This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
First group of migrants deported from the US under recent third country deportation with DRC have now been forcibly shipped off to Kinshasa. Deportees are originally from Colombia, Peru, Ecuador.
This deportation agreement follows a partnership granting US preferential access to Congo's minerals.
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You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.
All of us are dissociated and dissociating to make it through today. I hope you give yourself and others grace.
Today, I talk with @tanuja.bsky.social about rupture and repair in our movements. This is the first of two episodes about conflict, how we process it, and how we can keep our relationships and organizations strong.
Remember: there's no difference between a fan watch and a hate watch in marketing metrics
if there's one conclusion that the study of both labor history and imperialism converge on, it is that the richest people in the world are happy to burn money on control, power, impunity. and the "everything is about profit" version of anti-capitalism does not survive serious contact with either
Additionally, we are urging every single American with a federal student loan to open a case file with their member of Congress’ constituent services office to request all data in regards to your individual student loan balance and payment history. Now.
"When Renée Good died, we wanted to figure out how to show our support without coming in harm’s way. We started organizing Sambusa Saturday and giving out drinks and coffee every weekend to change the narrative that we weren’t part of the resistance..." - Amina Adan
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A pamphlet: newest counter-recruitment resource, Beyond Border Patrol: What CBP Recruiters Won’t Tell You
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What could we change about the world if progressive movements actually considered children as a central part of our political projects? @nicolefroio.bsky.social on the intersection of children's rights and feminism.
Keep the names of embroidery techniques (useful) out of your AI-slop mouths
I read the NYT piece, and I am holding onto the words of a woman who fended off inappropriate advances from a 60-year-old Cesar Chavez at the age of 19. “It makes you rethink in history all those heroes,” Esmeralda Lopez said. “The movement — that’s the hero.”
friend, this is Marcus Junius Brutus
CAESAR has declared himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE and MUST BE STOPPED
can you rush a donation of ten denarii today to show that you STAND WITH THE REPUBLIC?
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“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”
I talked with @ziibiing.com about Stand With Minnesota, keeping neighbors housed during ICE escalation, and directing generosity where it’s actually needed.
You, an individual, cannot "fix" the whole world. You can act at the scale of your life. You should act at the scale of your life.
A Brothers Sinister show would be fantastic!!
This is an incredibly moving article, written by a dad, about what everyday people (white-knowingly taking advantage of their privilege) are doing in Minneapolis to be a part of the resistance and protect their neighbors. We should all take note.
That mask is also popular with neo-Nazi accelerationist groups, which I think is really important to mention. Just like it's important to mention that ICE agents in Denver have been dropping Ace of Spades cards where they've kidnapped people. The white nationalist culture at work is clear.
njs.libraries.rutgers.edu NJS: An Interdisciplinary Journal Summer 2025 The New Jersey Miscount: The 1860 Census and the Accidental Humanization of Enslaved Individuals By Luke Voyles DOI: 10.14713/njs.v1112.362 Abstract: The 1860 census is the only example in U.S. history when the U.S. government systematically recorded the names and ages of enslaved individuals of a state. Because government officials underestimated the number of enslaved people in New Jersey, there was no slave schedule in the state. Therefore, the names of enslaved individuals appeared within the households of their enslavers in the regular 1860 census. The official census statistics only listed 18 individuals as enslaved in 1860, but a close examination of every 1860 census page for New Jersey uncovers 64 names tied to slavery. This essay explores the context behind the census, and how the census accidentally humanized people whom it often marginalized.
Some years ago, I was chatting with a Retropolis reader, a young history student, and I mentioned there were several dozen people enslaved in New Jersey up until the day the 13th Amendment kicked in in December 1865.
Y’all. He identified every one of them.
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"the best of these kinds of books reject the bootstraps myth that individuals “escape” grinding poverty via personal merit, and those who remain simply haven’t worked hard enough. Jettisoning these myths is a step towards confronting the real violence of a class society"
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