Distinguished professor Dylan Rodriguez — @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social — speaks with former political prisoner and Black Panther Mansa Musa about “the horrifying truth” behind the prison industrial complex — and the politics that “dilute the power of radical movements trying to dismantle it”
“The masses are not being policed, targeted, and incarcerated,” Distinguished Professor and author @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social says; “it’s a targeted war with asymmetrical casualties.”
The 'War on Drugs' and 'War on Terror' are facets of an internal colonialism informing U.S. foreign policy. In this week's Rattling the Bars, @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social discusses the roots of state violence, white reconstruction, and the struggle for their abolition.
Tune in: youtu.be/bopIHKHy7gY
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(text from image) Google received and responded to a legal process issued by the FBI compelling the release of information related to your Google account. A court order previously prohibited Google from notifying you of the legal process. We are now permitted to disclose...
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Rather, this is to urge collective awareness of the everyday methods of invasive state surveillance and to assure each other that this shit will not intimidate or demobilize, it will only further embolden and activate...
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sharing this with the encouragement of my badass veteran movement attorney... received notice from Google LLC on January 22, 2026 that the FBI is demanding "release of information" from my (very publicly available) Google account. I am not seeking sympathy or help...
...also, pacifism is not "community defense"
pacifism is how radicals become liberal while still feeling radical
As Supreme Commander Hugo Chávez Frías stated, “in the face of any new difficulties, whatever their magnitude, the response of all patriots... is unity, struggle, battle, and victory”.
Caracas, 03 January 2026
Venezuela reserves the right to exercise legitimate defense to protect its people, its territory, and its independence. We call on the peoples and governments of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the world to mobilize in active solidarity against this imperial aggression.
the Command for the Comprehensive Defense of the Nation and the Organs of Direction for Comprehensive Defense in all states and municipalities of the country.
In strict accordance with Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations,
the rights of the population, the full functioning of republican institutions, and to immediately move to armed struggle. The entire country must mobilize to defeat this imperialist aggression.
Similarly, he has ordered the immediate deployment of
the Organic Law on States of Exception, and the Organic Law on National Security.
In this regard, President Nicolás Maduro has signed and ordered the implementation of the Decree declaring a state of external commotion throughout the national territory, in order to protect
President Nicolás Maduro has ordered all national defense plans to be implemented at the appropriate time and under the appropriate circumstances, in strict accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,
Simultaneously, Bolivarian Diplomacy of Peace will file the corresponding complaints with the UN Security Council, the Secretary-General of that United Nations, CELAC, and the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), demanding the condemnation and accountability of the U.S. government.
the country to activate mobilization plans and repudiate this imperialist attack. The people of Venezuela and their Bolivarian National Armed Forces, in perfect popular-military-police fusion, are deployed to guarantee sovereignty and peace.
the Homeland” Today, with the morale of Bolívar, Miranda and our liberators, the Venezuelan people rise again to defend their independence in the face of imperial aggression.
People, to the streets.
The Bolivarian Government calls on all social and political forces in
the fascist oligarchy, will fail like all previous attempts.
Since 1811, Venezuela has faced and defeated empires. When foreign powers bombed our coasts in 1902, President Cipriano Castro proclaimed: “The insolent foot of the foreigner has desecrated the sacred soil of
the people and their legitimate government remain steadfast in defending their sovereignty and their inalienable right to decide their own destiny. The attempt to impose a colonial war to destroy the republican form of government and force a “regime change”, in alliance with
serious risk.
The objective of this attack is none other than to seize Venezuela’s strategic resources, particularly its oil and minerals, in an attempt to forcibly break the political independence of the nation. They will not succeed. After more than 200 years of independence,
which enshrine the respect for the sovereignty, the legal equality of States, and the prohibition of the use of force. Such an aggression threatens international peace and stability, specifically in Latin America and the Caribbean, and puts the lives of millions of people at
Venezuelan territory and population in civilian and military locations in the city of Caracas, capital of the Republic, and the States of Miranda, Aragua, and La Guaira. This act constitutes a flagrant violation of the Charter of the United Nations, especially Articles 1 and 2,
FWD: COMMUNIQUÉ
BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela rejects, repudiates, and denounces before the international community the extremely serious military aggression perpetrated by the current government of the United States of America against
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Stevie has been a stalwart organizer, teacher, writer, and intellectual contributor to a major stream of Black radicalism. I'm thrilled to know he's coming back to us soon.
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'Prince of Darkness' featuring Dylan Rodríguez | The Imperial '80s Episode 15 ( @dylanrodriguez.bsky.social )
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Don't get it twisted, these 160 names are not just highly paid academic celebrities, but also modestly paid staff, untenured faculty members, and vulnerable students.
UC administration's craven collaboration with the feds is both *unsurprising* and *disgusting*.
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