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movement researcher, study partner, earthlover, learning from planetary movements and the Tree of Life. Imagining collective liberation, creating a culture of care.
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The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.
- Lenin
#MarxistMonday
- Lenin
#MarxistMonday
November 11, 2025 at 1:10 AM
The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.
- Lenin
#MarxistMonday
- Lenin
#MarxistMonday
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I waited a day to say this bc I respected everyone's right to vent some anger, but *remember to focus on what you can do*. Whether it's defending your community, taking action around what you've been venting about, whatever — but don't let all of your energy get captured in the social media space.
November 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I waited a day to say this bc I respected everyone's right to vent some anger, but *remember to focus on what you can do*. Whether it's defending your community, taking action around what you've been venting about, whatever — but don't let all of your energy get captured in the social media space.
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Yo, @support.bsky.team, bring back @sarahkendzior.bsky.social.
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Yo, @support.bsky.team, bring back @sarahkendzior.bsky.social.
wtf?! Reinstate @sarahkendzior.bsky.social !
In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 4:27 AM
wtf?! Reinstate @sarahkendzior.bsky.social !
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If you talk about forgiving or cancelling debts nowadays, you may face a variety of insults from conservatives
But it is something built into Biblical law. Maybe those conservatives need to read a book about the history of Debt.
But it is something built into Biblical law. Maybe those conservatives need to read a book about the history of Debt.
November 11, 2025 at 3:06 AM
If you talk about forgiving or cancelling debts nowadays, you may face a variety of insults from conservatives
But it is something built into Biblical law. Maybe those conservatives need to read a book about the history of Debt.
But it is something built into Biblical law. Maybe those conservatives need to read a book about the history of Debt.
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Vancouver had 117 people die during the 2021 heat dome climate disaster.
NEW: Councillors and sources inside the City of Vancouver say the city's mayor, Ken Sim, will put forth a budget Wednesday that will eliminate the city's celebrated climate and sustainability department.
Vancouver mayor plans to eliminate city's climate and sustainability department
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is planning to eliminate the city's sustainability and climate department under the guise of a push to prevent increases to property taxes. Canada's National Observer learned a...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Vancouver had 117 people die during the 2021 heat dome climate disaster.
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🗓️This Saturday, Nov. 15 at 1:30-4 PM ET in Brooklyn: Our co-founder @prisonculture.bsky.social is facilitating a discussion circle focused on the contributions of radical Black women activists and theorists in the U.S. from 1910-1960. If you're in NYC and interested in joining, register now to join!
Communiversity Catalog: Black Radical Women in the U.S. 1910–1960: A Study and Discussion Circle — Interrupting Criminalization
www.interruptingcriminalization.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
🗓️This Saturday, Nov. 15 at 1:30-4 PM ET in Brooklyn: Our co-founder @prisonculture.bsky.social is facilitating a discussion circle focused on the contributions of radical Black women activists and theorists in the U.S. from 1910-1960. If you're in NYC and interested in joining, register now to join!
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Tim Kaine is probably the most prominent elected official talking about the very real threat and struggle of long COVID and he just consigned millions to being screwed with ACA subsidies expiring.
Sen. Kaine on his vote for funding deal
“I got the first good night's sleep last night that I've gotten since Oct. 1, because I wasn't worried about being able to look Capitol Police in the eye when I walked in, or what a furloughed federal worker would say to me at church”
“I got the first good night's sleep last night that I've gotten since Oct. 1, because I wasn't worried about being able to look Capitol Police in the eye when I walked in, or what a furloughed federal worker would say to me at church”
November 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Tim Kaine is probably the most prominent elected official talking about the very real threat and struggle of long COVID and he just consigned millions to being screwed with ACA subsidies expiring.
ICE = IDF = CPD ACAB FTP
Astonishing: Bovino and his agents showed up at the Bean this morning to pose for pictures. While Border Patrol snapped photos, one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’” The neighborhood where they are least welcome and most acutely felt. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
Border Patrol Agents Pose At 'The Bean' For Apparent Photo Op
The photo op came after agents tear-gassed a Little Village street and were spotted in the area numerous times. At the Bean, one agent shouted, "Everyone say, Little Village!"
blockclubchicago.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
ICE = IDF = CPD ACAB FTP
Denial is a powerful force
“I think there’s a collective amnesia right now about COVID-19”
SARS-CoV-2 infections have been rising in the past month, and limited surveillance is hampering health strategies
go.nature.com/3Lspwi0
SARS-CoV-2 infections have been rising in the past month, and limited surveillance is hampering health strategies
go.nature.com/3Lspwi0
COVID-19 is spreading again — how serious is it and what are the symptoms?
Nature - Limited COVID-19 surveillance data are hampering vaccination and health strategies, researchers say.
go.nature.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Denial is a powerful force
The journey through academia in a nutshell
They did not like being told they were wrong
November 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The journey through academia in a nutshell
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Stuart Hall took up cultural studies cuz “I didn’t think life was purely economically determined... I lived my life as an argument with Marxism.” But in its challenge to economic reductionism, cultural studies “sort of forgot that there was an economy at all.” We need to understand these together!
November 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Stuart Hall took up cultural studies cuz “I didn’t think life was purely economically determined... I lived my life as an argument with Marxism.” But in its challenge to economic reductionism, cultural studies “sort of forgot that there was an economy at all.” We need to understand these together!
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Yes I think it's extremely ideological as well and it now faces a domestic crisis of ideological reproduction failure
I used to think that the prior paradigm was mostly a reflection of a kind of realpolitik, i.e., "the US needs a strong satellite state in the region to stabilize gas prices" given that gas price volatility is the third rail of US federal politics. But lately it seems more ideological
November 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Yes I think it's extremely ideological as well and it now faces a domestic crisis of ideological reproduction failure
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“When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my
vision – then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
~ Audre Lorde
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vision – then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
~ Audre Lorde
This design is available as both a poster and a note card.
Get yours here: www.rlmartstudio.com/product/dare...
November 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
“When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my
vision – then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
~ Audre Lorde
This design is available as both a poster and a note card.
Get yours here: www.rlmartstudio.com/product/dare...
vision – then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
~ Audre Lorde
This design is available as both a poster and a note card.
Get yours here: www.rlmartstudio.com/product/dare...
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I feel sick to my stomach reading the reports from Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli detention. I genuinely want to vomit.
November 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I feel sick to my stomach reading the reports from Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli detention. I genuinely want to vomit.
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"Kerala expropriated private land and redistributed it to landless workers. This laid the foundations for Kerala’s remarkable social indicators: near-universal literacy, one of the lowest infant mortality rates in the global south, and the highest life expectancy in India”
November 10, 2025 at 7:41 AM
"Kerala expropriated private land and redistributed it to landless workers. This laid the foundations for Kerala’s remarkable social indicators: near-universal literacy, one of the lowest infant mortality rates in the global south, and the highest life expectancy in India”
"...to impotent mock-figures – what a triumph for the counter-revolution all along the line! The fruits of November 9th seemed to be squandered and thrown away, the bourgeoisie once more breathed a sigh of relief, and the masses were left perplexed, disarmed, embittered and, indeed, doubting."
Rosa Luxemburg: What are the Leaders Doing? (January 1919)
Rosa Luxemburg: What are the Leaders Doing? (January 1919)
www.marxists.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:07 AM
"...to impotent mock-figures – what a triumph for the counter-revolution all along the line! The fruits of November 9th seemed to be squandered and thrown away, the bourgeoisie once more breathed a sigh of relief, and the masses were left perplexed, disarmed, embittered and, indeed, doubting."
As a doctor, I am prescribing everyone who is still committed to Team Blue to attend Codependents Anonymous meetings until you finally let go of the attachment to an organization (corporation) that does not care about you. It's free and does not require insurance.
November 10, 2025 at 5:38 AM
As a doctor, I am prescribing everyone who is still committed to Team Blue to attend Codependents Anonymous meetings until you finally let go of the attachment to an organization (corporation) that does not care about you. It's free and does not require insurance.
Abolish America ✌🏻🖖🏻
November 10, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Abolish America ✌🏻🖖🏻
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These politicians aren't in disarray. They fucking hate you. They don't work for you.
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 AM
These politicians aren't in disarray. They fucking hate you. They don't work for you.
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The status quo delivered us to this moment of fascist acceleration. As Democratic elites in Washington keep proving, they have nothing to offer but behavior that abets and fosters more of the same. Their trajectory is as fixed as the right's.
November 10, 2025 at 4:15 AM
The status quo delivered us to this moment of fascist acceleration. As Democratic elites in Washington keep proving, they have nothing to offer but behavior that abets and fosters more of the same. Their trajectory is as fixed as the right's.
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not enough chatter about how frequently members fly and how attacking airport capacity directly affects them in a way that cutting SNAP does not
November 9, 2025 at 11:07 PM
not enough chatter about how frequently members fly and how attacking airport capacity directly affects them in a way that cutting SNAP does not
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⭕️ Haaretz: Israel pours millions into AI-hasbara, conservative/church targeting, and U.S. influence ops
Haaretz has uncovered a network of multimillion-dollar contracts showing that Israel is attempting to rehabilitate its image among American conservatives through a vast propaganda campaign...
Haaretz has uncovered a network of multimillion-dollar contracts showing that Israel is attempting to rehabilitate its image among American conservatives through a vast propaganda campaign...
November 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
⭕️ Haaretz: Israel pours millions into AI-hasbara, conservative/church targeting, and U.S. influence ops
Haaretz has uncovered a network of multimillion-dollar contracts showing that Israel is attempting to rehabilitate its image among American conservatives through a vast propaganda campaign...
Haaretz has uncovered a network of multimillion-dollar contracts showing that Israel is attempting to rehabilitate its image among American conservatives through a vast propaganda campaign...
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To keep the bourgeoisie in power forever!
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
even when the democratic party has leverage and one of the craziest election swings the party intentionally self immolates it’s just so exhausting what is even the point of these people
November 10, 2025 at 3:23 AM
To keep the bourgeoisie in power forever!
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed