On the anniversary of the release of KONY 2012, I wrote about the first pro-military intervention viral campaign for @thenewinquiry.com.web.brid.gy
thenewinquiry.com/kony-2012-fo...
“We are the border, the balance of payments, the war. We are a sphere of influence made flesh.”
We carry the border through the heart of the empire. The purpose of any frontier is to cut things in two.
instruggle.substack.com/p/imperial-r...
i loved this, never watched ‘Hoarders’ but this essay goes so much deeper.
thenewinquiry.com/the-life-cha...
Join me, Daniel Drennan Elawar, and @kit-myers.bsky.social next Sunday, 2/22 for Words As Lifelines: BIPOC Adoptees for Gaza #7.
Register here:
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“Hoarders is, at heart, a morality play. Its subjects are punished for what the viewer recognizes is a profound, if unspoken, sin…The hoarded home is nothing other than moral disorder freed of all restraint.”
i used to judge those on the screen while relapsing into my own addiction
"To be poor in the United States is exceptional in that, thanks to the efforts of the good people of Dhaka and Juarez and Shenzhen, you can die in any of these ways at the very same time as you accumulate an immense volume of stuff."
My latest for @thenewinquiry.com.web.brid.gy
"agents told hospital staff that Castaneda Mondragon ... 'purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.'”
"To be poor in the United States is exceptional in that, thanks to the efforts of the good people of Dhaka and Juarez and Shenzhen, you can die in any of these ways at the very same time as you accumulate an immense volume of stuff."
@newinquiry.bsky.social
thenewinquiry.com/the-life-cha...
Important context to "more/better training" arguments: the murder of Renée Good was a product of that training by someone who has trained others.
(I've seen same in civil rights cases; by moving where he did, he was intentionally generating a pretext to shoot her without genuine risk to himself.)
If the murder of Renee Nicole Good makes you say “abolish ICE,” but the murder of George Floyd didn’t make you say “abolish cops,” ask yourself why and try to learn from it
Normal day on X
This is an execution.
"If British special forces rappelled down into the Rose Garden to physically apprehend President Trump, no American publication would describe it as a mere 'arrest'—no matter which UK laws Trump was accused of violating. We would call it an extrajudicial kidnapping and an act of war."
Arresting a head of state for illegally possessing machine guns. Incredible stuff. No notes.
"They begin by locking undocumented children in cages
and end by locking your children in cages
and the worst thing is that if we don't stand up to them today, we will deserve it when it happens to us.
IT'S UP TO US."
"Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here."
George Jackson
don't really think drugs, as a concept, will ever be able to recover from the reputational hit they're about to take
“Oppressed communities often adopt anarchic practices in response to state oppression and neglect: mutual aid and collective organization, mistrust of politicians and bosses and the police…
It's available as a screen print from @justseeds.bsky.social! justseeds.org/product/gran...
You can be a N@zi congressional staffer or a socialist mayoral candidate, but some still treat anarchism like a dirty word. I break down anarchism as a tradition, strategy, and set of a practices in my latest piece: instruggle.substack.com/p/anarchism
Get your head out of The Clouds
Oh wow, thank you for sharing 🖤
"In the wake of my adoptive family fallout, I was left with a lingering scepticism about the concept of family in general.
And then I met my cousin."
On adoption, family, empire, and belonging:
psyche.co/turning-poin...
I've written about the politics of empire and adoption previously for @thenewinquiry.com.web.brid.gy thenewinquiry.com/baby-heists/
"Even learning these facts as an adult felt dirty, subversive, like a kind of intellectual ingratitude. And there is nothing worse for an adoptee to be than ungrateful."
My latest, on family, adoption, and belonging.
psyche.co/turning-poin...
The only way out of our current crises is mass mobilization through community organizing. But what even is it, and how can we get started? My latest piece breaks down a liberatory, participatory vision of community organizing for real collective power. instruggle.substack.com/p/what-is-co...
I just don't think you get to 2025 in the US with people openly and nakedly questioning capitalism with 2/3 of younger Americans supporting socialism without occupy. I'm also aware Occupy didnt come out of a vacuum but it was an inflection point.
Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal — the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in “austerity” measures
