Sam Menefee-Libey
@sml47.bsky.social
Antifascist. Anthropology, Critical Theory, American Studies, dogs, film, music, democratic pedagogy, degrowth and bioregionalism in greater Los Angeles. This world (system) we must leave. https://boxd.it/6oFrP
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The bigger story following the designation of four antifascist groups as SDGT’s, with the intent of FTO designation, is that a far-right grifting nazi-sympathizer living in London, who is directly responsible for people being murdered and assaulted, has influence over federal government policy now.
November 13, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The bigger story following the designation of four antifascist groups as SDGT’s, with the intent of FTO designation, is that a far-right grifting nazi-sympathizer living in London, who is directly responsible for people being murdered and assaulted, has influence over federal government policy now.
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The idea that what people need is more proof rather than an honest reckoning, explanation and campaign around the already out there truths we all have access to is liberal propaganda
November 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The idea that what people need is more proof rather than an honest reckoning, explanation and campaign around the already out there truths we all have access to is liberal propaganda
As I was reading this, I got a notification that the day laborer center in my hometown in LA county was being raided by CBP.
This fascist state terror is overwhelming and we must keep fighting.
This fascist state terror is overwhelming and we must keep fighting.
"Please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong *** It is not law enforcement; it is terror."
Letter from Chicago broadcast veterans: Federal immigration agents have traumatized us and eroded our rights
The fact that some federal immigration forces may be leaving soon is cold comfort given the damage they’ve done.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM
As I was reading this, I got a notification that the day laborer center in my hometown in LA county was being raided by CBP.
This fascist state terror is overwhelming and we must keep fighting.
This fascist state terror is overwhelming and we must keep fighting.
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Some excerpts that stood out to me from District Judge Jeff Cummings' order today, compelling the release of at least some people found to have been detained in violation of a prior consent decree limiting how and when federal immigration agents can carry out warrantless arrests.
November 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Some excerpts that stood out to me from District Judge Jeff Cummings' order today, compelling the release of at least some people found to have been detained in violation of a prior consent decree limiting how and when federal immigration agents can carry out warrantless arrests.
In Male Fantasies (1977), Klaus Theweleit read personal letters of Freikorps members to show how the violence at the core of fascist masculinity escalates as their fear of losing control grows. They get more extreme when confronted with potential “feminized” accountability for violent domination.
Really unnerving point from Nicole Hemmer, historian of the right: Trump's Epstein fiasco could drive MAGA to push him to go even fuller authoritarian, because the whole project is now in such serious doubt. She's so good on MAGA's future.
Check out this exchange:
newrepublic.com/article/2031...
Check out this exchange:
newrepublic.com/article/2031...
November 13, 2025 at 8:43 PM
In Male Fantasies (1977), Klaus Theweleit read personal letters of Freikorps members to show how the violence at the core of fascist masculinity escalates as their fear of losing control grows. They get more extreme when confronted with potential “feminized” accountability for violent domination.
Very excited that I’ve figured out a way to have this song kick off a class session for my “Scientific Rationality and Modern Life” course for the spring
Robyn is back. Hear "Dopamine," her excellent new single:
Robyn Shares New Single "Dopamine": Watch The Video
Robyn has been sending us warning shots suggesting the follow-up to 2018’s Honey is imminent, and now she’s given us what seems to be that new album’s lead single. We don’t know anything yet about the...
stereogum.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Very excited that I’ve figured out a way to have this song kick off a class session for my “Scientific Rationality and Modern Life” course for the spring
Her daughter is not poor and materially vulnerable in the way that Epstein et al’s victims were and Kelly seems not to understand what this signals to the men in her daughter’s life who were already much more likely to be her abusers in the first place.
Everyone who posts this should note that Megyn Kelly has a 14-year-old daughter. Do not let her off the hook on this.
This was always where this was headed.
November 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Her daughter is not poor and materially vulnerable in the way that Epstein et al’s victims were and Kelly seems not to understand what this signals to the men in her daughter’s life who were already much more likely to be her abusers in the first place.
When people talk about “the class character” of abuse, this is what we’re trying to get at. People who are living on the ragged edge being taken advantage of by the rich and powerful and complying and/or keeping quiet because they can barely make ends meet and the rich are vindictive as fuck
The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
November 13, 2025 at 7:33 PM
When people talk about “the class character” of abuse, this is what we’re trying to get at. People who are living on the ragged edge being taken advantage of by the rich and powerful and complying and/or keeping quiet because they can barely make ends meet and the rich are vindictive as fuck
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today, a federal judge ordered the release of 615 people wrongfully abducted by ICE / CBP from june to october (yay!). as if they haven't already been through enough trauma and violence, they each still have to pay a $1500 bond (aka ransom & extortion) (boo!).
donate here twd the $900K+ in bond:
donate here twd the $900K+ in bond:
Midwest Immigration Bond Fund
www.mibfc.org
November 13, 2025 at 12:17 AM
today, a federal judge ordered the release of 615 people wrongfully abducted by ICE / CBP from june to october (yay!). as if they haven't already been through enough trauma and violence, they each still have to pay a $1500 bond (aka ransom & extortion) (boo!).
donate here twd the $900K+ in bond:
donate here twd the $900K+ in bond:
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Rough day to be any sort of survivor of sexual violence. Solidarity to all of you, please be kind to yourselves
November 13, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Rough day to be any sort of survivor of sexual violence. Solidarity to all of you, please be kind to yourselves
(One of) the first double feature(s) at my movie theater
November 13, 2025 at 7:43 AM
(One of) the first double feature(s) at my movie theater
I want to walk into the ocean
it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.
November 12, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I want to walk into the ocean
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The west side is being hit hard today. Similar roving kidnapping operations seen in mid city & ktown last week. Cannot stress how much community defense is necessary and needed right now.
TODAY - WEST LOS ANGELES
ICE is patrolling from the ocean to La Brea & W Jefferson Blvd to National Blvd. Beginning at 9:45 am, there have been multiple reports of known ICE vehicles circling in order to conduct rolling kidnappings. So far, ICE has detained at least 7 people.
ICE is patrolling from the ocean to La Brea & W Jefferson Blvd to National Blvd. Beginning at 9:45 am, there have been multiple reports of known ICE vehicles circling in order to conduct rolling kidnappings. So far, ICE has detained at least 7 people.
November 12, 2025 at 10:16 PM
The west side is being hit hard today. Similar roving kidnapping operations seen in mid city & ktown last week. Cannot stress how much community defense is necessary and needed right now.
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Three years out, some coalitions that originally opposed the games are now pushing for reforms.
NOlympics LA organizers double down on their position: "Pretending that a 'no harm' version of the Olympics is possible is not only extremely naive. It’s dangerous for what happens to us after 2028"
NOlympics LA organizers double down on their position: "Pretending that a 'no harm' version of the Olympics is possible is not only extremely naive. It’s dangerous for what happens to us after 2028"
Olympic reform efforts are setting us up for a double disaster.
The writing is on the wall: people don’t want the Olympics in their city. But for the people of Los Angeles, LA28 brings the possibility of something even more alarming. What if the Olympics never left?
The writing is on the wall: people don’t want the Olympics in their city. But for the people of Los Angeles, LA28 brings the possibility of something even more alarming. What if the Olympics never left?
November 12, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Three years out, some coalitions that originally opposed the games are now pushing for reforms.
NOlympics LA organizers double down on their position: "Pretending that a 'no harm' version of the Olympics is possible is not only extremely naive. It’s dangerous for what happens to us after 2028"
NOlympics LA organizers double down on their position: "Pretending that a 'no harm' version of the Olympics is possible is not only extremely naive. It’s dangerous for what happens to us after 2028"
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If I were an illegally detained migrant laborer, I would simply come up with $1,500 in ransom after weeks/months of imprisonment in a wildcat internment camp. This, to me, is proof that we can trust the process, regardless of how slow and inadequate, as it marches inextricably towards justice.
///BREAKING/// Judge Jeffrey Cummings orders that by noon of Nov. 17, he will order the release of all of the 615 "Operation Midway Blitz" detainees identified as class participants (at least those still here in the country) once they pay a $1,500 bond.
November 12, 2025 at 7:11 PM
If I were an illegally detained migrant laborer, I would simply come up with $1,500 in ransom after weeks/months of imprisonment in a wildcat internment camp. This, to me, is proof that we can trust the process, regardless of how slow and inadequate, as it marches inextricably towards justice.
It’s a great title, and worth noting that it is at least near-verbatim from Bruce Alexander’s Rat Park experiments from the 1970s. US prohibitionism and cold war science has fucked us all up so much.
www.stuartmcmillen.com/comic/rat-pa...
www.brucekalexander.com
www.stuartmcmillen.com/comic/rat-pa...
www.brucekalexander.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
It’s a great title, and worth noting that it is at least near-verbatim from Bruce Alexander’s Rat Park experiments from the 1970s. US prohibitionism and cold war science has fucked us all up so much.
www.stuartmcmillen.com/comic/rat-pa...
www.brucekalexander.com
www.stuartmcmillen.com/comic/rat-pa...
www.brucekalexander.com
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everyone should periodically get a 72-hour ban
November 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
everyone should periodically get a 72-hour ban
Someone said that “The Blues Brothers” was on his list,
and I felt a fleeting sense of joy,
before I realized they were joking,
and checked the actual list,
only to be mildly disappointed and bored.
and I felt a fleeting sense of joy,
before I realized they were joking,
and checked the actual list,
only to be mildly disappointed and bored.
Pope Leo has shared his four favorite movies of all time, as the Vatican prepares to host dozens of actors and directors in a “World of Cinema” gathering on Saturday at his official residence. See which films made the pope's list. nyti.ms/4p3exK9
Pope Leo Shares His Favorite Movies Ahead of Vatican Event
The list leans heavily on uplifting classics.
nyti.ms
November 12, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Someone said that “The Blues Brothers” was on his list,
and I felt a fleeting sense of joy,
before I realized they were joking,
and checked the actual list,
only to be mildly disappointed and bored.
and I felt a fleeting sense of joy,
before I realized they were joking,
and checked the actual list,
only to be mildly disappointed and bored.
If you read that ranting interview with Palantir’s Alex Karp in Wired and are wondering where that bit about sacrifices came from, I think it’s part of Karp, Theil, and others on the technofascist right’s obsession with French philosopher Rene Girard and his theory of sacrificial scapegoats.
Here’s a good example of the way fascists read Girard, from red-brown cryptofascist Compact Mag www.compactmag.com/article/rene...
Not all people who read Girard are like this, and here’s a more even-handed overview of Girard’s work. iep.utm.edu/girard/
Not all people who read Girard are like this, and here’s a more even-handed overview of Girard’s work. iep.utm.edu/girard/
René Girard and the Rise of Victim Power
Globalization, we have been told, goes hand in hand with secularization. As commerce, profit, and technological improvement overtake older value systems, rituals and traditions fall away, and the sacr...
www.compactmag.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:58 PM
If you read that ranting interview with Palantir’s Alex Karp in Wired and are wondering where that bit about sacrifices came from, I think it’s part of Karp, Theil, and others on the technofascist right’s obsession with French philosopher Rene Girard and his theory of sacrificial scapegoats.
In my experience, October is when residents of southern California start experiencing summer weather with some variation of “how can we miss you if you won’t go away?”
Today, it is 86°F before noon.
Today, it is 86°F before noon.
November 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
In my experience, October is when residents of southern California start experiencing summer weather with some variation of “how can we miss you if you won’t go away?”
Today, it is 86°F before noon.
Today, it is 86°F before noon.
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I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
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Feeling sick about what this means for so many comrades. It’s such an incredible self-own and for WHAT
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Feeling sick about what this means for so many comrades. It’s such an incredible self-own and for WHAT
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Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.
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 1:15 PM
Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.
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And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system
In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
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Sure looks like DHS has used Chicago to practice/hone larger neighborhood sweeps and then immediately exported that tactic back to LA
DAILY MEMO: Border Patrol Targets Van Nuys and Panorama City, Snatching Street Vendors, Pedestrians, and Day Laborers Again
Full report: lataco.com/daily-memo-n...
Full report: lataco.com/daily-memo-n...
November 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Sure looks like DHS has used Chicago to practice/hone larger neighborhood sweeps and then immediately exported that tactic back to LA