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An Interview with Ba Jin – Philip Short (1977)
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Born on this day in 1904, Chinese anarchist novelist, Ba Jin.
"In the 20s, like many young Chinese intellectuals of his day, he went to Paris to study, and it was there partly out of homesickness, as he tells it, that he wrote his first novel Destruction [灭亡]."
"In the 20s, like many young Chinese intellectuals of his day, he went to Paris to study, and it was there partly out of homesickness, as he tells it, that he wrote his first novel Destruction [灭亡]."
"During the government shutdown, increasingly ICE targeted individuals with no criminal history."
Taking Stock: Trump Administration Record on Detention and Removals
tracreports.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"During the government shutdown, increasingly ICE targeted individuals with no criminal history."
"Immigration Court Asylum Grant Rates Cut in Half"
Immigration Court Asylum Grant Rates Cut in Half
tracreports.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
"Immigration Court Asylum Grant Rates Cut in Half"
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Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people.
But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.
With @adn.com
But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.
With @adn.com
Alaska Vowed to Resolve Murders of Indigenous People. Now It Refuses to Provide Their Names.
When the nonprofit Data for Indigenous Justice filed public records requests with the Alaska Department of Public Safety concerning cases it had investigated, the state rejected them.
www.propublica.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people.
But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.
With @adn.com
But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.
With @adn.com
I'm determined to be the world's first person to both read and comprehend a post before responding to it.
November 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I'm determined to be the world's first person to both read and comprehend a post before responding to it.
Reminder that the Years of Lead was already American, as in American-sponsored, it just happened in Italy. Meanwhile in America, in the '60s and '70, dozens of members or associates of the BPP and AIM were assassinated or incarcerated. You're not having or going to have your own Italian experience.
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Reminder that the Years of Lead was already American, as in American-sponsored, it just happened in Italy. Meanwhile in America, in the '60s and '70, dozens of members or associates of the BPP and AIM were assassinated or incarcerated. You're not having or going to have your own Italian experience.
Born on this day in 1904, Chinese anarchist novelist, Ba Jin.
"In the 20s, like many young Chinese intellectuals of his day, he went to Paris to study, and it was there partly out of homesickness, as he tells it, that he wrote his first novel Destruction [灭亡]."
"In the 20s, like many young Chinese intellectuals of his day, he went to Paris to study, and it was there partly out of homesickness, as he tells it, that he wrote his first novel Destruction [灭亡]."
An Interview with Ba Jin – Philip Short (1977)
historyiswhat.noblogs.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Born on this day in 1904, Chinese anarchist novelist, Ba Jin.
"In the 20s, like many young Chinese intellectuals of his day, he went to Paris to study, and it was there partly out of homesickness, as he tells it, that he wrote his first novel Destruction [灭亡]."
"In the 20s, like many young Chinese intellectuals of his day, he went to Paris to study, and it was there partly out of homesickness, as he tells it, that he wrote his first novel Destruction [灭亡]."
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#OtD 25 Nov 1915 thousands in Chicago attended the funeral of martyred @IWW union organiser and songwriter Joe Hill. He had been fitted up for a crime he did not commit and was executed. Learn more about his life and works in this book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/joe...
November 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
#OtD 25 Nov 1915 thousands in Chicago attended the funeral of martyred @IWW union organiser and songwriter Joe Hill. He had been fitted up for a crime he did not commit and was executed. Learn more about his life and works in this book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/joe...
I'll never get over the fact that they named a French immersion school in Canada's richest municipality after E. Pauline Johnson. She may not have been perfect but she deserves better than that.
November 25, 2025 at 6:12 AM
I'll never get over the fact that they named a French immersion school in Canada's richest municipality after E. Pauline Johnson. She may not have been perfect but she deserves better than that.
When are we gonna talk about the problem of popular cop-sympathetic Metis literature. I'm guessing never because I've been waiting years now.
November 25, 2025 at 6:04 AM
When are we gonna talk about the problem of popular cop-sympathetic Metis literature. I'm guessing never because I've been waiting years now.
A List of Essays by Aiyyana Maracle
The Mohawk transformed woman who loved woman was a prolific writer and artist who deserves much more attention than she got during her life.
by @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social (Jun. 2025)
The Mohawk transformed woman who loved woman was a prolific writer and artist who deserves much more attention than she got during her life.
by @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social (Jun. 2025)
A List of Essays by Aiyyana Maracle
The Mohawk transformed woman who loved woman was a prolific writer and artist who deserves much more attention than she got during her life.
landbodymind.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:57 AM
A List of Essays by Aiyyana Maracle
The Mohawk transformed woman who loved woman was a prolific writer and artist who deserves much more attention than she got during her life.
by @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social (Jun. 2025)
The Mohawk transformed woman who loved woman was a prolific writer and artist who deserves much more attention than she got during her life.
by @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social (Jun. 2025)
What do you do when you're a sociopathic American nationalist who's slightly to the left of your fellow sociopathic American nationalists.
What do you do when you’re a gun-loving leftist who doesn’t fit into mainstream American gun culture?
That's a question @manishakrishnan.bsky.social set out to answer this summer when she attended a Brutality match, an inclusive firearms competition in Idaho.
That's a question @manishakrishnan.bsky.social set out to answer this summer when she attended a Brutality match, an inclusive firearms competition in Idaho.
The Hard-Left Shooters Leading a Gun Culture Revolution
Earlier this year, I attended a shooting competition for queer, often trans, very online misfits. Then Charlie Kirk was killed.
www.wired.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:39 AM
What do you do when you're a sociopathic American nationalist who's slightly to the left of your fellow sociopathic American nationalists.
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let's start some discourse: hating leafblowers is classist
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 AM
let's start some discourse: hating leafblowers is classist
Weird that they brought up Joseph Brant again and mentioned his displeasure with the Treaty of Paris but didn't mention the Haldimand Proclamation.
Haldimand Proclamation - Wikipedia
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November 25, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Weird that they brought up Joseph Brant again and mentioned his displeasure with the Treaty of Paris but didn't mention the Haldimand Proclamation.
lol at them quoting Rochambeau saying the Americans have no idea how to do a siege tho
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
lol at them quoting Rochambeau saying the Americans have no idea how to do a siege tho
On Episode VI now and I finally see why they didn't mention Somerset v. Stewart. Because they still wanted to do an American exceptionalism by talking about Brom and Bett v. Ashley (and Pennsylvania's Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery) without giving away a British precedent.
Episode V now and they bring up Clinton's proclamation as if the idea is a whole new thing, then immediately remind us of Dunmore's proclamation, contradicting themselves, but still don't mention the Somerset case that preceded both.
The new PBS doc (Episode II) does at least mention that there were multiple slave (& maroon) uprisings in Jamaica prior to Dunmore's proclamation but I think they should've also mentioned Somerset v Stewart & the First Carib War, & how all the above synergized into American slave-holder anxiety.
November 25, 2025 at 12:06 AM
On Episode VI now and I finally see why they didn't mention Somerset v. Stewart. Because they still wanted to do an American exceptionalism by talking about Brom and Bett v. Ashley (and Pennsylvania's Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery) without giving away a British precedent.
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(everyone has known for years — years!! — that Thomas King is not Cherokee) www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
Inconvenient Indian author Thomas King says he is not part Cherokee
Writer ‘still in shock’ after a whistle-blowing organization showed him genealogical evidence that he wasn’t part Indigenous as he originally assumed
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
(everyone has known for years — years!! — that Thomas King is not Cherokee) www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
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Rest in Power to Mother Viola Ford Fletcher.
111 years, the oldest survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre.
She never got the justice she deserved
www.fox23.com/news/mother-...
111 years, the oldest survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre.
She never got the justice she deserved
www.fox23.com/news/mother-...
Mother Viola Fletcher passes away at 111 years old
TULSA, Okla. — Mayor Monroe Nichols announced the passing of one of the two last remaining survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, Mother Viola Fletcher.
www.fox23.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Rest in Power to Mother Viola Ford Fletcher.
111 years, the oldest survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre.
She never got the justice she deserved
www.fox23.com/news/mother-...
111 years, the oldest survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre.
She never got the justice she deserved
www.fox23.com/news/mother-...
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“Supporting us is not only about protecting forest indigenous people, but about protecting everybody. If there is no future for indigenous people, there is no future for anybody.”
Yanomami leader Dario Kopenawa Yanomami spoke out at #COP30 in Brazil. ✊
Yanomami leader Dario Kopenawa Yanomami spoke out at #COP30 in Brazil. ✊
November 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
“Supporting us is not only about protecting forest indigenous people, but about protecting everybody. If there is no future for indigenous people, there is no future for anybody.”
Yanomami leader Dario Kopenawa Yanomami spoke out at #COP30 in Brazil. ✊
Yanomami leader Dario Kopenawa Yanomami spoke out at #COP30 in Brazil. ✊
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Short documentary about Keira and her family, and two other Greenlandic families that have had their children forcibly removed by Denmark based off the FKU test.
youtu.be/kzTmuc23cFI
youtu.be/kzTmuc23cFI
November 23, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Short documentary about Keira and her family, and two other Greenlandic families that have had their children forcibly removed by Denmark based off the FKU test.
youtu.be/kzTmuc23cFI
youtu.be/kzTmuc23cFI
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Before he was Manitoba Premier, Wab Kinew investigated the school-to-prison pipeline and rapped about police brutality.
So why is he now pushing for more cops in schools?
@desmondcole.bsky.social breaks down why Kinew’s stance on police stops short of action. youtu.be/oa2nUT3czxw
So why is he now pushing for more cops in schools?
@desmondcole.bsky.social breaks down why Kinew’s stance on police stops short of action. youtu.be/oa2nUT3czxw
Wab Kinew wants more cops in schools—despite his own work exposing their harm
YouTube video by The Breach
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November 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Before he was Manitoba Premier, Wab Kinew investigated the school-to-prison pipeline and rapped about police brutality.
So why is he now pushing for more cops in schools?
@desmondcole.bsky.social breaks down why Kinew’s stance on police stops short of action. youtu.be/oa2nUT3czxw
So why is he now pushing for more cops in schools?
@desmondcole.bsky.social breaks down why Kinew’s stance on police stops short of action. youtu.be/oa2nUT3czxw
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Next week, Toronto friends, w/ @routhier.bsky.social @sorenmau.bsky.social
Ecologies of Collapse
Ecologies of Collapse explores overlapping crises of the family, property, political imagination, and planetary futurity from a materialist perspective.
utscenvironment.ca
November 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Next week, Toronto friends, w/ @routhier.bsky.social @sorenmau.bsky.social
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New polling shows that 70% of Americans say that they would oppose the U.S. taking military action in Venezuela. Over three-quarters of Americans say that the Trump administration hasn’t given proper explanation for potential military action in Venezuela.
Poll Shows 70 Percent in US Disapprove of Striking Venezuela as Trump Mulls War
The US has built up the largest military presence in Latin America in decades off the coast of Venezuela.
truthout.org
November 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
New polling shows that 70% of Americans say that they would oppose the U.S. taking military action in Venezuela. Over three-quarters of Americans say that the Trump administration hasn’t given proper explanation for potential military action in Venezuela.
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The last of reggae's founding fathers. Rest in Power, Jimmy Cliff. youtu.be/ck1ZiRXmRN4?...
Jimmy Cliff - Guns of Brixton
YouTube video by ReggaeNeration
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November 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The last of reggae's founding fathers. Rest in Power, Jimmy Cliff. youtu.be/ck1ZiRXmRN4?...
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Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
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Jimmy Cliff: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert From The Archives is from 2010, a couple of years into the series of performances. It's so warm and we're so close.
Jimmy Cliff: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert From The Archives
YouTube video by NPR Music
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Jimmy Cliff: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert From The Archives is from 2010, a couple of years into the series of performances. It's so warm and we're so close.