July 4 is a very good day to be at @socialismconference.org

~Three Years Sober~
Recovery is no life free of need, conflict, or despair. Sobriety does not mean I only ever reach for wholesome antidotes to pangs of want. It does not mean that I never miss alcohol. 
But I rarely do. In fact, recovery is barely about alcohol at all.

Y’all, the Left version of Project 2025 is not it.

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Abolition is my parenting philosophy. Parenting reinforces my abolitionist convictions. That’s the subject of my latest essay, inspired by @mayaschenwar.bsky.social and Kim Wilson’s stunning anthology, We Grow the World Together.
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#abolition #parenting

Nonprofit workers suffer from the industry's reinforcement of capitalism and all its carceral cousins. This lurks at the root of so much burnout that everyone recognizes but fewer will name as such.

Halfway through @mayaschenwar.bsky.social & Kim Wilson’s “We Grow the World Together,” I’m struck by a simple realization. Yes, I’m raising my kids with abolitionist politics. Yes, abolition touches every part of how we relate to each other in our little triad, especially in conflict. But also:

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Union baristas are calling on EVERYONE to NOT buy from ANY Starbucks store between Dec. 20 -Dec. 24 while the workers are on strike! Here’s how to support: x.com/sbworkersuni...

Brilliant.

Clemency is welcome, but the justifications always reinforce carceral logic - that cages are necessary for all but a few who demonstrate benefit to capitalism thru productivity and charity, and the lie that prisons serve the purpose of rehabilitation. This too is the prison industrial complex.

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22% of tenants spend 100% of their income on rent.

That’s 10 million households spending everything they earn on a place to live.

The rent is too damn high and something's gotta give. The question isn’t whether tenants will revolt, but whether it’s from a place of desperation or power.

In the next four years, tenant unions will deepen their organizing. They'll win safer homes, fairer leases, and local regulatory policies, all of which can build the blueprint for national change.

Great to write some on this and more w/ @taraghuveer.bsky.social in @theprospect.bsky.social

“War criminal” is an unhelpful framing of the violence and genocide for which Bibi, Biden, and others are responsible. It reinforces just war theory, the notion that ethical warfare can exist under certain parameters, and it reproduces stereotypes about “criminals” that are rooted in anti-Blackness.

I may risk romanticizing indigeneity, but I’m trying to take Indigenous activists seriously when they show us a better way to be human. And it seems sound advice in this apocalyptic moment.
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This meme about how you want Trump in jail but I want him AND Bush and Obama and Clinton etc in jail is not it. We can make the same point without legitimizing carceral language.