“The Robins deposited some groceries in a public square at the foot of a Christmas tree on Tuesday evening, adding that the rest would be distributed through community food banks.

“Don’t forget – the hunger justifies the means, Merry Christmas!”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Biggest flotilla yet on its way to Gaza + the most prominent Genocide scholars association declaring Israel’s actions to be genocide + the UNGA starting soon + record number of Israeli schoolchildren + so many other things happening.

= we are allowed to hold on to hope.

Hope is a discipline.

Ursula Le Guin: “A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. 1/2

I don't care if the protests are violent or not. What matters is that they happen and keep happening. The people have the right to revolt against fascism. Capitalism, let alone fascism, is continual structural violence against the working class.

People trying to protect their neighbors are not the problem. The fact that some of you are thinking that way reflects a level of psychological capture & submission to fascism that you should interrogate. If they want an "excuse" to do something, they'll create one. The good guys aren't the problem.

Hey you know how people made the Tesla brand radioactively toxic and crashed its entire corporate structure?

You can do that with authoritarian brutality and with neoliberal oppression and exploitation.

You chase these motherfuckers from society until all that’s left is something real and better.

My new big TERFism explainer is now online and unpaywalled at Lux magazine, and the physical version in the print issue (#11-12) looks incredible. I do recommend buying it or subscribing. Thanks to Sarah Leonard & all the Lux comrades for wonderful editing. lux-magazine.com/article/terf...