MFV

abolition & anti-imperialism for all

[Alex Colston @enoughformethx]

There's habitually a muddle of blurry visions for a worthwhile future of the United States on July 4th. I only subscribe to one of them, which reads as true now as when it was written 40 years ago.

Mike Davis, Prisoners of the American Dream (1986)

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

"Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on, during the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026. REUTERS/Cheney Orr"

[Scalawag @scalawagmag]

As an abolitionist publication in solidarity with Black, Indigenous, queer, and all oppressed people of the world who have for generations suffered under the boot of US Empire we say, Fuck the Fourth of July.

By @colonizedlocal https://t.co/qrrGhuCJ0v

[Inquest @_inquest_]

This week, Inquest shared Black political prisoner Martin Sostre's take on the Fourth of July, and look at how incarcerated mothers maintain long-distance contact with their children. Get the full recap: https://t.co/S2DHhl60Uk

[Los Angeles Review of Books @LAReviewofBooks]

"The stories that a country tells itself are just as critical to its functioning as its army, its laws, its borders, and its flag. Where did the country emerge from, and where might it be heading?"

From the LARB archives: https://t.co/eisFaPOv0m

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

The House just passed the KIDS Act, 267 to 117. To "protect kids," platforms would make everyone verify their age by handing over a government ID or getting their face scanned. It's in the Senate now.

We have a few tools to help people push back...

[kate wehwalt @mcmansionhell]

the mcmansionization of the whole world

[Inquest @_inquest_]

"Collective action can succeed . . . in freeing political prisoners and building a new egalitarian society.” Garrett Felber introduces a timely essay from political prisoner Martin Sostre. https://t.co/FCBzFoqxxE

[Ben Inskeep @Ben_Inskeep]

BOMBSHELL reporting finds Princeton climate researchers took tens of millions of dollars from BP to publish research, shaped and edited by BP, promoting carbon capture & storage and fossil fuels.

Landmark "Wedges" climate paper promoting CCS now confirmed to be BP propaganda.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: Peter Thiel is funding a plan to build privatized city-states everywhere from Gaza and Venezuela to small towns in California.

The goal is to replace governments with for-profit companies.

We investigated how Thiel's scheme is already reshaping democracy across the world.

[Adam Federman @adamfederman]

Trump admin is using NSPM-7 to go after Cop City protesters.

“Fireworks become explosives. Communities become ‘antifa cells’. The power of language is going to become central to everything the government is doing moving forward.” @will_potter

https://t.co/RmaYY1dhFS

[Lake Eater @lakeeater]

Also really bad

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

"The Extreme Sentences Handed to Anti-ICE Protesters Should Terrify Us All"

30-100 years! Perhaps the most important and scary story you'll read all week:
https://t.co/kP6UfwzDBX

[Miss April ☭🔻🏳️‍⚧️ @AprilsBooks]

two of the prairie land defendants are trans women. they are being held in "men's" prisons, and they are being denied HRT.

they describe the court prosecution as being anti-intellectual, implying that they are dangerous for the fact they are reading a lot of radical literature

[fuck “latinidad” @ytnessisdeath]

Free the Prairieland 8

[In These Times @inthesetimesmag]

At Prairieland, federal prosecutors turned an anti-ICE protest into a terrorism case, with defendants now sentenced to decades in prison.

The target is not just “antifa,” but mass opposition to deportation regimes, racist policing and authoritarianism.

https://t.co/EKs86Yrh7n

[Zoe Baker @anarcho_baker]

Very worrying state repression of anarchists in America.

https://t.co/4QAkTFcE7p

[Rosenberg Fund (@rfcorg.bsky.social) @wwwrfcorg]

Words are failing us. This was a severe miscarriage of justice and a blatant crackdown on dissent and first amendment rights. We stand in solidarity with these defendants, and we know the fight is far from over. Free them all!
https://t.co/AZdVhm4eWG