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On this day in 1954, the United States orchestrated a coup against Jacobo Árbenz, the progressive and democratically-elected leader of Guatemala, because he sought to restore land to small farmers and Indigenous communities that had been dispossessed by US fruit companies.

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A court once ruled that "I want a lawyer, dawg" didn't count because there's no such thing as a lawyer dog. That is why you have to be as clear as possible.

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

Half the people I love are now stuck in Gaza, Lebanon or Egypt just so the US can keep running a genocidal imperial garrison out of Jerusalem

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"'Tel Aviv isn't safe.' Imagine if all the borders were shut and Israelis were told to go north. No, south. No, north. No, south. By foot. Carrying all their belongings. Carrying their children. While dodging snipers. As 2000lb bunker bombs were dropping. For 77 years."

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In case anybody was feeling bad for Israel today - they just committed another massacre against starving civilians waiting for aid in Gaza t.me/QudsNen/169188

submitted 10 hours ago • 4 comments

these are rallies. I've been biting my tongue for the past week re: the scare tactics.

submitted 9 hours ago • 9 comments

#BREAKING China publicly condemns Israel's "violations of Iran's sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity."

submitted 8 hours ago • 4 comments

A Jabalia data centre has been bombed and Internet has been cut off again. You know the drill!! @sfdirewolf.bsky.social @thellpsx.bsky.social bit.ly/eSimsRUs #ConnectingGaza

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

All this fascism you're seeing in the USA? This is only new to WHITE PPL! So, now that you see it white ppl, fucking do something! If you don't know what to do, elevate all the Black, brown & indigenous revolutionaries they're trying to erase. This is your chance to show you're one of the good ones.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

The police are not going to save you from fascism and anyone telling you they are working with police are a threat as they are working with fascists actively doing violence against anyone speaking out If you work with police in a fascist police state you are a fascist. Full stop.

submitted 14 hours ago • 4 comments

Explosion near Mehrabad Airport and Azadi Square, Iran

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How about we try something different in the US and stop being assholes? How 'bout a revolution?

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I'm pouring over the details of the reconciliation bill and its potentially apocalyptic effects on higher education for a short piece - it really is a five alarm fire. They're going to overhaul the student loan infrastructure as a means of anti-intellectual, resegregationist social engineering.

submitted 20 hours ago • 6 comments

“Radicalism that is not successfully co-opted or defanged, that continues to linger within the mainstream, will be met with increasing hostility and, ultimately, condemned as associated with violence. As Táíwò writes in Elite Capture, “Where co-optation fails, regular old repression will do.””

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

Do people not understand that when they're using chatgpt and such, they are talking to machines who are pretending to be human? It seems like ppl are so desperate to be told things they want to hear, with compassion and understanding, that they want to believe Ai is sentient. It's very sad.

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Some days, I think, if all the world's protests & marches & fighting & dying & struggling haven't slowed the US death machine, why bother? Why not just buy that shit on Amazon, watch movies or play video games in between working hours, until I die? Then I put on my kuffiyeh & mask & go outside.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

If you think: -It's the union's fault the employers won't budge. -It's the left's fault democrats lose elections by showing them utter contempt at every turn. -It's the protestor's fault things are escalating. ..maybe you're just a do-nothing boot licker?

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Do. Not. Travel. To. The. United. States.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

I see lots of convos about labor bargaining, equating ppls value to productivity. And Im reminded that the reason there was an organized movement against WHITE slave trafficking was to inform all the labor dynamics we have now.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

@prisonculture.bsky.social and I have decided to reprint the entirety of chapter six of Let This Radicalize You, which is called "'Violence' In Social Movements," in my newsletter tomorrow. We hope this will provide some helpful context and grounding. You can sign up for my newsletter here:

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The POTUS on Iran: "the US makes the best & most lethal military equipment anywhere in the World, BY FAR, and .. Israel has a lot of it, ... They are all DEAD now, and it will only get worse!" Liberals prefer to terrorize with all the manners of the colonial elite. Not this crude and tacky "truth."

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Yes, the Iranian regime is bad. But we are not doing this because the Iranian regime is bad. We're doing this because the Netanyahu regime is an expanisionist fascist enterprise and a client state of American imperialism. We literally do not care about the Iranian people. That's the problem.

submitted 21 hours ago • 33 comments

"If food is destroyed because it cannot be sold while people go hungry, that is not considered violent under the norms of capitalism. If a person’s belongings are tossed on a sidewalk during an eviction and consequently destroyed, that is likewise not considered violent..."

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

While Israel bombs Iran using US tax dollars and our government’s support — the people of the U.S. stand against this violence. We are sorry to the people of Iran and will continue to demand our government stop arming Israel.

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USians must stop lying to ourselves to escape reality. As much as we want to deny it, our gov't is just the front for a collection of billionaires who profit from death & destruction. And not just in the global south, anymore. Trump & his ppl are proud: "We're the world's bully. Obey us or die."

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

The way the press talks about Iran, it's like there aren't even people there, as if the only thing in Iran is the state. The only time there are people in Iran is if there's a need to underline the state as despotic.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Seeing the NYT talk about its reporter embedding with ICE makes me uncomfortable. You simply aren't doing unbiased journalism if you've accepted the parameters for doing that, and it's no different than embedding with an organized crime ring.

submitted 21 hours ago • 120 comments

I think this should be more discussed. Women and gender-nonconforming people outnumber people who identify as men by a factor of 3 to 1 in almost every organizing meeting.

submitted 21 hours ago • 29 comments

Israel is a rogue, genocidal state and it will continue acting like a rogue, genocidal state because it has been enabled for nearly two years to openly carry out a genocide. This will not stop until Israel is forced to stop but the states that can do so are instead enabling it to continue

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

In case you weren't aware, the greater LA metropolitan area is the size of Portugal and contains 80% more people. They cannot constitutionally do this, but also, they cannot physically do this.

submitted 1 day ago • 66 comments

@prisonculture.bsky.social and I have been encouraging people to read chapter six of our book, Let This Radicalize You, which deals with the question of "violence" in social movements. We have decided to share the chapter publicly, to offer some context and grounding for the current conversation.

submitted 20 hours ago • 22 comments

Scenes from Shiraz after the Israeli aggression. #Iran 🇮🇷

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Trump to Iran: I warned you about this, and I told you that Israel possesses the best weapons in the world. Everyone who opposed the United States is now dead. It's not too late to prevent another massacre. Do it before it's too late.

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