“We must learn empathy. We must learn to see the world through the eyes of other beings.”
— Marc Bekoff
“Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is… we cannot expect things to be much better in this world.”
— Rachel Carson
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For decades, the women in my life… have shared (with me) the ever-present fear that comes from realizing you are always a potential target of violence, always on alert, always within arm’s reach of harm, always in the company of danger
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/women-are-...
Marx described capital as dead labor that lives by feeding on the living. It is vampiric, yes—but it is also totalizing. It reshapes behavior, suppresses solidarity, and trains people to act against their own most basic human instincts. www.jezebel.com/amazon-wareh...
the most horrifying thing about the image is Trump‘s right arm glows with an eerie white light; his left arm is pressed against the head of a man who appears dead. The picture is not only blasphemous but idolatrous. It is calling us to worship our 47th president.
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This isn’t about theology. It’s about control. Trump’s worldview cannot accommodate any rival source of legitimacy—not the courts, not Congress, not the peope, not even a centuries-old religious institution that has itself been entangled with power and empire.
www.ncronline.org/news/backlas...
“Solidarity means standing with those who heal, not those who punish. It means recognizing that a small, blockaded island has done more for global health than nations with a thousand times its wealth.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
China does not threaten war. It does not promise quick and worldwide salvation. But it continues to insist that even in an age of collapsing restraint, war is not the only script available.And sometimes, that alone is the message.
www.counterpunch.org/2026/04/08/f...
“One man’s irrationality can destroy the world.
— Daniel Ellsberg
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
“There are moments in history when the question is no longer what is policy, but who is holding the button.
We are there.”
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/is-trump-a...
NOW, THEY’VE GONE AND PISSED OFF JESUS.
This is written by my old friend Mary Ann…it ain’t half bad.
She tells me she was inspired by my OD article on Hegseth, the war pig, and friends using the name of Jesus to call for war and the slaughter of his enemies.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1bJ...
The Bund understood liberation is not delivered from above, nor by erecting new states. It grows horizontally, through assemblies, mutual aid, cultural autonomy, and solidarity across difference. It is built in neighborhoods, in workplaces, and in popular languages
progressive.org/latest/the-b...
“…when the shelves begin to thin and the prices begin to climb, remember where it started:
Not in the fields.
Not in the weather.
But in the bombs.”
cmarmitage.substack.com/p/the-iran-w...
Been fighting since the late 60s. Never saw anything like this in Kansas City
The real contradiction is not Iran vs. the West. It is centralized power vs decentralized, autonomous pluralistic movements from below for women’s liberation, ecological survival, and collective autonomy - feared by the USA and Iran.
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May more animals, fish, and birds join the Revolution. May the rebels and renegades enjoy lives of autonomy, comfort, safety and freedom, for their own sake and for the sake of human liberation, too…”
www.fifthestate.org/archive/417-...
“There is nothing equal about the way death comes from the sky.”
——-The Guardian
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And, Cuba never expected compensation. They did what they did, from Guevara’s efforts 60 years ago, to Cuba sending doctors to 30 countries in Africa, and throughout the Caribbean and the U.S., to assist during the Covid pandemic, out of sincere solidarity.
www.abetterworld.me/blog/sociali...
The authors idea that “we are not so divided after all” is more convincing if the imagined “we” consists largely of white Americans. In that setting, the differences between liberals and conservatives can indeed appear smaller than the culture war suggests. But…
www.axios.com/2026/03/11/a...
For sixty years exile politics claimed to speak for an entire people.
Now that monopoly is cracking.
And when people begin speaking for themselves, the gatekeepers—no matter how powerful their office—start losing their grip. znetwork.org/znetarticle/...
For 75 years, we have possessed the technology to end civilization in an afternoon. Yet, I have managed to make it this far in my life without mushroom clouds on the horizon, which seems fairly amazing. But now…www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/1...
The question that hangs over coal country half a century later is not only how those miners died in a sudden blast—but how many others have continued to die slowly from the dust that still fills the air underground. So how much has actually changed…
dailyyonder.com/speak-your-p...
“Everyone talks about oil when they talk about the Middle East…
But beneath all the geopolitics and pipelines lies a quieter and far more fragile reality: the region runs on water that barely exists.”
www.dailysabah.com/business/eco...
The left does not get to preach liberation while quietly accepting proximity to the machinery of exploitation. You cannot cozy up to pedophiles and fascist propagandists and claim to stand with the oppressed. No matter what your supposed politics may be. eastbaysyndicalists.org/the-chomsky-...
“…somewhere between the Pentagon and the Book of Revelation, the world’s most powerful military appears to have adopted a new strategic objective: assisting Jesus in scheduling his return…”
www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-troo...
