Cause and Affect
With every terrible event, my mind can’t stop from focusing on its contingency: it didn’t have to be this way. It almost wasn’t. If we knew better, we could prepare.
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Trans Ultraviolence
Striking back at transphobes of any gender is just as much a part of our transition as taking hormones, wearing new clothes, changing pronouns, surgeries, access to trans social spaces . . .
Trade-offs
Can we make sure our belief in anarchy and freedom is not just another faith that serves as an alibi and positions us above history nodding our heads? The Enlightenment runs deep, a most dangerous export of colonialism. When we concede to reason(s), we lose autonomy.
On Rubicons Crossed
When Gaius Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon River and entered the territory of Rome at the head of one of his Gallic legions, in 49 BC, he officially violated Roman sovereignty, broke the imperium, and began the civil war that would lead to the final collapse of the Roman Republic.
How It’s Done Here: The Women’s Revolution, Rojava, Part One
* This is an introduction to a series of essays about the women’s revolution in Rojava. Over the following weeks I will highlight different aspects of, and groups within, the women’s revolution and how western nations could learn a thing or two from them. Stay tuned… At the Iraq-Syria
Fascism Minus Kampf
Or, our enemy confuses the map for the terrain
Waiting for the Coup
Good morning sports fans! It's a great day for us sports lovers, at least if you're a total sicko like me and your preferred sport is line-go-down. Because, thanks to Trump's tariffs, the markets are absolutely on fire. For just one example: Bloomberg is
The stifling air of rigid radicalism
We are encouraged—and we often encourage each other—to wear our politics and our analysis like badges, as markers of distinction. When politics becomes something that one has, like fashion, it always needs to be visible in order to function.
Should We Care About the Universities?
The university prepared the way for this assault against its own power. It isn’t the institution that must be defended.
"Liberation Day" is Almost Here
Yesterday, on March 31, Beijing announced that China, Japan and South Korea would pursue a collaborative strategy to respond to US tariffs. It can be hard, during the rapid-fire changes of the global far right power grab, to reflect on just how unimaginable a strategic anti-US economic alliance between those
Tesla Takedown Sticker Pack
Today there were pickets, protests and direct actions at Tesla showrooms, factories and super charger stations all across the globe, in a massive day of action that saw tens of thousands in the streets, taking it to Elon Musk and his eco-fascist car company. This was part of the growing
The Breakup Theory Episode 21 - Breaking Up With Your Therapist w/ Shuli and Caroline
We may all need therapy to a certain extent—but when do we end it? Breaking up with a therapist is a kind of practice breakup: it’s a controlled environment where you can exercise your own determination and decision and face the consequences practically and emotionally.
antimídia
Antimídia - The Rule and Ruins of Trump – Shuli Branson – Anarchist Voices #15
Don’t forget what operates in the dark. Don’t forget the damage affinity groups can do. Don’t forget the spontaneous eruptions where people come together regardless of politics or identity markers to wreak havoc on the cities that try to contain us.
Ask a Crow
Ask a Crow
A reader asked: Can you be anticolonial and still believe in the state?
Resistance is Fertile
Resistance is Fertile
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Podcasts
The Break Up Theory Episode 20 with Vicky Osterweil: What Happens After the End of the Constitutional Republic
We game out possible scenarios while the administration demolishes the constitutional state. Though our conversation does engage the fear and threat of the situation, we also discuss openings for us to take bold action that uses this moment of (bad) revolution to expand our collective power.
The Silicon Reich (Part Two)
Six weeks since Trump's inauguration, there is less and less question as to whether or not Trump and Musk are pursuing a coup. The forces of normalization are failing in the face of the destructive and unstrategic behavior of King Leer and his Nazi speed-freak CEO. Nevertheless, the
What NOT to Say to Your Grown-Ass Friends Who are Housing Insecure
By carla joy bergman & Dani Burlison “Hoarding Equals Poverty Giving Equals wealth” — Ursula Le Guin, Always Coming Home The US Empire is collapsing in real time and it’s happening at warp speed, and it’s violent and bloody overwhelming. There are specific individuals who have their fascist hands
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Every Heart Carries A Beat
Punks are always a we — collectively practising autonomy in the cracks of individualism... A #Punkfesto about Picking Up Next Kin
Take One Step, Every Day
Change is a practice, not an event. Here's a guide on how to get started changing this world.
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Mutual Aid is Kin(etic)
Mutual Aid is Kin(etic): Ten things I feel about mutual aid written by carla joy bergman ; read by carla
She's Not There
The Unwanted Revolution
I want to destroy the state and I want to live.
The Silicon Reich (Part One)
Silicon Valley isn't giving in to fascism, it's inheriting a fascist social world it already built.
Thirty Days of Prompts and Opportunities for Solidarity: Week Four
Thirty Days of Prompts and Opportunities for Solidarity: Week Four Welcome to the Shitshow, part 857, Trump 2.0, Climate Collapse, Chapter 43. Regardless of who is in office, solidarity, mutual aid and community are what keep us safe. I’ve put together these daily prompts and opportunities for solidarity