Jay Cee (Anarchist Reading List)
@anarchistrl.bsky.social
A Māori/Pākehā vegan anarchist in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Find me on Mastodon + the Fediverse: @anarchistreadinglist@kolektiva.social
At this stage, I'm not doing essay-length reviews. It takes the joy out of reading.
At this stage, I'm not doing essay-length reviews. It takes the joy out of reading.
NEW VIDEO: Thanks to our anti-social social order, many people are struggling with a lack of community in their lives. I believe we can change that. Let's revisit the village of the past, then sketch out a radical vision for the future of community.
youtu.be/1-Xl6dhDV3Q
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Can We Bring Back Community?
YouTube video by Andrewism
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November 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
When we take the bait and engage in US culture war shit here in Aotearoa, this is what we're inviting. The COVID cookers already have an alter-culture relying on conspiracy and hate and in a weeks time we'll find out how many of them were elected to local councils.
A MAGA teenager was spurned by a teen girl so he sent pizza to her home to intimidate her. The police ignored it.
Then, he saw she mocked Charlie Kirk so he murdered her and her friend by ramming his truck into them at 70mph while they were riding their bikes.
He's now charged with murder.
Then, he saw she mocked Charlie Kirk so he murdered her and her friend by ramming his truck into them at 70mph while they were riding their bikes.
He's now charged with murder.
October 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
When we take the bait and engage in US culture war shit here in Aotearoa, this is what we're inviting. The COVID cookers already have an alter-culture relying on conspiracy and hate and in a weeks time we'll find out how many of them were elected to local councils.
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Winston blaming the NZ Greens for his broken window for standing along side people he deems as inciting harm against him… Dude legit got into parliament by aligning himself with violent cookers who hung a noose up for JA, defecated on beehive grounds & set fire to a kids playground. #nzpol #Winston
October 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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I don’t think I’ve ever met a more hectic reader than myself. I started reading 14 books in the past two months and just started three more in the past two days. Have I finished reading any of them? No. Am I confused and trying to read them all at the same time? You bet.
September 27, 2025 at 6:00 AM
I don’t think I’ve ever met a more hectic reader than myself. I started reading 14 books in the past two months and just started three more in the past two days. Have I finished reading any of them? No. Am I confused and trying to read them all at the same time? You bet.
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September 27, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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Remember: fascists survive via their tough strongman aesthetic.
Undermine it.
They’re small, pathetic cowards — too afraid to stand up to Donald Trump and Netanyahu…
Let’s make sure everyone knows that these guys are shaking in their boots, they’ve no bravery or spine
#nzpol #freepalestine #gaza
Undermine it.
They’re small, pathetic cowards — too afraid to stand up to Donald Trump and Netanyahu…
Let’s make sure everyone knows that these guys are shaking in their boots, they’ve no bravery or spine
#nzpol #freepalestine #gaza
September 27, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Remember: fascists survive via their tough strongman aesthetic.
Undermine it.
They’re small, pathetic cowards — too afraid to stand up to Donald Trump and Netanyahu…
Let’s make sure everyone knows that these guys are shaking in their boots, they’ve no bravery or spine
#nzpol #freepalestine #gaza
Undermine it.
They’re small, pathetic cowards — too afraid to stand up to Donald Trump and Netanyahu…
Let’s make sure everyone knows that these guys are shaking in their boots, they’ve no bravery or spine
#nzpol #freepalestine #gaza
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September 27, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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Some Jewish reading for your Rosh Hashana!
The Past, Present, and Future of Left Jewish Identity
The kind of Jewish identity on display in Jewish-led Palestine solidarity demonstrations organized by groups like Jewish Voice for Peace is part of a long history of Jewish identity being bound up in ...
jacobin.com
September 23, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Some Jewish reading for your Rosh Hashana!
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Rather than permitting the Trump administration to frighten us out of resisting, we must understand this broad, vague, and performative executive order as an effort to intimidate.
It should catalyze us into urgent organizing, not paralyze us.
Only collective action can keep us safe and free.
It should catalyze us into urgent organizing, not paralyze us.
Only collective action can keep us safe and free.
![DESIGNATING ANTIFA AS A DOMESTIC TERRORIST ORGANIZATION
Section 1. Antifa as a Terrorist Threat. Antifa is a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and our system of law. It uses illegal means to organize and execute a campaign of violence and terrorism nationwide to accomplish these goals. This campaign involves coordinated efforts to obstruct enforcement of Federal laws through armed standoffs with law enforcement, organized riots, violent assaults on Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other law enforcement officers, and routine doxing of and other threats against political figures and activists. Antifa recruits, trains, and radicalizes young Americans to engage in this violence and suppression of political activity, then employs elaborate means and mechanisms to shield the identities of its operatives, conceal its funding sources and operations in an effort to frustrate law enforcement, and recruit additional members. Individuals associated with and acting on behalf of Antifa further coordinate with other organizations and entities for the purpose of spreading, fomenting, and advancing political violence and suppressing lawful political speech. This organized effort designed to achieve policy objectives by coercion and intimidation is domestic terrorism.
Sec. 2. Designation as a Domestic Terrorist Organization. Because of the aforementioned pattern of political violence designed to suppress lawful political activity and obstruct the rule of law, I hereby designate Antifa as a “domestic terrorist organization.” All relevant executive departments and agencies shall utilize all applicable authorities to investigate, disrupt, and dismantle any and all illegal operations — especially those involving terrorist actions — conducted by Antifa or any person claiming to act on behalf of Antifa, or for which Antifa provided material support [...]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:usktoienjig6rm5cxm46j3zl/bafkreihwt6ztyeaf7qnacxnmi2rmqem4c3nkyaf5aspcafwnadi5kwtoqy@jpeg)
September 23, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Rather than permitting the Trump administration to frighten us out of resisting, we must understand this broad, vague, and performative executive order as an effort to intimidate.
It should catalyze us into urgent organizing, not paralyze us.
Only collective action can keep us safe and free.
It should catalyze us into urgent organizing, not paralyze us.
Only collective action can keep us safe and free.
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@jamesstout.bsky.social sits down with Frances to hear firsthand what it is like for families of people in the asylum system right now and how even U.S. citizens can have their families torn apart by the Trump administration’s anti-asylum policies.
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
September 22, 2025 at 7:27 PM
@jamesstout.bsky.social sits down with Frances to hear firsthand what it is like for families of people in the asylum system right now and how even U.S. citizens can have their families torn apart by the Trump administration’s anti-asylum policies.
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
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Very helpful episode for anyone in the US and beyond to meet this moment. We are stronger than we often think we are.
pca.st/episode/be64...
pca.st/episode/be64...
#114: Safeguarding Our Movements against Repression—How to Respond to the Criminalization of “Antifa”
pca.st
September 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Very helpful episode for anyone in the US and beyond to meet this moment. We are stronger than we often think we are.
pca.st/episode/be64...
pca.st/episode/be64...
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NEW VIDEO: Let's take a critical look at Graeber’s exploration of debt and its role in shaping our world so that we can challenge our approach to debt, overcome the current crisis, and pursue a revolutionary reimagining of the economy as a whole. Tap in 👇🏽
July 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
NEW VIDEO: Let's take a critical look at Graeber’s exploration of debt and its role in shaping our world so that we can challenge our approach to debt, overcome the current crisis, and pursue a revolutionary reimagining of the economy as a whole. Tap in 👇🏽
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I've always loved physical media because it meant I wasn't tied to or dependent on a streaming service. No internet? I still have every (console) game, movie and CD I've ever bought.
Used bookstores have TONS of media right now because so many people have switched to streaming in the past 10 years.
Used bookstores have TONS of media right now because so many people have switched to streaming in the past 10 years.
Take that money you’re saving every month on cancelling Spotify, Disney+, HBO, etc., & (after buying a @pbs.org Passport, natch) & go to a used book/media store and buy all the movies you watch on repeat (you know you only watch, like, 10 movies) on dvd/bluray. Bonus: no $ goes to fascist media cos
Subscription-based services actively make all entertainment industries worse
We should return to CDs, cartridges and pay-per-view
We should return to CDs, cartridges and pay-per-view
September 20, 2025 at 3:10 AM
I've always loved physical media because it meant I wasn't tied to or dependent on a streaming service. No internet? I still have every (console) game, movie and CD I've ever bought.
Used bookstores have TONS of media right now because so many people have switched to streaming in the past 10 years.
Used bookstores have TONS of media right now because so many people have switched to streaming in the past 10 years.
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Gorillaz say FREE PALESTINE
September 17, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Gorillaz say FREE PALESTINE
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the strongest pushback is coming from the right because media figures and electeds on the left are currently cowed by fear
September 18, 2025 at 2:31 AM
the strongest pushback is coming from the right because media figures and electeds on the left are currently cowed by fear
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Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
September 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
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Posting a criticism of Charlie Kirk - much less noting something outrageous he himself said - is not “celebrating” his murder. Nor is it condoning his murder. It is simply saying that his political career and legacy are not something to be celebrated. And that is not the same thing at all.
September 15, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Posting a criticism of Charlie Kirk - much less noting something outrageous he himself said - is not “celebrating” his murder. Nor is it condoning his murder. It is simply saying that his political career and legacy are not something to be celebrated. And that is not the same thing at all.
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"I don't care that he's dead."
"He's not a hero."
"He's a scumbag."
"He shouldn't be celebrated."
No, no. I'm not saying that about Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk said that about George Floyd.
Just in case anyone's interested in what he thought was fair to say about someone who was killed on camera.
"He's not a hero."
"He's a scumbag."
"He shouldn't be celebrated."
No, no. I'm not saying that about Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk said that about George Floyd.
Just in case anyone's interested in what he thought was fair to say about someone who was killed on camera.
September 15, 2025 at 3:21 AM
"I don't care that he's dead."
"He's not a hero."
"He's a scumbag."
"He shouldn't be celebrated."
No, no. I'm not saying that about Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk said that about George Floyd.
Just in case anyone's interested in what he thought was fair to say about someone who was killed on camera.
"He's not a hero."
"He's a scumbag."
"He shouldn't be celebrated."
No, no. I'm not saying that about Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk said that about George Floyd.
Just in case anyone's interested in what he thought was fair to say about someone who was killed on camera.
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Almost none of my students knew about the Minnesota assassinations. Zero of them knew about the CDC attack.
reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
September 14, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Almost none of my students knew about the Minnesota assassinations. Zero of them knew about the CDC attack.
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"You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other."
- Carl Sagan
- Carl Sagan
September 14, 2025 at 1:04 AM
"You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other."
- Carl Sagan
- Carl Sagan
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The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social
"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
www.thenation.com
September 13, 2025 at 2:39 AM
The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social
"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
It's unsurprising that Bluesky would be reactive and heavy-handed about people who aren't heads-in-hands bawling their eyes out about this scumbag.
Bluesky isn't a safe haven. It's a "better Twitter", but that's all. Bluesky will fuck you like any other social media platform.
Rest in Piss, CK.
Bluesky isn't a safe haven. It's a "better Twitter", but that's all. Bluesky will fuck you like any other social media platform.
Rest in Piss, CK.
Bluesky really doesn't want people to say "rest in piss" about Charlie Kirk
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September 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
It's unsurprising that Bluesky would be reactive and heavy-handed about people who aren't heads-in-hands bawling their eyes out about this scumbag.
Bluesky isn't a safe haven. It's a "better Twitter", but that's all. Bluesky will fuck you like any other social media platform.
Rest in Piss, CK.
Bluesky isn't a safe haven. It's a "better Twitter", but that's all. Bluesky will fuck you like any other social media platform.
Rest in Piss, CK.
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New Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff 🏴☠️📻
Margaret talks with Bursts about the surprising history of pirate radio and the three way fight for control of the airwaves.
@margaret.bsky.social @thefinalstrawradio.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
Margaret talks with Bursts about the surprising history of pirate radio and the three way fight for control of the airwaves.
@margaret.bsky.social @thefinalstrawradio.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
September 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
New Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff 🏴☠️📻
Margaret talks with Bursts about the surprising history of pirate radio and the three way fight for control of the airwaves.
@margaret.bsky.social @thefinalstrawradio.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
Margaret talks with Bursts about the surprising history of pirate radio and the three way fight for control of the airwaves.
@margaret.bsky.social @thefinalstrawradio.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...