barred_in_kc
@owl-kc.bsky.social
Technologist, bibliophile, socialist, TEC
"Dialectics has made me hateful to the whole world"
"Dialectics has made me hateful to the whole world"
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“Sooner or later, one has to take sides, if one is to remain human.”
—Graham Greene, The Quiet American
—Graham Greene, The Quiet American
November 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“Sooner or later, one has to take sides, if one is to remain human.”
—Graham Greene, The Quiet American
—Graham Greene, The Quiet American
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Jesus, please smite them.
"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Jesus, please smite them.
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'The Knights of Fascism' by Sol Auerbach (James S. Allen) from Labor Defender. Vol. 4 No. 4. April 1929.
Allen looks for the origin of the ‘Second Klan’ and finds it in the anti-radical crackdown around World War One.
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Allen looks for the origin of the ‘Second Klan’ and finds it in the anti-radical crackdown around World War One.
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‘The Knights of Fascism’ by Sol Auerbach (James S. Allen) from Labor Defender. Vol. 4 No. 4. April 1929.
Allen looks for the origin of the ‘Second Klan’ and finds it in the anti-radical crackdown around World War One. ‘The Knights of Fascism’ by Sol Auerbach (James S. Allen) fr…
revolutionsnewsstand.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:07 PM
'The Knights of Fascism' by Sol Auerbach (James S. Allen) from Labor Defender. Vol. 4 No. 4. April 1929.
Allen looks for the origin of the ‘Second Klan’ and finds it in the anti-radical crackdown around World War One.
revolutionsnewsstand.com/2025/11/08/t...
Allen looks for the origin of the ‘Second Klan’ and finds it in the anti-radical crackdown around World War One.
revolutionsnewsstand.com/2025/11/08/t...
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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The more democratic elements of the American constitutional and economic order are actually throwing up road blocks to Trumpism. Protests and boycotts and low level courts and juries and cetera. Elite actors on the other hand are all too frequently caving. Fascinating study in who actually cares!
BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent
Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.
www.nbcnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The more democratic elements of the American constitutional and economic order are actually throwing up road blocks to Trumpism. Protests and boycotts and low level courts and juries and cetera. Elite actors on the other hand are all too frequently caving. Fascinating study in who actually cares!
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I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.
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...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site
dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani?
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site
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Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social
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Some historian on here should pitch a piece to @thebulwark.com on how starving people routinely overthrow governments and no one shows up to save them and how maybe that reading might be of interest vis-a-vis SNAP.
October 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Some historian on here should pitch a piece to @thebulwark.com on how starving people routinely overthrow governments and no one shows up to save them and how maybe that reading might be of interest vis-a-vis SNAP.
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'The Ku Klux Klan: How to Fight It' by A. Philip Randolph from The Messenger. November, 1921.
Randolph is simple, bitterly funny, precise, and urgent in this appeal for a united front of ‘Negroes, Jews, Catholics, organized labor and foreigners’...
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Randolph is simple, bitterly funny, precise, and urgent in this appeal for a united front of ‘Negroes, Jews, Catholics, organized labor and foreigners’...
revolutionsnewsstand.com/2025/10/26/f...
‘The Ku Klux Klan: How to Fight It’ by A. Philip Randolph from The Messenger. November, 1921.
Leading Black Socialist, and future head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, A. Philip Randolph is simple, bitterly funny, precise, and urgent in this appeal for a united front of ‘Ne…
revolutionsnewsstand.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:33 AM
'The Ku Klux Klan: How to Fight It' by A. Philip Randolph from The Messenger. November, 1921.
Randolph is simple, bitterly funny, precise, and urgent in this appeal for a united front of ‘Negroes, Jews, Catholics, organized labor and foreigners’...
revolutionsnewsstand.com/2025/10/26/f...
Randolph is simple, bitterly funny, precise, and urgent in this appeal for a united front of ‘Negroes, Jews, Catholics, organized labor and foreigners’...
revolutionsnewsstand.com/2025/10/26/f...
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destroying the legitimacy of the regime is a real and valuable strategic outcome
October 26, 2025 at 9:26 PM
destroying the legitimacy of the regime is a real and valuable strategic outcome
October 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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If you‘re wondering why the U.S. is in an attack posture in Latin America, note that Venezuela has the world’s largest known oil reserves.
Trump likes to grab things, whether it’s women’s private parts on airplanes, classified records at the White House or other countries’ natural resources.
Trump likes to grab things, whether it’s women’s private parts on airplanes, classified records at the White House or other countries’ natural resources.
Live updates: US is sending an aircraft carrier to Latin America in major escalation of military buildup
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Friday that the U.S. military is deploying an aircraft carrier to the waters off South America, in the latest escalation and buildup of military forces in the ...
apnews.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
If you‘re wondering why the U.S. is in an attack posture in Latin America, note that Venezuela has the world’s largest known oil reserves.
Trump likes to grab things, whether it’s women’s private parts on airplanes, classified records at the White House or other countries’ natural resources.
Trump likes to grab things, whether it’s women’s private parts on airplanes, classified records at the White House or other countries’ natural resources.
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Spoke to historian @williamhogeland.bsky.social about the myths and the reality of the Founding Generation.
www.unpopularfront.news/p/talking-to...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/talking-to...
Talking to historian William Hogeland about the Founders
Author Series No. 3
www.unpopularfront.news
October 24, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Spoke to historian @williamhogeland.bsky.social about the myths and the reality of the Founding Generation.
www.unpopularfront.news/p/talking-to...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/talking-to...
It is not that I love libs, it is that I hate fascists.
October 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
It is not that I love libs, it is that I hate fascists.
Happy Birthday Varn www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smn4...
Varn Vlog Solo Live: Turning Forty-Five and Other Battles
YouTube video by C. Derick Varn
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October 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Happy Birthday Varn www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smn4...
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The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.
October 24, 2025 at 11:51 AM
The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.
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MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.
October 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.
I estimate over 10,000 were at the plaza protest in KCMO. There was a march that circled all around the plaza before it was over.
Organizers said they anticipate people will turn out Saturday for the second “No Kings” protest at Mill Creek Park in Kansas City. Follow live updates of our coverage here.
‘No Kings’ rallies return to KC as people nationwide protest Trump administration
Organizers said they anticipate people will turn out Saturday for the second “No Kings” protest at Mill Creek Park in Kansas City. Follow live updates of our coverage here.
bit.ly
October 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I estimate over 10,000 were at the plaza protest in KCMO. There was a march that circled all around the plaza before it was over.
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BREAKING via WSJ
The Trump administration is planning sweeping changes in criminal division at the IRS.
Full Story: on.wsj.com/3LbVFtK
The Trump administration is planning sweeping changes in criminal division at the IRS.
Full Story: on.wsj.com/3LbVFtK
October 16, 2025 at 12:12 AM
BREAKING via WSJ
The Trump administration is planning sweeping changes in criminal division at the IRS.
Full Story: on.wsj.com/3LbVFtK
The Trump administration is planning sweeping changes in criminal division at the IRS.
Full Story: on.wsj.com/3LbVFtK
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NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).
An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸
(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)
An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸
(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)
October 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).
An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸
(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)
An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸
(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)
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this is why leftists dismissing 50501 and such as a bunch of useless libs is so unserious. 50501 is mustering protests across the country without a major provocation. it's a dress rehearsal and we're really fucking rusty.
I keep going back to this, but one of the reasons South Korea has an incredibly effective protest culture is because they have *decades* of organizational experience through daily/weekly protesting. it helps a lot to do the routine stuff to be able to pull off the big stuff.
Why doesn't the US have a general strike? Well you can point to culture or whatever but I think structure is of not immediate use here: does the US have organizations and institutions it can use to network, organize and mobilize a general strike? No.
October 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
this is why leftists dismissing 50501 and such as a bunch of useless libs is so unserious. 50501 is mustering protests across the country without a major provocation. it's a dress rehearsal and we're really fucking rusty.
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Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
bit.ly
October 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.