Nick Copeland
@nickcopel.bsky.social
the ruling class desperately wants us to believe that social and environmental justice is outmoded and unwanted, and that social movements have failed and have no future. we will prove them wrong.
someone should ask Trump if he thinks we should also go to war with Afghanistan
November 29, 2025 at 8:01 PM
someone should ask Trump if he thinks we should also go to war with Afghanistan
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Indigenous actress Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Indigenous actress Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... Sea Lice or Subsistence? Peasant Multispecies Justice in the Plantationocene.
November 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... Sea Lice or Subsistence? Peasant Multispecies Justice in the Plantationocene.
Trump is more interested in drafting off Mamdani's popularity than the Democratic leadership
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Trump is more interested in drafting off Mamdani's popularity than the Democratic leadership
Trump is threatening to take everyone down with him. With the massive exception of attacking Venezuela, I’m all for it
November 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Trump is threatening to take everyone down with him. With the massive exception of attacking Venezuela, I’m all for it
After No Kings, momentum was building for a national strike. Brandon Johnson and many others called for one. Dem leadership channeled strike energy into the shutdown, narrowly focused on healthcare, only to predictably cave. But sellout senators cannot shut down a national strike.
November 11, 2025 at 3:35 AM
After No Kings, momentum was building for a national strike. Brandon Johnson and many others called for one. Dem leadership channeled strike energy into the shutdown, narrowly focused on healthcare, only to predictably cave. But sellout senators cannot shut down a national strike.
abolish the senate
November 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
abolish the senate
These same Senators and others behind them will also oppose DC statehood, Medicare for All, expanding the court, ending arms shipments to Israel, raising taxes, abolishing ICE, and ending the filibuster, etc. if and when Dems get control
November 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
These same Senators and others behind them will also oppose DC statehood, Medicare for All, expanding the court, ending arms shipments to Israel, raising taxes, abolishing ICE, and ending the filibuster, etc. if and when Dems get control
this is payback for Mamdani winning
November 10, 2025 at 4:22 AM
this is payback for Mamdani winning
remembering that time Obama talked the NBA out of striking in 2020. oh, no reason
November 10, 2025 at 4:20 AM
remembering that time Obama talked the NBA out of striking in 2020. oh, no reason
look, they needed to *something* to undo the momentum from last week lest folks get too excited about Mamdani and the possibility of a livable future
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 AM
look, they needed to *something* to undo the momentum from last week lest folks get too excited about Mamdani and the possibility of a livable future
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‘The US military is now carrying out extrajudicial executions on the high seas of people who in the past would have been put on trial and, if found guilty, given a federal prison sentence. Gone is any semblance of due process.’
A.S. Dillingham on the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
A.S. Dillingham on the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
A.S. Dillingham | Murder at Sea
Since President Nixon declared war on drugs in 1971, US policies of mass incarceration at home and interdiction and...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
‘The US military is now carrying out extrajudicial executions on the high seas of people who in the past would have been put on trial and, if found guilty, given a federal prison sentence. Gone is any semblance of due process.’
A.S. Dillingham on the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
A.S. Dillingham on the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Purely coincidental that Venezuela and Nigeria are major oil producers
November 2, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Purely coincidental that Venezuela and Nigeria are major oil producers
coming to the hard realization that I can't vote for Mamdani because I live in Virginia
October 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
coming to the hard realization that I can't vote for Mamdani because I live in Virginia
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Albanese: “This is not a peace deal, this is not peace! It is unacceptable… start investigations of the architects if the genocide, then reparations to the Palestine” and end the occupation.
October 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Albanese: “This is not a peace deal, this is not peace! It is unacceptable… start investigations of the architects if the genocide, then reparations to the Palestine” and end the occupation.
I see a growing convergence between Miller and Trump's desire to shut down major cities through military occupation and raids; mass deportation and public sector layoffs; and intensified repression; and, on the other hand, desperation on the left fueling the shutdown and calls for a general strike.
October 7, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I see a growing convergence between Miller and Trump's desire to shut down major cities through military occupation and raids; mass deportation and public sector layoffs; and intensified repression; and, on the other hand, desperation on the left fueling the shutdown and calls for a general strike.
Learning history is moderately hard so we just make shit up
October 5, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Learning history is moderately hard so we just make shit up
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Don't worry guys, I have a genius plan to stop political violence.
Step 1: Make elite consensus be that the mild peaceful disapproval be treated as equivalent to violence.
Step 2: Have the government openly violate the law in a manner which proves it nonbinding.
Step 3: Crash the economy.
Step 1: Make elite consensus be that the mild peaceful disapproval be treated as equivalent to violence.
Step 2: Have the government openly violate the law in a manner which proves it nonbinding.
Step 3: Crash the economy.
September 18, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Don't worry guys, I have a genius plan to stop political violence.
Step 1: Make elite consensus be that the mild peaceful disapproval be treated as equivalent to violence.
Step 2: Have the government openly violate the law in a manner which proves it nonbinding.
Step 3: Crash the economy.
Step 1: Make elite consensus be that the mild peaceful disapproval be treated as equivalent to violence.
Step 2: Have the government openly violate the law in a manner which proves it nonbinding.
Step 3: Crash the economy.
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"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
September 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
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Read this new account of conditions in non-CECOT prisons of #ElSalvador, the U.S. government's closest ally and "model regime" in the Americas.
This is the behavior of a state. A U.S.-aligned state.
adamisacson.com/el-salvador-...
This is the behavior of a state. A U.S.-aligned state.
adamisacson.com/el-salvador-...
September 6, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Read this new account of conditions in non-CECOT prisons of #ElSalvador, the U.S. government's closest ally and "model regime" in the Americas.
This is the behavior of a state. A U.S.-aligned state.
adamisacson.com/el-salvador-...
This is the behavior of a state. A U.S.-aligned state.
adamisacson.com/el-salvador-...
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What a cursed sentence (gift link)
“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures
www.nytimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 12:43 PM
What a cursed sentence (gift link)
“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
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READ: By September 30, the White House plans to reclassify 50,000 federal workers and assign allies to key roles. This widespread expansion of Trump’s de facto political army will have brutal effects on the crackdown against Palestine in higher education. mondoweiss.net/2025/08/impe...
Impending federal overhaul means Trump will soon have de facto political army to attack Palestine activism
By September 30, the White House plans to reclassify 50,000 federal workers and assign allies to key roles. This widespread expansion of Trump’s de facto political army will have brutal effects on the...
mondoweiss.net
August 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
READ: By September 30, the White House plans to reclassify 50,000 federal workers and assign allies to key roles. This widespread expansion of Trump’s de facto political army will have brutal effects on the crackdown against Palestine in higher education. mondoweiss.net/2025/08/impe...
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Redistricting is awakening Democrats to the fact that Trump will permanently annihilate them. They'll lose the "redistricting war." Knowing this, will they continue their war against the left, rather than forging a popular movement to end oligarchy and build a just and sustainable future for all?
August 5, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Redistricting is awakening Democrats to the fact that Trump will permanently annihilate them. They'll lose the "redistricting war." Knowing this, will they continue their war against the left, rather than forging a popular movement to end oligarchy and build a just and sustainable future for all?