Expert Level Bummer

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC Today is only the beginning.

Today is only the beginning.

Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.

The greed of the rich will bring ruin upon us all.

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

They remember what happened last time schools were closed. We made some progress on workers' rights. They've been retaliating against the working class ever since.

The u.s. is rich with violences and it has made us all it’s abundant shareholders.

Photos comparing 6:30am in Boston on October 26 per Daylight Saving Time (pitch black) versus Standard Time (bright sky).

DST is why most Americans wake by alarm in darkness. Permanent Standard Time would let us sleep longer and awaken naturally to sunlight, for health!

A tweet from Morgan J. Freeman states: “FACT: Venezuela is NOT a major producer of cocaine. They do not have large cocaine factories. They do not produce fentanyl either. What Venezuela does have is the world’s largest oil reserves.”

Fentanyl and coke are the new “weapons of mass destruction” lie. It’s Iraq all over again, folks. It’s always about controlling the oil.

Praying for everyone. What a terrible situation.

Something you already know Read in a Revolutionary Whisper

I have a new piece, read in a revolutionary whisper, up on Substack

Just sat through a big work enmeshment rally meant to tell us all to shut up and embrace AI. Don't worry about your concerns about energy use or drinking water depletion. We talked to experts. We won't tell you who they are or their credentials or anything about them or what they said, but trust us when they say we are “way ahead of the game” when it comes to “sustainability.” No more thinking, tech workers. Only AI. Now shut up and teach copilot how to do your job.

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

"Won't someone consider the plight of this poor, abandoned feline?!"

Federal judge to question ICE, CBP on federal agents' use of force, tear gas at hearing Monday Monday a judge will be questioning both ICE and Border Patrol leadership over tactics used during immigration crackdown.

A reminder in response to demands for reforms that keep expanding the scope & power of policing:

It's not simply that ICE wears face coverings & doesn't wear cameras. We can't fix a policing force created to disappear our neighbors by requiring more training, rules, or tech. It must be abolished.

there are no antifa meetings or leaders but there are food kitchens, distribution events, mutual aid resources, thrift shops, and more.

I might have to have this made for my truck since my family did run moonshine

Throwback to my handy graphic from 2024

while we were simultaneously being indoctrinated to think “real change” could only come through the same systems oppressing us.

And of course, none of that was true. Cities aren't more progressive. There are just more people, more diversity (to a degree). All they did was take the kids who were inclined to work for better, teach us to remove ourselves from our networks of support

Just sitting here thinking about how Disney indoctrinated an entire generation of US kids to believe the only way we could build a better world was by “escaping” our communities and families, moving to larger cities where things were “more progressive”.

Michigan Avenue right now.

Liberals are so obsessed with fatphobic jokes. Putting hate into the world only fuels empire. Grow up. Write better material.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

If this concerns you please join @interruptcrim.bsky.social
October 28-29 for Abolition Means ALL Carceral Spaces, including civil commitment, mandated & coerced medical interventions etc., to strategize to keep all of us from all kinds of control
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I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

a peace sign surrounded by hands and flowers with solidarity written below it Alt: a peace sign surrounded by hands and flowers with solidarity written below it

I get sad when I see people calling for things like 25a or impeachment.

We are past the point where institutional tools can fix what ails the USA.

I don't have an answer. We should be suspicious of those who do.

Probably mass scale civil resistance is the best option left?

Do you have this in another size? A Revolutionary Whisper Poem

Feeling inspired to write lately. I have a new poem, read in a revolutionary whisper, up on my Substack

They told me it's genocide My tashlich for 5785/5786

I can't post it here because I refuse to have to divide my video up. But my poem for tashlich is up on Substack and Insta!
open.substack.com/pub/expertle...

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

How ICE Raids Are Making It Easier for Civilian Men to Assault Immigrant Women "This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies," argues Kylie Cheung.

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity.

"To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."