Happy birthday to me and happy birthday to Alex Pretti, who was executed by federal forces while exercising his constitutional first amendment rights just 34 days ago
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I finished the Black Rose 2023 Program a few days ago and have moved on to Social Anarchism and Organization which I'm reading in conjunction with Anarchist Popular Power by Troy Andreas Araiza Kokinis. Recommended for anyone interested in learning more about Especifismo which is a model for anarchist organization developed from a collective process of theory and practice.
If you want a group experience check out the Center for Especifismo Studies. They run an 15-week introductory seminar, the Militant Kindergarten, every year starting in January.
#Anarchism #Socialism #Organizing #Resist #Antifascism #Capitalism #Politics #Democracy
Related:
https://www.blackrosefed.org/
https://www.akpress.org/anarchist-popular-power-ebook.html
https://especifismostudies.org
https://m.youtube.com/@CenterforEspecifismoStudies
Special kind of hypocrite https://www.byteseu.com/2388843/ #PoliticalHumor #PoliticalHumor #Politics #USPolitics
NEW: Authorities say former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s regime hired Tren de Aragua to kidnap a dissident who had taken refuge in Chile.
The suspected mastermind, Diosdado Cabello, remains powerful in the new U.S.-backed government in Caracas.
https://www.propublica.org/article/chile-suspects-venezuela-cabello-killing?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Venezuela #Chile #Law #Crime #Politics #Geopolitics #Trump #Maduro
finished watching Anniversary
A cautionary tale about the USA going full fascist (I know, I'm not downplaying Trump) over... a book? written by an intellectual? How about making the ideology delivery mechanism be... IDK, tweets from a reality show celebrity? That, I would believe.
In all seriousness, I don't know if this movie gets how fascists and fascism work, but I'll give it a 👍 for trying.
I did like that the movement is backed by a corporation, they got that partially right.
The United States is taking aim at Canada once again, with a crushing new set of tariffs.
Ultimately, government will need to solve this. But in the same way Canadians are avoiding US alcohol, produce, and other goods, they should get off US tech products too.
Luckily, I have a guide for that.
https://disconnect.blog/getting-off-us-tech-a-guide/
#tech #cdnpoli #cdntech #politics #digitalsovereignty #tariffs
Toronto: Chow 47%, Bradford 40%; Cost of Living Tops Concerns https://www.byteseu.com/2388883/ #Canada #CanadaPolitics #Politics
JD Vance-led task force to remove 760,000 Obamacare enrollees https://www.byteseu.com/2389111/ #Politics
A U.S.-Mexico Impasse Will Test How Far the Trump Administration Will Go to Fight Drug Trade
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Under Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum, security forces have worked with the U.S. to destroy drug labs and kill or capture crime bosses. But the president is saying she won’t extradite members of her own political party.
https://www.propublica.org/article/us-mexico-drug-trade-sheinbaum?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#DeanBlundell #pentagon #wardepartment
#Canada #nato #politics
Dean Blundell has a nice piece where the undersecretary threatened Canada and NATO and basically Canada showed us the middle finger, they are making deals everywhere else , because we are not a reliable partner anymore.
Mural seen in San Francisco, California.
#bigtech #AI #Google #degoogle #oracle #microsoft #apple #Techbros #fascism #politics #streetart #graffiti #neoliberalisme #technology #Capitalism #Capitalisme #technofeudalism #technofascism
Edited 54d ago
NEWLY PUBLISHED BOOK TO READ
My latest book - THE WILD - takes the view that "anarchy", often extrapolated in and through the historical, socially-derived politics of anarchism, should instead be characterized on a naturalistic and queer basis as "the wild" (in much the same way as Kropotkin observed nature and came up with the principle of "mutual aid" in fact).
Through thirteen chapters this idea is then teased out, explained and extrapolated as something both ethical and political that is contrary to patriarchal, capitalist, industrial and technological human civilization as it has developed.
As such, this book is both a call to the wild (and to the truth and reality of the wild) and to the assertion that in feralness there is an authenticity of the mutual co-existence of all things to be found.
The book can be downloaded FOR FREE from the link below in multiple formats or read online. It can also be read to you via text to speech on that page.
https://archive.org/details/the-wild-ethics-and-anti-politics
#politics #anarchism #anarchy #wild #wildlife #feral #nature #books #writing #queer #nihilism #indigenous #civilization
Edited 99d ago
Trump Officials Want to Use Human Rights Aid to Advocate for White South Africans and Right-Wing Causes in Europe
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Proposed grant recipients have included a free-speech organization that has fought against bans on “gay conversion therapy” and an Afrikaner group that promotes self-governance.
https://www.propublica.org/article/human-rights-aid-right-wing-causes?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Trump #SouthAfrica #Europe #HumanRights #HumanitarianAid #Rightwing #Politics
New from @josephinelee, in the cover story to our magazine: Districts across the state are arresting and citing young children #children for common misbehavior, leaving lasting trauma as the Legislature rejects bills to raise the age of criminal responsibility and floods schools with even more #police. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-school-arrests-crisis-kids-as-young-as-10/
NEW: “No Separation Between Church and State”: Inside a Texas Church’s Training Academy for Christians Running for Office
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A Fort Worth church’s candidate training program is the “next stage” of a religion-driven political movement, which has more latitude now that the IRS has allowed religious leaders to endorse candidates from the pulpit, an expert said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fort-worth-mercy-culture-church-campaign-university
A UK man was acquitted of terrorism charges after delivering his own closing argument:
The devil exists amongst those who deliberately starve children to death because they rationalise that those children will only grow up to be terrorists. It exists among those who bomb tent encampments and literally burn children and their parents alive. It exists amongst those who call Palestinians “human animals” the same phrase used by Himmler, the head of the SS about Jewish children in a speech on October 4, 1943 to senior SS Generals.
https://greghadfield.medium.com/tony-greenstein-the-most-important-half-hour-of-my-life-d03f7877a492
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The AfD's victory in the East German state of Saxony-Anhalt marks a milestone not just for the far right but for Europe's tilt toward Vladimir Putin. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/09/08/world/politics/putin-europe-german-far-right/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #afd #germany #europe #eu #russia #vladimirputin
NEW: As delegates gather at NATO headquarters to discuss reducing civilian harm during combat, the Trump administration's absence from a group the U.S. co-founded is being dubbed "humiliating" and “dangerous” by current and former officials.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-hegseth-dod-nato-civilian-harm-reduction-absent?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Trump #PeteHegseth #Defense #Pentagon #DOD #NATO #Politics
Bette Midler, ladies and gentleman. 👏🏻
#Politics #USPOL #USPolitics #MAGA #Conservatives #Fascist #Fascism #Abortion #Abortions #AntiAbortion
Papa Johns, Propaganda and Putin: How a MAGA Influencer With Ties to Russia Became Trump’s Arctic Adviser
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Thomas Dans’ opining on foreign policy, which has included a push for the U.S. to reestablish ties with Russia and annex Greenland, is “far beyond” the U.S. Arctic Research Commission’s scientific mandate, said a previous commission chair.
https://www.propublica.org/article/thomas-dans-arctic-research-commission-trump-russia-propaganda?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Arctic #Science #Research #Russia #Greenland #Politics #Trump
This week, ProPublica revealed that a Russian oligarch close to President Vladimir Putin bankrolled Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas wedding festivities.
Join our reporters on Sept. 23 for a behind-the-scenes conversation.
🗓️ RSVP: https://events.propublica.org/don-jr-wedding
#Journalism #Media #Russia #Putin #DonaldTrumpJr #Wedding #Politics #Law
NEW: On social media and in tabloids, photos from Don Jr. and Bettina Trump’s Bahamas wedding were tightly curated.
But sometimes, what — or, who — isn’t pictured is just as important as what is.
Let’s go on an investigative, visual tour.
https://www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-jr-wedding-umar-kremlev-reporting?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #DonaldTrumpJr #Wedding #Photo #Journalism #Russia #Putin #Politics #Trump #Law #Ethics
What I’ve been reading week ending 13 September https://jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-week-ending-13-september-5e2b202d4393 #AI #science #TDD #politics #cybersecurity
Carney welcomes Norwegian PM to Ottawa to discuss Arctic security, energy https://www.byteseu.com/2384177/ #Canada #CanadaPolitics #Politics
