Craig Gilmore
@craiggilmore.bsky.social
abolitionist organizing // land & housing // books & music.
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LA has multiple coalitions that have been organizing against the Olympics etc. More people on board would help nolympicsla.com
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The Olympics always accelerate policing, evictions, inequality, exploitation, and the erosion of democracy in every host city. The LA 2028 games are no different.
Here are a few resources to get you s...
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January 3, 2026 at 6:00 PM
LA has multiple coalitions that have been organizing against the Olympics etc. More people on board would help nolympicsla.com
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"Mamdani walks in an older Jewish tradition. Not that of ritzy Upper East Side synagogues, but of so many of our great-grandparents: the socialist sweatshop workers who fought for a better and more beautiful world." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
They tried to smear him as an antisemite – but Mayor Zohran Mamdani walks in a rich Jewish tradition | Molly Crabapple
When I look at Mamdani, I don’t see some radical departure. I see him as an heir to the Yiddish socialism that helped build New York
www.theguardian.com
January 1, 2026 at 11:59 PM
"Mamdani walks in an older Jewish tradition. Not that of ritzy Upper East Side synagogues, but of so many of our great-grandparents: the socialist sweatshop workers who fought for a better and more beautiful world." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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"[P]ropaganda blitz will be targeted at [..] 'people who have attended UFC fights, listened to patriotic podcasts, or shown an interest in guns and tactical gear.'"
ICE "is planning to spend $100 million over the next year."
#USA #Media #Deportation #EthnicCleansing #Weapons
ICE "is planning to spend $100 million over the next year."
#USA #Media #Deportation #EthnicCleansing #Weapons
ICE Plots $100 Million 'Wartime Recruitment' Drive Aimed at Hiring Gun Enthusiasts
The propaganda blitz will be aimed at "people who have attended UFC fights, listened to patriotic podcasts, or shown an interest in guns and tactical gear," according to the Washington Post.
www.commondreams.org
January 1, 2026 at 4:00 PM
"[P]ropaganda blitz will be targeted at [..] 'people who have attended UFC fights, listened to patriotic podcasts, or shown an interest in guns and tactical gear.'"
ICE "is planning to spend $100 million over the next year."
#USA #Media #Deportation #EthnicCleansing #Weapons
ICE "is planning to spend $100 million over the next year."
#USA #Media #Deportation #EthnicCleansing #Weapons
Gramsci translated by @alfatau.bsky.social
I Hate New Year's Day - Viewpoint Magazine
That's why I hate New Year's. I want every morning to be a new year's for me. Every day I want to reckon with myself, and every day I want to renew myself. No day set aside for rest. I choose my pause...
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January 1, 2026 at 10:48 AM
Gramsci translated by @alfatau.bsky.social
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Tech Billionaires Threaten To Flee California Over Proposed Vest Tax https://theonion.com/tech-billionaires-threaten-to-flee-california-over-proposed-vest-tax/
December 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Tech Billionaires Threaten To Flee California Over Proposed Vest Tax https://theonion.com/tech-billionaires-threaten-to-flee-california-over-proposed-vest-tax/
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'It's tragic here': Lytle Creek residents are cut off, buried in mud after storm, resident says
'It's tragic here': Lytle Creek residents are cut off, buried in mud after storm, resident says
Residents of a San Bernardino County mountain community are contending with mounds of mud from a fierce holiday storm that took out bridge access to one neighborhood.
www.latimes.com
December 29, 2025 at 8:30 AM
'It's tragic here': Lytle Creek residents are cut off, buried in mud after storm, resident says
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Marcy Winograd's "United Teachers of Los Angeles: No Endorsements for Congressional Genociders." CounterPunch, December 24.
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"United Teachers of Los Angeles [..] passed a motion that the union should refrain from endorsing any candidate [..] who as a member of the U.S. Congress voted to send weapons to Israel."
#California #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Voting #Education #Labour #Genocide #Military #Weapons
#California #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Voting #Education #Labour #Genocide #Military #Weapons
United Teachers of Los Angeles: No Endorsements for Congressional Genociders
Los Angeles teachers have drawn a line in the electoral sand to send a message to congress members tethered to the Israel lobby.
www.counterpunch.org
December 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Marcy Winograd's "United Teachers of Los Angeles: No Endorsements for Congressional Genociders." CounterPunch, December 24.
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"El denominador común entre los tres era la represión y el punitivismo a ultranza, sin que hubiera variaciones en el nivel de violencia policial.
"Claro que pese –por ejemplo– a la profusión del “gatillo fácil”, Rodríguez Larreta seguía destacando el “profesionalismo” de sus mastines uniformados."
"Claro que pese –por ejemplo– a la profusión del “gatillo fácil”, Rodríguez Larreta seguía destacando el “profesionalismo” de sus mastines uniformados."
Breve historia de una fuerza manchada con sangre
Durante sus nueve años de existencia, la “Unidad Táctica de Pacificación” fue artífice –según estadísticas de la CORREPI – de 168 casos de “gatillo fácil”. Bien vale, entonces, reparar en la naturalez...
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December 28, 2025 at 11:29 AM
"El denominador común entre los tres era la represión y el punitivismo a ultranza, sin que hubiera variaciones en el nivel de violencia policial.
"Claro que pese –por ejemplo– a la profusión del “gatillo fácil”, Rodríguez Larreta seguía destacando el “profesionalismo” de sus mastines uniformados."
"Claro que pese –por ejemplo– a la profusión del “gatillo fácil”, Rodríguez Larreta seguía destacando el “profesionalismo” de sus mastines uniformados."
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For police and prison abolitionists, I have been developing curated feeds of independent journalism under #Policing and #Incarceration. These feeds are updated daily.
To Access:
1. Desktop: Click on #Policing or #Incarceration. Mobile: Click and hold.
2. Click 'See #Policing posts by user.'
To Access:
1. Desktop: Click on #Policing or #Incarceration. Mobile: Click and hold.
2. Click 'See #Policing posts by user.'
Harms Committed (@harmscommitted.com)
🌀Hashtag Directory🌀 This thread offers a directory of the topic and location hashtags that Harms Committed uses as archival access points. With each archived article, you are only ever two clicks…
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December 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM
For police and prison abolitionists, I have been developing curated feeds of independent journalism under #Policing and #Incarceration. These feeds are updated daily.
To Access:
1. Desktop: Click on #Policing or #Incarceration. Mobile: Click and hold.
2. Click 'See #Policing posts by user.'
To Access:
1. Desktop: Click on #Policing or #Incarceration. Mobile: Click and hold.
2. Click 'See #Policing posts by user.'
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"Critical Engagements with Alberto Toscano’s Late Fascism" is now out with Studies in Political Economy. Some rad pieces, @raulzelik.bsky.social and I also contributed a piece: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rsor20/1...
Studies in Political Economy / Recherches en économie politique
Volume 106, Issue 2 of Studies in Political Economy / Recherches en économie politique
www.tandfonline.com
December 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
"Critical Engagements with Alberto Toscano’s Late Fascism" is now out with Studies in Political Economy. Some rad pieces, @raulzelik.bsky.social and I also contributed a piece: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rsor20/1...
"And those who believe in something like freedom, in something like liberation, those who believe in the world for everyone, in all for all, know, as Charles Chesnutt wrote in his novel The Marrow of Tradition...'there’s time enough, but none to spare'.” @hystericalblkns.bsky.social
Was invited to contribute to the Quarter Mark on significant moments of the first 25 years of this century. With thanks to DB and Rinaldo Walcott for reading and thinking with me.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: The murder that led to an uprising around the world
The murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, proved, again, there are people to whom seemingly anything can be done with impunity
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 27, 2025 at 12:27 PM
"And those who believe in something like freedom, in something like liberation, those who believe in the world for everyone, in all for all, know, as Charles Chesnutt wrote in his novel The Marrow of Tradition...'there’s time enough, but none to spare'.” @hystericalblkns.bsky.social
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Thread: I spent the end of 2025 interviewing women incarcerated in CA & NY about their hopes for clemency. All have been imprisoned for 10+ years—some for decades. All have transformed their lives despite the many obstacles in prison. In both states, the process is opaque & some are losing hope:
December 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers
December 26, 2025 at 11:47 AM
sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers
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here you can support the comrades from cissie ghoul house, a 1000 people strong squad, which is part of the housing justice, tenant and shacks movement: reclaimthecity.org.za
Reclaim the City – Land For People Not 4 Profit
reclaimthecity.org.za
December 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
here you can support the comrades from cissie ghoul house, a 1000 people strong squad, which is part of the housing justice, tenant and shacks movement: reclaimthecity.org.za
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It is the annual Making Of The Soup. If you want to feed some folks sleeping rough, I got me two hundred takeout quart containers. And a metric fuckton of tomatoes. And a Vitamix.
Chip in:
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Chime $linda-tirado-3
Happy Christmas to every one
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Chime $linda-tirado-3
Happy Christmas to every one
December 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
It is the annual Making Of The Soup. If you want to feed some folks sleeping rough, I got me two hundred takeout quart containers. And a metric fuckton of tomatoes. And a Vitamix.
Chip in:
Venmo linda-tirado-3
PayPal bootstrapindustries@gmail.com
Chime $linda-tirado-3
Happy Christmas to every one
Chip in:
Venmo linda-tirado-3
PayPal bootstrapindustries@gmail.com
Chime $linda-tirado-3
Happy Christmas to every one
Highly recommended & not just for NYers::
“If we are not to become trapped in a permanent state of melancholy, we need a careful analysis of the state’s enormous capacity for reaction in defense of capital’s interests.”
Sam Stein quoting @monedero.bsky.social
“If we are not to become trapped in a permanent state of melancholy, we need a careful analysis of the state’s enormous capacity for reaction in defense of capital’s interests.”
Sam Stein quoting @monedero.bsky.social
Samuel Stein looks at how New York City Hall is "booby-trapped to prevent progress on housing"—and how mayor-elect Mamdani and his allies can overcome the obstacles. jewishcurrents.org/zohran-mamda...
December 24, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Highly recommended & not just for NYers::
“If we are not to become trapped in a permanent state of melancholy, we need a careful analysis of the state’s enormous capacity for reaction in defense of capital’s interests.”
Sam Stein quoting @monedero.bsky.social
“If we are not to become trapped in a permanent state of melancholy, we need a careful analysis of the state’s enormous capacity for reaction in defense of capital’s interests.”
Sam Stein quoting @monedero.bsky.social
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"Anti-colonial Marxism ... begins from the standpoint of peoples whose land was stolen, whose labor was coerced, whose development was systematically blocked, and whose resistance was met with overwhelming state violence."
Capitalism Did Not Float In on the Market: Chibber, Jacobin, and the Political Function of Western Marxism
How Western Marxism Turns Colonial Violence into “History Theory” to Save the Settler OrderBy Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | December 14, 2025When “History Theory” Becomes an Alibi for Em…
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December 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
"Anti-colonial Marxism ... begins from the standpoint of peoples whose land was stolen, whose labor was coerced, whose development was systematically blocked, and whose resistance was met with overwhelming state violence."
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Pls share: Applications open for Summer Institute in Economic Geography, Toronto, 5-10 July 2026
Featuring: Lars Coenen, Karen Lai, Devika Narayan and Stefan Ouma
Early career economic geographers (broadly defined) are welcome to apply. Stipends available. www.econgeog.net/Toronto2026
Featuring: Lars Coenen, Karen Lai, Devika Narayan and Stefan Ouma
Early career economic geographers (broadly defined) are welcome to apply. Stipends available. www.econgeog.net/Toronto2026
Toronto 2026 | Summer Institute in Economic Geography
www.econgeog.net
October 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Pls share: Applications open for Summer Institute in Economic Geography, Toronto, 5-10 July 2026
Featuring: Lars Coenen, Karen Lai, Devika Narayan and Stefan Ouma
Early career economic geographers (broadly defined) are welcome to apply. Stipends available. www.econgeog.net/Toronto2026
Featuring: Lars Coenen, Karen Lai, Devika Narayan and Stefan Ouma
Early career economic geographers (broadly defined) are welcome to apply. Stipends available. www.econgeog.net/Toronto2026
communists against prisons
December 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
communists against prisons
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