julian francis park
@malcontent.bsky.social
Ⓐ☭ • rent abolition w/ https://baytanc.com/ & https://atun-rsia.org/ • movements + poetry + critique • use my name not pronouns • "there is no situation from which there is no way out" • https://jfprk.wordpress.com/
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In "Convivir, a Synonym for Commune?" my latest on @journalspectre.bsky.social I wrote about @city.bsky.social & Leonardo Vilchis's Abolish Rent & Kristin Ross's The Commune Form, starting from a revived communist theme via @tenantpower.bsky.social—the abolition of the separation of town and country
A conspiracy theory I believe in is that two factor ID code numbers sent to text display potentially meaningful patterns. They give me the pleasant feeling of the flarf poetics of old school, pre-"AI" but obviously compute generated spam emails.
November 7, 2025 at 9:37 PM
A conspiracy theory I believe in is that two factor ID code numbers sent to text display potentially meaningful patterns. They give me the pleasant feeling of the flarf poetics of old school, pre-"AI" but obviously compute generated spam emails.
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The fact that they can't get a random sampling of citizens from any city to indict people for interfering with ICE seems more informative than any political poll, tbh
A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters
A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.
news.bloomberglaw.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The fact that they can't get a random sampling of citizens from any city to indict people for interfering with ICE seems more informative than any political poll, tbh
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As ICE storms Chicagoland, Chicago’s organizers speak. Stacy Davis Gates, Benji Hart, Arti Walker-Peddakotla, Ric Wilson, and others discuss ongoing ICE raids, Trump’s threats to send in the National Guard, and the solidarity we need to survive these times. Audio + transcript:
Raids, Retaliation, and Radical Solidarity in Chicago
“History shows us that repression always breeds resistance,” says Chicago organizer Miguel Alvelo Rivera.
truthout.org
September 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
As ICE storms Chicagoland, Chicago’s organizers speak. Stacy Davis Gates, Benji Hart, Arti Walker-Peddakotla, Ric Wilson, and others discuss ongoing ICE raids, Trump’s threats to send in the National Guard, and the solidarity we need to survive these times. Audio + transcript:
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Far-right and neo-Nazis school shooters have carried out numerous deadly attacks this year - many influenced by and posting on, the same websites - yet the mass media and politicians focus on manufactured fantasies of left-wing violence. www.kunc.org/news/2025-09...
Evergreen school shooting suspect posted online about mass shootings and neo-Nazi views, report says
Experts say a teenager suspected in a shooting attack at a suburban Denver high school that left two students in critical condition appeared fascinated with previous mass shootings including Columbine...
www.kunc.org
September 21, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Far-right and neo-Nazis school shooters have carried out numerous deadly attacks this year - many influenced by and posting on, the same websites - yet the mass media and politicians focus on manufactured fantasies of left-wing violence. www.kunc.org/news/2025-09...
To defend the center/left from political & institutional collapse they would need to borrow tactics from left movements or to rally masses of people to themselves, both of which would require some degree of center/left hegemony. That's gone, largely by their own hand.
September 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
To defend the center/left from political & institutional collapse they would need to borrow tactics from left movements or to rally masses of people to themselves, both of which would require some degree of center/left hegemony. That's gone, largely by their own hand.
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Antifa is not an organization, it's an orientation. Anyone can be antifascist. Everyone should be.
PSA: A "Major Terrorist Organization" (MTO) is not a thing. The Immigration and Nationality Act *delegates* power to the State Department to designate *FOREIGN* terrorist organizations (FTOs) based on certain criteria. It doesn't apply to domestic orgs.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
September 18, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Antifa is not an organization, it's an orientation. Anyone can be antifascist. Everyone should be.
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Online SRT lab is in an hour!
QR code in the original poster was broken.
ZOOM LINK HERE 👇🏽
purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/9206239251...
QR code in the original poster was broken.
ZOOM LINK HERE 👇🏽
purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/9206239251...
September 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Online SRT lab is in an hour!
QR code in the original poster was broken.
ZOOM LINK HERE 👇🏽
purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/9206239251...
QR code in the original poster was broken.
ZOOM LINK HERE 👇🏽
purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/9206239251...
I'm not much of a novel reader anymore but an incredible thing about them can be the demonstration that everyday people's conversations are beautiful. Perhaps listening to novels, as I mostly do now, even emphasizes this. The task is to carry this recognition into daily life.
September 4, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I'm not much of a novel reader anymore but an incredible thing about them can be the demonstration that everyday people's conversations are beautiful. Perhaps listening to novels, as I mostly do now, even emphasizes this. The task is to carry this recognition into daily life.
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Labor unions and other organizations organized a march to demand the end to the military occupation of DC today.
August 29, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Labor unions and other organizations organized a march to demand the end to the military occupation of DC today.
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BREAKING
"Several purported detainees at the Alligator Alcatraz migrant prison, and their families, contacted Noticias 23 to report that riots were taking place at this migrant prison in the Florida Everglades."
www.univision.com/local/miami-...
"Several purported detainees at the Alligator Alcatraz migrant prison, and their families, contacted Noticias 23 to report that riots were taking place at this migrant prison in the Florida Everglades."
www.univision.com/local/miami-...
“Muchas personas sangrando”: migrantes denuncian supuestos disturbios en Alcatraz de los Caimanes
Varios supuestos detenidos en la cárcel de migrantes Alcatraz de los Caimanes o Alligator Alcatraz, y sus familiares, se comunicaron con Noticias 23 para denunciarque en esta cárcel de migrantes en lo...
www.univision.com
August 29, 2025 at 4:37 AM
BREAKING
"Several purported detainees at the Alligator Alcatraz migrant prison, and their families, contacted Noticias 23 to report that riots were taking place at this migrant prison in the Florida Everglades."
www.univision.com/local/miami-...
"Several purported detainees at the Alligator Alcatraz migrant prison, and their families, contacted Noticias 23 to report that riots were taking place at this migrant prison in the Florida Everglades."
www.univision.com/local/miami-...
As further national guard deployments loom, along with ongoing DHS human snatching ops, I keep thinking about this sentence from T Derbent (who came to my attention as the author of a history of The German Communist Resistance against fascism).
August 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
As further national guard deployments loom, along with ongoing DHS human snatching ops, I keep thinking about this sentence from T Derbent (who came to my attention as the author of a history of The German Communist Resistance against fascism).
Lateish last night I completely killed the vibe hanging out in the kitchen with my partner when I accidentally went into exhaustive detail recounting the plot of the film Barbarians which I had then just watched and which had thoroughly struck me with dread.
August 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Lateish last night I completely killed the vibe hanging out in the kitchen with my partner when I accidentally went into exhaustive detail recounting the plot of the film Barbarians which I had then just watched and which had thoroughly struck me with dread.
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Many of the men deported to CECOT said they are permanently changed: struggling to sleep, drink water or leave their homes.
One man broke into tears describing how he had a panic attack the first time he walked down a busy Venezuelan street.
One man broke into tears describing how he had a panic attack the first time he walked down a busy Venezuelan street.
What I Witnessed as I Photographed the Disappearances and the Homecomings of My Countrymen
Over the past four months, a photojournalist documented the lives of five families whose sons had been imprisoned in El Salvador, including their long-awaited reunions. CECOT left a mark on the men, t...
www.propublica.org
August 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Many of the men deported to CECOT said they are permanently changed: struggling to sleep, drink water or leave their homes.
One man broke into tears describing how he had a panic attack the first time he walked down a busy Venezuelan street.
One man broke into tears describing how he had a panic attack the first time he walked down a busy Venezuelan street.
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My latest in the new edition of Hammer and Hope.
“An incalculable mix of confidence and consciousness combine in unpredictable ways to give millions of people the belief that they can stop a government on a rampage.” @keeanga.bsky.social
Building an Opposition to Survive the Trump Era
Mass protests have demonstrated a wide range of disagreement with the Trump agenda. But we need smaller local and regional networks to build a more rooted, sustained opposition.
hammerandhope.org
August 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
My latest in the new edition of Hammer and Hope.
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Just turned in my final round of proofs. Guess this is happening for real now. Out November 4th:
August 15, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Just turned in my final round of proofs. Guess this is happening for real now. Out November 4th:
Trying to think about the present relevance of Mike Davis's Prisoners of the American Dream, I slid into a detour thru his late writing. It reminded me that when he passed, I'd hoped someone would assemble a bibliography of his uncollected work. Here's my contribution. Let me know what I missed.
Mike Davis’s Last Years, A Bibliography in Progress: 2020-2022
With some comrades, I am reading Mike Davis’s Prisoners of the American Dream (1986), as a way to understand the pre-history of our present. Doing so has reminded me that after the great Marx…
jfprk.wordpress.com
August 15, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Trying to think about the present relevance of Mike Davis's Prisoners of the American Dream, I slid into a detour thru his late writing. It reminded me that when he passed, I'd hoped someone would assemble a bibliography of his uncollected work. Here's my contribution. Let me know what I missed.
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“The reason is the organized resistance: the people who literally went to war with them in Paramount, in Compton, in Bell and Huntington Park,” said Ron Gochez, a member of Unión del Barrio, an independent political group that patrols neighborhoods to alert residents of immigration sweeps.
"Some immigration experts and community activists cite the organized resistance in L.A. as another reason the numbers of ICE arrests were lower in California than in Texas and even lower than dozens of states by percentage of population."
Texas, Florida hit with far more ICE arrests than California. But that's not the whole story
California arrests lag behind states such as Texas and Florida, because those states started with more arrests. They also have a stronger record of cooperation.
www.latimes.com
August 11, 2025 at 8:34 PM
“The reason is the organized resistance: the people who literally went to war with them in Paramount, in Compton, in Bell and Huntington Park,” said Ron Gochez, a member of Unión del Barrio, an independent political group that patrols neighborhoods to alert residents of immigration sweeps.
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Two things can be true:
1) The President has legal authority over the D.C. police and the D.C. National Guard that he doesn't have *anywhere else* in the country; &
2) Even if this doesn't set a legal precedent, it sets an ominous *political* precedent for pretextually overriding local government.
1) The President has legal authority over the D.C. police and the D.C. National Guard that he doesn't have *anywhere else* in the country; &
2) Even if this doesn't set a legal precedent, it sets an ominous *political* precedent for pretextually overriding local government.
August 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Two things can be true:
1) The President has legal authority over the D.C. police and the D.C. National Guard that he doesn't have *anywhere else* in the country; &
2) Even if this doesn't set a legal precedent, it sets an ominous *political* precedent for pretextually overriding local government.
1) The President has legal authority over the D.C. police and the D.C. National Guard that he doesn't have *anywhere else* in the country; &
2) Even if this doesn't set a legal precedent, it sets an ominous *political* precedent for pretextually overriding local government.
When the nat guard/feds kill someone in DC, probably, it's going to go down. Some have called Trump 2.0 a revenge tour for the 2020 Rebellion, seems more correct today (tho not the whole story). Seems at least likely, that he's hoping to provoke, so he can crush, an uprising.
August 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
When the nat guard/feds kill someone in DC, probably, it's going to go down. Some have called Trump 2.0 a revenge tour for the 2020 Rebellion, seems more correct today (tho not the whole story). Seems at least likely, that he's hoping to provoke, so he can crush, an uprising.
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What Court Order? Federal Agents Keep Raiding LA Workplaces Despite Ban
theintercept.com/2025/08/07/i...
theintercept.com/2025/08/07/i...
What Court Order? Federal Agents Keep Raiding LA Workplaces Despite Ban
Border Patrol agents used a Penske moving truck to storm a Home Depot, despite a court order barring ICE raids at workplaces.
theintercept.com
August 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
What Court Order? Federal Agents Keep Raiding LA Workplaces Despite Ban
theintercept.com/2025/08/07/i...
theintercept.com/2025/08/07/i...
I learned a lot in Nelson Lichtenstein's "The Marxism of Mike Davis," which seems to have been slept on when it dropped last week, perhaps because it was in Jacobin lol. Particularly interesting was the stuff on his NLR era & his course away from a more structural Marxism.
The Marxism of Mike Davis
Historian Nelson Lichtenstein on the life, influences, and “sophisticated yet lucid brand of Marxism” of the late, great writer Mike Davis.
jacobin.com
August 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I learned a lot in Nelson Lichtenstein's "The Marxism of Mike Davis," which seems to have been slept on when it dropped last week, perhaps because it was in Jacobin lol. Particularly interesting was the stuff on his NLR era & his course away from a more structural Marxism.
What I hate most about "Home" isn't that it's a bad song but that it's a perfect artifact of the culture industry of 2010—folksy nostalgia covering lack of depth. If I listen without thinking, it might move me to tears—like an Obama speech from that moment & so much else.
August 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
What I hate most about "Home" isn't that it's a bad song but that it's a perfect artifact of the culture industry of 2010—folksy nostalgia covering lack of depth. If I listen without thinking, it might move me to tears—like an Obama speech from that moment & so much else.
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now published:
The Socialization Debate
Revolutionary Confusion after the German Revolution of 1918
Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal
Volume 46, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 93-122
doi.org/10.5840/gfpj...
The Socialization Debate
Revolutionary Confusion after the German Revolution of 1918
Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal
Volume 46, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 93-122
doi.org/10.5840/gfpj...
August 2, 2025 at 9:24 AM
now published:
The Socialization Debate
Revolutionary Confusion after the German Revolution of 1918
Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal
Volume 46, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 93-122
doi.org/10.5840/gfpj...
The Socialization Debate
Revolutionary Confusion after the German Revolution of 1918
Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal
Volume 46, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 93-122
doi.org/10.5840/gfpj...