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Jordan Flaherty’s An anti-colonial, anticapitalist, queer, abolitionist list of the Best Films of 2025

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Thirty Years of Failure That Couldn’t Have Come at a Worse Time

I work as a video producer on an independent news program. Every year we go to the COP, the United Nation s annual international two week conference on crafting the global response to dealing with Climate Change. We talk to experts, activists, and people from around the world. When I get back, invariably, people ask me Continue reading "Thirty Years of Failure That Couldn t Have Come at a Worse…

The Choice

It s early November 2025 and Zohran Mamdani just won the NYC s mayor s race completely shifting American politics at a tectonic level. This does not encapsulate my politics, but it s my prediction of what we re about to see and, if I m going to have bragging rights, I have to predict it in advance. All the pressure Continue reading "The Choice"

Too Many Tabs

Cabral s Unity and Struggle: https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/cabral/1979/unity-struggle.pdf The History of Puerto Rican Independence Movements: https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-8/history-independence-movement.pdf Puerto Rico: A Strategy for Revolution The Boricua-Macheteros Popular ArmyOrigins, Program, and StruggleIntroduction byFiliberto Ojeda Ríos Al-Araj, Basel Collected…

Elon Musk’s AI responds to my question.

I generally loathe AI for all writing, but I ll make an exception for this. I asked Elon Musk s Twitter AI a question and this is it s entire answer: My Question: Can you compare and contrast the validity of claims of an active genocide in Palestine and an active genocide in South Africa and give examples Continue reading "Elon Musk s AI responds to my question."

Modular components

Source: Shop OpenStructures https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2012/12/how-to-make-everything-ourselves-open-modular-hardware/

Everyone should watch this.

This is Cory Booker. At around 4 minutes into this chummy self-congratulatory townhall with Senators Mark Kelly of Arizona and Cory Booker of New Jersey, they are heckled by a woman outraged by American complicity in the genocide of Gaza. Booker sits silently while she is escorted out by the police while the moderator comforts Continue reading "Everyone should watch this."

Describe Working Conditions in the United States between 1870 and 1913 Challenge: Go!

we’re setting a table and we’re going to have great trade and we’re going to have a very strong country. Our country is going to be at a level that is maybe never been or maybe — our country was the strongest believe it or not from 1870 to 1913. You know why? It was Continue reading "Describe Working Conditions in the United States between 1870 and 1913 Challenge: Go!"

Happy Eating

Nitimur in vetitum semper cupimusque negata translates to We ever strive for what is forbidden, and ever covet what is denied from Ovid s Amores and anticipates both Proverbs 9:17 (“Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”) and Abbie Hoffman from Steal This Book ( Once you get into shoplifting in supermarkets, you ll Continue reading "Happy Eating"

I made The Mark Lombardi Machine

Mark Lombardi s work consisted of pencil drawings that neatly laid out networks of power, political deceit, and financial corruption. To quote another favorite conceptual artist, Jenny Holzer, “Abuse of power comes as no surprise.” Lombardi managed to surprised by laying it all out on the paper. This is a machine that allows the home conceptual Continue reading "I made The Mark Lombardi Machine"

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