🏴Tom Nomad
@creativenothing.bsky.social
Been doing the anarchy thing for a while, and sometimes write things.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/tom-nomad
Work on The Beautiful Idea podcast (https://thebeautiful idea.show)
New book, Ungovernability, released on Rupture Press
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/tom-nomad
Work on The Beautiful Idea podcast (https://thebeautiful idea.show)
New book, Ungovernability, released on Rupture Press
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@creativenothing.bsky.social
· Jun 15
The new book, Ungovernability, has been released!
The book is a collection of 3 pieces:
Ungovernability
Collapse: A Strategic Proposal
A Call for New Lines of Conflict: Confronting the Second Trump Era.
@rupturepress.bsky.social
The book is a collection of 3 pieces:
Ungovernability
Collapse: A Strategic Proposal
A Call for New Lines of Conflict: Confronting the Second Trump Era.
@rupturepress.bsky.social
Today is an important day in the Rustbelt, the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
When I was a kid that story was a constant reminder of the sacrifices the working class makes to keep capitalism functioning, and how easily disposable we are.
youtu.be/FuzTkGyxkYI?...
When I was a kid that story was a constant reminder of the sacrifices the working class makes to keep capitalism functioning, and how easily disposable we are.
youtu.be/FuzTkGyxkYI?...
Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Gordon Lightfoot
youtu.be
November 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Today is an important day in the Rustbelt, the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
When I was a kid that story was a constant reminder of the sacrifices the working class makes to keep capitalism functioning, and how easily disposable we are.
youtu.be/FuzTkGyxkYI?...
When I was a kid that story was a constant reminder of the sacrifices the working class makes to keep capitalism functioning, and how easily disposable we are.
youtu.be/FuzTkGyxkYI?...
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This statement by Iranian, Kurdish, and Afghani feminists argues that we must oppose the US and Israeli assault on Iran while also refusing to endorse the repressive Iranian government.
Genocidal imperialist projects will never liberate us, nor will patriarchal nationalist regimes protect us.
Genocidal imperialist projects will never liberate us, nor will patriarchal nationalist regimes protect us.
"Women, Life, Freedom” against the War
Genocidal imperialist projects will never liberate us, nor will patriarchal nationalist regimes protect us. A statement from Iranian, Kurdish, and Afghani feminists.
crimethinc.com
June 23, 2025 at 7:21 AM
This statement by Iranian, Kurdish, and Afghani feminists argues that we must oppose the US and Israeli assault on Iran while also refusing to endorse the repressive Iranian government.
Genocidal imperialist projects will never liberate us, nor will patriarchal nationalist regimes protect us.
Genocidal imperialist projects will never liberate us, nor will patriarchal nationalist regimes protect us.
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always against the tanks
June 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
always against the tanks
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People can write to Arturo at the address below and donate to his commissary via venmo at A_G_Commissary
Arturo Gamboa 457904
c/o Salt Lake County Metro Jail
3415 S. 900 W.Salt Lake City, UT 84119
Arturo Gamboa 457904
c/o Salt Lake County Metro Jail
3415 S. 900 W.Salt Lake City, UT 84119
June 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
People can write to Arturo at the address below and donate to his commissary via venmo at A_G_Commissary
Arturo Gamboa 457904
c/o Salt Lake County Metro Jail
3415 S. 900 W.Salt Lake City, UT 84119
Arturo Gamboa 457904
c/o Salt Lake County Metro Jail
3415 S. 900 W.Salt Lake City, UT 84119
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The antifascist that was shot by a 50501 protest marshal, and then arrested for the death of the other person shot (and killed) by that yellow vest pos, could use commissary funds.
June 18, 2025 at 1:15 AM
The antifascist that was shot by a 50501 protest marshal, and then arrested for the death of the other person shot (and killed) by that yellow vest pos, could use commissary funds.
Just released the @beautifulidea.bsky.social news roundup for this month!
On this episode we have interviews, a summary of the incredible number of actions from this past month, and a discussion of the National Guard in LA
thebeautifulidea.show/ice-melts-as...
On this episode we have interviews, a summary of the incredible number of actions from this past month, and a discussion of the National Guard in LA
thebeautifulidea.show/ice-melts-as...
ICE Melts as Streets Erupt, Revolt at Delaney Hall Migrant Prison, UW Campus Occupation Against War Profiteers
Welcome back to The Beautiful Idea. So much has happened since we started to put this episode together. We've got a lot to cover, so let's not waste any time and dive right into it!
On today's episod...
thebeautifulidea.show
June 24, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Just released the @beautifulidea.bsky.social news roundup for this month!
On this episode we have interviews, a summary of the incredible number of actions from this past month, and a discussion of the National Guard in LA
thebeautifulidea.show/ice-melts-as...
On this episode we have interviews, a summary of the incredible number of actions from this past month, and a discussion of the National Guard in LA
thebeautifulidea.show/ice-melts-as...
The new book, Ungovernability, has been released!
The book is a collection of 3 pieces:
Ungovernability
Collapse: A Strategic Proposal
A Call for New Lines of Conflict: Confronting the Second Trump Era.
@rupturepress.bsky.social
The book is a collection of 3 pieces:
Ungovernability
Collapse: A Strategic Proposal
A Call for New Lines of Conflict: Confronting the Second Trump Era.
@rupturepress.bsky.social
June 15, 2025 at 1:33 AM
The new book, Ungovernability, has been released!
The book is a collection of 3 pieces:
Ungovernability
Collapse: A Strategic Proposal
A Call for New Lines of Conflict: Confronting the Second Trump Era.
@rupturepress.bsky.social
The book is a collection of 3 pieces:
Ungovernability
Collapse: A Strategic Proposal
A Call for New Lines of Conflict: Confronting the Second Trump Era.
@rupturepress.bsky.social
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June 14, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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We honor the life of Colin Jerwood, singer of the anarcho-punk band Conflict, who contributed to the resurgence of combative anarchism in the 1980s.
"The more you oppress the more we'll resist
We will win because we have to, we've got nothing to lose no more"
-Conflict, "The Ungovernable Force"
"The more you oppress the more we'll resist
We will win because we have to, we've got nothing to lose no more"
-Conflict, "The Ungovernable Force"
Tribute to Colin Jerwood
Dedicated to the memory of Colin Jerwood
colinjerwood.muchloved.com
June 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM
We honor the life of Colin Jerwood, singer of the anarcho-punk band Conflict, who contributed to the resurgence of combative anarchism in the 1980s.
"The more you oppress the more we'll resist
We will win because we have to, we've got nothing to lose no more"
-Conflict, "The Ungovernable Force"
"The more you oppress the more we'll resist
We will win because we have to, we've got nothing to lose no more"
-Conflict, "The Ungovernable Force"
Last week we released a discussion I had with the crew over at subMedia about the history of their project, going back to the 1990s rave scene, the future of anarchist media, and their upcoming documentary series InterRebellium!
Hope you enjoy!
thebeautifulidea.show/interrebelli...
Hope you enjoy!
thebeautifulidea.show/interrebelli...
InterRebellium: A Discussion with subMedia
Join us as we sit down with members of the subMedia Collective to discuss their upcoming series InterRebellium. In this conversation we run down the history of subMedia, beginning in the 90s rave scen...
thebeautifulidea.show
May 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Last week we released a discussion I had with the crew over at subMedia about the history of their project, going back to the 1990s rave scene, the future of anarchist media, and their upcoming documentary series InterRebellium!
Hope you enjoy!
thebeautifulidea.show/interrebelli...
Hope you enjoy!
thebeautifulidea.show/interrebelli...
April 19th was the second anniversary of the death of a close friend who was fighting with an anarchist unit in Ukraine.
Cooper was one of the bravest and most dedicated people I have ever known.
Rest in power Coop!
www.solidaritycollectives.org/en/in-memory...
Cooper was one of the bravest and most dedicated people I have ever known.
Rest in power Coop!
www.solidaritycollectives.org/en/in-memory...
In memory of Cooper Andrews, Finbar Cafferkey and Dimitri Petrov - Solidarity Collectives
Today has been 2 years since our three comrades, Cooper Andrews, Finbar Cafferkey and Dimitri Petrov
www.solidaritycollectives.org
April 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
April 19th was the second anniversary of the death of a close friend who was fighting with an anarchist unit in Ukraine.
Cooper was one of the bravest and most dedicated people I have ever known.
Rest in power Coop!
www.solidaritycollectives.org/en/in-memory...
Cooper was one of the bravest and most dedicated people I have ever known.
Rest in power Coop!
www.solidaritycollectives.org/en/in-memory...
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The best memory for me is if you continue actively struggle, overcoming personal ambitions and unnecessary harmful strife. If you continue to fight actively to achieve a free society based on equality and solidarity. For you and for me and for all our comrades.
-Dmitri Petrov’s final statement
-Dmitri Petrov’s final statement
April 20, 2025 at 2:51 AM
The best memory for me is if you continue actively struggle, overcoming personal ambitions and unnecessary harmful strife. If you continue to fight actively to achieve a free society based on equality and solidarity. For you and for me and for all our comrades.
-Dmitri Petrov’s final statement
-Dmitri Petrov’s final statement
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Leonard Zeskind will be missed. We had the opportunity to speak with him in 2018. May his work continue to be a light in the fight against fascism and white supremacy. itsgoingdown.org/zeskind-hist...
April 18, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Leonard Zeskind will be missed. We had the opportunity to speak with him in 2018. May his work continue to be a light in the fight against fascism and white supremacy. itsgoingdown.org/zeskind-hist...
Just put out our monthly round-up, with a long discussion of tariffs and what we have learned about fighting the regime so far.
thebeautifulidea.show/people-hit-t...
We also just dropped a discussion with Dean Spade!
thebeautifulidea.show/a-discussion...
@igd.bsky.social @beautifulidea.bsky.social
thebeautifulidea.show/people-hit-t...
We also just dropped a discussion with Dean Spade!
thebeautifulidea.show/a-discussion...
@igd.bsky.social @beautifulidea.bsky.social
People Hit the Streets As Trump's Trade War Heats Up
Welcome back to The Beautiful Idea! We're excited to bring you a jam-packed show today and we have some amazing content planned, so be sure to subscribe to the show and follow us on Mastodon and BlueS...
thebeautifulidea.show
April 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Just put out our monthly round-up, with a long discussion of tariffs and what we have learned about fighting the regime so far.
thebeautifulidea.show/people-hit-t...
We also just dropped a discussion with Dean Spade!
thebeautifulidea.show/a-discussion...
@igd.bsky.social @beautifulidea.bsky.social
thebeautifulidea.show/people-hit-t...
We also just dropped a discussion with Dean Spade!
thebeautifulidea.show/a-discussion...
@igd.bsky.social @beautifulidea.bsky.social
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The state relies on us creating a dichotomy between "good protesters" and "bad protesters" and it relies on a misinterpretation of nonviolence in order to get us to do it. When we resist a fascist state, we must resist the fascist state's logic.
margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/without-th...
margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/without-th...
Without the Awful Roar of Its Many Waters
or: False Nonviolence Won't Save You
margaretkilljoy.substack.com
April 15, 2025 at 12:13 PM
The state relies on us creating a dichotomy between "good protesters" and "bad protesters" and it relies on a misinterpretation of nonviolence in order to get us to do it. When we resist a fascist state, we must resist the fascist state's logic.
margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/without-th...
margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/without-th...
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Hey there!
We are Sabotage distro — a project initiated by a group of Belarusian anarchists. We support various anarchist collectives with all profits from the items we sell.
Check out our website sabotage.ninja
We'd really appreciate your support in sharing our distro.
We are Sabotage distro — a project initiated by a group of Belarusian anarchists. We support various anarchist collectives with all profits from the items we sell.
Check out our website sabotage.ninja
We'd really appreciate your support in sharing our distro.
April 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Hey there!
We are Sabotage distro — a project initiated by a group of Belarusian anarchists. We support various anarchist collectives with all profits from the items we sell.
Check out our website sabotage.ninja
We'd really appreciate your support in sharing our distro.
We are Sabotage distro — a project initiated by a group of Belarusian anarchists. We support various anarchist collectives with all profits from the items we sell.
Check out our website sabotage.ninja
We'd really appreciate your support in sharing our distro.
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Stop Cop City Activist, Luigi Mangione Legal Defense Fund Spokesperson, and Party Girls host, Sam Beard, visited at home by FBI.
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April 8, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Stop Cop City Activist, Luigi Mangione Legal Defense Fund Spokesperson, and Party Girls host, Sam Beard, visited at home by FBI.
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Most birds have a fight or flight response.
He forgot we’re flightless birds.
He forgot we’re flightless birds.
April 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Most birds have a fight or flight response.
He forgot we’re flightless birds.
He forgot we’re flightless birds.
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NEW: ‘I have no oxygen’ – Train Crash Leads to Greece’s Biggest Post-War Social Movement
On Feb. 28, 2025, more than a million people protested across Greece. In between volleys of molotov cocktails & tear gas smoke, we heard from several participants in Athens.
unicornriot.ninja/2025/i-have-...
On Feb. 28, 2025, more than a million people protested across Greece. In between volleys of molotov cocktails & tear gas smoke, we heard from several participants in Athens.
unicornriot.ninja/2025/i-have-...
'I have no oxygen' - Train Crash Leads to Greece’s Biggest Post-War Social Movement - UNICORN RIOT
During a general strike in Greece, more than a million people protested against the government's handling of a deadly train crash in 2023.
unicornriot.ninja
April 8, 2025 at 10:51 PM
NEW: ‘I have no oxygen’ – Train Crash Leads to Greece’s Biggest Post-War Social Movement
On Feb. 28, 2025, more than a million people protested across Greece. In between volleys of molotov cocktails & tear gas smoke, we heard from several participants in Athens.
unicornriot.ninja/2025/i-have-...
On Feb. 28, 2025, more than a million people protested across Greece. In between volleys of molotov cocktails & tear gas smoke, we heard from several participants in Athens.
unicornriot.ninja/2025/i-have-...
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An interview with Anton of @solcolua.bsky.social, a Ukrainian anti-authoritarian and anarchist project supporting comrades resisting the Russian invasion and giving aid to civilians and animals suffering in the war
thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/04...
thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/04...
April 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
An interview with Anton of @solcolua.bsky.social, a Ukrainian anti-authoritarian and anarchist project supporting comrades resisting the Russian invasion and giving aid to civilians and animals suffering in the war
thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/04...
thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/04...
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The gang talks about anti-genocide protesters being hunted by ICE, the rendition of Venezuelan immigrants, and how a journalist learned about airstrikes in Yemen from a Trump admin group chat.
@hungrybowtie.bsky.social @iwriteok.bsky.social @jamesstout.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
@hungrybowtie.bsky.social @iwriteok.bsky.social @jamesstout.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
March 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The gang talks about anti-genocide protesters being hunted by ICE, the rendition of Venezuelan immigrants, and how a journalist learned about airstrikes in Yemen from a Trump admin group chat.
@hungrybowtie.bsky.social @iwriteok.bsky.social @jamesstout.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
@hungrybowtie.bsky.social @iwriteok.bsky.social @jamesstout.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
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Those who seek to oppress us are not invincible.
Whatever power they acquire, whatever technology they employ, they make mistakes, they overlook vulnerabilities.
And they are motivated by bigotry and greed, which are not the most powerful forces in the human spirit.
crimethinc.com/ActionResour...
Whatever power they acquire, whatever technology they employ, they make mistakes, they overlook vulnerabilities.
And they are motivated by bigotry and greed, which are not the most powerful forces in the human spirit.
crimethinc.com/ActionResour...
March 31, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Those who seek to oppress us are not invincible.
Whatever power they acquire, whatever technology they employ, they make mistakes, they overlook vulnerabilities.
And they are motivated by bigotry and greed, which are not the most powerful forces in the human spirit.
crimethinc.com/ActionResour...
Whatever power they acquire, whatever technology they employ, they make mistakes, they overlook vulnerabilities.
And they are motivated by bigotry and greed, which are not the most powerful forces in the human spirit.
crimethinc.com/ActionResour...
For a little while now I have been working on a primer on the use of software defined radio for anarchists, and the building of custom emergency radio scanners.
It is VERY rough, but let me know if you find it useful:
git.thecreativenothing.org/tom/SDRPrimer
It is VERY rough, but let me know if you find it useful:
git.thecreativenothing.org/tom/SDRPrimer
SDRPrimer
This repository contains a quick, and unedited, guide for anarchists interested in learning about radio and building a customized police scanner.
git.thecreativenothing.org
March 31, 2025 at 10:01 PM
For a little while now I have been working on a primer on the use of software defined radio for anarchists, and the building of custom emergency radio scanners.
It is VERY rough, but let me know if you find it useful:
git.thecreativenothing.org/tom/SDRPrimer
It is VERY rough, but let me know if you find it useful:
git.thecreativenothing.org/tom/SDRPrimer
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Elites like Musk and Trump push the conspiracy theory that "Soros" is behind protests, because it's central to their ideology that there is no genuine, grassroots resistance movements that oppose them, that everything is an AstroTurf grift, animated by a cabal. itsgoingdown.org/george-soros...
Soros, ‘Globalism,’ and Grassroots Revolt: How the Right Uses Conspiracy Theories to Appear Revolutionary
In the 1990s and into the early 2000s, a global movement against corporate globalization and neoliberal capitalism developed, with anti-authoritarian and anarchist politics at it's head. In 1994, the ...
itsgoingdown.org
March 31, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Elites like Musk and Trump push the conspiracy theory that "Soros" is behind protests, because it's central to their ideology that there is no genuine, grassroots resistance movements that oppose them, that everything is an AstroTurf grift, animated by a cabal. itsgoingdown.org/george-soros...
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Clashes continue in Indonesia as people protest the law reintroducing military control of civilian affairs.
This footage is from Surabaya where a thousand people confronted police, displaying signs reading “Reject the Military Law” and “The Military Should Return to the Barracks.”
This footage is from Surabaya where a thousand people confronted police, displaying signs reading “Reject the Military Law” and “The Military Should Return to the Barracks.”
March 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Clashes continue in Indonesia as people protest the law reintroducing military control of civilian affairs.
This footage is from Surabaya where a thousand people confronted police, displaying signs reading “Reject the Military Law” and “The Military Should Return to the Barracks.”
This footage is from Surabaya where a thousand people confronted police, displaying signs reading “Reject the Military Law” and “The Military Should Return to the Barracks.”