Car free in the Motor City

Me packing for a 1.5 day camping trip: “maybe I should bring my home MRI machine in case I need it”

I feel like Liz could direct that comment to herself and her party as well tbh.

Hit 7500 miles on my Tern GSD right as I went by east side Stellantis. The past and the future in one photo. It is, in fact, possible to be car free in the motor city. ❤️🚲✊

It’s absurd that every article I’m trying to read about a tsunami about to hit Japan is paywalled.

The very same week Dana Nessel made a media splash with her sternly worded letter criticizing Trump’s use of masked agents who refuse to identify themselves … she sent masked agents who refused to identify themselves to the homes of U-M pro-Palestinian student activists.

We need a USB-C type consortium for the Deli Container and Lid industry.

Revolution as a process is inevitable. Revolutionary socialist politics simply account for that. We can no more summon a revolution than we can summon a windstorm. But good politics can help us build shelter or sails, as needed.

The point of struggle is to STRUGGLE. When the boot is on your neck and the hand is around your throat you don’t wait for proper channels. You fight.

There are no bystanders in fascism. Each of us is either grease for the machine or a wrench in the gears.

Signal names be like “Jēsū ☭ (h/t) 🧑‍🎤 ⚖️ 🌅🇵🇸 (unavail. for 3 days until risen again)”

If you think Hakeem Jeffries is here to help us you have not been paying attention.

Always talk to friends.

Never talk to cops.

ONLY talk to media about cops.

NEVER talk to media about friends.

…the clean laundry pile of Theseus at the foot of my bed…

Unless you’ve been very clever with VPNs and blockers, doing so still provides NYT with digital tracking data for them to resell or monetize. There are Wordle clones out there w identical functionality that don’t interact w NYT servers. I’d look at those if you want to opt out of the NYT dataverse.

NYT puzzles are the circus they use to keep you eating their moldy bread. I know a lot of you who are smarter than to keep reading it. Give up Wordle. There’s other apps or go buy a puzzle book. You’ll be fine and you’ll stop being dosed w transphobia, nationalism, militarism, and NGO corporatism.

US citizen arrested during Ice raid in what family describes as ‘kidnapping’ Andrea Velez, 32, a graduate of Cal Poly Pomona, had just been dropped off at work by her mother and sister

This is kidnapping. Bystanders and community defense orgs should use force to defend against these “officers”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

You’re driving a car approaching a turn and a bicyclist is in front of you: Please just wait and make the turn behind them. Don’t speed up to pass, don’t tailgate or crowd.

You’ll survive if you arrive 20 seconds late; I may not if you put your schedule before my life.

Seeking a dive bar with food in Indianapolis. Bonus if live music.

No Kings 2/2

Consider working with others to pose questions, make proposals, offer criticism, and start discussions. You’re not an audience member at a concert, you’re part of a young mass movement that needs your political engagement in order to grow.

No Kings 1/2

Everyone should show up for things tomorrow. Massiveness is what’s most important politically. The more people who do the safer it will be. Experienced folks are happy to help newer folks land somewhere within their risk tolerance.

PSA: You never need to register or RSVP for a protest. If you really want to get all the emails and be plugged into that stuff, good for you go for it. But it hurts nothing and nobody to simply show up. Do not let these orgs pressure you into registering.

People are under attack rn I’m not really interested in this cool pope circus. I’ll give a shit about cool pope when he uses his White Sox hat to throw a CS canister back at the police, or when he is tackled entering an ICE facility to free kidnapped families.

One of the first deaths reported in Tehran was a child. Israel is killing children in a whole new country now. The children of Gaza and the West Bank in Palestine are not safe. The children of Lebanon are not safe. Now children in Iran are in the genocidal state’s crosshairs.

Hell ppl can criticize PSL for non masking, settler chauvinism, authoritarian vanguardism, hijacking protests–whatever you want–but is it really that hard to say “no congress should not be hauling socialist parties and Latinx political orgs in front of counterterrorism subcommittees”?! ffs

Liberation is a question for us all to answer together. There is no way to build it in siloes.

Tyrants don’t stop when you ask them to. They stop when you stop them.

Mandela was still called a terrorist and imprisoned for decades.

By the end of his life, Martin Luther King realized the validity of violence The riots of 1967 changed how the great man saw the struggle

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It’s a “we” thing but sure, yes, I’ll see you on the front lines comrade.

I have read these studies and have deep problems w their methodology and sourcing. History is a much better teacher, and history tells us that revolutions, social change, class inversion is always a process of violence. It’s time to put up or shut up, the great upheaval is here, pick a side. 2/2