n th n - #FreeThemAll

works against: deportations, capitalism, cages. & for: abolition, community. @SurvivePunishNY/"to hear the sound of glass breaking, glass must be broken"/they

[go to the elephant site @[email protected] @rechelon]

Words completely fail me when addressing the potential loss to the anarchist movement of -- as the US names it -- 5,500 mailing lists, and 10,000 blogs. This must be fought aggressively and immediately.

[go to the elephant site @[email protected] @rechelon]

The US is targeting the anarchist collective that hosts the popular Noblogs wordpress platform as terrorists. This is truly batshit (as are their various obvious lies about Rose City Antifa etc).

This is a HUGE attack on basic free speech.

https://t.co/eSGu3Pz98b

[n th n - #FreeThemAll @n_th_n_]

Breaking: many who like to quote George Jackson do not, in fact, want to settle their quarrels because fascism is already here.

[n th n - #FreeThemAll @n_th_n_]

There's a real debate to have about imperialism, anti-imperialist nationalism, and related issues—and people should be having that debate. (Some are, but many decidedly are not).

[n th n - #FreeThemAll @n_th_n_]

I think discourse about the letter would benefit from some reading about "third campism." Details like who added Mumia's name (without permission?), who organized the letter and supposedly changed the text, etc. matter but the broader issue is how people relate to this tendency.

[n th n - #FreeThemAll @n_th_n_]

Sure, some are recanting—but some of those same people (e.g. Kelley) have long espoused third-campist type views. If you hate third campism, cool, but clarity would help avoid weird shit like people backdooring into undermining work to fight the prison-industrial complex.

[n th n - #FreeThemAll @n_th_n_]

People should look at the LIBERTAD Act, a measure targeting Cuba passed after it shot down US planes that were part of an anti-Castro right-wing militant cell in Florida. It principally served to strangle foreign investment in Cuba in a manner far broader than sanctions ever did.

[Gregory Brew @gbrew24]

In case it wasn't clear, "economic d-day" likely won't be a sanctions initiative aimed at Iran (which is already under heavy sanctions), but rather against other countries that conduct trade with Iran, with the belief that this indirect pressure will yield positive results (in what areas, Bessent doesn't say).

Iran's largest trading partner is China.

[Jacqueline Charles @Jacquiecharles]

First deportation since TPS end lands in Cap-Haïtien | Miami Herald https://t.co/i4OYKX9Cus

[n th n - #FreeThemAll @n_th_n_]

unspeakable barbarism.

[ICE Flight Monitor @ICEFlightM]

An ICE Air flight that originated in Alexandria, LA is scheduled to depart for Cap-Haitien, Haiti from Miami, FL. This marks the 1st removal flight to Haiti since TPS for Haitians living in the U.S. ended on July 27.

[n th n - #FreeThemAll @n_th_n_]

@nathancofnas I hope every part of your life implodes, everyone you love (if you are capable of love) spurns you, and you are left with no diversions from the yawning chasm inside you where a human soul should be.

[n th n - #FreeThemAll @n_th_n_]

And Zohran tweeted about this like it was a great victory and testament to police indispensability

[Ash J @AshAgony]

NYPD cops killed mentally ill 54-year-old Wei Chan inside his Manhattan apartment on Monday. Chan had allegedly attacked his 75-year-old dad. Cops showed up & fired 9 shots cause they claim Chan "advanced" on them with a butcher knife in his hand. https://t.co/qnFFjfUxZe

[The Intercept @theintercept]

Somewhere in a sweltering desert, cockroaches scurry around the cell of Carlitos Ricardo Parias. He holds up a plastic bottle, gazing at the worm-like creatures swimming in his drinking water. His other arm is turning purple from a gunshot wound for which he says he hasn’t received proper medical care. His gulag isn’t in a distant Soviet or banana republic. It’s about an hour and a half from Disneyland, in a small California town called Adelanto.

[Laura Palmer Raids @Marxicology]

A political party should to learn lessons from social upheaval, and to take them seriously. There’s been a lot of talk of the failure of that era, but none have spoken about the failure of a socialist organization to advance socialism when people were questioning the state.

[Ali Winston @awinston]

For New York City folks from the court filings from USDOJ's 'Antifa' case makes clear HSI had/has undercover agents infiltrating IRL meetings in the city - an undated gathering at Hunter College is cited here

https://t.co/GLOq0gX3r8

[josh! @queersocialism]

after the civil war, mass imagery of black people destitute, systematically excluded from civic participation, being killed by cops and found hung from trees by vigilante whites funded and supported by confederate capital and local police, didn’t force an immediate moral/political awakening.

it wasn’t until the cold war ramped up, and the united states was losing international appeal as the righteous alternative to growing global communist struggle, when the US would respond with civil rights concessions that would, in effect, leave many of the far-right and confederate forces that were murderously illiberal with a level of capital, power, and influence to spend the next half-century rolling back all the legislative gains of that period, with a continued significant base of support from the general populous.

this is the type of american liberal historical mythology about the civil rights period that has obscured more than it has clarified about the tumultuous bloodstained long 60s that remains severely unresolved on large account of the fact that cold war liberals, who were more invested in the maintenance of liberal imperial-capitalism than permanent transformation of the nations treatment of racial/ethnic minorities and its broader working-class, won out while those who saw those gains as impermanent & flimsy, were purged!

[Gio獅 🇭🇹 🇧🇷🇸🇳 @TheSportProhet]

Your actual claim is causal: you’re arguing that civil-rights victories happened because activists successfully generated broad popular support, and then using that history to argue that movements today must first win majority opinion before pursuing major policy. That’s precisely what’s ahistorical. You’re taking public consensus that was partly produced by political struggle and institutional victories and retroactively making it a prerequisite for those victories

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

"I've made very clear that I do not believe in defunding the police, that I will not be defunding the police, & that to me, delivering critical public safety also looks like working with our police department, alongside many other partners, & we've seen over the first 7 months of this administration what that can look like when we're talking about the fewest murders on record in NYC, the fewest shooting incidents on record in NYC, and that to me is how we measure a lot of our public safety." -@NYCMayor

The NYPD budget stayed flat and crime went down, but instead of using this as an opportunity to educate the public that funding the police doesn't correlate to more public safety, he makes the opposite case.

[nicolás @workertenant]

he is to the right of Jacobin's carceral minimalism LOL

[n th n - #FreeThemAll @n_th_n_]

So many people loudly proclaiming their ignorance by acting like abolition emerged as a demand in 2020 (while echoing fascist talking points about it)

[Malcolm Harris @BigMeanInternet]

I thought the joke about "Haha Woke 1 was craaaazy" was that that is the textbook language/affect of repression.