M. E. O'Brien
@genderhorizon.com
author. towards trans communist futures. Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care (Pluto, 2023) and Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 (Common Notions, 2022). Editor at Pinko
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M. E. O'Brien
@genderhorizon.com
· Jun 30
Project 2052 — Common Notions Press
Project 2052 is a website of revolutionary speculative short fiction, visual art and poetry, set in the world of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072.
www.commonnotions.org
We’re launching a website of revolutionary speculative fiction, art and poetry set in the world of Everything for Everyone! We’re calling it Project 2052. To support author honoraria, subscribe as a sustainer, make a one-time donation, or pitch a story here: www.commonnotions.org/project2052.
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Just a reminder that the UC system was not a party in this litigation. Faculty, staff and the @aaup.org fought on their own. UCLA, and the entire UC system, should be ashamed of themselves, and their leaders should be reminded of their submissives every day.
NEW: The Trump administration has dropped its appeal of a federal court order blocking its $1.2-billion settlement demand to UCLA over alleged campus civil rights violations: www.latimes.com/california/s...
Trump administration drops its appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement
The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. But it ...
www.latimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Just a reminder that the UC system was not a party in this litigation. Faculty, staff and the @aaup.org fought on their own. UCLA, and the entire UC system, should be ashamed of themselves, and their leaders should be reminded of their submissives every day.
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Happy Valentine’s Day, from us to you. Tag your exes. Xoxox
February 14, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Happy Valentine’s Day, from us to you. Tag your exes. Xoxox
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“The Trump administration’s decision to not appeal this preliminary injunction means that for the foreseeable future, they cannot use civil rights laws or federal funding as a cudgel to remake the UC in its ideological image.”
—Veena Dubal, AAUP General Counsel
—Veena Dubal, AAUP General Counsel
Trump administration drops appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement
The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. It will...
www.latimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 5:30 PM
“The Trump administration’s decision to not appeal this preliminary injunction means that for the foreseeable future, they cannot use civil rights laws or federal funding as a cudgel to remake the UC in its ideological image.”
—Veena Dubal, AAUP General Counsel
—Veena Dubal, AAUP General Counsel
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“They were hellbent on not allowing anybody to help him until he was dead,” she said. interc.pt/4bVVAG2
February 14, 2026 at 3:35 PM
“They were hellbent on not allowing anybody to help him until he was dead,” she said. interc.pt/4bVVAG2
To read later
A meditation on civil war in America, first circulated by hand in the immediate aftermath of the murder of Alex Pretti.
illwill.com/see-ice-add-...
illwill.com/see-ice-add-...
February 14, 2026 at 3:43 PM
To read later
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Crips for eSIMs is still sending and topping up eSIMs for people in Gaza - the project is in the red right now (including our UK team).
Please share widely - US / Canada / UK specific links in the description: chuffed.org/project/crip...
Please share widely - US / Canada / UK specific links in the description: chuffed.org/project/crip...
Crips for eSims for Gaza
Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.
chuffed.org
December 29, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Crips for eSIMs is still sending and topping up eSIMs for people in Gaza - the project is in the red right now (including our UK team).
Please share widely - US / Canada / UK specific links in the description: chuffed.org/project/crip...
Please share widely - US / Canada / UK specific links in the description: chuffed.org/project/crip...
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Much of my youth revolved around the website ZineLibrary. It went down around Occupy in a massive loss for a movement whose ideas and knowledge mostly doesn't circulate online but in person.
Anyway I've put it back online with a *thousand* anarchist zines:
zinelibrary.org
Anyway I've put it back online with a *thousand* anarchist zines:
zinelibrary.org
ZineLibrary
zinelibrary.org
February 14, 2026 at 12:53 AM
Much of my youth revolved around the website ZineLibrary. It went down around Occupy in a massive loss for a movement whose ideas and knowledge mostly doesn't circulate online but in person.
Anyway I've put it back online with a *thousand* anarchist zines:
zinelibrary.org
Anyway I've put it back online with a *thousand* anarchist zines:
zinelibrary.org
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Literal atrocities being carried out in our names every single day
Abolish DHS, raze it from top to bottom, blacklist its architects and leaders, embrace the broadest reparative vision possible
Abolish DHS, raze it from top to bottom, blacklist its architects and leaders, embrace the broadest reparative vision possible
Amalia, 18 months, "nearly died" at Dilley migrant family jail, a lawyer for her family said in a statement to @people.com: people.com/toddler-hosp...
Toddler, Hospitalized with Life-Threatening Respiratory Failure, Was Returned to ICE Detention and Denied Prescribed Meds
A toddler at an ICE detention center in Texas was rushed to the hospital with respiratory failure, pneumonia and more, and when the 18-month-old and her parents had to return to the center, ICE office...
people.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Literal atrocities being carried out in our names every single day
Abolish DHS, raze it from top to bottom, blacklist its architects and leaders, embrace the broadest reparative vision possible
Abolish DHS, raze it from top to bottom, blacklist its architects and leaders, embrace the broadest reparative vision possible
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On the Scavengers Reign planet, you eat this little guy and he reconstitutes himself, and starts piloting you from the inside.
He keeps you conscious, makes you kill your sleeping companions, then shit his seeds into the wounds. Unfortunately for your shattered psyche, it feels orgasmic.
He keeps you conscious, makes you kill your sleeping companions, then shit his seeds into the wounds. Unfortunately for your shattered psyche, it feels orgasmic.
February 10, 2026 at 5:52 AM
On the Scavengers Reign planet, you eat this little guy and he reconstitutes himself, and starts piloting you from the inside.
He keeps you conscious, makes you kill your sleeping companions, then shit his seeds into the wounds. Unfortunately for your shattered psyche, it feels orgasmic.
He keeps you conscious, makes you kill your sleeping companions, then shit his seeds into the wounds. Unfortunately for your shattered psyche, it feels orgasmic.
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Breaking news: ICE expects to spend $38.3 billion on its plan to acquire warehouses across the U.S. and retrofit them into immigrant detention centers that can hold tens of thousands of people, according to agency documents.
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Breaking news: ICE expects to spend $38.3 billion on its plan to acquire warehouses across the U.S. and retrofit them into immigrant detention centers that can hold tens of thousands of people, according to agency documents.
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Moon palace has done it again
February 13, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Moon palace has done it again
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Number 382: Better Better Help Therapy, a service that will tweet therapy questions at people who might be psychologists online and then let you know if they say anything back
March 17, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Number 382: Better Better Help Therapy, a service that will tweet therapy questions at people who might be psychologists online and then let you know if they say anything back
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Following a rank-and-file revolt, nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian voted to extend their strike.
Meanwhile, nurses at Mount Sinai and Montefiore approved their contracts and will return to work this weekend.
More here: www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/11/n...
Meanwhile, nurses at Mount Sinai and Montefiore approved their contracts and will return to work this weekend.
More here: www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/11/n...
February 12, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Following a rank-and-file revolt, nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian voted to extend their strike.
Meanwhile, nurses at Mount Sinai and Montefiore approved their contracts and will return to work this weekend.
More here: www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/11/n...
Meanwhile, nurses at Mount Sinai and Montefiore approved their contracts and will return to work this weekend.
More here: www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/11/n...
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This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 2:26 AM
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
It somehow makes so much sense that a major city’s airport was in chaos because border patrol got excited about a big fancy laser they had borrowed
February 12, 2026 at 2:36 AM
It somehow makes so much sense that a major city’s airport was in chaos because border patrol got excited about a big fancy laser they had borrowed
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I still keep ending up doing the same miserable "hey we shouldn't use this rhetoric it is actively harmful to any sort of values of cross-oppression solidarity and internationalism" talk to people who have been around for long enough to have seen me doing it pushing 2 decades.
February 11, 2026 at 3:30 PM
I still keep ending up doing the same miserable "hey we shouldn't use this rhetoric it is actively harmful to any sort of values of cross-oppression solidarity and internationalism" talk to people who have been around for long enough to have seen me doing it pushing 2 decades.
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When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
Building the camps
The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:24 AM
When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
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“If the West wanted to, they could stop this war in about 10 seconds,” Nathaniel Raymond of the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab told Breaking Points, discussing Sudan’s nearly 3-year-long brutal civil & proxy war. He said the U.S. & U.K. have chosen to prioritize their relationship w/ the UAE over...
February 10, 2026 at 7:15 PM
“If the West wanted to, they could stop this war in about 10 seconds,” Nathaniel Raymond of the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab told Breaking Points, discussing Sudan’s nearly 3-year-long brutal civil & proxy war. He said the U.S. & U.K. have chosen to prioritize their relationship w/ the UAE over...
I read posts on here and think this person is very funny. And if they showed up to psychoanalysis I would be quite careful to not interpret too quickly
Bluesky is an excellent defense of the great value of creating psychosis-inclusive cultural spaces. Not kidding
February 10, 2026 at 3:03 AM
I read posts on here and think this person is very funny. And if they showed up to psychoanalysis I would be quite careful to not interpret too quickly
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Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.
An immigration court dropped its case against Turkish graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, a little less than a year after federal agents arrested her on a street near Tufts University
Immigration Court Drops Case Against Tufts Student Rumeysa Ozturk
The Turkish national had been arrested by plainclothes federal officers outside her apartment.
on.wsj.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.
Bluesky is an excellent defense of the great value of creating psychosis-inclusive cultural spaces. Not kidding
February 10, 2026 at 2:58 AM
Bluesky is an excellent defense of the great value of creating psychosis-inclusive cultural spaces. Not kidding
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The best thing about philosophy is that all the great philosophers in history were basically wrong about almost everything, so there's really not that much pressure to be right.
February 6, 2026 at 3:51 PM
The best thing about philosophy is that all the great philosophers in history were basically wrong about almost everything, so there's really not that much pressure to be right.
After we all abolish American football we need to figure out how to keep awesome halftime shows
February 9, 2026 at 12:26 PM
After we all abolish American football we need to figure out how to keep awesome halftime shows
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Abolish Amazon. Abolish billionaires. Abolish ICE. Abolition is the way forward.
A warehouse in south Kansas City could be sold to the federal government to become an ICE detention center. That warehouse, owned by Platform Ventures, had received a $21 million tax incentive from the Port Authority of Kansas City.
Platform Ventures got Port KC tax incentives to build a warehouse. Now they’re selling it to ICE
Platform Ventures pitched a warehouse development as a job creator for south Kansas City. Port KC is concerned that a sale to ICE would undermine job growth in the area.
buff.ly
February 8, 2026 at 11:49 AM
Abolish Amazon. Abolish billionaires. Abolish ICE. Abolition is the way forward.
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Republicans: We will legalize killing 10 puppies a week, per person.
Democrats: absolutely disgusting. you monsters. how about 5
[Next day] Democratic spam text: Will you stand with us to force Republicans to limit Puppy Killing to 5 per person, per week? Please send us $20
Democrats: absolutely disgusting. you monsters. how about 5
[Next day] Democratic spam text: Will you stand with us to force Republicans to limit Puppy Killing to 5 per person, per week? Please send us $20
February 8, 2026 at 5:37 AM
Republicans: We will legalize killing 10 puppies a week, per person.
Democrats: absolutely disgusting. you monsters. how about 5
[Next day] Democratic spam text: Will you stand with us to force Republicans to limit Puppy Killing to 5 per person, per week? Please send us $20
Democrats: absolutely disgusting. you monsters. how about 5
[Next day] Democratic spam text: Will you stand with us to force Republicans to limit Puppy Killing to 5 per person, per week? Please send us $20