Mutual aid for comrade Kelsey to help with critical housing and living expenses. Any amount, even $1, will assist, thanks in advance for your consideration!! gofund.me/99481c2fc

Donate to Help Kelsey Protest Unsafe Shelters, organized by Kelsey Saint-Jean

I’m Kelsey, and I’m starting this fundraiser for myself so I can speak out abou… Kelsey Saint-Jean needs your support for Help Kelsey Protest Unsafe Shelters

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Not even reminiscing, but after winning 'Most Athletic' in high school and earning more awards than my peers at the same level—above and below me—I simply threw them all away. It just reminds me that I never cared about such things and still don't.

“…my name has become a horror to all those who want slavery…”

The central focus of analysis for Marx is the shop floor; for Adam Smith, it is the marketplace; and for MMT, it is monetary sovereignty—analyzing the federal government as a currency issuer rather than a household constrained by tax revenue.

As documented by historian Benjamin Quarles, Haitian mutual aid efforts supported the families of the revolutionaries sentenced to death after the Harpers Ferry raid, reflecting a deep international legacy of solidarity.

"Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it." — Frantz Fanon

I write each new sentence, each essay, to get closer to something I couldnt know before. Not a given for every author or scholar.

Expanding unionization rates is a great way to reduce inequality www.epi.org/publication/...

The case for tripling union membership: How rebuilding union power would strengthen workers, the economy, and our democracy

Foreword Imagine union membership tripling in the United States. It may sound radical—if you’ve forgotten history. In fact, more than 1 in 3 private-sector workers belonged to a union in the 1950s. Th...

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The dialectic between the movement for an abolitionist state and anti-state abolition constitutes the future of the Left.

This sharp article especially reminds me of Althusser’s essay on ISAs and their operations: in the context of cinema, when a viewer identifies with what is on screen, that is the moment of interpellation by a dominant ideology.

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Wonderful piece by @juliagaffield.bsky.social on the long history of silencing the Haitian revolution in the context of the recent World Cup jersey censorship theconversation.com/fifas-haiti-...

As Giovanni Arrighi noted in 1989, events in Iran have impacted the internal affairs of the US more than the reverse. This is not because Iran is an exceptional anti-systemic force, but because the sovereignty of the developing world and the Global South has increased +

"There are eight million stories in the naked city; this has been one of them."

A reason I like writing novels is that it's fun to figure out the telling. And that's part of the novel's specific structure & form it operates by that's unique to that novel. What does this story in particular need to be told? What architecture needs to shape it so it can be propelled? Love that.

The book “lays a historical understanding for the Black freedom struggles of the 1950s-60s. That moral revolution of the US becomes comprehensible in a new way bc we understand just how deep the roots extend into the history of the nation, the continent, & the world” www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSG7...

American Founders: How People of African… by Christina Proenza-Coles · Audiobook preview

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Germany is conducting a nationwide experiment on whether austerity and neoliberal reforms really fuel the rise of the extreme right. So far it’s confirming the state of the literature. A new poll has the AfD at 28 percent, a comfortable 6 percent ahead. Chart via @patrickkaczmarczyk.bsky.social

My process of writing novels involves research because that’s really fun for me as how I’m engaging different parts of my brain in creating something. My first manuscript was written on a research grant to Morocco to write it. Every novel manuscript I’ve written since took research.

"I find it useful to refer to a concept that originated first in anti-colonial readings of Gramsci—namely by Ranajit Guha—and was then adopted by the political economist Giovanni Arrighi in his writing about geopolitics in the wake of the Iraq war, namely that of dominance without hegemony."2/2

Highly recommended: @alfatau.bsky.social "Trumpism has reached a kind of ceiling, it doesn’t treat itself as a hegemonic project, but instead as a project to achieve durable dominance with a mass base that’s not a majority." 1/2

Preventive Counterrevolution: <i>Late Fascism</i> Three Years Later

Late fascism as a restless flight forward to nowhere.

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Had a lengthy conversation with Charlie Rose about Trump and Israel's war on Iran, why their plan has failed - and why Iran's struggle for democracy would be stronger had the US never left the JCPOA and decimated the Iranian middle class with sanctions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=whMm...

What Happens Next in Iran? Iranian Expert Trita Parsi on War, Regime Change, and the Iranian People

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We are now facing the biggest ever market disruption in the most systemically significant price of all. Link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article... Link to research on systemically significant prices: academic.oup.com/icc/article/...

If you want to hear my argument for the best way to reduce inequality is stop structuring the economy to generate inequality, be there on March 26th www.nfrpp.org?post_type=tr...

Two Economies: The Reality of Income Inequality in America

Income inequality has long been a challenge, but it is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. While inflation and affordability are foremost in many Americans' minds, the widening gap between thos...

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A Place For Everyone to Read: Opening a “Cultural Treasure” in Philadelphia Jeannine Cook on Why She Opened Harriett’s Bookshop lithub.com/a-place-for-...

A Place For Everyone to Read: Opening a “Cultural Treasure” in Philadelphia

Harriett’s was my last resort. I opened Harriett’s Bookshop, named for historic heroine Harriett Tubman, six weeks before the pandemic, and could have never predicted that my tiny shop would surviv…

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Writing tip #3: Figure out what time of day you write best (very early morning for me), and write something every day, as little as a paragraph or a page. This is easier to do than you think. Consistency of effort matters; it is a form of discipline and should become a habit.

Wow! Look how fast gas prices are rising in the US as a result of Trump allowing Israel to push the US into a war of choice with Iran. In January, it was $2.80. Now it's $3.41. Trump may not care yet, but this will soon be impossible for him to ignore.

Who profits from an energy crisis in the wake of the war on Iran? The 1%. Thanks @nytimes.com @hclairebrown.bsky.social for covering our research. Link to coverage: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/c... Link to our article:www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Erica Edwards joined #LeftOfBlack to discuss her book 'The Other Side of Terror: Black Women and the Culture of US Empire' (@nyupress.bsky.social) #WomensHistoryMonth #BlackWomensHistory www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obus...

Left of Black | Erica R. Edwards on Black Women and U.S. Empire

YouTube video by John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke U.

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Premature death at the hands of armed agents of the state is merely a hazard of being Black in America. It’s not enough to “abolish ICE”; we have to abolish the police force and replace it with a radically different form of public safety.

Robin D. G. Kelley: It’s Not Enough to Abolish ICE — We Have to Abolish the Police

“What’s happening now has happened before,” Kelley said, underscoring the anti-Blackness foundational to US fascism.

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This was really fun: You can buy Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts and support listener-sponsored radio at the same time. Thus, it is impossible to go wrong. 😉 I have listened to KPFA for decades. I support their work kpfa.org/player/?audi...

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Beyond everything incredible about Kurosawa's Shakespeares, and that's a very long list, the lack of English is one of those movie things where a master turns a bug into a feature. Because he has to withdraw from soliloquy, he can run to the cinema. All-time bug screen Lady Macbeth here. #FilmSky📽️