@ijeomaoluo.bsky.social explains the importance of deserting carceral logics in building community & establishing real solidarity among activists & organizers. At the most basic level, you must kill the cop in your head.
Listen to Ijeoma Oluo's Resistant Communiqués episode: bit.ly/rc2026ijeomaoluo
What the fuck are you talking about man
Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.
This sequel to the award winning anthology of Palestinian fantasy, science fiction and horror is now 58% funded! #projectwelove 🥰
www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...
No one is surprised. #ACAB
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X.
This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5)
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
The new iteration of the Red Scare keeps on coming. Nothing is promising about the FBI providing guidance to state and local law enforcement on how to enforce POTUS’s crackdown to criminalize resistance and dissent.
At the top, it reads, "JOURNALISM, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND THE AGE OF DISINFORMATION WITH ANNA LEKAS MILLER Listen: bit.ly/rc2026annalekasmiller" And then a quote from Anna's Resistant Communiqués Podcast episode at the end of February 2026, "We need local, trusted news outlets to follow up on these claims. But almost 40% of local news sources have vanished in the past 10 years, and 50 million Americans are without or with limited access to a news source. And now we're just sort of operating in this information vacuum, which I think we really need to talk about, critically analyze, and dismantle." Headshot of Anna Lekas Miller in the bottom left corner below the quote box. Then the RC Resistant Communiques logo is in the right corner, and the bottom reads. "ResistantCommuniques.com | @ResistantCommPod"
We are living in an information vacuum. As @annalekasmiller.bsky.social discussed on @resistantcommpod.bsky.social, 40% of local news vanished in 10 years, leaving 50M Americans without access. Info vacuum. When trusted journalism disappears, we lose critical analysis. Listen: bit.ly/rc2026annale...
I mean, for sure, and I was surprised by the backstory and totally dig it.
Social movement scholar here again. So, why protest?
Nihilists were out yesterday arguing that "protests don't do anything."
A short 🧵:
Look I’m an old leftist punk that brawled with nazi skins and I have literally nothing in common with these people but when I see a soccer mom with a Trans Kids Belong sign screaming FUCK ICE at the top of her lungs I whole heartedly welcome my unlikely new comrade
john waters at a No Kings rally in Provincetown
(not my pic, Peter Toto, x)
Is Zebulun familial? Or Biblical, and thus, familial?
Is it because everyone doesn’t know your real name? Because I was pretty surprised when you forwarded that email to me today, and it said your name was Robert.
AI propaganda or "human slop"? We're seeing a shift where even balanced voices perform outrage to beat the algorithm. From harmless deepfakes to dangerous rumors, the incentive structure of social media is breaking our grasp on context. Check out our latest episode with @annalekasmiller.bsky.social
Prosecutors are also investigating Gregory Bovino, the outgoing Border Patrol commander who was the face of the immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota and who was seen on video lobbing smoke canisters into crowds in Minneapolis.
During the actual Cold War the idea of integrating computers into decision making was seen as kind of terrifying? People did it, but with a healthy dose of trepidation and awareness that surrendering control was too dangerous.
But if the computer kisses your ass enough, that’s all it takes.
I wrote something
Our newest episode, and a really good one.
This was clear from the jump, but the Venezuela invasion going as smoothly as it did, from a pure operational perspective, is going to prove catastrophic in the long run.
United Farm Workers out here fightin back against Noem! 🔥 UFW v. Noem has a ring to it.! All farm worker communities have been going through hell, mine included. @ufw.bsky.social filing this lawsuit is massive and powerful. So grateful for UFW for standing up! Get her, y’all! Godspeed!
ICYMI: We launched a dossier last week with some responses to Vivek Chibber's recent pieces on materialism and colonialism.
You can find Bilal Zahoor's response to Chibber's separation of capitalist and colonialism history in the quoted post.
Hassett: "At the White House, we've got our eyes on the prize and we believe we're gonna have a world with a much more stable Venezuela, a much more stable Iran that is a very reliable and safe supplier of energy, which will reduce risk premiums around the world and be cause for celebration."
Anyway we know the economy has been in the toilet from the number of "upscale American comfort" restaurants serving fries with truffle aioli again
The countries doing the "oh jeez, this war is so sad and I have some questions" schtick while letting the U.S. do crazy stuff from their territory are all pathetic.
Trump thinks this will be Venezuela, over in a week, then onto Cuba
What a fun thing to announce at the open
