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malialoke
@malialoke.bsky.social
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mom, historian, former educator, queer.
trans rights are human rights.
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Crisis and Warm Lines that Don’t Call Police or ICE Call Blackline 1-800-604-5841 Centers Black, LGBTQI, Brown, Native, and Muslim community. Trans Lifeline 1-877-565-8860 Run by and for Trans people Wildflower Alliance Peer Support Line 1-888-407-4515 Trained peer supporters answer the call line StrongHearts Native Helpline 1-844-762-8483 Centers Native Americans & Alaska Natives Thrive Lifeline 1-313-662-8209 24/7 Trans-led and operated LGBT National Help Center 1-888-843-4564 Source: Inclusive Therapists https://www.inclusivetherapists.com/
September 27, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Tiled mural on a building of five calavera skulls with text that reads: "You can kill a revolution but you can't kill the revolution. - Fred Hampton"
May 17, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Trans moms are moms. I had two children surgically cut out of my body to give birth and some women argue that makes me less of a mom somehow. Loving and supporting your kids -- however they're yours -- is what makes a true mom. Happy Mother's Day to every mom who makes a child's life better.
May 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Here's the table of contents, with alt text.
I. GET STARTED 1. Learn about Far Right movements 2. Find collaborators 3. Keep an eye on the local Far Right II. TAKE ACTION 4. Release your research 5. Remove and replace Far Right propaganda 6. Push public groups to oppose fascism 7. Make it difficult for Far Right groups to meet 8. Refute their lies 9. Use the court system 10. Expose fascists at home and work 11. Deplatform fascism online 12. Prevent the Far Right from crashing progressive events 13. Drive wedges between individuals and groups 14. Find new collaborators 15. Organize anti-racist bar crawls 16. Help fascists become formers III. BE PROACTIVE 17. Get your message out first 18. Build educational programs 19. Hold memorial events 20. Make a spectacle 21. Organize trainings and resource fairs 22. Form an emergency response team 23. Recruit early and often 24. Fundraise before you need it IV. COUNTER-DEMONSTRATE 25. Win public opinion 26. Push local officials to do the right thing 27. Organize counter-demonstrations 28. Pressure local business and rental spaces 29. Document their rallies 30. Don’t be outgunned 31. Call out fascists and call in colleagues V. BE SUPPORTIVE 32. Support people being threatened 33. Establish a safe house 34. Help the families of victims 35. Aid the injured 36. Support those targeted by the law 37. Support imprisoned activists 38. Warn people who are threatened 39. Publicize threats and attacks 40. Support communities pushing back against fascist recruitment Bonus Round: Show your larger political vision. APPENDIX: RESOURCES
April 25, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Via email today: "The U.S. Department of Arts and Culture rejects the authoritarian repression that our colleagues in other (real, I guess) agencies are being forced to undertake... we are horrified at the use of free expression as grounds for incarceration, deportation and other forms of violence."
The U.S. Department of Arts and Culture rejects the authoritarian repression that our colleagues in other (real, I guess) agencies are being forced to undertake. As a people-powered agency made up of artists and organizers, we are horrified at the use of free expression as grounds for incarceration, deportation and other forms of violence. The USDAC believes that artists have a responsibility to shed light on, and intervene in, injustice in our communities. For that reason— and because weirdly nobody from DOGE has reached out to us, rude— we are doing what other agencies aren’t: calling on artists across the country to resist the feeling of overwhelm, deny the apathy, reject the “oh you’re overreacting” dorks, and put your creative energy to use for your neighbors far and wide. We want you. Yes, you: the butterfly stained glass maker, and you: the guy who makes sculptures out of rusted septic tanks, and yes, even you: the EDM DJ. Many of the challenges right now are cultural attacks: dismantling of art centers, attacks on museums and university funding, as well as literally erasing the stories of Black trailblazers, and banning words related to anything other than the dominant caste. We have to rise to these challenges with cultural solutions. We are calling on artists to bring out the voices of those on the defense: neighbors facing deportation, terminated federal workers, trans and queer family members under attack. Bring them into your practice and amplify that wisdom. The USDAC reaffirms the position that any American who has ever performed or listened to a Native Land Acknowledgement can not ethically support the deportation of any person. The current deportation battle is also a cultural one: an effort to create a nation of the “right” people, banishing all others and building a wall between “us” and “the other.” And remember, this democracy is young. Many claim that the United States is celebrating its 250th anniversary. But until the 1965 passage of the…
April 16, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Got my first order from ColorCollectivePress.com today and highly recommend. Really lovely, and definitely plan to buy everything else they offer soon.
Row 1: A Black Feminist Statement by the Combahee River Collective (1977), The Six Declarations of the Lacandon Jungle by the Zapatistas and EZLN (1994-2005), Lest We Forget by Safiya A. Bukhari (1981), Ideology, Platform, and 10-Point Program by the Black Panther Party (1967), Ideology, Platform, and the 13-Point Program by the Young Lord's (1972) Row 2: Organization Means Commitment by Grace Lee Boggs (1972), Imperialism, Neocolonialism and Africa by Shirley Graham Dubois (1970), Fred Hampton Speaks! (1969), Imperialism is Doomed by Che Guevara (1964), Revolutionary Intercommunalism by Huey P. Newton (1970)
March 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Re-reading Rachel Corrie’s words from 22 years ago. She was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer while nonviolently protesting the destruction of civilian homes in Gaza.
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“I Think the Word Is Dignity” — Rachel Corrie’s Letters from Gaza Letters to her family from 23-year-old U.S. peace activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed in 2003 while trying to prevent the Israeli army from destroying homes in the Gaza Strip. Followed by questions by Bill Bigelow for classroom discussion. On March 16, 2003, an Israeli bulldozer crushed to death 23-year-old U.S. peace activist Rachel Corrie as she tried to prevent the Israeli army from destroying homes in the Gaza Strip. In a series of emails to her family, she explained why she was risking her life. If any of us had our lives and welfare completely strangled, lived with children in a shrinking place where we knew, because of previous experience, that soldiers and tanks and bulldozers could come for us at any moment and destroy all the greenhouses that we had been cultivating for however long, and did this while some of us were beaten and held captive with 149 other people for several hours — do you think we might try to use somewhat violent means to protect whatever fragments remained? I think about this especially when I see orchards and greenhouses and fruit trees destroyed — just years of care and cultivation. I think about you and how long it takes to make things grow and what a labor of love it is. I really think, in a similar situation, most people would defend themselves as best they could. I think Uncle Craig would. I think probably Grandma would. I think I would. You asked me about non-violent resistance. When that explosive detonated yesterday it broke all the windows in the family’s house. I was in the process of being served tea and playing with the two small babies. I’m having a hard time right now. Just feel sick to my stomach a lot from being doted on all the time, very sweetly, by people who are facing doom. sweetly, by people who are facing doom. I know that from the United States, it all sounds like hyperbole. Honestly, a lot of the time the sheer kindness of the people here, coupled with the overwhelming evidence of the willful destruction of their lives, makes it seem unreal to me. I really can’t believe that something like this can happen in the world without a bigger outcry about it. It really hurts me, again, like it has hurt me in the past, to witness how awful we can allow the world to be. I felt after talking to you that maybe you didn’t completely believe me. I think it’s actually good if you don’t, because I do believe pretty much above all else in the importance of independent critical thinking.
March 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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via Timnit Gebru on LinkedIn
With data center construction on the rise and utility costs top-of-mind for many Americans, the Harvard Electricity Law Initiative reviewed 40 special contracts that state regulators have approved between utilities and data centers. If these contracts offer discounted electricity rates to data centers, and new power grid infrastructure is needed to serve them, other customers may end up paying for the shortfall through higher utility bills. But it's nearly impossible to know the exact price tag of any cost shifts because the terms of these special contracts are hidden from public view, the report found. State regulators usually approve utilities' requests for confidentiality, limiting public scrutiny. That means billion-dollar contracts are getting approved without a transparent accounting of the costs and benefits, researchers said.
March 16, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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March 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Re-reading this week: Hannah Arendt.
Two paperback books by Hannah Arendt: Eichmann in Jerusalem and Crises of the Republic
March 13, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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If you've never needed to apply for a U.S. passport before, it's stupidly expensive: nearly $1,000 for my family of 4. $780 just to apply, plus $30-40 each for certified copies of our birth certificates (plus mailing fees for mine from CA). And no guarantee we'll even get them, considering.
U.S. passport fees page showing $165 payable to Dept. of State and $35 payable to acceptance facility, totaling $195.00 for one passport application.
March 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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@gluesenkampperez.house.gov voted to censure Al Green. Feel free to call her office at 202-225-3536 in D.C. and 360-695-6292 in Vancouver, WA to let her know how you feel about that.
March 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Propaganda played an important role in implementing the Holocaust. In 1939 Joseph Goebbels ordered the creation of a film titled The Eternal Jew, and he was heavily involved in its production. It was so over the top, portraying Jews as subhuman parasites, that it is unimaginable that people could believe it or be swayed by it. Thing is, the target audience wasn’t swayed by it. They weren’t supposed to be swayed. The film is far too ridiculous for anyone to believe it. They’re not supposed to believe it. The film was used as a signal of loyalty. Embracing and repeating the blatantly untrue and the stupidly inane is a badge people wear to show they are committed to the cause. “They’re eating the cats. They’re eating the dogs.” Ivermectin cures the measles. Same kinda shit. This ridiculousness of this propaganda doesn’t win people over. That’s not its purpose. It is a loyalty test.
March 5, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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In another world, I wouldn't be starting to read this with my kids until middle school. They're 7 and 8. Today we colored Ukranian flags and talked about why President Zelenskyy is a hero. Haven't figured how to talk about why Mommy is scared our president is going to put us in a camp for queers.
March 1, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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Subscribed to @wired.com for the first time since college for the incisive reporting, but genuinely thrilled to find such beautiful art direction and layout design. Support the free press!
February 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum Everyday Acts of Resistance by Working Class History Mutual Aid by Peter Kropotkin Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism edited by Xtn Alexander and Matthew W. Lyons Colonialism in Global Perspective by Kris Manjapra We Are Everywhere by Reimer and Brown Readme.txt by Chelsea Manning IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black The Anarchy by William Dalrymple
February 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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February 24, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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From We Are Everywhere.
February 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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From the introduction of The Anarchy.
February 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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This week:
1. We Are Everywhere (Riemer & Brown)
2. Readme.txt (C. Manning)
3. IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation (E. Black)
4. The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of An Empire (W. Dalrymple)
February 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
In an unusual public letter, Ed Martin, the acting US attorney for the District of Columbia, has warned that his office will prosecute anyone who interferes with the work of Elon Musk’s department of government efficiency” (Doge). “I recognize that some of the staff at DOGE has been targeted publicly. At this time, I ask that you utilize me and my staff to assist in protecting the DOGE work and the DOGE workers. Any threats, confrontations, or other actions in any way that impact their work may break numerous laws,” Martin wrote in the letter to Musk, which he also posted on X. “Let me assure you of this: we will pursue any and all legal action against anyone who impedes your work or threatens your people. We will not act like the previous administration who looked the other way as the Antifa and BLM rioters as well as thugs with guns trashed our capital city. We will protect DOGE and other workers no matter what.”
February 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM