die & come back. Points for being its own unique world, nouveau roman, etc. 8.7

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School read. It's essays about race & microaggression. Has a think piece on Plastic Little's Jayson Musson as Hennessy Youngman. Not quite sure what it is - a long essay? Piece of collage art? Video transcript? Often, I'd finish a part and then Wikipedia the event she was writing about 8.5

What is the charge? Eating a chip? A succulent Herr’s chip?

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Spooky things happen to a girl. Good writing & humor. I devoured it in a week. The scenes with creepy reminded me of parts from one of my fav horror movies, Anything for Jackson. My only critique is that it’s a little one-note, but that’s genre writing, baby 9.7/10

Bolivia elections restore the old order, ending 20-year socialist experiment Beginning in 2006, President Evo Morales and his Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party, victorious in elections the previous year, took Bolivia by storm.

Bolivia elections restore the old order, ending 20-year socialist experiment. The struggle is long, as is known. In Bolivia, it appears there is nothing left to do but start again.
#world #news
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ohhh his "The Plains" has been on my list since last April! I haven't read him though