Andrew Lee
@xandrewleex.bsky.social
land x home x resistance x popular power author: Defying Displacement (AK Press, 2024) instruggle.substack.com
"According to court observers, Judge Reed O’Connor said at sentencing that he 'wants to send a message to anyone else with similar ideology.'" My latest for @unicornriot.bsky.social
Unicorn Riot@unicornriot.bsky.social · 4w agoNEW: Full report > Then They Came for the Anarchists: Prairieland Defendants Sentenced to 562 Years unicornriot.ninja/2026/then-th...
important to revisit the words of the Founding Fathers on this day
"Smolarek’s letter alleges that PSL is now spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to employ software developers to build an A.I.-powered secret police system with the objective of spying on members of every PSL branch in the country." First as tragedy, etc etc www.geesemag.com/articles/psl...
PSL's Top Propagandist Resigns, Publishes Tell-All Letter — geese magazine.
A dramatic resignation letter from one of the PSL's top leaders accuses the organization of secrecy, factionalism, and bureaucratic decay. The controversy has reignited questions about the future of A...
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New: Activists with the Sunrise Movement Philly chapter are on a hunger strike to further their demands for allocating some of the city budget surplus to local services. An interview at City Hall. More coverage to come. Interview recorded 5/25/2026 #philadelphia www.youtube.com/watch?v=g69G...
Hunger Strikers Call to "Make Philly Affordable"
YouTube video by Unicorn Riot
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Every single municipal budget in the country is unironically the Dril candles tweet but the candles are police
Myopic obsession of some in the left with Nordic countries ignores how these welfare states are built on intense nationalism & growing anti migrant racism. Sweden's new legislation includes longer residency period, higher income thresholds, and mandatory language and civic knowledge tests.
Sweden tightens citizenship requirements for African migrants after earlier promise of $34,000 for voluntary return home
Sweden is tightening its citizenship requirements from 2026, raising income and residency thresholds in a policy shift that is expected to affect African migrants, after earlier promising up to $34,00...
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happy may day! every right you have as a worker was written in blood ❤️
“May 1st is the only truly universal day of all humanity, the only day when all histories and all geographies, all languages and all religions and cultures of the world coincide,” wrote Eduardo Galeano. “But in the United States, May 1st is a day like any other.” instruggle.substack.com/p/mayday
The secret history of May Day
The most American holiday of them all
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I know it’s apparently only salient to most American media outlets to talk about oil, but for the few remaining people left with a soul, thousands of people live on this tiny island in only 8 sq miles. This reads like a serial killer prison interview.
The US is at war and repression at home is going to get worse. I'm old enough to remember during the Iraq war the FBI infiltrating quaker meetings and vegan potlucks and cracking down on anti-war groups and outspoken Muslim leaders. The US surveillance state has grown exponentially since then. 🧵
On the anniversary of the release of KONY 2012, I wrote about the first pro-military intervention viral campaign for @thenewinquiry.com.web.brid.gy thenewinquiry.com/kony-2012-fo...
Kony 2012 Forever
the second day of January 1985, the spirit took hold of Alice. She went out to heal the sick, and heal the sick she did. But sickness multiplied faster still, for Uganda was wracked with civil war.…
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We carry the border through the heart of the empire. The purpose of any frontier is to cut things in two. instruggle.substack.com/p/imperial-r...
Imperial Reproduction
White supremacy and the white family
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i loved this, never watched ‘Hoarders’ but this essay goes so much deeper. thenewinquiry.com/the-life-cha...
The Life Changing Magic of Hoarding
American exceptionalism doesn’t spring from the nation’s statehouses but from its garbage cans. The contemporary US is objectively extraordinary in that virtually anyone, including the extremely po…
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Join me, Daniel Drennan Elawar, and @kit-myers.bsky.social next Sunday, 2/22 for Words As Lifelines: BIPOC Adoptees for Gaza #7. Register here: pci.jotform.com/joonae/lifel...
“Hoarders is, at heart, a morality play. Its subjects are punished for what the viewer recognizes is a profound, if unspoken, sin…The hoarded home is nothing other than moral disorder freed of all restraint.” i used to judge those on the screen while relapsing into my own addiction
Andrew Lee@xandrewleex.bsky.social · 7mo ago"To be poor in the United States is exceptional in that, thanks to the efforts of the good people of Dhaka and Juarez and Shenzhen, you can die in any of these ways at the very same time as you accumulate an immense volume of stuff." My latest for @thenewinquiry.com.web.brid.gy
"To be poor in the United States is exceptional in that, thanks to the efforts of the good people of Dhaka and Juarez and Shenzhen, you can die in any of these ways at the very same time as you accumulate an immense volume of stuff." My latest for @thenewinquiry.com.web.brid.gy
The New Inquiry [Unofficial]@thenewinquiry.com.web.brid.gy · 7mo ago
"agents told hospital staff that Castaneda Mondragon ... 'purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.'”
Becky Zosia Dernbach@bzosiad.bsky.social · 7mo agoA Minnesota man received a life-threatening injury while in ICE custody. It's not clear how he got injured because his memory and ability to communicate are so severely impaired. Agents said "he got his shit rocked." Wild story from @katrinapross.bsky.social sahanjournal.com/health/ice-d...
"To be poor in the United States is exceptional in that, thanks to the efforts of the good people of Dhaka and Juarez and Shenzhen, you can die in any of these ways at the very same time as you accumulate an immense volume of stuff." @newinquiry.bsky.social thenewinquiry.com/the-life-cha...
Important context to "more/better training" arguments: the murder of Renée Good was a product of that training by someone who has trained others. (I've seen same in civil rights cases; by moving where he did, he was intentionally generating a pretext to shoot her without genuine risk to himself.)
If the murder of Renee Nicole Good makes you say “abolish ICE,” but the murder of George Floyd didn’t make you say “abolish cops,” ask yourself why and try to learn from it
"If British special forces rappelled down into the Rose Garden to physically apprehend President Trump, no American publication would describe it as a mere 'arrest'—no matter which UK laws Trump was accused of violating. We would call it an extrajudicial kidnapping and an act of war."
Trump's war against the Americas
One president has just kidnapped another.
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Arresting a head of state for illegally possessing machine guns. Incredible stuff. No notes.
"They begin by locking undocumented children in cages and end by locking your children in cages and the worst thing is that if we don't stand up to them today, we will deserve it when it happens to us. IT'S UP TO US."
CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective@crimethinc.com · 8mo agocrimethinc.com/mercenaries To keep Donald Trump’s voter base entertained with spectacles of predatory violence, ICE recruiters are offering bribes to seduce gullible individuals into doing harm to their neighbors. To counter this, we have prepared a video and poster campaign of our own.
"Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here." George Jackson
Rita, antifascist🏴@oldsquida.bsky.social · 8mo ago“There is virtually no mechanism for a child to find a pro-bono attorney on their own while detained, as they do not have the resources or ability to identify and call attorneys, and are actually limited as to who they can contact.”
don't really think drugs, as a concept, will ever be able to recover from the reputational hit they're about to take
Stereogum@stereogum.com · 8mo agoTomorrow Grimes will DJ a livestream of immortality influencer Bryan Johnson tripping on shrooms to determine its effect on longevity. Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there too.
“Oppressed communities often adopt anarchic practices in response to state oppression and neglect: mutual aid and collective organization, mistrust of politicians and bosses and the police…
Andrew Lee@xandrewleex.bsky.social · 8mo agoYou can be a N@zi congressional staffer or a socialist mayoral candidate, but some still treat anarchism like a dirty word. I break down anarchism as a tradition, strategy, and set of a practices in my latest piece: instruggle.substack.com/p/anarchism
