Timothy Snyder’s “Do not obey in advance,” serves as a powerful reminder of the dangers of preemptive compliance in the face of authoritarianism. This anticipatory obedience paves the way for oppressive systems by normalizing submission and silencing dissent before it is explicitly required.

Rest in power Nikki Giovanni

Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza a year ago . His words live on:

If I must die, you must live
to tell my story
to sell my things
to buy a piece of cloth and some strings,

(make it white with a long tail)
so that a child, somewhere in Gaza
While

On December 4, 1969, Black Panther leader Fred Hampton was murdered by police.

“We're going to fight racism not with racism, but we're going to fight with solidarity. We say we're not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we're going to fight it with socialism.” From Jacobin