@stormingheaven
Political theorist, editor, organizer ~ Vilna Author, As If This World No Longer Existed (essay for Post-Communist Grounds, Archive Books, upcoming) Co-editor, Commonist Horizon (Common Notions) Editor, Paths to Autonomy (Minor Compositions)
[Bulgaria]
Massive protest in Bulgaria against the government budget that intended a large tax increase and pension reform. Reforms that obviously affected, above all, the working class... The budget was finally withdrawn.
h/t Periodco Anarquia
Damn, it looks just like the photos of the disappeared that were put up by relatives in the South American dictatorships
This bill is an act of war by the billionaires and their white nationalist allies against the people of the United States.
It will take health care from millions of people to fund tax cut for billionaires, secret police to arrest the Presidentβs critics, and concentration camps.
Itβs fascism.
This is so meaningful to me as the great grandchild of a Bundist elected to the Vilna city council in spring 1939
Itβs July 2, 2025 (11:10 P.M.):
ISRAEL MURDERED TODAY 111 PEOPLE IN GAZA.
Lol ya, was just wondering about this as i hear more and more mention of βproteinβ in everyday food conversations.
We were honored to print @ayoub.bsky.social's piece about the Zionist war on Yiddish in Palestine a few weeks back and can't wait to listen to this episode with some incredible thinkers and organizers. Here's Elia's piece. www.derspekter.org/the-zionist-...
Out of 77 people arrested, 38 remain in custody, most of whom are now facing criminal charges.
π΄NEW: Yet Another Palestinian Journalist Killed in Gaza
The Palestinian Journalists Protection Center reports that journalist Ahmed Saad was killed in an Israeli attack that targeted a group of civilians in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
Our first written piece is by Noah Brehmer of the Vilna Goles confronts a critical problem for leftist Jews who identify with Bundism today: how can we continue to ethically embrace "diasporism" without reinforcing nation-statist tendencies and minimizing the violence and trauma of displacement
They will destroy the whole world to protect their genocide. The whole world.
Publication launch this saturday, Prague.
Black text on white background: "The beginning of every revolution Is an exit, an exit from the social order that power has enshrined in the name of law, stability, public interest, and the greater good. Every social and economic authority necessarily intersects with and is an extension of political authority. This is how these heroic figures can be understood and appreciated by the general public, who are overpowered, as though by instinct. From there, we understand the hostility of social, economic, and political authority towards these figures, and its use of the law as a tool to tarnish their image and criminalize them. We therefore also understand the smooth transition from the outlaw into the revolutionaryβthe one who resists."
"The beginning of every revolution Is an exit, an exit from the social order that power has enshrined in the name of law, stability, public interest, and the greater good."
- Bassel Al-Araj
Arendt is resonating right now
An Israeli attack in central Gaza hit Palestinians who were waiting at a charity kitchen for a meal to break their Ramadan fast.
"Making freedom by making place is the refusal of unbecoming in the face of catastrophe, the continued cultivation of our being (the soil) and continued becoming (its rotations)."
thefunambulist.net/magazine/ret...
This is why Elon Musk bought Twitterβto seize control of communications infrastructure on behalf of the most authoritarian elements of the ruling class in order to establish an autocracy.
We said so at the time.
crimethinc.com/twittercanary
There's a war on. The faster we act like it, the better.
ΠΠΎΠΆΠ΅Π½, Ρ ΡΠΎ Π±ΠΎΡΠ΅ΡΡΡΡ Π·Π° ΠΊΠ»ΡΡΡ ΠΏΡΠΈΠ³Π½ΠΎΠ±Π»Π΅Π½ΠΈΡ , Ρ ΡΡΠΆΠΈΠ½ΡΠ΅ΠΌ Ρ Π²Π»Π°ΡΠ½ΡΠΉ ΠΊΡΠ°ΡΠ½Ρ.
One would think having your land stolen and being locked into an open air prison where the overseer controls every facet of life is a provocation
Students hold signs at protest reading "Fuck Fascism" and "Jews Hate ICE"
Jewish students at Columbia university today organized a demonstration in solidarity with anti-war student organizer Mahmoud Khalil and to denounce Trump's attacks on public education and protest. Photo via @/Columbia_psc
"The only part of the so-called national wealth that actually enters into the collective possession of a modern nation--is the national debt." Karl Marx, Capital: Volume One
Expensive tickets / we jump like bunnies
Relatedly, at @parapraxismag.bsky.social we published a great piece by Taija Mars McDougall about the drug-fueled impulses of Silicon Valley techno-optimism: how ketamine amplifies the Social Darwinist and eugenicist fantasies of the white and powerful
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/kin...
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