Ginger Grouse
@runarchist.bsky.social
Sometimes writer, land defender, disabled trail runner.
Victory in Harrisonburg, VA! 🏆 Although the #Flock contract will be canceled and the cameras bagged up until removed, 'Deflock Harrisonburg' are still seeking an ordinance to prohibit contracts with other mass #surveillance vendors. #deflock #alpr
Harrisonburg City Council votes to end contract with Flock Safety
Harrisonburg City Council upheld its pledge to end the City’s contract with Flock Safety in a unanimous 4-0 vote.
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Another DeFlock win: Harrisonburg, VA! After many months of public pressure, City Council just voted to take them down.
As a direct descendent of William Bradford, I accept this reckoning, and am calling in any ancestors who are ready to face it with us. We have to burn our attachment to this death machine that is killing everything.
William C.@williamcson.bsky.social · 2w agoI went to the Netherlands and visited Leiden, where the Pilgrims first departed on the Speedwell. For @prismreports.org, I reflected on the U.S. semiquincentennial in a personal essay about letting go of the national myth of what the U.S. is and what it could be. prismreports.org/2026/07/23/e...
"Harriet Tubman carried a gun. John Brown didn't go to Harper's Ferry to hug it out. If you can celebrate women who seduced and killed nazis, if you can admit Nat Turner had a point, why can't you see that same spirit in Song?" open.substack.com/pub/leeannki...
Prairieland: Like Staring at the Sun
During Trump 1.0 everybody online kept admonishing each other not to get distracted.
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Judge O’Connor stated from the bench that he is giving maximum sentences to the Prairieland sentences because “the state wants to send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology.”
Trump wants to make an example out of the Prairieland defendants, so we need to make an example out of them in the opposite way. We need to hold them close and not let the state claim they are the "bad protestors" who fought against fascism "inappropriately."
please read this statement written by Benjamin "Champagne" Song and share as far and wide as you can: https://prairielanddefendants.com/defendant-writings/statement-by-benjamin-champagne-song/
“Some of the most impactful work that’s happening all around us isn’t glorified. It’s the work of meeting people’s material needs and building innovative responses to rolling disasters. In a new four-part documentary that I had the honor of narrating” ~ William C. Anderson
Chapter 1: Fire | The Elements of Mutual Aid | English Subtitles
YouTube video by The Elements of Mutual Aid
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“Even if you do have some grand plan for what revolution, a better world & novel systems will look like, that means nothing if you cannot produce them in reality.” Don’t plan a future that fails the present, writes @williamcson.bsky.social in his latest “Another way out.”
Another way out: Don't plan a future that fails the present
Some of the most impactful work isn’t glorified. It’s the work of meeting people’s material needs and building responses to disasters
prismreports.org
Coward piece of shit politicians use the language of progressivism and the aesthetics of radicalism to win votes, donations, and elections, and then deliver reactionary capitulation and capitalist horror shows.
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 2mo ago1. In a move that is likely to be seen as capitulation to Trump, EITM can confirm that Mamdani's first ever trans direct care clinic will deny care to those under 19 years of age, the age from Trump's anti-trans EOs. It is a far cry from his pledge to "use every tool" to fight capitulation.
We’ve Lost The Plot With Mutual Aid Good ep from @andrewsage.bsky.social youtu.be/0efuefqlpyY?...
We’ve Lost The Plot With Mutual Aid
YouTube video by Extra Andrewism
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Millions of Democratic voters are putting it together that the average Democratic politician has no intention of standing up for them, even as fascism arrives. This is a terrifying truth to face. But the good news is—we don't need them. They need us. We need each other. But we don't need them.
Minnesota 50501@mn50501.bsky.social · 2mo agoRepublicans send Federal Agents, kidnapping and killing our neighbors. When we respond with outrage, Democratic leaders send State Troopers, gassing and assaulting all who speak out. Federal agents escalate, local communities resist, then state power is used to terrorize. They shoot us all the same.
"To Those who Shake the Gates of Hell at Delaney Hall and Beyond" Please take a moment to read this short piece (entirely contained in the image) and share with any friends/comrades in and around Jersey. Actively encourage you to rip the image to share elsewhere if you're so moved.
"But another method of internalized, soft counterinsurgency has also been omnipresent: the use of liberal identity politics to spread the idea that fighting back against a racist society is in itself racist." - Peter Gelderloos
the document is referenced above, yet this 🧵matters to everyone. if you’re not listed - yet, you soon will be
Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE@leftistlawyer.com · 3mo agoIt's a stark departure from previous versions of the document, and specifically targets trans people, among other groups. So with that in mind, let's take a look - what it does, what you need to know, and how you can protect yourself. Let's start by examining what, exactly, this document is.
Terrific piece by Zach of Rockingham County, Va., documenting how his town started surveilling him and his neighbors with zero public discussion or input. This is happening across the country, and people like Zach are pushing back because it's wrong. augustafreepress.com/news/surveil...
The Shenandoah Valley got wired without anyone asking
A few weeks ago, I started asking questions about the Flock Safety license plate cameras that appeared in the Town of Elkton.
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Why does the Trump regime specifically identify "anarchists and anti-fascists" as one of the "three major types of terror groups" in their 2026 "Counterterrorism Strategy"? Because they know there is no greater threat to tyranny than autonomous, decentralized, horizontally-organized direct action.🧵
“Who were the pioneers of the eight-hour movement? Those martyrs who were strung from the gallows in Chicago on November 11, 1887, the much-lied-about and abused Anarchists.”– Lucy Parsons
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 3mo ago#OtD 1 May 1886 300-500k workers went on strike and rallies were held across the US, with the cry: "Eight-hour day with no cut in pay." The strike led to the Chicago Haymarket Affair and the start of May Day itself. More in this great book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collec...
The outcome of the mid-term elections will be determined by what happens in the months ahead—not by how successfully politicians campaign, but rather by the extent to which grassroots resistance makes it impossible for the ruling class to imagine that Trump could continue to advance their interests.
The Sound and Fury of a Collapsing Order
As Donald Trump’s power wanes, opportunities will open up for social change. We explore the nature of the difficulties besetting his administration and propose how do to more than simply remove him.
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Hey call me a crazy radical left wing anarchist extremist but I actually don't think anyone should have the power to threaten the world with nuclear war, even if they use calm, grammatical language to do it.
What are settler states, where do they come from, how did they get so powerful, and what role do they play in the world today? Here's a little primer: petergelderloos.substack.com/p/settler-st...
Settler States
and how they relate to colonial capitalism and white supremacy
petergelderloos.substack.com
I spoke with my good friend Elad Nehorai (@eladn.bsky.social) about the war on trans people. It was a difficult conversation but one I'm glad we had. youtu.be/SJa4WR2xxys?...
The Billion Dollar War on Trans People (With Alejandra Caraballo)
YouTube video by Here We Come
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We have a verdict and we are heartbroken at the results. This is only the beginning. We will continue to fight the remaining charges until every defendant is home.
Extremely grim news from Texas. Absurdly, a jury has decided to convict all of the defendants on most of the charges, including "Corruptly Concealing a Document" for moving a box of zines. The jury's verdict: www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/v... Background on the case: crimethinc.com/Prairieland
The Road to Prairieland
The crackdown on anti-ICE activists in Texas reflects a pattern of intensifying repression all around the country.
crimethinc.com
Nuclear-level attack on basic bodily autonomy. I don't have words, but I do have bloody fantasies.
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 5mo ago1. Horrifying ruling out of the 4th Circuit. An all-Republican 4th Circuit panel has just ruled that states can compel trans adults to "appreciate their sex" by enacting care bans. It even directly says that trans adult care bans are legal in the ruling. Subscribe to support our journalism.
They're not going to run out of the absolute worst people with the absolute worst politics to replace the previous absolute worst person with. The barrel is bottomless, we have to eliminate the position, the agency, and unbuild the whole institution.
The US and Israel attack Iran, Lebanon... here's a summary of the news open.substack.com/pub/petergel...
US and Israel attack Iran
and other news of the depravity of power and how to resist
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NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims. By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social
Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories
Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.
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