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Ben PassmoreCALA 20B
@benpassmore.bsky.social
Comics maker, New Afrikan Anarchist, showing up late as usual
*Black Arms to Hold You Up out thru Pantheon*
Pinned
I’m selling signed copies of Black Arms to Hold You Up on my store at daygloayhole.gumroad.com/l/blackarms. I also keep some mini-comics, stickers and older titles on there. Come through!
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"It said on Sunday that there would be two days of mourning on ‌January 5 and ‌6 in ⁠honour of those killed and said ‌funeral arrangements would be announced."

www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...
Cuba says 32 Cubans killed during US raids on Venezuela
Havana declares two days of mourning for the Cubans killed in US's raid to capture Nicolas Maduro.
www.aljazeera.com
January 5, 2026 at 1:58 AM
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ANSWER is the largest anti-war protest collaboration in the USA. no demonstrations, not even the largest is US history have changed anything. let the people parade in circles as they must “do something” but NEVER sign up to register. ever.
“Known for entryist practices to hijack other groups, collaborating with police, and for significant involvement in the anti-war ANSWER coalition, itself originally a WWP front.”
January 4, 2026 at 1:41 PM
i think this is true, but also not the point. he doesn’t want to run shit. he wants to see chaos, cause harm and come up on a lil money for himself.

he don’t gotta do shit well to make any of that happen.
Swalwell: He couldn't run a casino, and now he's going to run a country in South America while he fails to run a country in North America?
January 4, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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I cannot STAND these people!
Former Politico reporter Rachael Bade is the poster child for the DC media disconnect. Grinning with a mimosa in her avatar while treating politics like a game.
January 3, 2026 at 5:44 PM
the anti-vac man is telling the “govt controls the weather” people on this train to educate themselves.

going back to bed as soon as i get home. fuck it.
January 3, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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The Washington Post editorial board comes out in favor of the Venezuela attack/operation to capture Maduro
January 3, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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A side story is there’s a ton of insider trading on these prediction markets. New accounts making hundreds of thousands on their first and only trade, that maduro would be ousted. Seems like insider trading is legal if not encouraged on these platforms
January 3, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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“Trump's Venezuela Attack: It’s All About the Oil, Stupid!”

Here are five times Donald Trump himself admitted that illegally attacking Venezuela and toppling Nicolás Maduro was aimed at seizing the country’s massive oil reserves.

My latest for Zeteo:
Trump's Venezuela Attack: It’s All About the Oil, Stupid!
Here are five times Donald Trump himself admitted that illegally attacking Venezuela and toppling Nicolás Maduro was aimed at seizing the country’s massive oil reserves.
zeteo.com
January 3, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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A good reminder of how major media outlets inflated and outright lied about the famous toppling of the Saddam statue in Firdos Square in 2004, which was a carefully stage-managed propaganda operation conducted by the U.S. military.
The Toppling: How the Media Inflated the Fall of Saddam's Statue in Firdos Square
How saturation media coverage of the toppling of Saddam Hussein's statue in Firdos Square fueled the perception that the war had been won and diverted attention from what in reality was just the start...
www.propublica.org
January 3, 2026 at 10:22 AM
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BREAKING: Venezuela’s government has accused the US of launching attacks on civilian and military installations across several states, rejecting what it described as a "military aggression," according to an official statement.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/p3fqh2
January 3, 2026 at 7:56 AM
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Buffalo save the date! Really looking forward to being hosted by the brilliant Dr. Lou Tam and in conversation with @benpassmore.bsky.social whose new book I’m teaching this spring for Bard Brooklyn.
January 2, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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A judge in Georgia has officially dismissed the bogus RICO charges against 61 defendants in the movement to stop Cop City
January 1, 2026 at 1:28 AM
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New: Cop City RICO Cases Dismissed Years After 61 Activists Charged as Criminal Conspiracy

Racketeering charges against dozens indicted as co-conspirators in the Stop Cop City movement were dismissed yesterday marking a legal victory for the movement

unicornriot.ninja/2025/cop-cit...
Cop City RICO Cases Dismissed Years After 61 Activists Charged as Criminal Conspiracy - UNICORN RIOT
Atlanta – Racketeering charges against 61 people indicted as co-conspirators in the Stop Cop City movement were dismissed yesterday, marking a significant victory for those facing prosecution in the y...
unicornriot.ninja
December 31, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I started working some ideas for a new book that I want to do on my old reform school.

I came across this promotional (?) video about the experimental school that existed right before the one I went to opened up.
Stockbridge School - David Gordon
YouTube video by Gunter Nabel
youtu.be
December 31, 2025 at 8:22 PM
it’s not even noon and my partner telling me all about this white woman starting a white locks business.

Wildcrafted beauty.

wild indeed.
December 31, 2025 at 3:07 PM
i was hitchhiking thru Vermont and stuck on a big curve on a small highway. it was the middle of nowhere’s middle of nowhere.

a bus driver pulled over and picked me up for free. he told he’d been stuck in the same spot hitchhiking thirty years ago and didn’t get picked up for three days.
I would like to hear about a time someone, a stranger even, was very kind to you without any prompting, ulterior motive, or strings attached.
December 31, 2025 at 2:07 AM
my brain is crazy.

how do i go from obsessing about a slightly embarrassing conversation i had ten years ago to needing to know everything about Ujamaa villages within the same ten minutes.

if i could harness it i’d run this town.
December 31, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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December 30, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Hear @benpassmore.bsky.social on history, Black liberation, anarchism, martial arts, myths, comics & his new book, “Black Arms To Hold You Up”.
+ an interview with anarchist & former Belarusian political prisoner Mikola Dziadok, conducted by Frequenz-A

thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/12...
December 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
December 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Where have I seen this before, oh right.
December 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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“The exposure highlights the fact that Flock is not just surveilling cars—it is surveilling people, and in some cases it is doing so in an insecure way, and highlight the types of places that its Condor cameras are being deployed.”

paywall free: archive.ph/2025.12.24-1...
December 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
this is always framed like the family you don’t want to deal with anymore isn’t make a choice to alienate you.
Yeah, no thanks.

Stop guilting people about being estranged from family members. It someone is they likely have personal reasons for being so.
December 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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