In the wake of Charlie Kirk's death, a TN sheriff had a 61-yr-old man arrested for posting a meme on Facebook, which the sheriff absurdly construed as a threat. It was pretty clearly bullshit but I dug into the case using FB & public records and now it looks even worse. My latest @theintercept.com:
Cropped image of a hand holding up a half-page with text: Rock Against Harper A benefit compilation for the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. And the Canada-Haiti Action Network... The top right features the same drawing of a person holding flag and Molotov cocktail. All of the text is handwritten, with the bottom and left halves of the page hand-shaded in black around the text.
Track list for Rock Against Harper! with 30 tracks listed and the same devil-horns/tail logo. At the bottom, the page lists: DPS Music. CD-OS. Email... DPS@riseup.net. www.DPSmusic.ca The page is black with white text.
also found what I take to be some kind of cover/track list images on Facebook
Scanned image of a CD titled "Rock Against Harper" with additional text: Anti-copyright (crossed out copyright symbol) 2007. DPS Music. CD also features illustration of a masked protester holding a flag with text "stop your occupation" in one hand and a burning molotov cocktail in the other. A logo at bottom centre is a circle split down in halves vertically, with devil horns and a tail, and an "S" over its middle, with text below "DPS 05." On the right, the peace, circle-A, and circle-E symbols. The style of the art and lettering is clearly hand-drawn, with black linework against a white background, and deep, jagged red behind the title text and circled symbols.
still trying to fix the file details to get the artist info/track order right, but I got ahold of a few copies of this 2007 Rock Against Harper CD and uploaded them to archive.org :D
archive.org/details/rock...
study by Liam Michaud shows an escalating war on drugs by police: "Police in Ontario are increasingly interfering with the operation of health services, our recent study found. This obstructs people from accessing life-saving care." filtermag.org/ontario-poli...
"more people coming into conflict with the law"—as though "the law" exists as just the natural, apolitical state of things, and "people" then are then choosing to act out for whatever reason, however sympathetic their motivations for that acting out
every day, policymakers, police, prosecutors, judges, prison guards, etc. etc. make the active choice to arrest and jail more people. to put it on "mental health," etc., is just a way of blaming criminalized people for the state's violence against them instead
Stacey Hannem, criminology professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, says the new beds barely alleviate issues in the correctional system. She says the province needs to first address the root causes of crime and fund communities to manage mental health, substance use and access to housing. "Throughout history, you look at periods of economic crises and periods of great disparity and inevitably that leads to more people coming into conflict with the law," Hannem said. "My first thought is that 150 beds across the Ontario system is like putting a Band-Aid on a giant gaping wound," she said.
actually despise this kind of framing you hear from liberals or reformist abolitionists about "root causes" in the context of violence *by the state*—the system can choose to release ppl at any poit; the "root cause" of carceral violence is the carceral state
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The fire that recently raged on Navajo Nation is a product of federal policy. About 7% of all tribal land in the US burned between 2010 and 2020. Tribal lands have more fires, but receive half the funding per acre to fight them compared to national forests.
A reminder that after years of speaking out against Epstein and giving other survivors the courage to come forward, Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre died by suicide in April at the age of 41.
Let's not forget that there are real human tragedies behind everything we're discussing.
Studies shows on average that every 1 year incarcerated = 2 years taken off your life expectancy.
So many people suffer incarceration and at such length that it has lowered the overall average life expectancy of the country.
www.vera.org/news/health-....
Image Description: Patty Berne,a Japanese-Haitian person with light brown skin, smiles playfully with love and light shining from their brown eyes. They wear an off the shoulder opalescent blue dress and an amethyst pendant. Their brown hair is pulled back into their signature two buns. Behind Patty is a pink background with radiant red and yellow flowers. At the top of the image, iridescent capital letters spell out “PATTY LIVES THROUGH US.” On the bottom right corner is Sins Invalid’s logo, a black rectangular box with white letters that read “Sins Invalid.”
With deep sorrow, we share that Sins Invalid’s Co-Founder & Director, Patty Berne, joined the ancestors on May 29, 2025.
Patty’s brilliance, love, and vision shaped how we move, care, resist, and imagine. We honor her by continuing the work she led.
🖤 #PattyBerne #SinsInvalid
[no affiliation whatsoever with Quiver, I just really appreciated that text, and I'm excited to find out it's still being hosted somewhere already]
Cover of the zine, titled "documents regarding the struggle at Six Nations..." and dated June 2006. It features a black-and-white photo of the Stirling Street Bridge, which runs over train tracks, on fire.
had also reformatted this 2006 document abt the Kanonhstaton reclamation, but while looking for the Archive.org link I got it from, I actually found reading *and* imposed versions hosted by Quiver Distro:
reading: www.anti-politics.org/distro/2009/...
imposed: www.anti-politics.org/distro/2009/...
biggest zine-making pet peeve is when something is clearly not designed with one guy and their shitty home printer in mind, like covers or, worse, *inside text* that goes all the way to the edge of the page, or tons of images with dark colours that eat up all of your ink
ya for sure!!
Zine front cover: On Police Repression in Southern Ontario for anybody in conflict with the State with experts from "Hamilton Police Service 2008 Hate/Bias Crime Statistical Report" Cover image is of a fence with barbed wire, behind which a person on the roof of a building looks towards the camera.
reading format of this zine from Mounting Bedlam Distro about police repression in Southern Ontario in 2009 and, specifically, the role of hate crime units in targeting the left:
asianhater.noblogs.org/files/2024/0...
original: mountingbedlamdistro.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
![Kuwasi Balagoon
On Traitors
Excerpted from A Soldier's Story: Revolutionary Writings By a New Afrikan Anarchist
Image is an altered version of the book cover, mimicking its stylistic choices. The cover art is of Balagoon's face within a star [originally black, red, and green, now in black and white] with the Black Panther Party's logo faded in the background.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hah2aragdrhqu2mkwdfewsvu/bafkreigbtqnx7wlwpzlwmnkzgziequpady7xtwdchdjc3fdfmkoyhwz4jq@jpeg)
Kuwasi Balagoon On Traitors Excerpted from A Soldier's Story: Revolutionary Writings By a New Afrikan Anarchist Image is an altered version of the book cover, mimicking its stylistic choices. The cover art is of Balagoon's face within a star [originally black, red, and green, now in black and white] with the Black Panther Party's logo faded in the background.
other things I've reformatted:
this Kuwasi Balagoon text on the characteristics of informers in the Black Liberation Movement, first published in Kersplebedeb's 2019 edition of his writing and not available anywhere online
asianhater.noblogs.org/post/2025/04...
the Links section of my blog has a growing list of things I reformatted or reuploaded but most definitely did not make
asianhater.noblogs.org/links/
Cover for Damage Control: the story of how one activist group kept ourselves safe and strong in the face of movement infiltration Line illustration of an ant nest beetle.
just realized there's no imposed version of Damage Control, so I made one
print: asianhater.noblogs.org/files/2025/0...
original: mininginjustice.org/infiltration/
Three members of the Madleen team—Pascal Maurieras, Yanis Mhamdi, and Marco van Rennes—are still illegally detained by Israel and may be held for another month.
Arrested unlawfully in international waters and denied basic rights,
🚨Freedom Flotilla Official Update🚨
It's time for our governments to do their jobs and sanction Israel whose illegal attack on 'Madleen' while sailing in international waters is a small extension of their war crimes in Gaza. Governments, institutions, media, and corporations...2/
I'll never forget that Linda Tirado lost an eye and is dying from TBI-induced dementia caused by a cop shooting her in the face by a rubber bullet at the George Floyd protests.
I never managed to get enough help to get this done, unfortunately :/ and then I suffered a pretty bad injury, which is part of why I've been MIA. Any help is so appreciated 😓❤️🩹 I need about $400 to meet this goal and save myself a lot of suffering. Thank you, friends. ❤️🩹
Too many people keep saying, “They're just trying to get a reaction out of us.” A fascist government is not your petty ex. They don't need a reaction out of you. They're carrying out their agenda whether you react or not. Talking about the administrators of a fascist state like this is so detached.
Like, what planet do you have to be on to think an openly white supremacist government is sitting around saying, “We need them to go protest so we can declare martial law.” PLEASE! They're going to do whatever they want, regardless. Everyone needs to understand how despots work.
it never occurred to me tbh that the reason I feel like shit every morning is not just a natural cycle but specifically because I am spending all night breathing in allergens
I put a CR box right next to my bed and now I can breathe when I wake up in the morning
