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John Duda
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Abundance!
October 26, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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3) The image on the book cover is pure nightmare fuel once you actually look closely at it:
A black man stands, hat in hand, before a line of police in suits, their faces covered by disturbing white masks
October 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Started in on @alybatt.bsky.social’s “Free Gifts” in anticipation of her event on 10/9 at @redemmas.org w/ @pmbigger.bsky.social. (It’s really good so far!)
The problem with capitalism, in my account, is not just that it destroys nature or unjustly distributes the material harms and benefits of production. Rather, these problems stem from another, second-order problem: that capitalism limits our ability to treat nonhuman nature as something other than a free gift. It constrains our ability, individually and collectively, to make genuine decisions about how to value and relate to the nonhuman world, and to take responsibility for those decisions. Put simply: capitalism limits our freedom.
October 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Great piece from @brentcebul.bsky.social and Michael Glass on the limits of subsidy-driven housing development www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/add...
In the aftermath of the subprime mortgage collapse, the goals of national housing policy have swung from expanding home ownership back to increasing the supply of rental housing. Given the return of this goal, the history of public-private rental housing merits reflection. The midcentury FHA scandals show that loosened regulations and public subsidies—the main planks of today’s abundance agenda—are not enough to deliver sufficient affordable housing. Fred Trump did not just exploit the FHA system; he embodied its core logics of liberalized credit, socialized risk, and privatized profits. Trusting the same class of builders and recycling similar incentive schemes would be a mistake. Because developers, homeowners, and local governments are all deeply invested in maintaining or boosting property values, clearing out regulations and pouring in subsidies risks fuelling the same kind of speculative, profiteering frenzy that defined not only the windfall profits scandal but also the 2008 financial crisis.
September 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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birds/roof
September 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Built a new massive shelf for @redemmas.org to house our expanding quantities of comics, graphic novels, and manga. So many new bins to dig through now.
A big table and shelf unit covered in comics The same shelf, empty
August 30, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Nothing beats when the demand becomes simply the celebration of a fact!
A poster on a door that reads “Freedom for Mahmoud Khalil Now!”
June 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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"Giving the world back to its inhabitants is too big a job for the merely practical."
May 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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This great @boltsmag.org piece on Democratic legislators in Maryland and their betrayal of the state’s immigrants is a profile in abject cowardice. boltsmag.org/maryland-287...
At midnight, to mark the end of the session, balloons and confetti in black, yellow, and red—Maryland state colors—rained down on lawmakers. Taking in this scene from the public gallery were a few dozen devastated immigrant rights advocates, many of whom have been agitating for a 287(g) ban for years, and many of whom are themselves immigrants vulnerable, either personally or by extension of family members, to ICE. They supported the protections that did pass, but saw them as poor consolation. “Legislators are a little drunk on the floor, playing with balloons,” recalled Jackson. “And this big group of immigrants are stunned and silent. They’re crying. … It felt like an abandonment.”
April 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Giving away a little something for Independent Bookstore Day at @redemmas.org
A risographed poster that reads "Abolish ICE" over and over again, next to a picture of an ice pick
April 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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michiganadvance.com/2025/04/09/i...
April 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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My day just got a lot better thanks to @akpress.org
January 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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This quote from a tenant radicalized through the fight to save her own home of five decades is one of the best things I read in 2024 (in @city.bsky.social & Leonardo Vilchis’ excellent “Abolish Rent”)
Acting in community remakes our political orientation to our everyday life. Alcazar explained that participating in the union has transformed her relationship to the idea of "commu-nism," which she once associated with being controlled: Now, she says, it's about having control. "Communist to me is community. Community working together. Common, you have everything in common. That's communism. My dream is that one day not only Flower Drive but all these tenants unions become communist— communist as working together, for one purpose, getting a house for everybody.”
January 6, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Sky before dusk was filled with what I am pretty sure was some sort of swarm of small black drones
December 18, 2024 at 1:38 AM
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Had a chance to take a few pictures inside a 4 story ruin of a building a local worker cooperative is restoring back to housing in West Baltimore
the walls of a severely distressed building with the roof partially missing, looking up through several empty stories to the sky the walls of a severely distressed building with the roof partially missing, looking up through several empty stories to the sky
November 14, 2024 at 2:38 PM
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Got to talk with @ositanwanevu.bsky.social about worker coops and democracy for a nice piece on Baltimore in @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social

inthesetimes.com/article/work...
September 14, 2024 at 12:46 PM
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A goldfinch snacking on a sunflower at the traffic median this morning
September 3, 2024 at 2:21 PM
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This is really clarifying:
July 10, 2024 at 3:58 PM
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They are really best friends
A large dog and a regular sized cat sitting together on a green sofa behind a plant
June 21, 2024 at 4:54 PM
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Big if true
June 20, 2024 at 11:57 AM
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Lovely Father’s Day hike through the fields of milkweed at Jerusalem Mill
Butterfly on milkweed
June 16, 2024 at 11:34 PM
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America’s last shreds of vestigial legitimacy on the world stage are washing up on the shore of Gaza like this busted ass boat.
May 29, 2024 at 1:44 AM
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Unit substation
May 20, 2024 at 1:48 AM
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December 25, 2023 at 4:49 PM
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Spent sometime going through the vault of radical ephemera @redemmas.org this evening.
December 2, 2023 at 1:50 AM