micchiato 🍉

Forced to walk the plank by the moderators at the Masto flagship (mastodon.social) for opposing genocide in Palestine. Resurfacing here.

“But the hushing of the criticism of honest opponents is a dangerous thing.” — W.E.B. Du Bois

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2025-03-30 14:13:26

“A parent has received an 18-week touchline ban after screaming ‘you’re a f-----g boy’ at a player rumoured to be transgender in an under-12s girls rugby match”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/2025/03/28/rosslyn-park-fc-cobham-rfc-under-12s-transgender-abuse/

2025-03-30 14:08:59

Democrats incessantly prepare the way for Republicans.
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/251/774/956/456/376/original/50063b22b5bb5a33.jpeg

2025-03-28 15:55:30

The thing I find curious about Masto is a general jadedness about #Bluesky, but a general openness toward #Substack. That juxtaposition is odd.
(Disclaimer: I am not a loyal devotee to any #socialmedia or microblogging platform).

2025-03-28 13:46:53

So a co-founder of Airbnb is on Apartheid Clyde’s DOGE team. Time to do to short-term rentals what’s being done to Swasticars?

2025-03-27 22:06:32

It’s clear why ICE kidnapped him. Champions for justice are a threat to the regime:
“Juarez, who is a member of the Indigenous Mexican Mixteco community, has organized on behalf of farmworker rights in Washington state since he was 14 years old and worked as a berry picker, according to Rosalinda Guillen, a longtime activist leader and founder of social justice group Community to Community Development ….
‘I think pretty much every legislator in Olympia knows him,’ Guillen said. ‘He’s a serious young man who really wants to fight for justice, and he knows how to express himself and he’s tireless. He is like 24/7 on immigrant rights and farmworker rights.’”
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/ice-arrests-wa-farmworker-activist-in-sedro-woolley/

2025-03-27 15:37:38

Despite Trump’s violations of human rights and his bullying carceral projections, believe it or not, deportations have slowed from Biden’s savage deportation clip:
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-set-broaden-arrests-deportation-routes-expand-immigration-crackdown-2025-02-21/

2025-03-27 14:54:48

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@nprofile…uc38 @nprofile…ug6l @nprofile…vlvm
I would call if more than an alliance. Neoliberalism is an alliance between state and capital. Fascism is state capitalism. It’s more assimilation than alliance.

2025-03-27 14:42:30

it’s a good time to recall that Obama was partially responsible for these incognito ICE goons stalking and abducting visa-bearing university students off the street
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/234/919/336/941/613/original/bdf9a22d7c6c6007.jpeg

2025-03-26 19:17:57

“The history of early Christianity offers noteworthy points of similarity with the modern labor movement. Like it, Christianity was in the beginning a movement of the oppressed. It appears first as a religion of slave and [free], of the poor without rights and of peoples dominated or dispersed by the Romans.”
— Friedrich Engels

2025-03-26 19:05:24

“It is a common myth within capitalist thought that the individual through drive and hard work can become a capitalist. The acquisition of wealth is not due to hard work alone or the Africans working as slaves in America and the West Indies would have been the wealthiest group in the world. The individualism of the capitalist must be seen against the hard and unrewarded work of the masses.”
— Walter Rodney

2025-03-25 15:18:56

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“By 1931, a small but determined communist presence appeared in the South, allowing the party to bring concerted attention to one of its first significant antiracist campaigns: the movement to free the ‘Scottsboro boys’”
— Nina Silber, This War Ain’t Over: Fighting the Civil War in New Deal America (2018)
#otd #books #history
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/223/738/585/449/775/original/7ea59353fb462583.jpeg

2025-03-25 14:26:42

#otd 1931 — the Scottsboro Boys were arrested on trumped up charges. Their conviction became a national scandal with protests organized in various cities. US Communists played a vital role in legal defense of the black teens. Robin D.G. Kelley writing:
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/223/532/755/842/421/original/5b721328c5aa4c2a.jpeg

2025-03-25 04:29:48

“Those in power never give way, and admit defeat only to plot and scheme to regain their lost power and privilege …. The struggle of classes ends either in the reconstruction of society or in the common ruin of the contending classes.”
— C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins (1963)

2025-03-24 04:39:27

“The sudden rise to prominence of the black Reaganites can be explained, in part, by a decline in the internal organization and prominence of the Congressional Black Caucus during the interval between Watergate and the 1980 elections …. The left wing[ers] of the Caucus … were open advocates of democratic socialism, and had little reservations in challenging the white leaders of their own party from the left on both foreign and domestic public policies.
Although the Caucus continued to exist … by the late 1970s it began to fracture internally due to ideological differences, egotistic power plays, and from external criticism from many moderate-to-conservative Black elite leaders.”
— Manning Marable, How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America (1983)

2025-03-23 21:26:37

Source: Jimmy Carter’s Blood-Drenched Legacy
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/11/jimmy-carters-blood-drenched-legacy-2/
https://kolektiva.social/@micchiato/114213456078147033

2025-03-23 19:43:54

US POTUS Jimmy Carter provided aid to the military dictatorship in El Salvador, despite a letter from Archbishop Romero explicitly appealing to Carter not to do so
https://kolektiva.social/@MikeDunnAuthor/114212510697421083

2025-03-23 15:13:01

What we are witnessing is the logical extension of bourgeois democracy (aka, oligarchy) into state capitalism (aka, fascism): an important distinction the author fails to make.
https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield/113976991151376443

2025-03-22 22:54:24

It’s not that AOC and Bernie Sanders drew 34,000 people to a rally. It’s that 34,000 people organized and AOC and Bernie joined them.

2025-03-22 16:06:49

Manning Marable on how small business gives impetus to #fascism:
“Historically, within advanced capitalist societies it is the sector of petty capital that is often more inclined toward authoritarianism than large capital. Reactionary political movements within parliamentary democracies tend to develop their strongest support … among elements of the most economically insecure and marginal stratum within the capitalist class. Hitler’s astonishingly rapid growth in Weimar Germany came not merely from the anti-Semitism of many German unemployed workers but also from the small shopkeepers and merchants of that country. In both 1976 and 1980, finance capital was extremely reserved about Ronald Reagans candidacy for the Republican nomination …. The economic demands of day-to-day entrepreneurial struggle tend, in every capitalist society, to push the politics of small businesspersons to the right.”
#uspol #uspolitics #politics #economics #history

2025-03-22 13:59:45

None of this will matter if only one billionaire is taken down. The next one is waiting to take his place.

2025-03-22 13:35:06

Fell for AOC once.
Won’t get fooled again.

2025-03-22 01:10:41

The Left has always had much more to overcome than the Right or the Center in US politics.
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/203/416/151/739/368/original/321affb27c77323d.jpeg

2025-03-21 17:53:28

Bluesky moderators blocked this media as graphic immediately after I posted it yesterday. I’ve seen descriptions that are more graphic than this video.
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o7resn4ug7cdrv5lo7gz3teh/post/3lkveijvqpk2o
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/201/696/790/773/884/original/051e4d2b95286ca1.mp4

2025-03-21 14:20:24

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@nprofile…ptpv
Why would Democrats want to carve up the GOP when it is such moneymaker for them?

2025-03-21 02:49:58

“The Trump administration is threatening to all but shut down the Social Security Administration in response to a judge’s ruling blocking activities by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency — an action that could delay payments to millions of beneficiaries caught in the middle of the legal battle.”
https://archive.ph/q6ASz

2025-03-20 17:58:43

“gradual reforms within the criminal #justice system will not blunt the razors’s edge of #police brutality. Underdevelopment and the imprisonment of the black masses will not die a natural death until the real criminals within America’s powerful ruling class taste something of the bitter anguish that distorts and cripples the black majority.”
— Manning Marable, How #Capitalism Underdeveloped Black #America (1983)
#books

2025-03-20 17:05:35

“‘I’ve now heard from multiple people in Gaza that they are being ordered to the beach along Gaza City. Israel has launched a full-scale bloodbath and is forcing people toward the sea. No Western media is reporting this.’
-Linda Mamoun (mamoun_linda)
Mar 19, 2025 · 7:45 PM UTC”
https://bsky.app/profile/jamiedcville.bsky.social/post/3lksydr3j222b

2025-03-20 16:30:04

Northwestern uses Zionism as a litmus test for tenure:
“This has nothing to do with my scholarship or teaching. It is a political hit job over my support for Palestine and for trying to protect our student protesters last year from physical attack, by nonviolently subjecting my own body to assault by the Northwestern Police instead of our students.”
https://bsky.app/profile/thrasherxy.bsky.social/post/3lkt3jbx22c22

2025-03-20 03:29:25

“Steve Witkoff made his first ever post on Twitter today specifically to deny reports that he is pressuring the Lebanese government to open up negotiations with Israel to normalize relations.”
https://bsky.app/profile/diplomatofnight.com/post/3lkrquiasrc2u

2025-03-19 20:38:34

Greg turns off comments and blocks those who QT to the contrary to insure that he is “unassailably right 🕊️”
But if the celebrity ever did exercise the social in the media I would ask him to consider the accountability of 2 campaigns that lost to the most unpopular Republican ever to run for POTUS.
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/191/021/488/710/063/original/6da251135fc00155.jpeg

2025-03-19 16:11:14

The primary recipients of USAID are US-based for-profit corporations.
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/189/968/697/957/247/original/afc3fb15faa05841.mp4

2025-03-19 15:42:03

An evacuation order is nothing but a battlefield tactic to Zionists.

2025-03-19 14:22:15

Two things I know.
#Swasticar was a POS vehicle long before the popular consumer backlash against #Musk started.
So many more billionaires need to be stock dropped. They are all existential threats to democracy.

2025-03-18 17:31:19

“American capitalism is preserved by two essential and integral factors: fraud and force. Fraud is the ideological and cultural hegemony of the capitalist creed: that enterprise is free and competition exists for all in the marketplace; that success is available for all who work hard, accumulate capital, and participate as voters in the electoral process; that democratic government is dependent upon the freedom to own private property. Blacks, Latinos and white workers are barraged daily with illusions about the inherent justice and equal opportunity within the American System. The educational institutions, churches, media and popular culture all in their own way participate in creating the logical framework for a system that remains rational and inhumane.”
— Manning Marable (1983)

2025-03-18 17:08:11

“The U.S. Department of Agriculture is cutting two federal programs that provided about $1 billion in funding to schools and food banks to buy food directly from local farms, ranchers and producers, part of what the agency said was a decision to ‘return to long-term, fiscally responsible initiatives.’”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/usda-cancels-local-food-purchasing-food-banks-school-meals/

2025-03-18 16:57:50

I know I said this already.
I fucking hate Masto’s search (in)capabilities.
I have no confidence that I can find content I’ve seen (or created) in the distant past.
To a researcher (or just an encyclopedic mind) this is a fatal flaw.
I go to #Twitter and I can find stuff from a decade ago. Here stuff from a month ago is dead and buried via search.
#Mastodon #socialmedia

2025-03-18 16:50:20

“And now, private equity’s sights are turning to the #SocialSecurity Administration. Privatization of the #retirement market has been a long-standing goal of capital. If the #SSA really were dismantled, a vast retirement market — over a trillion dollars — would open up, into which could be shoved all sorts of new corporate profit models and plans. Yet the social results, at least for those who aren’t wealthy investors, are easy to imagine if you’ve had the essential #US experience of grappling with #health #insurance. There would be the familiar labyrinths of complexity, deception and usurious charges — but the harms inflicted could easily multiply, as the market for retirement programs is, of course, retirees: older people, disabled people and those in deepest need. #Privatization for profit would target the savings and last hopes of all these communities.”
#uspol #uspolitics #politics #Trump
https://scheerpost.com/2025/03/18/as-doge-mauls-social-security-profit-hungry-private-equity-is-swooping-in/

2025-03-18 03:42:42

My regular reminder on how I define #fascism: a right-wing movement that 1) tends to be hostile toward subaltern ethnic or cultural groups while advocating homogeneous ethnic or cultural rehabilitation (frequently cast as utopian, generally supremacist); 2) tends to oppose Marxism, anarchism, and worker-led democracy and revolution in favor of state capitalism via centralized dictatorship that appeals to strong #police powers; 3) tends to favor militarized command structure predominated by petty bourgeois, white-collar labor that reorganizes direct action and occludes class-based activism

2025-03-18 03:15:12

“Target Corporation’s stock plummeted by approximately $27.27 per share by the end of February, erasing about $12.4 billion in market value.
The drop came on Feb. 28, the designated economic blackout day, and coincided with mounting backlash over the retailer’s decision to abandon its diversity, equity, and inclusion commitments.”
https://www.thecharlottepost.com/news/2025/03/06/business/target-takes-a-hit-12.4-billion-in-value-lost-after-boycott/

2025-03-18 03:01:04

“A US-born citizen was walking near Chicago in January. ICE snatched him off the street, handcuffed him, threw into a van. His wallet, which contained his ID, was confiscated. He was detained for 10 hours before being released without a record of what occurred.”
https://bsky.app/profile/aurabogado.bsky.social/post/3lkm624z7tk2y

2025-03-17 16:24:25

“Are they a real-estate company or a baseball team?”
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/giants-real-estate-free-agents-20198462.php

2025-03-17 16:06:05

“#Police were tipped off about protests in the #LosAngeles area and across the country. On at least one occasion, the emails show a Dataminr employee contacted the #LAPD directly to inform officers of a #protest being planned that apparently hadn’t been picked up by the company’s automated scanning.”
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/17/lapd-surveillance-gaza-palestine-protests-dataminr/

2025-03-17 02:10:26

“Millions of birds have had to be culled there because of #birdflu. We have four million laying hens in total in #Finland. The amount we could export would not solve their egg shortage”
#eggs #food #H5N1 #birds
https://yle.fi/a/74-20149786

2025-03-17 02:03:29

“The City of Tempe and the Tempe #Police shut down the Tempe Free Market today. This event has been in Daley park for over two years without incident. This market provides free clothing, household necessities and more from local nonprofits and community members.
The City of Tempe and the Tempe police continue to harass community members who are trying to help each other. In a time of economic struggle. Arresting people for feeding the #homeless. Harassing community events that help people who are struggling. Do better Tempe! #tempe #arizona”
https://bsky.app/profile/azresist.bsky.social/post/3lkja5mp6ik2c

2025-03-17 01:38:42

This is exactly who #Democrats are.
https://bird.makeup/users/prem_thakker/statuses/1901336524446114279

2025-03-16 23:27:25

“Just hours after the summoning and interrogation of our peer, Lana Kamleh in #Jerusalem by Israeli #police another peer of ours, journalist Latifeh Abdelatif was taken and her detention extended by Israeli authorities until tomorrow (Monday, March 17).
In the #WestBank we’re witnessing unprecedented frequency of Israeli raids— this comes after the depopulation campaigns in the north where tens of thousands of #Palestinians are without shelter— their own homes bulldozed, burned, or bombed to the ground by trigger happy colonial soldiers.
What is happening now is an increase of Israeli attacks at all fronts, including armed settlers in civilian clothing, settlers conscripted to the army, and judicial assault.
This is not #war, it is a clear and explicit operation of eradicating Palestinian cities and towns, while pushing Palestinians out either dead or as an asylum seeker.”
#Israel #genocide #warcrimes #news #media #press
https://x.com/mariambarghouti/status/1901378518384074821

2025-03-16 18:02:15

#Swasticar don’t seem too smart.
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/173/419/652/931/864/original/2d427fc82b0e9993.mp4

2025-03-16 16:49:52

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@nprofile…c69n
They been doing the egg confiscation for a while. My daughter is a college student in Vermont. Last year she brought one carton of a dozen eggs with her back from a road trip to Montreal and a US border guard in New York made a huge deal about the eggs and confiscated them.

2025-03-16 16:18:19

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@nprofile…s6hu
Is this because of Ukraine? I’m wondering why they didn’t do this once the genocide in Palestine became clear.

2025-03-16 15:29:36

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@nprofile…y7zy
Except that moderators can still take you down here for political expression alone and then keep you from downloading your content.

2025-03-15 21:49:49

Protests for Mahmoud Khalil in LA right now.
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/168/652/027/483/721/original/675285a799710960.mp4

2025-03-15 19:44:29

The youngest daughter’s flight back to college got cancelled for bullshit reasons.
US air transportation is horrible and getting worse.
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/168/159/599/343/300/original/00a127b709cad348.jpeg

2025-03-15 13:30:55

Idaho school administrators ordered a teacher to remove two signs from her classroom out of concern that they “inadvertently create division or controversy”:
“The district also mentioned to the Statesman that, if it is enacted into law this legislative term, House Bill 41 will force schools to comply with a measure that bans ‘flags or banners that present political, religious, or ideological views, including but not limited to political parties, race, gender, sexual orientation, or political ideologies.’”
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/education/article301972094.html#storylink=cpy

2025-03-15 13:18:44

When the genocide just wasn’t enough to make him quit the party.
https://mastodon.world/@verdantsquare/114164525154260357

2025-03-15 13:11:31

We got what we got because Harris ran to the right, alienating segments of likely Dem voters in every single swing state, in a misguided attempt to pluck off likely Republican voters. She failed to GOTV. Blame her.
#uspol #uspolitics #politics
https://med-mastodon.com/@mloxton/114162039888267073
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/166/614/430/069/839/original/78f602793bf50421.jpeg

2025-03-15 13:01:49

“Sinn Féin has long called for a Citizens' Assembly to be held to examine the possibility of a united Ireland, ahead of a referendum on the topic.”
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/03/15/growing-numbers-of-unionists-open-to-conversation-on-united-ireland-mcdonald-says/

2025-03-15 12:45:46

“‘It was just said that his green card was flagged,’ said Astrid Senior, his mother. She said she didn’t hear from her son directly until Tuesday, when she learned he’d been hospitalized.
Senior described Schmidt being ‘violently interrogated’ at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.
She said Schmidt told her immigration agents pressured him to give up his green card. She said he was placed on a mat in a bright room with other people at the airport, with little food or water, suffered sleep deprivation, and was denied access to his medication for anxiety and depression.”
https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025-03-14/green-card-holder-from-new-hampshire-interrogated-at-logan-airport-detained

2025-03-15 12:38:06

The American Jewish Committee conflates dissent against #Israel with antisemitism and refuses to acknowledge that the dissent resulted from the #warcrimes. I would call it #genocide inversion.
“The AJC said Martin had accused Israel of committing war crimes, pursuing ‘collective punishment of the Palestinian people,’ as well as using ‘starvation as a weapon of #war’.
The group said that Baker explained that these statements are ‘contributing to antisemitism facing #Ireland’s Jews’ and urged him to pull back from its engagement with the ICJ.”
https://www.thejournal.ie/jewish-leaders-israel-antisemitism-meeting-taoiseach-6650579-Mar2025/

2025-03-15 12:24:15

Is your #Swasticar coming unglued?
https://fortune.com/2025/03/14/elon-musk-tesla-cybertruck-delivery-halt-owners-complain-of-metal-sides-falling-off/

2025-03-15 12:19:13

Thing is all kinds of Democrat scolds will come out of the woodwork to browbeat voters for not coalescing around their candidate, but got nothing against their own electeds who won’t coalesce around the party’s agenda.
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/166/408/334/186/510/original/43c741ab9ce22fb3.jpeg

2025-03-14 16:46:11

Based.
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/161/796/228/491/620/original/672cf992c9a5cc87.jpeg

2025-03-14 14:59:16

How’s Jonathan Greenblatt gonna fix this?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2025/03/13/musk-retweets-hitler-didnt-murder-millions-message-amid-ongoing-nazi-controversy/

2025-03-14 14:42:14

“The uproar prompted what looks to have been a bit of a panic at the #education department. By 2:11 p.m. that day, the ‘different racial mix’ option had been scrubbed from the application.
The education department also deleted three possible answers to a series of other survey questions that touched on the sensitive subjects of race, religion and mandatory retention.”
https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2025/03/13/arkansass-school-voucher-application-asked-if-parents-were-seeking-a-different-racial-mix-of-students

2025-03-14 00:11:13

https://flipboard.com/@associatedpress/politics-h8vn14lnz/-/a-Lo9Yd_E5QMGHOxca56ZtWw%3Aa%3A3199720-%2F0
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/157/883/756/792/688/original/7ab8fd481797852c.jpeg

2025-03-13 23:40:27

Popular anger at a vigorous boil.
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/157/762/879/548/069/original/c8a69bddb32f002c.mp4

2025-03-13 20:51:12

I like it.
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/157/097/373/977/212/original/6ffc1197f2ee211b.jpeg

2025-03-13 13:24:57

And the military objectives of sand traps, mushroom compost, and caddyshacks are what?
“U.S. military is looking to pour money into the renovation of 35 golf course sand traps at the Woodlawn Golf Course at Ramstein Air Base in Germany. Contracting documents show that Air Force Special Operations Command also wants to purchase sterile mushroom compost for the golf course greens at Cannon Air Force Base in New Mexico. It is also looking into hydroseeding at that same course. The Army, for its part, plans to issue a service contract that will cover maintenance in the golf course clubhouse at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York.”
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/10/pentagon-spending-golf-courses-trump-budget-cuts-elon-musk-doge/

2025-03-13 04:50:16

“Yale is bending the knee to Trump's effort to suppress free speech, crush academic freedom and establish a dictatorship.”
https://bsky.app/profile/helyehdoutaghi.bsky.social/post/3lk7g2sen6223

2025-03-13 03:24:05

You love to see it.
https://pagesix.com/2025/03/12/entertainment/mayor-eric-adams-booed-at-planet-hollywood-reopening/

2025-03-12 13:27:01

Trump punishes the Governor of Maine for talking back.
https://www.pressherald.com/2025/03/11/usda-halts-millions-in-funding-for-university-of-maine-system-programs/

2025-03-12 13:17:53

“Silence, obedience, and submission—subjugation for political ends—that’s the point. The goal of McCarthyism was to crush what was left of the New Deal left-liberal alliance, primarily in the labor movement, and it succeeded. The point wasn’t to be cruel.”
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/muskism-and-mccarthyism/

2025-03-12 13:01:54

The US is a shithole country.
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/149/589/700/401/281/original/df1b9f04374b1280.jpeg

2025-03-12 03:48:08

Had enough Democrat yet?
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/147/411/947/471/341/original/45740105549f78a0.jpeg

2025-03-12 02:52:40

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@nprofile…ysne
Social Democrats have a track record of compromising with fascism.
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/147/193/870/062/200/original/311454a5403f0779.jpeg

2025-03-11 23:13:09

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@nprofile…kt08 @nprofile…zvcd
Leaf blower season never ends in Nashville. We never catch a break from them.

2025-03-11 14:38:55

Strong marketing.
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/144/308/528/980/769/original/091e588897f8c3a9.jpeg

2025-03-11 14:31:37

21 years ago I bought this bottle of port the day the youngest daughter was born in order to toast to her coming of age this week. (If you like port it was a good vintage: intense cherry and blackberry notes.) The youngest daughter enjoyed our little ritual. She said she had been looking forward to it since watching the same toast to the oldest daughter.
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/144/280/217/888/891/original/55e5da026a22de11.jpeg

2025-03-11 04:46:13

Couldn’t get my toots to load on Ivory a few minutes ago.
My first thought was, “oh boy, Masto moderators kicked me out again”

2025-03-11 04:04:59

The observations on Antonio Gramsci below got me thinking about the liberal politics of lesserevilism. Particularly how appeals to lesser evils repress subaltern aspirations and rely on hegemonic historiography.
“Because written history often distorts or erases the activity of subaltern classes, the ‘autonomous initiatives’ of subaltern classes are difficult to trace and, according to Gramsci, of ‘inestimable value’ … he also introduced the rubric ‘Utopias and philosophical novels’ as a new line of inquiry to investigate the literary genre of utopian writing as an indirect representation of the ‘aspirations of the masses.’”
— Marcus E. Green

2025-03-10 16:54:59

Columbia University has a legacy of sketch.
#freepalestine #history #gaza #education
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2025-03-10 16:32:29

White moderates got upset over Malcolm X’s “chickens coming home to roost” comment because they lived in a nostalgic liberal delusion of Camelot and he was a black man with a strong opinion.

2025-03-10 13:27:20

Remember when Dubya let the oil companies write his energy policy in secret meetings with Dick Cheney? We’re appalled by Trump empowering Apartheid Clyde, but let’s not lose our sober sense of history in the horror.

2025-03-10 13:15:25

The ship has been at sea for sometime. One of the points of Occupy Wall Street was the control of finance capitalism over federal policy. BDS had been countering the influence of fascist Zionism for decades. The generational presence of high stakes lobbying firms in DC is a cosmetic and cynical exercise of politics: K Street may be located in Washington, but it consistently undermines any democratic action with obscene amounts of money. The “wealth extremists” (are there any other kind?) are simply the latest iteration of the lurch to the right the US perennially makes.
https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/114136912615820822

2025-03-09 22:11:18

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@nprofile…24je
Okay. Sorry.

2025-03-09 22:06:45

Democrats gonna Democrat.
https://kolektiva.social/@alissaazar/114133294242147322

2025-03-09 22:04:11

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@nprofile…24je
No shit. Why do you think I posted it, Sherlock?

2025-03-09 22:03:32

Today and every day.
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/134/730/847/933/440/original/f2f97bcbf0429089.mp4

2025-03-09 16:13:41

Columbia kids should transfer the hell out of that hellhole. The Ivy League is just as fascist as anyone.
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2025-03-09 15:13:32

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@nprofile…4u72
Not a single word in this article about the particular historical context from which the term “woke” arose: the Scottsboro Boys and white supremacy in the South. It seems to assume Jane Fonda’s watered down expression. Sometimes I just can’t with liberal cultural appropriation.
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2025-03-09 14:54:06

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@nprofile…e5ug @nprofile…kmlf
This is a bigger deal than the Mad River Valley protests of Vance’s ski trip.

2025-03-09 14:48:29

Daylight saving is a circle jerk.

2025-03-08 16:34:08

“Happy women’s day to Palestinian mothers, who have to carry their children twice in this world.”
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2025-03-08 16:22:01

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@nprofile…zfx8
Just look at US history.
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2025-03-08 15:50:02

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@nprofile…fq0p
Last year I was kicked off mastodon dot social for expressing pro-Palestinian views. The moderators made it impossible for me to download my curated content or move it to another instance.
After 3 years in this “ecosystem” I’ve found that the true believers here tend to downplay the pitfalls of Masto moderation. I’ll continue to take my chances with algorithms on other platforms because I don’t find instance moderation much better.

2025-03-07 21:59:42

It’s only fighting fascism if he throws the bottle at a Nazi
https://mastodon.social/@existentialcomics/114118363576699158

2025-03-07 21:54:58

Twice as many Democrats joined Republicans to vote to censure Rashida Tlaib in 2023 as Democrats who joined Republicans to censure Al Green in 2025.
But I don’t remember as much progressive rancor in 2023 as now.
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2025-03-07 21:51:44

A stone groove.
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2025-03-07 18:22:22

“The modern state abolishes many autonomies of the subaltern classes, they abolishes the state as a federation of classes; but certain forms of the internal life of the subaltern classes are reborn as party, trade union, cultural association. The modern #dictatorship abolishes these forms of class autonomy as well, and it tries hard to incorporate them into the activity of the state: in other words, the centralization of the whole life of the nation in the hands of the ruling class becomes frenetic and all consuming.”
— Antonio #Gramsci, First Draft of Notebook 25, Prison Notebooks
#books #politics #fascism
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2025-03-07 16:26:58

vOtE bLuE no MatTEr WhO! 🙃
https://social.treehouse.systems/@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes/114118054155798227

2025-03-07 15:17:33

<Trigger warning: Bluesky content.>
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