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A reader asked: Can you be anticolonial and still believe in the state?

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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

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.

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

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

There is a Room in DC

The DOGE boys have a coup party

She's Not There

Becoming a Traitor

How can we support a dispersed yet powerful refusal by anyone who retains any shred of power within these systems to play their roles? How can we cultivate traitors?

We Will Outlive Them

But it will be easiest if we attack now

Thirty Days of Prompts and Opportunities for Solidarity: Week Three

Welcome to the Shitshow, part 852, Trump 2.0, Climate Collapse, Chapter 39. 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 (i.e. folks doing work that you can support if

Corvid Gossip

Corvid Gossip & Advice: January 28, 2025

In our first Corvid advice column, a reader asks: "Should I punch a fascist or a liberal?"

Thirty Days of Prompts and Opportunities for Solidarity: Week Two

Welcome to the Shitshow, part 851, Trump 2.0, Climate Collapse, Chapter 38. 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 (i.e. folks doing work that you can support if

Nitrate Fires

The Wolf(man) at our Door

I've been wanting to write all week, some analysis of the current situation, maybe something inspiring and helpful around organizing and orienting ourselves, but I've only really been able to do so on bluesky, thoughts in tiny bursts, with immediate feedback loops of endorphins and positivity.

Thirty Days of Prompts and Opportunities for Solidarity: Week One

Welcome to the Shitshow, Part 850, Trump 2.0, Climate Collapse, Chapter 37. Note: Solidarity, mutual aid and community are what keep us safe, regardless of who is in office. Still, I’ve compiled these daily prompts and opportunities for solidarity (i.e. folks doing work that you can support

Disaster Looting and the LA Fires

As the fires began to get under control in LA, news media started reporting on arrests for looting, and in particular the presence of the military police "maintaining order" in the overwhelmingly non-white and poor Altadena. I wrote about the use of looting panic as a form of

She's Not There

SWITCHPOINTS, or jumping timelines

There are moments when you feel the timeline jump. You are sitting there and there is a breach, a punch in the gut—breathless. Then the whole world reconfigures around something new that has jutted into this reality. These can be bad personal moments, shocks like an unexpected breakup, a

The Fires This and Every Time

There’s a particular kind of emotional chaos that comes with living in the fire-prone west. Fire behavior can be erratic, unpredictable. There are no meteorologist predictions of when the firestorm will pass. Flames climb hillsides, winds send embers flying—sometimes for miles—and there’s no guarantee where they’

Zine Distro Live!

Our Sticker and Zine distro is officially live! We're starting with a small number of both, as a teaser of what we will do moving forward. We'll be updating the libraries regularly, as well as developing design, organization and accessibility as the libraries grow. But for

I Was Promised a More Aesthetically Pleasing Cyberpunk Dystopia

Even the horrors are mid