joshuaphilll

Earthseed | Abolition | Anti-capitalism

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2024-12-19 14:34:29

When Musk put his foot on the scale, half in congress bowed down.
The world’s richest man could shut down the government, and that’s just the start.
He wants to gut public services and sell them for parts, screwing all of us over while billionaires get even richer.
https://www.jphilll.com/p/the-richest-man-on-earth-owns-half

2024-09-29 14:03:54

My latest: https://www.jphilll.com/p/no-one-is-expendable
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2024-09-23 19:54:30

I wrote about getting texts from the washing machine, and how I’m not too fond of this vision of futuristic tech.
https://www.jphilll.com/p/why-is-my-washing-machine-texting
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2024-09-10 20:55:25

Seeing Greta Thunberg arrested at a Palestine solidarity protest is striking, both because it draws our attention to how as she got more radical she lost her media darling status, and because it shows how we too can grow and strive for real transformation.
https://www.jphilll.com/p/gretas-growth

2024-08-15 13:24:34

The dehumanization of the homeless has brought us to a point where existing without a home is now a criminalizable offense. That means poverty is being criminalized, public space is increasingly inaccessible, and existence is becoming harder for all of us. We have to resist, both in action and in shifting the paradigm away from the dehumanization of our fellow human beings who struggle in this capitalist world.
https://www.jphilll.com/p/the-homeless-are-not-alone

2024-07-30 15:03:13

Democrats actually going low instead of high for once is good.
But it's just the very beginning. Rooting out fascism, and weird misogynist assholes, takes long-term work far beyond an election.
We need to do that work and defeat them down at the root.
https://www.jphilll.com/p/weird-men

2024-07-01 18:30:01

No one is coming to save us.
We need to build working-class power, we need to build a movement that can crush fascism, we need to organize like never before.
Because we don't have a democracy to save, but we do have one to build from the ground up.
https://www.jphilll.com/p/the-supreme-court-just-legalized

2024-06-11 14:26:25

Our government won't stop lying to us.
Israeli officials are clear about rejecting a permanent ceasefire. Hamas is clear about accepting it.
But U.S. officials and politicians won't stop saying that Hamas is blocking peace.
https://www.jphilll.com/p/why-does-our-government-keep-lying

2024-06-02 14:22:56

A ceasefire is proposed, Israel undermines it, the West tries to blame Hamas.
The cycle just repeated itself, again.
But this time Biden himself announced it, then Netanyahu rejected the entire “permanent ceasefire” section. This sick cycle must end.
https://www.jphilll.com/p/israel-rejects-peace-again

2024-05-30 15:02:44

Jerry Seinfeld brings it all together.
A man whose glory days are behind him becoming a public sexist and going on conservative podcasts while embracing Zionism.
I didn’t think he’d be giving us a lesson in how men move to the right, but here we are.
https://www.jphilll.com/p/why-isnt-seinfeld-funny-any-more

2024-05-17 13:38:37

I had to write a little about Harrison, and how this man who seemingly has everything men are told to want is still insecure, small, and scrambling to feel strong. And how maybe that reveals a little problem with what we’re told to want.
https://www.jphilll.com/p/harrison-butker-and-what-men-fear

2024-05-12 15:26:30

I wrote a little about how an influencer saying “let them eat cake” at the Met Gala sparked a little digital revolution against celebrities who have been silent on Gaza, and their brands.
And about how this revolution needs to grow and expand offline.
https://www.jphilll.com/p/the-digital-french-revolution

2024-04-22 14:37:38

I'm a Jew who's been afraid at Palestine protests.
Then, I learned more. I learned that I didn't know what people were chanting. I learned there was a lot to unlearn.
Then I decided I don't want my identity used to shield a genocidal apartheid state.
https://www.jphilll.com/p/being-afraid-does-not-mean-youre

2024-03-13 15:02:04

I wrote about how conservatives think you should work until you die. It's not just Ben Shapiro, it's an entire ideology that views workers as expendable, lesser beings.
https://www.jphilll.com/p/conservatives-want-you-to-work-until

2024-03-09 18:41:12

The New York Governor sent the National Guard into the subway. The mayor lets the NYPD assault people for protesting genocide. Atlanta won't let Cop City on the ballot. If Democrats actually want to fight fascism they should start by being less fascist.
https://www.jphilll.com/p/the-national-guard-is-in-the-subway

2024-03-08 15:23:44

The National Guard is in the New York subway.
LA is giving the LAPD access to camera feeds across the city, even private ones.
69 Cop Cities are in development across the U.S.
The police state is here, and we have to resist.
https://www.jphilll.com/p/the-national-guard-is-in-the-subway

2024-02-26 14:58:13

I wrote a plea that we make the memory of Aaron Bushnell an end to the genocide in Gaza and a revolution.
https://www.jphilll.com/p/dont-let-aaron-bushnells-self-immolation

2024-02-12 17:52:17

I wrote about how it’s time to chill out when it comes to our parasocial relationships, with Taylor or Travis or your favorite team, and say hi to your neighbor.
https://www.jphilll.com/p/no-more-parasocial-relationships

2024-02-08 18:32:30

I wrote a little about how much I love libraries, and about why our government and society should be modeled off them.
Link: https://www.jphilll.com/p/libraries-the-best-form-of-government.

2024-01-28 16:05:34

Every time you think it can’t get worse, something new emerges. Now the U.S., Germany, and six other western nations are cutting funding to UNRWA, the biggest source of aid in Gaza, based on extremely unreliable information from Israel.
https://www.jphilll.com/p/the-west-enters-fulls-complicity

2024-01-04 19:32:44

We need to stop letting bad actors, mainstream media, and reactionaries in general set the terms of debates.
Whether it’s Harvard or abortion we can simply choose to reject their framing.
In fact, we have to reject their framing.
Link: https://www.jphilll.com/p/dont-let-bad-actors-set-the-terms.

2023-11-30 15:16:32

You're going to hear a lot about celebrating Kissinger's death.
It’s a distraction. What matters is this man embodied the U.S. willingness to kill millions civilians to further its interests.
In death he should not be absolved; the empire should be examined.
Link: https://www.jphilll.com/p/dont-rehabilitate-henry-kissinger.

2023-11-28 17:01:23

Elon Musk visiting Israel has nothing to do with him no longer being antisemitic.
It has everything to do with an alliance of the super-rich and the fascist right.
That's what we're seeing from Israel to Argentina to the US and around the globe.
Link: https://www.jphilll.com/p/fascist-meetup-netanyahu-welcomes

2023-10-10 15:50:48

World leaders swiftly express their solidarity when Israeli civilians are killed.
But when Israel calls Palestinians “human animals,” silence. When Israel cuts off fuel, food, water, and medicine, silence. When the bombs fall on Gaza, silence.
Link: https://www.jphilll.com/p/the-world-ignores-palestinian-civilians

2023-10-03 22:47:32

Elon Musk is boosting the German far-right.
He’s supporting pages that say migration means white suicide.
Musk scapegoats queer people, Jews, and immigrants daily. It’s time for advertisers to defund this fascist.
https://open.substack.com/pub/newmeans/p/elon-musks-premeditated-fascism

2023-10-03 16:57:57

It looks like Elon Musk’s fascist and antisemitic turn was premeditated.
He’s scapegoating immigrants, Jews, queer people and more while billionaire like him present by far the greatest danger to the rest of us.
It’s time to fight back.
https://open.substack.com/pub/newmeans/p/elon-musks-premeditated-fascism

2023-09-17 13:27:29

Teamsters refusing to ship cars during this UAW strike.
Hollywood strikers joining Amazon workers picketing their warehouses.
Thousands of people signing strike pledges, joining the picket line, and donating to strike funds.
Solidarity is a verb.
https://open.substack.com/pub/newmeans/p/what-is-solidarity

2023-09-16 03:11:51

It’s just so funny that there are bootlickers out there saying “so these aUto WoRkerS want to work just four days a week?? For the same pay!?!”
Yeah man. We all do. Please grow up and realize most people don’t want to spend their lives at work.

2023-09-15 18:28:19

This UAW strike is vital for so many reasons.
But the biggest, to me, is that this is unabashed class war.
They’re openly fighting for the whole working class. And we need to be a part of this fight.
https://open.substack.com/pub/newmeans/p/its-happening-united-auto-workers

2023-09-15 14:02:01

The autoworkers strike is huge for so many reasons.
But number one is they're open about this being class war. UAW knows that the class war has been the ruling class relentlessly attacking the working class for too long.
And now they're fighting back.
https://www.jphilll.com/p/its-happening-united-auto-workers

2023-09-13 13:42:39

Some people will tell you it's "too radical" or "too extreme" to say capitalism relies on hurting workers.
But what about when a millionaire CEO says it?
That's exactly what Tim Gurner said when he advocated for more unemployment and more economic pain.
https://www.jphilll.com/p/when-the-rich-tell-you-who-they-are

2023-09-10 13:04:16

Elon Musk has been spreading transphobic lies, antisemitic conspiracies, and right-wing propaganda.
The thing is, there is a small group that controls the media and politicians.
But they don’t do it in secret. Billionaires do it right out in the open.
https://www.jphilll.com/p/the-conspiracy-is-capitalism

2023-09-05 21:28:31

When I saw that Elon Musk’s brother, Grover Norquist, and the lawyer who successfully defend Nestle in a child slavery case before the Supreme Court were all at Burning Man I came to one conclusion:
You can’t be cool and be a capitalist.
https://open.substack.com/pub/newmeans/p/you-cant-be-a-cool-capitalist

2023-09-03 13:09:13

SAG just announced a strike vote for the actors in the video game industry.
UAW could walk out in two weeks, with 150,000 workers shutting down the big U.S car makers.
Unions are surging and workers are winning big. This Labor Day feels different.
https://www.jphilll.com/p/this-labor-day-is-for-laborers

2023-08-30 20:40:20

This week it was confirmed that the NYPD has brought back stop-and-frisk.
And that 95% of everyone they've been illegally harassing have been people of color.
Cops flagrantly ignoring the law is one of the strongest arguments for defunding them.
https://www.jphilll.com/p/the-return-of-stop-and-frisk

2023-08-15 02:18:59

Disaster capitalism that preys on people right after these tragedies is really one of capitalism’s most twisted manifestations
https://www.newsweek.com/investors-calling-maui-wildfire-victims-buy-their-land-1819600?amp=1

2023-08-13 12:58:20

I wrote a little about how much men can learn from Ken.
Specifically I wrote about how Ken’s revelations that he can be himself, that he is enough, that he can be happier free of patriarchy are both radical and helpful for men.
I really think they can help us get free.
https://open.substack.com/pub/newmeans/p/men-are-you-unhappy

2023-07-19 21:12:46

First ever fiction in my newsletter.
Be nice!
https://open.substack.com/pub/newmeans/p/the-teacher

2023-07-15 13:19:44

We’re entering the biggest strike wave in decades. You can feel the energy and hope in the air.
But this doesn’t just happen, it took years of organizing. And it took huge change at some of the biggest unions in the U.S.
Couldn’t be more excited to bring you this today.
https://open.substack.com/pub/newmeans/p/every-worker-needs-a-union

2023-07-09 13:35:52

I’m always shocked when I realize that someone doesn’t truly, deeply believe that we deserve to collectively control our future.
So this short essay is about how we deserve to shape our destinies. It’s also about Luddites fighting automation and striving for dignity.
https://open.substack.com/pub/newmeans/p/the-right-to-shape-the-future

2023-07-08 03:21:07

Threads home to some of the sadder humans on earth
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2023-07-07 23:19:48

The Zuck team trying to do twitter, but without the politics….
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2023-07-02 13:16:23

Billionaires and capitalism are wrecking social media, and media at large.
So I wrote a little about it, and how we need to build different models from non-profit options to user owned alternatives.
https://open.substack.com/pub/newmeans/p/when-money-ruins-media?r=1tdu9h&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

2023-06-25 13:38:05

I think this one is pretty self-explanatory. We need a world without billionaires.
Link: https://open.substack.com/pub/newmeans/p/we-need-a-world-without-billionaires?r=1tdu9h&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

2023-05-01 11:59:03

Happy May Day, long live the working class
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