It is sometimes possible to believe people online.

Amateur US labor history researcher, specializing in 20th c. Oklahoma

[heatwave magazine @heatwvmag]

How are things made? Who knows how to make them? How is this knowledge distributed? @DFManufracture demystifies the riddle of technical knowledge and its relevance to communist construction in "The Black Box of Production," available on our website now ahead of Issue 3 (link 👇)

[donaldparkinson🇵🇸 @donaldp1917]

“While they admit the necessity of relying on bourgeois institutions in the near term, given the lack of resources and organization available to a renewed working class movement, they are quite right to demand a constant awareness and vigilance for any socialists engaging with bourgeois institutions, about the role those institutions play and the necessary unyielding focus on socialist goals. The aim must always be towards working-class independence. In the small islands where independence from bourgeois institutions exists, whether in para-academic organizations or in a handful of publishers and magazines, there tends to be isolation and a lack of coherence with party organization. The fusion of the still nascent cultural and political movements of socialists and the working class is necessary to build an alternative organic civil society, and this organic civil society is, in turn, absolutely necessary to build a genuine political alternative to hegemonic liberalism.”

[sana'a @teethgnashing]

the hammer
carl sandburg
1914

[uke creature🇵🇸🚩 @UkeCreature]

slavoj zizek after getting pulled over: “we are all driving under the influence, the influence of ideology”

[Dom Technostate ☭ @DomTechnostate]

Saw a pair of boots marketed as “union made” and had to ask the clerk if it was a class-struggle union composed of the class-for-itself or if it was a labor aristocratic guild formation desperately holding onto racialized concessions from over a century ago

[Zoe Baker @anarcho_baker]

Reading the young Kropotkin's diary when he was in Siberia as a military officer is so repetitive. Entry after entry is him complaining about the roads/transportation, describing the weather, and evaluating how hot local women are.

[Shawn :D @ContingentWest]

Really liked this article's summary of the political economy of police depts, positioning them as "state-sanctioned privateers" capable of funding themselves through asset forfeiture & taking a cut of the loot when municipal govts use them to enforce fees to address budget crises

[Christopher Derick Varn @TheRealVarnVlog]

Philadelphia — July 20 6:00 PM — Free Library of Philadelphia
Baltimore — July 21 7:00 PM —Red Emma’s
Washington, DC — July 24 6:30 PM — People’s Book
New York — July 25 7:00 PM — Woodbine with This Wreckage

[Christopher Derick Varn @TheRealVarnVlog]

I will be even more blunt: Tenured Professors defending a system they benefited from should surprise no one. That a lot of the arguments are basically just “this is just like everything else,” however, are utterly and completely false.

Intellectual labor needs the same protections as all labor (which sadly few laborers get), not a quasi-aristocratic guild system that only functions by an army of grad students as TAs and Research Assistants and even more precarious and larger adjunct faculty enable for am faculty research that is a coin flip on if anyone in their field sees.

I realize that even full time faculty are precariously positioned now. Pay is dropping. I literally make more as a high school teacher than many full time professors in my field, and I make about median household income for my area.

But these systems are failing and that is part of how the vultures have been circling.

[Lex Steppling @LexStepp]

California is one of the most corrupt oligarchic political messes in the country. As much as people pit California & Texas against one another, they are incredibly similar, & both have huge gaps between their political ecosystems and their actual people, and it crushes populism.

[sentient bloomberg terminal @kayrosso1]

Are there any good studies on early SPUSA’s or IWW’s relationship to middle class American progressivism?

[It is sometimes possible to believe people online. @nathansacket]

@TheRealVarnVlog @specifism True. Also, I’m curious what the politics of this twitter account is. Seems nativist so far.

[Long-Haul @longhaul_mag]

In the fall of 1984, when he was a new doctoral student at Harvard, Noel Ignatiev submitted an essay for an independent study. Entitled “Present Depths,” the paper surveyed the rapid and cataclysmic changes then taking place across US society.

[a relentless necessity @CapenerSean]

Syllabus for "Evil"
w/ me

Mimbres School Summer 2026

[Guy @nosilverv]

What the actual fuck

[Oliver Eagleton @Oliver_Eagleton]

It's here: the inaugural issue of @phenomenalworld, on American Power in the age of Trump, has just been published online.

Featuring essays on Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, Brazil, China and the Gulf, plus Tim Barker's sweeping history of 'declinisms'.

[Doinkadect Klomberbatch @Doinkadect]

As someone who graduated with a master’s in 2023, spent 2 years unable to get work and so had to return to university, I’ve been screaming this for years and it’s great it’s finally being reported on

What it’s missing is that even those with jobs are mostly…

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