Redpoet
@redpoet.bsky.social
Activist since the 60s. Proudly fighting patriarchy, capitalism, white supremacy, and all forms of bigotry. I am a big fan of Abdullah Ocalan, democratic confederalism, social ecology. Am amateur epidemiologist, emphasis in emerging infectious diseases.
“…On November 22 in Washington, D.C., Dropkick Murphys will stand on a stage at REMOVE THE REGIME. They’re coming because music reaches people speeches can’t...Because fascists don’t shake when you whisper — they shake when the streets roar…”
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LOUDER THAN FASCISM
DROPKICK MURPHYS ARE COMING TO WASHINGTON, D.C. ON 11/22.
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November 19, 2025 at 11:32 PM
“…On November 22 in Washington, D.C., Dropkick Murphys will stand on a stage at REMOVE THE REGIME. They’re coming because music reaches people speeches can’t...Because fascists don’t shake when you whisper — they shake when the streets roar…”
www.closertotheedge.net/p/louder-tha...
www.closertotheedge.net/p/louder-tha...
BAD BUNNY AND THE POLITICS OF JOYFUL RESISTANCE
So here’s to the kind of resistance that doesn’t just demand freedom, but insists on savoring it along the way. Put the article on. Turn the volume up. Let yourself smile. The struggle needs your joy as much as your rage.
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So here’s to the kind of resistance that doesn’t just demand freedom, but insists on savoring it along the way. Put the article on. Turn the volume up. Let yourself smile. The struggle needs your joy as much as your rage.
nacla.org/bad-bunny-an...
November 17, 2025 at 11:37 PM
BAD BUNNY AND THE POLITICS OF JOYFUL RESISTANCE
So here’s to the kind of resistance that doesn’t just demand freedom, but insists on savoring it along the way. Put the article on. Turn the volume up. Let yourself smile. The struggle needs your joy as much as your rage.
nacla.org/bad-bunny-an...
So here’s to the kind of resistance that doesn’t just demand freedom, but insists on savoring it along the way. Put the article on. Turn the volume up. Let yourself smile. The struggle needs your joy as much as your rage.
nacla.org/bad-bunny-an...
The right screams “protect the children!” while tripping over each other to defend the very elites who partied on Epstein’s island, including Donald Trump - a man who boasted about walking in on teenage girls backstage at his beauty pageants. www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...
We Need to Talk About Pedocon Theory
The connection between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein is no accident, but reveals a deep logic at the heart of reactionary politics.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The right screams “protect the children!” while tripping over each other to defend the very elites who partied on Epstein’s island, including Donald Trump - a man who boasted about walking in on teenage girls backstage at his beauty pageants. www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...
“This is not only a crisis of violence but also a crisis of indifference,” wrote Reena Ghelani, CEO of Plan International in Al Jazeera. “Each day the world looks away.”
And the go-to excuse, that Americans lack leverage and influence over the slaughter, is utter BS.”
forward.com/opinion/7829...
And the go-to excuse, that Americans lack leverage and influence over the slaughter, is utter BS.”
forward.com/opinion/7829...
Why won't pro-Palestinian protesters turn their attention to Darfur?
The U.S. has leverage against the UAE, which is arming the militia behind the genocide in Darfur, Sudan. Why aren't we using it?
forward.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
“This is not only a crisis of violence but also a crisis of indifference,” wrote Reena Ghelani, CEO of Plan International in Al Jazeera. “Each day the world looks away.”
And the go-to excuse, that Americans lack leverage and influence over the slaughter, is utter BS.”
forward.com/opinion/7829...
And the go-to excuse, that Americans lack leverage and influence over the slaughter, is utter BS.”
forward.com/opinion/7829...
If you want to see how global power works in 2025, look here: an entire people’s right to independence gets repackaged as an inconvenience to “stability.” The Sahrawi deserve freedom, not another UN-blessed end run around it.
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For 50 Years, Morocco Has Denied Western Sahara Freedom
Morocco has illegally occupied Western Sahara for half a century. From Henry Kissinger to Donald Trump, US government officials have worked tirelessly to help the Moroccan monarchy maintain its oppres...
jacobin.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:06 AM
If you want to see how global power works in 2025, look here: an entire people’s right to independence gets repackaged as an inconvenience to “stability.” The Sahrawi deserve freedom, not another UN-blessed end run around it.
jacobin.com/2025/11/moro...
jacobin.com/2025/11/moro...
What we’re witnessing isn’t Christianity—it’s Christ-washing for empire. And that betrayal doesn’t just wound faith; it poisons politics, deepens cruelty, and helps keep the world as it is: unequal, violent, and spiritually hollow.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/john-fu...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/john-fu...
How the Christian Right Betrays Everything Jesus Ever Said
Author John Fugelsang explains how American conservatives have twisted Christianity into a tool of hatred and domination.
www.currentaffairs.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
What we’re witnessing isn’t Christianity—it’s Christ-washing for empire. And that betrayal doesn’t just wound faith; it poisons politics, deepens cruelty, and helps keep the world as it is: unequal, violent, and spiritually hollow.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/john-fu...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/john-fu...
We are long past the time for polite warnings. The alarm has been blaring for decades, and the ruling class keeps hitting the snooze button while the planet burns and the poor die. Climate change isn’t a “future threat” — it’s a massacre unfolding in real time.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The 2025 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change
Driven by human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, climate change is increasingly claiming
lives and harming people's health worldwide. Mean annual temperatures exceeded 1·5°C
above those of pre-industr...
www.thelancet.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:29 PM
We are long past the time for polite warnings. The alarm has been blaring for decades, and the ruling class keeps hitting the snooze button while the planet burns and the poor die. Climate change isn’t a “future threat” — it’s a massacre unfolding in real time.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
“Cheney’s the kind of man who looks at a burning village and sees a business opportunity.”
-Matt Taibbi, 2011
“Dick Cheney is the kind of man who gives monsters a bad name. If he smiled at me, I’d start counting my organs.”
-Hunter S. Thompson, 2004
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-Matt Taibbi, 2011
“Dick Cheney is the kind of man who gives monsters a bad name. If he smiled at me, I’d start counting my organs.”
-Hunter S. Thompson, 2004
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Dick Cheney’s Legacy Is One of Brutal Carnage
From censoring a report on CIA domestic surveillance to running cover for the Contra War to helping launch the war on terror, Dick Cheney dedicated his life to making sure the US national security sta...
jacobin.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:57 AM
“Cheney’s the kind of man who looks at a burning village and sees a business opportunity.”
-Matt Taibbi, 2011
“Dick Cheney is the kind of man who gives monsters a bad name. If he smiled at me, I’d start counting my organs.”
-Hunter S. Thompson, 2004
jacobin.com/2025/11/chen...
-Matt Taibbi, 2011
“Dick Cheney is the kind of man who gives monsters a bad name. If he smiled at me, I’d start counting my organs.”
-Hunter S. Thompson, 2004
jacobin.com/2025/11/chen...
It seems like every day for the last couple of decades or so I have become more and more disgusting with the ADL…
www.thehandbasket.co/p/zohran-mam...
www.thehandbasket.co/p/zohran-mam...
Mayor Mamdani redefines what it means to hope
His victory has created a harsh contrast between the world we want and the world we have.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 5, 2025 at 11:54 PM
It seems like every day for the last couple of decades or so I have become more and more disgusting with the ADL…
www.thehandbasket.co/p/zohran-mam...
www.thehandbasket.co/p/zohran-mam...
The future of our nation’s health will be built in every act of collective defiance. Because the only real cure for America’s sickness is to end what’s making it sick in the first place. And no dynastic millionaire is going to write that prescription. www.socialistalternative.org/2025/10/17/a...
America Is Sick—RFK Jr. Can’t Cure Us
RFK Jr., now US Secretary of Health and Human Services, has become a key figure in Trump’s domestic agenda and the face of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement. He’s liked by much of Trump’s...
www.socialistalternative.org
November 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM
The future of our nation’s health will be built in every act of collective defiance. Because the only real cure for America’s sickness is to end what’s making it sick in the first place. And no dynastic millionaire is going to write that prescription. www.socialistalternative.org/2025/10/17/a...
Florida’s message to young people is clear: you can question anything except power. The same folks banning books and attacking teachers now want to lecture us on “freedom.” They’re not afraid of Marx — they’re afraid of kids who can read him.
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Florida revives McCarthyism with classroom guidelines on communism
Florida revives McCarthyism with classroom guidelines on communism
enewspaper.tampabay.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Florida’s message to young people is clear: you can question anything except power. The same folks banning books and attacking teachers now want to lecture us on “freedom.” They’re not afraid of Marx — they’re afraid of kids who can read him.
enewspaper.tampabay.com/infinity/art...
enewspaper.tampabay.com/infinity/art...
The fight against segregation in baseball was part of the same long war against American apartheid — a war waged not only by great names, but by ordinary people refusing to play by the rules of white power.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...
The forgotten story of the US soldiers who integrated baseball before Jackie Robinson
Alongside a Jewish, anti-racist pitcher from Brooklyn, Leon Day and Willard Brown played in a remarkable team during a historic wartime tournament
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 10:57 PM
The fight against segregation in baseball was part of the same long war against American apartheid — a war waged not only by great names, but by ordinary people refusing to play by the rules of white power.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...
“What is happening in El Fasher constitutes a true genocide based on ethnicity, met with international and regional indifference and a lack of response commensurate with the magnitude of the massacres being perpetrated against civilians.”
www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/...
www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/...
Mass atrocities in El Fasher, North Darfur – UN Security Council holds emergency session - Dabanga Radio TV Online
Reports of mass atrocities in and around the North Darfur capital El Fasher following the...
www.dabangasudan.org
October 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM
“What is happening in El Fasher constitutes a true genocide based on ethnicity, met with international and regional indifference and a lack of response commensurate with the magnitude of the massacres being perpetrated against civilians.”
www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/...
www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/...
If there’s a lesson here, it’s that revolution rarely files a meeting agenda—it knocks on your door, asks if you can help, and doesn’t care if you’ve got the right vocabulary.
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They Picked Up Each Other’s Children: Chicago’s Spontaneous Resistance
An interview with Kingsley Clarke on resistance against Trump’s War in Chicago. Hard Crackers: Earlier this week the National Guard and ICE were deployed to San Francisco, followed by a flurry of…
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October 28, 2025 at 10:41 PM
If there’s a lesson here, it’s that revolution rarely files a meeting agenda—it knocks on your door, asks if you can help, and doesn’t care if you’ve got the right vocabulary.
hardcrackers.com/they-picked-...
hardcrackers.com/they-picked-...
If there’s justice in this country, it’s currently on back order—with no expected delivery date. The elites keep getting their shipments overnight while the rest of us are told to “check back later.” Santos deserves a padded cell and a long look in the mirror…” www.splicetoday.com/politics-and...
How George Santos Conned America—and Got Away With It
He mugged the truth and sold it on eBay. || John Mac Ghlionn
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October 27, 2025 at 10:46 PM
If there’s justice in this country, it’s currently on back order—with no expected delivery date. The elites keep getting their shipments overnight while the rest of us are told to “check back later.” Santos deserves a padded cell and a long look in the mirror…” www.splicetoday.com/politics-and...
There is a campaign going on in the United States today to simply erase black history. It is obvious that those responsible for the eraser also want to eliminate pretty much all gains African-Americans have made since 1865. Is that frightening enough for you? blackoutreport.org/wp-content/u...
blackoutreport.org
October 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
There is a campaign going on in the United States today to simply erase black history. It is obvious that those responsible for the eraser also want to eliminate pretty much all gains African-Americans have made since 1865. Is that frightening enough for you? blackoutreport.org/wp-content/u...
Skipping the long intro today. Let’s just say the First Amendment walked into Indiana University and said, “We need to talk.”
Re: Censorship of the Indiana Daily Student Newspaper
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Re: Censorship of the Indiana Daily Student Newspaper
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www.rcfp.org
October 22, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Skipping the long intro today. Let’s just say the First Amendment walked into Indiana University and said, “We need to talk.”
Re: Censorship of the Indiana Daily Student Newspaper
www.rcfp.org/wp-content/u...
Re: Censorship of the Indiana Daily Student Newspaper
www.rcfp.org/wp-content/u...
ANTIFA IS NOT AN ORGANIZATION!
Antifascism’s goal is not simply to oppose fascists but to build a world without hierarchy, racism, patriarchy, or the ecological destruction that authoritarian systems require.
www.greensocialthought.org/thinking-pol...
Antifascism’s goal is not simply to oppose fascists but to build a world without hierarchy, racism, patriarchy, or the ecological destruction that authoritarian systems require.
www.greensocialthought.org/thinking-pol...
From 1920s Italy to 1930s Palestine to 1980s Ska Scenes, Antifa Has Many Faces - Green Social Thought
A historian discusses past anti-fascist organizations and practices in light of Trump’s effort to criminalize “antifa.”
www.greensocialthought.org
October 21, 2025 at 11:40 PM
ANTIFA IS NOT AN ORGANIZATION!
Antifascism’s goal is not simply to oppose fascists but to build a world without hierarchy, racism, patriarchy, or the ecological destruction that authoritarian systems require.
www.greensocialthought.org/thinking-pol...
Antifascism’s goal is not simply to oppose fascists but to build a world without hierarchy, racism, patriarchy, or the ecological destruction that authoritarian systems require.
www.greensocialthought.org/thinking-pol...
Whatever happens next, here in Chicago’s neighborhoods people are out on the streets, mobilizing to support their immigrant neighbors and preparing for the long road ahead.”
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newlinesmag.com/reportage/ch...
Chicago Is Pushing Back Against Trump
The spectacular repression of ICE is leading ordinary residents of the Windy City to protest and activism
newlinesmag.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Whatever happens next, here in Chicago’s neighborhoods people are out on the streets, mobilizing to support their immigrant neighbors and preparing for the long road ahead.”
newlinesmag.com/reportage/ch...
newlinesmag.com/reportage/ch...
My fellow Americans….
October 10, 2025 at 11:42 PM
My fellow Americans….
It’s almost too funny watching maga freaking over the Trump administration plans to allow Qatar Air Force jets to park on a base in Idaho. With all the crap making is crazy, I think it’s okay for a moment to sit back and enjoy the internal MAGA shit fest today. www.alternet.org/trump-qatar-...
'Where I draw the line': MAGA furious over Trump allowing foreign military base on US soil
Conservative hard‑liners erupted in outrage Friday after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth greenlit plans for a Qatari air force facility on U.S. soil, accusing the administration of “enabling foreign co...
www.alternet.org
October 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
It’s almost too funny watching maga freaking over the Trump administration plans to allow Qatar Air Force jets to park on a base in Idaho. With all the crap making is crazy, I think it’s okay for a moment to sit back and enjoy the internal MAGA shit fest today. www.alternet.org/trump-qatar-...
I am going with hope that maybe the people of Gaza can go to sleep tonight without the sounds of automatic weapons, bombs and screams. There are problems with the so-called Trump peace plan, but today let’s just enjoy with the people of Gaza the sounds of silence. mondoweiss.net/2025/10/once...
‘Once the war ends, we’ll be able to weep’: joy and trepidation in Gaza as ceasefire goes into effect
Gaza erupted in celebration as a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas was reached on Thursday. But while there has been an outpouring of joy over the prospect of an end to the genocide, many a...
mondoweiss.net
October 9, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I am going with hope that maybe the people of Gaza can go to sleep tonight without the sounds of automatic weapons, bombs and screams. There are problems with the so-called Trump peace plan, but today let’s just enjoy with the people of Gaza the sounds of silence. mondoweiss.net/2025/10/once...
“Their voices, rising from a Moscow courtroom, speak across borders and history, urging us to recognize our own moment and to act before the silence becomes complete.”
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Speeches in court : 10 Russian anti-war activists - Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
At the heart of Voices Against Putin's War are ten speeches made in court by people who opposed Russia's war of aggression in Ukraine, and were (…)
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October 7, 2025 at 10:39 PM
“Their voices, rising from a Moscow courtroom, speak across borders and history, urging us to recognize our own moment and to act before the silence becomes complete.”
www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?art...
www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?art...
And remember this: How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?...”
—— President and General Charles de Gaulle
—— President and General Charles de Gaulle
October 7, 2025 at 4:02 AM
And remember this: How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?...”
—— President and General Charles de Gaulle
—— President and General Charles de Gaulle