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Author of novels and when-if.com, a newsletter on preparedness and collapse from an anarchist perspective. Husband of Ruth Awad, baba to dogs and hens.

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Cuba is in a major blackout now. No country brave enough to stop it. No people powerful enough to pressure their government. Bleak

04.03.2026 20:51 πŸ‘ 1663 πŸ” 394 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 8

been replaying in my head joe biden warning the entire middle east/world no one better interfere with what israel was doing while he was still in office. a supposed man of decency. just monstrous, empty people pulling the strings and now trump is the ultimate vessel for outward, unrepentant violence

04.03.2026 21:35 πŸ‘ 323 πŸ” 58 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 0

Yup, when the markets open tomorrow crude oil prices are gonna be wild if Iran is serious about closing the Strait of Hormuz. Domestic gasoline prices jump instantly with crude oil prices.

Gas prices might be a lot higher for who knows how long.

01.03.2026 19:11 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

The Washington Post's description of the bodycam video of his arrest last year, and the translation of Mr. Shah Alam's comments, is gutting. Remember, he was entirely blind in one eye and could only see three feet in the other, and he spoke virtually no English.

He spent a year in jail for this.

27.02.2026 01:01 πŸ‘ 3966 πŸ” 1778 πŸ’¬ 72 πŸ“Œ 115

Just got a message from South High saying β€œWe currently have requests totaling $33,965 for rent and we have $7500 available tomorrow. Please try to share the gofundme widely! Thanks”

Well, that simply will not do. I'll match the first $900. Please help my fellow South High families if you can! πŸ–€πŸ§‘πŸ–€

26.02.2026 22:09 πŸ‘ 417 πŸ” 249 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 7

Holocaust didn't start with gas chambers. It started like this. Nuremberg Laws were tools of Nazi Germany, and they're the tools of Kansas. There is very definitely a trans genocide being perpetuated in the #US and the #UK. Canaries are singing. We should all be listening.

26.02.2026 20:20 πŸ‘ 72 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Support Sudanese Comrades - Open Collective Sudanese anarchist comrades are building grassroots committees, mutual aid networks, and political education through their publication Al Amal/Hope & grassroots organizing. Support thier work for libe...

Sudanese anarchist comrades are building grassroots committees, mutual aid networks, and political education through their publication Al Amal/Hope & grassroots organizing. Support thier work for liberation!

25.02.2026 14:38 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Rojava Pushed to the Brink as Syrian Government Advances - UNICORN RIOT The reconstituted Syrian army recently launched a mass invasion of Rojava capturing up to 80% of its territory within two weeks.

Earlier this year, the Syrian transitional government invaded the semi autonomous Kurdish led enclave of Rojava, capturing up to 80% of it's territory in two weeks. A renewed ceasefire has largely held as tense negotiations over Kurdish autonomy resume.
unicornriot.ninja/2026/rojava-...

25.02.2026 12:44 πŸ‘ 51 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
If this isn't SHTF, what is?
If this isn't SHTF, what is? YouTube video by Black Flag Civilian

If you have family or friends in your life that rock 'Grunt Style' shirts, are Libertarian leaning, a-political preppers, or who are into the firearms/tactical space - show them this channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDIg...

24.02.2026 05:03 πŸ‘ 63 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

i can only afford $25. please match or go more if possible. i cannot believe our disabled community members get thrown out onto the street!

19.02.2026 16:24 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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14.02.2026 19:42 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Rapid Response Networks in the Twin Cities # # Episode Summary This week on Live Like the World is Dying Margaret and James talk about their time in the Twin Cities talking to people about resistance to ICE and rapid response networks. #...

This week on Live Like the World is Dying, @margaret.bsky.social and @jamesstout.bsky.social talk about their time in the Twin Cities talking to people about resistance to ICE and rapid response networks.

live-like-the-world-is-dying.pinecast.co/episode/e61e...

13.02.2026 17:08 πŸ‘ 74 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3

Ericmas eve (i'll be 43 tomorrow), but if ya'll haven't bought your sweetheart a present yet, don't worry: you can still purchase my books (TOADSTONES, Malarkey Books 2022, original weird fiction, and NIGHT FEARS: WEIRD TALES IN TRANSLATION, Paradise Editions 2023) over at asterism dot com

13.02.2026 16:27 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 7

The administration is relocating ICE agents to other parts of the country to see if they can achieve better results with the same tactics there.

If you're outside the Twin Cities, learn and replicate their model for resistance.

If you're in the Twin Cities, keep your networks intact and carry on.πŸ–€

12.02.2026 18:04 πŸ‘ 321 πŸ” 161 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 5

I'm not believing this until I hear from people in the streets of MN and neither should you

12.02.2026 14:23 πŸ‘ 2470 πŸ” 614 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 3

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

10.02.2026 22:54 πŸ‘ 27131 πŸ” 9606 πŸ’¬ 56 πŸ“Œ 358
A copy of the zine "Rapid Response Networks in the Twin Cities
A Guide to an Updated Model" with a black whistle and a couple copies of a blue sticker reading "Immigrants Welcome" with an image of boltcutters.

A copy of the zine "Rapid Response Networks in the Twin Cities A Guide to an Updated Model" with a black whistle and a couple copies of a blue sticker reading "Immigrants Welcome" with an image of boltcutters.

We've prepared a zine version of our text "Rapid Response Networks in the Twin Cities," describing the dynamic and resilient system that people in the Twin Cities have developed to keep the pressure on ICE.

Please print and distribute!

crimethinc.com/zines/rapid-...

11.02.2026 18:56 πŸ‘ 460 πŸ” 238 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 6

Minneapolis is 2.6mil people.

Springfield is 60,000 with 15,000 of that population under threat of deportation (1/4th of the whole city.)

Springfield is 26 square miles. 1000 ICE agents is 40 agents per mile.

People are terrified. We need all the help we can get.

02.02.2026 10:23 πŸ‘ 350 πŸ” 177 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 9

It appears that this legend owns a little bookstore β€” and you can order books from him instead of Bezos. Link in next post.

25.01.2026 17:45 πŸ‘ 12959 πŸ” 3865 πŸ’¬ 107 πŸ“Œ 97

i once asked an older greek anarchist how it is that greek protestors go so hard and he said that having overthrown a fascist regime in living memory, everyone knows what the cops are and whose side they're on and i think we're getting there.

25.01.2026 05:51 πŸ‘ 596 πŸ” 228 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
Charlestown, Virginia Dec 2, 1859

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.

Charlestown, Virginia Dec 2, 1859 I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.

Trump is threatening to use the Insurrection Act to put troops on the streets of the Twin Cities, where federal mercenaries continue to terrorize, kidnap, and shoot civilians.

He is threatening to do this because ICE lost last night.

We've reached the year 1859.

crimethinc.com/MinneapolisR...

15.01.2026 14:35 πŸ‘ 180 πŸ” 48 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 6

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand

You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen

*Everyone has stories like this*

13.01.2026 18:06 πŸ‘ 19763 πŸ” 8233 πŸ’¬ 355 πŸ“Œ 357
Text: β€œA friend said those of us who live in Minneapolis should write about what's going on here for folks who live elsewhere. You need to know that whether you're a Republican, Independent or Democrat, the Constitution is being violated by our federal government. This is not about catching criminals, or even deporting people. It is about punishing an entire state, including
citizens, for not supporting the president. Everyone in my part of Minneapolis is affected. On our streets, ICE is stopping people of color and demanding their papers. In America. US citizens do not have to prove citizenship to ICE. Yet people are being intimidated, some cases beaten up and detained, for requiring ICE to follow the law. ICE needs a judicial warrant to enter homes. Yet there are documented cases of them
ignoring the law - violating a bedrock constitutional principle. Americans of color are staying home, afraid to go to work, school, to grocery shop, or fill their cars with gas. This isn't just "illegals" or immigrants with valid work permits, it is citizens who have had their cars rammed by ICE for merely looking Hispanic. Businesses are closing. Schools are 50 percent full. When they are open, fascists are calling in bomb threats because the
president decided to make us a meme. After a daycare teacher with a valid work permit (through 2030) was snatched from her workplace, parents (and grandparents) have had to organize to watch their SCHOOLS, to make sure conditional rights are observed. This is being repeated throughout Minnesota. Imagine trying to do your job or live you life while also taking volunteer shifts to make sure the federal
government doesn't act extrajudicially.
Because of ICE's documented abuses, neighbors have organized to monitor federal actions. This observation is legal, as long as it doesn't interfere with a valid action. Yet since ICE killed Renee Good, they are increasingly stopping this observation, breaking car windows and …”

Text: β€œA friend said those of us who live in Minneapolis should write about what's going on here for folks who live elsewhere. You need to know that whether you're a Republican, Independent or Democrat, the Constitution is being violated by our federal government. This is not about catching criminals, or even deporting people. It is about punishing an entire state, including citizens, for not supporting the president. Everyone in my part of Minneapolis is affected. On our streets, ICE is stopping people of color and demanding their papers. In America. US citizens do not have to prove citizenship to ICE. Yet people are being intimidated, some cases beaten up and detained, for requiring ICE to follow the law. ICE needs a judicial warrant to enter homes. Yet there are documented cases of them ignoring the law - violating a bedrock constitutional principle. Americans of color are staying home, afraid to go to work, school, to grocery shop, or fill their cars with gas. This isn't just "illegals" or immigrants with valid work permits, it is citizens who have had their cars rammed by ICE for merely looking Hispanic. Businesses are closing. Schools are 50 percent full. When they are open, fascists are calling in bomb threats because the president decided to make us a meme. After a daycare teacher with a valid work permit (through 2030) was snatched from her workplace, parents (and grandparents) have had to organize to watch their SCHOOLS, to make sure conditional rights are observed. This is being repeated throughout Minnesota. Imagine trying to do your job or live you life while also taking volunteer shifts to make sure the federal government doesn't act extrajudicially. Because of ICE's documented abuses, neighbors have organized to monitor federal actions. This observation is legal, as long as it doesn't interfere with a valid action. Yet since ICE killed Renee Good, they are increasingly stopping this observation, breaking car windows and …”

People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .

13.01.2026 22:38 πŸ‘ 6669 πŸ” 3725 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 102
A Border Patrol agent in a balaclava and green tactical uniform is falling backwards onto the icy pavement. His tailbone is hitting the ground, his boots are up in the air and his arms are splayed out in a V shape to break his fall. The photo looks to be taken from about 5ft from the agent

A Border Patrol agent in a balaclava and green tactical uniform is falling backwards onto the icy pavement. His tailbone is hitting the ground, his boots are up in the air and his arms are splayed out in a V shape to break his fall. The photo looks to be taken from about 5ft from the agent

πŸ“Έ by Christopher Katsarov

11.01.2026 23:14 πŸ‘ 1882 πŸ” 347 πŸ’¬ 57 πŸ“Œ 125

Insurgency doctrine says avoid pitched battles and don't plan for force-on-force scenarios.

Instead, make every single the enemy does more expensive, risky, time-consuming.

Make routine things require a 50-point checklist. Make it so they need 8-man squads (two trucks) rather than 4 in one vehicle

09.05.2025 02:50 πŸ‘ 1255 πŸ” 227 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 5

If he wants to declare martial law, he will. It won't be based on reality. I don't know why some people continue to say: "be peaceful or he'll invoke martial law." Are you all living in this country in 2026???? Haven't you seen them make things up out of whole cloth???? Are you 10 years old?

12.01.2026 02:10 πŸ‘ 5177 πŸ” 1307 πŸ’¬ 72 πŸ“Œ 0
Memorial service to honor homeless people who died in Columbus in 2025 The Columbus Coalition for the Homeless is hosting a memorial service for those who died while homeless Dec. 18 at Trinity Episcopal Church Downtown and via livestream.

β€œInside a downtown Columbus church on Dec. 18, more than 160 people will be recognized.

Their names will be read aloud, a bell rung in each person's honor.

They are people who have died in Columbus in 2025 while experiencing homelessness.”

www.dispatch.com/story/news/h...

17.12.2025 16:58 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

When checkpoints go up in a fascist autocracies hardening phase it means violence or kinetic contact is imminent.

In Bosnia, Ukraine and elsewhere the pattern is clear when the forces espousing eliminationist rhetoric and deploying secret police for terror raids put up checkpoints violence follows

09.12.2025 03:46 πŸ‘ 86 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Everyone deserves to be warm. There are resources throughout Franklin County and the Central Ohio region for those without shelter. Visit https://www.csb.org/winter-warming-centers for more information, and share this post. #WinterWarmingCentersΒ @commshelterbd.bsky.social

08.12.2025 14:15 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0