Oscar Talbot
@talboto.bsky.social
PhD at Uni of Amsterdam
Abolition Ecology and all things to do with power, ecology, and climate collapse
Abolition Ecology and all things to do with power, ecology, and climate collapse
Made some babka yesterday
February 1, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Made some babka yesterday
I helped organise a reading group on abolition with the university of Rojava. Those students I read and studied with are now in a fight for survival against fascism from the north and the south.
Solidarity with Rojava and the Kurdish people
www.jadaliyya.com/Details/4712...
Solidarity with Rojava and the Kurdish people
www.jadaliyya.com/Details/4712...
A Call for Solidarity from the Universities in Rojava/Northern and Eastern Syria
[The following statement was issued by the Universities in Rojava/Northern and Eastern Syria (University of Rojava, Kobani University, and University of Al-Sharq) on 22 January 2026.]
We, the faculty,...
www.jadaliyya.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:21 AM
I helped organise a reading group on abolition with the university of Rojava. Those students I read and studied with are now in a fight for survival against fascism from the north and the south.
Solidarity with Rojava and the Kurdish people
www.jadaliyya.com/Details/4712...
Solidarity with Rojava and the Kurdish people
www.jadaliyya.com/Details/4712...
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Everyone vs ICE: On the Ground in Minnesota
Important episode & reporting by @jamesstout.bsky.social & @margaret.bsky.social out now
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www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
Important episode & reporting by @jamesstout.bsky.social & @margaret.bsky.social out now
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
Everyone vs ICE: On the Ground In Minnesota
Podcast Episode · It Could Happen Here · 01/27/2026 · 57m
podcasts.apple.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:06 AM
Everyone vs ICE: On the Ground in Minnesota
Important episode & reporting by @jamesstout.bsky.social & @margaret.bsky.social out now
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
Important episode & reporting by @jamesstout.bsky.social & @margaret.bsky.social out now
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
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THREAD. Is the problem with global warming that Exxon executives need to get "better training" on the science of climate change?
January 26, 2026 at 6:36 PM
THREAD. Is the problem with global warming that Exxon executives need to get "better training" on the science of climate change?
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There is no "immigration problem"
There is no migrant problem
There is no problem with illegals
There is no border crisis
Only a problem of the border and the machinery of death that upholds it.
There is no migrant problem
There is no problem with illegals
There is no border crisis
Only a problem of the border and the machinery of death that upholds it.
January 24, 2026 at 10:05 PM
There is no "immigration problem"
There is no migrant problem
There is no problem with illegals
There is no border crisis
Only a problem of the border and the machinery of death that upholds it.
There is no migrant problem
There is no problem with illegals
There is no border crisis
Only a problem of the border and the machinery of death that upholds it.
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wilde tegen iedereen die zich drukt maakt om ICE, dat als uit de kluiten gewassen borderpatrol gerust buitenproportioneel geweld gebruikt maar juridisch onbegrensd lijkt, alleen nog zeggen: houd in Europa je blik scherp op Frontex.
pointer.kro-ncrv.nl/frontex-baas...
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January 25, 2026 at 3:31 PM
wilde tegen iedereen die zich drukt maakt om ICE, dat als uit de kluiten gewassen borderpatrol gerust buitenproportioneel geweld gebruikt maar juridisch onbegrensd lijkt, alleen nog zeggen: houd in Europa je blik scherp op Frontex.
pointer.kro-ncrv.nl/frontex-baas...
pointer.kro-ncrv.nl/frontex-baas...
No Time for Love If They Come in the Morning
YouTube video by Jack Warshaw
youtu.be
January 25, 2026 at 11:16 AM
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After murdering a man, ICE has fled the area, making Minneapolis police take over crowd control.
Without the complicity of local and state police who supposedly answer to Democrat politicians, ICE would not be able to continue kidnapping and killing people.
Begin by pressuring local authorities.
Without the complicity of local and state police who supposedly answer to Democrat politicians, ICE would not be able to continue kidnapping and killing people.
Begin by pressuring local authorities.
January 24, 2026 at 6:59 PM
After murdering a man, ICE has fled the area, making Minneapolis police take over crowd control.
Without the complicity of local and state police who supposedly answer to Democrat politicians, ICE would not be able to continue kidnapping and killing people.
Begin by pressuring local authorities.
Without the complicity of local and state police who supposedly answer to Democrat politicians, ICE would not be able to continue kidnapping and killing people.
Begin by pressuring local authorities.
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What the hell? The YPJ Information & Documentation Office @ypj.bsky.social has been suspended.
In the midst of the attacks on Rojava.
@safety.bsky.app what are you playing at?
In the midst of the attacks on Rojava.
@safety.bsky.app what are you playing at?
January 24, 2026 at 11:07 AM
What the hell? The YPJ Information & Documentation Office @ypj.bsky.social has been suspended.
In the midst of the attacks on Rojava.
@safety.bsky.app what are you playing at?
In the midst of the attacks on Rojava.
@safety.bsky.app what are you playing at?
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What is extreme cold like in prison?
"My cell was like a walk-in freezer... I taped cardboard across the vent using sanitary pads and propped my travel-sized blow dryer on the high setting in my toilet hole roll as a portable heater"
By @kwanetaharris.bsky.social:
"My cell was like a walk-in freezer... I taped cardboard across the vent using sanitary pads and propped my travel-sized blow dryer on the high setting in my toilet hole roll as a portable heater"
By @kwanetaharris.bsky.social:
‘It never warms up’: Surviving extreme cold in Texas prisons
Despite Texas’ surplus budget, the state’s most vulnerable residents are at the greatest risk of extreme weather from climate change
prismreports.org
January 23, 2026 at 12:20 PM
What is extreme cold like in prison?
"My cell was like a walk-in freezer... I taped cardboard across the vent using sanitary pads and propped my travel-sized blow dryer on the high setting in my toilet hole roll as a portable heater"
By @kwanetaharris.bsky.social:
"My cell was like a walk-in freezer... I taped cardboard across the vent using sanitary pads and propped my travel-sized blow dryer on the high setting in my toilet hole roll as a portable heater"
By @kwanetaharris.bsky.social:
Kurdish groups have, once again, been betrayed and used as pawns by imperial powers.
Jin jiyan azidi
Jin jiyan azidi
Rojava, the largest actually-democratic project in the world, has entered what might (or might not) be a last desperate stand.
After the failure of negotiations in Damascus, a general mobilization has begun in Rojava. Youth from northern Kurdistan appear To have crossed the border to join the defence. it feels like 2014 again, complete with horrific executions of SDF prisoners.
January 20, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Kurdish groups have, once again, been betrayed and used as pawns by imperial powers.
Jin jiyan azidi
Jin jiyan azidi
Once again, it’s amazing how national defence always seems to mean funnelling money to the military industrial complex and yet core parts of national infrastructure are left vulnerable or degraded. NATO has always been a smokescreen for extraction and precarity
Een groep wetenschappers, opiniemakers en organisaties eist duidelijkheid over de Amerikaanse overname van Solvinity, het bedrijf achter DigiD. Economische Zaken onderzoekt de overname momenteel, maar wil er niets over zeggen. Juridisch vuurwerk dreigt.
www.ftm.nl/artikelen/pr...
www.ftm.nl/artikelen/pr...
Prominenten komen in actie tegen Amerikaanse overname van DigiD-leverancier
Een groep wetenschappers, opiniemakers en organisaties eist duidelijkheid over de Amerikaanse overname van Solvinity, het bedrijf achter DigiD. Economische Zaken onderzoekt of de nationale veiligheid ...
www.ftm.nl
January 15, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Once again, it’s amazing how national defence always seems to mean funnelling money to the military industrial complex and yet core parts of national infrastructure are left vulnerable or degraded. NATO has always been a smokescreen for extraction and precarity
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Demonstrators apparently retrieved from the cars belonging to ICE these "challenge coins" that ICE mercenaries receive when they carry out arrests.
This one is decorated with a skull wearing a crown.
ICE mercenaries serve king death. They are evil incarnate.
This one is decorated with a skull wearing a crown.
ICE mercenaries serve king death. They are evil incarnate.
January 15, 2026 at 5:20 AM
Demonstrators apparently retrieved from the cars belonging to ICE these "challenge coins" that ICE mercenaries receive when they carry out arrests.
This one is decorated with a skull wearing a crown.
ICE mercenaries serve king death. They are evil incarnate.
This one is decorated with a skull wearing a crown.
ICE mercenaries serve king death. They are evil incarnate.
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As PBS and mainstream pundits and Democrats call for more money to ICE for "training," here's what's happening in the real world:
January 9, 2026 at 4:02 PM
As PBS and mainstream pundits and Democrats call for more money to ICE for "training," here's what's happening in the real world:
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Seems like a good day to repost this text that I wrote in 2020.
Paulina Ochoa Espejo | Abolish ICE! – Abolition 13/13Paulina Ochoa Espejo | Abolish ICE! – Abolition 13/13
blogs.law.columbia.edu
January 8, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Seems like a good day to repost this text that I wrote in 2020.
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"Yeah, lads, just drop this at midnight while WW3 is unfolding, and with any luck, Minneapolis will be on fire, or Greenland will have been invaded by the morning, and no one will ever know about the story about why our police force is infested with rapists."
Failure to properly vet officers resulted in serial rapists within Met ranks, review finds
Abandoning checks on staff and officers was ‘a dereliction of the Met’s duty to keep London safe’, says home secretary
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2026 at 1:00 AM
"Yeah, lads, just drop this at midnight while WW3 is unfolding, and with any luck, Minneapolis will be on fire, or Greenland will have been invaded by the morning, and no one will ever know about the story about why our police force is infested with rapists."
Anna's Archive ran a competition to map all the ISBN's they have archived, and the results are very beautiful annas-archive.li/blog/all-isb...
Winners of the $10,000 ISBN visualization bounty
TL;DR: We got some incredible submissions to the $10,000 ISBN visualization bounty.
annas-archive.li
January 7, 2026 at 10:55 AM
Anna's Archive ran a competition to map all the ISBN's they have archived, and the results are very beautiful annas-archive.li/blog/all-isb...
The Libya protocol
“'You would have no command and control over the military and no police force,' he said. 'You’d have looting and chaos.' Any U.S. military deployment meant to stabilize the country would probably require tens of thousands of troops, he said."
U.S. Ran a War Game on Ousting Maduro. Venezuela Fell Into Chaos.
www.nytimes.com
January 3, 2026 at 8:11 PM
The Libya protocol
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Herman Misset, 1904, Tom (via AT5) 2026. #vondelker
January 1, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Herman Misset, 1904, Tom (via AT5) 2026. #vondelker
It’s kind of amazing to have lived through large sections of American domestic or foreign policy, from Cambodia to Vietnam to Iraq or El Salvador and still say something like this
Harrison Ford:
“Trump doesn't have any policies, he has whims. It scares the shit out of me.
The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy.
Trump knows better … he's making money … while the world goes to hell…
It's unbelievable. I don't know of a greater criminal in history"
“Trump doesn't have any policies, he has whims. It scares the shit out of me.
The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy.
Trump knows better … he's making money … while the world goes to hell…
It's unbelievable. I don't know of a greater criminal in history"
December 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
It’s kind of amazing to have lived through large sections of American domestic or foreign policy, from Cambodia to Vietnam to Iraq or El Salvador and still say something like this
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‘There are young people dying in British jails again’ — Kneecap say what the world is ignoring m.independent.ie/opinion/naoi...
Naoise Dolan: ‘There are young people dying in British jails again’ — Kneecap say what the world is ignoring
It was late in the night when Kneecap began speaking about the Palestine Action hunger strike. The concert was last Tuesday at the 3Arena and with thousands of us packed in, I was to the right of the...
m.independent.ie
December 21, 2025 at 9:53 AM
‘There are young people dying in British jails again’ — Kneecap say what the world is ignoring m.independent.ie/opinion/naoi...
Former head of the Met police showing typical affinity for numbers that has won them all their due respect.
“I do not believe that cyclists are a group of people who are more criminal than the rest of society or than any other road users. However, they are less accountable than people who drive buses and cars, and general deterrence theory does not work for them,” said former Met head Lord Hogan-Howe
“Arrogant” cyclists riding at 70mph are ignoring police and making pavements “as dangerous as the road”, House of Lords told
During a debate on the Crime and Policing Bill, former Met Police head Lord Hogan-Howe reiterated his calls for bike number plates, while other peers claimed that the “threat” had shifted from “Lycra ...
road.cc
December 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Former head of the Met police showing typical affinity for numbers that has won them all their due respect.
Finished this today
December 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Finished this today
"Every border implies the violence of its maintenance" Ayesha A. Siddiqi
In case you missed it: “Horrifying” levels of state violence at UK-France border detailed in new report | Sonia Lenegan
"Horrifying" levels of state violence at UK-France border detailed in new report - Free Movement
Humans for Rights Network has published a new report “You can’t stay but you can’t go” - State violence at the UK-France border, evidencing the levels of
freemovement.org.uk
December 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
"Every border implies the violence of its maintenance" Ayesha A. Siddiqi