elia ayoub
@ayoub.bsky.social
Writer, Journalist, Historian, Podcaster. Authoritarianism, hauntology, alternative futures. Eng/Fr/Esp/It/ع
In Brighton, from Lebanon.
I do @thefirethesetimes.com and give online classes. Newsletter: hauntologies.net
In Brighton, from Lebanon.
I do @thefirethesetimes.com and give online classes. Newsletter: hauntologies.net
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‘Many of these new groups want their communities to own, manage and profit from enterprises far larger than the pubs and post offices once associated with community control. They want to take on the town.’
www.ft.com/content/a604...
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Power to the parish: can community ownership successfully scale up?
The UK government has hopes of doubling the size of the co-operative sector, evolving the model beyond post offices and pubs to brownfield sites and storied estates
www.ft.com
February 2, 2026 at 7:39 AM
‘Many of these new groups want their communities to own, manage and profit from enterprises far larger than the pubs and post offices once associated with community control. They want to take on the town.’
www.ft.com/content/a604...
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If your job is keeping the left pro-Israel you’re doing a fab job and are totally not failing at everything you do
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Schumer has long said his main job is defending Israel, which means defending ICE.
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February 2, 2026 at 7:16 AM
If your job is keeping the left pro-Israel you’re doing a fab job and are totally not failing at everything you do
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I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.
Not because the Democratic Party is salvation, but because the ability to shift — and to do so under the immense weight of fear and ruling class control — is proof we are still alive.
Not because the Democratic Party is salvation, but because the ability to shift — and to do so under the immense weight of fear and ruling class control — is proof we are still alive.
February 1, 2026 at 4:51 AM
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.
Not because the Democratic Party is salvation, but because the ability to shift — and to do so under the immense weight of fear and ruling class control — is proof we are still alive.
Not because the Democratic Party is salvation, but because the ability to shift — and to do so under the immense weight of fear and ruling class control — is proof we are still alive.
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Just left an ICE Protest in Portland OR that started at City Hall and marched to the ICE building. Main demand was "revoke" the lease that lets the agency use their building.
Crowd was 500-1000. They gassed massively after about an hour. Had to pull a lot of 16-17 year old girls out of the gas.
Crowd was 500-1000. They gassed massively after about an hour. Had to pull a lot of 16-17 year old girls out of the gas.
February 2, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Just left an ICE Protest in Portland OR that started at City Hall and marched to the ICE building. Main demand was "revoke" the lease that lets the agency use their building.
Crowd was 500-1000. They gassed massively after about an hour. Had to pull a lot of 16-17 year old girls out of the gas.
Crowd was 500-1000. They gassed massively after about an hour. Had to pull a lot of 16-17 year old girls out of the gas.
Check the thread for the video.
Schumer said this today.
Zero fucks given to their party’s complicity in the Gaza genocide. Zero fucks given to civilians being annihilated by a far right ethno-supremacist regime.
Zero fucks given to the Democrats’ own base even.
Get rid of Schumer
Schumer said this today.
Zero fucks given to their party’s complicity in the Gaza genocide. Zero fucks given to civilians being annihilated by a far right ethno-supremacist regime.
Zero fucks given to the Democrats’ own base even.
Get rid of Schumer
February 1, 2026 at 11:25 PM
Check the thread for the video.
Schumer said this today.
Zero fucks given to their party’s complicity in the Gaza genocide. Zero fucks given to civilians being annihilated by a far right ethno-supremacist regime.
Zero fucks given to the Democrats’ own base even.
Get rid of Schumer
Schumer said this today.
Zero fucks given to their party’s complicity in the Gaza genocide. Zero fucks given to civilians being annihilated by a far right ethno-supremacist regime.
Zero fucks given to the Democrats’ own base even.
Get rid of Schumer
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I will always remember The Man Show, where Jimmy Kimmel got his hosting start, having a countdown to the day Britney Spears turned 18, and one guest waxing lustful about wanting to be the Cosmo magazine she took to the toilet to read while she took a shit. This would be around 1999.
It's hard to overstate how NORMAL it was to sexualize teen girls when I was growing up.
"Jailbait" jokes were everywhere, I was constantly sexually harassed by men in cars when walking to school in 6th grade.
Epstein is of an cohort where it was GENERALLY maybe a little edgy but not extreme.
"Jailbait" jokes were everywhere, I was constantly sexually harassed by men in cars when walking to school in 6th grade.
Epstein is of an cohort where it was GENERALLY maybe a little edgy but not extreme.
I need people to understand that it’s not just Epstein, it’s the entire rape culture that existed before and after him at every socioeconomic level. That’s why Epstein, who I’ve never thought was particularly smart or interesting, was able to pull this all off—he recognized how abuse functions
February 1, 2026 at 9:48 PM
I will always remember The Man Show, where Jimmy Kimmel got his hosting start, having a countdown to the day Britney Spears turned 18, and one guest waxing lustful about wanting to be the Cosmo magazine she took to the toilet to read while she took a shit. This would be around 1999.
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I know these are difficult times, so no worry if you can't
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Support Elia Ayoub
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February 1, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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I know these are difficult times, so no worry if you can't
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Minneapolis, MN -
A native community event near the vigil of Alex Pretti.
A native community event near the vigil of Alex Pretti.
February 1, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Minneapolis, MN -
A native community event near the vigil of Alex Pretti.
A native community event near the vigil of Alex Pretti.
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The resistance in Myanmar isn't always easy to donate to directly
One place is:
www.liberatemyanmar.net
There are also orgs doing humanitarian aid work in areas the Junta won't allow aid to get to which also helps!
Kachin Relief Fund:
kachinrelief.org.uk
Karen Women's Organisation:
karenwomen.org
One place is:
www.liberatemyanmar.net
There are also orgs doing humanitarian aid work in areas the Junta won't allow aid to get to which also helps!
Kachin Relief Fund:
kachinrelief.org.uk
Karen Women's Organisation:
karenwomen.org
September 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The resistance in Myanmar isn't always easy to donate to directly
One place is:
www.liberatemyanmar.net
There are also orgs doing humanitarian aid work in areas the Junta won't allow aid to get to which also helps!
Kachin Relief Fund:
kachinrelief.org.uk
Karen Women's Organisation:
karenwomen.org
One place is:
www.liberatemyanmar.net
There are also orgs doing humanitarian aid work in areas the Junta won't allow aid to get to which also helps!
Kachin Relief Fund:
kachinrelief.org.uk
Karen Women's Organisation:
karenwomen.org
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Great article. I think the comparison with Civil Rights movement is exactly right: people faced brutality, violence, even murder. But it worked: many of their demands were met, even in the face of extreme racism.
In solidarity from across the pond, where we may need these tactics soon ✊🏼
In solidarity from across the pond, where we may need these tactics soon ✊🏼
My new piece about Resistance 2.0 is up at @theguardian.com! Give it a read to understand why we should expect much more confrontation and disruption this time around. Thanks for the suggestions @victorerikray.bsky.social @sociologistray.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Resistance to Trump 2.0 is getting more confrontational | Dana R Fisher
In Trump’s first term, activists focused on lobbying and voting. Now tactics are shifting to nonviolent civil disobedience
www.theguardian.com
February 1, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Great article. I think the comparison with Civil Rights movement is exactly right: people faced brutality, violence, even murder. But it worked: many of their demands were met, even in the face of extreme racism.
In solidarity from across the pond, where we may need these tactics soon ✊🏼
In solidarity from across the pond, where we may need these tactics soon ✊🏼
Funnily enough this is what my episode on @polphilpod.bsky.social was about: Tech Bros are too stupid to understand that they are doing what Tolkien warns against in the LotR.
the number of people i know -- all of whom should know better -- who are doing exactly this
February 1, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Funnily enough this is what my episode on @polphilpod.bsky.social was about: Tech Bros are too stupid to understand that they are doing what Tolkien warns against in the LotR.
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ICE is getting ready to come for Haitians next week. Help the families JD Vance smeared with his ugly racist lies. This is an organization in Springfield connected to the Haitian community there. They need our help.
ancljkuy.donorsupport.co/page/FUNDVDT...
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Stand with Haitian Families in Crisis
Build the Emergency Fund that protects families when everything feels uncertain. The end of TPS. Increasing ICE actions. Families losing work authorization overnight. For Haitian parents and children ...
ancljkuy.donorsupport.co
January 30, 2026 at 2:43 PM
ICE is getting ready to come for Haitians next week. Help the families JD Vance smeared with his ugly racist lies. This is an organization in Springfield connected to the Haitian community there. They need our help.
ancljkuy.donorsupport.co/page/FUNDVDT...
ancljkuy.donorsupport.co/page/FUNDVDT...
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Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.
January 31, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.
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notable that actual Jewish seniors get this in a way that the ersatz holocaust museum does not
February 1, 2026 at 3:36 PM
notable that actual Jewish seniors get this in a way that the ersatz holocaust museum does not
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Jarvis, tell them I’m not a pedo
February 1, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Jarvis, tell them I’m not a pedo
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I witnessed ICE using tear gas on children.
They shattered a window of low-income housing where a disabled vet lives. He got gassed in his own home.
They shattered a window of low-income housing where a disabled vet lives. He got gassed in his own home.
This was the kind of treatment the union activists got today from Oregon’s largest unions alongside coalitions like @jwjpdx.bsky.social. They fired projectiles and injured many demonstrators and broke out neighbors windows. Gas for a half dozen miles in each direction. #iceout
February 1, 2026 at 3:26 AM
I witnessed ICE using tear gas on children.
They shattered a window of low-income housing where a disabled vet lives. He got gassed in his own home.
They shattered a window of low-income housing where a disabled vet lives. He got gassed in his own home.
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Russian forces have attacked a maternity hospital in Zaporizhzhya, wounding six - two of whom were pregnant women undergoing examination.
A nation truly committed to peace, Russia.
A nation truly committed to peace, Russia.
February 1, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Russian forces have attacked a maternity hospital in Zaporizhzhya, wounding six - two of whom were pregnant women undergoing examination.
A nation truly committed to peace, Russia.
A nation truly committed to peace, Russia.
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The comical idea that the Trump regime is pulling back from mass deportation choked on tear gas in Oregon and at gunpoint in MN, and the worst is yet to come
A looming ICE storm for Springfield's Haitians would bring ethnic cleansing to the heartland
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
A looming ICE storm for Springfield's Haitians would bring ethnic cleansing to the heartland
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
A not-‘toned down’ Trump regime prepares for ethnic cleansing in Ohio
A plan for immigration raids this week on thousands of Haitians in Springfield, Ohio shows that nothing has changed.
www.inquirer.com
February 1, 2026 at 5:34 PM
The comical idea that the Trump regime is pulling back from mass deportation choked on tear gas in Oregon and at gunpoint in MN, and the worst is yet to come
A looming ICE storm for Springfield's Haitians would bring ethnic cleansing to the heartland
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
A looming ICE storm for Springfield's Haitians would bring ethnic cleansing to the heartland
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
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(LAPD) brutally beat a non-resisting, unarmed protester with their hands raised at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Concentration Camp in Downtown Los Angeles on 1/31/26
February 1, 2026 at 4:56 PM
(LAPD) brutally beat a non-resisting, unarmed protester with their hands raised at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Concentration Camp in Downtown Los Angeles on 1/31/26
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NEW: State troopers and conservation officers from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, with the assistance of Minneapolis Police and the University of Minnesota Police, arrested 67 protesters after threatening arrests over an LRAD mounted on a UMNPD Jeep.
State and Local Police Make Mass Arrest After Noise Demo at Hotel Housing ICE Agents - UNICORN RIOT
A medley of state and local police officers arrested nearly 70 protesters after the third noise demo at the Graduate Hotel for hosting ICE agents.
unicornriot.ninja
February 1, 2026 at 6:35 AM
NEW: State troopers and conservation officers from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, with the assistance of Minneapolis Police and the University of Minnesota Police, arrested 67 protesters after threatening arrests over an LRAD mounted on a UMNPD Jeep.
I know it's not the most important bit here but I just can't get over how many of the emails sent to and from Epstein are terribly written
February 1, 2026 at 7:54 PM
I know it's not the most important bit here but I just can't get over how many of the emails sent to and from Epstein are terribly written
I genuinely thought nothing about JK Rowling would surprise me anymore
lol
lol
February 1, 2026 at 7:48 PM
I genuinely thought nothing about JK Rowling would surprise me anymore
lol
lol
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All JK Rowling's talk about protecting women and children is such bs. It was always about hating trans people. She invited him to the Harry Potter Broadway opening in 2018. This was way after Epstein was convicted of soliciting sex from a minor.
JK Rowling's team invited Jeffery Epstein to the deathly hallows play and to a Harry potter dinner.
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov
February 1, 2026 at 7:38 PM
All JK Rowling's talk about protecting women and children is such bs. It was always about hating trans people. She invited him to the Harry Potter Broadway opening in 2018. This was way after Epstein was convicted of soliciting sex from a minor.
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So QAnon spent years spreading conspiracy theories that the government was run by a cabal of elite pedophiles and it turns out they supported the actual cabal of elite pedophiles to get into power and destroy democracy.
January 30, 2026 at 11:05 PM
So QAnon spent years spreading conspiracy theories that the government was run by a cabal of elite pedophiles and it turns out they supported the actual cabal of elite pedophiles to get into power and destroy democracy.
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O cool The hypothesis that the elite were trying to segrigate trans people from society purely to keep us as sex slaves was real, but only for trans women since they see trans men as undesirable for sex and want them eliminated which is EXACTLY THE POLICIES AND RHETORIC WE'RE SEEING HAPPEN RIGHT NOW
February 1, 2026 at 1:35 PM
O cool The hypothesis that the elite were trying to segrigate trans people from society purely to keep us as sex slaves was real, but only for trans women since they see trans men as undesirable for sex and want them eliminated which is EXACTLY THE POLICIES AND RHETORIC WE'RE SEEING HAPPEN RIGHT NOW